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possibilities.
 The latent energy that was final ly stirred in Warren Harding he got from his father, Mrs. Rhodes believes-a father who even at an advanced age gets on the newspaper screen quite often on his account. It was from his father, also, Mrs. Rhodes says, that Warren got his inherent love for newspaper work. The father, Dr. Harding, was in early life a frequent contributor to the Caledonia and Morrow county newspapers.
 As Mrs. Rhodes told her interest ing story one got the impression that the two school years Warren Harding spent under the tutelage of this woman of pronounced views and high ideals must also have been an inspiration to the boy.
 Part of Note to President Is Copied.
 Mrs. Rhodes permitted the report CT to copy a portion of a postscript Suc WIOIc u llColuCiI IidI ulIlS III January, 1921, several months after he had been elected. This was the first letter or communication of any kind Mrs. Rhodes sent to the presi- dent, because she refrained from joining the mad rush of near friends and acquaintances to overwhelm the president-elect with congratulatOry epistles that were in many instances actuated by selfish motives. This postscript was added to a letter written by friend of the president and former girl pupil of Mrs. Rhodes, who was making a good record as a foreign representative .of the government and was seeking promotion. It was to help her that The portion fo the postscript which has never been published heretofore illustrates the motherly qualities of the presidents former teacher, and throws light on "Warren's liking for fresh baked apple pie. It reads thus:
 Now, Warren, few lines from your old teacher. I shall now read the capitals news more closely than ever. I shall watch and pray for you. You know there is no one whose congratulations are more sin cere, whose faith in you is more intense. Time without number have I wished that your mother could have lived to witness this day. Oft en I recall years ago meeting her on Greenwood street, one Sunday morn ing. having taken a fresh baked apple pie over to her dear boy, for he is so fond of them.
 Warren, never do anything your mother could not approve of. Then the people of our U. s. will love you and hold you in as high esteem at the close of your term as they do today. God be with you.
 LOUISA COPE RHODES" Her Grandfather Was Pioneer Teach
 
 Louisa Cope's grandfather taught school in the rear of his shop in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in the pioneer days; she won local fame as teacher forty-five years ago in Marion county, Ohio, and her daughter, Miss Iscah Rhodes, has been 9 teacher in the Cleveland Heights grade school six years, which is the span since Mrs Rhodes moved here from Marion. The daughter was classmate at Marion of George B. Christian. President Harding's private secretary, and D. R. Crissinger, Comptroller of the Treasury appointed by President Harding, was also one of Louisa Cope's pupils at Caledonia.
 Mrs. Rhodes husband, John Fl. Rhodes, now deceased, was mayor of Nevada, Ohio, when Brigadier-G eral c. E. Sawyer graduated from a medical college in Cleveland and was welcomed to his home in Ne vada with more than ordinary cere- mony.
 Is it any wonder, then, that Louisa Cope Rhodes has a beautiful portrait of Warren Harding hanging in a conspicuous place in her co2y apartment home in this city?