New-York tribune., 1918-04-27
Eyes Right Are Straight Ahead
As WomenP ass Reviewing Stand
Line After Line Goes Before General Over Without the
Compliment of Glance-Then Young Soldier Gets
on the Job With Resultant Salutes

If there an eye peeped through cotton
swathings, it was a laughing eye The
messed-up men with the crutches had
visited in hell and come back un-
afraid. The cheering crowd didn't need
the sign on the side of the machine
to identify the passengers Pershing' 5
men"
Another car brought the war home
as vividly-not the mangling land war
of Won Hindenburg. but the war that
Won Tlrpitz wages from under the sea.
'Survivors of the Jacob Jones. Tor
pedoed at sea-" was the legend on this
machines side.
Policemen whose parade memories
extend back into the dark ages de-
clared that it was the first parade in
New York in which the newspapers
We're represented. In the past, partic-
ularly in Labor Day parades. various
offices have been represented by the
Office chapels, parading as members of
their unions, but yesterday was the
hrSt time that newspaper workers pa
raded as representatives of their sew
eral Offices
One of the prettiest features in the
parade was contributed by "The New
York Times Its service flag. with
more than 100 stars. was carried by a
dozen young women. dressed in white
and wearing Liberty caps with red
bands. From Eleventh Street. where
they. fell into line, until the dismissal
OF the parade in Fifty-seventh Street
they were applauded everywhere.
Representative Thomas F. Smith. who
likewise is secretary of Tammany Hall,
was not among those present in the of
tlclal reviewing stand. His arm was in
a sling, reminder of the fact that the
last time he reviewed parade part of
the coping Of St. Patrick's Cathedral
tell on him. He viewed the march
from the sidewalk in Union Square.
Although she has given her entire
family of four sons to her country, Mrs.
Ellzabeth Sellinger, 80 Lewis Avenue,
Brooklyn, through somebody's over
sight, failed to find place among the
soldiers mothers in yesterdays parade.
Mrs. Scillnger came to Washington
Square an hour or so before the parade
formed and waited on the green with
her foUr-starred flag for the auto
mobiles which. she had been told. were
to be provided for women who were un-
able to walk the distance
Il was awake all night just looking
Forward to this parade" said Mrs. Sell
hnger, and simply must take part in
it. I've invested every cent I could get
together in Liberty bonds and I've sent
my tour sons away to fight for their
country. Now / want to feel that I
nave place among the other mothers ="
The bands began to play, the parade
started the whiting groups of women
debouched out Of the side streets into
the avenue and Mrs. Sellinger was left
standing alone on the curb. The
vehicle which might have added the
Sellinger stars to the parade was not
forthcoming. The Tribune sent an
automobile to Washington Square. but
by the time it was able to work it's wav
through the congested side streets Mrs.
Sellinger had vanished
The four sons of Mrs Sellinger arc
Joseph and William, both with Per-
shlng in France; Thomas, in an Ameri-
can training camp. and Francis. of the
United States navy.
Huge American flags stretched be-
tween hollow squares of narchers
which appeared at frequent intervals
IN yesterdays parade, were accented
as an open invitation to Red Cross CON
trlbutors. man standing near the
Washington Arch started the uncx-
pecJed fund with a handful of silver
as the first of the flags passed him. The
crowd caught the idea at once. and
sent it on up the line. Showers of
dimes and quarters rained into the
Hags along each passing block. and bv
the time the procession reached Fifty.
seventh Street all of the flags we're
dragging to the pavements with their
accumulated weight of small change