Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-12
BACK TO MAIN ROAD
IS HARO|NG'S PLEA
G.. .. p. Nominee Says Country
a44 Should Return From Detour
and Then Go Ahead.

Marion. Ohio, Aug. l2.-Dates and
places for the limited number Of campaign
speeches To be made by Senator Harding
away from Marion will be selected with
great deliberation by Republican party
leaders after a minute canvass OF local
conditions i'm all the various sections 10
which he has been invited to come
II was said today at Harding head
quarters that the task OF sorting over
these invitations now was under way
and that although no definite speaking
engagements in other cities had been
arranged one or more might be deter
mined on shortly II was understood
that the subject was one Of those 20
Chicago by National Chairman Hays
Harry NJ. Daugherty and other party
leaders
The plan to be followed in the front
porch campaign under which separate
speeches will be devoted 10 separate is
sues. may also be extended TO such ad
dresses rs the candidate makes away
from home
Many invitations to speak at county and
state fairs have been received
Worthington, Ohio. Aug. II Sena-
tor Harding came here Yesterday to at
tend the birthday celebration Of his
brother. Or George r Harding, Jr,
and made q speech 10 several hundred
people
Three hours riding over uneven Ohio
roads had furnished the Senator with a
theme for his speech, which was dellv-
cred extempuraneously and with more
force and gestures than when delivering
written addresses from his Marion front
porch
We have been motoring this after
noon, said Senator Harding, and n
tho reflections of the ride, while driving
/ 50 carefully that one could look from the
roadway occasionally. | found myself
! likening modern travel to some of the
problems If life | discovered that when
! the going was smooth we went along
speedily and comfortably, and then nc-
casionally We found spots rough. 50
/ thoroughly ont Of repair that we Ind 70
| tletour hut I observed always that,
! Just rs quickly as we could, we always
| got back On the main highway again,
/ and | likened that 20 n very recent ex-
pertinent in government.
The torn-up condition Of the world
| took us temporarily oft the man, Tor
ward track, and think II is the business
II the people of the United states ot
| America - get hack on the main road
/ again Then | thought Of another. some
what similar parallel, that when you
| build a road that YOU expect humanity
to travel over yon must not only bWld
/ for future use, but you must commit
yourself 70 he upkeep Of the road and
| likened that to the experience Of govern
ment Iou must not only bulf on a
foundation for the future. but i is per
feactly futile to build Il you do not gfve
some attention to the upkeep, and the
biggest problem IN life today y the upkeep
of modern civilization.
efThen | noted one other highway
for modern travel Is not any good u
| IT does rot have a perfect foundation.
There has never been perfect highway
| Inillded since modern civilization began
| If II did not have a good foundation
| Nv mind ran back 10 some sections IN
our country where we built the old
corduroy roads and they were always
| passable. because underneath the sur
face we're the humber and logs which
made the foundation, and you could
always get across.
The biggest need of the hour in Ameri-
ca, the biggest need Of the hour in Europe
in ali OF Europe, is to securely Settle
down and take stock, and 70 know where
We have drlfted in the great tumult n
world war. and to get our foot firmly or
the right track again, and then, in under
standing with one another, move on Z
future accomplishment and the triumph
of civilization.
Il do not think am pessimistic, bu
tell YOU, my countrymen, there IS JUS
so much Of menace in the world TIM
evening as there was in the midst 0
the tumult OF war. Civilization has no
become steady again There are war
IN Europe today, threatened industria
revolutions throughout the world. Their
is an assault on our inherited civlllza
ton, and | want our country 10 stead,
down, to come 70 an understanding, 0
our inheritance, and let America stanc
as a barrier against the onrush OF reyo
luton and destruction throughout th'
world :