Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-10
PRESIDENT RETURNS
TO CAPITAL PLEASED
BY VISIT TO SOUTH

AUGUSTA, Ga, April S.-His va
cation ended, President Harding last
night turned his face toward Wash
ington and his mind toward the
cares Of problems of state.
The departure of the presidential
party from Augusta tonight brought
to a close a vacation of five weeks
for the chief executive, four weeks
Of which were spent in Florida and
one in Augusta. Now that it is
over it can be said that perhaps
no president in recent years has
been able to obtain such complete
rest and freedom from care as Mr..
Harding in the period since March
5, when he left Washington.
That this almost entire separation
from official duties has benefited
Mr.. Harding is plainly seen.
Moreover, Mrs. Harding, whose
convalescence from her illness of
last fall, although steady, was slow
while she remained in Washington
during the winter, has regaine /
much of her former strength. This
return by Mrs. Harding to health
has, in the opinion of members of
the vacation party, been quite as
much of a tonic to the president as
the days spen> in the sunshine of
Florida and Georgia.
Reach Washington Sunday
The presidential party will arrive
in Washington shortly after noon
Sunday and Mr.. Harding will re-
turn to his desk in the executive
offices Monday morning.
In returning to Washington Mr..
Harding, it was said by members
OF his party, carried with him
strengthened feeling that people of
the south, although largely of a
different political faith, are united
with him ls president. This was
evidenced and declared at the din
ner given last night in his honor
by the leading citizens of Augusta
and this section of Georgia, and in
dicated by the ovation he and Mrs.
Harding received late Saturday dur
ing an automobile ride through the
downtown section Of Augusta.
The ride downtown was planned
as a review of the school children of
the city and there they were by
the thousands, but for every child
there was an elder, all lining theN
streets and waving and applauding
as the president and Mrs. Harding
drove by.
President Gratified
The reception was said to have
been greatly appreciated by the
chief executive and Mrs. Harding,
adding strength in the presidents
opinion to the declaration made in
his address here last night that not
a vestige Of the misunderstanding Of
the Civil war was left in the United
States.
Several persons close to the presI-
dent saw today in his last nights
address what answer he might make
if he chose to reply to the notice
served in New York last night by
Former Associate Justice Clarke, Of
the United States supreme court,
that the League Of Nations issue
would be forced into the 1924 cleo
ton.
This, it was indicated, was en-
bodied in the following portion Of
Mr.. Hardings address:
Our first concern, by country
men; is of domestic affairs in this
republic. You need not worry about
our relationship with the rest of the
world. 1 tell you with pride and
confidence that they were never bet
ter at any time in the history of
America than they are today. We
are surely not SO involved in old
world affairs as some of our friends
would have US. This will be the
verdict of Europe: That the repub-
lie of the United States is the most
just nation in the world, and justice
is the most that is asked by God
ALMIGHTY