Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1922-03-06

Rounds Out
First Year
Harding Says Return TO Nor.
NAL Ways of Government
Greatest Achievement
Of Administration. =,
Work Neye, -.

Washington. March s.-A return ID
normal ways ol government. Presi
dent Harding told members oi
the National Press club. he con.
siders an achievement Of his frs
year in the White House.
III nothing else had been accom-
plished.' the president said. "ih,
long step toward getting back Il
normal ways oi government woult
seem 20 me TO have been the achieve,
meut OF the year"
The address was delivered al az
entertainment given in honor OF hi,
first official birthday and TO mari
the occasion a birthday cake sur,
mounted by ono candle was presented
to him.
81 am not unmindiul OF the fact
he said. that my predecessor was
i'll and that the government was in
the drift OF the reaction from the
war But" he continued. problems
OF readjustmcnt are infinitely more
difficult than any OF you can imag-
inc"
One Troubles With Job.
Mr.. Harding said he liked to
throw aside the cares OF official life
and minglc with gatherings like his
audience. "lf there is one trouble
with this White House job" he said,
"it is in being a human being"
A president, he said, cannot hold
himself aloof and cannot find time to
get all the things done he would like
to do. 81 never find myself done" q"
he said. II never find myself with
my work completed. | don't believe
there is human being who can do
all the work there is TO be done in
the presidents Office"
ut seems as though ] had been
president for 20 years." he continued,
adding that life has been so full"
i'll the past year, that there's scarce
ly any impression of life outstanding
before | came TO Washington except
one, my viewpoint of the senate COM
pared with what it is today" He
emphasized that he did not mean
this in any unkind spirit.
Plans Not Worked Out.
There have been some plans which
have not been worked out, Mr.. Har-
ding said in discussing his first year
in the White House, and some
dreams which have nos come true.
Maybe some fault lies with the
executive" he added, "but it can't
be all, for It's divided authority"
The president said there were
compensations for all the exactions
of his Office, however, in contributing
to restored order. and in making
better the civilization we have in
herited."
He asked the support of the news
paper men as molders of public opin-
ion in his task OF making ";fis re-
public OF ours the best government
in the world"
IF we can make it the sheet an
chor of democracy" he added, "then
we have contributed to the current
which keeps alive the great stream
OF civilization
Guest of Davis.
Before going to the press club,
President Harding attended the
ninth annual observance OF the
founding OF the labor department as
the guest of Secretary Davis. He
shook hands with several hundred
members Of the department and cX-
pressed his pleasure at being pres
ent.
Mr.. Harding was given an ova-
ton when he entered the press club.
A demonstration of radio telegrsphy
was in progress at the time and he
became one OF the most interested OF
the auditors. From the bowl, the
birthday cake, gifts, symbols Of the
events of the first year of Mr. Hard
ing's administration, were brought
forth and distributed.