Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-08
THE new PRESIDENT
Intimate Sketch. ojf jf'1Hii Hon. /. Warren 6.
Harding. =
IS THE FIRSTagPRINTER PRESIDENT

IS THE FIRST::sPRINTER PRESIDENT
Elected President Of the United States
On a1His Fifty-fifth Birthday-He
Had Hard. Struggle AS Young Man
Has Had a Varied Career ~ !
Whatcver!else he may be. warren G
harding, always classifes himself as;an
editor,% publisher aha printer, proud Of
his pfotessionaf Accomplishments and
training HIS luck charm and most sa-
cred possession IS d printers rule, car
ried in MS pocket wherever he goes;
and Iiis close friends say he would
rathef set a stick ooY type any day than
grant an audfcnce" to an ambassador. .
For more than thirty years Mr., Hard
ing,s bread and butter has; been earned
by the Marion Star, whose responsible
ties he assumed under heavy mortgage
and whose years he nrtourished at the
expense of going hungry more than
once himself: Since his nomination
for. the presidency he has faced only
one public ordeal that aroused emo
tlons he. could not master. That was
the temporary severance Of the ties
that bind him to the Star. On election
night, when, a group Of his employees
came to congratulate him, his voice
broke and his big frame was shaken by
sobs. when he undertook to speak OH
the separation that must be the price
Of his triumph. a ~. =, IA aavs -:
fifth. pirthdasSs ana4all, the, Interests Of
his lifetime had ban .ropted in the ina-
mediate vicinity Of Mari9n. He was
born at Blooming. .Groye,;rp.,. inNan ad-7
joining county,, the. son of a country
doctor, George T.: Harding, who. still
visits his patients about Marion in the
one e-horse carriage. of the old school
practitioner. The; new presidents
mother has been dead for many years
and his fathertisa remarked.
Young Harding attended college at
Iberia, O., and: then tried school teach
ing for a year before he began his
newspaper career,:.. Always a partisan
and a Republican,; he !lostahis 1oo as a
reporter by wearing in the presence OF
MS .DemocEatlc s;. eai1eE-;A -;-oi','ie AA'
the stove-pipes which was badge OF
support Oh SatsisS a:!,sssSs T. a 2a e;
Although it was a pioneer newspaper
age, Mr. Hardings,s. mind ran to pro-
gressiVe n0o.ions esetf.ait '9l us.' -. 49,
the Star stu was 3 haoaH.y ne DLoAe M
Win ms nrs' passSSneeE I'VE! ettS Hussse'
OF installing atteepheehet an. 'ne. ne"s
paper otnce' a. ptoHosaa "'iiehs ll.' pa. =
her helo ~ oe mp s a oe'o'D1e' -,
eaht anu rexoiu.t.tiaI :a -, = ~, y;
te.at So"HtA :. - - Ss ;..,,.:
IN the e, Star, :,S hosE II sHceessttti "st
per- MI. Ia! @shaF!o!ps y"tt ootr's: 80
tuiar Heiat'o1'sfhpro II ou'"s ms
idency' =, ,,,
iNtee .''i1'e' = 'i0
lie othce' nc served IN inc , o''io 'ests ,.
ia'ure anu ~ o :
Inc s.ate' So. .ono+a
eieI'eu ~ tnee' -. 49, c..
"Here ne pedths s'.t a - -.
e'sh Eela'ions szS,s to,.,.',e i,:oas m a.t 80
was 'hdiiiit'ii 9ftt n ~ ''ep''O
tiofai Gun Heiil's'':' -: - - -
III personal api'es'is'iiee {, '''e ite" p,>1
ioeht IS map y at'i,'ot q setono ,,,. .vo
III any clo%u' .'fte Ca iies N's ~ -
oreo anu @aif 'po.auS "''tto @
ooeSity, at'ttoIen - n.y. ~. 80
lee' .ah' anu H'S y. .ii'i9iv 10 " ~
rouilu ou' aN tn' 'Sse9s.o', -
distlnction! Ills t'allr Is iron grey
most sllVeT greS--7aiiahHas d SHARP eeo'i-
trast with the unusualiy" neaVy plack
eyebrows thaL almost mask d pl'r Oh
calm gray eyes. u IS 2ais IN 'epoSe
that Hls lace lakes oieene ASPECT VI "
verify seen 30 o.eett -. ms pt'o.oe 1p'..
When ne taiKs or llstsHssI the 4'iies atS
oroken' oy q Si''tse 9'et l.aoi1'ss 'o'
dainty. 20 :n'Hs
President Hardhe"s walks Slowly
talks slowly and, makes up his mind
slowly; but he gives me impression Oh
polished dehoeralton' rather lhah u
over-cautious OF aplshrnent. TIC IS d