| Show Let Let Normalcy Flee Get Set SetI For I I and Fizz Fizzes s Cant Can't Mix Says Haynes But Oases Spring Up i By y H II HRRY RRY TIRY B n r I I Co S Service r ri 5 r t teT r June Wash l 1 Washington Wash Washington ington Is nn an n American city no noI I longer From th the dignified and sedate capital of ot the th a worlds orld s greatest de do- do de It has been transformed Into a giddily dizzy oriental Babel outdoing In gaudy trappings and rioting colors the tho th brilliance and splendors of oC ancient Mecca Icca Me- Me Me Medina dma dina and Bagdad For the tho week eck o ot of June Jun 3 the I White Ite House louse ceases to tn be the th ex ex 1 ex mansion residence of oC PrOs Pres President ident Warren V Gamaliel Harding pres-j pres It becomes Instead ad the th royal I seraglio palace of oC Noble Nobi Gamaliel Harding high potentate of or AladdIn temple Ancient Arable Arabic Order No- No No Nobles o- o bles bies of ot the th 1 Mystic Shrine Penns Pennsylvania Ivan I a avenue aenlle historic do down n which our J presidents ride to their inaugurals Is Pennsylvania a avenue no longerI It ha has become becom The Th Rard to Mec Nc Mec- Mec MecCa Mecca ca along which will wilt trudge some om hundreds of thousands ot of o Shrine I pilgrims Lafayette park fronting the White Hou House e becomes become the tho Garden of Allah outdoing Maxfield Par Far Faris's Parish's ish's iss wildest Imagination in Its medley ot of o colors color and an with Its lis quiet I atmosphere shredded by the elrd syncopations ot of pulsing desert music The whole hole city and all its nor nor- normal normah normal mal mah lifo life has h s been turned topsy topsy- to m-ika m m ke a n gala week el for or the tho national convention which is expected to bring at I ise le visitors to to town ton n Maybe there thero ther Is h something snore more than mere mer Shriner In thus decking out Washington as tho th odem Mecca fecca this year they're tring to tr Ins Ing to make mak up to o ie low e low Noble Warren arren the th pomp and gantry p that was as withheld at atthe atthe atthe the Urn time he was inaugurated president dent back in 1921 1821 Mabe Ma Ia be bo you re- re remember re remember member how congress feeling that the count countr would not large Iorge expenditures at that time for foran foran forn an Inaugural pageant voted toted do down don n the appropriations tor for and ceremonials andI I But whatever was withheld at that time is to be b made up now no with Interest Never was ns the city So 0 lit up tip for tor any inaugural as asIt asIt asIt It Is for the th conclave ver j ever wore were such sueh elaborate stands erected In front ot or the White Whitehouse House never actor such brilliant and costly effects staged The Th whole hole picture Is costing somebody well liP up to BOO I But thin think of what hot Shriner wIlt will spend when they getto getto get gettO tO town And the tho prestige of or hating lID Ing Fet Fel Fel- Fel Fellow Fellow I low Shriner Noble Nobi Harding lIta eu v ui his ret red and gold gola fez fei In the rele rev ret le inc lew-inc I iI ing nl stand a a lei i Thousands of or multi colored ele elec electric trIo Irle lights light Jew Electric lied tId n crescents and stars esery- esery every everywhere cry where her Id I'd green yellow and blue bannes and bunting by the mile Music blarIng from lier ler horns on high posts e every esery ery hun bun hundred rl dred red feet fro tron from tI the Qt capitol tu t Washington circle two miles eway Gilded towers and minarets cor- cor cur cor cornering oaring nering the garden of or Allah Turk Turk- TurkIsh Turkish Turkish I ish trousers and Arabian Oriental Well ell that's Washington aint nothing elso else outa out but a S I Speaking of of fezzes naturally makes one think of fizzes flue Havnes prohibition com cons commissioner I missioner who Is NOT ft a Shriner has volunteered to save visitor I during Shrine week ek from annoy annoy- ne sacS by bootleggers He lIe Is I brIng brIng- bringIng lag Ing In a bunch of his best beat agents to help make the capital safe tor fur However vever It Is I whispered pere that the best brains of o the fizz fizz- H suppers federation ted also are aro ar on the job that a number of oC oases are ar be- be beIn beIng be being In ing established for parch drought ed Id desert dren pilgrims After ACIr eek Washing Washington ton w will ill ret return urn to normalcy I Praise be b to Allah I |
