The Washington times., 1922-10-17
D. {. VETERANS:
! HAVE CAY TINE
lat CONVENTION
Sleep Out of Question as 1oO.-
. 900 Legionaires Continue
{ Playful Antics.
BY staff Correspondent.


NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 17.-Sleep
has been suspended In NAwiins
for 1.-The period OF the emergency:
Terrain and acoustics do not lend
themselves to slunber. . Anybody
attempting that sublime state OF IN.
difference in this teeming parish OF
;:razed flotsam and jetsam, Is sure
70 be unretognizably trampied.
Constant T. blaring of, brass ,snd
straining of vocal resources beneath
dyery window. now that the human
dde has reached its peak. reduce
he thought of sleep to one OF ex'
laustion.
Topheavy With Strangers.
iEThe old town is topheavy' with
sotal strangers, some Of whom are
70 emotionally involved. even at this
sarly stage in tho convention. that
they are not exactly sure why they
are here. They only know all re-
strsint has been lifted and only
some unseen force is guiding thelr
destinies clear Of any actual physl'
cal mishap.
fN'Awlins is in the grip of the
severest temperamental blizzard
Which has ever stopped street car
traffic. The American Legion mere
over 100000 strong. is echoing its
marching songs, cat calls ana pano
serenades in undiminished ugor
through the narrow little side streets
leading off the canal and even the
staid old residents who have oh
served Mardi Gras after Mardi Gras
are dropping. their jaws in whole
some wonderment.
II there were any military law
which might be brought into play
to bring the house TO order. such
stringent recourse. would undoubtly
be pursued, but uniforms mean moth
ing to the present orgy which ,infests
every section from the levee through
the old French quarter on up TO
the Audubon Park section.
Mardi, Gras Put to Shame.
Indeed the annual Mardi GrasI
might be put to shame, II the truth
be told, by the costumes and deeds
of an imaginative young American
suddenly precipitated on a town
quite used to all that the carnival
spirit implies.
Every familiar form of attire from
the minute man to the modern
pa lama clad rositerer abounds-in the
public thoroughfare. Here is the
toreador from Mexico. the ranch
man from California, the corn
grower from Iowa in his familiar
blue jeans down to the familiar blue
OF the French Poilu.
What the official delegatesSdown
at the foot of Girod street are ac-
complishing is Of no concern to this
element which actually represents
the convention decorum. They are
here to rededicate their happy 60
lucky existence to the thought of
American freedom. that freedom be-
ing best illustrated by their non.
observance of propriety and their
inexhaustable enthusiasm toward
their fellow visiting casuals.
Democracy is abroad in the land.
Judge Lands himself is hoisted to
the shoulders of an admiring multi
tude and paraded through the cor.
ridors of his hotel and lends his
kindly sympathies to his Junior co.
patriots by voicing his approval Of
their demonstration and declaring
eering and other non.American
practices.
MacNider Not Spared.
Sanford MacNider is neither spared
the ordeal of being jostled along on
he pushes his way through te con.
gested lobbies; in fact last night he
was the central figure in torch.
light procession which wended it's
way completely around the block.
In the Concourse of the Grune.
wald Hotel. George Washington
Post Number One Band. and Cos.
tello Post Number Fifteen Fife
and Drum Corps of Washington
are repeatedly guilty of halting all
traffic while serenading between
campaign orations in behalf of
Watson B. Miller as one Of the
five vice commanders of the Amer
lean Legion.
Huge banners and placards in
behalf of his candidacy have been
draped in every public gathering
place. He processes not to be, even
nominee, but Washington's dele
CATION headed by Chairman Madi.
son Hill are bound TO be stubborn
in the fight to put Miller across.
Meanwhile the individual identity
of Washington 300 ENJOYS is Yer.
itably swallowed up by the enormity
of this flood tide of neighbors' chill.
dren. They are pairing off and
finding difficulty in not meeting
separation in the brief journey of
a block, but at district headquarters
where few fore gather at a time
they are reported to be missing
nothing precipitating their share
IN tht hilarity which under differ;
ent conditions might almost border
on public nuisance.