Evening star., 1923-04-08
PRESIDENT COMES
HOME TODAY AFTER
5WEEK VACATION
Party Arrives at Noon After
Invigorating Health Trip
in South.
AUGUSTA SPEECH SEEN
HINT AT FOREIGN POLICY
Mrs. Harding Greatly Improved
After Illness-Both Given
Great Ovation
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Ga, April His yaca-
tion ended, President Harding tonight
turned his face toward Washington
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 cheif executive, four weeks of
which were spent in Florida and one
IN Augusta. Now that il is over il
can be said that perhaps no President
tain the rest and freedom! from care
rs has Mr.. Harding in the period since
March 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
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 atomic to the President as the days
spent in the sunshine of Florida and
Georgia.
The presidential party will arrive
ir Washington shortly after noon to-
morrow and Mr.. Harding will return
to his desk in the executive offices
Monday morning.
south Behind President.
IN returning to Washington Mr..
Harding, it was said by members of
his party, carries with him
strengthened feeling that people of
the south, although largely of a diff
fcrent political faith. are united with
him as President. 1t 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-
tion he and Mrs Harding received
late today during an automobile ride
through the downtown section of
Augusta. The ride downtown was
planned as review of the school
children Of the city and they were
there by the thousands, but for every
flH oil
the streets and waving and applaud
ing as the President and Mrs Hard
ing drove by.
The reception was said to have been
greatly appreciated by the chief ex-
ccutive and Mrs. Harding, adding
strength, in the Presidents opinion,
to tho declaration made in his address
here last night that mot d vestige of
tho Misunderstanding of the civil war
was left in the United States"
Mentions Foreign Relations.
Several persons close to the Presi-
dent saw today in his last nights
address what answer he might make
II he chose to reply to the notice
served in New York last night by for
mer Associate Justice Clarke Of the
United States Supreme Court that the
league of nations would be forced
into the 1924 elections. This, it was
indicated. was embodied in the fol-
lowing portion of Mr. Hardings ad-
dress:
Our first concern. my countrymen.
is of domestic affairs in this repub-
lie. You need not worry about our
relationship with the rest of the
world. I 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 think. This would
be the verdict Of Europe-that the
republic of the United States is tho
most just nation in the world and
justice is the most that is asked by
God Almighty"