The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star | Main mat A Typical American Warren Gamaliel Harding will probably go down in the ) pages of history as a typical American than whom no i fonder ideal could be found in a story book The steps by which he rose to the first position in the land are the steps by which Americans love to have their heroes mount upward. Poor farmer boy, laborer, printer, Struggling and conscientious young editor, promoter of his home town's interests, builder of a modest fortune, Tnited States senator, president. What more cherished path could any American have taken from humble ob- keurity to the highest position in the land? The wonderful thing about Warren Harding, the printer and the president, was his attitude toward his fel- lowmen. No man ever felt more kindly and generous to- Ward his neighbors. No man ever strove harder to prac- tice the Golden Rule, in which he devoutly believed. No Map ever stood more loyally by his friends in their times of trial and trouble. No man ever counted less the cost Of this loyalty to himself. One incident of Mr. Harding's life illustrates his feel- ing for his fellow workers. It was back in the days of the Marion Star, which the young printer had taken as @ struggling paper, hopelessly in debt. He and Mrs. Harding worked day and night making the Star, It suc- ceeded, journalistically and financially, The first thing Editor Harding did, when the paper was out of debt, was t0 divide a big block of minority stock among his work- ers ON such terms that the stock could pay for itseif. He Wanted the Star staff his partne: not his employes. ferhaps his conscience and his devotion to duty were the Pauses of President Harding’s premature death. In his | Struggling days, Warren Harding formed the habit of Working without looking at the clock. Not infrequently, he ¢arried this to the extreme of laboring without thought | as to his health. He had to do that when he was young. “It was the only way out and the American thing to do. F Later, as president, he worked as no other man in Washington worked, because of the enormity of his task. "He was as sensitive as a child to public comment, and he Wanted the nation to feel that he was doing his level best, » even if that meant working himself to death. That is what President Harding did. In that sense, he is a martyr to the responsibilities his people imposed upon “him. He probably knew what he was doing, He had | Seen at least o2¢ other president crushed by the responsi- bilities of the White House. This martyrdom of the 3 idents will give the American nation something to a ior seriously * Perhaps the sweetest thing in President Harding’s life fy) Was his genuine modesty. He was just a plain and sim- m ple citizen. Elevated by his fellow men and women, | Against his wishes, to the highest pedestal in the land, he | Tealized his limitations, always. He mentioned them Often, in his talks at the White House. Sincerely he never Pretended to be a great man. He was just a simple citi- ' gen, doing his best under difficulties, and therein lies his _ greatness. Our guess ts a presidential possibility seldom gets elected. | What jumps out of reach quicker than a promising future? Many of our frate husband readers will enjoy learning a beauty doctor fs in trouble. They keep that schoolgirl complexion at the drug store, A pessimist is an optimist in reverse. The Presidency a Crushing Load However bitterly political partisanship may rage, it Speaks well for the heart of America that at the first Sign of danger to the man who occupies the highest place in the people’s gift, sympathy is the one and only senti- Ment that is generally expressed. The presidential office imposes a tremendous burden On its occupant. Only those who are in a position to have an intimate view know how great the burden is and how great a sacrifice must be made by the man who is ele- yated to the exalted post. The public hears a lot about the diversions of its presi- dent—his golf, horseback riding, etc., and but little of the hours of grinding work. . The fact is that in these later years, the presidential duties have so piled up that the job is too big for any one man, however strong he may be physically and mentally. d The terrific strain to which a president is constantly subjected is bound to lessen his powers of resistance to Meet such a crisis as President Harding faced President Harding took up his arduous task better equipped physically and temperamentally than most men of his age to withstand the crushing load. Yet it broke 4 down his reserve of strength and energy. Dr. Hrdlicka, of the United States museum, is a pigment expert and not a hard licker doctorer at all. A Nicaraguan editor shot four times will recover. Editors grow accus- tomed to anything. By some queer twist of our language, Kansas people make moonshine from sunflower seeds. Dr. Hrdlicka says red heads are becoming scarce. are not searce enough. Others say they Hair nets Jast much longer if worn with perfect gentlemen. Civilization’s Advance “Criqui’s poor, twisted face was smeared with blood "that had gushed from his nose and mouth thruout the latter part of the fight. The black star of his white trunks, = badge of mourning for his brother boxers who fell for France, was a red smear from the bloody gloves that dangled weakly at his side.” Thus one writer graphically described Criqui prize fight. Always they have told us that civilization’s advance is ) largely dependent on the letting of blood, and it may be ; e. the Dundee- An Orangefield, Texas, man who tried to put out a fire with a bucket of gasoline failed completely. Firpo, fighter, is properly pronounced (but not often) Fear-po, as in “Fear poor Dempsey.” _ A small town is where they say, “Yes, we have no pajamas." Funny news is so scarce we wish harlie Chaplin would marry, or Bryan say something new. Grammatical, Tho Imbecilic “Yes, we have no banan is grammatically correct, “says Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, Solemnly analyzing this important matter, he comment “It is correct upon a gertain hypothesis. It is misleading at times, but it is | technically correct in answer to the question, ‘Do you have no bananas?’” | We refer, to Dr. Fisher, the Southern negro lines: “I ain't asking you, ‘Aain't you is?’ I asking you, ‘Aain’t you > ain't?” A Book You'll Enjoy Reading BY LOWELL MELLETT oof the: days you that mind w the up want s to continue declaring stitutional urself to go to war ou had to n schol mehow rd to re member Here stem ino Here's a method with th 8. umgestion filling nt not only in fact, It's a book ading never id guess it from the title, but tale that will hold your in tart to the just how the Founding Harding about ae President them CAPPY f the Founding Mather deed, Jt was written from t taken cach the ¢ tion, but not published widow there have wny one of the ttle a little imaginat the Found © breeche and the in Pt hington RICKS Wherein He Discourses on the Value of a Spectacular Approach Written for The Star by Peter B, Kyne—Another Coming Next Saturday Speaking of said Cap young friend, J | Redell, prenident of the West Coast | Trading ma, Augustus > his “Have ob. difficulty company you nerved the reasing at tendant upon the Job of raising the modern boy in the way he should Pc “I have," the father ‘Oh, I don't Gus. 1 mean the wat from c M of two. Redell. “{'m that kind who grad and comes mean youth }around to your office with a letter } of introduction from some man you | never did know very well and were |half suspicious of the little | know, and who commend: young man. to sympathetic | consideration, | “I suppose that Is perfectly wi! the bottom and grow Business. the your empl from. cath nd large white and scanned them. records of 20 young college gradu } ates who come to me with Jquest to start them in the tu lor shipping business. Every burned one of them was willing to start at the bottom and work up.” Cappy shook his head sorrowful ly and tossed the cards back on his desk. Mr. Redell eyed the old gen tleman - sympathetically. “How many of the 20 have you got on the payroll now “Twenty ft Anys.” Cappy employ a up abo from his Here aro cards large, b piped young man len! the lumber the bottom up, I ne im to one of our miwmills for a ‘k-out. My curriculum time spent as a section hand on the logging railroad, swamper, bark-pecler, donkey-man. chopper and skid-greaser. If he de | fies the coot he's bound to meet in some old bunkhouse, I work hin around in the mill in y pa, inclu rough pi d sticks t out It him to civilization, p ¢ collar on the martyr, t him I'm proud of jhim, give him my blessing and a {salary he can get married on, stick him on the books for six months jand then start him selling. If he makes good at that his logical re- | ward Is a Job as assistant manager | }Or Manager, an d inasmuch as 1) |have all of those birds I require c the Ricks payroll, I land him nice-| }ly with a competitor. An honor| gtaduate of the Cappy Ricks school | of commerce can always land a bet-| |ter job with somebody else, because it ts well known to the trade that | if they get by me they're fool proof. It they get by Skinner they're world-beaters.” No honor graduates, eh?” sald] Redell sympathetically. | Not yet. Tho going was too} long and too hard for 19 of the| brave lads so they left me to bhe-| come bond salesmen, The sole sur vivor hasn't graduated Yet, but} something tells me he will. He's| about due in from his first selling trip, and Skinner informs mo this! morning that the boy landed an or- der for 16 Standard Oi! rigs from al retail yard we've never been able to| get on our books heretofore.” "That's good advertising,” Redell assented “Yeu, he brings himself to my at | |tention, Gus, By the way, do you know why so many young men, |Just out of college, hanker to be- | }eome bond salesmen?” “When who includes rious § it back ng Mr. VE yo I've nodded and smiled whil m) And But—I'VE got a camera I've heard of your lens, jus Again and again and aga I've borne the whole thing But—I'VE got a camera Exceedingly boresome to Till w I’ve listened to all of your (Copyright, 1 jana Exactly what each of them 1 ed every building and towe nn pretended, somehow, To like all your snapshots of quite unknown people, But—'VE got a camera now! by come in here nda,” Cappy cc ned Half o home be from ue thet to to of hard exper here ar H these graduate my vernity kn une lumber nee AX an excuse come Ww about bor half the with them, them the largest commision.” at do young time the bend pays “I never buy a bond until I hay investigated it pelt. ‘Same to and Gus, 1 young can't my want fe get m cht a bond from a bond know own it ment, Capp: Aa an simple Irish Wh rep land free to han: now? What why th bonds worth par 20 years hence Well, if there are any Irishmen still living and able to run the gov ernment Tinh, let them ha bought the be engineer, tmas id to buy 4 of his afford it an bo! » he if a » my boy. Can't you their bit of funt I 4 to give to our 5 P, Reardon, at perfectly the rence couldn't living, 1 vr bw who sold that 16 standard rige, my He's redder than a sunset and homlier t Aifdaie terrier blew off the street t in his card. It was a green card with an orange thru it and ore in black letters the name of—Halvor Halvorsen. A Une across th bottom read sell Irish Bonds—God Help Me!’ You admitted the fraud? Redelt queried in amazement ‘Certaintly. Skinner sent his card in to me as a curiosity. Having ween the card I had to sec Swede who owned He's ster—bigger’n a Kadiak bear—an he wan really nel! rish bond had a permit from the corpor ation commissioner to do it. It ap- pears some Turk in town attended a rally of the Sona of Irish Freedom, got too enthusiastic and bought about $10,000 more Irish bonds than he could afford, #o he'd hired Halvor Halvorsen to sell them for him. And Halvor Halvor sen was doing it He gave me a 10 minute history of Ireland that was a peach, appealed to my love of liberty ax an American and sold ma a thousand dollar bond, partly on sentiment and partly out of sheer admiration of his nerve selling ability. When he got ho tucked away my check in pocket and sald: ‘Well, that's my last bond and I'm out of job. What about giving mo some little chore to do? “‘Are you a@ colloge man? manded “He was—half way cut short his hoping to « and he 1 ner stripe A mon, thru, his "I de The had education and he wi ve enough money out REVENGE BY BERTON BRALEY shown me your albums of pictures containing Five hundred diversified scenes: je you kept on explaining ns; and steeple now! I VE heard of each view that you took, how you shot It, The why and the where and the when; t how cheaply you got it, int You've told me the weather conditions surrounding Bach pleture you've taken, I vow; with a patience abounding, now! ND I shall fill albums with people whose faces Are quite unfamiliar to you, And I shall take pletures of ail sorts of places view; I'll show them to you, and I'll babble of lenses ness crinkles your brow; kodaking frenzi ‘The Seattle Star) | formed | doy |eastern New York and are found as by the memb 8 unui nklin's man in’ impo) init ts the Did th and complete ded to me We've Irish bond wasn't @ investment I'm a China 4 you to him of to sense ad t him forcibly my duds mental without Reminds me of id man McAllister of } old had started life as Canadian stumn of} salesman the more 1 in nad farm 4 he ney Made it ir cults from s flow a bag asx Punch and. He 1 even a hand ¢ to take nterest in t noked to mingle and keep mn was in gor that responsi ing tho by the saleaman Abraham Cohen w SCIENCE Fox Is Farmer's Friend Kills Much Verwin. Dog Long With Us. The Crowing Rooster. upon | rea ono ually worth use he's th ers of rata, and other destructive | ur farmer's field, wood nd barn He's crop {nsuran policy and the premium is that o l chicken. Red foxes mate up ¢ and often occupy the same for ye Tender is the or for thelr care of t h come Insects rmin of for | ne rs. seven to nine | Only one dome here when C. Col the dog animal mous found us, | | Scores of game farms in United | States now where crop is 10,000 pheasants a year, Price $3 to $5 per pair over rrytown, | ster has as muct in early morn ing ax jainants have to sleep With New York Central locomotives roaring thru Tarrytown village all night, why kick on the rooster, any way? Health N.Y Officer Todd rules that the ght to crow than | ¢ | RIEDA’S OLLIES mnomy in drena never apy Despite it, abe better was Hadn't seen her in 10 years It would Had t have bothered me coded 1 1 explained she altered her ¢ I had remembered it It appeared that Abe slaried man on handed the the nd had been worst t Well, old 1 there, when alesman tinued talking Cohen,’ confided, ‘iw a funny little fellow He we most outlandish hat It's bright green mbles one of thone prominent dt campaign. | « known to the t an Little Hat, altho the hat body wonders wh ng with Abe. I thin him: ridiculous th nd they ude for man MeAl Abe's ster was to walary then con ary the ou ever maw and in shape hats that w Gre plug He Green ver Cleveland's the the! hat in fellow makes hat he amus give hi r the laughs he « Well, ola biew up. A fine Aunt Chloe flow un old green hat busines ves them’ man ™ idea ng hi on strength and nome mon ig way to nell Aunt on the merit of enthulasm and be He decided not * salary and to onvention where wan UK the Abe m at the 00d to ra Cohen meet } of his annual salesmen and tell Abe head in. the first time, at the annual convention. The hail full and old man McAllister on the platform about to make address of welcome, when Abe n, in his tremendous green slug bat, slipped into the hall. ‘Hey, you, Abe Cohen,’ yelled © old man, ‘You, they call Little reen Hat! Come here, I have something to say to you, young fel J want to meet your “'Yes, and’ I want to meet you, Abe yelled back to him, ‘I've n two years trying to meet you » tell you I've got to have more ey to work that bum territory { you don’t come thru I'm go to work for your competitor.’ | well my of a green man McAllister, but Abe cut | n short. ‘¥es,* ho retorted, ‘and| s them look at me and re- me, It took @ green hat me pur attention, | Do I get a 25 per cent] don’t IT uu do,’ sald old man McAllis- ter, and commenced his annual ad dress of welcome.” And the moral is, I suppose,” said Mr. Redell, “that it pays to advertine.” Cappy nodded. he continued, “They met, for wa the flour hat,’ pn the it mak memmb to bring ide t it? 2% ‘Now, then, Gu get out. It's time| .evyeane Ap kur 203 | (Copyright by United Feature Syn: | All Rights Reserved. Re. | production Prohibited.) | dicate Wenatchee Holds Memorial Sunday WENATCHEE, Aug. 4.—A me-| mortal will be held here | Sunday afternoon, in which all the| ehurc city will participate, | in memory President Harding. | The vers will shared in patriot an organizations, « well churches. nervioe e8 Of th on be and as by t Y, AUGUST FROM yt to no ATURD/ LETTER LV RIDGE I Fotles It's #trange wifte tbat Fortune thought of hig’ But then long, when in th bring er thing nf} care and lift our eyen to supe trange, with wi ortune height make wrong—Wwe human love 1 the folke It we day, we take them, as We their fault prone to pans, with But when their soul 4 think of words we migh And then we thelr them with a lovin And must we ever need the And must we hold our friendship How we alwayn a ee we criticise blinded ¢ night to make ght always true to L Giritge Tpnne | Harding Predicted | Death Was Close MARION Aug. 4.—Before leaving for gion, § He predicted he until ou and God s pt ¥ better, y Cox Pays Tribute to Man Who Beat Him DAYTON Aug. 4.—Jame M. Cox the Ihio, Washir Obie, sident defeated in Warrer dential election G ding would never t term of office, It ding yesterday paid thru rm of office, it was ad president in a sigt George N Van Fleet, ane thi Mr, Har: Star for 2 ae editor revealed here late ysterday, Dayton The nation of Warren G |. the president ex- concerted ¥ pressed bis pren of death jource of all strength | Pree’ "mate friends, ‘1 don't for the Mr. Harding’s exact faithful wife | ee ber whose devoted vigils 1 do remember the pre- Fleet in his p Cox said, mourns Harding Koes to the in an appea} and helpmate words, but the very were maintained down to , were maintained down ps "aid Van dow In th lysis the support ident find fustificats realty and political virtues and service.” New President Is a | Congregationalist IN, Aug. 4.—Presi is a Congregational- and a member of the North. ampton, Mass., Congregational church. 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