The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-22
PARADE OF FIRST ARMY DIVISION
 ON STATELY AVENUE AT CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (by Asso- ciated Press) .-Over historic Penn sylvania avenue, the American Way of Victory marked out more than fifty years ago by the returning blue-clad legions of the Army of the Potomac, the First division, American expedi- tionary force, marched few days ago. It was Washingtons first great parade of the war and it was conceived and carried out as the nations tribute not alone to the veteran fighting wen who marched, but to the whole great army the nation created to make cer- tain the utter defeat of German dreams of world conquest.
 Marching in mass formation and equipped with all the guns, gas throwers and countless other death dealing devices of front line service, the First division, fresh home from France, moved along the broad ave- nue, a living tide of sunburned fight ing manhood that filled the street from curb to curb. Tn their khaki and olive drab uniforms, the men swung by as resistlessly as the spring floods of the Mississippi. Above each solid block of infantry rose the grim line of bayonets, the blued steel glinting duly as it caught the light Farther back came the long lines of field guns, French "75's" to which French officers have said France owes her salvation and, after all the trains and wagons had rum bled by, came a battalion of tanks, streaked and yellowed with paint to conceal them from enemy eyes, but now growing and clanking their way behind the troops in noisy response to the cheers that greeted them.
 The Whole PanopIy of War
 There was nothing lacking to make the parade an epitome of the whole vast army American skill and indom- itable will had created to meet and beat the enemy at his own game. There were guns of all the types used in France that could be moved through the streets. Machine guns, big and little, bristled among the rifemen; squat mortars to hurl bombs from the trenches; high mounted rifles which peered sky ward as though still in search ot enemy flyers. Some of the guns were horse-drawn, some trundled behind pa1ting motor trucks or tractors. The show was as complete as the ingenu- itv of the war department could make it, a cross section of the American expeditionary forces.
 But it was the lines of the kakhi- clad, brown-faced men themselves that the eyes of the thronging crowds all along the wide avenue turned. The homecoming of this first unit of American power to cross the submarine-infested seas was in marked contrast to it's silent, myste- rious, unreported departure and the men and women along the way seemed to feel the significance of the spectacle. They recalled the days when the nation waited in WOrdless anxiety to hear that these same smll- ing. free-striding boys had come safe lv to a French harbOr, those other days when the first word filtered back that the boys had begun to prove their courage in action and the slow coming lists that carried the names of the men who sleep forever in France.
 Guns Which Fired First Shot
 To one regiment of long, trim "75's" an unusual honor was accord ed. The Sixth field artillery was placed between the two infantry brigades instead of marching with the rest of the artillery brigade be- hind the infantry, for it was c bat tery of the Sixth which fired the first shot at the Germans on October 22, 1917. A standard told the onlookers that at last they saw the very guns whose thunder had carried that first