The Washington herald., 1921-05-01
VETS
CARNIVAL DRAWS
HUGE CROWDS
Many Thousands, Includ-
ing City's Orphans,
See Shows.

the auspices or the
III District OF Columbia
VII Chapter of the Rain
Nx~ bow. Division Vet
eraTs. has just COM
pleted a very sue
cessful week on lots across from
the old Liberty Hut lot on Union
Station Plaza. The daily attend
ance averaged 1000. Last Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock the veterans
mammoth attractions commenced
with a band concert IN front Of
the colored rainbow arch entrance
to the show grounds. 1t will con-
tinue to May Z.
Due to a delay in the transpor-
tation facilities the twenty-eight
carloads of attractions engaged by
the Forty-second men to perform
were delayed in their arrival last
Sunday, which resulted in Tuesday
being the opening day for the Sc
ries of circus attractions. The band
concert scheduled for the patients
OF Walter Reed Hospital in the
Red Cross Building on that insti-
tutionis grounds was postponed un-
Ill this afternoon at o'clock due
tc the tie-up on the railroad. This
concert will be given for the benel
At of all patients in the Walter
Reed General Hospital by the
thirty-five piece band from the
Rainbow exposition. Harry Stat
fcrd has arranged with an officer
concert in the Red Cross Building
should bad weather be in order this
afternoon.
ing given at the, Rainbow veterans
show grounds are the following:
Merry-go-rounds, seaplanes. the
whip, ferris wheels, through the
falls. wild animal arena, society
one-ring circus, Broadway min
strels: silodrome. jungleland. tenn
ualist; the show beautiful. Bo Bo.
and circus side shows consisting of
freaks and curiosities.
President Warren G. Harding ten
days ago received the delegation
rom the d. C. Chapter at the White
House. The President has since
given his written Endorsement of
the constructive activities OF the
local Rainbow Division Veterans as
expressed in the following letter to
them:
Permit me to extend the wish.
OF the occasion of your exposition
and carnival, that you may have
complete success and that the re-
suits may further the excellent
work that your organization is do
ing to keep alive patriotic senti-
ments that were so emphatically
| attested by the services of the
Rainbow Division during the great
war"
In the course OF the past week
the Vice President of the United
states became interested enough in
The success of the local veterans
! of the Forty-second Division and
their exposition to write them the
following letter:
The Rainbow Division, by rea-
son OF its membership. is pecu-
liarly representative of the whole
| nation. 1t is eminently hitting that
| is headquarters should be in Wash
| ington, that its activities should
radiate from this center, and that
its members should turn their eyes
in this direction for that continu-
Fling, inspiration in peace which we
need to have supplant the activities
| Of war. Action in the field is done.
Action in those great efforts which
have characterized America goes on
increasingly. In fact. it is the dis
cipline of peace that makes possible
the success of war.
TT Is time when we may we'll
turn our thoughts from destruction
to construction, from the overcom-
ing of our enemies to the building
up OF ourselves, from every hostile
thought to contemplation Of
charity. benevolence and peace.
These things come froma action as
well as thought
Your organization, in its at
tempt to administer to the well
being of its former members. to
their support. to their assurance OF
continuing remembrance on the
part Of their countrymen. is per-
forming a most patriotic service.
May that success which marked
your efforts in war. emphasized
and increased, mark your efforts in
peace"
Representative Thomas l.. Blan-
ton. of Texas. on the floor of the
House last Tuesday called the at
tsution Of the members of that leg
islative body to the Rainbow ex-
position being given by the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of the
Rainbow Division Veterans for the
benefit Of the disabled veterans Of
the Forty-second Division and those
of the said unit who may become
temporarily in need of assistance
in the District of Columbia. The
House voted APPRECIATION Of the af-
fair.