The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-06-23

| companions of the senatorial group.
His most recent outing has been with
smother senator. Knox Of Pennsyl-
| vania.
1t is possible that the Presidents
| recent discovery of owls within the
White House grounds may have
spurred him to further ornithological
research. If such be the case, he had
a fine field for the study at Valley
Forge, a place which is in the neigh
borhood intimately connected with the
life of the great American ornithol-
ogist, j. j. Audubon, for whom the
bird protective societies of the Uni
ted States are named.
Scene Of Audubon's Early Studies.
Audubon lived for some time, when
he was young man, in the house OF
relative ON the bank Of Perklomen
creek which helps to water the es-
! tate of Senator Knox. He made many
of his early bird studies in the coun-
try which is partly included in the
holdings Of the Pennsylvania senator.
One Of the first instances Of what may
be called the banding of birds, IN or
der to determine If they return to the
same neighborhood year after year,
is to be found in the Audubon record
of his life in the Valley Forge neigh
| hOrhOOd.
A pair of phoebes nested in cave
on the baak Of Perkiomen creek.
Audubon fastened light wire about
the leg Of young phoebe which was
Jus. about to leave the nest. 1t was
so fastened that it did not hurt the
bird, nor in any way interfere with
its comfort. One year atterWard,
Audubon found the phoebe with the
wire on its leg, with mate, nesting
in the cave in which it was Matched.
During his week end at Valley Forge
President Harding drove through a
little place which in the old days was
called Shannonville. 1t is a near
reighbor to the Knox estate. 1t is
Shannonville no longer, but is known
by the name Of Audubon. Some
twenty years ago the citizens agreed
that it would be graceful thing to
change the name Of their village TO
that of the great naturalist who once
had lived there. They had big cele-
bration and naturalists from all over
the country came to take part therein.
A new flag was run up, cannon were
fired and Shannonville became Au-
dubon.
Hospitality Of the Hardings.
Since the republics time began
there never has been such freedom
of access to the White House as at
the present day. Will that abuse of
privilege come which will mean the
denial of present-day presidential
hospitality?
From the time that President Hard
! ing first was mentioned as a candi-
! date for the Republican nomination
his political friends emphasized his
kindness Of disposition. Kindness
is not an all-in-all recommendation
for high political preferment, but it
counts in any man, and happily it
does not make any difference to what
political party he belongs. Washing
ton people today. and the people who
/ have come here from a distance, are
willing to admit the kindness of the
present administration. The question
IS. Is it being overdone? There are
/ always abusers of hospitality, and
when abuse reaches certain limit
the bars go down and the open door
becomes the shut door.
President and Mrs. Harding have
been giving some garden parties, and
if there il anybody who has not
been hidden to them he or she is in
a position to claim certain kind Of
dubious distinction by the exclusion.
Democrats and Republicans conserv-
atives and radicals, with their wives
and daughters, alike have trOd the
aths when lead to The White / ouse
lawns, and have pressed their feet
into the hOspitable sward.
White House All Thrown Open.
Something has been done which
never before has been done in Wash
/ ington. The President and Mrs.
Harding have thrown the entire
White House, with the exception. Of
course, Of the living rooms, open to
the invited guests on the occasion of
these lawn parties. Everybody has
had full swing Of the state dining
room, the Blue room. the Red room
! and the Green room, the big East
i room and the roof garden surmOunt-
| ing the two low-lying White House
annexes.
There have been immense crowds
on the lawn, which is immense in it.
self, and great throngs in the White
House during the progress of all these
outdoor and indoor festivities. All
the rooms Of the White House have
many valuable historic objects within
them, from great portraits Of the
Presidents of the United States down
! to clock gifts and other gifts from
notables Of America and potentates
of the old world.
Looking at the thrOngs in the
White House on these days one can
not help trembling lest some imbe-
cle American poke his finger through
On oil painting. or, lifting up clock
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