Middletown transcript., 1918-04-13
10000 TROOPS
PASS IN REVIEW
Fighting Machine From Meade
Stlrs Patriotism
CLIMAX TO GLORIOUS 0At
Every Man Marehes Like vst0san-
Most Notable Spectacle
Ever Seen In
Baltimore.

Baltimore. April 6.-Four hundree
thousand persons sat down to their
dinner tables tn Baltimore tonigAe
with one exclamation ringing through
their minds-'Good Night. Ka1DR
Bill"
Even the President Of the United
States must have had such q thought
uppermost in his mind as he ponders6
over tho scenes which he and MFo>
Wilson and 399.998 other spectators
had witnessed in this town on the
first anniversary of this country:s e.
try into war.
There were that many persons, and
more, who saw the 10000 soldiers oe
the Liberty Division of Camp Meade
go marching through the streets this
afternoon every one Of
them, and every inch Of them-goine
forward eagerly and confidently and
determinedly on their way to neet
the Boches.
Never has Baltimore seen such .
pageant, never has this city been 80
stirred to its depths. never has pa
triotic fever leaped so highly and so
gladly and so courageously as It did
when these men of Baltimore, OF
Maryland. Of Philadelphia, of Pennsyl-
vania and of the District of Columbia
went by in review before their COM
mander-in-chief-th leader Of them
and Of this nation.
Those $4,000 soldiers were bearing
with them message. This message
was clear and convincing. 1t told u
story to every American among tho
hundreds of thousands of Americans
who choked the city streets and who
went into de!irium of pride and en-
thusiasm as they read the tate. Tho
message was stamped on the tanned.
alert, cheerful faces of that moving
host OF khaki-c!ad men. The Presi-
dent peered at it and studied Il, and
a glow Of satisfaction came over his
face, hope and joy and gratitude rang
vibrantly in his heart, and the eyes
became the mirror of his soul. Those
eyes which have seen so much and
studied so much, knew that the It'd
ings which they had received were
true
The 400, 900 fellow-Americans Of the
President read that message and they
interpreted It the same as he. That
is why they went home with exulta-
ton in their heart, that is my eaey
said in unison. Good Night, Kaiser
Bill"
The message said that these were
the boys of the Army of Liberty, the
men of the Seventy-ninth Division.
members of the National Army, the
greatest army the world will ever
know. That message reminded the
President that year ago when his
clarion call came to America to
avenge the weak and to crush the
tyrant, to make the world safe for
democracy, that thought of tnem IS
soldiers had not even been conceived.
They reminded him how the coun-
try, knowing that it must go forward
to fight for the right, yet felt sick at
heart when it looked around and saw
not myriads of soldiers to defend it's
honor, but a mere company OF uni
formed men who were but dot
against the vast army of imperialistic-
mad miitarists.
But on that day the President hae
spoken his trust in the valor and de-
termination of his countrymen. He
felt that he could take men from the
work bench and from the factories.
from the mines and from the farm
lands, from the law courus Aasr from
the medical schools, from banks and
business houses, from the busy marta
of trade and from little country towns
and mould them into an army that
never would brook defeat.
That was why that CLEAN Of
triumph came into his eyes as the H.
900 men swept by him-the infantry
and the artillery, the field signal bat
talions. the machine-gun companies
the members of the sanitary trains.
the generals and the buck privates.
the whites and the bdacks-aA OF
them with hearts that kept humping.
thumping proudly as their feet went
tramp, tramp, tramp down the wide
avenue past the Presidential review