Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-12
General Peryhing Asks
Congress COMMITTEE NOT h
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| bers of the Girls Overseas club of
Atlanta, composed of girls who
served in France, and was presented
by them with a very beautiful gen.
erals flag bearing the four stars
of a generals rank. It was made
by hand by members Of the club,
of silk and gold braid, and was a
| most exquisite piece of work for
which which he thanked them
warmly.
| While these festivities were TAX
ing place in the lobby of the Geor-
gian Terrace, the. entire student body
Of Georgia Tech were lined up at
attention in Peachtree street, and
the Tech brass band was making
the welkin ring with patriotic music.
| Shortly before IL o'clock General
Pershing emerged from the lobby and
got into an automobile for the pro-
cession through the streets.
Great Public Ovation
| Never in the history Of Atlanta
was a famous visitor given a greater
outburst of popular enthusiasm than
General Pershing as he rode through
| Peachtree and Whitehall streets on
his way to Fort Mcpherson. Homes,
stores and office buildings were dec
grated with American flags and bunt-
| ing. Enormous pictures of General
Pershing were on display in scores
| of show windows. Banners and pla-
cards heralded in big letters whole
| hearted southern welcome to the COM
member of the A. Z. F.
Beginning with Tech students at
| the terrace. the procession passed
| through an almost continuous lane
of students and pupils as far as
| Brotherton street. AT North avenue
the general was greeted by the lit
| tie boys and girls Of Miss bargains
| kindergarten who cheered him to the
echo and waved American flags in
! his honor. At Forrest avenue he be-
gan to encounter the main body Of
AtIanta's $4,000 public school chill
| dren, and from there to Brotherton
, street he saw them on nearly every
block, lining the curb in single file.
waving flags, throwing kisses at
him, cheering madiy: "Pershing!
Pershing! Hurrah for Preshing! The
| man who won the war;"
Legion at Five Points
Ranged in a double phalanX on
both sides of the street at Five
FONTS were Atlanta members of the
American Legion wearing red bras
ssrds on their arms with the words.
american Legion. Welcome, Gen
eral Pershing." AS the generals au-
romobile rolled slowly through the
ranks of these men, who few
months ago were fighting under his
command in a foreign country 5000
miles from home, he was greeted
with a roar of enthusiasm, and he
smiled and saluted to the right and
the left in acknowledgment of their
stentorian ovation.
And then came the veterans, the
wearers of the gray, the grand old
heroes of the southern Confederacy,
assembled in a body at the intersec-
ton of Alabama and Whitehall
streets. They greeted the general
with the old rebel yell that always
thrills the blood of southern people,
greeted him with hats hurled into
the air, with tear-dimmed eyes where
blazed again the fighting spirit of
the laundering sixties. No ovation
given General Pershing in the whole
parade seemed to touch him quite so
deeply as the admiration of these
aged men. In fact, as he said in
his speech Wednesday evening at
the Elks club dinner, it was in the
eyes of Confederate veterans who
have grasped his hand on this south
ern tour that he found the answer
to the wonderful aggressive fighting
spirit of southern doughboys who
broke the Hindenburg line. They are
the men, as he was proud to acclaim,
who have done more than any 9TH
ers to inspire in the south it's intense
love of country"