Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-05
WANTS CROCUSES
AT WHITE HOUSE
d. 4. e. Clean House for An
nudI Pilgrimage of
Delegates.
By CONSTANCE DRExEL.


WASHINGTON, April 5-Of Mrs.
Harding's consultation with the head
White House gardener materializes as
! 1T should and probably will, White
House lawns will be abloom next spring
| with myriads of cr6cuses. Chatting in
formally at tea for women newspaper
writers the other day, the mistress Of
| the White House told Of her keen in
| terest in the grounds. 1t seems that
there used to be plenty of crocuses. but
the flock of sheep installed by President
Wilson to cut expenses by eating up
the grass also ate up all the crocus
bulbs. Hence passers by have missed
the lovely aspect of fields of white and
delicate mauve about the executive man
sion, so easily visible as a harbinger Of
spring to every one CHANGING by.
Down toward the Potomac from the
White House, the magnificent building Of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
is getting all freshened up for the annual
pilgrimage Of the daughters which will
pour into Washington two thousand
strong for the annual convention open
ing April IT. 1t can't be any other time,
because the constitution fixes 1t for the
week of April 10, even thought it inter-
feres with Easter and conflicts with other
womens conventions.
As a little warning that members must
not come ready for mere social functions
and play, Mrs. George Maynard Miner In
a statement just issued from Memorial
Continental Hall says:
mo organized work Of any value to
the world was ever accomplished with
out business and business meetings.
/ We are about to assemble in the biggest
business meeting of the society. Let US
bring to it the highest spirit Of service"
Though this is not a year for the al
ways holly contested office Of president
general, six vice president generals will
be elected and many questions as to the
future policies Of the society will be dis
cussed.
In comparison, headquarters OF other
women's organizations pale to in
significance. That is because the ma
tional headquarters of the D. A. R. was
| built as a memorial and is an imposing
marble building Besides the big
auditorium in which the plenary sessions
of the recent arms conference were held,
there are magnificent suites Of com
mittee rooms for the various States and
large library.
The society is increasing so rapidly,
what with the increase IN descendants
| Of revolutionary patriots, that a three
story Office building has been going up
in the rear for the past few months. II
will be complete in time for the con-
vention.
One Of the Presidents callers today
was Mrs. Charles II. Patterson, wife
of Colonel Patterson, who told the Pres
ident womens committees who has
worked for the soldier during and since
the war are up in arms over the transfer
nF t1,borcrl19T vpfpraus from Fox Hills
Hospital in New York, which is being
closed, to Seaview, on Staten Island.
Mrs. Patterson presented the President
with the report Of a committee headed
by Mrs. Fannie Rogers Of New York,
which visited Seaview on March p.
The women think the tubercular patients
ought to be sent to the Adirondacks in
stead.
Mrs. Patterson. who was accompanied
by Senator Calder of New York, had
half an hour with the President who
told her that he would present the wom
ems views to Colonel Forbes, director
of the veterans bureau.
THE war Is not over for these dis
abled boys, and we women ought to help
look after them just as we did during
the war;" said Mrs. Patterson after her
interview at the White House.
According to an announcement made
by the National Council for the Reduc-
ton of Armaments, the number of their
affiliated organizations has grown from
seventeen in last September when the
council was formed to forty-fve, the
number today. The latest State council
patterned on the national council is the
Delaware council for the reduction Of
ornaments, formed in Wilmington last
week. majority of the organizations
affiliated both with the National and
State councils are women's organizations.
Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger
Company.