Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1920, Page 6

Ni 0 Log Cabin in H arding Hi istory, tan invitation hited ‘out wooden lee for She: BuP A FINDS DEMONSTRATION 1 years on the peg leg that) Warren . joa. Baptist “ana and} senator Harding is ecole: But Story of His Life Contains Many Incidents of Interest Now riding | atitomobile riding, Hardings never good roads are. lait is one reason avel on the train Wailable. Most of the combined earth. has wrecked buita. of Yap, according +5 By RAYMOND CLAPPER ings on the island, . a, ‘ . ; 5 ir “advices reaching here, ‘T © (United Press Staff Correspondent) © trips to and fi ington are by ocsae ees : inlsondl to's tauoptte wd Ceci Be dial C =MARION, ©., (By Mail)—If Warren G. Harding, now}Mmoter and alt Uips in Oto are by that k [ottiee: inion fe) wears eat esi, Attins | copulation oF 1500, mes ae ea -Ope' Commercial sident-elect of the United Stat d only been born in/a log | ™¢:2: ; i y together thra| two-button’ sack coat, Harding 79 square vag Great Help t in P; president-elect ie. Unite: es, had only been orn in/a 10g| Harding payed tenniy years ago, but here ig the possibility| arrects anything reat | io Nasper in Fre-~ | cabin—but he wasn’t-and any truthfully intimate story about) retics on qolt for recreation now. Nelth, " senting Plan to the State him must begin with the bald statement that he was born in a or ee Earn omenpsnS Phey ey ond the Baptist church win Board small peas ouse se Blcoming Grove, a village neat “here, of | Serious plage en he mere é 5 ag Paiite’s Gro- ‘ : parents, ather being a struggling coun Harding hag been primarily a news- ; ly, x aad Bes: eninrgy Fe loctor. who /rolled his own pills andj was the first small phat ie in wil paper publisher duty his Bole nae nevi Befintpes Pt is Misiesrainent that u com} ‘club: roughout the state- which are mem- rs of the State Chamber of Com. treated horses as well, Hading says: But the partnership broke up when the telephone was in- : Harding himself shortly after he was| troduced in Marion. Harding, who had 2rce created here last spring, proved nominated for the presidency and the|to get. all the advertising and collect 2st helpful to. Casper this week in incident reveals more about the man|News as well, wanted to puf in a tele. esenting its ease before the state land who is to be the next president of the| Phone to save time. His er said ard in regard to section 16, south of United States than euuld be told in alit was a silly idea, Harding ordered ® city, and it is felt that the advan- book. It illustrates the absence of any|it in anyway and the partner coming ses of co-operation between the citiés “front about Harding gnd his simp'e|back to the office was so angry that he the state haye been demonstrated. |sincerity, one of-the outstanding traits | demanded dissolution of the partnership In a letter to. these various organi-, of the man. and insisted on being put on salary. tions, sent out today, the status of; Just after the Chicago éonvention “I put him on the ‘payroll at $9 a e matter today is. thoroughly ex-|nominated Harding some of his. ever-| Week," Harding said. “‘And he was bet- uined and further co-operation is enthusiastic workers started the story|ter off than I was then.” ged. j that he was born in a log cabin. It But the young puelisher struggled The Casper Chamber of Commerce was getting a good running start when|®!ong; setting up his own type often, ya: newspaper correspondents were called} Writing all the news and soliciting most “Our directors and special commit-, into Harding's office at Washington one | of the advertising. When the Star grew. e have taken the stand that if Cas-| day and given a short typewritten state.!to need a circulation manager, Mrs. ris to\grow and develop ‘as our city, ment signed by the candidate, déhyinz | Harding dropped her housework and took ould, that it. is vitally and absolutely|!" teto the log, cabin story: the job. She went wown to the Star * aaa * office every day, kept the books of all cessary that. we outline and develop I don’t itke to spoil.a ory for sahaoet® " Ilectea Robs ahaa comprehensive city plan. In order to! You boys," Harding said in explana. | SU>seribers, co) paper, hood, although he has carried on poll. ties as a sideline’ most of the time, Identified with the Ohio. Republican ma- chinery since he became a yoter, Hard- ing, however, has ‘hela office only a comparatively short time. “He waa in the state semate from 1899 to 1903, was leutenant governor the next two years, ran for governor ‘but was defeated, and Went to the senate in 1914. He rounds out his first. term as United States gen- ater March 4 next, just as he steps in- to the White House, Harding was a political protege ‘of the late Senator’ Foraker of Ohio and was allied with his faction for man years. But by a strange twist of fate Harding .ran- against Foraker for the senatorial nomination in 1914 and wen ) ending the public career of the famyus t | Ohio boss who had brought bim up in the political world, Harding -has a reputation throughout his big contribution to the present sit- uation shall be an effort to harmonize divergent views and. bring ‘therm “to-— gether off a compromise course which will mot lean (to the extreme éither | io ie Harding has an ability, which he oft- en veveals to those close to him, of, standing back and taking stock of him- self. On these occasions the extreme simplicity of the man stands out, It fs attributed in part to his simple Carly Jife. His earliest sport was diving into the swimming pool at Caledonia where he moved as & small boy. About the time he got into long trousers he learned | to play the cornet and joined the vil-, lage band. Harding turned his. horn'| playing to account in another way, too. | | Mrs. Harding, before she was marrieo,? gave piano lessons to boys «nd girls in They are down to. Rock Bottom. Now is the time to start something. We guarantee quality, price and service, * | rry out that plan, it is necessary that » acquire the entire 600'Ucres remain-; & of section 16. ‘The state board offered a counter oposal, that they would allow us to quire this. land 40 acres at a time, acing additional forty acre tracts on le when éver we could convince them at the land was needed for growth. e take the position that this propo- ston does net meet our needs for hous- &. park and playground development, further, after we had improved rty acres, they could come right «ck @t 08 and ask further exorbitant ices, as they are doing in this case, «king their’ contention “with. the as-) rtion that owing to the fact that the reage then applied for would be abut- 1 improved city property. “If the immense resources of thé afte aré to be developed, we must id ways and means of getting more ople, factories and diversified indus- les, into this great state. In order do this. profiteering must be re- tced to the minimum, so that family en of moderate means may be en- ‘led to -scure homes, and provide a mfortable living for their families. 1e family man who owns his" home, who is’ paying for one on the install- ent plan, is the greatest safeguard r Wyoming against strikes, and the 2ll-known tactics of radical leaders. “Hundreds of working men, and ‘en office men and clerks In Casper © maintaining their families in other aces today, simply because they can- *t get places for them to live. Wi tve made a good présentation of our. se tg the state board, and the matter receiving thelr earnest consideration, it the fight is not yet won. We ntinue to need your co-operation and jpport until this case is finally set- ad PAIL that we ask as guidance for the are. State of Wyoming, especially cluding the honorable board of school nd commissioners, is an unbiased in- rpretation. of. the Golden Rule. We © arranging to have our daily papers aced at your disposal, and any broad- ge publicity that you can cause to » created 4) your! vicinity will be hene- dal te our couse, “Oun cause is just and right: you 1p us and we will help you. Again > thank you for your valued ¢o-opera- om and support.” 0OTBALL AS SPORT NDANGERED BY GAMBLERS. Profesrional gamblers are threatening otball as a high school, college and uversity, game and unless student “dnion strongly asserts itself this smbling element. will kill the gridiron vort. in the opinion of Déan C. M. aompson of the College of Commercs the University (of Dlifols. Dean aompaon declares that students should ‘t, together and ridé the professional anblera out of town on a rail, The me almost invariably holds true of e professional gambler in @most any 1e of. sporting activity. ‘Thus far professionalism has steered sar of the great collegé game of foot- ), although many see ill omens in at- mpts to organize formeér stars into ofessional t /OLBY ARRIVES AT S. A. PORT RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec, 22,—Bain- idge Colby, American secretary of ate, arrived here Tuesday. ati Ubi 8 rca ued el BASIN 0. E. 8. ELECTS. BASIN, Wyo... Dec. 22.—Loulsa hapter O. 2, 8S. has elected the fol- wing officers for the ensuing year: Ile Brigham, W. M.; Charles Van- vender, W. P.; Hope Skovgard, as- stant M.; Nellene Zaring, secretary; sie Atherly, treasurer;' Emma Mc- own, cond.; Mary Béck, assistant) nd. Installation of officers will be ld on the evening of December 27, POCKET COINS DEFLECT LEAD, LIFE IS SVED (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Dee: 22.-Examination f a wound sustained by a sallor andit, who, with three men in army niforms, fought a gun battle last ight with a privaté detective in ‘ont of the home of Cyrus H. McCor- sick, head of the Intefnational Har- ester Conipany, ptoved that his ocketbook containing cight pennies ived lils life. The force of the bul- t was impeded when it struck the enntes and the lead lodged in his ‘ion, “but the truth is I wasn't born ina log cabin at all. I wish I haa been but alas it was only a frame house.” But there is.a good story in Hard: |ing’s spectacular rise anyway. Born in “the-obscurity of a straggling village in central Ohio, exactly fifty-five years ago, Harding, doing business on’a shoe- string most of tl,e time has now reach- }ed the pinnacle to which only 28 othe; |men in the entire history of this. na- | tion have climbed. | * Tt will be difficult for anyone to real ly believe that the man and womian Whose names are on imillions of lips to- day are just plain, ordinary middle Western Americans who have spent their Hves in a small town struggling for a place among the substantial citi- zens of the locality. Nevertheless they are the people nov. eligts seek to describe as the typical Americans,, prosperous in a small way, intelligent and fairly well educatea, though not so well read perhaps, know- ing a little about many commonplace matters, extremely hospitable and+gen erous, severely conventional, regular attendants at church and lodge meet- ings, fond of fried cmcken and of sit- ting in rocking chairs on the front porch afterward. There you have the Hardings. They haven’t changed much with the good fprtune that has recently cowie to-them. It is ‘true that Mrs. Harding used to work in her own kitehen and that mow they have a cook, but her husband still has his clothes darned to make them wear longer, ‘he shaves him- self with an old fashioned razor, his shirt cuffs are turned when they get frayed)jon one side, and Mrs. Harding herself‘ wears a hat clear pep ‘the jon and : for’ she was wea her last hat in October this year. The Hardings live in a big green housé with: a large -white ‘front. porch on Mount Vernon avenue, a quiet shady utreet here. It is a good street but not in the most exclusive section of Marion, if a town of thirty thousand could have an ex¢lasive section. There is nothing fancy about the Harding home, inside or out. It is far | less pretentious than those of most Marion merchants or citizens of similar standing. The Hardings do not “dress for dinner,"”"-nor have tea in the after- noon. Harding likes waffles for break fast and a@ well done teefsteak for din- ner. There’ is refinement at their table, but not ‘style’ and no stranger would ever be embarrassed by a confusing ar- ray of forks and spoons. They live just like. otheF ~ Americans of © moderate means, Mrs. Harding looks after her Potted plants and the senator makes frequent rounds of inspection after breakfast or lunch to see that there are no loose boards on the back yard walk! or to examine the screen door hinges that have been squeaking for sev2rai days, ! One thing every visitor at Marion dis. | covers the first thing—the Hardings are just what they are, as Mrs. Harding puts it. - Harding's closest friends have often expressed regret that the campaign photographs of the candidate showed a rather stern visage. They probably por- tray quite faithfully the features of Harding as he appears in the midst of | an earnest speech. Sut there is an-! other Harding which shows far more warmth sitting around the dinner table while political troubles are left outside for the moment, Then the genial, easy going, good humorea Harding holds sway. Pushing back his chair a little from the table, he will light one of his favorite long rough stogies and look reminiscent, “Warren, why don't you tell ‘them how you got fired from your first news- paper job,” Mra. Harding will say, turn- Ing a twinkling eye on her guests. And Warren, rather reluctantly be- gins by saying: “Oh, they wouldn't be interested in that.” Then he tells about his first job as a reporter on the old Marion Mirror, a sealously Democratic paper. Harding, just 18, wrote up births, marriages, deaths, met all trains, and did politics on the side. His boss, busy in pole tics, was out.of town a good deal and let Warren write the editorials warning him that they must be fervently Demo- cratic in tone. . fn “You know some of the best editorials I ever wrote were for that Democrctic paper,” Harding says. But all the while he was an active Republican worker, though not old enough to yote. He wore one of the larg¢é Blaine campaign hats adopted by Republicin partisans during that campaign. He got away with it for a while, put local Demo- crats began to complain to Hardims's boss about Kim allowing & Republican to get out his paper. Then ing made his firat political decision. Tt was either discard the Blaine hat or be fired. | He was fired. “IT have been a strong party. man ever since,” Harding adds. Then you max hear Harding tell how he and a boy chum between them bor- | rowed $300 and bought the Marion Star er straw : hired the carriers and supervised the distribution of the paper from the time it came out of the press. “In those. days I knew every sub: scriber of the Star and I knew just how much he owed on his paper bil!,”’ Mrs, Harding said one day. She also had her troubles with the newsboys, One day a youngster ran a small elec- tric wire around the press to the rack where Mrs. Harding pulled out the pa- pers. » “When she put her hand down to tale out a bunch, she touched the live wire and got a shock. She started on the trail of the offena- ing youngster who had given her trou- ble before end, having obtained hia mother’s proxy after an altercation some weeks before, promptly collated the young man and turned him over her knee and spanked him. A few Sun- days ago fifty former newsboys of the Star, all now prosperous young men| scattered in many cites, came to Mar- fon. They were gathered on the front porch with: Sehator and Mrs. Harding. “Where is the boy Mrs. Harding spanked?” Senator Harding asked. Five hands went up in the crowd. That is Mrs. Harding's way. She is frank, outspoken, and thé most invet- erate campaigner of the two. She ap- pears to really enjoy shaking hands during a political affair and around her home here she is out from early morn- ing until after dark greeting visitors. Her good humored manner has made a hit with political audiences thruout the campaign. When Harding ‘went to the senate, Mrs. Harding set-up a home in Wash ington, but to the consternation o| many of the ladies of the senate, she continued. to invite her old friends in regardless of their social standing® in the’ ‘senatorial circle.” If she runs true to form, anyone in Marton prob- the couptry as peing a second. McKin_ ley. He himself has often said heesaw little resemblance, yet close friends of both see a parallel in their tariff views and in their willingness ‘to be guided by advice, and in some or their manne*- isms. Both have grave countenancrs jand probably #0 one ever slapped either on the back, Under the Harding administration, it jis likely that the “great man” theory of the president which has prevailed stnce Roosevelt's dominating personal- ity reigned at the White House, will dis- appear at least for the time. Those closest to Harding say he does not consider himself a. powerful domi- nating figure in the sense that Presi- dent Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt, felt themselves. Hin big task in the next four years, *as he is said to see it, is that of harmonizing the best brains of the country and focusing them on na- tional problems. He feels deeply, his friends say, that there is a Sreat crisis in world affeirs which will continue un- | til the league of nations question is settled. In that crisis, Harding ex- pects to use the best minds of the country, as he puts it,-in an effort to work out a solution which the entire nation will approve. He does not step into the presidency with the {intention of making his will prevail in the na- tion’s affairs beyond a certain point. His conception of the presidency is the reverse of President Wilson's, accora- ing to those who know. him best. Hard- ing believes that the office is largél: ing often brought his cornet over and | Harding at the piano. ;no pets around the Harding” house at {band’s love of animals. Marion. During their courtship Hard- played duets, with ehe future Mrs. They have no children and there are | ‘Natrona Lumber 251 North Beech Street present. Both are fond of dogs and kept a big collie for years, hut one day it mysteriously took ill and died. Since then they have had no dog. Mrs. Hard: ing tells several stories about her ‘hus- Wheh War- ren was 4 small boy he had a little pug nosed pup that one day got in the way of a stree} car and lost a hind leg, Harding would not permit the animal to be killed and carried him.over to bis father’s office. Doctor Harding finally yielded to the pleas of his boy 4nd sewed up the stump of the dog's leg. Renews Strength! Where there is need for a build- ” Phone 528 It’s Up to YOU ae Ai ‘Pusan friend may get you a ind job, but it’t up to YOU to héld it down. You may receive a good income, but it’s up to YOU to salt it down. é ing-up tenic al H prostrating iinées, i SCOTT'S EMULSION taken regularly, usuall spells renewed streng consider it’s up to us to give you the best . 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