Tigers Are So Seldom: 1921...The Family goes to New Orleans

1921

A trip to New Orleans

Grandmother Catherine Heigle Leithman

Bobby, Junior, & Gloria Alice Malrose & Dorothy Leithman

Catherine Heigle Leithman

(when she was younger)

Bobby, Gloria Alice, & Junior

This was a year of independence for countries that had been occupied for various reasons. Mongolia declared independence from China; Rwanda ceded Great Britain, Afghanistan also achieved independence from Britain. It was also the year that brought the beginnings of history that would later in the coming years change the world forever and even lead to world war. Lenin started his New Economic Program (NEP) which was a small relief to the Russian people as they were able to have a small part in freedom of trade. Just to imagine what it had been prior can be heard by the excitement of Andrei Platonov:

At first he thought the Whites must be in town. At the station was a cafe where they were selling white rolls without ration cards. In the shop he came across all the normal equipment of trade, once seen in his long forgotten youth: counters under glass, shelves along the walls, proper scales instead of steelyards, courteous assistants instead of supply officials, a lively crowd of purchasers, and stocks of food which breathed an air of well-being.

Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity in April.

Mussolini's Fascists obtained 29 seats in Italy's Parliament and the National Fascist Party is formed. While in Germany, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. Austria votes to join German. While in America, J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI. And Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with polio. These are all people that play major roles in world history in the years to come.

On November 13, the United States, France, Japan and the British Empire signed the Pacific Treaty. This was an agreement to respect the rights of one anothers countries...it was called the Four Power Pact.

The first year of new decade appeared to be busy as new alliances were being formed, as well as, ultra Nationalist were forming parties and choosing leaders. But what was happening with Lee, Sally, Bobby, Gloria Alice and Junior? They spent hours at the beach. Sally and the children had a wonderful time in New Orleans with the family meeting the children and Lee stayed home so that he could cintinue his commerical artist work.