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NATIONS STRAINING AT LISTENING POST Speculations on Trend of White House Conversations Roach Wild Intensity. BY WILLIAM HARD. As Mr. Ramsay Masdonald, British prime minister, proceeded to the White House and became the personal guest of Mr. Herbert Hoover, American Presi- | dent. the speculations in Washington | regarding the topics of their private | conference Tose to a point of wild in- | ¢ enthusiasts asserted they had | reason to believe that between now and | the time when Mr. Macdonald is re- | turned to the Biritish embassy next | Tuesday the whole character of tradi- tional American policy in the world will be reversed and the United States Government will be launched into | some special commitment toward Great | Britain in _relation to world peace, | Representatives here of Continental | European countries are on _tiptoe to discern the first faintest beginnings of any such development. Intention Disavowed. On the contrary, it is the indubitable | intention of the United States Govern- ment to give to the Continental Euro- pean powers no reason whatsoever even | to suspect that any such development is under way. The Hoover administra- tion is positively known, by all unsen- sational observers of it. to be holding | absolutely fast to th ancient American principle which forhids all special com- mitments to special countries across the Atlantic. That principle is in force in the case of Great Britain as much as in the case of Bulgaria or of Spain. 1t can be safely stated to the diplo- matic and journalistic representatives of all non-English-speaking countries that the dream of any arrangement whereby the United States would be in- volved in the defense of India or where- by Great Britain would be involved in the defense of the Panama Canal is a dream and nothing more. Within the British governmeni there ,is an occa- slonal vague tendency toward some such dream. Within the American Govern- ment there is none Beyond Naval Reduction. Nevertheless, it is also indubilab]"l that the conversations between Prime Minister Macdonald and President Hoo- ver will go far beyond the questioa of naval reduction. = That question has now reached a stage where the Prime Minister and the President are jointly willing to allow the solution of its re- maining undetermined details to go to the approaching naval confersnce at London. Their exchanges of views here will deal, only secondarily with naval issues. Those issues are substantially, though not perfectly, already settled be- i tweer. them. Their thoughts are now primarily directed to certain so-called | political issues. the settlement or the | assuagement of which would make ulti- | mate drastic disarmament more think- | able and more feasible. Chief among these issues is “the free- dom of the seas.” Prime Minister Mac- donald has frequently discoursed upon it. A consideration of it has been in effect recommended to President Hoover by the American Congress. - Affixed to Bill. { i In the course of passing the 15-cruiser bill last Winter the Congress affixed to the bill a “section five.” as follows: “First. That the Congress favors al treaty, or treaties, with all the principal maritime nations regulating the conduct of belligerents and neutrals in war at sea, including the inviolability of pri- | Vi operty_thereon. S dond, That such treaties be ne- gotiated, if practically possible, prior to the meeting of the conference on the limitation of armaments in 1931. This “section five” was the result of the initidtive of the President’s prinei- | pal campaign-time senatorial bv wark | and his principal non-campaign-time senatorial obstacle, Senator William Ed- gar Borah of Idaho. 1t is the belief of ican_governm complete fulfillment. They agree that ¢ both the British ents that Sen- ISHBEL MACDONALD VEWS BRLSEOTS Premier’s Daughter Is Anx- ious to Compare Virginia’s Mountains With Scotland’s. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. “I am sorry to have to leave you in a few minutes, but I am anxious to see how the mountains to which I am go- ing compate with our Scottish moun- tains,” thus standing on the west hill, looking into a sea of eager little faces, Miss Ishbel Macdonald bade farewell to the Girl Scouts yesterday afternoon before her departure for Rapidan Camp, where she and Mr. Macdonald it is impossible, in all the circumstances Il Bossible’ wars, to establish the complete “inviolability of private prop- erty" on the public seas of the world. Blockades Visualized. ijme Minister Macdonald has re-| peg{;m\ stated that in the course of Warfare designed to suppress a warring | outbreak by some nation whichgis a | Siemoer of the League of Natiofls, it mdghi be necessary for other m: b:rs ot the League, including Great Britain, fo blockade the ports of the offending natio to prevent it from gaining miy jtary resources for lr;_nnn:::ion of its | .ck upon the world's peace. ‘"Iabc‘é Ig:o\'.’n to be idle to hope that e3reac Britain will agree in the circum- rances in question to allow privately: oned munitions of war—such as the Superfictally innocent chemical cajicd fodtum mitrate—to be carried in sccuty st its fleet to g0 i 0 gfl"‘:amm mation on consignment to & private firm, when it would oe cleATly apparent that the final use of the Prs vate property would be op !:;?ct; IEptony ultaneously the : mmm itself wo&ld gfixc?firfi?gh;;t t to allow the er ::;:?:e to carry similar &rl;:tfi sxp;:g s say, insurgen :gkle;nusA:Zfican occupation of that; sovereign foreign country. Jefferson’s Attitude. *Thomas Jefferson, himself one of :g: eat exponents of the phrase [P0 f' edom of the seas.” frankly admitte ha s of commerce di seful in warfare | | | that mxmero:fi nr:llsleu v indirectly arfare | :;fx'ig :roperly be denounced as cgn_g traband” and could properly be cll?le tured from the ships of neutrals by armed vessels of belligerents. between Prime Minister Macdonald sident Hoover on the subject ot d"llse“("edcm of the seas” will have their outcome not l:\ im{h:ul':‘;‘i:\ :eof; . Ve eement, but in }'J\‘,fm: Hon of future ‘s‘t‘ugy‘nr:’«; :x&lo{;; of a problem which 1s ;l‘!%l;l techr?lcul and complicated in !bl";t whole reaim of thought. Their ambi- tion in this matter, will be, it is be‘- Jieved, not to achieve finality, which is impossible, but to report progress. The other main feature of their con- versations is apparent out of the utter ances of both regarding the results e' fhe Kellogg-Briand peace pact. That pact provides that its signatories sml seek the solution of all m‘t‘ematlnnn disputes by ‘“pacific means. It does not, however, provide those means. It does not further define or describe them. No New Mechanism. - lishes no new perfected mech- ot those numerous ‘“pacific known as ‘I offices, 2 "negmluan . i'concul:fi n” and “arbitration.” eaves :&h perfecting of the technique ace on a world-wide scale, outside of TLeague of Nations, to the future. It is thoroughly known that both President Hoover and Prime Minister Macdonald have been anxious to take all the “futures,” as it were, of the Kellogg-Briand pact and reduce them as soon as possible to “current deliv- eries.” That they will discuss the prac- tical filling out of the idealistic frame- work of the Kellogg-Briand pact is a necessity inhcrent in the peace move- ments of the two countries they repre- sent. The summation of the situation. from the American standpoint, is that out of the conversations between the rime minister and the President there fn mdy to emerge a considerable world- wide peace development which will lle |longlde et—hu’t "whouy independent of— e of Nations. ol (Conyright, 1929, are the Week end guests of President and Mrs. Hoover. Miss Macdonald seemed to be in her natural elemert and thoroughly enjoy ing herself as she viewed the Girl Scouts, about 500 or 600 of whom had gathered for a rally on the White House grounds at the invitation of Mrs. Hoover Watches Girls at Games, For some time before joining the girls on_the grounds, Miss Macdonald stood with President and Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Jean Henry Large, sister of Mrs Hoover, and Mrs. Gertrude Bowman on the south balcony of the White Hou and watched the girls at their games. Later, she accompanied Mrs. Hoover to the we duction as “Miss Macdonald from Eng- land and Scotland,” she gave an in- teresting and short talk to the girls. As she started to speak a noisy airplane swooped overhead with a deafening whirr, which obliged her to pause & moment. Much laughter was occ: sioned Ly her remark as it passed b It's a very rude one, isn't it “Although vou did not know it.” she said. “I watched you for some time as you played. and it was interesting to see that your games look very much like the ones we play in Great Britain. Dressed in a dark blue tailored suit. with lighter blue blouse and a small French blue hat, Miss Macdonald ap- peared much more at ease talking about camping, games and the out of Goors with the Girl Scouts, than she Gid when she was forced to pose before the cameramen on her arrival Friday, and again on Saturday morning, she was obliged to answer all sorts of ques- tions from an army of newspaper women. Will Get New Experience. Expressing her pleasure at anticipa- tion of the visit to the Virginia moun- tains, she said, “I have often been camping, but this time, I am going to get experience of an entirely different sort. I have gone camping or ‘hiking. as we call it, in my own country h just one other person. After walking all day, we have pitched our tent, rolled up in blankets, cooked our breakfast next morning and started out agan, after frequently having to pack our things soaked and very wet from the rain.” Miss Macdonald added that in Eng- 1and, they have the Girl Guides, which correspond to the Girl Scouts of America. Mrs. Hoover reminded the girls that the Girl Scouts owed their origin to England Axfur posing with the girls, Mrs. Hoover and Miss Macdonald waved their way from out the groups around them and walked to the White House where the automobiles were waiting to take them to Virginia. Just as they were crossing one of the alks to the house, Miss Macdonald || and Mrs. Hoover were stopped by two Girl Scouts and asked if they would pose for a picture. They smilingly consented and Dorothy Smith of Troop 26, is anxiously waiting to see how her picture of the President's wife and the Premier’s daughter will turn out after being taken under a shady tree on a cloudy day. Arabia Becoming Modern. Old Arabja is taking up modern ideas, and has everything which is up-to-date exeept the radio and movies, according tu 8t. J. Philby, friend of King Ibn Saud, who has just returned from Mecca and Medina. Phil- by says that automobiles, electric lights and refrigerators are becoming com- mon in Mecca, and is planned for Arab! THE- SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 6. 1929—PART 1. CONFERENCES OPENED BETWEEN STATESMEN AT MOUNTAIN LODGE (Continued From First Page) | category of subjects which are upper- most in their minds, namely, the main- tenance of peace, world politics, naval disarmament and subjects directly bear- ing upon the domestic problems of their respective countries, as well as those | more closely related to Europe in gen- eral. It is understood that on the long ride to the camp the talk had to do chiefly with the historic . country though which they passed. r. terest in all that he saw along the way. and he showed a real knowledge of American history. As the cars passed through Fairfax, rich in the early history of the Republic as well MacDonald evinced a keen in- Above: Miss Macdonald and Mrs. Hoover reviewing the Girl Scouts at the White House yesterday. Left to right, in center: Mrs. Garrett Miller, Miss Macdonald, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. B. F. Cheatham. Below: President Hoover poses for the cameramen with Premier Macdonald just before they left for his camp in the Blue Ridge. —Associated Press Photos. They remained back in Washington to | receive a large group of Girl Scouts. They lost some time, to0, by stopping along the roadside just outside of Cul- peper to enjoy some tea, which Mrs. | Hoover had brought along in a thermos | bottle, and some sandwiches. Soon after passing Fairfax Mrs. Hoo- ver took the wheel and had her young | guest sit beside her and for the re- | mainder of the long journey she drove | the car. Her chauffeur and secret serv- | ice men rode in an automobile a short | distance behind. An_inviting hot supper, cooked by | the President’s Filipino chef, was ready | when Mrs. Hoover and Miss Ishbel ar- rived at the camp. It was an enjoy- able meal. There were fried chickens, | brought to the mountains from the | White House ice box: hot waffles, and roast ham, sugar-cured in Virginia, and ‘l(]ls of other attractive dishes. | Pipe for President. They all sat about the fire in the | community cabin, the largest of the | camp buildings. for half an hour or so after this meal and then the Presi- | dent, Mrs. Macdonald and Secretary | Stimson went to the privacy of the President’s private sitting room in the cabin. The President and Mr. Mac- donald smoked pipes as they talked. The latter brought two new ones with him and it is understood that one of them was for his host. | _ Mr. Hoover has made it plain that | his purpose in bringing the British premier to this remote section was, first, to afford a really secluded place where they could talk without inter- ruption and amid the most inspiring surroundings; secondly, he wanted to give his guest the pleasure of a motor ride through a section of the country to which he has become greatly at- tached as a result of his almost weekly journeys throughout the past Summer. It s not expected that they will de- vote all their time to serlous confer- ences. They will relax by strolling about the mountain trails and along the rocky banks of the headwater streams, | which, a few yards from the President’s {cabin ‘converges into what is known as {the Rapidan River. There are riding horses in a Marine camp adjacent to as Civil War history, the cars slowed [the President’s camp and it is quite IMISS ISHBEL SAYS FIRST TRIP BETTER I-lnformality More Pleasing to Wholesome Daughter of Visiting Premier. “We do not have 50 many newspaper women in London.” Thus Miss Ishbel MacDonald smil- ingly greeted the large group of news- paper women gatherzd at the British em- bassy yesterday morning for the first in- terview given the press by the premier's daughter since her arrival in Washing- ton yesterday afternoon. Her state- ment was in reply to one of the first questions asked her, as she looked about the room to see that all of her callers ‘were seated. Attired in the same simple frock in which she arrived, Miss MacDonald made no overtures herself toward the opening of conversation, but waited quietly to answer the barrage of ques- tions which were put to her. Finds Reception “Wonderful.” Asked what she thought of her recep- tion in this country and whether it was as she had anticipated, she replied, “It was wonderful—much more wonderful than I had expected.” Miss MacDonald’s first visit to the United States was in an informal ca- pacity two years ago. She was asked if she preferred the unofficial reception of that time to the ostentatious greet- ing of the present. She answered that | she preferred her first visit. | “Please do not think that I do not | appreciate the wonderful welcome which has been given us this time—but I pre- | fer the informality of my first visit to the formality of this one.” | In this statement alone, Miss Mac- | Donald reveals herself as she is—a wholesome, sincere, unpretentious wom- | an. Disliking the show and glitter, her | gflnd is above the frivolous and super- uous. | A Picture of Health. | Appearing very much rested after her quiet evening at the embassy, Miss | MacDonald was a picture of health. Her wavy brown hair is worn in two coils at the nape of the neck, her com- | plexion shows a natural ruddy xlnw.i ich could never come from any rouge t. and her clear, brown eyes have a | steady way of looking at the one to | whom she is speaking. This gives her | a striking resemblance to her distin- ) guished father. Plainly, Miss MacDonald is not inte: ested in’ clothes. Asked if she had | brought a very large wardrobe w | her, she merely smiled and said, “I| think that is too personal a question | to answer, | At home, Miss MacDonald's interests | are mostly centered in her work as a member of the London City Council. | She .works actively with the’ education | committee of the council and is par- | ticularly interested in health conditions among the school children. Views on Co-Education. Most of her work is among the pub- lic school children, and knowing that the English schools do not have co-edu- caution so extensively as do schools in this country, one reporter asked Miss MacDonald what she thought of co- education. “Although we do not have very many co-educational schools.” she replied, "I think it s a good thing, and thoroughly approve of it.' Miss MacDonald is not particularly interested in sports, although $he mits she likes golf, the sport of her na- tive Scctland. “But unfortunately. I am so busy with my L. C. C. work that I dda not have much time to play,” she said. Miss MacDonald says the women of the Labor party were very active in the recent election campafgn. “I did a great deal of work myself,” she stated, “working with my brother and making several speeches. There is a well or-| ganized group of women in the Labor | party, known as the Women's Section of the Labor Party.” | The purpose of the conversations now |arrival in Washington sought to dis- | Premier Macdonald Pays Fine Tribute to Gustav Stresemann An _expression of sympathy from Premier Macdonald to the German people for the death of Foreign Minister Gustav Strese- mann was issued yesterday at the British embassy after the depar- ture of the premier to President Hoover's camp. . ‘The premier said: “Seldom has & man more often been given the choice between a cheap triumph which would win him certain, if momentary, applause, and & hard-won "victory, of which only those who come after would be able to assess the true worth. “Stresemann’s greatness lay in the unerring manner in which he made his choice; may not Germany alone, but every nation the world over, profit by his example?” MACDONALD GOES TOHOOVER'S CAMP President and Prime Minister Start Discussions in Virginia Hills. (Continued From Firet Page) been accomplished is considered most likely In the language of the prime minis- ter, he and the President are to discuss “the high and deep problems of inter- national peace.” But they are to dis- cuss them in general form rather than specifically. This trip into the Virginia mountains is to serve a purpose which may be of great value—the formation of a real personal friendship between the President of the United States and the prime minister of Great Britain. ‘The prime minister has brought no naval experts in his train. When he and the President talk of naval limita- tions and the projected five-power con- | ference in London next January, as they will, it will not be to discuss actual tonnage of cruisers, submarines and | destroyers or the size of guns, but the! broad principles which must guide n the settlement of the naval llmltationl problem. That problem goes far be- yond the size of the navies of America and Great Britain, however, and in- voives those of France, Italy, Japan and | other nations. But as a practical | proposition, it should be of exceeding value if the United States and Brit isk governments can come to an agreement in regard to their respective navies and the strength which they believe essential to safeguard their nations. The only rival, really, of Great Britain on the sea is America going on is to bring about a situa- tion that will eliminate all question of rivalry and leave the two nations | on a parity in naval strength, gocd friends and keenly interested in pro- moting international peace. Mr. Macdonald immediately on his | pel any suspicion that his visit to! America_and his conversations with | President Hoover looked toward an al- liance between his country and this. The White House has been as careful o | exclude any suggestion of such an al- ance from the picture. “Easy to Like.” IHOOVER GAMP ROAD IS RICH INHISTORY Macdonald to Pass Through Area Showing War’s Scars and OId English Touch. BY MARK SULLIVAN, Premier Macdonald, in his trip with President Hoover from the White House to the Rapidan Camp, passed gh an American countryside having two unique distinctions. There are two roads, and Mr. Hoover, going by one, frequently returns by the other. ‘The round trip passes through or close by the scenes of fully half the im- portant fighting of the Civil War—Bull Run, Manassas, Chancellorsville, Bloody Angle and Fredericksburg. If Mr. Mac- donald could stop long enough he could learn one of the most deplorable of those consequences of war which he and Mr. Hoover are working to mini- mize or prevent. “Trampled Into Mud.” One of the roads passes through a county situated within 50 miles of the ‘White House, which, up to a few years ago, and probably still, has the largest native adult white illiteracy of any county in the United States. The white stock of this county is of the best. The reason for the large illiteracy has been that this county, trampled into the mud by contending armies, remained for nearly half a century without the means to_provide adequate schools. The road on which Mr. Hoover fre- quently makes the return trip goes | through or skirts past 100 miles of countryside having a greater amount of | association with English royal history than any other spot in America. Here | Mr. Macdonald can find more remind- | ers of a single English King than he | could find in any spot of similar size | in England. On this road the traveler | to Rapidan Camp is in contact with counties, towns and streets whose | names duplicate those of all of the large family of II. This was the celebrated in the opening lines of Ofiiv-i‘ :lfldefl Holmes' poem, “The One-Hoss v In seventeen hundred 5 _Georsius Secondus e b sine” Settlers Honored George II. It was during the reign of 11, from 1727 to 1760, that this part of Vir- ginia was settled and the largest worldly wish ef the settlers was to honor bim. The southerly route to Rapidan goes past King George County, named for the Ki himself, and within a dozen miles of Caroline County, named for his ‘Queen. Not far away is King and Queen County, named for both. The visitor will pass through Prince Willlam County, named for George the Second’s second son. This more southerly of the two roads passes through the little city of Fredericksburg which, more than any other place in America, continues to this day to perpetuate English tradi- tions, English architecture, English ways and English stock. Fredericks- burg took its name from George the Second’s oldest son, one of the few who were Prince of Wales without becoming King. In Fredericksburg George the Becond’s Queen is honored by Caroline street, his sister by Sophia street, and his daughters by Princess Anne street and Princess Amelia street. Predericksburg, faithful to tradition. and leisurely in temperament. still calls its streets, not by the irreverent abbre- viation of “Anne” or “Amelia,” but fully and roundly by the royal titles, Princess Anne street and Princess Amelia street. Just recently impious modernism has changed Caroline street to Main street, to the considerable indignation of the older families who still loyally insist on the ancient name. Frederichsburg Keeps History. ‘The strongly prevailing spirit of Predericksburg is to maintain its ancient associgtions. Recently the builder of a motion picture theater there found him- self required by the town council to abandon Hollywood models and conform to the Colonial architecture. There are | complete city blocks with every house more than a century old, and all of an architecture to remind Mr. Macdonald of some midland English small town. Fredericksburg today, scorning modern slogans about bigness, is not conspicu- ously larger than it was a hundred years ago. Among its 7,000 people, probably not 20 families are of other thai lish stock. If Mr. Macdonald should stop for an hour he would find in Fred- ericksburg more of the flavor of Eng- mats, congressional leaders and other land than exists anywhere else in the officials. United States. As it happens, Freder- ‘Tomorrow Mr. Macdonald goes to the | icksburg also contains more relics and Capitol again to be received on the floor | associations with the family of George of the House and the Senate. This is an Washington than any other community. honor accerded aiways to visiti Mr. Macdonald’s trip to Rapidan bers of the national legislaturss of for- | camp is certain to provoke many reflec eign powers. The British Ambassador | tions of varied kinds. Among them, will acompany him to the Congress. He | none is so startling as what George the will be introduced in the House to the | Second would think if he could see Mr. members of that body by Speak2r Long- | Macdonald go by in a motor car. worth, and in the Senate to the Sena- | Neither George the Second. nor his tors by the Vice President. Both bodies. | Queen, nor his princess, nor his daugh- it is expected, will stand in recess while | ters, could have imagined the day when the reception of Mr. Macdonald is go- | & Scotch Socialist labor leader would ing on. | have, during his term of office, more When the prime minister and his real power in England than George the daughter return to Washington they will | Second's descendant, George the Fiith. continue the house guests of President | Neither could George the Second dream and Mrs. Hoover. They will lunch at | of the day when Great Britain amicably Lhe‘wmm House, and tomorrow nigh* at | would divide sea-power with the nation 8 o'clock Mr. Macdonald and his party | that was destined to arise from the will be the guests of honor at a dinner |colonies which loyally and humbly de- given in the White House hy President | lighted to name themselves after Eng- and Mrs. Hoover. lish royalt CHAS. M. STIEFF, Inc. The British prime minister, it ap- pears from the testimony of no less a person: is “easy to like."” with Mr. Macdonald for three hours or more on the trip from New York 'o| Washington. At his conference with ' the press yesterday, following n Esme Howard, paid him at the State| Department, Mr. Stimson said: hill where, after an intro- | down and the President called atten- jtion to the objects of interest. Mr. | MacDonald’s interest was roused es- pecially when the scene of the Battle of Bull Run was reached. The cars | again paused, and once again the Pres- | ident acted as lecturer. - Mr. Mac- Donald was shown the stone bridge over which the Union troops in their baptism of fire retreated in disorder; | Jackson | the place where Stonewall held his line “like a stone wall"; Henry Hill, held so stubbornly by the Confed | erafes. Later on he was shown other battlefields, which included the field of the so-called second Bull Run, the Battle of Brandy Station and the field I nearby where the Gettysburg campaign | was started, and, later, New Baltimore. | where Gen. McClelland bade farewell | to the Army of the Potomac. | Interested in Country. Aside from the history of the country | through which he was driven, Mr. Mac- Donald was interested in the beauty of the Virginia countryside, made mor> beautiful by the touches of Autumn on 2ll sides. It was for the most part | agricultural section and those hills and i valleys which once were the scenes of | bloody strife were today supreme in peace. When Warrenton had been left be- hind the blue skyline of the mountains |came into view. The skies were clouded and within 12 miles of the | camp a drizzle started and by the time |likely that the two principals of this | historic occasion will go for a ride to- | morrow. There are few other ways for them to exercise or amuse themselves. | There will be opportunity for them to |indulge in horseshoe pitching if they so desire, but there is nothing else in the camp in the form of games except |chess and checke Return Monday. The outing will be prolonged until early Monday morning when the party will'start back for Washington with the view to reaching the White House | shortly after 10 o'clock. By that time |it is natural to assume that the Presi- | dent and Mrs. Macdonald will have a {most thorough and happy understand- |ing and will have disposed of the sub- !jects uppermost in their minds in a most satisfactory manner. i Conscious of the social demands upon | Mr, | Washington, President Hoover is ex- I pected virtually to complete their real conference in this remote spot. | The White House Monday night will | be the scene of a brilliant dinner party | in honor of Premier Macdonald. The ’(Ollowlng day, the latter and his daugh- |ter will depart as house guests of the | President and will return to the Brit- ish Embassy, where they will remain until they take their leave of the Capi- | tal Thursday morning. Macdonald when he returns to | Active Among Miners. “The talks we have had served the Splendid work was also done by the | purpose, which is, after all, the main English women among the needy wives | purpcse as I understand it so far as it and children of miners in the recent | concerns me, of giving me the most in- coal troubles. Miss MacDonald reported | teresting, attractive and charming pic- conditions among miners' families as | ture of a man I never met before, and greatly improved in the past year. we have already reached a basis of frank | Although there is & special court for } and friendly conversation, which on my s enile g | as a memory, e hwfl‘ill mawsgllet for @g; court. | me in understanding some of my duties “The same magistrate presiding over in the future.” other courts presides during different | The prime minister made several calls sessions over our Juvenile Court,” she | yesterday of an official nature, demand- aid. 2 | ed by the arrival of the executive head | When at home, Miss MacDonald acts | of the British government in the Capi- as hostess for her father in the orime | tal. His first was to Vice President Cur- | minister's home in Downing street. Al- | tis and his second to Chief Justice Taft. | though she has two sisters, she said | both at the Capitol. It did not take the they were unable to be of assistance in | distinguished visitor long to_establish her work as official hostess as both are | most ordial relations with those upon | busy with their studies. | whom he called. This is not the first | “Joan, who is 21, and five years time he has met them. Senator Watson | younger' than myself, is busy studying | of Indiana, Republican leader of the | medicine in Edinburgh.” she said, Senate, strolled into the office of the hile Sheila, my youngest sister, is Vice President to pay his respects tn attending a college at Oxford, the prime minister and renewed an ac- RibsreimtaeESt B et mith M. Macdorald at One of the final questions put to Miss | a luncheon given at the Willard Hotel. | MacDonald was whether she denied or | Senator Watson was impressed with the confirmed reports from London that memory of Mr. Macdonald, who recalled upon her return she would announce |to him the conversation which they had her_engagement to be married. | had at the luncheon and the topics they | “I ignore such reports,” she smiled | discussed. | as she rose to leave at the signal from | At the Capitol, the State Department an attache that the time for the inter- | and the White House throngs of people view was finished. gathered to see the prime minister and Specials This Stieff Piano used. This Stieff Grand has been However, it will call for close inspection to tell. Marvelous tone can only be found in a Stieff. This Stieff Grand Is the camp was reached it was raining, \butdnotdhl-}:d.hlt x;lonped soon after- | ward an e President took advantage o i of the opportunity personally to escort | 90,000,000 Carat Diamonds. i his guest about the camp. | ‘The diamonds of South Africa now Mrs. Hoover and Miss Ishbel, who | constitute more than 90 per cent of RS ‘With the exception of a few functions, Miss MacDonald’s social engagements will be the same as those attended by the premier. She attended a luncheon yesterday, however, with Lady Isabella to applaud him when he appeared. The prime minister yielded gracefully to the requests of the camera men and the movie sharpshooters to make pictures of him on these occasions. Mr. Macdonald was the honor guest a Rare Bargain English Orlentalist and || , rode with her, did not arrive at the !camp until half an hour later. They {did not leave when the others did. the world’s supply. 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