The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
GOVERNOR'SDAY IS GREAT EVENT
 AT MCCLELLAN
Guardsmen Of Three States Close Annual Encampment

= CAMP MCCLELLAN, ANNISTON, Ala, Aug. 23.-A formal review and mammoth demonstration of offensive and defensive tactics concerning the splatoon, staged before Gov W. W. Brandon, of Alabama, and Gov. Harry l.. Whitfield of Mississippi, today, closed the activities of the 1924 en- .campment of the Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana national guard units. The cafp will officially come to close tomorrow, but all drills, instruc- tions and routine matter were ended today with the last call of the bugle. The camp has been in progress since August II, and has been a success in every way, according to Col. Walter E.. Bare, commander of the 167th h. fantry regiment, comprising the Ala bama National Guard.
 4 Saturday was Governors Day." so named in honor of the visit of the two governors. ..-N
 S The review, the most important and also the most formal event of the en- -crnpment, passed before the governors
 The governors had arrived a few and their staffs at g o'clock.
 minutes before, being given the military salute of a governor of 17 guns. r. The 5000 guardsmen of the three states presented a wonderful sight as they marched in perfect step before their governors, who cheered them in return fo rtheir salutes. The hun dreds of cavalrymen from Alabama and Louisiana passed in front of the two governors, the steeds keeping a, front that would be the pride of West Point CTS. Screws Praises Camp. WtI m nspeaking of the merits of the Screws, commanding both the camp and the Thirty-first Division said: "In ev- cry respect, the camp this year has been undoubted the most successful since the%war. The moral, the regular course of instruction prescribed by of- ficers of the regular army has been followed through to the most minute detail. There has not been a serious illness in the camp. We are more than satisfied with the manner in which the men went about the two weeks train ing. General Screws stated that the first encampment of the Thirty first Division this year will set a standard after which the other camps in the fu- lure should follow
 
 of the encampment of the Alabama Ma tional Guard next year, General Screws said. The three states maxim gthe Thirty first Division do not come to- gether for the training, but once in three years.
 ' Col. Walter E. Bare, commander of the 167th Infantray, which almost en- nreiy makes up the Alabama, said that the camp was the most satisfactorily conducted in his 21 years of exner- fence with the Alabama National Guard. Sponsors On Hand
 Also cheering the thousands of troopers was stand packed to capac- lty with beautiful women, acting as sponsors. On the sidelines, the old members of the 167th infantry regi- me1t stood in silence as their success sors marched by. s.-.. ",
 When the review was ended, the old 167th infantry regiment, under the command of General William P. Screws, of Montgomery, presented to ] the present 167th infantry regiment, in | command of Col. Walter E. Bare. of the colors of the United States, the state of Alabama and the coIorS.
 In presenting the colors, General Screws charged the men to carry on the fight which was so evidenced in the old 167th regiment of the Rainbow division.
 Col. Walter E. Bare, in accepting the colors, made the following ad- dress:
 Col. Bare Speaks
 "A very particular and peculiar privilege is mine this morning in re- ceiving, for the officers and men of the reorganized regiment, the battle colors of the old 167th infantry. They come to us from you with a proud heritage. They have led the regiment across the broad Atlantic, through England, France, Belgium and Luxem- burg, and they have flown to the breeze upon the banks of the Rhine in the homeland of the enemy. They have been bourne with glory and honor upon many a bloody battlefield. They come to us adorned with bright rib bonds of brilliant victory, victory earned both in defensive and in of- fensive combat.
 Our thoughts turn this morning to chalons and snippes in Champagne; to the Red Cross farm, to Sergy, to the Qureq and to Fere en Tardencis in ateau-Thierry to Hill 288 and the Kriemhildestellung line in the dense brush of the Argonne; to Bulson and Sedan on the last drive in the early days of November, 1918. With thoughts so turned, we pause for a moment to think of our hundreds who. now sleep their eternal sleep. We think, too, of the other hundreds, who, although not done unto death now carry upon their bodies and upon their minds un- slightly marks and scars indelibly marked and stamped on them in burst ing shot and shell and gas. We pause to do them honor.
 To-day, the white dove of peace is perched upon our standards, and may we remain at peace for evermore. But, sir, if the day shall come when our dream of peace is rudely cast aside; if the day shall come when wicked and fiendish hands may undertake to grasp the throat of our government, whether the hostile act come from within or