The Glenwood post., 1920-07-03
Uack Tets Bed Time Stories
Current Events For tho Children
and Grown-ups, Too
FROM FARM BOY TO PRESIDENT
WARREN G. HARDING WAS
A IRREGULAR" BOY

" You know You promised to tell us
all about Senator Harding last week, -
teased Jack as he tugged at his uncle IS
coat.
That S true, Jack. All right, l. III
tell you all can but there are so many
things to tell about Mr.. Harding that |
can t possibly tell them all tonight.
Now sit real quiet and don't ask too
many questions.
Warren G. Harding was born on
his grandfather's farm not far from
the little village OF Blooming Grove,
Morrow county, Ohio, on the second
day of November, 1865. There were
eight Children in the family and Seua-
tor Harding was the Oldest. His father,
George 7. Harding, was the village doe
tor in those days and is still practic
ing medicine in the city of Marion,
Ohio, the present home of the senator.
The original Harding family came from
Scotland, and settled first in Connecti-
cut and later moved to Wyoming val
ley, Pennsylvania, where many of them
fought in the Revolutionary war. War
ren s mother, for he was Warren, Jack,
just as you are Jack today, was Phoebe
Dickerson, descended from the Van
Kinks IAN old Holland Dutch family.
So you see our next president has the
strong blood of the Holland Dutch on
one side and the fearless, alert, and
liberty loving Scotch blood on the other.
AS Warren. grew up on his grand.
father s farm he had to learn to cut
down trees, chop wood, slit rails, plant
and hoe corn and all those things that
had to be done when to raise crops
meant raising them between the roots
done by hand for there was no e.pcn-
sive farm machinery. Your father
knows, Jack, what hard work it was in
those days.
- 'Didn t he ever playY' asked Ruth.
- VI ou bet he did, Ruth. He was
healthy, big boy and like all healthy
boys he enjoyed the sports of the coan-
try and village. He loved the old swim
ming hole and no boy could dive deep
Cr or swim farther than Warren. lie
had a sunny disposition and was real
leader of the gang of his schoolmates.
When he was sixteen he looked like
man and lad the strength of man and
there was no older boy who dared bully
him. And he always protected the
younger boys Up until he was four
teen years Of age he went to the village
school, and then he entered the ON,
ed nigh in scholarship. 1t was while
there that he showed talent for news
paper work, for he was made editor
the college paper. But the boys in
those days couldn I afford to 20 right
through college He had to stop for
a time now and thei TO earn enough
money to gu ahead and finish. During
lhose times he worked mt many things
lie painted b.. neighbor's barns, cut
corn, and drove team to grade the
roadbcd of railroad. He taught
school when he ws seventeen and play
cd horn in the village brass band.
4" But alter he had a try at many
things he still longed 10 be a newspaper
man, and at odd times he worked in
the little printing office. He learned
L. set tyre by hand and later run a
linotype machm', which is used today
N setting Cn2 line of newspaper type
at once. In fact he learned from the
ground up, everything there was to
know about a newspaper and to this
day he carries IN his pocket "luck
piece which is nothing more or less
than the old printer s rule he used
years ago when he was setting type.
"All OF Senator Harding's newspa-
lper ambitions were realized for he fin
i ally became the owner and publisher
Of the Marion, Ohio. Star The Star
is his pat. When Warren was nineteen
ihis father mOveG to Marion, where the
Star was a struggling daily paper in
II town Of about four thousand people.
Warren could think of nothing else bu,
that he wanted to own that paper. His