The New York herald., 1921-02-25
WADSWORTH GUEST
OF GENESEE SOCIETY
Senator's Praises Are Sung at
Dinner for 500 on 22d
Reunion.

Snator James w. Wadsworth was the
guest last evening at a dinner rendered
to him in the Hotel Commodore by
about 500 of his fellow members of the
Society Of the Genesee and their friends.
1t was the twenty-second annual dinner
OF the society. Fully one-half Of those
who attended were women.
Brief addresses in eulogy Of Senator
Wadsworth were delivered by his Sena-
torial colleagues, Senator Edge of New
Jersey, Lenroot of Wisconsin and France
Of Maryland, who is a native of Canaan
daigua, N Y. Others who contributed
to the verbal bouquet of praise for the
Empire States senior Senator were DR..
David Jayne Hill, former president OF
the University of Rochester: Alton Il.
! Parker and John A. Gade, former United
States Commissioner to the Baltic.
The following letter from President
elect Harding was read: II would re-
joice to join the society in doing honor
to your fellow member because none of
his colleagues and none of his friends
holds him in higher regard and esteem
| than do. He is really one of the great
patriots and statesmen of America We
enjoyed particularly friendly relations
throughout our contemporaneous period
in the Senate and l hold him In affec-
| tionate regard in every way. l ask you
to utter my greeting and assure your
membership that am in perfect accord
with everything that is done to honor
Senator Wadsworth."
Other messages in praise of the chief
guest were received and read from Sen
| ators Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania,
William ]. Harris of Georgia, Atlee
| Pomerene of Ohio, George II. Moses OF
| New Hampshire, Bert w. Fernald OF
| Maine and Charles S. Thomas of Col
! orado.
Murray Hubert, the retiring presideni
| Of the society. acted as toastmaster. Al
the close of the evening he presented as
| his successor the incoming president
! who had just been elected, Merton y
! Lewis, former State Attorney General
Senator wadsworth spoke feelingly in
acknowledging the warmth Of the SYM
postum of tribute in his honor. He then
branched out with an eloquent plea Tor
the military education and training OF
vhe citizen soldier as the true backbone
of Americas national defence. The
Senator reiterated his familiar views In
favor Of a standing army OF moderate
but highly disciplined troops and plenty
of encouragement for the National
Guard He insisted upon the vital inn
portance OF maintaining a sufficient
body of trained officers who should de-
vote a large proportion of their ener-
gies to training the CIVILIAN youth OF the
land to bear arms efficiently in time of
need. This, he said. was the policy he
is advocating as chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee.
While the dinner was I'm progress in
the early part of the evening Richard
T. Greene introduced q resolution at
tempting to commit the society to an
unqualified Endorsement OF national and
international disarmament and urging
that the United States take the first step
and set the example OF disarmament TO
the rest of the world. Rear Admiral II.
p. l.. Huse. u. S. N, spoke in opposition
to the resolution, as did Lewis Tracy,
English novelist. and Mrs. Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson.
Byron r. Newton. Collector OF the
Port. suggested an innocuous substitute
asking merely that a conference OF ma
tions be called to ascertain il interna-
tional disarmament could be brought
about. and 1t was adopted overwhelm-
ingly.