Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-24

Special TO Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON. March 24.-One Of the
greatest American japanese love feasts on
record win take phase in Toxic July T.
Nippon OF the famous class of 1881 of
the United States Naval Academy, Of
which Admiral Uriu of Japan is an hon
ored member. The party will be headed
by John w. Weeks, Secretary of War,
Annapolis 81, and will include Edwin
DENLY, Secretary of the Navy, known as
the brother-in-law Of the class, because
sister of his married into It. Arrange
ments for the expedition are in the
hands of o. E. Weller, United States Sen
ator from Maryland, who also was
graduated at thc academy forty one years
ago and has been tie class president
since 1897. Other distinguished 81 men,
who viii attend the reUI ion In Toxic, are
Rear Admiral Wilson, superintendent OF
the Naval Academy; Brigadier General
Barnett, formerly commander Of the Ma
rine Corps; Brigadier General Haynes, of
the Marine Corps = Capt. W. l.. r. Emmett
famed turbine expert of the General Elec-
trio Company and a lineal descendent Of
Robert Emmett; DR.. FRANK e. Bunts of
Cleveland, and Rear Admiral Hooge-
VERT, commander of the United States
Naval Station at Bremerton, Wash.
The Annapolis Grads" OF 81 are going
to Japan at the invitation Of Admiral
Crla, who was a reunion guest In this
country last summer. In 1t was his
second foregathering with his comrades
Of academy days. The previous occasion
was in 1909, during the Taft Admins
trati0n when American-Japanese rela-
tions were not as good as they might
have been. Admiral Uria was sent here
| by the Toxic government at that time
and OF the class dinner in Washir gton
In his honor President Taft, members
Of the Cabinet and the congressional
leaders were present. While in Japan
next summer the class of 81 will be
guests of the Nipponese government. The
reunion viii happily synchronize with the
new relationship between the American
and japanese peoples cemented by the
Washington conference treaties All
concerned are therefore expecting the
occasion to be an episode of no in
considerable international interest.
Baron Shidehara, Japanese Ambassador
TO the United States, who will be In
Japan on leave, hopes to join his
countrymen in extending hospitality to
the notable delegation from America.
Nothing could more graphically illus
trate the poverty Of housing conditions
in Washington than the hospitality the
President and Mrs Harding are this
week extending to the new director Of the
mint and Mrs. Fred E. Scobey There
can't have been many families in Amer
lean history who had to put up" at the
White House because there wasn't any
other suitable abode available In Wash
ington. Yet that is the plight Of the
Scobeys. Half Of the Cabinet continues to
dwell in hotels as does the Vice President.
and so do scores of Senators and Repre-
sentatives. There is a rent commission
in the District Of Columbia. but rents
continue high. Building operations are
in lively progress but mostly in neigh
borhOOds unsuitG BILE for residence by of
fetal personages, while the new houses
going up are for the most part of the
standardized" tyne and inordinately ex-
rensive.-Copyright 1922, by Public
Ledger Company.