The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-19
Legion Demands Gen. Saloyer be Ousted
BUDDIES MEET
TWO OLD PALS
IN RAWLEANS
Vim Sisters, Rouge
and Blanc, Glue
'em Glad Hand.
BY H. E. KIESKE.


Copyright, 1922. by The Argus.)
New Orleans. La. Oct. 19.-Al-
though many of New Orleans most
prominent citizens were on the re-
ception committee for the Ameri-
can legion now meeting here. the
"buddies" from overseas were bit
uneasy until they found that two
old friends from France also were
here-the Vim sisters. Rouge and
Blanc.
Now both sides are doing nicely,
thank you.
But to stick to the plain unvar-
nished truth, or the low down.
as the legion itself would call it,
the folks of New Orleans and the
horde of former service men here
for the annual reunion, now in full
swing, were a bit stand-offish be-
fore the curtain went up.
You see the legion boys had been
surfeited with the Paris of Amer
ica;'" the "city that care forgot
the s'city where romance and ad-
venture still may be found" and
all the pet phrases of the press
agents of the playground of the
south"
Awful Drouth Rumors.
They had been saturated with
such glib expressions and then, a
few days before the convention was
to open, strange tales began to
seep out from the city. Stories OF
raids and raids were followed by
declarations that New Orleans was
to be "spotless town" and that
Colonel Maloney. now chief of. -peA
lice and war hero, was to be the
Machiavelli Of the town. 1t also
was rumored that Washington
with an eye to the good of the or.
der, had secretly dispatched a spe-
cial corps of dry sleuths to see thai
every possible booze leak was
plugged.
This naturally did not set vel
with the legionnaires. 1t was al
affront, they figured.
Rum is not the sum total of oul
existence; We are going south tt
fight the battles of peace.' wal
about the way they figured it al
out. They bitterly resented thu
suggestion that liquor was tn,
main incentive of the conclam.
"These Savages!"
And, on the other hand, the gcot
people of New Orleans, hardened
it must be said, to the role of ex
tending the glad hand to exactin,
I visitors. had heard strange tales o
the coming crowd. OF course
was all buncombe-those stories O
1.-THE gay young blades kissing tn
lassies on the streets, and the like
But when the former soldiers ant
sailors began to detrain, M'sieu ant
Mile. New Orleans lifted the ira
ditional lorgnette.
These savages," Mile. Orlean
pretended to think with high hau
teur.
So the legionnnaires came t.
town.
! Now today the net result ha
been the cementing of a friendship
that puts to rout the wildes
dreams OF the southern pres
agent
Dust Is Settled.
New Orleans found, out the visi
tors were not quite SO wild as the,
have been pictured
The legion found the city wa
fhardly as dry" as the early storie
had assumed.
| 1t must not be inferred, however
that sociability has been the chic
aim and object. Everybody has ha
what he desired in the line of re
freshments both strong and ligh,
1t is true it was not dispensed wit
old time freedom. That is to sa
there have been no open bars. Blu
there has been plenty for all.
The prize stunt of the entir
week was the Iowa debut. Tni
prank consisted of q tall lahk
stranger collapsing in the crowde
hotel lobby-any and all hotels 70
that matter. He lay prone on tn
hoor, about dead it would appear
while the police summoned doc
tors, ambulances and the like. Play
ing possum to the psychological me
ment the stranger would revive a
the stretcher appear and in re
/ spOnse to the query:
Where you from, buddy?"
| "I-o-w-a-y!"