The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-14
President Gets
 Editor s Chair
Made of Wood From Famous Old Schooner Revenge,
 Captured From British

washington, July 14-A high back f~ed editorial chair presented to Presi- uenr Harding by more than 500 fel-
 low newspaper editors was added to-
 0ay to the furnishings of the Presi- dentia1 sfndy in the White House. It
 was made of wood from the famous Ine British on Lake ChampIain dur
 mg the Revolutionary war.
 senator Capper of Kansas, publish
 CT Of the Topeka Capital, was selected [ another member of the committee of f5 which arranged the presentation
 was James M Cox. publisher of the Dayton News and MT. Harding's Dem ocratfc opponent for the Presidency
 last year.
 Senator Capper said the occasion i was unique in that MT. Harding was
 the first member of the profession to became President
 Not an Ordinary Chair. Permit me to say this is no or fgular thoughtfC1ness the originators h-of the idea have had put into this ftesdmonia1 materials which entered ! into the construction of the first war Tsnp in the American navy, the Re- venge, taken a. few years ago from the bottom of Lake Champ1ain-
 There is no Revenge today in the ) in the American plan for the future. There is only good will in American 2 hearts for all the world
 We believe the American press, exemplMed by your own honorable | part in it's upbuilding, does much to tmake men more thoughtful and con siderEte and upright in the forming ? of the highest ideals of American iscihzensf1ip. That the newspaper men ffs have complete confidence in your abiI- 11atty and determination to measure up to the great demands of the time is [ shown in this spontaneous expression ( today
 In accepting the gift the President ! said: -It. goes without saying that ] ann delighted to have this token of | the esteem of men of the Fourth Els fate It touches me rather deeply because I have a very great pride in } the part I have had in the newspaper
 "If could have my~life to live over E with all the experiences that have come to me I would rot change my
 fey with which I have somewhat [ characterized the newspaper of , which I have been publisher Is Above |<Getting Even.'
 sHow very fitting it is that the tim s bers of the old Revenge should have ! been made into 8 token of friendship and good will In thirty-seven years C of newspaper connection have never e once allowed my paper to make mani ssfest a suggestion of revenge, and il sstfere is one thing that has contribut- @erate success as a. publisher it is that :sthe paper was a higher plane than 5 the level of getting even s<Ofd time conflicts, old time afhl- siaaions much that impelFed govern Sments and more that impelfed wars,
 was founded on revenge, while today 9aII of us are thinking out the things swe can do to- bring peoples togeth- Ger to create a better feeling in the
 world.
 q have said a great many times
 that I do not know what there is in sthe revolutions of fate There was no E apartfcuiar reason why I should be President I claim no outstanding ability. did not even want the Presidency. But somehow I have E believed with all my heart that by Afenperament and practice maybe shtted into this peculiar situation in ! the world.
 1sThe tolerance, the patience. the }. good will, the Kindly feeling and de- sire to help form the greatest need Kin the world today; And if while ] am an occupant of this chair I can add to- the good feeling of our Re SpubIic and then make our Republic
 fhe-exempfar of good feeling through s.o1It the world, my services VIII not 1a<ay-f.r been in vain.''