The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-07

ular life of the presIdency-a neces-
sary part of IL. Mr.. Wilson used to play
golf at one country club after another.
He played no favorite, so TO speak.
President Harding has played the game
as part of his routine OF necessary
recreation. at several different clubs.
There are several prominent clubs In
Washington which are located within
| the clty's limits and have no links,
tennis courts or any other of the mp
purtenances of the outdoor life.
Among these are the Cosmos club,
composed almost entirely of scientists;
the Metropolitan club, which Is COM
posed TO u considerable extent OF men
of leisure, and the Army and Navy
club whose membership is composed
entirely OF officers or former officers Of
the service.
President Harding Is an honorary
member In these three clubs, but he
probably seldom Will see the Interior
of any one OF them, except on some
great occasion when they are giving
receptions for foreigners of such note
as to make the presence of the Presi-
dent necessary from the diplomatic
point of view.
Army and Navy Club.
The Army and Navy club today Is
one Of the most interesting institutions
In the United States, for there daily
gather men who saw service in the
great war in every possible soldier ca
pacity. There one meets occasionally
Generals Pershing, Bullard, Liggett,
Dickman, Bundy, Edwards and other
general officers, and scores, of colonels,
majors and captains who threaded the
mazes of the Argonne with their men,
or who met the foe In the salient of st.
Mlhiel or along the reaches of the
Marne, the Meuse, the Aisne or the
Fismes.
In addition to these officers, there
are scores of veterans of the Indian
wars, good many veterans of the
Civil war, and even one or two veter-
ans of the Mexican war, who, now on
the retired list, meet almost daily in
the club and talk over the past among
themselves, or the present with the
men who faced the German on the soil
of France.
In the Army and Navy clubslectures
on service subjects frequently are
given. They are interesting, for in al
most every instance they are illustrate
ed by government pictures, moving or
still life, which show the actual opera
tons in the field of France, or with the
grand fleet of the North sea, or with
the American destroyers in the sub
marine infested waters off the coast of
Ireland.
Cosmos Club Full of Scientists.
The Cosmos club occupies the old
residence of Dolly Madison, with some
additions thereto which have been re-
Gently purchased.
All the scientists in the government
employment are members of the Cos
mos club, and nearly every scientist of
note ih America who lives at distance
from Washington is a nonresident men,
ber. The lectures which frequently
are given at the club have an appeal
for a scientist, but like those given /:
the Army and Navy club they have
comparatively little appeal for the lay
man. because they are strictly scien-
tific, and Latin terms fly about like
swallows just before migration time.
There are women's clubs In WASH
ington, and to many of them Mrs.
Harding has been called to member
ship She takes an active part in the
work of the Congressional Club of
Women. of which she was member
when her husband was n senator.
Gram of Radium for Nine. curie
gram of radium valued at
100000 has just been put into the
keeping of the United States govern
ment bureau of mines to be tested for
its purity and efficacy. 1t will take
two months to prove it, and as no fail
ure in efficacy is apprehended, it will
be presented to Madame Marie Curie,
the great woman scientist, by the wom-
en- of America.
AT the White House in June Mrs.
Warren G. Harding, wife of the Presi-
dent, will present the gift of the Amer
lean women to Madame Curie, who is
coming to America from France to re-
ceive the radium.
Madame Curie is the woman who
discovered radium, the element which
is coming more and more to be consid-
cred as specific for the cure of can
Ger. Madame Curie is regarded as the
greatest woman scientist of the world
The women of this country believed
that some recognition should be given
her, and they knew that, although she
was the discoverer of radium and
most highly qualified to use it in thefp
cure of disease, she did not have the
means to purchase even the SMALLEST
possible quantity of the material.
Will Visit the Larger Cities.
There has inst heen hold in Wosb