The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
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them came troop aIler IrOOp or scouts until spectators must have wondered if all the boys in Birming- ham belonged.
 Not to be outdine by the boys, the Camp Fire Girls were out in their at- tractive uniforms, marching with sol fine alignment.
 The brass band of the Cowikee mill of Eufaula was next in line, men, girls and boys, playing real music, In splendid time and smartly uniformed in blue and white.
 Next came a group Cf motor cars with soldiers who had been wounded their friends and many citizens. Reserve soldiers made up the next attachments, posts of the American Legion from near and far, hundreds of them, many with decorations their breasts showing many cross, their sleeves aglisten with service and wound stripes. Former overseas officers marched full uniformed, in a group, a gallant company of gentlemen unafraid."
 The navy was represented by a bunch of blue jackets lon shore | leave" score or so of them, able bodied seamen, warrant officers and others, neat to faultlessness, their dark blue uniforms a bold contrast to the sea of khaki.
 Veterans of foreign wars in many | lands, their old uniforms long out grown, marched in civilian garb, men of various ages who had followed the flag from the time of the Venezuelan embroglio to the march across the Rhine.
 School Children Swarm. l The line was taking on a new ap- | pearance now. The children of the public schools were passing, swarm l ing thousands of them, some with gayly colored school insignia, but all in line of march, boys and girls alike, practically every one of the hundreds of schools Cf the city and county rep resented.
 Small heads held high, they marched, each detachment with the banner of it's own. particular school borne with the dignity the men, In the first attachments of the parade had held the national colors and meaning as much to them. School after school went by, friends recog- nizing them as they passed and giv- Ing each an ovation.
 The combined bands of the high schools, more than 100 boy musi- clans, evidently thoroughly instructed 1 in the music they played, went by at quick step, drawing a roar of ap- | plause that vied with the military music for dominance.
 Companies of high school cadets | passed in review, reserve officer training corps companies, soldierly, efficient-looking and smartly uni formed. Company after company of them passed. High school girls with the sun making their hair glint with high lights, pretty dresses giving tone to the more somber garb of the men.
 There were civic institutions In line, groups representing various lines of work. Apparatus of the fire department shone until 1t hurt to | look at the red and gold and silver the sun touched with fire, and a mass of automobiles of the parade and l joining it, and as the procession passed the throngs on the sidewalks l poured into the street, making the avenue have the appearance of the midway at state fair on Saturday, closing night.
 1 Mondays celebration was the fifth anniversary of the signing of the ar- mistic9, postponed from Sunday, Mo- vember II, and none Of it's preceding four celebrations was In its class for size and effect.
 "One of the greatest parades in the history of the city, was the comment of those who saw that of Monday and others that had gone before.