Ex-Premier's Progress

The past week saw ex-Premier George, his wife and daughter at Marion, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washington, Richmond.

Marion. Mr. George laid a wreath on the tomb of President Harding and afterwards called on Mrs. Harding. Speaking from the platform of his train, he said: " I came to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of one who in his public life became beloved to the people of this country and the world."

Cleveland. In a speech at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon Mr. George thanked Newton D. Baker, former Mayor of Cleveland and former Secretary of War, for his speech of goodwill, in which he urged American cooperation in Europe. Mr. George also thanked him for his cooperation during the War. The rest of his speech was spent in back- ing Mr. Baker's plea.

After lunch he laid the cornerstone of Cleveland's new public library, which function President Harding was to have undertaken had he lived. Noticing the intertwined Star Spangled Banners and Union Jacks, Mr. George said to a crowd estimated at 25,000: " As long as these two flags wave together I have confidence in the future of this old world."

Mr. George also received a long telegram from William Joseph Simmons, Emperor of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, who said he was working for Anglo-Saxon unity.

Pittsburgh. Despite rain Mr. George had an enthusiastic welcome from Pittsburghians. His inevitable speech was based on his visions of the last war and the one which he declared is coming. Taking his cue from Camille Desmoulins, "the journalist of the French Revolution," who, when hundreds of people were being guillotined, suggested one committee of mercy among the innumerable committee for this and that, Mr. George remarked: " Oh, for God's sake, let us have a committee of mercy in the world to put an end to war and slaughter, its folly, its terrors, and the despair which is simply clouding the firmament of God's sky."

Washington. Here Mr. George talked to President Coolidge, ex-President Wilson, Secretary of State Hughes, Chief Justice Taft, Secretary of Treasury Mellon and a host more people, among whom William Jennings Bryan, who entertained at breakfast. All the conversations were said to have been informal. To reporters Mr. George expressed himself hopeful of the European situation since the Allies had accepted the U. S. offer of mediation on the capacity of Germany to pay reparations, but later waxed sceptical.

Richmond, Va. From here Mr. George and party visited the scenes of the Civil War. The ex-Premier admitted to Judge John T. Goolrick, Confederate veteran, that Marshal Foch, of all the generals in the War, was " the closest to Lee."