REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1923. 19 



MEETINGS, CONGRESSES, AND RECEPTIONS. 



The auditorium and the adjoining committee rooms were as usual 

 frequently utilized during the year for official purposes of the 

 Government and for lectures, meetings and other public gatherings 

 having objects akin to those of the Institution. 



The second annual meeting of the Business Organization of the 

 Government held in the auditorium on July 11, 1922, under the 

 auspices of the Bureau of the Budget enabled the President of the 

 United States to meet with the members of his cabinet and the 

 executives of all the government departments and independent 

 establishments in the interest of better business methods for the 

 Government. President Harding reviewed in a general way what 

 had been done during the preceding year in effecting governmental 

 economies through the instrumentalities of the Bureau of the 

 Budget cooperating with the executive offices of the departments 

 and independent establishments, and Gen. H. M. Lord, Director 

 of the Bureau, described in detail just what had been accomplished 

 by the Budget Bureau. 



On two additional occasions, February 23, and April 27, the 

 Treasury Department, through the Public Health Service, made use 

 of the auditorium for motion pictures along the line of its work, 

 on the latter date for the benefit of public school officials. 



The Secretary of War arranged for a conference of Chaplains of 

 the Army in the Museum hall on June 6 and 7. On calling into active 

 service a group of chaplains of the Officers' Reserve Corps and 

 National Guard he invited a number of religious experts to meet 

 with them, to devise ways for magnifying the place of religion in 

 the Army, to consider plans for a more intensive program of moral 

 training for soldiers, to develop community contacts, and to recom- 

 mend those activities which would strengthen the religious program 

 for regular army posts and stations and which would safeguard the 

 young men entering the various summer training camps. This was 

 an assemblage of representative citizens of Eoman Catholic, Protes- 

 tant, and Jewish faiths convened to make a non-partizan, non-sec- 

 tarian study of these matters. 



The annual commencement of the Army Medical School was held 

 in the auditorium, as customary, on the afternoon of .Tune 8, and 

 Avas a brilliant affair. 



The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor in January 

 held a three-day conference of women interested in the problems of 

 wage-earning women in industry, attended by delegates from 

 women's organizations from nearly every State in the Union. 



The meeting facilities were used by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture on October 30 for a conference called by the Federal Horticul- 



