Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-06-06
STANDS BIG STRAIN
Physical Endurance Of Taft Is
Extraordinary.
is DUE TO HIS TEMPERAMENT
Beautiful Lawn Party at the White
House for international Red Cross
Delegates-Pian Of comptroll-
er Murray to Check Bank
Deialcations.
ev GEORGE

been through some strenuous cam
paigning this year. He has made not
only political addresses. but certainly
so or more speeches on occasions non-
political. Mr.. Taft is an extraordinar-
lily big man physically, and yet the
strain Of hard work does not seem to
tell upon him as it does upon other
men who carry much less weight
Friends of the president ascribe his
continued good condition to his buoy
ant disposition. In other words. his
temperament stands him a friend dur
ing his hard work.
There have been one o. two lawn
parties at the White House this year.
and before the spring season closes
there probably will be on or two
more At one party the guests of hon
or were the visiting delegates to the
international Red Cross convention.
The president and Mrs. Taft, standing
under the trees on the south lawn OF
the White House, received distin-
guished guests from all over the
world. The president had just re.
turned from a weeks campaigning and
was to leave again at midnight, but
he stood the three hours social siege
as If he had been resting instead OF
working. Physically, the president OF
the United States is a wonder to that
part Of mankind which gets a chance
to see him.
At the Red Cross Reception.
The lawn parties at the White
House are the most picturesque social
events of the year in Washington. II
is not probable that those who do NOT
actually view the scene can realize the
extraordinary beauty of the grounds Of
the White House in May and June
There are many trees, much shrub
berry and in some places a p~rofusion o.
flowers. At the back is the house itself
a fine specimen of colonial architec
ture, pure white and impressive, witt
each Of its great pillars adding a line
Of beauty. The day Of the reception
on the lawn given for the Red Cross
people was perfect. The thermometer
was at 70, and the sun was in a cloud
less sky. The ladies all wore white
while the men. or most of them, for Il
was largely an Off cial reception, were
in uniform, many of them being in the
picturesque garbs Of the Latin-Ameri
can countries and Europe and the
countries of the far east.
Present at that reception, unknown
to most Of the guests and bearing her
self with extreme ~difidence. was 1
woman who had just returned from
China. She has been connected fol
years with a school maintained by tn,
Protestant Episcopal church In tn,
heart OF the fowery kingdom. Wher
civil war broke out in China recently
and the Young Chinese started OF
their crusade. the woman who was
guest at the White House reception
left off her teaching in the college ant
went into the field as a volunteer Rec
Cross nurse. She had many hard ex
perisnces, but not as hard as 1t wa!
expected that she would have. China
ordinarily is not considered thorough
ly civilized, but even in the midst o
the madness of civil strife 1t wa.
found that both factions Of the Chi
nese observed the Red Cross regula
tons as implicitly as would the coun
tries Of the west.
To Stop Bank D~efalcations.
Comptroller of the Currency law
renee 0. Murray has made /,
study of some of the method.
by which banks occasionally ars de
frauded by their employer. He ha,
had a number of SPECIFIC cases pu
before him and as a result. OF his in
vestigations he thinks that such un
fortunate occurrences as these an,
many that have preceded them may b,
avoided In the future If the nationa
banks will cooperate with his ofic,
in the plan which he has just suggest
ed to them. This is nothing more no
less than the simple device of sendin,
to his office a carbon copy Of the semi
annual report made by the examinin,
committee Of the board Of directors O
each bank-the report which states II
black and white what the director
think of their own bank.
When Mr.. Murray assumed ofic,
about 5000. 0 between 80 and 40 pc
cent of the national banks, had no by
laws and therefore made no provision
for examining committees. They nov
all have adopted bylaws suggested b.
the comptroller and are fitted GU
with regularly appointed examining
committees. When carbon copies o
the reports are sent to the comptroIle,
a study will be made OF them which
will be supplementary to the stud!
made in the bank. In this way II Is be