New Britain herald., 1923-08-04
'LADDIE BOY STILL ]
 AWAITS HIS FRIEND
Airedale Watches Every Gar Ar-
 irving at White House
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
 Washington, Aug. 4.-There was one member of the White House household who could not quite com prehend the air of sadness which hung over the executive mansion It was Laddie Boy. President Hardings Airedale friend and companion. Com ing to the White House raw -boned. callow pup, Laddie Boy in two yeara has grown to the estate of dignity and wholesome respect for his official sur roundings.
 He knows that his master and mis- tress made frequent trips away from home, and he always watches for their return. Of late he has been casting an expectant eye and cooking watch ful ear at the motor cars which roll up on the White House drive. For, in his dog sense way, he seems to req son that an automobile took them away, so an automobile must brins them back. Today, as on the others days. he was watching the motor cars and listening for the voices he knows so well.
 White House attaches shook their heads and wondered how they were going to make Laddie Boy understand.
 Harding Loved Animals Laddie Boy returned the affection which Mir. and Mrs. Harding bestowed upon him, and their feeling forthim typified the feeling of both for all ani- mals. Mrs. Harding never lost an'op portunity in Washington to give her aid to any cause which stood forshelp to animals. In Alaska, recently. the president took, as part of his oath Of membership in an organization, VOW never to be unkind to horse oridoS.
 MT. Harding never referred to them as dumb animals" He oftenssaid they were far from dumb, that*they had their own ways of expression It was not fad or fancy with Shim- Years ago when he was active aSsthe editor of The Marion Star somebody poisoned a pup which he knews and MT. Harding published an editorial about it that showed how he felt. He wrote:
 "Edgewood Hub in the register, mark of his breeding; but to us, just Hub, little Boston terrier, whose sentimental eye mirrored the fidelity and devotion of his loyal heart. The veterinary said he was poisoned; per- haps he was, his mute suffering sug- gested it.
 "One is reluctant to believe that human being who claims mans es- tate could be so hateful coward as to ruthlessly torture and kill trust ing victim, made defenseless through his confidence in the human master, but there are such. One honest look from Hubs trusting eyes was worth a hundred lying greetings from such inhuman beings, though they wore the habiliments of men.
 Was Devoted Dog.
 Perhaps you wouldn't devote these lines to a dog. But Hub was a Star office visitor nearly every day of the six years in which he deepened our attachment. He was a grateful and devoted dog, with dozen loveable at- tributes, and it somehow voices the yearnings of broken companionship to pay his memory deserved tribute.
 Tt isn't orthodox to ascribe soul to a dog-if soul means immortality. But Hub was loving and loyal, with the jealousy that tests its quality"
 He was reverent. patient, faithful; he was sympathetic-more than hu- namely so, sometimes, for no lure could be devised to call him from the sick bed of mistress or master. He minded his own affairs-especially worthy of huhahn emulation-and he would kill orWound no living thing. He was modest and submissive where these traits were becoming, yet he as- sured a guardianship of the home he sentineled until entry was properly vouched.
 "Ho couldn't speak our language, though he somehow understood. But he could be and was eloquent with eye and wagging tail and the other expressions of knowing dogs. No; perhaps he has no soul, but in these things are the essence of soul and the spirit of lovable life.
 Whether the Creator planned it 50, or environment and human compan- ionship have made it so, men may learn richly through the love and f. delity of a brave and devoted dog. Such loyalty might easily add lustre