The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-07
APPEAL TO WILSON
FOR 77TH'S PARADE
Dispatch Is Sent by Welcome
Committee for Jewish Boys
Returning From War.
48 HOUR RULE Is SNAG
it Is Believed Division Cannot
Be Demobilized Within
Such Brief Time.

In an effort to secure a guarantee for
the Seventy-seventh Division parade. the
welcome Committee for the Jewish Boys
Returning from the War sent a cable
gram to President Wilson in Paris yes
terday asking him as COMMANDMENT
Chief of tho Army to rescind the order
OF the War Department under which
troops arriving from France must be de-
mobilized within forty-eight hours.
II Is believed by military men here
that II will be impossible to parade the
division within that time. The despatch
follows:
TT Is announced that military au-
thorities have decided that the Seventy
seventh Division shall not parade. This
decision Is very much to be regretted
May we say that II would be polite not
only to have the Seventy-seventh parade
on the East Side. but that the returning
soldiers. all of whom have won the ad-
miration of the world. should parade in
the respective communities throughout
the United States. Everything should be
done to overcome any difficulties. that
may be In the way. The effect OF this
Is obvious, for nothing but a welcome
could more fittingly demonstrate our
love and admiration for our heroes and
IL would be a great factor in stimulating
the highest patriotism for our country.
"On behalf of the people of the East
Side the Welcome Committee for the
Jewish Boys Returning from the War
PETITIONS you as Commander in Chief of
the American Army to rescind the order
prohibiting the parade of the Seventy
seventh Division. The people of the East
Side have gladly given their sons to do
battle in France for their country and
desire 20 pay loving tribute to the boys
who are returning ana to the memory of
those who sleep in foreign SOIL"
Representative r. H. La Guardia, re-
Gently Major in the Aviation wing Of
the American army in Italy, said yester-
day that New York must have the pa
rade. 1.-THE wishes of the people must
be made known In no uncertain terms
TO the General STAFF. And II they are, 1
doubt that 1t or the War Department
will have the temerity to ignore these
wishes.
Every Representative Of New York
city, / understand. has expressed the
desire Of the people he represents that
this parade should be held
Representative La Guardia sails to-
day as q member Of the Committee on
Military Affairs of the House OF Rep
resentatives to mako an inspection OF
American army camps in France.
The more the possibilities OF holding
the parade within the forty-eight hour
period were disguised yesterday tho
more hopeless it became. Even II the
usual procedure OF sending the men to
camp Immediately was dispensed with.
1t is thought hardly possible that the
men. could debark and parade on the
same day, or even the following day. so
wearied would they be from the trip
across. Some, however. thought 1t FEAST
ble for them to parade the next day by
billeting the men Ia their homes over
night; the replacements to be quartered
In the armories OF the city. which would
comfortably hold them, 1t was said.
Regulations require that each man
undergo a physical examination in ad-
dltion to the records to be made out
II Is now believed that the division can
not be demobilized according to pres
ent regulations and facilities within
forty-eight hours, even though 1t has
no distractions. II required five days
TO demobilize the Twenty-seventh Di-
vision. The Seventy-seventh has 1000
more men than the Twenty-seventh had
The last definite word received from the
War Department was that the forty
eight hour ruling would be 'rigidly ad-
hered to-