Evening star., 1920-03-21
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

HERE'S a divinity that
shapes our ends. rough
hew them how we Will"
So says William Shake
speare. through the mouth of
Hamlet. Others call it fate, chance.
luck. Whatever the agency. some
thing seems to have been at work
in the case of Senator Warren G.
Harding Of Ohio. When he left
college he began the study OF
lawn a lawyers office. as was
frequently the custom in those
days. From this he gravitated
into insurance. and finally into the
newspaper business. where he
stuck. Had 1t not been for the
fact that the Marion (Ohio) Star.
a then diminutive daily newspa-
per, a liability rather than an
asset, foil into the hands of DR..
George T. Harding. father Of the
senator. and some associates. Sem
ator Harding might mover have
entered upon such a career.
have this from tho senator him.
self.
From the business Of publishing
a newspaper. Senator Harding, as
so many other publishers have
done, took to politics. State SEN
ator, lieutenant governor. United
States senator and. finally. candi-
date for the republican nomination
for President at the coming Chi
cago convention, tells the story
of his success in public office-so
far. The sequel remains to be told
next June.
Warren G. Harding was born on
a farm-his grandfather's-where
his father then resided. just out
side the village OF Bio; Blooming ing
vember 2. 1865. He is in his fifty
fifth year. He was the eldest of
eight children. His father in those
days was a hustling young coun-
try doctor. DR.. Harding is still in
active professional practice. al
though he is seventy-six years old.
Senator Harding comes of Scotch
and Dutch ancestors. His fore
bears settled in this country In
colonial times. His early days on
the farm of his grandfather were
much like those of other country
boys of the time. He worked at
various chores and helped har-
vest the crops. His vigorous ply
sique today probably is largely
due to this early outdoor life. AS
a boy he was fond of sports which
kept him in the open. and he was .
always one OF the first OF the poys
on hand at the old swimming hole
when the winter chill left Whet-
stone creek.
Warren Harding attended the
village school until he was four
teen years old. and then entered
the Ohio Central College of Iberia.
He stood high in scholarship when
he graduated. Now and then dur
ing his college course young Har-
done. turned to and worked for
money to help him on his way.
sometimes cutting corn, at others
painting barns and driving teams.
When he was seventeen he taught
a district school for a while and
"tooted" a horn in the village
brass band. Senator Harding says
that it was in the band that he
attended his first political meet
ings
when he left college. at the age
of nineteen, his father moved to
Marion, the county seat of the
county Of that name. There the
have remained = ever
since, taking a large part in the
Of that place from a
country town of 1000 to a hus-
Ting Industrial city Of some
200 people.
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Warren Harding was studying
law. He says today that one OF
the reasons he did not continue
as a law student was because it
irked him to have to go to his
father every time he needed
spending money. A friend suggest
ed he try insurance. He did, and
wrote a big risk almost imme-