Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-18
STATES HEROES
TO HOLD PARADE

rade through the streets of Phila-
delphia.
Home I'm Unit
This would permit the sending
home to Harrisburg as q unit the
Harrisburg men who marched away
to the war in the Governors Troop.
Companies d and l and the smaller
organizations.
Plans for a similar rehabilitation
of the 18th division also are being
considered. Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington have put in claims
for a parade of this crack organiZa-
ton which trained at Camp Meade
and is composed of National Army
men from Eastern PENNSYLVANIA,
Maryland and the District of CO.
lumbia. Dauphin county men large
ly make up the 316th Infantry in
this division. 1t was this regiment
that returned Philadelphia officer
described as having men who
fought and died like heroes.
Plan Big Pageant
The suggestion made by Mayor
Keister that Harrisburg wait unur
its men get home to celebrate peace
in formal fashion has gained many
supporters when it was learned that
in all probability the soldiers can
get home in a body for a parade that
it is generally conceded ought to be
the greatest pageant the city mas
ever known.
Definite arrangements for the pa
rade cannot be made, it was pointed
out. until it is learned at what time
the hundreds of men in other oiNi-
Sions will have returned. 1t is prob
able, however. that the 5000 men
of Dauphin county will want to JON
with those of Harrisburg in the pa
geant. 1t is generally believed that
most of the youths serving with the
Navy will be home by the time the
soldiers return Sc that every branch
of the service may be represented.
General March in discussing the
situation said:
I'm handling this problem of de-
mobilization, one of the features
which had to be considered was the
subsequent retaining of men for the
Regular Army, or what Will be Inc
Regular Army, when Congress pass
es laws reorganizing that Army.
When the war broke out there were
only a limited number of such men
in the service, and the great num-
Der of men who filled out these UNITS
were men who voluntarily enlisted
for the period of the war. So we
have offered these men who came IN
for the period of the war the option
of re-enlisting if they care to.
I'VE have offered an immediate
honorable discharge with a furlough
of one month upon re-enlistment ana
we propose to ask Congess TO give
every single man who has been nom
orably discharged one months pay
whatever his grade is, as a bonus,
Every man who is discharged from
the Army is entitled to wear his uni
form for a period of three months,
that is a very necessary thing, be-
cause the releasing to civil life OF
three or four million men makes 1t
impossible to clothe in civilian
clothes so great a number.
"As men are discharged. we take
I'D the question of the officers. Of
iicers who want TO apply for COM
missions in the Regular Army will
be considered: officers who want TO
put themselves in a class where
they can be used for further mill
tary operations, will be offered COM
missions in the reserve corps. me
rest of them will be discharged.
IL have cabled General Pershing
to return to the United States on
troop transports all the men who
are casuals or convalescents, sick
and wounded who are able TO be
moved: and these men will come in
n steady flow across the Atlantic be-
fore the larger number come oack
as units"