Evening star., 1923-08-08
Worlds Press Pays Tribute
To Warren Harding's Worth

preciative while he lived and they
| VIII not now be forgotten by his
| tory" World: He will be both
mourned and missed. He was becom-
! which would overtax the strength of
a giant. His death was, in d sense.
one OF martyrdom to his ideals Of
duty" Brooklyn Eagle: I'VE have
had in the White House few Presi-
dents more likable. few who could
so well combine the dignity of the
highest public station in the world
with the kindliness and the simplicity
| typical OF our best private citizen
! ship"
| 1t came with a shock to the mil
dresses on the il1-fated trip to
realize they were the final words of
advice which he had desired his fell
low citizens to take to heart for their
guidance and for the betterment of
| their common cause" says the De-
troit Free Press, and there can be
no finer comment upon President
Harding's character than the fact
that his lamented death gives us no
/
than he did" This opinion very
| closely resembles that of the Mobile
| Register, which points out "in the
sorrow that broods over the nation
| there is neither creed nor politics.
The people with whom President
! Harding mingled on terms of frater-
nifty and with peculiar understanding
feel the deep personal grief that
comes only with the loss of friend.
| The nation loved this most lovable
| man. And, because the world still
| is upset" the Des Moines Register
insists the eventual assessment of
| Harding's service Will necessarily be
! with relation 70 the enormity of the
! worlds problems and America will
| classify his work as honorable and
( conscientious in the extreme" His
death came "at the summit Of Amer
lean ambition" the New Orleans
/ Times -Picayune holds. and ''he died
upon the eve of great plans with the
metal OF his ability as yet scarcely
! tested. his place in history as yet
uniformed: He had begun to develop
! a cool. firm grasp or international
relations, a calm. persistent courage
| in pressing for what he deemed right
at home as well as abroad"
He was "the nations neighbor." the
New York Evening World recalls. and
he wore himself out because he
wanted to meet the demands and ex-
pectations of his neighbors who
wanted TO entertain him" This was
typical, as the st. Paul Pioneer Press
sees ii. because he was simple man,
whose career from beginning to end
gives the lie to those who find it
! fa Gb inna aI1
equality of opportunity exists in the
United States. Warren G. Harding
began life as a poor boy. He earned
the fortune and the distinctions
| which came to him. The success of
his newspaper enterprise was an
earned success. The same may be
| said of his political success. He was
honored by his Countrymen because
| they had confidence in him and be-
cause in other public service he had
earned that confidence. His career
from birth to death was typical
American" Thus his name goes on
the scroll of unforgettable Ameri-
cans" continues the Minneapolis Trib-
man his rightful place in the annals
of the nation. His countrymen will
say that he was a true Christian
gentleman: that he had the courage
OF his luedlS ana CONVICTIONS. that
he laid his life upon the altar of his
country just as surely as did those
| who died for the flag in time of war;
that his soul radiated peace and kind
liness; that to him the humanities
| were very near and real"
The Chicago Tribune believes "he
may have averted. for this generation
at least. a war with Japan. His death
is loss to the nation" Many Brit
ish newspapers echo that sentiment,
the London News, for instance, de-
claring Americans will need no as
surance of the sympathy of England.
| because Mr.. Harding's tenure of office
will remain notable in world history,
for the first effective check in com
petitive armament was initiated by
himself and Secretary Hughes at the
| Washington conference" The effect
of this. as the Westminster Gazette
sees ii, is that lit laid the founda-
ton of lasting peace in the Pacific
and set to distracted world its most
hopeful and its most urgent example.
II was also Mr.. Harding's difficult.
and in some ways thankless. task to
lead the European peoples to real
ization of the fact that some of their
most ardent hopes in regard to
America must be abandoned. He had
one great qualification for that task
| in that he was himself "A thoroughly
| typical American and in full sym
pathy with the viewpoint of the mass
of his fellow countrymen." The Daily
Telegraph believes it is too soon to
analyze his position in history, but
| agrees ''it can be said in all sincerity
| that in the Washington naval treaty
he has left behind him an abidin 2
memorial of what one man of good
will and good sense can do in the
| world. Humanity had talked for
countless years of the possibilities of
limiting armaments, but the race still
went on, fed by national passions,
jealousies and suspicious" Very
similar in tone are the comments ot
the Manchester Guardian, the London
| Times and the majority of the lead
ing French and Italian newspapers.
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