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Tin: mr::o sr.vrixix: i itnv, .u'uiw . ur.n. GROWING UP WITHWARREN HARDING Getting Acquainted With Work By Jack Warwick Iloj hood Plaj mate, Stiwiol t'lumi and Pirt XewsMer Associate of the j , IUtubliran lreIdenUal Nominee ' Warren G. Harding pot acquaint ed with work earlier In life than most boys. He did It becanse he wanted to, because be had ambition to do , something. He wanted to know how hard-earned money felt. Ilia acquaintance covered a consider able field. I have heard him make some pleaaant reference to all his early tasks, with one exception. That was school teaching. He seemed to dislike it most of any of the things he did. Young Harding taught a district school. However, he did not stick to teaching for more than two or three terms. Uut while he was at the work he was active among the projfressive members of the . calling and took part in the meetings of the county institute. - It was alter one of these meet ings that a teacher remarked to me: "Your friend Harding is going to make a political hustler some d.ay." Then he explained that the young teacher; by a forceful speech, sup plemented by personal campaigning, bad converted what looked like a STRAIGHT Better 9 I c I I It will give store. Such Shop Where The Crowds 3uy I 1 11 "' I 2 Mfflj .stScht OTM -. 9 M, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! -:: W ........ . forlorn hope into a triumph for his candidate lor president. Warren tl.'s connection with rail road building would no; sive him much prestige in Wall Street. The work he did in that line was of the commonest Hnd. lie was yet a bo? ot tender years when he worked with a team of horses which his lather had loaned him. hi grading the roadbed of the Toledo & jOhiu Central. The Har.dings lived on tb farm at ti.s time, not far from the construction work in progress. V. C.'s Half Acre. The young driver, with his team, earned a snug little sum of money, which came handy toward paying expenses during bis days at th i Iberia college. While he was still toing to school in this little collego be did some work on the farm. His father Kave him halt an acre of ground to make ont of It whatever he could. This he sowed to wheat. Harvested and threshed, the crop yielded IS bushels more than the average for that locatity at the time. If these farming days did nothing and more pleasing than any mua Havana cigar. Jisc your dealer for your favorite sqe If your dealer can? supply you turtle vs. L LEWIS CIGAR M'FC.CO.HEwuadU , Largest Independent C$ar Faclonj inthe Vforid atorday Is The Day WE START THE BIG SALE See Our Full Page Advertisement SaavVStesman you an idea of the Bargains as ffugro Brooms selling regularly at 65c for Saturday... .. else for Warren C. they gave him an interest in farmers which he never lost. In the days when be did all the reporting on bis little paper he kept in touch with crop condition and farming affairs by interviewing prominent farmers whom he would meet n the street. One farmer who gave the young reporter especially interesting Interviews was Martin Koch. This man had been a tailor, but took up farming aid made a notable success by progressive meth ods when progressive farming was young. From him the reporter ob tained many good stories. Marion county was essentially a farming county at this time before the bie shoj.s came and the busi ness of the town depended lartely upon the success ot the farmers. Tlu interviews Harding obtained, gave the people of the town an Intelli gent understanding of what was go ing on throurhout the 'onnty. Hut here I have been rambling far afield. It is time to get back to the nay warren it. iiarumc. tut? juniiif cornet player, marched before the jniges of the tournament and forced them to reeognle him as a, whole brass band. The dauntless spirit he showed that day he never lost. Harding T "Fired." As a reporter on the old Demo cratic Mirror in Marion. her wore a lilaiue hat In. defiance of the edi tor's dyed-in-the-wool Democracy. and lost hl3 $9 a week Job as a re sult. This. It must be remembered, was In the hidebound days of poll tics. That old editor was fearful that a Hlalr.e hat on one of his re porters during a political campaign might npset the paper's Hour bo n Democracy and possibly lose him the county printing, on which he fed and grew fat. That was the only job that young Harding ever lost through dismissal. At1 this time he was only 19. but capable of doing a man's work In many capacities. Agala swmmarii ing his achievements he had paint ed houses, farmed, set type, made brooms, ' worked with a team of horses 'on a railroad construction lob, taught, sohool. reported on a newspaper, sold fire insurance and taken the heroic role in amateur -theatricals, aside from having ac culred an education. He was get- we have arranged in every department of our ling-on, ba; had not yet struck hi gait. . 1 Maiding lleeome a MarkM Figure. While Warren r.. was going j through a art of his introductory j course of Knocks in Marion, then a ; town or lew than :. population.! 1 wns out in Kansa trying to ah-, mrb a bit of flaor pwiiiar to that state. Wlun I returmd I found , Harding one of the b.-t known! voune men e-f Marion. Issuing p : tpend a few we-k ith my mother) In the littl- village ot Caledonia. I 1 went there and'loahd until I grew I tired of It. To fill in th" time until election day ofthe Maim-Cleveland i rampair.ii. I inaintaind connection j with the "press" by joining a gang j of men who were baling bay. Thus J I kept my line of connection with j the press t'.nbnokeii. It was too J earlv In tb- season to jo'n a elder' pres.", whic!i would have leen more to my liking These colorless nt- j fairs of mine ar mentioned hefe because they bring tne to (he opeji ing of the period, whit h developed into a struggle which lasted nearly 2o years, in which. Warren C led all the way. It was during that period that the Marion Star was made and that was the making of Warren CJ. Harding. (Originally the Star had been callel the Pebble. The Pebble was started by two bright Marion l-oys. Willis and Harry Hume. loiter they re christened it the S:ar. and were joined by tbeir father. Sam Hume. This man mas a plctnresqne figure around the town and county fairs and pnblic gatherings in various parts of the country, where he sold peanuts and Modoc jewelry. He gathered- news , for the little fonr page Star and. wrote It after the style of Josh Hillings because he couldn't write any other way. , Briefly, It Was a case of from Pebble to Star and from Star to stonebruise. several men having stubbed their toes on the thlnf be fore Harding and 1 hapiened along. (Copyright. 1920. by X. Y. Evening Post,, Inc.) Tomorrow Jack Warwick tells of jlardlng's first experiences as a newspaper owner. i in I t 1 22 : Is the appropriate vacation month. We have everything needed to " " make your wardrobe complete. Bathinjr Suits, Sweaters, Angora Scarfs, Sport Coats, White Wash Skirts X'n ler Muslins I)ainty Hlotues. Chick Hats, Canta , Pump, IJosp, and an ex tensive line of Notion, RiMns, Varus, Darning 'Cottons, etc. There is no neel to run around town tning to Keen ro your need, eome to (Jsles where you will find everything nnder on roof, and it of all, "priced right." . . Our Trices Always Lowest GALE & GO. Court and Commereial 48CQHHTTEE TO WITHDRAW. i - Declare FaraerLabor Party Is Radical Plan to Re organize NEW YORK. Aug. "C Announce ment that the committee of 13 w?s preparing to ' withdraw formally from all connection with the farmer labor party, of which liar ley P. Cbrlstenscn Is the presidential rota- mee. today rouom-ea cioe4r marges by II. A. McCollera and Chat lea A. Weafer. who. In resigning as offi cials and members of the Utah ftr-mer-labor organization, charged that the party was controlled by the In dustrial Workers of tin World. Re-ergantzatiftii or the committee of 48 along the original lines of the party will be a ndertaken at a-meeting of the executive committee Mon day, according to Allen McCnrdy, t retary of the forty-eignters. In a statement today he said the farmer labor party Is a "radical organiza tion and does not adhere o the prin ciples on which the committee of 4 attempted to be.tld a national party. Replying to the charge of McCol lem and Wearer. Mr. Clrrtsersen de clared the farmer-labor parly is not nnder I. W. W. control, but Is com posed of "eTery day Americana seek ing relief from the intoleraole eco nomic autocracy obtaining." In a statement. Mr. Christcnsen challenged, the polttlcal integrity of MeCollem and Weaver. Mr. McCurdy delivered the keynote address at the Chicago convention last month when th romnmte of 4S attempted through amalcniuation with the tabor and jingle tax parties and adherents of other pii:!cil creeds to form a third part. The labor party." Mr. McCnrdy said, "started out to cerate a cfass party which would appeal only to organized workers to tha "tul that control of the American Federation of labor should pass from Its pres ent leadership Into that of tho "iur gents and to Introduce gull-i cUI ism Into American life. "It is plain that It is iropAtfMbl'; for these two to meet. Join. iderRe or amalramate. Oil and ,war do not mix." Mr. McCurdy asserted Mat while the committee of 4S hid been nom inally represented at the convention which nominated Mr. Chrlslensen. most leaders and delegates had tone home when they -ay that the prin ciples of the forty-eighte. had Wn swallowed by the radicaUmi f the laborltes." Exceputhe Maryland organi'.aiion and certain Individuals, in li'dlng Dudley Field Maloite. who have i it wribed to the farmer-labor plat'oiu. me (omnmiee or 1 is stilt intact, Mr. McCurdy said. Late today the iclowing tiegram l-ned by ,H. A. McCt''o.n was re ceived at Forty-eight hea.lgua -teis from Salt Lake City: "The Ctah committee of forty intact. Organized labor reei.t at titude of the farmer-labor party. l"Uh voters desire new liberal party not controlled by rabid radical." Before starting tor Na.cvtlle. Tenn.. late today. Mr. Christen n sent telegrams to Senator Warding and (inventor Cox urging that they go to Tennessee to urge passage or suftrare amendment by the Ten nessee legislature. WHISTLIXCS PDROJDDKX. WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. CapUia W. W. Gilmer, naval governor or Guam, who recently issued an order making whittling oa the Island pun ishable by a $S rine. has been re lieved and Captain Jehn c. Wetten gel anpointed. Secretary Daniels aid the whistling order had no bearing on the action- taken. Streets Langell Vdley Umt , . ; to Have Bond Issue The first unit r the'lJaagell Vat ley irrigation district of K la mat "a county wants the state to approve a bond Issue of $17.000. C T. Dar ling, engineer for the dUtrlct yester day brought to the office of the state engineer a report on the project. A contract will be entered Into with the LADD fiBUSH, BANKERS EtUbliahed 188 . .... " General baiiking Baaioeaa Olfio tloura from 10 m.-to 3 p ft. A LAST OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THESE RECORDS You will not be able to get these Victor Records if they are sold out . Don't Delay l47 5ly Treanur Walls & ce L'pnn a Tim- lasra Merry Widow Walts Vllt onic , Trmpjt .f th tlrart, II Trovator l'ort-r' Hour. Marth . .. ., ni They Gotta (Juit Klckln My Uawc. Itural Argumrnl WhfB Drnmi (,'niiif True Ak th Flow era to Tell 1 on , ? Alice Where Art Tht.u. . 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