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PROCTER & GAMBLE IVORY SOAP 99 44/100% PURE IT FLOATS PUBLIC OPINION (New York) combined with THE LITERARY DIGEST Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company (Adam W. Wagnalls, Pres.; Wilfred J. Funk, Vice-Pres.; Robert J. Cuddihy, Treas.; William Neisel, Sec'y) 354-360 Fourth Ave., New York WARREN G. HARDING: APOSTLE OF PEACE FRIEND OF PEACE AND A LOVER OF CONCORD A -the words seem to sum up all that the newspaper editors, government officials and men of high standing in the nation were saying of President Warren G. Harding, after the sudden news of his passing came from San Francisco. This note runs through the summaries of his life and achievements that have been filling so many newspaper columns during the past week. The outstanding accomplishment of his Administration, think most commentators, was the Washington Disarmament Conference, and it was to further his projeet of promoting international peace through American participation physical powers. The brightest book of world history," says the New York World, a political Opponent, as "the first great participation in a voluntary reduction of war machinery by the enlightened forces of civlization." "My soul yearns for peace," cried President Harding at St. Louis, and it is again and again emphasized the public prints that this yearning was not merely the statesman's policy, but the spontaneous revelation of the nature of the man. To the last, says one Correspondent who accompanied him on his trip, Warren G. Harding maintained "that patience and understanding eventually would dispose of all questions for the best interests of the American people." The dominant characteristic of our twenty-ninth President, says Oscar S. Straus, who knew many Presidents well, "was to bring peace and happiness to all our people." "He left with the people he loved a rare example of gentleness in high of fice," declared Secretary Hughes, the Chief of his Cabinet, while a Member of Congress affirms that "next to Lincoln, Harding was the most human man who ever occupied the executive chair." This human quality is emphasized by many an editorial writer. "It was always difficult to think of him as the President of the United States," writes Boyden Sparkes in the New York Tribune. That is, while "he looked the part more than any of his immediate predecessors," and "behaved with a nicely adjusted dignity befitting the office," yet "One always had the feeling that when the blinds of the White House were down he would be smiling to himself at the thought of Dick Crissinger, barefooted Dick, with whom he used to steal watermelons, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of Doc Sawyer's thin shoulders supporting the epaulettes of a brigadier-general; of big loud-voiced Ed Scobie as Director of the Mint." This man did not fight his way to the Presidency. Readers of the newspaper biographies of President Harding can not but have noted the importance of the absence of political strife and the constant accumulation of friendships. Warren Gamaliel Harding was born in rural Ohio on November 2, 1865. Like so many of our Chief Executives, he began life on a farm. He completed his education in a small college, really of the academy grade, and at nineteen went to work in a newspaper office in Marion, Ohio. In 1884 he bought the Marion Star, which he continued to control until a few months ago. "There was never a strike in the office of the Star." His ownership of a Republican Ohio newspaper and his natural gift for public speaking led him easily into politics. In 1898 he was elected to the State Senate. He became Lieutenant-Governor in 1903 and was defeated for the Governorship by Judson Harmon in 1910. He was "regular" in 1912. In 1914 he was elected to the United States Senate and entered the field of national politics. As temporary Chairman he made the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention of 1916. His service in the Senate was inconspicuous, but by 1920, as a New York Times writer notes, "he friendly terms with all the Senate leaders and liked by all the Senators." He was a "dark horse" candidate from the beginning for the 1920 nomination, and was selected on the tenth ballot at the Chicago Convention, after a deadlock over Wood, Lowden and Johnson. The explanation of this victory has been given was on Copyrighted by Paul Thompson, New York "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." In his dealings with Congress, continues this pa PRESIDENT COOLIDGE "It will be my purpose to carry out the policies which he has begun for the service of the American people, and for meeting their responsibilities wherever they may arise. For this purpose I shall seek the cooperation of all those who have been associated with the President during his term of office. Those who have given their efforts to assist him, I wish to remain in office that they may assist me. I have faith that God will direct the destinies of our nation." in President Harding's own words in which he told how he felt the night before the nomination: "With Wood, Johnson and Lowden out of the way, I knew I could count on friends in every one of their delegations, because I had followed in my pre-convention campaigning the rule that has guided me throughout my political career, which is not to hurt any one's feelings or to step on anybody's toes if I could find foot room elsewhere. I figured that if politeness and an honest desire not to humiliate any rival just for the sake of winning a few votes were ever going to produce anything, this was the time. Other fellows, just as competent as I, or more so, had made enemies, and it looked to me that there was no one in sight that the convention could unite on except myself." Thus, as we read in the New York Journal of Commerce, per, he "preferred the a man they loved"- And strange as it may seem, this very calm friendliness of President Harding's wore him out as much as bellicosity would have done. As the New York Sun and Globe puts it: "Few, none perhaps, can say how much effort it cost him to fill the hard rôle of conciliator and to dominate strife in party, section and class by the force of calm and gentle example. He must have kept his temper and his will to be friendly by a hundred difficult efforts. He died a man physically worn out, and almost till the end, unexpectedly so. When one thinks of the force it required to lead a nation from all the discontents and agitations that followed the war, and conduct it by sheer personality and example toward an era of good-will, one can understand where the effort that wearied his body may have gone. "It is the nation's loss that he died in the midst of his fight for peace, and his glory that he carried on, as an unflinching internal peacemaker, to the end." "A calm man," was the characterization of President Harding. by Samuel G. Blythe in a Saturday Evening Post article, appearing just before the President's death. "His policy is that s great many things that are wrong will right themselves, if given |