The sun., 1918-10-13
WILSON WALKS
INL0AN PARADE
Greatest Pageant in Gty's His
tory Reveals War and In
dustrial Efficiency.
WOMEN MAKE BIG SHOW
Soldiers of Many Nations and
Battle Trophies Add Color
to Splendid Spectacle.
WOMEN MAKE BIG SHOW

Some day victorious army and
navy. fresh from Germany and Ger
man waters, will swing elong -an
American avenue in a grand review
which will go down in history as the
greatest OF professions; but until that
hig moment arrives It may be honestly
snid by the hundreds of thousands
who watched the Fourth Liberty Loan
parade tramp through Fifth avenue
throughout most of the daylight hours
yesterday that they witnessed the
greatest parade which the world
metropolis. perhaps the world, ever
Lad seen.
Around the word greatest" quota
tlon marks are used advisedly. The
adjective isn't the reporters. Every
one within earshot used It. There
were moments during the long pro-
cessional hours of yesterday in the
nag fiuttering Avenue Of the Allies"
when men not usually given to emo
ton. and never to sentimentality
wiped their eyes and were unashamed.
In among the myriads Of humble
marchers was one Individual. the Pres
ident Of the United States, who partly
because OF great ability and largely
because circumstances had made him
the mighty leader of the greatest ma
ton at the worlds biggest moment
stood forth as the spokesman and first
citizen Of all the decent part OF the
world.
American Ingenuity on View.
In the sections OF the parade which
preceded the line In which he marched
and punctuating the columns OF the
thousands of paraders who marched be-
hind him were concrete evidences OF all
that goes to make successful modern
warfare. from the sheaves OF wheat that
typihed the earth old industry OF agri-
culture to the last word in airplanes
and wicked little whippet tanks. And
in view OF the Teutonic claims of Ger
manic monopoly OF all that Is intellec-
tually efficient 1t was worthy OF note
that not a single elemental invention or
discovery OF warfare exhibited In the
parade was OF German origin.
The late Wilbur Wright, an Amer
lean. was the FIRST human being to rise
from the ground in a heavier than air
machine. wherefore clouds Of airplanes
whipped in circles far up in the gray
skies above the paraders solely because
OF Wright's American ingenuity. Atop
the big floats steam engines, so neces-
sary to modern warfare. throbbed be-
cause a youth in Great Britain once had
harnessed steam.
The wireless apparatus, Indispensable
on land and sea in modern war. cracked
on other floats because an Italian had
invented the wireless. Daylight though
It was, incandescent lamps and the arc
flashes OF military searchlights glowed
solely because a generation ago a kindly
resident of the Oranges. In New Jersey,
had given them to the world. The sub
marine was trundled by on heavy trucks
only because an Irishman living In
America had invented and perfected an
undersea boat.
Tanks and Guns OF Yankee Origin.
Gas engines of automobiles and trucks
chugged along the line OF march owing
to the fact that man In an upstate
town of New York invented the auto
mobile. Flapping rhythmically against
the thighs Of army and navy officers
were the all important automatic pistols
Of present day war. an American inven-