Arizona republican., 1917-09-05
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
 JOIN IN IGNORING MEN
 SELECTED FOR NEW ARMY
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ident and congress of the United States and the allied nations through their diplomatic representatives joined today in paying honor to the men se- lected from the district of Columbia for service in Americas national ar my raised for the battle of democracy.
 Washington, long used to glittering processions, opened it's eyes and cheered itself hoarse at the spectacle. For two hours, while in other cities throughout the nation, other thous- ands moved over the first part of the long road that may lead to French fields. Pennsylvania avenue heard the tramp of marching men, the jingle of spurs and the rumble of artillery.
 About 26,000 men, women and chil- dren passed a reviewing stand before the White House where the president and his guests watched the parade. More than half of the long line was in uniform. There were regulars from infantry, cavalry and artillery regl- merits stationed nearby, marines, men from the officers training camp at Fort Myer and hundreds of army and navy officers attached to the depart ments here.
 The Stars and Stripes waved from the reviewing stand from the build ings along the broad avenue, from the head of every unit and in the hands of most of the civilian marchers.
 From the corner of Fifteenth street where Pennsylvania avenue turns la tyaa the foot of Capitol Hill was one stream of flags The president and those in the stand with him were kept at sa- lute continually. N President WIIson himself, eyes to the front, stepping out like freshly trained recruit. marched at the head of the long line surrounded by a commit tee of citizens which arranged the pa rade. Behind him in unbroken ranks, came most of the members of the sen ate and house, in such tribute as they probably never have given on any oc- casion in the long years since this scountry became a nation.
 When he reached the White House the president left the ranks and took ' his place in the stand by Mrs. Wilson. It was the second time he had gone l afoot over Pennsylvania avenue. The 1 first was when he led the preparedness parade before the United States went ! to war. Most of the members of the cabinet, the Japanese mission, Ambas- sador Spring Rice of Great Britain. Jusserand of France, Minister Calder on of Bolivia and dozens of officers in the uniforms of the armies of the na- tions that are fighting Germany were | in the stand with them.
 At the head of the senate came Sen l ators Nelson and Warren of the Union i Army, and Martin and Bankhead who l fought on the side of the gray in the 1 civil war, and with them marched Senators Chamberlain, chairman of the military committee, and Lodge. ranking republican of the naval com mittee. The house turned out hun dreds of it's membership headed by l Speaker Clark and Uncle Joe" Can l non.
 For more than an hour the flood that poured by the stand was in the brown of the khaki-clad army, with the exception of the 1400 drafted men who in spite of their civilian clothes marched proudly and with more than semblance of military formation. In all the long line the drafted men and the marines attracted the most at 1 tentiOn at the reviewing stand. The 1900 young men who are in training at | Fort Myer for commissions in the new army, with only 12 days of drill behind
 them. swung by the stand with the easy tread of trained soldiers. The | marines, company after company.
 swept past with never a ripple to dis
 turb their steady flow.
 Behind the troops were the govern | ment departments. Secretary Baker
 marched at the head of the war de- 1 narfmpnf with Ma ior General Scott
 chief of staff, and the ranking officers
 on duty in khaki just ahead of the
 clerks in civilian clothes. Secretary Daniels led the navy with Admiral
 Benson, cihef of operations, his aides
 and scores of officers in the summer
 white of the navy.
 There were several hundred veter-
 ans of the civil and Spanish wars in
 the processiosa
 One of the features that brought the
 crowds up cheering was found in the
 hundreds of children representing the
 Washington play grounds. They
 marched solemnly by the reviewing
 stands. flags over their shoulders in
 true military fashion, most of them
 saluting, but many forgetting this hon.
 or to the president in their eagerness
 to see what he looked like The for
 eign visitors seemed particularly inter-
 ested in q monster float where all the nations in the war against Germany were represented, Japan by a figure ir
 medieval armor.
 } The food administration attracted
 much attention. Herbert Hoover
 marched at the head and behind hin
 came fifty women in blue uniforms and White caps, carrying monster l flag.