Evening star., 1923-08-03

Court of International Justice. This
proposal, however. was attacked by
republican senators who had opposed
the entrance of the United States
ident declared that he. Was opposed
to entrance into the league as
strongly as any one could be. but
that the adherence OF the United
entrance of this country into the
league. He spoke for the world
court on his trip west and IL was
expected would give the matter his
earnest support when Congress con-
vened in December. 1923.
White House Opened.
Under the Harding administration
the White House. which had been
closed. so far as large entertainments
weie concerned, during the war and
later during the illness of former
President Wilson. was thrown open
again, and the receptions and dinners
| usually given by the President Of
the United States were carried out.
| President Harding laid particular
! stress upon economy in government
| expenditure. The so-called budget
! system was put into operation under
his administration with good results.
! He took strong stand for law en-
forcement in connection with the fed
| eral prohibition act, and ranged him.
self on the side of the "drys." The
President, becoming total abstainer
| from the use Of Intoxicating bever-
ages, was convinced. il WAS said. that
! If prohibition was to be successfully
! enforced those prominent in all
walks Of American life must give up
the use of liquor, even of that which
! had been lawfully acquired.
! Mr.. Harding was called upon to
| name four of the nine members of
! the Supreme Court of the United
! states, including the Chief Justice.
Mr. Taft. owing TO deaths and resig-
! nations since MIR Harding became
| other important nominations both 10
the Judiciary and the executive de-
| partments of the government.
The denomination of President
| republican national convention TO be
! held next year was confidently pre-
! dicted by leaders of the republican
| party.
President Harding was the dark
/ horse" of the republican national con-
vention meeting in Chicago in 1920. He
! was the compromise candidate selected
when the supporters OF Gen. Leonard
/ Wood. Gov. Lowden and Senator Hiram
| Johnson had endea vored In vain To have
| their candidates nominated. Sore CT
the influential republican leaders at n
conference in the Blackstone Hotel in
the early morning hours determined
| upon upon Mr.. Harding. and he was
nominated by the convention within the
| next twenty -four hours.
Ohio Farm Harding's Birthplace.
President Harding was born on a farm
near the little village of Blooming Grove,
Morrow county. Ohio. November 2. 1865,
He was by profession and occupation
! newspaperman and ne had the dis
| tinction of being the first active men,
Der this craft to be elected chief
magistrate. He likewise had the dis
| tinction of being the first man to be
| elevated to the White House directly
! from the Senate.
| The Presidents father. George T.
Harding. who still is living, has been
| prominent as a physician and many
years of his life were spent as a
| country practitioner. Or. Harding
! was veteran of the civil war. and
Warren. as boy, grew Up amid the
afterglow of the flaming patriotism
J which preserved the Union.
| The Hardings are of old colonial
stock, the family having originally
come from Scotland. settling irst in
Connecticut. They moved later to the
wyoming valley in Pennsylvania;
where some OF them were massacred
by the IndiIns, and others fought in
| the revolutionary war. The Presi-
! d nts mother, who was Miss Phoebe
| Dickerson, was descended from an
old-time Holland Dutch family, the
Van Kinks. so that in Warren G..
| Harding was found the blending of
! the blood of the hardy Holland Dutch
and the fearless and liberty-lov in e
Scotch.
Eldest of Eight Children.
The President was the eldest Of
eight children. several of whom
achieved more than ordinary distinc-
| ton. The country surrounding the
old homestead in Morrow county was
rough and thickly wooded, and in
parts was only partially settled.
Many of the inha bitants were en-
gagged in clearing land and shipping
! timber to the cities. and it was at
| such labor as telling trees, cutting
wood and piling it that the boy Hard
ing developed a robust physique and
| love for outdoors, both of which stood
! him well throughout his public life.
Besides wood -chopping and rail-split-
ting. the boy worked hard at the va
| rious odd jobs around the country
! home, and in this manner early ac-
| quired the habit of industry.
l
i until he was fourteen years of age,
| when he entered the Ohio Central
! College at Iberia. Ohio. from which
! he graduated. II was while attending
! this institution that he first displayed
a talent for journalism. For several
1 years before graduation he edited
! the college paper His education,
| however. was frequently interrupted
| by the necessity of having to leave
| college to earn additional means of
| nd nj " w ha al ~
these periodical occupations that he
was enabled to complete his college
/ course.
| Frequently after becoming a nation.
| "odd jobs during his college days.
! According to him, he worked at times
| cutting corn. painting barns and
houses for neighbQrs. painting signs,
and at one time drove a team. He
also helped in the work of grading
! the roadbed of the T. and o. c. rail-
| DAD, which was then building through
that community. At various times he
taught school in that district. and he
never failed to smile when telling of
the days when he played a horn in
the brass band of the village.
Learns Prfnters' Trade.
| At odd times he worked in the lit
tie printing Office in the village, and
| because of his enthusiasm and liking
F., for this craft he took occasion to
learn every detail in connection with
| printing and presses. He soon be-
came an expert typesetter by hand,
| and when the linotype was introduced
] later he learned to operate the ma =
chine. He was practical pressman,
| job printer, stereotyper. and after
becoming head of his own newspaper,
| developed into an expert makeup
man. The printers rule. which he
used when he was sticking type"