Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-17
Warren G. Harding Completes
His First Year as President
of United States.
FALL AND WALLACE IN CLASH
American Government Declines to Par
ticipate in Genoa Conference
Lloyd Georges Threatened
Resignation = Fourteenth
Canadian Parliament
opened-Fiume
Fumes Again.

BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
VXTARREN G. HARDING at noon of
w March 4 completed his first year
as President of the United States. He
was asked for an expression regarding
the accomplishments of his administra-
ton to date and authorized this state
ment:
"The record of the administration
speaks for itself; it would be a poor
administration that required the execu-
tive to speak for it,"
At an entertainment by the National
Press club in honor Of the first official
birthday the President said:
1.-THE long step toward getting back
toward normal ways of government
would seem to me to have been the
achievement of the year"
Representative Fess of Ohio, chair
man Of the Republican congressional
committee, made in the house a speech
setting forth in detail the accomplish
ments of the year from the Republican
viewpoint. He dwelt on economies,
actual and prospective. He said that
the United States would be the only
government in the world living within
it's revenues next year, if it could keep
within the estimates outlined by the
administration. Reviewing the work
of the arms conference, he said: 81
challenge the record to produce a
greater achievement in the history of
diplomacy"
Democratic members then proceeded
to tear to pieces the Fess eulogy from
their standpoint. Cordell Hull, chair
man Of the Democratic national com
mittee, also took issue with the Fess
statement. His general position Is that
while the Republican congress has en-
acted a multiplicity of unimportant
laws and the arms conference proyid-
ed for a limited program Of naval re-
duction the Republican party has
failed to carry out its major prom
ises made in the campaign of 1920.
Now, in the house debate over the
administrations statement of econo
mics Fess talked exactly as if he be-
lieved everything he said and the
Democrats talked back exactly as if
they believed everything they said.
And the taxpayer in the gallery knew
that everybody couldn't be telling the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. The upshot was that Rep
~resentative Byrns of Tennessee, rank
ing Democratic member of the appro-
priations committee, secured the pass
age of a resolution calling upon the
President to inform the house in what
way the savings had been made, from
what particular appropriations and in
what specific amounts. Thereupon the
President instructed General Dawes
of the budget bureau to prepare a
complete statement covering the en-
tire situation. One thing at least
stands out clearly: Nobody doubts
that H and Maria" Dawes will give
the facts and figures as they are.
President and Mrs. Harding left
Washington Wednesday evening by
train for St. Augustine, Fla. The pres
ldential party included Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty, Speaker Gillett, Un-
dersecretary of State Fletcher, Brig
adler General Sawyer, his personal
physician, and George B. Christian,
his secretary. Mr.. Christian said the
President would occupy his time in
'rest and recreation" in Florida for
a week or Sc.