Arizona republican., 1918-12-27

playing, the members of the presiden tial party were glad to stamp time. General Pershing opened the cere- mOny with a brief speech in which he presented the victorious army to the president.
 My Countrymen," He says.
 The president addressed the troops as My Fellow countrymen,' and sil ence, which he characterized as the quiet of peace, settled down over the spot as every man of the ten thousand stood at attention and strained to latch the presidents words.
 For sL moment, as he spoke, the sun broke through rift in the clouds and lighted up the scene, the massed troops in their khaki, looking like long flashes of dulled winter sunshine. Some persons of the party remarked that they were indeed the sunshine which had dispelled the gray mist.
 The president spoke for about five minutes, earnestly and as. loudly as he could. Probably half the troops heard him. They all seemed to recog- nize the historic significance of the occasion.
 There stood before them an Amer
 
 10 revlew an American army on for eign soil. There stood president for whom no like privilege has been avail able, since Lincoln stood on the firing line with his troops north of Washing ton. Certainly no other president of modern times had review so large a body of fighting men fresh from the battle fields
 Langres is not a battlefield; it is not a devastated section of France. AS matter of fact it has not seen a bat tie for more than hundred years. Ii is one of the portions of this country saved from the ravages Of the invad ing hcrdes, by the men who were re- viewed by the president there today.
 That this reviewing place does not stand on the rim of the crater of the volcano, did not diminish the signific ance Of the event, for every man talk ing part in the reviewing had seen ac- tion. War crosses were plentiful. The men had been through all and wert veterans in every sense of the word.
 President Shows Pride.
 There was an unmistakable flasi of wholesome pride in the president: eye and catch in hs throat as h, looked at them and remarked what 2 privilege it would be to have been on, of them.
 The moment the president finished speaking. the review was on-men guns, horses and dogs. The head quarters band began with a F'rencl air then switched to The Stars ant Stripes Forever" The Swanee Riv sr,r Maryland" and Dixie"
 The notes of the American airs wer, waited over the black fields to tn blue hills in the background, as tn men began to move, marching in com pany front formation. wheeling pas the reviewing stand, eyes right
 First came the men of the Sixth di vision, veterans of the Mouse and Ar gonne offensives; then infantry an machine guns of the Twenty sixth veterans of the Chemin des Dame, Chateau Thierry and the Argonhe. Tn men of the Twenty ninth. also in tn Arsonne offensive, were next, and composite battalion of the Seventy seventh. Detachments of the EiShtietf who were in the fighting at Verdu iast October, and attachments of tn sighty second followed.
 The review was brought to an en 5yia long train of ammunition was ons, dragged through the mire by tn inevitable army mule who seemed to b the least interested of all, and a com pany of 15 whippet tanks, whic slewed and skidded about in the mu and made everyone wonder how. tn men inside must feel in battle.
 At the close of the review, Genera Alexander stepped up to the stand an presented MT. Wilson with one of tn little silken statues of Liberty whic the men of the Seventy ninth wear 0 their shoulders to denote their division The president and party then re-en tered the motor cars, going to Christ mas dinner with the officers of tn Twenty sixth division, composed en tirely of New England troops. Dinne was served in one of the wards in a old French hospital several miles ava. It had been the presidents wish an plan to dine with the troops them selves, but in the crush of arrange ments something went wrong and tt plan was not carried out.
 The president seemed to enjoy tf dinner none the less. It consisted ( army bread without butter, roast tul key with dressing, boiled onion French lettuce and coffee withoI cream. All was served in the simple! style and with the smallest cerennon
 The headquarters band gave tf president four ruffles and four floul ishes when he came, and when he wei away he simply waved his hand to a and with a smile said: Well, gooc 3ye Hope to see you again soon."
 From dinner the president went on tour of biliets in the nearby neighbol hood all of them on the road returf ing to Chaumont and inspected pei sonally several of the places where u men live with old French familie some of them in matched huts.
 The president told those about hi that he had passed through the grea est day of his life.
 The French thought it was a gre' day for them, and the Americans we sure it was no less great for them. A the American troops in the vicinity VI were not concerned in the review we somewhere to see what was going 0