The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-06

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 ew York comedy success, "Nothing But tre Monday night.
 t nothing is too good for soldier. Tn, n soldiers deserve the best of everything q and they must have 1t. Our boys have e received more attention here on Lons e Island in one month than was showr
 them in Montgomery in a whole year Int
 reason is that up here a soldier means , something, especially if he be Rain. } DOW back home he was merely a mar in uniform.
 i, MARCH BEFORE BAKER Lest Sunday the entire division , marched in review before Secretary oi War Baker, and I doubt if there has ever been @ more impressive spectacle in the world than that. Few people can
 realize what a division is, or what q
 mighty throng some 10000 men amount
 to- The read in the paper that 27,0OO men were reviewed by the Secretary of War
 means little. To actually see them pass
 ing is to have wonderful and magnifi-
 cent sight.
 Our regiment led the entire column by
 virtue of the seniority of our command
 ing officer, and after we had been dis
 missed l had an opportunity to see the
 rest Of the division pass It was a sight
 that will not soon be forgotten I have often heard of victims of insomnia put
 ting themselves to sleep by thinking of a flock of sheep jumping over ditch l now have better method than that provloed, Of course, I am ever lucky
 enough to get more sleep than I need while in the army. It is simply to pic-
 ture the Rainbow Division marching in review, in column of platoons, every l man in step and every man looking just
 like every other man. and then watch
 them pass in a column nearly three miles long.
 i The review was so we'll planned and i executed that it passed off without a I hitch There was less fuss and confu-
 sion, less excitement and running to and
 fro than one would expect to find in l ar ordinary little holiday parade in the average city. The entire division moved like clock, work, and each unit carried out It's own part to the letter of the instructions. Orders had been issued , covering the minutest detail, and there was nothing else to do but follow them LINE UP ALONG STREET Our regiment left camp at 7:3O A. m.
 marched in column of squads to the sta.
 ton at Garden City, and took post along
 the street leading from it. Alternate
 companies were lined up on opposite
 sides of the street, so that the pavement
 was bordered by a living wall of sol-
 dlers. As each regiment reached it's place 1t took up a similar position. so that this double line of men extended TOT two miles from Garden City to the camp. AS there were more units than the street would hold. some thousands or troops were lined up at right angles to the main road, ready to take LID the march at the proper moment
 In taking up the formation, was impressed with the absolute lack Of | hurry and confusion that so often ac l companies similar enterprises. There l was no shouting, no bawling of conflict | ing orders. no hurrying and scurrying | or the inevitable unit that has arrived | too late, no mistaking of instructions. | We simply marched to our place and | stood at ease awaiting developments. They were not long in coming for the reviewing party arrived on schedule time.
 We heard the prescribed flourish of ana runle of drums, then a mlgnty crash of band music as the Sec- retary's automobile reached the leading company As it passed down the living ane or men, each regiment froze to at- lenuon and presented arms, then formed into column of platoons and marched n the wake of the automobile. The line 'l marcn was over paved street or 'oao. extending for some two miles out )r Garden City. This road is bordered Or part of the way by beautiful homa. lnd by rows of trees. but for the most 'art oy fields which are at present yel- ow with goldenrod and ablaze with lowers. and awaiting what time some 'lutocrat may come out from New York Q oulio his mansion there The road makes gigantic "z" and every foot of on both sides was occupied by a 'ronzeo soldier os tho Rainbow Division.
 MARCHED SIXTEEN ABREAST
 Al one point in the march we mounted slight elevation. which gave a view of nc column to front and rear. Imagi- auon cannot picture a finer sight. Sol iers everywhere. stretching out in both IT lrections Ike somc great drab colored ibbon. and yet flowing steadily on- 1ard. Tho column was made up or iatoons Of four squads each. which ave 2 frontage of 16 men marching breast. This formation exactly flIed he road.
 There is one thing that impressed mo lore than any other while watching this olumn pass. That is the fact that in le nainoow Division every man is a oiunteer. There is not a .,selaoted 'an' or conscript (.slxick in'' as the 'ldiers term tD in the entire organiza- on. Furthermore. was impressed ith the large percentage of old soldiers resent. This was shown by the cam Agn ripDons, service medals and arksmanship badges worn by the arcners It was poor company. in- sed, that could not show a few. From e large number displayed our division ls many an old veteran of the Spanish, nilipptne and Chinese campaigns, to y nothing of the old national guards en present, whom fatet denied a chance foreign service. There Is one thing rtain, we are taking some good sol- era overseas Tn some way the rumor spread that IT war service would depend on the owing made. and great was the anx- " lest we make . poor one Which plains the admonition Of one grim corporal to his squad.
 Now. want you boy1 to under. ana one thing" he was heard to say. 'ou'vs got to act right and look right, the big war boss has come to look U over. and If you don't t>Atack up right just can't go to war" In the face
 such terrible treat there is no 'nder that they acted right and looked