New-York tribune., 1920-11-19
Leaves New Orleans for
Panama After Speech
DecryingP Pessimism and
Asking Common Sense
Some Reverses
;. Held Inevitable
100 Ducks Presented at
Sea; Ship Opens Bar Be-
yond Three-Mile Limit
By Boyden r. Sparkes

conyrtght. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
ON BOARD S. S. PARISMINA WITH
SENATOR HARDING ON THE WAY
TO CRISTOBAL, C. o., Nov. 18 (By
Radio via New Orleans) When the
1ur pilots that brought the Parismina
down the Mississippi to-day were
dropped at Quarantine the Delta Duck
Club sent aboard one hundred freshly
killed mallard ducks as farewell gift
"A Senator Harding, who sailed this
.steruoon on his vacation trip to
Panama.
Three miles beyond the coast line,
when the Eighteenth Amendment
ceased to be effective, the chief stew
ard unlocked the door over which hung
brass plate bearing the magic word
Bar" There was line waiting.
Marion Star on Shipboard
Senator Harding has been appointed
EDITOR Of the Marine Edition of The
Marion Daily Star, which is to be is
sued twice on the voyage. Gossip from
Marion will be received daily by radio
from Marion until the ship reaches
Cristobal, which probably will be at
o'clock next Tuesday morning. The
voyage is expected to require 108
hours.
A feet of noisy tugs with their
steam whistles shrieked farewell to the
President as the ship left New
Orleans behind on the trip down the
Mississippi Senator and Mrs. Harding
waved to the crowds grouped along the
shore, and finally at solitary negro
plantation worker before they entered
their cabin. Their cabin, which is
On the upper deck, was filled with
aoxers and other gifts. The Senator's
only worry now is whether he will
have turkey for dinner on Thanksgiv-
iHg Day in the Canal Zone.
Pleads For Sober Thinking
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18.-Sober
thinking and an abiding faith in the
Republic during the critical period Of
var reconstruction we're asked Of the
American people to-day by President
elect Harding in an address delivered
Just before he sailed for three-week
vocation voyage to the Canal Zone.
Some reverses and disappointments,
hc declared, must come as the after
nf bo trS hut y
dlcted confidently that all of them
would pass away again if the people
only kept their heads and held fast
10 the oldtime virtues of thrift, honesty
and common sense.
Making his second formal speech
slnce his election, MIR. Harding spoke
Ill studied terms and with a quiet ear
hestness. But ringing through his ad-
dress was predominating note of con-
hdence and unfaltering faith.
A confident America, buttressed by
resources never equaled before by any
people and governed by free repre-
sentative government" was the idea
which the President elect declared must
DC kept in view. He said no one de-
aired that the old order should re
Turn but he maintained that in build.
ing for the new order there must be
10 acceptance of strange cure-alls anc
fancy theories.
Cheered by Southern Crowds
Tho address was delivered at &
luncheon of tho New Orleans Associa
uon Of Commerce, the central feature
OF program OF entertainment BY
which the city sought to show the
ffesident-elect that the partisanshiI
0f the campaign already had been for
gotten. Great street crowds cheeree
Ar. harding everywhere during hi:
'aor stay, and to gathering o.
thousands in front of the City Hall h,
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