The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO Be Se Bee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘ HARDING CARRIED INFINITE = PATIENCE WITH HIM TO TASK OF GUIDING GREATEST NATION Arms Limitation Conference Stands Out As One of Greatest | Achievements of the Administration of President, . Elected to Office in 1920—Came of Hard Pioneer i Stock and Went From Ranks of Newspaper Publisher to President MILESTONES IN HARDING’S LIFE Nov, 2, 1 Born on farm near Corsica, Morrow County, Ohio. 18 luated from Ohio Central Coilege of Iberia, Ohio. 1584. Became owner and editor of the Marion (Ohio) Star, daily i newspaper, 1891. Married Miss Florence Elizabeth Kling of Marion. | 1899. F “1 state senator, | 1901, Re-elected state senator, 1/03, Klected lieutenant-governor of Ohio. 1910. Republican nominee for governor of Ohio; defeated. 1913, Made nominating speech for William Howard Taft at Chicago convention, 1914, Elected U. $, senator from Ohio. 1916. Temporary chairman Republican national convention at Chicago. June 1920, Nominated by Republicans as candidate for president. Nov. 2, 1920, Elected president of the United States. March 4, 1921. Took office as the 29th president of the United States. Warren G. Harding brought to the presidency an infinite patience and kindness in dealing with public questions and men, which enabled him to handle the problems of government without the stress and worry which had handicapped many of his predecessors. Whatever else historians may say of him there probably will be little dispute that few chief executives came to office in peace time facing problems more complex in their nature or greater in number. | All international affairs were unbalanced as never before, with many | principal settlements of the Great War still to be effectuated. At home the work of reconstruction had only just begun, with business de- pressed, agriculture prostrate and unemployment general. How Mr, Harding measured up to ,———~—— TT. the task before him must be left to | Iberia, Ohio. He tried school teach- the historian, but his friends said | ing for a year but having had a smell that coming to the presidency as he} of printers ink while sticking type did with an open mind, a desire for |for his college paper the lure drew counsel and &n intimate knowledge | him into the newspaper field. of the processes of government ac- quired in his services in the senate, he'was the type of man needed for the job at such a time, Preaching upon every occasion the doctrine of Americanism, he set his face reso- lutely against “entangling alliances.” While thus adhering to what he was pleased to term the principles of the founding fathers, he nevertheless lent the moral assistance of the gov- erament in the efforts to bind up the wounds of the world, Called Arms Conference, The influence was once declared by him to be not inconsiderable, and so America under his guidance had a part silent though it was in the main, in effecting the settlements of many vexing world questions. Its chief contribution was the Washington arms conference at which the prin- cipal powers covenanted to limit the * sizes of their navies and thus lift from tax-weary peoples the burden of maintaining the race for naval supremacy. Along with the proffer of counsel inzeffeecting world settlement went an insistence that American rights be recognized. In polished phrase, but with a directness of expression that was not to be misconstrued, the world was given to understand from the very first of the Harding admin- istration that the United States, free- ly respecting the rights of the other nations, asked for herself only that to which she was entitled in simple justice, and that she could accepts nothing less, While in his dealings with Con- gress, Mr. Harding preferred the role of counsellor rather than dictator, he speedily removed any doubt that his gift of patience denoted any lack of purpose once he had charted a course. Thus he told Congress that soldiers bonus legislation either should carry the means of financing or be post- Poned,, and when the legislators put aside his advice he promptly vetoed the bill they sent him. Tenacity of Purpose, His tenacity of purpose was fur- ther exemplified in his continual Pounding for economy in public ex- Ppenditures and again in his insist- enco that Congress pass the mer- chant marine aid bill with a view to curtailing the continual drain which the operation of the war-built com- mercial fleet had become upon the Treasui His greatest single effort ifvtise “fieldeof domestic legislation was in behalf of this measure, ~ Not infrequently, Mr. Harding was called upon to play the role of peace- maker in government affairs, He in- tervened in a ite between Con- gress and the Treasury as to the form general tax revision was to take and the program he approved was Garried out in the main with a re- duction of more than half a billion in the nation’s tax burden, Likewise, his counsel settled the long controversy between the House and the Senate on the question of American valuation in the tariff law. He proposed in its place a flexible tariff ‘arrangement under which the tariff commission was given author- ity with his approval to inerease or lower rates within prescribed limita- tions; Upon signing the bill, the President declared it conatituteg the greatest tariff reform in American History. ‘ Born in Ohio. Mr. Harding came of hardy pio- > heer stock. He was born at Bloom- ing Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, No- vember 2, 1865, the-son of a country doctor George T. Harding. Like most country boys he went to s equntry school between morning and night _Hhores and later attended college at [unites States ‘nations of the world to a friendlier understanding of a workable world leagu e, - I believe ‘the people want an ordinary man as president, rf e and the ways of such. if Ago A and Roosevelt are the three greatest men in Mittle tired “ot WHAT HE SAID QF HIS WORK Se nes Gale Py (From Harding’s speeches the presidential campaign.) | My whole Job fl *! first, to get the | ly le ry neevidart 3 ph 13 rst, to get the people of the ¢ His family meantime, had moved to Marion, in an adjoining county, where he obtained his first newspaper job, und where his first life interests were centered thereafter. Mr. Hard- ing’s ambition was to become a pub- lisher, and it was realized at the age of 19, when he bid in the ,Marion Star at a sheriff’s sale. The paper was purchased under a heavy mort- gage and his friends have often said that the struggles and hardships which were his in making this paper a success had much to do in fash- ioning his character and developing a broad patience and tolerance which were his chief characteristics, Whatever his other attainments, Mr, Harding's greatest pride was in his professional accomplishments and training as printer, editor and pub- lisher. Nor did the interests and exacting duties of his high office serve to dull his delight in pottering about a composing room. On his first trip back home after his inaugura- tion he went to the Star office, pulled off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, Porrowed a chew of tobacco and help- ed “make up” the paper, His luck charm, wag a printer’s rule, carried always in a vest pocket, Went Into Politics. As his ambition hag carried him into the ranks of publishers, so his fancy took him into the realm of politics, From the first he was an ardent partisan and his insistence upon wearing a “stove pipe” hat, the badge of support of James G. Blaine, while a reporter on a Democratic newspaper, brought him a sharp rep- rimand from his chief, who held it to be inconsistent for a worker of a Democratic paper to so prominently display the symbol of his Republican- ism, The future president's ability as a stump speaker won him early rec- ognition fro mhis local party leaders. Marion county then was in the Demo- cratic column and -he undertook to switch it to the Republican party, but his first effort at office on his party ticket resulted in a defeat, though he commanded an unexpected vote. Mr, Harding's first political of- fice was that of Ohio state senator, to which he was elected at the age of thirty-four. He served two terms and later was elected lieutenant gov- ernor of his state. In 1910 he sought the governorship but was defeated, , Elected President. 0 In 1914 he was elected to the Unit- ed States senate, where he serveg six years, much of the time as a mem- ber of the important foreign rela- tions committee. From this place he was clevated to the presidency, the first senator to be elected chief ex- ecutive, Early in his years of political service he met WilliameMcKinley to | whom his close friends have most | often likened him, and with whom he had in common a predominant | passion for obliteration of class and | sectional lines. A friendship sprang | up between the two men. Mr. Hard- | ing also was close in later years to Theodore Roosevelt, Senators Fora- ker and Penrose ang others high in his party counsels, _ The President was a lifelong Bap- tist, and was a trustee of his home church in Marion. He also had been a ber of the Elk and Moose fra- | ternities for years and after his clec- | tion as president he became a thirty- second degree Mason and a Shriner. Golf was his favorite recreation, but he also liked to fish, although his opportunities to'that sport were lim- ited after he came to the White House, He played hard and possess- ed, the faculty of putting all his worrigs behind him during his recre- ation grours nding, and then to get the at BS @ BO game, sound ways of Bie Sela w. Hoover on Alaskan trip with Presi+ ,uent Harding, sa born in Marion, 0., Aug. 15, 1860, banker’ and successful business man’ of Marion. ly Mis: Mi her marriage | f however, married him in: 1891. It was‘wiany years before Amos .Kling __ NATION'S CHIEF MOURNER The Nation’s Chief Mourner, Mrs. Warren G. Harding — One of the best photographs ever taken of the wife and constant companion of the late President. SE aS Oa ea Meee § 4 ‘ CALVIN COOLIDGE A close-up of the new President. ‘ ce ’ : ¥ THE HARDING BURIAL PLOT at ‘Marion ‘cemetery, rion, O., where’ President Harding’s mother and his sister, Mary Man ca buried. f WERBERT GC. HOOVER =, se : Secretary of Commerce Hefbert Mrs, Harding in those days adopt- ed the motto to whieh. she has, beld | Harding took-charge of the business ever since: Seite * Pgnagomont of her husband’s “To be successful, a man must be’ the Marion Star, it will fed afd well groomed.” | Soan after they were married, Mi HOW HARDING RAN HIS PAPER a a eee RIE SET ‘ (Rules issued by Harding to Marlon Star employes, “Remember, there Py. two sides to every question, Get lit both, Mistekes sro inerltenle tae sitiyeler soviirach>} 1: wopha veate 3. 5 rive for icy. I wi y r have one-story exactly it th hundred halt wi Cee Be decent, he talty be keueroUR ST dis ip Boost—flon't knock. * va good in everybody. B ‘out’ the good and never need- stg int bly erted, never | ign: J or Blin Lllng pf th lsdocde ti F Mrs. Florence Kling Harding was Her father was Amos H. Kling, Hen mother was former- Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the United States, was born in Ply- j mouth Village, Vt., July 4, 1872, He came from a long line of Yan- j kee ancestors, who had’ engaged prin- cipally in farming. His father was | John C, Coolidge and his mother Vic- toria Moor Coolidge. * = John Calvin Coolidge (as he was christened) attended the public schools: of the village, and then went to Amherst College: In his. college days Coolidge” was known to his fellow students prin- cipally for prolonged silences and his scholastic ability. He was a raw country lad, with his trousers tucked into his boot tops and the marks of rural. Vermont still plainly on him. In these days, Coolidge the “John” from’his name. He was graduated from Amherst in 1895 with an A. B. degree and high- est honors. He then studied law in the offices of Hammond and Field, Northamp- ton, Mass., was admitted to the bar within 20 months and entered the practice of law in his own office. Gets First Office Coolidge’s entry into politics came when the county clerk died. He was appointed to serve the balance of the term. When this expired, the Republicans wished to nominate him for the office, but Coolidge re- fused, In 1899 he was elected a member of the city council and for the fol- Jowing two years was city solicitor. He then returned to the practice of law. / Coolidge married Miss Grace Good- hue of Burlington, Vt., Oct. 4, 1905. Miss Goodhue was then a teacher in the deaf and dumb school at North- ampton. Coolidge’s upward climb in the po- litical world ‘was steady and certain, dropped Bismarck received the news of the death of President Harding with amazement, Today flags hung at half-mast and the city joined with the nation in paying silent respect to the memory of its chief executive. offices in the city expected to receive word to the funeral services, The shrill cries of newsboys last night shouting the Tribune extra brought many people who had retired for the night to their doors. to read of the unexpected death of the reported much improved and on the way to recovery. force was beseiged with telephone calls ear details of the tragic end, Passengers on trans-tontinental trains pass- ing through Bismarck eagerly sought the newspaper extrag and ex- pressed deepest interest in the news from San Francisco. 2 ‘The first news of the President's death in San Francisco was received in Bismarck by radio, just a few min- utes after it happened. Some of the calls were direct from San Francisco and others were relayed through Kansas City. Among those who heard the news by the new method of com- munication were Arthur Bauer and 0. E, Anderson, who immediately- notified The Tribune, and Clar- ence Larson and:/dohn Larson Jr. The radio broadcasting stations im- mediately closed. Tension Heightened Almost immediately after the radio flash the telegraph and telephone was bringing to The Tribune the flash and the details. of the Pres- ident’s death, remarkable speed being made by the Associated Press in de- livering the accurate and detailed story. Great concern had been felt heretwo days ago over the illness of the Pres- ident, but with more encouraging re- ports showing he had ¢onquered one phase of his battle with illness the tension lessened. The fact that his], Physicians had believed him-on the way to recovery heightened the ten- sion. 4 Bismarck had anticipated a. visit from President Harding when his Alaskan trip was first. proposed. He had never been in North Dakota, it is ‘believed. The original ‘plans for his trip _cal for him to come through the Northwest, either over the North- ern Pacific or Great Northern rail- roads, but later .the plans were changed and ho made his way west- &re | 1360,” was ward through St. Louis, Kansas City, Denvor, Salt Lake ‘City, thence to Butte, Montana; artd te Seattle, where he embarked for Alaska: : What Supcrstitious it Not since the death of President William McKinley, President from 1897 to 1901, has a Presidort died in office, although Woodrow Wilson was stricken seriously ill. A fow days ago E. J. Taylor of ‘this city remarked that the superstitious had believed that President Harding would die in office, because since 1840 the Pres- ident elected each twenty years thereafter had .died’in office. Pres- ident Abraham Lincoln, elected in assassinated; President field, id in 1880 and William McKinley elected 900, both were, victims of a: ins, President Harding was elected in No- vember, 1920, - the Secretary of :State shall act ai Preident until the disability of the resident, or, Vice-President is “re- moved: or a President is elected. The: rest. of the order of Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary | of War, Attorney-Genera}, Postmas- Per i eal) eet uae Secretary ie lor, Secret Agricuiture and. Seeretary’ of . Com- ting President, in case Ae‘not- in session, must call a special session, giving! twenty da: ' FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923 » LIFE STORY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE, VICE-PRESIDENT, WHO SUCCEEDS TO PRESIDENCY OF UNITED STATES owing to his sure decision and. the mastery his quiet manner exerte1! over men. He held various offices, | including the mayorship of North- ampton. In 1911, he was elected state senator. Here he remained four years, holding the position of Senate president during the latter wo, In 1915, Coolidge was elected licu- tenant governor, an office which he held until he was chosen governor in 1918. Wins on Strike Issue He ran for re-election as governor in 1919, on a platform of perform- ance, including reduction of work- ing hours for women and minors, inerease in the compensation law allowance, anti-high cost of living legislation, and a provision of $20,- 000,000 for compensation for World War veterans. : His opponent, Richard H. Long, made the issue the Boston police strike of 1919 by promising to re- store the ‘strikers to duty and to oust the police commissioner. “So be it,” said Coolidge. “Our case shall be law and order.” On this platform Coolidge polled a ma- jority of 130,000 votes. His firm handling of the strike situation, which brought it to a rapid conclu- sion, made him nationally famous. Coolidge was nominated for the vice presidency of the United States at the 1920 Republican national con- vention, and was elected to the office NEW FIRST LADY MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGR Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, who becomes mistress of the White House. jhe still lived with his family in the NEWS OF PRESIDENT HARDING'S - SUDDEN DEATH IS RECEIVED IN BISMARCK, MANDAN WITH AMAZEMENT Flags Hung at Half-Mast in Respect to Memory of Nation’s Fallen Leader, and Federal Offices Probably Will Close During the Funeral] — Telegraph and Radio Quickly Bring News to City at the Nov. 2 elections. Coolidge throughout hig carcer maintained the simple habits which he formed in his early lawyer days. When elected to the vice presidency half of the two-story frame building where he had taken his bride in 1905, His rent was $32 a month. The Coolidges have two sons, John and Calvin, Jr., hoeth still in- their teens, OO Mrs, Warren G, Harding, a picture taken last winter, her husband, ang in her’ two boys, John and’ Calvin, junior, both MW in their ’teens. She holds a member- ship.in the Red Cross, but is not a member of any other society or club. Federal close during the day of President, who yesterday had ‘been The Tribune today for additional WEST COAST 3 [ Mrs. Coolidge - Dance in Progress Is Stopped CONDENSED When Rumors Fly About LIFE STORY OF HARDING San Francisco. Aug. 3.—The news of President Harding's death swept through his hotel and out of San Francisco with almost clectrical jsud- denness... Hotel officials, among the first of Whom news of the tragicje: event was given, immediately had the’ great blue presidential flag with its gold seal of the United States, hau!- small farm. His mother was for- |¢4 down and then raised agaix to merly Miss Phebe Elizabeth Dick- | half staff. ‘ j A minute or two later an assist- Warren Gamaliel Harding was born near the village of Corsica, 0., Nov. 2, 1865. His father, Dr. G. T. Harding, was a country physician who add- ed to his income by conducting a erson, : | manage? rushed into the Rose Warren, the eldest of eight | ®™ I , ni Bowlroom where a dinner dance was sera apicendaa c Seet Wueee. is progteas, calaetie head and erent school, and in his fourteenth year entered the Ohio Central college, in Iberia, 0, He graduated with a B. S. degree in 1882, taught school for a year, read law for another year and then was given the ownership of tne Marion (Ohio) Star, by his father. Ran a Newspaper. _ Harding conducted the newspa- per for some time against great financial odds, but finally was forced to sel! He took a job as reporter on the Marion Mir- ror, but political differences, with, the owner, resulted in his leav- ing shortly. He again became owner of the ped the orchestra playing. Announce- ment of the death of the executive followed, and the dancers, their gay dress a sad contrast to their ex- pressions of gravity, gathered into little groups, obtained their wraps and departed. The news passed from lip to lip. Some guests, more curious than the ends of corridors leading: to the Presidential room and stared down preidential room and, tared down the ‘hallway ate’ sereens which shut of views to the suites where the twenty-ninth presid@nt of the United States lay, silent in death, “ Cabinet officers, headed by Seecre- Star and, with the assistance of | tary Hoover of the commerce depart- his wife, formerly Miss Florence | ment, hastened up and down the hall, Elizabeth Kling, whom he mar- | to ‘express . their condoleneca Hed ae 1Q01, mace Bighly, $46: 1 to. | Mrs. . Harding: sor’, hurrying cessful. back for hasty conferences among Harding first held public office ‘i ” oom when te became aE Buiiaealron or with other government senator. He held this office un- 5 E tit 1004 when he took ofice ss |p Heutenant Commander Joel T. lieutenant governor of Ohio. In ner dasibtant. “physician tp fhe president, hurried up from dewn- ernor but f Fri Ue TAR ACE ROUSE ARE PAL WAS Vo cciss, wheres newspaperman had aE isle tind Harding rose | found him in response to.Mrs. Hard- rapidly in the. councils of the | ines frantic appeals. i G, P., and made the speech —— é io hcutea an Gace ox a PROSTRATED vention in 1912, Marion, 0., Aug. 3.—Dr. George T../ Senator-President, ~_ In 1914-Harding was'elected U. Harding, aged father of the president almost prostrated at the death of 8. senator from Ohio and was “femporary chairman of the Re- publican convention in 1916. He remained in the Senate un- til he was nominated for presi- | his son. Just 2s soon as'the news dent on the Republican ticket in. | of the president's death reached here 1920. He ‘was elected the 29th |a messenger went to the home of » president of the United States | president’s father. Dr. Harding had just ‘retired for the night and was only awakéned after several minutes. ¥ Abigail Harding and Mrs. Carrie Votaw, sisters of the presi-- Nov, 2, 1920, on his ‘6th birth- >. 4 dent, who have been traveling in the day, ang took office March 4, 1921, east, were located in Washington by Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, son of Brig. Ge eral Charles E, Sawys:, personal phy- -sician ‘of the Presifent, , «-. Mrs, Grace Goodhue Coolidge was born in Burlington, Vt. She attend- edthe public’ schools there, and later entered the University of Vermont. Mii joodhue met ‘Cool! during the winter of 1902-03, while she wa: teaching in the deaf and'dumb school in:Northampton, Mass, Coolidge was pee just starting in the practice of law. * Mrs, Coolidge’s interest has been almost exclusively inher home, inj ( ‘ mite tot NEWS SHOCKS: