TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JULY 8. 1920. A BUSINESS MAN FOR PRESIDENT The Nation Needs a Business Man­ ager for World's Biggest and Most Important Business. Warren G. Harding, next Presid­ ent of the United States, will be the first business man by occupation to become President of .the United States. There have beeu 27 Presidents holding the otflce of chief executive throughout a period of 131 years; all soldiers, lawyers, planters or pu- blicists by profession; not a business man by occupation in the whole long line. • Warren G. Harding will be the first business man and the first news­ paper man to succed to the office. Yet the office of President deals crone hv the hrtarrl with the biggest business concern on earth -the United States of America, The American government is a great corporation in which a hundred and ten million people are stock holders, From that corporation the people must draw dividends, or to it they must pay assessments, It deals vit- ally with the welfare of private trade and industry, upon which depends the material prosperity of all these milions. Yet until now, in all our century and a third of history, not one business man by occupation for the biggest post on earth! Under tthe present national ad- ministration the government has broken down completely on the busi­ ness side. It was a Democratic sen­ ator who declared that under the present management every depart­ ment had collapsed. Through lack I of competent business direction the machinery of government has been so incompetently handled that the situation calls loudly for the services of a salvage corps. Waste, extravag­ ance, incompetency, inefficiency, have cost the people billions. They have heaped huge burdens of taxation on the backs of the people. They have undermined the faith of the people in their government. They neai ly lost the war titrough the failure to fur­ nish our soldiers at the front with propel' equipment, and through a de­ bauch of waste at home that brought inflation, profiteering, demoraliza- i ion in public and private affairs, in Its wake. These abuses, due to lack , of business sense on the part, prim­ arily, of the President of the United tates, still menace the very solvency : and safety of the nation. Along with all this break-down in the management of the nation’s own business affairs, has been a totally wrong attitude on .he part of the government toward legitimate busi­ ness enterprise, accompanied by an effort to make tile government itself the universal employer and provider. The machinery of government has been utilized, under the camouflage of war necessity, to politicalize in­ dustry. More interested in politics than in business, for which the head of the administration confesses aris­ tocratic scorn, the aim has been to build up the public payrolls of the country. We have had. as someone has well put it, too much of politics “go to it.” in business and too little of business The man .began to pick through in politics. 4he case. , Out of this chaos comes loudly the “Here," exclaimed the clerk a mo­ call for the reconstructing hand of a Sister Martha’s Prayer. real business man; one who has ac­ Just before the conclusion of the ment later, “you can’t do that, you tually wrought in the field of prac­ weekly prayer meeting in a country know. You the picking all the big tical business affairs. The answer to town one evening, the pastor rose eggs. “Sure I am,” said the man. "That’s that call is the Republican nominee and glanced over the congregation. for president. Warren G. Harding, "Is there anybody present," said the way you tell a black hen’s egg.” who, in a typical Americun commun­ he, “who wishes the prayer of the Nothing on Him. ity, built a large and thriving busi­ congregation for relative or friend?” A somewhat smart man, according ness, under adverse conditions, from “Yes, parson,” answered a tall the ground up, and who, through angular woman, rising to her feet. “I to a story that is going the rounds, years of actual contact with men and want the congregation to pray for remarked to a farmer friend: “Thursday we autoed to the coun­ things in the business world, knows my husband.” what business means and how it "Why, sister Martha," exclaimed try club and golfed until dark, then should proporly be conducted. the parson with a surprised express­ trolleyed back to town and danced till morning.” There is a world of theories and ion, “you have no husband.” The farmer “got back” in this lan­ words, and a world of things and “I know I haven't,” was the calm deeds. Too many professing to be rejoiner of sister Martha. “I want all guage : “I’ve been havin’ some time my­ statesmen dwell in the former, and hands to pitch in and help me pray I self. Wednesday I muled down to too often, charged with great re­ for one." the cornfield and geehawed till sun­ sponsibility, they make a mess of down. Then I suppered till dark and practial affairs. Warren G. Harding To Save Valuable Time. is a product of the school of piactical Some time ago a lawyer was called * I piped till nine. Then I bedsteaded experience; a graduate of “the uni­ away from his office for the greater till five o’clock, then Dreakfasted till versity of hard knocks.” The great part of the day. On returning he ob­ it was time to go mulin’ again.” business problems of government, served certain symptoms of idleness now foremost because of the oppres­ on the part of his clerk. A Widow's Gratitude. sive burdens of taxation, the vital A woman living in the village of "James,” demanded the lawyer, necessity of reorganizing the govern­ "why hasn't that typewriter been Milford, N. Y., who lost her husband ment on a business basis, and the working?” by death, sent the following com­ immediate need of giving to Ameri­ "it has been working,” defensively munication to an Otsego county can entei prise and American agricul- answered James. "1 was using it less ure and American labor the encour- than ten minutes ago.” a.'. r.ient essential to ward off wfde- "Then" exclaimed the lawyer, ' . pri, ., commercial calamity as the pointing a convincing finger, "how j after.sath of war these conditions comes it that there is a spider on the call tor a man In the presidency who machine and that it has woven a in the world of practical affairs has web over the keyboard?” learned to deal with business prob­ "A lly got in the works sir.” easily lems In a business way. explained James, "and rather than And so. in response to tills Im­ waste time trying to catch it. 1 in­ mediate, passing need, Warren G. troduced life spider.” Harding will be the nation’s lira! ——o------- business man by occupation in the presidency of (lie United Stales. Sherlock Tales a Clue. George L. Lockwood. Dining a lecture tour through the United State., Sir Conau Doyle arriv­ I ed one day in Boston and was con­ Notice for Bids. siderably astonished when a cabman Notice is hereby given that the accosted him and addressed him by name. Board of Directors of School District "How did you know who I was?” No 21 of Sand Lake. Ore., will up to interest- I o'clock on the 15th day of July, said Sir Conan Doyle, much ed and not a little flattered by the 1920, receive bids for the erection recognition. of the new High School building "If you’ll excuse nie saying so,” complete Including foundation iu< said the cabman, "the lapels of your per specification on file with the coat look as if they had been giabbed District Clerk and School Superint­ by New York reporters, your hair endent's office. Each hid to be ac­ looks as if it nad been cut in Phila- companied by a certified check for delphiu, your hat looks as if you 10 per cent of the amount of the had had to stand your ground in bld. 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