The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-04-11
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Fighting Machine From Meade
StIrs Patriotism
CLIMAX TO GLORIOUS DAY
Every Man Marches Like Veteran
Most Notable Spectacle
Ever Seen In
Baltimore.

Baltimore, April 6.-Four hundred
thousand persons sat down to theI,
dinner tables in Baltimore tonight
with one exclamation ringing through
their minds-"Good Night, Kaiser
Bill"
Even the President OF the United
States must have had such thought
uppermost in his mind as he ponderet
over the scenes which he and Mrs
Wilson and 399.99S other spectators
had witnessed in this town on the
first anniversary OF this countrys en-
try into war.
There were that many persons, and
more, who saw the 10000 soldiers Of
the Liberty Division of Camp Meade
go marching through the streets this
afternoon-soldiers, every one Of
them, and every inch OF them-gOnv
forward eagerly and confidently and
determinedly. on their way to NEE.
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 30
gladly and so courageously as Il 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 con-
mander-in.chief-th leader of them
and OF this nation.
Those 1900 soldiers were bearing
with them a message. This message
was clear and convincing II told a
story to every American among III.
hundreds of thousands of Americans
who choked the city streets and who
went into a delirium Of pride and en-
thusiasm as they read the tale. The
message was stamped on the tanned
alert, cheerful faces OF that moving
host of khaki-c!ad men. The Pres'
dent peered at 1t and studied II, 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 i'd
ings which they had received were
true
The 100000 fellow-Americans Of the
President read that message and they
interpreted II the same as he. That
Is why they went home with eXuia
ton in their heart, that Is -ny rev
said in unison, Good Night, Kai5g
Bill"
The message said that these wer
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 bis
clarion call came to America 70
avenge the weak and to crush The
tyrant, TO make the world safe for
democracy, that thought of them ::
soldiers had not even been conceived
They reminded him how the cour
try, knowing that 1t must go forwaN
to fight for the right, yet felt sick al +
heart when it looked around and saw +
not myriads of soldiers to defend it
honor, but a mere company of UNI +
formed men who were but dot
against the vast army of imperialistt
mad militarists.
But on that day the President he
spoken his trust in the valor and de
termination of his countrymen. lie
felt that he could take men from ls
work bench and from the factories
from the mines and from the farm
lands, from the law courus aau iron
the medical schools, from banks ana
business houses, from the busy mara
of trade and from little country towns
and mould them into an army IN"
never would brook defeat.
That was why that CLEAN
triumph came into his eyes as the "
600 men swept by him-the' infanlN
and the artillery, the field signal bar
talions, the machinegun companle
the members of the sanitary trains
the generals and the buck private,
the whites and the blacks-all
them with hearts that kept thumpinl
humping proudly as their feet wen
tramp, tramp, tramp down the wC
avenue past the Presidential reyIe"
ing stand.