The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-08
MANY ISSUES AWAIT PRESIDENTS RETURN
(Continued from Page Onc.) connection with the coming presiden tial campaign.
PRESIDENT TURNS
 HIS FACE TO NORTH

AUGUSTA, Ga, April His Nvaca- ton ended, President Harding to- 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 cares as Mir. Harding in the period since March 5, when he left Washington.
 That this almost entire separation from official duties has benefited Mrs. Harding is plainly seen. More over, Mrs. Harding, whose convales- cence from her illness of last ran, although steady. was slow while she remained in Washington during tho winter. has regained 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 spent in the sunshine of Florida and Georgia.
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 Arrives Today.
 The presidential party will arrive in Washington shortly after noon to- morrow and Mir. Harding will re- turn to his desk in. the executive of- fices Monday morning.
 In returning to Washington, MT. Harding, it was said by members of his party, carried with him a strengthened feeling that people of the south, although largely of a diff ferent political faith, are united with him as President. It was evidenced and declared at the dinner given last night in his honor by the leading citizens of Augusta and this section of Georgia and indicated by the ova- ton he and Mrs. Harding received late today during an automobile ride through the downtown section of Augusta. The ride downtown was planned review of the school children of the city and they were there by the thousands, but for every child there was an elder. all lining the streets and waving and applaud ing as the President and his party drove by.
 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 ad- dress here last night that not a vestige of the misunderstanding of the Civil war was left in the United States.
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 Answers Clarke.
 Several persons close to the Presi- dent saw today in his last night s 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 election. This it was indicated. was embodied in the following portion of Mr. Hard- ing's address: Our first concern, my countrymen, is of domestic af- fairs in this republic. You need not worry about our relations with the rest of the world I tell you with pride and confidence that they were never better at any time in the his tory 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 yer dict of Europe-that the republic of the United States is the most just nation in the world-and justice Is the most that is asked by God Almi ghty"