Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-10
URGED TO RETURN TO
RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Would Like 10 Be in White
House, but People Nigh:
Object.
SAYS THAT FRANCE WANTS Wan
NrTrrtn Republicans Kept United
stntrn From Entering League
Of Sntlonn.
Especial to The Tlmes.Dispa,ch. +,

Especial to The Times Dispatch.
CHARIDTTESvii.LE. VA, May .
Lady Nancy As,ot entered Abe
marie, the county OF her gIrlhood
homo. this afternoon and vas accord
ca. AT Sco.,svtlie. a reception which
her sister. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson.
declared reached the highos, nolnt
OF enthusiasm and appreciation.
Sco,tsvillc never SAW such crowd
before. and Victory Hall. tho largest
auditorium. was wholly inadequate
TO care for tho throng Hundreds
were unable to crowd into the build
irS. Those vino had hurried 10 ihc
i!ttle village TO witness the spectacle
and hear Lady Aa,or speak were
thoroughly satisfied with IN" event.
Her iadysii.p captured her audience
aSd her audience captured her. Eui
dfcw from her. all things consider
cd the finest expression she had
made OF her iIcals. Sh. declared
her un"avcr!nS belle. IN Christianity
az the hope Of the world; advocated
high standards in politics, and as
\sured her audience that there was
|need Of the womans point OF view
4 In public affairs.
The best work Is sometimes being
i done by women who have never had
q children shc said but they have
Il the mother instinct. II we can put
the dignity OF soul and purpose In
rublic life. We arc on the verge
OF better civilization" She could
U not. Ehc said. fSuaranteo :t.at women
VIII do IL. and felt less confident
when she saw the way some Of them
i dressed. Il, WAS the lack Of Chris
tianl,y which was the undoinr Of
q the Germans. They had passed it
- ~ for goddess efficiency In their
- view there was 50 l!ttlc difference
- between tho Kaiser and God that they
= sot mixed up ,vhen they prayed
awe Dropped Moinsses Jug
Lady As,or feared that France was
H boiling for another war and re-
GREETED that the United states had
not entered tn. league Of nations.
That. she said. lis where we dropped
= the molass.s jug" The people were
lin for II. she asserted, but the Re-
publicans pulled them out. frishten-
Eng the people by tho cry that we
SnOulu not raise our SONS 10 De 5oi-
~ licrs.' We can't have war in the
world without getting into It. what
wc have got to go is 10 persuade the
x ,eople that the league OF peace is
light Lady Astor was Introduced
~ Mayor Jackson Beal. who said he
1oped that Lady Astor would re-
urn To Virginia and be "a candidate
or the presidency. to which Lady
IN he
W,resident, but ] don't believe many
III the people would like it. Ny
candidacy would strike terror among
wo cIasses-the reactionists and
}olshevists."
81 Lord Astor spoke briefly Of re-
abilitating Europe as necessary 20
&3,rosperity In this country. In re-
;ard to his wife. he said her popu-
arity was not due to the fact that
he Is in Parliament. but to her fight
or an Ideal.
= Leave for "Mirador."
Following the reception. the party
8 1T by motor for "Mirador," near
brentwood, In Western Albcmaric.
ae country home formerly owned by
.ady Astor's father. the late CHS
- 'elI Dabney Langhornc now the prop
- rty of Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Tree. the
hitter his granddaughter. formerly
ll Iiss Nancy Perkins, of Richmond.
Lord and Lady Astor will rest a.
Mirador" until Friday. when they
1me here to be guests Of the uni
- ersity OF Virginia. From Char
,ttesville they go to Chicago. where
ady Astor Is scheduled to make an
ldress.