Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10

OF honor, stiffly at attention, still
as wax figures was drawn up be.
side the coffin. Zach person was
given time TO pause Tor the brief
est instant, glance for q fleeting
moment down at the President 5
face, then those behind came ON
and those in front found themselves
cat ON the porch. Here two husky
Young soldiers had the task of help
ng each person down the front
steps. The work was strenuous as
the men and women and children
came through at the rate of forty
minute.
Marion tocar was the nation 5
center for the second time in three
brief wears In JOY iteopened its
-ates when from every quarter men
began to seek the front porch of an
uuprctentious home to cheer for the
man who had made Marion rcnown-
ed. In sadness today it. received
back many of those same men, come
now to walk with bowed heads be-
hind the mortal clay of that same
man.
Edison. Tori, Firestone
Distinguished Americans from M!
points within reaching distance of
This little town mingled with the
humber mowuers. Thomas A.
Edison, Henry Ford and IIrvey ).
Eircstone, the president S compan-
IONS on happy camping trips, came
TO stand by his tomb.
Virtually the entire personnel of
the federal government of the Unit-
ei States was in or nearing the
city. But no man, no matter how
high, could dctract even ,the Slight
est attention from the wooden home
on shady East Center street, where
the body lay. The coming of the
new President of the United States
attracted no attention whatever.
At $50 this morning the en-
rloyeS of the Marion Star, built bv
Warren G. Harding, filed through
for their last look ut the chief they
had come to know so intimately.
While this line passed--a line in
which the mightiest and the hnmb-
lest rubbed elbows in the equality
of revercace-the final prcpara-
tons for the last rites were being
made.
In upper rooms of the Harding
home the aged father and the cour-
ageous widow made ready for the
supreme ordeal.
Mrs. Harding Bears Up
Mrs. Harding surrounded by
thronging memories of the wears
when she and Warren Harding were
young in Marion, memories of
courtship days: days Of struggle to
make the Marion Star success;
days of happy fellowship with
friends and neighBors--was still IN
spired by a fortitude born of her
great love. Though the very walls
of the old house must have cried
out TO her with heart stabbing re
collections, she crushed back grief
and fought physical weakness and
WEAKNESS borne up by the invisible
arms Of her love with a strength at
which men have marveled.
DR.. George Y. Harding, the faith.
er, likewise made a valiant effo,s
to face parting with calmness. He
told friends who had come to com
fort him that he wished lie and
not Warren had gone.
My boy! Ny boyv' was his
wall as he followed that boy to the
a, At = 1880 p. m. tAo world will be
shut out for while rs Mrs. Hard
ing and the aged father look their
last upon that dead face.
When they have left the silent
room the other relatives-George
II. Harding, Jr., the brother; Mrs.
Z. +. Remsburg, Abagail Harding
and Mrs. Herbert Votaw, sisters,
with their families, will be admitted
for their fuewells. Softly then
the casket win be shut-forever.
Same Honor Guard
The members of the cabinet,
President Coolidge, and the party