Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-22


mendous democratic organization.
! "HarIem's Hun Hammerers"
You could see by the notices they
carried on their banners swung high
aloft that they are not being driven
TO war by military brutishness. Men
who are going unwillingly to fight
Germany don't carry banners with all
sorts of humorous illusions to their
new army jobs. Here came big
contingent Of we'll setup chaps with a
banner, From Harlem to France,
and another banner read Harlem 8
Hun .Iammerers."
one bunch strobe along singing
jovially:
"Oh. we'll hang Kaiser William to
sour apple tree" and another cho-
rused-to the tune of Marching
Through Georgia"-something about
while We are Marching to Berlin"
Don't get the idea that the parade
was all fun. Far from 1t. 1t was Sc
rtous business and when the process
sion started there was no singing.
But somehow the American sense OF
humor began to break through and
the crowd was in the sort OF humor
TO encourage 1t. This great crowd
gave the boys ovation after ovation
not automatically and not forced,
but spontaneous outbrusts OF cheer
ing that roared to the skies.
ne reviewing stand was in the
heart Of the city, stones throw from
Broadway and Forty-second street,
and the crowds here were enormous.
AS the boys passed the stand, tney
gave "eyes left" and a semi-milltary
salute to Mayor Mitchell and the rest.
Pretty soon along came a group OIL
Jolly warriors who stopped in front OF
CoIonel Roosevelt and gave him three
rousfng cheers and after that the col
onel got most of the salutes. AS
he stood side by side with the mayor
1t was all right.
The colonel was in a happy mood.
He took OFF his battered old panama
hat frequently. and swung 1t as ne
c.eered the marchers. He swung
those eloquently-gesturing arms, fists
clenched. as he talked to the men
around him and every ounce OF that
dynamic body was keyed and tautened
TO the military tune Of the day.
And all through the crowded streets
ran talk like this:
say, if Teddy was just out there
leading those boys!"
.,eIieve me, he's the boy that could
raise a few million men to fight In
France"
ITS a shame the administration
turned him down." .-:
Pm for Teddy because you always
know where he stands"
heard il from Immediately
dressed men and from grimy laborers,
again and again during the hour OF
the parade.
Many Diverse Types
Looking at the marchers, rank upon
rank. one was struck with the diver.
sity of type which is going into our
new national army: 1t will be lar
more of a composite than were the
armies of the Civil war. Since the
is there has come to America
great tide of European immigrants
italians, Greeks, Slays, Lithunians,
SIoyaks. Magyars, Scandinavians,
Firms, Hebrews-and countless others.
In New York the draft has caught all
these. aney march side by side and
already in the new cantonments they
are drilling and sleeping and eating
side by side. ..=-.
The parade of the new army and
the reception it got from the people
proved mat I--e selective draft has
been a great force for awakening our
nation to the facts of war. 1t also
proved-at least to my satisfaction
that New York is backing Uncle
Sans method of raising the army:
What a difference in spirit there was
between the cheers Of a whole city,
the flags, bands, inspiring sights anu
sounds-and the draft riots OF the
Civil war! .:. ..,..
After the parade was over-with
final last jam and crush-and had
come out of it practically total loss
and no insurance, sartorially speak.
ing, the thought occurred to me that
IL the kaiser, his cabinet and the
"great military staff had seen the
parade and the way it was received,
there would have been some shaky
Germans around Berlin.