The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-22
CAb|NET I MEMBE. .RS. JOIN LEGISLATORS.
 IN TOURS ABR0AD.
Mellon, Davis And Beck Are Among Distinguished Citi-
 zens Now In England
FIFTEEN SENATORS ARE NOW TOURING CONTINENT
John D. Rockefeller, IT,, En- tertained By NotabIeS Of
 British House

LONDON, July 21.--(By Associated Press. .}--Why Americans leave home is being answered this week by two members os President Hardlng's cab. !aet, the solicitor genera! ot the Cnited States, nearly twosco'e Gcited States senator's anG rep7esen tasivas ard a host o: priFs.e citizens who have 0pma 10 this side Of the internati2nJ! pond to ind out about E,:-:. things as .ile League of Nations, rep"ratiors. prohibition, iaho" con Ghi"iia atsG SpriN. Russia.
 The list of distinguished American visitors now i'. I4oaGou or on the con :."eat reads liNe 2 page from the Congressional Directory. At the mo ;ncnt there are tiree intimate CO., workers oy President Harding IF nSlo:i--Sec: :etary of .3.a FGaasary and fishing an3 pa5 ms Il quiet visit t,c Premier Baldwin and other nr- :.ihlss be't4Jes; Seere tary O? l.abo" James ,. Davis, who Is intcstiSating the efOlSrat!on question, and Solic:tor General James VI. Beck, who is de fendillg S1 american government law suit in c. VIE and gown before Great .2!!taia'a gtiFv council.
 Fifteen s~NnforA In Europe.
 Thea there are m Europe t5 sen at0rs. Or about ons-sixth of tse up- pc" house Of Congress, while repre- aeNtetion from the Honse of Repre- sentatives numbers more than a score. Some of these legislative Vis- itors are going to Russia to see how the Russian soviet is faring. Others are bound to Geneva to study the League of Nations. and still others are en route to the Ruhr to see for themselves what all the fuss over separations is about and what the phrase passive resistance" means.
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 Still others are merely junketing to the battlefields or seeking ~fhe cooler climate of the northern coun- tries, while few are journeying to Lausanne and thence to Constanti- nople to convince themselves that the miracle of peace with the Turks at last has been achieved
 John D., Jr., Abroad.
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr, and his family were entertained at tea on the terrace of the House of Commons last Tuesday by T. P. O'Connor, who introduced the party to many of the most prominent parliamentary per sonages, including the speaker of the commons, who showed them over his own official residence. The British legislators expressed pleasure at MT. Rockefeller's benefactions to the Lon don hospitals. Sir Harry Britain on the same day entertained Secretary Mellon at luncheon, and King George dined with Earl and Countess Beatty. The countess is American born, being the daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago.
 London Night Life.
 London, where nearly every one goes to bed fairly early and gets up rather late, has just had it's first eN- perience with a six-day bicycle race. taking longer to decide than one of their cricket matches. which habitual- ly require two or three days. AL though the city has no albright sub way or bus service as does New York, the yawning hours between midnight and dawn during the six-day race always found several hundred and sometimes more than q thousand spectators watching the cyclists twirl around the wooden tracks at the Olympia
 It was in some respects a different kind of crowd from that which in habits Madison Square Garden dur ing the morning hours of the siXdaY grinds, For the most part 1t was composed of people who ride bicycles themselves. One night more than 50O bikes were stored in the checking department at the Olympia, while their owners were inside watching the race. Cycling in London, while not so popular as on the continent is not a forgotten means of transporta- tion. as in the larger American cities. Thousands pedal to work daily, dodg- ing In and out of the crooked streams of traffic that move along the busy streets in the rush hours.
 The Englishman usually takes his sport pretty seriously whether he be an automobile, bicycle, golf or tennis fan, and wants to know all there is to learn about it. so that the crowds at the bicycle races to great ex- tent were not there just to watch the sport, but to get a pointer or two on how to make the bicycle burn up the roads.
 Ameriean Women.
 Neither the British debt to America nor relations relating to which Is the largest ship on the seas or prohibi- tion. were touched at one meeting of Americans here during the last week. The gathering was that of the Amer ican Womcn's club for the purpose of presenting a portrait of himself to Dr. George MacLean, former president of Iowa State university, on his re- tirement as director of the American University union of Europe.
 The meeting was attended by most of the notable Americans living in London. as well as many prominent Engli shmen and women. and was pre- sided over by Sir Charles Wakefield. who presented the portrait, which was painted by Lady Gollaucz. The other speakers included Lady Astor and Lord Charnwood
 Tn his response, Dr. MacLean said Ge Ia, .l-