The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-16
Big WELCOME
FOR BUDDHISM
new ORLEANS i \!
Opening Attendance Not So
Great as When Legion Met
At Kansas City
WEAR SPECIAL GARB
California is Outstanding
Contestant For 1923
National Convention
(By the Associated Press)

natlOnal convention mere To-Day.
Meeting in a converted warehouse of
the Mississippi river front, decor
ated with flags of the allied nations,
the Legion heard the reports of it's
national commander and adjutant.
Clad in uniforms, civilian clothes,
and the costumes adopted by state
delegations, the veterans of the
world war made merry, held improm-
tn street dances and generally en-
joyed themselveE last night.
Practically every state ! in the
Union was represented when the con-
vention this morning, as we'll. as q
number of territorial possessions
and representatives Of post of the
legion in foreign countries.
California, outstanding contestant
for the 1928 national convention ar
river here clad in broad brimmed
black hats, red shirts and and knee
boots, the costume of the "49'ers."
: Medleys Sung.
A dozen medleys, reminiscent of
the war, foated through the hotel
-lobbieI of New Orleans last night.
New Orleans resounded to the tramp
of young mems feet-also the feet
of the young women who served in
the army nurse corps during the war,
as wei as the women, old and young,
who "kept the home fires burning
four and five years ago, and are here
today as delegates and visitors to
the convention of the American Le-
gion auxiliary, composed of moth
ers, wives, sisters and daughters OF
\ veterans of the world war.
Early today the veterans and the
women folk were enroute to the con-
avention hall.
A night of excitement, dancing and
music, had not decreased their en-,
thusiasm and during the band music
which preceded the opening Of the
convention, the first session of which
was attended by members of the au':
iliary, there were frequent Interrupt
tions of handclapping and cheering.
The legionnaires had not arrived
in such large numbers on the first
day, as were in Kansas City last
year.
The American Legion opened its
national convention here today, with
< in rifle shot of the historic square
where Andrew Jackson mustered ::
sharpshooting army of frontiersmen
and Gulf pirates to fight British vet
erans of the Napoleonic wars, some
what more than century ago.
New Orleans, graceful product OF
three civilizations-Spanish, French
and American-made. its guests well
come, and in the narrow streets and
wrought iron balconies of the old
French quarter, there was more than
a hint of the French towns with
which the veterans of the A. E. +.
grew familiar overseas.
Bit Roomier.
The Legion "buddies' are bit
roomier around the waist, some 0,
them, than they were four years ago,
when the fighting in the Argonns
was drawing to close, and they are
distinctly more comfortable today
than they were in those war-harassed
French towns, where quarters were
scarce and even stables were at
premium. But they were the SAME
old A. E.. F. gang--the same hurrah
and noise, the same spirit of Lets
go" pervaded their nineteen twenty
two assemblage.
It was not hard to imagine that the
old buildings which had seen Andres
Jackson's troops march out to de-
feat a crack British army two weeks
after peace had been declared in the
war of 1912, the buildings which had
seen veterans of the Mexican war
and wearers Of the Confederate gray
and of the Union blue swinging along
to martial music-it was not hard to
imagine these old buildings open
their eyes "a bit behind their dusty
iealousies as the veterans of the lat
est war gathered in reunion, and to
declare Cuc pOllClcS VI tAS1A OA6oh0
ization.
Five Day Session.
The Legion viii be the guest Of
New Orleans for five days. During
that time, it is expected it will once
more declare itself with some ex-
plicitnes: in regard to the bonus
bill: that it will demand the removal
of Brigadier General c. F.. Sawyer,
President Harding's physician, form
the position of supervisor Of the hos
pitalization of wounded veterans,
that it will reaf1irm its position as to I
making American citizens out OF i'm
migrants and instructing them in the
duties of citizenship.
Kenesaw Mountain Lands, commits
sioner of organized BASEBALL and an
outspoken friend of the veterans,
was to deliver an address to the COM
rades of his, son who fought in
France.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor and
veteral leader of organized labor in
the United States was to make q
speech. Whether Mr.. Gompers would
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