The New York herald., 1921-11-01

chokes the streets. There are at least
ten parades under way always and It
gives one to wonder what sort Of a proc
ess.on ii will be tomorrow when they
all march in one array with Foch, Persh-
ing. Beatty, Jacques and Diaz leading it..
1t looks something like what Broad
way looked like in the wet years. It's
nothing at all to see Indians fleeing
up q side street with mounted cowboys
whifling lariass in hot pursuit. All the
trick hats and banners within the grasp
OF a circus press agents imaginat Ion
are in evidence The majority OF the
veterans have come IN their old uniforms
but have added thereto sashest and bon
nets fixed upon by their various posts.
The only way YOU can get from one
place to another il TO push doushboys
cut of Your way. Three years ago you
could not push them out OF the way. To
! try to meant sudden death. But they
are playing now and they are playing
with all the abandon and Juror that
| characterized their fshting.
Trip Across Ohfo.
The trip across Ohio was made during
| the night. Gen. Pershing told the Mar
| shal il was too bad, the Buckeye State
| was .blanketed in darkness. for there
| was much OF II worth looking at.
'But,f, sofaced the General. beaniing
upon his French colleague, you will
| have the great pleasure OF travelling In
| daylight through the magnificent state
OF Missouri. the state in which MY hum
BILE birth TOOK place"
,'Ah. yes" replied Focb. II know the
place. Its mules are magnificent
And from $3.50, when the Marshaps
train arrived in. 81. Louis, until 80,
when It piled into Kansas City to be
surrounded by sufficient doughboys to
give anybody a thoroughgoing war. Foch
viewed Missouri mules. red, hogs, lao
acre corn patches and a series of wooden
villages and towns that look as if their
weatherbeaten houses had been sown
by giant hand heller skelter.
The larger towns and cities gave the
French soldier greetings that he will not
forget. At Washington, Mo-, they gave
him a box of corncob pipes labelled
Missouri meerschaums' and told him
Washington was the birthplace OF the
corncob smoke and that 1. manufactured
no fewer. than 5000 of them a day.
Whereupon the Marshal loaded one
of the cobs with his favoiite brand OF
tobacco "a brand that takes hold OF
one like young whiskey) and delivered
himself of q homily upon the benefits Of
smoking. lie displayed his own veteran
pipe and insisted that It had helped him
plan successful campaigns. He couldn't
remember how much he had smoked
during July, 1918, but he was quite GER
tain It would have called all the gift
corhcobs into play.
The whole trip across Missouri was
much like that across Pennsylvania yes
terday. TIE train rolled a. slowly
through the towns where no stop was
scheduled. And always ,he school chill
dreh were out, ehaperehed by their par
ents and teachers. They sang and
threw overs and waved flags. Generally
there were veterans in the old olive
drab and their overseas caps.
At Jefferson City the citizenry gath
cred around the Marshals car and sang
"America' and Come Back to Old
Missouri" In the Rotary Club, the
American Legion, Post, the Mayor and
| his Cabinet stood we'll up front carry.
raining. Great numbers OF Asbiirys and
| resreaus-families noted in Missouri
for their athletic prowess tJeff Tesreat
being The niightiest) stood about proud
Of their hound dogs and singing, oi
| course. "Ya Gotta Stop kickin' Ny
Dawg Aroun'." California. xirkwoot
and New Haven hailed the train, the
men folks in blue DENNIS and the woifief
in their aprons and ginshams redolen
| Of the kitchen. Between stations tn,
| Marshal read and smoked
| lie said that he had read Gen. Luden
dorh's book and had pertsed Won Tir
| pitz's carefully. But on this trim he /
q, reading various other volumes on Ger