Evening star., 1922-03-19
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Harding and Marshal Foch Autograph
Photos of Unusual Interest and Importance.
Which Cross IN Midocean.

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shal Foch, has reached Portland. Ore.
President Harding dispatched his gift
to Miss Winifred Holt Of New York,
who is the head Of LIE Phare de France.
the Joseph H. Choate memorial retreat
for blind soldiers. established immedi-
ately after the signing Of the armistice
by admirers Of that stalwart American.
! It is, sad to say. the only endowed in
stitution in Paris, and consequently,
during these times OF financial stress.
| 1t is the only place open for such
victims Of the world war. The Presi-
| est in the work, and his photograph.
neatly framed and ready to hang. bears
| this inscription: ITO the men of LIE
Phare de France, with most cordial
greetings and tae sincerest wish for
the fullest measure of happiness which
may come Of the consciousness Of serv-
ice nobly rendered. Warren G. Har-
ding
| Marshal Foch touches a lighter theme.
His autographed picture and series
conducts charming little mountain inn
on a towering precipice over the Co
lumbia river on the internationally
famous highway. 1t is the happiest
type Of the Swiss chalet. and the leap.
| ing waters. the brilliant parterres OF
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the dining hall gave the French war
rior the most unbounded satisfaction
| He spent an hour or two taking snap
shots and another partaking Of the de-
lectable dinner. which is set forth on
a balcony, from which the noble river
can be viewed for miles. and the snow
capped Mount Jefferson and Mount
Hood. besides many lesser but no less
inspiring peaks.
| 1t was a memorable and restfui
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| traveller and it evidently fingers ten
derly in his remembrances OF the
| United States, for he has written
the name of the pleasant and capable
hostess Of the chalet with that price.
less encomium that she mad served
America, then his name, with the
| long familiar zig-zag dash beneath
No doubt, New York and other CEN
| ters which boast their culinary PROV.
ess will be green with envy, but
there is the marshars writing;
together with his smiling face, and
| it hangs for all to see who visit
! the Columbia highway and mount up
| to the inn, half mile higher than
the highest lookout.
| President Harding's cabinet contains
! several who have been honored in su
preme fashion in the professions they
| follow. The Secretary of Commerce,
| for instance, has several times been
| executive Of the American Society
! of Engineers. Just now Mr.. Hoover
| which will make him highly popular
| IL he is even moderately succe ssful
| This is the enormous waste IN 40
| mestic architecture, and ne Is seek,
| ing the remedy. which. II found: Will
| be standardized and introduced ev-
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| for Mr. Hoover rarely attacks prob
| lew without excellent and SPECIFY
| result. Washington feels 5ubilant
| that this important subject and the
| interest it has inspired in the sec
Of ofer ,Fam han Mr Box in
J rerard to the Philadelphia sequi-
! centennial.
| A summer possibility which is not
| disregarded by those who sweep the
| horizon for pleasure and comfort
| when the sun gets too ardent in this
latitude lies in those fine new steam
| ships which Uncle Sam is plying be-
| tween ports in the northern half OF
| the western world to those in the
! southern. Every other week from
| the first Thursday In April, the Voy-
aeer can begin his adventures on
| splendid floating palaces with lnspir-
ing names-the American Legion, the
| Aeolus-with the Stars and Stripes
foating merrily from the mast.
| When the ship touches any OF those
| numerous ports en- route hescdn ENJOY
! the profitable experience and prestige
which comes from being the citizen
of n sea power. American consular
| officers will be at the dock to greet
| the ship and hail the passengers ana
offer the hospitality of the land.
| which is entirely different from the
| feeling of man without counIly
which possessed the travelling Amer
! lean in the old days. Then In the
south temperate zone the voyager
| leaving here in the piping days or
June reaches port in the chill MD
winter with all the life and gayety
"a cal ne %nerformances-the ievees of the
official world. Switzerland and Tyroi
| offer nothing to compare, II actual
| experience is sought as we'll as cool
er and more bracing days: Buenos
| Aires, which is the second Latin city
and which equals Paris in many as
nects of street color and brilliancy,
offers all that New York or Wash
| ington could, and perhaps more, with
splendid and ample hotels. with tn
rented briefly and which are equip
! ned for comfort and ease and, as
| rents go now, not excessive In price.
! That Col. Sheriff., superintendent Of
public buildings and grounds, has
emphatically stated that the eques-
trian statue of Washington, which
adorns the circle Of the same name.
must be supported and renovated at
once. or it will topple over, inspires
i the forlorn hope that if this venerable
! figure. the work of Clark Mills. is
taken down, it will be re-erected In
should be, that which faces the White
House. and where the foreign heroes
who aided Gen. Washington In the
! revolutionary struggle have already
been placed. Why Gen. jackson should
| uprear his steed in this park, the only
one in the city which the great patriot
! who founded the capital selected and
| named, is one of the unanswered
questions. Washington logically should
be there, surrounded by the COM
mander Of the French army Of al
| lance, Rochambeau, and the dashing
young officers, Lafayette and Kos
ciuski. who voluntarily Joined the
! coIonists, and the stern Won Steuben,
who was sent by Frederick the Great
as drill master. jackson does not be-
/ long to. the era at all nor to the en-
! yironment. OF course, it would cause
: a cataclysm to attempt this removal,
but nevertheless every student Of art
! or history would rejoice to witness
the transfer. The Capital city has not
been particularly fortunate in It's we'll
! placed efforts to keep art standards
and the fitness OF things up to other
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