The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-06-17
WARREN G. HARDING
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dreamed of it. At times he per formed every function from 'deviP' to managing editor Thorny was the road and sometimes the coffers were so depleted that it was neces- sary to request advertisers to make advance payment of bills in order to keep the enterprise aflOat. But ths story of how it grew and ex- banded, ultimately outgrowing and taking over it's competitor is too long to be written here. It is the same old story of love, devotion, energy, resourcefulness, and deter imitation winning against all odds and coming out triumphant in the end.
 The Star today is a prosperous, money-making plant. It could not be purchased at any price. It has the widest circulation of any news paper in a city of thirty thousand inhabitants in the Middle West. It is quoted more often than any other paper outside the great cities. It has not only grown with the de- velopment of the city, but has kept in advance. It has been always a
 'booster" and never a "knocker'; but in all of his political career not line has ever appeared in the Star boosting his own candidacy. Always conservative, always fear less, it has fought for high ideals and won it's way to place of pres tige and power; and the guiding spirit is, and was, Senator Hard- ing. There has never been strike or threatened strike in the Star office. Ills employees found him always liberal and ever generous, and they love him as brother. After he had established his paper on a firm foundation he organized stock company, distributing shares to each of his employees and he and they still own it.
 MT. Harding is closely identified with many large business enter prises. Since he took over the Star, Marion has grown from a country town of four thousand inhabitants to fourishing manufacturing city of thirty thousand, and he has been prime factor in this industrial de- velopment. He has been a 'hooSt- err tor every new industry which has located there, taking shares of stock in each to the limit of his ability. Because of his recognized business sagacity he has been made at one time or another, a member of the Board of Directors of most of these enterprises, lending his counsel and advice, and in turn gathering much valuable fnforma- tion concerning the difficulties which beset the various lines of in- dustry. He is at present director of bank, director of several large manufacturing plants, and is also a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, of which he is a member, and upon whose services he is a regular attendant when in the city. However, we are told, he has man. aged to get out of town often enough to see a bit of the world:
 During the last score of years Senator liar ding has been three times abroad, visiting most of the European countries, not on pleasure bent, but to study at close range their systems of government and the economic problems with which we have to deal-such as the tariff, the standard of wages paid to labor in the different countries, and the varied conditions surrounding their mode of life; but always he has re- turned with a deeper love for his own land and hrmer conviction that its form of government is the best which was ever devised by man.
 After his election to the United States senate, and before taking his seat, he visited the Hawaiian