Evening star., 1921-05-07
PRESIDENT RESTS
AND FORGETS CARE
Spends Morning Playing Golf.
Will Spend Night in
Leesburg. Va.

'ltuN lIiS "tSN VI fSPt'IaIiE 'N'
acting and confining work. during
which he personslly received ana
shook hands with more than 6.oot
callers besides comforting with scv-
eral hundred senator's and repre-,
sentatives. political leaders an, /.
patronage seekers. resident Harding
today took a half holiday
He spent the greater part of tn,
morning playing golf, arriving at his
desk some time after 10 O'Clock. His
official daily engagement list CON
tanned only three appointments the
United States board OF mediation and
conciliation at 1880: Representative
Bacharach of New Jersey and a party
of school girls and boys from his
state, to pay their respects, and
and Mrs. Harding received members
of the Federation of Women's Clubs.
VIII Motor to LeenburE.
Later in the afternoon the President
and Mrs Harding expect to motor tt
Leesburg. Va. where they will spend
the night and tomorrow morning, re.
turning in time tomorrow afternoon
for the executive to attend the cerc'
monies incident to the unveiling Of
bronze tablet in honor of members OF
the Washington Lodge of ElkS who I
served in the world war. The cere-
monies will take place in front of the
Elks building on ii street, near 9Th
street.
When the President and his cahi-
net again meet next Tuesday they
will be seated in the new cabinet
room chairs, which were placed in thu !.
room today. The chairs are larger
and handsomer than the ones used
during the Wilson administration
They are made of Santo Domingo ma.
hogany. done in Spanish hand-buff
leather.
Minister to China Believed Chosen.
Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman of Itha-
ca. n. Y, former president of Cornell
University and former minister TO
Greece and Montenegro, is understood
to have been chosen by President
Harding for American minister to
China.
Official inquiries regarding the ac-
ceptability of DR.. Schurman are yet
to be made at Peking, but it is taken
for granted here that the selection
| will meet with the approval of the
! Chinese government and that DIR.
Schurman'S name will be sent to the
| Senate in the near future.
| DR.. Schurman for many years has
| been an authority on international
! law and economics. He has Travelled
| extensively and in 1899 was president
| of the first United States Philippine
| commission. He was first vice presi-
| dent of the New York state constitu-
! tional convention in 1915. His serv-
| ice as minister to Greece and Monte
| negro was during 1878.
Favors Memorial Tree Program.
President Harding is in favor of
| the plan to plant memorial trees along
the national highways as memorials
in, flr HrvfNy
war, according to a letter he has sent
| to Joseph NJ. Patterson of Chicago.
and which has just been made public
at the White House.
"a general adoption of this plan."
Mr. Harding wrote, would. in the COM
ing years, be noted as one OF the use
| full and beautiful ideas which our SOL
diers brought back from France. / am
pleased to know that the idea has been
already taken up quite extensively. and
| that considerable progress has been
! made. If the cooperation of state.
| municipal and county administration
| may be secured, as well as of the for
4 eStry services of the nation and the
| state it ought to be rapidly advanced
in a comparatively short time"
Foreign-Born Citizens Call.
| President Harding yesterday afternoon
received delegation of thirty foreign
born citizens of the United States and.
! after shaking hands with them and COM
plimenting them on their patriotism and
| Americanism. he voiced his approval of
| their program for promoting American
ism among the 100000 foreign born in
this country. The delegation included
Representatives of the racial conference
groups of the Inter-Racial Council of
New York. The spokesman for the dele
cation was DIR. Antonio Stella.
Pending immigration was not dis
cussed, the delegation assuring the
| President that it was concerned solely
| with the welfare of foreign born already
in this country and their Incorporation
into American life.
View Reception ms Significant.
The members Of the committee de-
clared following the reception that
the meeting with the President was
highly significant inasmuch as it in
dicated the desire of the races in this
country to work in close harmony
under Mr.. Harding.
| 1t was stated also that the reception
Twas the first step toward making the
foreign born articulate in American
irational affairs. There has been
criticism of the races on the ground
that they We're more interested in po-
litical affairs in their home lands
than in national issues in America,
whereas, the fact has been. according
| to the committee, that the foreign
born have not had the opportunity to
demonstrate their interests in Amer
lean activities.