Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
HARDING SEES
MARINES DRILL
President Voices Pride in
Organization as Effective
Defense Factor.

Wilderness Run. Va. Oct. 3-On
the Virginia hills where once the
Union and Confederate armies clashed
in the battle of the Wilderness, Presi-
dent Harding Yesterday reviewed a
field force OF marines and voiced his
pride in them as an effective factor
in the defense of a reunited nation.
Infantry artillery and many special
units were represented among the
5000 r.en who marched in formal
conclusion OF his week end visit here
to witness the maneuvers of the ma
rine east coast expeditionary force.
As the rigid ranks Of brown went
by he turned many times to the stan
officers about him to express, his re-
spect and admiration. ~
A hah hour earlier at the con-
cluson Of church services in natural
amphitheater on the. maneuver
stronger praise for the devil dogs
Delivers Speech.
= AT the invitation Of Brig Gen
Smedley Butler. commanding the ex.
peditionary force, he mounted a mill.
tary truck which had served as the
chapIain's pulpitrand said:
General Butler has asked me. &c
stand before you for moment
mainly that we shall be better
acquainted, because it is our lot tc
serve together. and I have only taker
the platform to saw how much
| have been inspired this morning b.
meeting in worship and to say how
very greatl your joy is in being il
camp with you.
81 shall not exaggerate single
word when ] tell you that from m,
boyhood TO the present hour I have
always, had a very profound reEart
for the United States MARINE es and
! am leaving camp today with my re
gard strengthened and a genuine al
fection, added. No ,epmmander-in
chief in the world couid have !:
greater prfd sin or s.essssa1er afseessa,
I have cone to haze for you in thf
more intimate contact.
! My pleasure is genuine that
could be one of You il this splendie
camp on historic American ground
Real Camp Iifc.
| With Mrs. Harding. who also hat
spent the night under canvas at th
marine camp. the president left; a
| noon for Washington by automobile
They were accompanied by ,Secre
taries DENLY and Wallace, but Brig
/ General Sawyer. the presidents phy
sician, and Assistant Secretary Roose
welt of the navy made the return tri]
4 to the capital by airplane. Despis
the inconven;ences Of cau.p life, MI
and Mrs. Harding slept well in tn
s! specially constructed tent whicl
| served as an overnight White Hous
and like good soldiers appeare,
promptly when the bug,es blew mes
at O'clock in the morning.
!; They breakfasted on ham and egg
at the officers mess. took stroll
down the headquarters street a nd the1
!, walked to the church services NOR
than a half mile away.
I Just before his departure for aWsh
ington Mr.. Harding spent half hou
watching the marine infantry form
living silhouette of himself Near tn
| point where the demonstra ticn tool
place was Eravestone marking tn
burial place ct an arm of Genera
'Stonewall" jackson amnutatetI be
cause OF wounds shortly before nj
death in 1868. The president in
quired for more information and wa
told that the operation had been per
formed by Confederate surgeons in
farm house few hundred yard
away