The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-13
URGE HARDING VISIT
TO SOUTH AMERICA
Future President Not Likely
to Go Outside U. s. Waters,
However.
STATE AFFAIRS TABOO
He Refuses to Discuss Appoint
ments or Matters of
Policy. :.
STATE AFFAIRS TABOO

Special Despatch 10 TIE New York HERALD.
POINT ISABEL, Tex, Nov 12.--An in
terruption TO Senator Harding's in
tensive course in fishing and golfing
and sightseeing on the Southern seas
will come when he leaves here next
Wednesday morning for New Orleans
Not only will crowds be out at every
station to meet him but a demonstra-
ton of some magnitude has been ar
ranged in New Orleans for November
IS, and the Senator has consented to
deliver an address there.
The wind here increased to a gale
to-day. driving in the mist from the
Gulf, and the fishing boats were I'M
able to go out. The temperature. how
ever did not go low and the Senator
was promised more hot weather and
more fishing before he leaves.
His only news contact with the out
side world is the wireless station,
which receives a daily communique on
news from all the points OF the world.
The steel and wire towers that over
look this lonely Gulf point are in
touch with San Francisco, San Diego
and ships on the Pacific and can
listen in even on the Nauen station in
Germany. Chief Gunner Swint, in
charge OF the station. has invited the
Senator and his party as his guests
tomorrow night, when the wireless
will be demonstrated and motion
picture show given.
The sports of the day were duck
shooting and golfing. Despite the driv-
ing rain and the bad roads the Senator.
accompanied by Senator's Hale and Ere
lnghuysen. motored over to the Browns
vi lie Country Club for a day on the
course Senator Frelinghuysen spent a
short time on the coast and bagged sew
e'al ducks. They were flying In from
the sea--thousands of blue bills" on
their annual migration from the Arcti ;
IT, alons.
Senator Harding has been 1eluge1
WITH invitations from all parts OF tn :,
s, uthwest. The Association of Conf
IEerce of Lake Charles, La, has axtend-
ed a particularly urgent invitation. 1t
wishes Senator Harding to stop at Lake
Charles on November II the day before
he Is due in New Orleans, and address
an important gathering on that day.
Senator-elect Broussard and Repre-
seLtatives La FARO. Dupre. Martin AMI
Sanders will be at Lake Charles to dis
cuss with representatives of the Army
Emil neers Corps the deep water prof.
es, for Lake Charles. Accordingly the
Lake Charles Association of Commerce
has asked Senator Harding to come on
that day, IL only for \ brief stop. 1t
y, cbably will be impossible for him
to do so.
Another pressing invitation mas come
from Preston McGodwin, American
Minister to Venezuela, urging the Sem
ator to visit Colombia and Venezuela
while he is In the Caribbean area. Mr..
McGodwin is an Ohioan, and has urged
that amicable relations between the
United States and Latin American coun-
tries would be promoted by such
visit 1t IS understood Senator Har-
dlngs attitude is that 1t would be i'm
possible for him, much as he would like
to do so. TO accept these invitations. II is
not expected that Mt any time during his
trip to the Canal Zone he will enter the
waters Of any other country than the
United States.
Senator Harding maintains an attitude
of aloofness from the coming problems
Of office that will beset him. He has
no contact even with newspaper CORE
spondents on these matters. preferring
to discuss fish and the weather Mem
bers OF his party refrain from intro
ducing perplexlng questions. He has
not even discussed Cabinet appoint
ments with his chief adviser, Mr..
Daugherty.