Evening star., 1932-04-06
Military Units Form Largest
Parade of Its Kind Ever
Held in Washington.
PRESIDENT REVIEWS LINE
OF UNIFORMED MARCHERS
Members of Congress Witness
Spectacle From Steps of
Capitol Building.

Drum beats and thousands of tramp
ing feet out of a near but receding,
past swept down the Avenue this after
noon.
1t was the 18th anniversary of Amer
ica's declaration of war on Germany
More than a seventh of a century has
gone, and a new generation has arisen
since that momentous proclamation
which sent 100000 Americans into
battle lines and training camps.
There were close to 5000 uniformed
marchers in line when the great parade
swung away from the Capitol Plaza.
MANY of the ranks were filed with men
who actually had taken part in the
World War. Many were filled with boys
who were babies when the regiments OF
the fighting divisions we're crawling
through the mud and the mist of the
Meuse Valley.
1t was. in a sense reminiscent of some
of the great parades that swept down
the avenue in 1919, when the divisions
came home from the Rhine and the
Mosel. The veterans tried to make this
day their own. But there was a diff
ference. Then only the shoulder in
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sternness of the olive drab straight
a SlimneSs and erectnesS Enthusiastically
the product of drill field and bivouac.
Marks Two Anniversaries.
Today the veteran organizations
seemed to vie with one another for the
most colorful regalia, especially the
bands and the drum corps. The parade
did not partake of the stark reality of
war, as did those earlier professions.
AS the poppies bloomed on shell-torn
No-Man's land, so the warm sun of
peace has brought color to the A. E. F.
The boys had grown stouter and grayer
in the intervening seventh of a century.
But it was a brave, snowy parade-a
valiant challenge to time against for
getting the 1917 Springtime with its
sad farewells and stirring adventure.
1t was planned as the greatest Of
the military and civic paradeS which
will be held in the National Capital
during the George Washington Bicen-
tennial year. The two anniversaries
fortuitously conceded. To many OF
those in line it may have seemed a
trifie strange, howSoever true, that to-
day one event should be almost as
much a part of history as the other
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1917.
The great column, which included
all types of military organizations from
the Army Regulars to womens auxiliary
corps. began moving through the New
Jersey avenue entrance to the Capitol
grounds at 2 o'clock.
Turns at Fifteenth Street.
Marching along the Capitol road
ways around the legislative buildings,
where members of Congress were pre-
pared to review the column from the
Capitol steps, the parade moved into
Pennsylvania avenue at Peace Monu-
ment and marched along the his
toric parade ground of the Nation to
Fifteenth street and then south to
Constitution avenue. Turning west
ward, the column marched along what
is to be the new ceremonial boule-
ward of the Nation past a reviewing
stand in the Monument Grounds.
In a reviewing stand on Constitution
avenue across from the Washington
Monument the President, members OF
his cabinet and ranking officers OF the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps, as well
as officials of the District OF Colum-
bia government reviewed the marchers.
The parade, arranged under the joint
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