Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-27
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
 PROMISE Of PRESIDENT
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A temporary broadwalk had been built over the Quagmire of the re. viewing field. General Pershing open. ed the ceremony with a brief speech in which he presented, "The Victori- ous Army to the President.
 The notes of the American air, were waited over the bleak fields to the blue hills of the background, az the men began to move, marching i:1 company front formation, wheeling past the reviewing stand eyes ri ,ht
 First came the men of the Sixth division, veterans of the Mouse and the Argonne offansives: then infantry and machine guns of the Twenty sixth. veterans of the Chemins des Danes. Chateau Thierry and the Ar Gonne. The men of the Twenty-ninth also in the Argonne offensive, were next. and a composite battalion of the Seventy Detachmants of the Eightieth who were in tE fighting at Verdun last October aud detachments of the Eighty-second fol- lowed.
 AuS ICNlCN Wdo LII Ou3ut J iIl cItl 'ty long train of ammunition wag- ons, dragged through the miro by the inevitable army mule. who seem ed to be the least interested of all, and q company of 15 whippet tanks which slowed and skidded about III the mud and made every one wonder how the men inside must feel in battle. H'
 At the close of the review, Gen. eral Alexander stepped up to the stand and presented Mr. Wilson with one of the little silken Statues of Liberty which the men of the 'Sev- enty-seventh wear on their shoulders to denote their division.
 The president and party then re- entered the motor cars. going to Christmas dinner with the officers of the wanty-sixth division com posed entirely of New England troops. Dinner was served in one of the empty wards of an old French hospital several miles away. It had been the presidents wish and plan to dine with the troops them selves, but in the crush of arrange mants something went wrong and the plan was not carried out.
 The president seemed to enjoy the dinner none the less. It consisted of army Bread without butter, roast turkey with dressing, boiled onions, French lettuce and coffee without cream. All was served in the sim plest style and with the least cere- mony.
 After dinner the president went on tour of billcts in a nearby neigh borhood. The president told them about him that he passed through the greatest day of his life.
 The president addressed the troops and "my fellow countrymen" and a silence which he characterized as the quiet of peace, settled down over the spot as every man of the ten thou sand stood at attention and strained to catch the presidents words.
 For moment as he spoke, the sun broke through rift in the clouds and frightened up the scene, the massed troops in their khaki look ing like great waves of winter-killed grasses in the fields; then 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 lcould. Probably half the troops heard him. They all seemed to rec ogn'ze the historic significance of the occasion.
 There stootl before them an Ameri- can president, the first in history to review an American army pf foreign soil. There stood aepresident for whom no like privilege had been available