Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 23

PRESIDENT'S GREATEST DESIRE TO HEAR “WELL DONE" IN 1925 Courtly, But Not Talkative—Never Promises the Impossible. MY RICHARD WASHBURN (The suthor is an ne ary to appear undecided about this thing. He said. appear so. . dent o friend of ng ) “I am undecided. That is all right. 1 may 1t won't Woodrow Wilson came to the presi- po cheating, anyway.” dency with a good deal of learning and | One learns from a thousand in- he locked himself up with his own think- | Stanc Harding has a profound contempt for parade, for the device ins. he calls “window dressing” and for Warren (. Harding has done sreat the product knewn to Americans as dral of locked-in th ing #ll his life. ! bunkum. Yol S GEraral 1l 3 Rt Ve to learn. | Opponents have said “Harding likes He witkee s m ible to learn-1, “ialk vaguely to audienc He ing. likes to taik to audiences. but those it for a world in who have been at hand while he has addressed a great many hundreds of distress ‘events mav it founds actic NpoTe) nds of people T DecAause | pngwoaiso that he 1 upon the facts as they cipally because he find: are, rather than they | expression a personal social pleasure eal s aeaial — between his personality T i e it i or “brcaise | 4nd his hearers. Immense audiences Cent 1o el fram { Sometimes greet him. but there is al- o ot o that he likes smaller in many to talk prin- places u. in oratorical facts upon as a rather than desc rom the insscurl ties mentality, no matte an get .Insr»ln |_hPm how not i | During the campaign it w 1 .| difficult to make him remember that best answer his W would be read the next Focinth rorning illions and that they phiie i countad i mpaign: he was inter. his ability upoii *d in the eighty people who ha o sind come down to a Kentucky railway e test of th n March 4 where upturned faces re- soveral days afte Writt'n, will: sponded to his fine appearance, the be President of t States. It play of his voice, and his intense de- zoes without su that every Ameri- enter into them. B ean hopes that he t that test: m. as to every one, Harding. it goes without sayving, too. that I am|with more care than most public »r known and liked. avoids the unattainable or being fone b Lone of those who believe that he wil ing prom lhlrn.‘rlrrhllh"- of n..; \In;:. | Sehn e e > of the ations for this be : is the natural sincerity of the Will' Not' State Care-A It is his sincer i not his| There would be nothing vague him | about a speech which proposed defi- 5¢St | nitely to cut down the income tax or rest d man who °fl make out of hand a sweeping reduc- slapped on the back s best | tion in the cost of living or to settle friends. nor would he siap them onlgy jndustrial troubles with one dose e e \f o nostrum. Harding will not state are mi s Still more slow .| cure-alls. penaceas or quick and ex- reiinqui His 1 aships with | pedient convictions. A man who will Joon taual-| qiate them with a flourish. relying when affection ts cv MY 1 upon the undoubted truth that the art. hy a full f public_has a short memory. will al- Rl e | Ways get the credit of being virile Sl s {and de : but Harding says. “No. One learns encugh after a few|3nd decisive: but ¥ weeks with him to know that If 3r |* yo'jikes courily manners. almost Harding ever failed in justice it would | g fochioned manners: he likes stately be the faull of his vision or the cor. | Si-fashionsd mannere: he TS SLGY ruption of his information: it would | WO e theynoa fornim Hag-be Becausn ho I8¢ zeal L0} 45" express the consideration and the Xeach dut ‘exen Jmiore than | Lindness he really feels toward even most of .us reach out for jusiice nor| (hose persons he does not understand. because he is usually lacking in abil-| o likes the words because they | seem to him to express his sincere and position to transmit a state | he would not use phraseol- g nceal or dissemble. No one who has been close to him know that he is naturally a ity to find it in the end. His companionship is not talkative. | ardent d He is an uncommunicative man is a feeling on the part of man see him that he considers loquacious- ness a waste He 1 pol 1y. but ’ fails to numbers of persons state their im-|man who has remained humble and pression that he has received nothing | has liked simplicity. It would be a from them. They lack Mr. if he were to lose that charm Harding absorbs in oOwWn Way lll'] his persona , for it is not only would absorb much in & companion-|a quality which “invites a people’s ship of utter silence. He is an un-|affections. but it is a quality which | canny and often unsuspected absorber. i gives to im access to knowledge of i the aspirations, and indeed the very ( nature of parts of our population used to absorb! with which a publisher who has come i ouzh a telescope. He could | from a prosperous snall city to the Iooking through @ (elescope, He coul | Senata i not vet familiar. Harding do it. too. He had the feel of widej,q 1o great a desire to represent situations. Har g absorbs through | the people to lose his humble sim- the microscope and seeks tae under- plicity. standing of the whole fabric by know- He comes to the presidency with ing how was woven. He muses, increasing knowledge of its present over the s of thé fabric, and|problems and increasing appreciation Compared With Rooxevelt. Theodore Roosevelt | while he is musing the public and the | of how easily the greatest of states- newspapers will always fret and fume ; men might disappoint the lightly and say that Harding lacks decision. | conceived expectations of a people in Sometimes he does. it is when he tells | a state of readjustment. It is sound himself that he does not know the supposition that he comes with a con- particular piece of zoods will enough | vietion. grown to full size during the to stash at it with the scissors of con-, campaizn. that it is not so_much of viction. A | #n achievement ‘to be the President This is wheh his enemics will say|on March 4, 1921, but that it would that he isx weak and vacillating: but|be a real achievement to have thi it is not weak and vacillating to| Americun people say to him on March avoid galloping up paths which must| 4. 1925, “Well done! be retraced by one's successors; it is} not weak and vacillating if the sci sors make the cut at least with a firn !KBS. JEAN M. PHILLIPS DEAD. hand. Harding. when he is working| Mrs. Jean M. T hard, and with his zeal or service to ph'”" "E‘:'.“hrm""”' Nife of Harold America, will cut at last with a firm | P illips, Washington newspaper man, hand. He will do a great deal of ab- |died Tuesday. 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The amplifiers here shown raixed Mr. Harding’s volce so that ni CABINET MEMBERS TAKE HOMES HERE With the arrival of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon scheduled for today all members of President Harding’s new cabinet have taken up their res dence in Washington preparatory to starting on their official careers Per- manent homes have been purchased ! by a number of the cabinet officers. while many are stopping temporar Secretary of State Hughes leased a large residence at 9 18th " street | northwest for his future home here. cretary of Commerce Hoover will live at 2300 S street northwest, the| house recently purchased by the American Engineering Council. Secretary of War Weeks is now r siding at 2100 16th street northwe; He has owmed this property for number of years. Secretary of Agriculture W leased an apartment in the Highlan 1814 Connecticut avenue northw Secretary of the Navy Denb staying temporarily at the home of 2032 O his brother, Charles Denby, street northwest. Those stopping for the present at hotels are: Secretary of the Interior Fall. the! Raleigh: Postmaster General Hays. the Bhoreham: Attorney _General Daugherty, the Willard. and Secretary of Labor Davis, the Shoreham 1t 1s mot known whether Secretary | Mellon has secured permanent quar- ! ters here or not. EXPECT 1,000 GUESTS AT OHIO BALL TONIGHT Prominent Men Will Be in As- .sembly to Honor New President. Elaborate preparations have heen completed for the Ohio ball to be held | tonight at Rauscher's. Connecticut avenue and L street, when many of the most distinguished men of the Buckeye state will assemble in honor of President Harding. Ample accommodations have been pravided for more than 1,000 gues 7 ., according to L. H. Hart, chair man of the committee in charge, the call for tickets has reached this number. A noteworthy program of entertain- ment has been arranged to precede the ball, which starts at 10:30, and many “stunts” familiar to the sons of Ohio will be presented. Representative Simeon D. Fess wfil preside, and brief addresses will be | made by others of the congressional | delegation from Ohio during the evening. 2 At 10 o'clock there will be the un veiling of a life-size picture of I dent Harding, with the entire semblage singing the “Sta singing of college songs by the alum- ni of Ohio colleges residing in Wash- ington, of which there are more than 500, under the leadership of Charles 8. Wingard, musical director of the Army Camp Community Service. A tong sheet of sixteen pages, done in thiee colors, will be distributed to the guests. A buffet supper will be served im- mediate preceding the dancing which wil] last until 1 o'ciock. For the convenience of Ohioans the capital for inauguration, registr: in tion headquarters have been e lished in room 705, Colorado building, where all visitors from President Harding’s state may get in touch with one another and obtain information on all matters of interest to them. The committee in charge of the ball announces that the dress for the oc- casion tonight will be both forma and informal. COLLECTION AT PAR. Taking as his theme “The tion of Checks at Par by the F Reserve Banking Sy H Collec- Bank, addresse sociation of ( i noonday luncheon Mr. McKee touched in particular on the trouble that has arisen in North Carolina and other sta and ex- plained that though there are two sides to the question. undoubtedly the larger proportion of the banks, manu- facturers and wholesale houses are enthusiastic advocates of the present system of collection at par, and are opposed to any change either by state or federal enactment. He urged that the wholesalers of Washington use every effort at their command to have their customers in North Carolina send them a check on Washington, Philadelphia or some other place that would make colloc- tion without deduction of exchange, | explaining how impossible it is in the { present state of the North Carolina situation to credit the account of lo- cal merchants with checks from Carolina customers drawn on North orth | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, HEARD HALF MILE AWAY. J. P. MALLORY wan heard one-half mile with perfect elarity. Problems for New President. | of the more important of ihe problems, interna- facing the Hard administration Here are som tional and domestic RNATIONAL: es and St. Germaine. ates into an association i fornia questi ssian aquestion, includin Recognition of Me > jon of new treaties, diplomatic and commercial, nd Austria and with the new nations, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslova | occupation of Sibe. | with Colombia. Disposition 6f the former German cables now held by the allies. Recognition of the new Greek government and settlement of the status of the Greek loan. | untries, including funding of the British and | other debts to the United States i The Anglo-French world oil agreement of San Remo. Cuban relations. Military occupation of Haiti and Dominican Republic. Trish question Philippines independence. trade with soviet Russia. with | | Self-government for Porto-Rico. ' i Settlement of claims against Germany, grown out of the war. ttlement of claims against Mexico, resulting from revolu- tions there. Re-establishment of full diplomatic relations with Turkey. Disposition of the Anglo-French-American treaty for defense of nce. DOMESTIC: Tax and tariff revision. | Soldier bonus. | Fanama canal tolls. | Immigration control. General labor policy. Army and Navy policie: sPermanent merchant marine polj Reorganization of government Budget tem. Civil service reform. i | Strengthening of prohibition laws. Anti-trust law revision. cy. ;i epartments. Disposition of enemy property seized during the war. Beneral reconstruction legislation—housing, farmer credits, rail- road law revision and coal and packer control. Points in and Near Washington | of Interest to City’s Visitors Buildings and grounds in and around | Capitol _and G Streets northwest— the National Capital, with locations | Closed March 4. Open to public on and hours open to the public: week days from 10 am. to 1 p.m. Washington Monument—on the Mall o Sth street. Open March 4, other | Library of Congress, 1st and B near treets sout! st—O) Ma holidays and Sundays, noon until 4:30 | Forairy onchesst Open - ',‘,',”",'m‘: p.m. Open week days from 9 a.m. to building, from 9 am., Other days, 450 pn. 9 am. to 10 p.m. Arlingten national ¢ the Potomac river from Open every day from § am. down. Capitol, 1st street and vania - avenue—Closed . Mareh | after 1 p.m. Open other da to sun- /g am, to 4:30 p.m. Pennsyl- 4 until vs from House office building. Newi Jersey | “losed | avenue and B streets southeast— | 1. Open other week days to|Closed March 4. Open other days from 9 to 11 a.n., and from ' from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Bureau 'of engraving and printing, | 14th #nd B strects southwest— March Senate office building. Delaware | Bureau of fisheries, and Blavenue and B streets northeast streets southwest «— Closed March 4. | Closed March 4. Open other days Aquarium open other days from 9 from 9 am. to 4:30 pan. wm. to 5 pah. Mount Vernon. sixteen miles down the Potomac—Open every day except _Sundays from 9:30 am. to 4 pm. | Memorial Continental Hall, 17th | and D streets northwest—Open from | 11 am. to 3 pm. every a orth Wisconsin i times to public. p.m. Cathedral ground avenue—Open Chapel open until ost office, Massachusetts ave- nue and North Capitol streets, im- mediately west of the Union station. Open all hours, City building, 14th street and | ia avenua—Closed March | Municip: nsylva Corcoran Gallery of Art. 17th street | 4, OPen other days from 9 am. tof and w York avenue—Open March #:%0 pm. 4.9 am. to 4:30 p.m. (pay day). Open Vow Nati sev other week days from 9 am. 1o 4:30 | \:‘:q B enl o m\'ll"ar:\:fl'l 7 northwest—Open 1. 9 m. to 4:3 p.m., and same hours every day except Sunda. Open Sundays from Mondays, Wednesday 25 cents charge. 20 to 4 and Fri- out-of-town building of Museum. will be March 6, For the benefit of itors, the natural histor the United Statés National |10th and B streets southwest, | open to the public on Sunday. from 9 to 4:30 o'clock. Freer Art Gallery. 12th and streets southwest—Not vet opened. of Agriculture. main | buildings, 13th and B streets southwest. Closed March 4. Open to public other s from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Department House (executive mansion). sylvania avenue and Executive | Not open to the public. B National Botanic Gardens, 1st street and Pennsylvania avenue — Open March 4 until 11 a.m., closed until 1 then open balance the river from | day, every day. Fort Myer. across ashington—Open s Government print North Corn may be king, but POST TOASTIES (SUPERIOR CORN FLAKES) is president, and every day is inauguration day atour house Phone North 272 —ENROLL NOW— Carolina banks, which are opposed to the present par collection system Joshua Evans, jr. of the Riggs Na- tional Bank and vice president of the ‘Washington assoclation, presided and Introduced as the principal guest John De La Matre, chief clerk of the Fed- eral Reserve Board. MARCH 4, USE MR. HARDING'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS WAS Greenhouses close at 4:30 p.m., gar-| dens at sundown. W stre ashington Post Office Department, 11th street | \\\ and Pennsylvania avenue. Closed u,‘i public March 4. Open other days from | \ !9 am. to 2 pm IN n-American 1Tth and B % streets northwe osed March 4. 1\ | Open other days, 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Public ibra K streets northwe »d March 1. Open other week days from % am. to 9| pan., except Wednesd 9 am. to pm. Reference room open Sun- days. 3 to 9 p.m. Children’s depart- ment open Wednesday noon to 8 p.m. Saturdays and holidays, 9 a.m. lul 8 p.m. i State, War and Navy building, 17th | street and Pennsylvania avenue— Closed March am. to 2 pm. Bureau of streets north | Open other days, 9 a.m. to 2 tional Zoological T t southeast—Open to the public from 9 to 11 am., and 1 to 4 p.an ited States Soldigrs’ Home, about 1921 {1t rose to u height of twenty feet and | by the executive | covered about a mile. The test Was col- | cun Federation of sidered & comple! uccess. In addi- | {tion to the crow the triplane carried Official announcer and a haif of bailast. of the council w | more than a ton | IALL R highly advi MACHIN PAY 1 we' rk. Connec cut avenue extended—Grounds open every day from 7:30 am. to 6:30 p.m § Buildings open from 5 am. o 1:30 N ~ Observatory, Massachu s ‘ a at 32d stre Closed 1 | 4, except at 11:45 a.m., when prepa- | \ rations are made to send out time | N at noon. Open other d from 9. lam. to 4 pm. § = N navy vard, foot of Sth Z W . Sth- and 4. Open other days, 9 what thro pensions. ith and F west—Closed March 4. p.m. two miles north of the Capitol. Open every day from sunrise to 9 p.m. ;hort United States Treasury, 15th street i and Pennsylvania avenue — Closed entered March 4. Closed to visitors at all times. tal as Department of Commerce. 19th street and _Pennsylvania avenue— Closed March am. to 4:30 p.m. 4. Open other days, 9 chant? == i Department of Labor, G street be- tween 17th and 18th Streets—Closed | March 4. Open other days, § a.m. to | 4:30 p.m. i Bureau of standards, Connecticut | - avenue and Pierce Mill road—Closed | = March 4. 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