The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-28
PRAISE BESTOWED
 UPON GREAT UNION LEADER BY HARDING
Would Have Approved All the Republic Has So Recently Done, Is Presidents
 Declaration
By Associated Press

Oiiih iEaHdntf Ouibf ApiiA Standing in the shadow of the spot where General Grant was born 100 years ago today, President Harding brought forth great applause from 15,ooo people when he expressed his belief that the great union leader would have approved "all the repub- iIc has so recently done in joining other nations in lifting the burdens of armament and promoting under standings which make war less likely"
 The audience, composed mainly of Ohioans who had journeyed here to celebrate the centennial of Grants birth, cheered also when MT. Hard ing declared the sacrifice and na- tion-wide service in the World war revealed the common American soul.'
 Mir Harding spoke from a stand immediately adjoining the spot on which stood the cottage where Gen eral Grant was born. Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Fred Grant and many other distinguished people prominent in the official life of the nation and Ohio were on the platform. A group of Grand Army veterans followed close iS tF0lS WOiA Ol pidlSe ptshOWGu On their heads by the President.
 In the absence of Governor Davis, who was detained at home by illness, Judge Hugh Nichols, chairman of the centennial committee, introduced the President.
 Praises Simple Life
 Before beginning his prepared ad- dress Mir. Harding expressed his pleasure at coming to village like Point Pleasant for an occasion like that of today. "I would rather have come to a spot like this" he said "thsn to any other in the republic that I could choose. Not but what l have great reverence TOT the genius and the determination and the capac- ity which belongs to great cities, but if my observations in life count for anything I want to say to you that the one everlasting anchorage of this republic is in the communities like this in which we are gathered.
 "ln the simple life of hamlet and village there Is the typical sturdy life of our America and I rejoice to come among you and participate in this celebration"
 The cheers and ciapping from his hearers when President Harding said of General Grant that he only wanted to sustain Lincoln whom good in- spired to bestow freedom and again when he declared The fought for & preserved union and restored nation and succeeding generations are richer because of his example" He praised the union leader as great hero and military commauder, tha stnprrssdir F tional Surrender Grant" of the arny, who immediately on the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox became Grant the magnanimous."
 Ovation Continuous
 The trip of the President and his party to Point Pleasant on the gov ernment tug "Cayuga" was made through a continuous ovation from tens of thousands of people who lined the Ohio river on both the Kentucky and Ohio banks. Salutes from river craft and towns and houses along the shore, the stars and stripes floating from nearly every home and the cheers of the people greeted the chief executive and Mrs. Harding all the way. Thousands who lined Cincin- nati's streets through which the President passed, in welcoming him back to his native state, cheered him also.
 The trip to Point Pleasant was pur- posely slow so as to permit the boats bringing people from Cincinnati to keep up. The accident to the Island Queen" one of these boats retarded the program a little also and 1t was $40 o'clock when the President be- gan his address.
 Friends of the President were warm in their praise of the action of Rich ard Jarvis. chief of the White House secret service. and of Ed Starling. assistant chief in vetoing the first arrangement for Mir. Harding to make the river trip to Point Pleasant on the Island Queen" and instead (Continued on page tso)