The sun., 1919-09-11
representatives of Nation,
State and City in Re-
viewing Stand.
COLUMN 3 MILES LONG
Men Who Were First Over
and Last Back Symbol
ize U. S. in Arms.
BOMBED WITH FLOWERS
Heroes of Many Great Battles
Acclaimed Along Progress
of Triumph.
BOMBED WITH FLOWERS

Pershing-and the First Division,
photograph of America in arms
New York saw them yesterday and
Il was a spectacle TO fill not only the
oye but the mind and heart. Thirty
thousand men and all the panoply of
modern war pranced and strode and
rumbled and roared, even flew over
head, down Fifth avenue.
Thirty thousand men with all their
gear, from airplane to trench mortar,
from staff limousine to elephantine
truck, from fat breeched howitzer to
vicious light mitrailleuse, from the
Generals charger TO the gargantuan
caterpillars which drew the guns-for
three hours and half they moved
without ceasing past the reviewing
stand at Eighty-second street. They
left 10th street on the stroke of 10 in
the morning and 1t was $3.50 in the
afternoon when the last of them had
passed through the Washington Arch(
Men marvelled at the smoothness with
which the intricate machine was as
sembled. moved and torn apart at the
end. Women gave up trying to solve the
complexities of the relation between the
many parts.
Yet this was but a parade of exactly
one sixty-dfth of the American Expe-
ditlonsry Force. This smoothly func
toning organism was displaying in a
pretty trick of peace the things that
made It what it was.
And 1t was only one of the sixty-five
such which John ]. Pershing had swung
against an enemy as skilfully. as rap
idly, under as perfect coordination as a
to1er might swing his two simple hands.
These men had not learned their per-
fection on smooth asphalt where the
cheers of those who loved them resound-
ed. This General had not learned -
marshal them for this unimpeded prog
ress of triumph. This machine he had
forged in the heat of German hate. be-
meath the blast OF high explosive death
CT poisoned strangulation, OF woodsy
ooverts that spat lead. of skies tina.
rahed dynamite. This machine he hac
tempered in the rain and mud of winter
and Of summer. in the blazing poppy
fields of the valley of the Somme, in the
high. cold hills of the Vosges, in the
blood soaked mazes of the Argonne
where the very stricken tree trunks
seeled for horror.
II was there that he had made them
10 work and to win. Yesterday he
showed them of. from the pale intellec-
tuals who worked out formula in the
chart room OF the General Staff TO the
rudy intellectuals whose burning souls
dominated the four mule teams with oc-
easlonal minor aid from pair of large,
ied hands. Doughboy, cannoneer and
machine gunner New York has seen be-
iore' New York saw them yesterday and
took them to her heart as sne always
Goes But never before has New York
or any other place in America-seen that
ooughhoy 80 nearly upon his lawful oc-
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modern tools of his trade.
Demonstration for Thought.
That was the picture OF the A. Z. F.
not miniature with its suggestion OF
art but raw photograph, reduced but
accurate.
some observers say that 1t produced
Hem the New York crowds of a millior
Ut more reaction OF cheers less sponta
neous than that brought forth by thos'
uFst doughboys, of the Twenty
or OF the Seventy-seventh or the Sixty
ninth Regiment, or of some OF the Others
VINO have marched in the greatest stree
IN the world. But It was not exactly
spectacle for cheers. 1t was a demon
tuation for thought.
FOR the men themselves, for Pershing
iof That magnificent composite regimen
which marched behind him, for the mel
L the Infantry regiments whose fam
VII be undying and for the battered ol'
soixante Quinze." which opened th
Dall' the crowds went wild. They cheere'
sna they yelled. They waved flags AM
uley leaned forgetful from perilou
peIehes In windows.
Ihese men were Regulars" The,
were not Of New York itself particularly
Iheir banners proclaimed that they cam
rom every State and Territory under tn
nag Their homecoming lacked the per
sonal stimulus OF the yells OF There
bil and There's Jack" which mad
uhe others happy. There was no solem
note OF catafalque in this parade b
sure that these men have not forge
thoir nearly 5000 dead. But. be II re
pedted, they are Regulars" What ma
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