Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-28
NATION s BUSINESS
To Be HAL TED FOR
WALLACE FUNERAL.
Services to Be Held in White
House Monday-PreSi-
cent to Attend

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The ma
tons business will halt four hours
Monday, while the capital pays Off
cial tribute to the late secretary OF
agriculture, Henry C. Wallace, who
died Saturday.
Funeral services will be held in
the east room of the White House
at IL O'Clock Government offices
have been closed by proclamation
between and /.
President and Mrs. Coolidge, mem
bers of the cabinet, high officers OF
the army and navy, the diplomatic
corps, officials of the department OF
agriculture and relatives and friends
of the Wallace family will be pres
ent at the service. which will be
conducted by DR.. Wallace Radcliffe,
pastor of the church Mr.. Wallace at
tended here.
The ceremonies will be simple, COLI
sisting of the singing of two psalms
and the reading of short sermon.
After they are concluded, all en-
ployes of the department Of agricul-
ture will be admitted to the east
room to pass by the body.
Funeral at Des MOines
At 8 o'clock Monday afternoon the
funeral party will leave here for Des
Moines, la, residence of the late sec
i. rotary, where the body will be in
tered at private service.
The cabinet will secort it to the
station, and Secretary of the Inte-
rior Work will accompany the party
to Des Moines as the official repre-
sentative of the president.
Included in the party will be Mrs
Wallace and daughter Ruth, who
were here when Mr. Wallace died,
and three sons and one other daugh-
ter, who were rushing to the capt.
tai when word reached them that
their father was dead.
All flags on government buildings
will be half masted until after the
funeral ceremonies at Des Moines.
Administration of the affairs Of
the agriculture department has for
the time being been placed by the
president in the hands of DR.. Charles
F. Marvin, director of the United
States weather bureau in the absence
OF Assistant Secretary Howard M.
Gore.
Mr.. Wallace is the first cabinet Of
ficer to die in office since the Geath
of Henry Payne, postmaster general
: during the first Roosevelt admins
tration.
In the hospital comforting Mrs.
Wallace and her daughter through
out the day was Mrs. Weeks, wife
of the secretary of war, and James
c. Davis, director of the railroad
administration, and Mrs. Davis, close
friends of the family
AS soon as Mrs. Wallace return
!. ed to her home from the hospital,
President and Mrs. Coolidge called
upon her to offer their condolences.
COOlidge's Condolences
Later, in a letter to Mrs. Wallace,
the president said,
II am writing to you of the
shock and of the great sorrow that
has come to Mrs. Coolidge and my
self with the news of your distin.
guished husbands death. Though we
had followed with much solicitIde
the reports from the beginning of
his illness, it had not seemed pos
sible, until very near the end, that
this great loss could come to the
country.
II do not need to tell you that all
of us who had been associated SO
long with him share with you in the
sorrow which this hour has brought.
His loss will be indeed grief to the
entire nation, for his fine qualities
and able, untiring services had en-
deared him to all the people. Com
ing from private life to the post of
secretary of agriculture at a time
in which its administration was
surrounded by acute and unprece-
dented difficulties, he brought
particularly effective equipment of
wisdom, industry and executive
capacity. Through their unsparing
application he achieved a splendid
series of successes in behalf of the
restoration and rehabilitation of this
supremely important national inter
est. His work has won for him the
unstinted confidence of all citizens
as his high character and appeal
ing personal qualities gained for
him the affection of all who enjoyed
the privilege of intimacy with him.
Among the expressions of regret
over Mr.. Wallace's death was
statement by Secretary Weeks,
which said:
1T has been my privilege to have
enjoyed a close personal friendship
with Secretary Wallace during the
Harding and Coolidge administra-
tons. In addition to CUR service to-
gGther in the cabinet, we were mem
bers of the federal power commits
sion. This commission met frequent
'ly and our duties in Conncctioh-with
this activity brought us into most
Intimate relationship. Mr.. Wallace
was a man of hiSh character and
ability. 1 shall mourn him as a good
friend and an able public servant"
ITO you and the others of his
Family l extend for Mrs. Coolidge
and myself the profoundest of con-
iolences. We want you to know
that we share with you alike in
your sorrow and in the pride that
must be yours as you contemplate
the splendid legacy that his great
career has left to YOU and to all