The Washington times., 1922-07-22

"yttE pusiness OI Deink fTeSiueHt
may be harassing-and un-
- doubtedly Is In such parlous
times as these-but II can scarcely
be boring. Particularly when the
Chief Executive goes in for such
varied human contacts as does
President Harding. Even In the
last few days, when he has been
mich taken up with conferences
with leaders Of the warning factions
OF labor and capital and Senators
who " view with alarm" the indus.
trial situation. he has found time
to give audience to such diverse
notables as the Maharaja of
Ratpipla, Meinherr Fokker, the
great Dutch inventor Of aeroplanes,
and Livingston Beeckman, some
time governor of Ohio, who hopes
to succeed Senator Peter Goelet
Gerry In the upper house.
The Maharaja, who touched at
washington on tour of the
United States, called at the White
House accompanied by Major Ar.
thur Yenoken, Of the British en-
bassy staff; and before starting off
on his further travels was enter.
tained at luncheon by, the British
charge d'affaires. Henry Getty
Chiffon.
Governor Beeckman had lunch.
con with the President and Mrs.
Harding at the White House yes
terday, and pressed the invitation
which he has extended to them
to visit him at Lands End, his
place at Newport, later in the sum-
mer. The governor Is seeking to
enlist national figures in his cam
paign in the fall.
A. H. G. Fokker, the famous
airplane builder whose planes
weSe used so numerously--aud so
successfully-by the Germans dur
ing the war, was accompanied to
the White House by Mr.. Cramer,
son of a former minister Of the
Netherlands to the United States,
who Is associated with him In the
building Of aircraft. They plan
TO move their headquarters to the
United States and propose to
establish their plant on the shores
OF Lake Michigan, making Chi
cago the headquarters of Il great
airplane industry.
This morning President Harding
was closeted for some time with
Ben l.. Hooper. chairman Of the
Railroad Labor Board. and before
that he received John Durkin,
mayor of Scranton, Pa. Mr.. Durkin
Is chairman of and spokesman for
a committee of five mayors Of
Pennsylvania cities who met in
Washington to discuss means Of
dealing with the coal situation and
who have worked out a PROPOSE
ton which they hope will solve the
problem so far as the anthrocite
mines are concerned.
A committee from the Virgin
Islands Is also camping on Presi-
dents Harding's trail today. They
are representatives of the bay
rum interests, who claim that
their business has been ruined
since prohibition. And they have
been so shunted about from one
department to another. each de-
nying Jurisdiction, that they. are
becoming known as "the Or
phans."
Pezets 10 Entertain
For Peruvian Delegates.
The Ambassador OF Peru and Nine
Pezet will entertain at luncheon to
morrow in their apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel for the Peruvian
delegates to the Tacna-Arica confer
ence. The members Of the embass,
staff have been asked to meet them
The Ambassador and Mime. Peze
expect to go to Hot Springs, Va
next week for a brief holiday. whel
they leave town, their son and daugh
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Washing
ton Pezet, who are their guests, vii
return to their home in New Yor
and later will go to Cape Cod for
few weeks.
John w. Weeks, Secretary Of waI
has gone to Annapolis to stay owe
Sunday with Rear ADMIRAL Henry f
Wilson, superintendent Of the Navs
Academy, and Mrs. Wilson.
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