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Show CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT DAY IN WASHINGTON: I WASHINGTON No 10. - As dark- I ness tell over the national capltol to-nighl to-nighl thre- huge Illuminated crosos shone out from the inch walls of the War Tlisk Insurance Bureau buildinc I acroBfl Lafayette Square from the; White House and the celobration of Armistice day, the first anniversary of the cessation ol hostilities in the world war, began Tin- ,r;lant symbols were tin unci bv ii:;ht pouring from selected 9 inl.- in the Otherwise dark facades! of the great structure and one of them looked directl) down on the! square where official Washington will loin tomorrow In celebrating the new anniversary. To the country at large formal mes-silk's mes-silk's i tiinmeniorating the day were nt out i President Wilson, mem-1 ! hers of his cabinet and General Per suing. Secret ity Daniels in a message, re-called re-called "the exaltation of Joy" which' swept the world a year ago when the fighting stopped In France. "It is Tor us in America," he said, "to say whether the supreme BF.CTI- Mi host v. ho died 01 I he squall) heroic service or those who lived shall Ol shall not have been in vain. The eyea ol the world are upon the people or the United States. The easy way lis to withdraw from the responsibii it) which we voluntarily assumed the da) the first American fighting man cn-sed the sea. That way would make the Lrenty of Paris as miserable document as the treaty ot Vienna aft-ol aft-ol the Napoleonic wars." Secretary Lansing in his message said ihe celebration of Armistice day v as ;i iininu commemoration of the admission Ol defeat by the malignant power which lor over four years had .devastated Kurope." "As we labored to overcome the aimed foe of liberty," he said In part, ) so must Ave labor to restore that Which was destroyed by that foe l"n jili such restoration is accomplished uui task remains unfinished, our dun is but partially performed." Tomorrow, in the presence of cabinet cab-inet officers, generals Pershing and March and many other officials, two redwood trees will be planted in Lafayette Lafay-ette Square to commemorate the day. An army firing platoon will take part in the ceremony and later engage in mimic warfare, with all the tools that trench fighting in Prance developed The service In the square will be opened with an invocation by Lieut BelVin Ma;. Hard, the "flying parson" I who was first to complete the flight I in the recent transeontinental race 1 rom hlc plane high above the city the i aviator-preacher will speak bv radio telephone so lhat those below mav I hear. i |