The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-07
TOMORROW is



ming. With the sections of the both
field artillery the units will parade in
| Topeka tomorrow morning.
The 18th infantry. except four
companies. will be in charge of Col.
| Willie Med. Rowan, former Garden
| City. Kan, man. This regiment was
| formed at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma.
| following mobilization at that point of
the Missouri and Kansas national
| guard troops. The 18th infantry was
| formed by the merging of the old LIST
and End Kansas infantry regiments.
I The men of the 137th infantry are
| typical "doughboys." They are the
men who went into the Argonne and
/ moved forward so fast that the artil
! Iery could not keep up. And when the
artillery was outdistanced the dough-
boys of the 35th MISUNDERSTANDING
/ the men of the 13Fth and the men of
| Monday-kept right on going ahead
taking machine gun nests with the
! bayonet.
! They Knew No Fear.
All honor is due the doughboys, for
it was the infantry which went for
ward into the territory known as No
! Mans Land swept over the Hun lines
/ and made for themselves and their
comrades of the A. L. f. a name of
greatest herOism.
| The equipment of rifles which these
men will bear in the parade is the
same that they carried in France. The
rifles are the very ones which blazed
at the Germans in the ArgOnne wood.
The bayonets are the ones which
| forced many a Hun throat to cry
| "Kamerad." The uniforms are the ones
which were wet with the mud of the
| trenches. The clothes in which the
coolies found unwelcome lodging. The
coverings which were drenched with
sweat and blood.
And all of this is just as true of the
/ i
Also True of Eighty-Ninth.
| 1t is also just as true of the equip
ment which the men of the EigE-s-
ninth division will carry thru the
streets of Topeka in the weeks to
come.
Topeka should bare her head to the
doughboys who fought the battles of
the Argonne. Topeka should pay her
highest compliment to the bayonet
fighters and to the artillerymen who
backed them up.
Use Passes at the Depot.
And it is Just because of the known
eagerness of Topeka to extend a well
come to the boys of the 13cth field
artillery and the 18th infantry
platform, station, park and eve. y
things to be roped off tonight be-
fore the arrival of the troop trains
bearing the command to the city. Ad-
| mittance to the enclosure will be by
pass only-by red pass. if you please,
for red is the artillery color. And
red passes will be issued to no one
except the close relatives of the men
known to be in the units of the 130th
field artillery and of the 137th III
fantry, which will arrive in To-
peka tonight. The passes will be
issued by Mrs. G. w. Rees, president
of the military sisterhood, from her
snecial desk in the business office of
the State Journal
Red. passes which will permit rela-
tives of men to enter the depot ell
closure this evening may be obtained
at the State Journal office up until
1910 o'clock this evening. Mrs. Rees
or some member of the military sis
terhood will be on duty all of the time.
Big Parade Tomorrow.
For the welcome home parade to-
morrow elaborate preparations have
been made by the military committee
of the Chamber of Commerce. Ac-
cording to an announcement today
by r. h. Baer, chairman of the COM
mittee, practically every band in the
city has donated its services for the
parade. Every one of these bands will
be used. If necessary a band will be
inserted between every platoon of the
!. column, so that every step the men
take will be to the music of at least
one of the bands
Nearly every organization in the
oity which maintains uniformed
: rank has signified intention of partici-
!: pating in the reception to the soldiers
of the two regiments.
Rcd Cross VIII &c Out.
The Red Cross workers will be out
in full force-this includes canteen
workers and workers of other kinds
in response to an order for mobiliza-
ton issued today by Horace L. Hail.
chairman of the local chapter of the
American Red Cross. All workers are