Evening star., 1921-12-08
PRESIDENT PREDICTS PARLEY
SUCCESS BEYOND FONDEST HOPES
Tells Red Gross Meeting Of Privilege Of
Living in Period When Something
Tangible for Peace Is Done.

world except to join us in thing
that God would wish and for which
humanity must rejoice.
Great Work to Be Done.
while l have found many satisfac-
tion in the knowledge of heroic things
and sympathetic things and helpful
things and Christlike things which you
have done, it is a pleasure to say that
1 hope your sympathies and your hu-
manities and your tender and sympa-
thetic ministrations and your generos.
tiles from this time on shall more
largely be applied to those inevitable
misfortunes and those inescapable SUI.
ferings which come to a people now
and then in the peaceful course of hu-
man affairs. There will never be time
when there is not a work to do. but
how much more comforting 1t is going
to be to have the consciousness that
you are contributing to the alienation
rather than to be called upon in the
greater way Of an agency to relieve the
sufferings deliberately caused by war!
If there is aught that can do In my
titular connection with the organiza-
ton want the vice presidents and the
me whenever l am needed because it
will be a pleasure and a comfort and a
compensation to serve with you on every
possible occasion"
Officers Are Chosen.
General officers Of the Red Cross,
including President Harding as presi-
dent. Robert w. De Forest and Chief
Justice William Howard Taft, vice
presidents. and James NJ. Beck. coun-
selor, were reelected at the meeting
of the general board. Eliot Wads-
worth, assistant secretary Of the Treas
ury, a member of the central commit
tee, representing the Treasury De-
ST., al n
Red Cross, succeeding John Shelton
Williams.
Henceforth. under a change in the
bylaws adopted at the meeting. the
President of the United States be-
comes ex-officio president Of the Amer
lean Red Cross.
As result of appointments by
President Harding and elections by
incorporators and chapter delegates,
the central committee. governing
body of the society, is now constituted
as follows:
John Barton Payne. chairman; Hen
ry p. Fletcher, representing State De-
partment: Maj. Gen. NJ. w. Ireland
surgeon general of the Army, repre-
senting the War Department; Rear
Admiral f. K. Stitt. surgeon general
of the Navy representing the navy
Department.; Eliot Wadsworth, assist
ant secretary of the Treasury, repre-
senting that department. and James
NJ Beck. solicitor general, represent
ing the Department of Justice. all ap-
pointed by President Harding; Cor
! nelius NJ Bliss. jr.. of New York:
| Charles D. Norton Of New York, Miss
Mabel T. Boardman of this city: Mrs.
! Henry r. Rea of Pittsburgh, John D.
| Ryan of New York and George +.
| Scott of Chicago. elected by incorpo-
! rators; Mrs. Frank v. Hammer OF st.
Louis. Judge w. w. Morrow of San
| Francisco. Calf, Mrs. August Belmont
! of New York. Gustavus d. Pope OF
Detroit, Henry P. Dawson of New
York and Stuart A. Sellye Of New Or
! leans, elected by chapter delegates.
James VI. Beck Speaks.
i Following the address of President
Harding, James NJ. Beck delivered a
short address, in which he said. In
part:
"The vocation of the Red Cross is
, not merely ito alleviate the suffering.
but it is to rescue the soul Of man
from the crushing influence Of a
rather heartless mechanical age. 1t is
| to fan into new 1lre the divine spark
which is still inextinguishable in the
soul of man in this working day age;
it is that benefit that makes 1t as
much a blessing to us to give as those
who receive