The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-08
Presidents Official Family
In Thick of Unusual Jollities
Reception at Executive Mansion Return to
Tradition When Public Pays Tribute to
- Chief and First Lady.

Saturday Mrs. Thomas F.. walsh gave
a dance at her handsome Massachu-
sets avenue mansion. The Presi-
dents secretary and his wife, Mr..
and Mrs. George Christian were given
a dinner that evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wade Ellis. Friday evening
the Assistant Secretary Of War and
Mrs. Wainwright had another dinner
party and Mrs. Wainwright had .
luncheon Thursday. Friday the
wives of practically all of the dip
lomats received for the first time
this season. With the exception
OF Lady Geddes and one or two
others, none of them had received
before this season though they usually
begin to do so In November. They
postponed their days at home, how
ever. this year. because of the gage
ties connected with the conference.
Many residential hostesses have done
likewise and will be at home this
month for the first time. Almost
all Of the heads Of the various dele
cations to the conference have gone
home and most Of the others are PLAIN
ming to go within the next week
or ten days.
never thought of Herbert Hoover
as a club man for some reason and
yet he, 1t seems. is a devotee of
golf and has been selected as presfL
dent of the Congressional Country
Club, the organization recently in
corporated to provide oficialdom with
a commodious playground and "a
means for more intimate social con-
and their friends"
ans l. -.
turesque hills of Maryland, Just on
the Potomac rive. has already been
purchased and the membership to the
club is rapidly increasing.
~ Lieut.. Col. c. o. Sheriff., military
aide to the President and superinten-
dent of public buildings and gorunds,
Is vice president Of the club.
Congressman Oscar r. Luhring of
Indiana is chairman OF the board OF
governors OF the club, and was a
member of the original organization
committee, which comprised members
Of Congress exclusively.
Incorporators OF the club included
besides Col. SherriI and Congress-
man Luhring officials and local pro-
fessional men. among whom were
Congressman r. Clint Cole of Ohio,
Congressman Oscar Z. Bland OF Indi-
ana, Robert II. Mcneil and Thomas
P. Littlepage, prominent Washington
attorneys. and G. Logan Payne, news
paper publisher.
Those behind the new club are
enthusiastic in their efforts to make
1t lone of the greatest clubs in the
United States" 1t is planned ulti-
mately planned two 1S-hole golf
courses and another 9-hole course.
There will also be a wealth OF tennis
courts and numerous facilities for
athletics and outdoor sports.
A lake Of cwo or three acres for
bathing and aquatic sports Is another
feature that is planned. The dam
ming of a brook that now flows into
Cabin John Creek will make this
lake possible. This brook is spring
fed and will AFFORD adequate bathing
facilities.
The personnel Of the membership.
which Is limited 10 1900 active MEM
bers, Is representative Of every de-
partment of the government, includ-
ing members of the Cabinet, Senators
Congressman, army and navy officers,
prominent Washington business and
professional men, and foreign diplo-
matte representatives.
A complete Organization will be con-
summated within the next week or
ten days, but meanwhile the work Of
making the club property ''the play
ground Of off1cialdom" Is progressing
rapidly.
1t hadn't penetrated either that
our Secretary Of Labor was not born
in this country.
1t seems that it was because
Secretary of Labor James ]. Davis
had been an immigrant boy him
self and because he remembered the
struggles of his early years and the
comforting thought that he was an
American with an opportunity, that
he issued the Christmas order ad-
hitting LOO immigrants after the
| quotas for their countries had been
| filled.
He told members OF the Grand
| Street Boys Association In New
York of that early landing In Cas-
/ tie Garden at their dinner in the
Hotel Commodore recently, a din
ner of $500 persons. the largest
ever held in the city. Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt was there, and half
the judges and officials Of the city.
and the big ballroom of the Com
'AAcucAC vas 81 Win
iasm that the speakers, with the
exception of Col. Roosevelt, could
hardly make themselves heard
twenty feet away.
Secretary Davis took with him a
wish for a Happy New Year from
President Harding, then told the
diners that he had come because he
wanted to tell how the sons of i'm
migrants received the opportunity
to achieve for themselves things
that would be almost impossible in
most other countries.
1T gives me the opportunity to
rise to the great office OF a member
of the Presidents Cabinet" he said.
They say some hard things abou,
US some times, but great things
have been done in this country by
the sons of immigrants them
selves" He told of the Christmas
order, of the pleasure It gave him
to issue 1t, and the happiness of
the people who thus were able to
spend their first Christmas in the
land of their adoption.
"As 1 thought of them / saw a
mother landing long ago at Castle
Garden" he said. she had lost
nearly all that she held most dear;
she had lost all her possessions
She had eight children, one a child
in arms. and when she walked up
broadway. even in the midst of her
great sadness, there was a feeling
of pride that her sons should grow
up in this country.
so she went to a Pennsylvania
home and the boys went to work In
the great steel mills, working be-
fore the huge furnaces of molten
steel, laboring stripped to the waist