Bellefonte, Pa., August 10, 1923.
PRESIDENT HARDING
DIES SUDDENLY
When Thought to Have Recovered
from a Threatened Attack of Pneu-
_ monia. He was Stricken with Apo-
plexy in a San Francisco Hotel Last
Thursday Evening.
. Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth
President of the United States, died
jnstantaneously and without warning
last Thursday night in the Palace ho-
tel, San Francisco, at 7:30 o’clock, a
victim of a stroke of apoplexy, which
struck him down in his weakened con-
dition after an illness of exactly a
week. :
- The Chief Executive of the Nation,
and by virtue of his office and person-
ality, one of the world’s leading fig-
ures, passed away at the time when
‘his physicians, his family and his peo-
ple thought that medical skill, hope
and prayer had won the battle against
disease. 3
The strenuous 6000 mile trip to
Alaska so sapped his vitality that a
slight cold threatened to develop into
pneumonia and his return to Wash-
ington by way of Panama Canal was
abandoned. For a week he fought
against the dread disease and pulse,
temperature and respiration had re-
turned to near normal giving hope of
recovery with complete rest which he
was taking in the Presidential suite in
the Palace hotel.
The disease had been conquered, the
fire was out, but seven days of silent,
though intense suffering had left their
mark and a stroke of apoplexy came
without an instant’s warning and be-
fore physicians could be called, mem-
bers of his party summoned, or reme-
dial measures taken, he passed from
life’s stage after having for nearly
two and a half years served his nation
and for many years his native State of
Ohio.
. With the passing of Mr. Harding,
the office of President devolves upon
Calvin .Coolidge, vice president of the
United States, a man silent in nature,
but demonstrated as strong in emer-
gencies.
He was notified of the death of Mr.
Harding at his home in Plymouth,
Vermont.
The suddenness with which the end
came was shown by the fact that only
Mrs. Harding and the two nurses,
Ruth Powderly and Sue Dausser, were
in the room at the time. Mrs. Hard-
ing, with her characteristic faithful-
ness and constant ‘tenderness, was
reading to the President at the time.
Then without a warning a slight
shudder passed through the frame of
the Chief Executive, he collapsed and
the end came. Immediately the. indi-
cations of distress showed themselves,
Mrs. Harding ran to the door and call-
ed for Lieutenant Commander Boone
and for the other doctors to come
quickly. :
Only doctors Sawyer and Boone, the
chief and assistant physicians, were
able to reach the room before the na-
tion’s leader passed away. They were
powerless to do anything.
EXECUTIVE'S WIFE BRAVE.
Brave in the face of the President’s
illness, Mrs. Harding remained brave
in realization of his death and did not
break down.
Mr. Harding came of hardy pioneer
stock. He was born in Blooming
Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, Novem-
ber 2, 1865, the son of a country doc-
tor, George T. Harding. Like most
country boys, he went to the country
school between morning and night
chores and later attended college at
Iberia, Ohio. He tried school teaching
for a year, but having had a smell of
printers’ ink while sticking type for
his college paper, the lure drew him
into the newspaper field. ‘
His family meantime had moved to
Marion, in an adjoining county, where
he obtained his first newspaper job,
and where his life interests were cen-
tered. thereafter. Mr. Harding’s ambi-
tion was to become a publisher, and
it was realized at the age of 19, when
he bid in’ the Marion Star at a sheriff’s
‘sale. The paper was purchased under
a heavy mortgage and his friends have
often said that the struggles and hard-
* ships which were his in making this
paper a suceess had much to do in:
fashioning his character and develop-
‘ing a broad 'patiénce and tolerance
which were his chief characteristics.
PROUD OF NEWSPAPER.
Whatever his other attainments, Mr.
Harding’s greatest pride was in his
professional ~ accomplishments and
training as printer, editor, and pub-
lisher.
acting duties of his high office serve
to dull his delight in pottering about
a composing room. On his first trip
back home after his inauguration, he
went to the Star office, pulled off his
coat, rolled up his sleeves, borrowed
a chew of tobacco and helped “make
up” the paper. His luck charm was a
printer’s rule, carried always in a vest
pocket.
As his ambition had carried him in-
to the ranks of publishers, so his fan-
cy took him into. the realm of polities.
From the first he was an ardent par-
‘ tison, and his insistence upon wearing
a “stove pipe” hat, the badge of sup-
port of James G. Blaine, while a re-
porter on a Democratic newspaper
brought him a sharp reprimand from
his chief, who held it to be inconsist-
ent for a worker on a Democratic pa-
per to so prominently display the |
symbol of his Republicanism.
The future President’s ability as a
stump speaker won him early recog-
nition from his local party leaders.
Marion county then was in the Demo-
cratic column and he undertook to
switch it to the Republican party, but
his first effort at office on his party
ticket resulted in a defeat, though he
commanded an unexpected vote.
The President was a life-long Bap-
tist and was a trustee of his home
church in Marion. He also had been
a member of the Elk and Moose fra-
ternities for years, and after his elec-
tion as President he became a thirty-
second degree Mason and a Shriner.
Golf was his favorite recreation, but
he also liked to fish, although his op-
portunities for that sport were limited
er, November 26, 18
Nor. did the interests and ex-
played hard and possessed the faculty
of putting all his worries behind him
during his recreation hours. ’
MILESTONES IN THE PRESIDENT'S
Sa WIFE, her 5 % '
Here were the milestones in War-
ren G. Harding's life: 2
Began career as il publish-
Elected to Ohio State Senate, his
first political office, November 6, 1898.
Elected Lieutenant Governor of
Ohio, November 3, 1903.
Defeated as Republican candidate
for Governor, November 8, 1910. {
Elected to United States Senate,
November 3, 1914.
Nominated for the Presidency, June
12, 1920. :
Inaugurated March 4, 1921.
Died in San Francisco August 2,
1923.
President Warren G. Harding is th
third President of the United States
to die from natural causes while hold-
ing office.
William H. Harrison, of Berkeley,
Va., ninth President of the United
States, died of pleurisy at Washing-
ton, April 4, 1841, after having serv-
ed but little more than one month.
Zachary Taylor, of Near Orange,
Va., twelfth President, died of bilious
fever at Washington, July 9, 1850,
about a year and a half after he was
inaugurated.
COOLIDGE SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT.
Vive President Calvin Coolidge be-
came President of the United States
at 2:47 a. m. Friday, eastern standard
time, when he took the oath of office
in the living room of his father’s farm
house in Plymouth, Vt., the little
mountain village where he was born.
Three hours earlier he had been noti-
fied of the death of President Hard-
ing and in a brief statement had ex-
pressed his grief at the passing of his
“chief and friend” and his purpose of
carrying out the policies “which he
began for the service of the American
people.”
The swearing-in formality was
short and ‘simple. In the little sit-
ting room of the farm house furnish-
ed in homely style like any other Ver-
mont country ‘home, the President
stood with right hand upraised at one
side of a little table with Mrs. Cool-
idge beside him. Across the table, his
father read by the light of an oil lamp
the impressive words of the oath of
“I do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the office of Presi-
dent of the United States and I will
to the best of my ability preserve, pro-
tect and defend the constitution of the
United States.”
The father’s voice trembled as he
read. Mr. Coolidge repeated the
words distinctly and calmly and at the
end added the solemn affirmation “So
help me God.”
Several hours later President Cool-
idge was on his way to Washington
to take hold of the helm of the ship
of state. :
A CHINESE ;
TOOTHPICK FACTORY.
Few people, probably, know that a
missionary and a group of Chinese
students are contributing substantial-
ly to our supply of quill toothpicks.
When, because of the war, a certain
dealer was unable to import toothpicks
from his factory in Bohemia, he asked
the United States Consular service to
find him a new source of supply, and
in the course of time he received an
answer from a Methodist missionary,
the Rev. George S. Miner, in Foochow,
the capital of the Chinese province of
Fukien.
Without a cent of appropriation
from the missionary board of his
church, Mr. Miner had equipped and
was conducting one hundred and sev-
enteen day schools for the poor boys,
and he wished to give his students
every opportunity to help themselves.
The toothpick man, who according to
an article by Mr. Paul Hutchinson in
the world Outlook, “shortly went to
China, learned all this and saw that
an unlimited supply of goose quills
was to.be found there, and straight-
way he commissioned the missionary
and his school boys to make tooth-
picks. 3 arin &
“In the city of Foochow, Mr. Miner
had built a large higher .primary
school, which isthe term used in Chi-
na for a school corresponding to the
last four years, of grammar school.
By ripping out a few partitions and
installi
first floor of the dormitory into a
toothpick factory. There was no ma-
chinery, but. there were ' plenty
boys, plenty of room, plenty of light,
plenty of air—and plenty of quills.
Thirty boys sat at long benches,
each holding in his right hand a razor-
sharp knife and a short piece of wire.
With a quick twist his left hand plae-
ed the quill in proper position. Two
cuts and a thrust of the wire to clear
the interior, and the toothpick was
done! A boy whom I watched when I
visited the factory had cut seventy-
two hundred toothpicks the day be-
fore, Mr. Hutchinson says, and the
factory at that time had produced one
hundred and sixteen thousand tooth-
picks. : :
From the cutting room the quills go
to great vats filled with soda solu-
tion in which they are soaked; then
they are washed and dried and sorted
according to sizes. After that they
are packed and shipped on their jour-
ney to America—more than two and
a half million of them every month.
Most of the boys cut quills four
hours a day and spend the rest of the
time in getting the education that is
such a precious thing in the new Chi-
na. Some of them who have so little
money that they must work all day
get two hours of school work in the
evening. But all of them are earning
their way, and the sight is an en-
heartening one to those who are
anxious about educational tendencies
in the Orient.—Ex.
A Fly Net Substitute.
The fly is no friend of the horse.
Here is a recipe from The Farm Jour-
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very effective in keeping flies away:
Oil of baybecries, 5 parts; napthalene,
10 parts; ether, 16 parts; methylated
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Our Dead President.
A Tribute by Levi A. Miller, of Pleasant
Gap, who in his capacity as a Pittsburgh
newspaper man interviewed Mr. Harding
when he was a candidate for Senator for
Ohio.
In this hour of National sorrow it is
a gratifying reflection that during the
more than a century of our history as
a government no man has been elected
to the Presidency who was unworthy
of the great office. The noble, emi-
nent statesman, whose memory we
now honor and mourn, has, with abili-
ty and fidelity met the requirements
of his exalted station. His work is
done. His hands are folded, and his
name is henceforth upon the list of
the illustrious dead. Peace to his ash-
es! May God comfort the one most
bereaved!
We all agree that President Hard-
ing was a man of unusual high culture
and high ideals; his interest in human-
ity’s progress was great and manifest.
He was an ardent friend of education
in every imaginable form from the
lowest to the highest. He was an
every day President; his personal
charms and qualities as a man had
won the affection of the whole coun-
try. This was particularly noticeable
in Washington, where from his service
in the Senate and his brief time in the
Presidential chair, he became known
personally as to no other part of the
country, except perhaps, to estimates
of those who knew him well, always
did the amiable and courteous things.
He was thoughtful and considerate.
Everybody who went to the White
House came away pleasantly impress-
ed, whether Republican, Democrat,
Populist or Socialist. It had not been
uncommon with other Presidents for
men of more or less prominence to
come away from the White House say-
ing rather unpleasant things about the
treatment they had received. With
Harding it was different, and in that
personal equation doubtless lay a
large share of his success as a public
man and party leader, in securing ac-
ceptance of policies for which he
stood. Harding was always so able
to see both sides of questions, to rec-
ognize personal and local limitations,
that his relation with the world and
with the American public was always
very pleasant and agreeable. No
cleaner man, in every sense of the
word, ever came to public view. Even
in the heat of a political fight he never
uttered a sentiment nor a sentence un-
fit for publication or for use in a mod-
el home. He had a pleasing conversa-
tional tone, except when emphasis was
required from the stump. He was
never bitter or unfair even in the se-
crecy of political conference, clearly
denoting that what may have been des-
ignated as diplomacy was a part of the’
man’s nature. He grew constantly in
the stature of statesmanship and
broadened his distinguishing views as
the development of the country com-
manded.
But to the end he maintained the
same calm courage, the same person-
al attractions, the same virtues of pri-
vate life that marked him when he
first aspired to the Senate. As a
forcible and attractive public speaker
His efforts were not of the spread-éa-
gle style; there were no rhetorical dis-
plays of language, no sophomorical
lugging in of figures for the purpose
of ornamentation. What he said was
pertinent, and in the plainest and mest
effective English. There was no haste
in his utterance, and no hesitation; it
flowed on like “Pontiac waves,” gath-
ering volume and power as it proceed-
ed, sweeping before it the sophistry
and even the argument of his oppo-
nent, as the waves do the weeds of the
sea. In speaking, he usually began
slowly and deliberately, as though he
he had few equals and no superiofs. | -
would have caressed his lips into
quicker life and feeling; every sylla-
ble coming clean cut and fervid from
his tongue, while his bright eyes glow-
ed with gleams of emotion. In view
of these undeniable characteristics it
is not surprising that that talented or-
ator, “Billy” Bryan, recently said that
President Harding was one of the
ablest and most talented orators that |
this country ever produced.
This great and good man will be
missed, and his many good qualities
will never be forgotten by a grateful
people while the world exists.
—For all the news you should read
the “Watchman.”
Ford’s 8,000,000th Car Turned Out,
7,000 a Day.
Detroit, Mich.—Ford motor number
8,000,000 went off the assembly line
at the Ford Motor company factory
July 11th, establishing a new million
production record.
The last million motors were pro-
duced in just six days less than six
months, motor number 7,000,000 hav-
ing been turned out January 17th of
this year. Production at the start of
the last million was approximately
4,800 motors a day and on the increas-
ed schedule in effect since has been
brought to more than 7,000.
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