Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-08-05
|MER MAN MEETS BIG MEN
slsord B. Foster Visited President
Harding, Ford, and Edison
Big Men ROughing 1t

M biz mtn hAAS
! had the pleasure of meeting more
Americas real big men on Sunday
an I have ever met at any time
Is my life.
vas motoring from Baltimore to
~mberland, Md. After passing
Tough Hagerstown the thought came
INV mind that 1 would pass very
..hse to the camp where President
.Es rding spent Saturday and Sunday.
When 1 reached Indian Springs l
nuired as to the location of the camp
"a was informed that the public was
permitted to intrude upon this
nous camping-out expedition. How
j. when I reached Parkhead, right
"a the heart of the Cumberland noun
I turned to the right and made
Nh nv mind 1 would take a chance.
| could not drive my machine into
IA camp, but got permission to enter
foot. | had but a short distance
90 and | was we'll rewarded, for 1
dIOuAu SHO S0mP NJ
.me of the worlds most famous men.
There was a handful of natives
,ouped admiringly around these men,
"a inst a short time before they had
8 ronned the bars" and allowed a few
II privilege of seeing the whole out
~ Here stood President Harding
Ia his kind smile, and here stood
f4enry Ford, as happy as a boy; next
III him stood Thomas Edison, with his
~eat big kindly face. MI. Firestone
ssxt. and then Bishop Anderson, but
ia ~much-loved John Burroughs, the
naturalist, was missing.
There being no one there who Of
fsred to introduce me to these big men
+ stenped up and shook hands with
ch one. and then | realized that in
I'D that few minutes l had held the
IS nds and looked into the faces of
these great big men who have done
much toward the uplift and pro-
,ess of mankind. I had met them at
time when they were in the great
- out-of-doors, with minds relaxed,
fruly enjoying themselves because
Lev were acting natural.
A few years ago it would have been
4 hardship to have had to sleep out OF
abors in a tent, but this was a luxury
al these men who are tied down UNI
IN a terrific strain. True, it was that
Hey had a wonderful equipment, still
ey were "%roughing it."
President Harding left a short time
tier | arrived, but 1 had quite a chat
tn Mr.. Ford, and Mr.. Firestone. Mr..
fdison is so hard of hearing that it is
tery difficult to converse with him;
Iso he shows his age more than any
her of those men.
| asked Mr.. Ford who sat up with
s1Ir. Edison in the evenings, having
lad so many times that he took but
"A ur to five hours sleep, and Mr.. Ford
81 plied, mo one; he sleeps just as
F1uch as any of us, in fact he is more
able to sleep twenty hours than
f0ur. You know there are a great
Many stories circulated about all OF
1s that are not true" Then a good old
ne tive mountaineer came up to shake
"a. Ford's Hand and he informed him
Hal he was anxious to speak to him
Ii cause he owned one of his Ford
w tomobiles. Mr.. Ford smilingly re-
{4ed, 81 run one of those cars myself"
few minutes later he jumped into
AZ real oliver and turned abruptly
I1to a rough mountain stream and
Isl to prove that a Ford can ford in
rs Ford, he forded.
Bishop Anderson held religious SER
ices in the morning and evening. A
Nv rows of roughly made seats sur
~ unded the pulpit. A player piano
FINISHED the music and out here in
us temple not made with hands, these
EN- and their wives and friends wor-
Eniped. In every direction you could
~ those great big mountains tower
into the clouds, just like good old
lends standing by to protect. The
1puntain stream dashing over the
9cks and the song of the birds in the
pnderful old trees completed the har-
'1pnious setting. Everyone seemed
d that he vas alive. 1 feel sorry for
man who does not get an inspira-
n after seeing a great man, a tall
<<fe, or a beautiful stream or a high
'puntain, for they are all master
eces of "The Great Artist"
M. B. FOSTER.
Baltimore, July rs, 1921.
Elmer Times.