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Of World-Wide Peace, But Will Not Join in an Entangling
AllianceHarding Declares in His Inaugural Address
Washington. March 4. President
Harding in hi; inaugural address
t.&id: . ' "
'.My 'countrymen: When one sur
'cys the world about him after the
;rcat storm, noting the marks of dc
tt ruction and yet rejoicing in the
uggeducss of the things which wtth
ttood it, if he is an American he
ireathes the clarified atmosphere
"ith a strange mingling of regret
ind new hope. We have seen world
assion spend its fury, but we con
icinnlate our republic unshaken and
told our civilization secure. Liberty
liberty within the law and civil
zatiou are inseparable and though
oth were threatened we find them
low secure, and there conies to
Americans the profound assurance
:hat our representative government
6 the highest expression and surest
fuaranty of both. ,
"Standing in this presence, mindful
f the solemnity of this occasion, feei
ng the emotions which no one may
tnow until he senses the great
fcright of responsibility for himself,
must utter my belief in the divine
inspiration of the founding fathers.
Surely that must have been God's
intent in the making of this new
ivorld republic. Ours in an organic
few which had but one ambiguity,
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vum Mw I rial ri mi ni ill a udii'
.13111 OI sacruic aim uiuuu, yyiwi un
ion maintained, the nation supreme
ind its concord inspiring. We have
iten the world rivet its hopeful gaze
on the great truths an which the
founders wrought. Wehave seen civil
iuman and religious liberty verified
it I f' J T .L- it..
imj giormea. in wic ucKiumng, "V
ld world scoffed at our experiment,
today our foundations of political
ind social belief stand unshaken, a
Inspiring example of freedom and
tivilization to all mankind. Let us
' xpress renewed and strengthened
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nevOIlon, JIl graiciux uruiv5 iui
the immortal beginning, and utter
.pur confidence in the supreme fulfill
ment. Progress Proven
Wisdom
"The recorded progress of our re
public, materially and spiritually, .in
itself proves the wisdom of the in
herited policy of noninvolvement in
Md world affairs. Conifdent of our
ability to work out our own destiny
" ind jealously guarding our right to do
so, we seek no part m directing the
destinies of the old world. We do not
mean to be entangled. We will ac
cept no responsibility except as our
own conscience and judgment in
each instance may determine.
"Our eyes will never be blinded
to a, developing menace, our ears
iever ueai to me wan ui
ion. We recoenize the new order m
the world, with the closer contacts
which progress has wrought. We
sense the feeling of the human heart
or fellowship, fraternity and co-operation.
We crave friendship and
harbor' no hate. But America, our
America, the America builded on the
foundation laid by the inspired fath
ers, can be a party to no permanent
military alliance. It can enter into no
political commitments nor assume
any economic obligations or subject
our decisions to any other than our
own authority. . f
"I am sure our own people will
not misunderstand nor will the world
misconstrue. We have no thought to
impede the paths to closer relation
ship. We wish to promote under
standing. We want to do our part in
making offensive warfare so hate
ful that governments and peoples
who-resort to it must prove the
righteousness of their cause or stand
as oufws before the bar of civili
zation, ,
Association tor Counsel
"We are ready to associate our-j
selves with the nations ot the worm,
great and small, for conference, for
counsel, to seek the expressed view
of world opinion, to recommend a
way, to approximate disarmament
and relieve the crushing burdens of
military and naval establishments.
We elect to participate in suggest-
ion and arbitration and would glad-
fy join in that expressed conscience
of progress, which seeks to clarify
and write the laws of international
relationship, and establish a world
court for the disposition of such jus
ticiable questions as nations are
agreed to submit thereto. In express
ing aspirations, in seeking practical
plans, in translating humanity's new
conception of righteousness, justice
and its hatred of war into recom
mended action we are ready, most
heartily to unite, but every commit
ment must be made in the exercise
oi our national sovereignty.
"Since freedom imoelled and in
dependence inspired and nationality
exalted, a world supergovernmeni ,is
contrary to everything we cherish
and can have no sanction by our re
nublic. This is not selfishness. It is
sanctity. It is not aloofness, it is se
curity. It is not suspicion of others,
it is patriotic adherence to the
things which made us what we are.
"Today, better than ever before,
we know the aspirations of human
kind and share them. We have come
to a new realization of our place in
the worldand a new appraisal of our
nation by the world. Ihe unselfish
ness of these United Mates is a
thing proven, our devotion to peace
for ourselves and for the world is
will established, our concern for pre
served civilization has had its im
passioned and heroic expression.
There was no American failure to
resists the attempted reversion of
civilization, there will be no. failure
today or tomorrow.
Rest on Popular Will
vThe success of our popular gov
ernment rests wholly upon the cor
rect interpretation of the deliberate,
intelligent, dependable popular will
of American In deliberate question
ing of a suggested change of nation
al policy where internationality was
to supersede nationality, we turned
to a referendum to the American
people. -There was ample discussion
Gives Up Governmental Rems
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Join Association of Nations for Purpose
and there is a public mandate in man
ifest understanding.
"America is ready to encourage,
eager to initiate, anxious to partici
pate in any seemly program likely
to lessen the probability of war and
promote that brotherhood of man
kind which' must be God's highest
conception of human relationship.
Because we cherish ideals of justice
and peace, because we appraise in
ternational comity and helpful1 re
lationship no less highly than any
piople of tKe world, we aspire to a
high place in the moral leadership
of civilization anl we bold a main
tained America, the proven republic,
the unshaken temple of representa
tive democracy, .to be not only an
inspiration and example, but the
highest agency of strengthening good
will and promoting accord on both
continents.
n Mankind neeas a woria-wiae
benediction of understanding. It is
needed among individuals, among
peoples,' among governmepts, and
it Will inaugurate an era of good
feeling to mark the birth of a new
order. In such understanding men
will strive confidently for the pro
motion of their better relationships
and nations will promote the com
ities so essential to peace. ' ,
Trade Ties Bind Closely
"We must understand that ties of
trade bind nations in closest intima
cy and none may receive except as
he gives. We have not strengthened
ours in accordance with our resources
or our genius notably on our own con
tinent, where a galaxy of republics
reflect the glory of new world de
mocracy, but in the new order of
finance and trade we mean to pro
mote enlarged activities and seek ex
panded confidence.
"Perhaps we can make no more
helpful contribution by example than
prove a republic's capacity to emerge
from the wreckage of war. While the
world's embittered travail did not
leave' us devastated lands nor deso
lated, cities, left no Raping wounds,
no breast with hate, it did involve
us in the delirium of expenditure, in
expanded currency and (Credits, in
unbalance industry, unspeakable
waste and disturbed relationships.
While it uncovered our portion of
hateful selfishness at home, it also
revealed the heart of America as
sound and fearless, and beating in
confidence unfailing. , 1
"Amid it all we have riveted the
gae of all civilization to the unsel
fishness and the righteousness oi
representative democracy; where our
freedom never has made offensive
warfare nejer has sought territorial
aggrandizement through force, nev
er has turned to the arbitrament of
arms until reason had been exhaust
ed. When the arovernments of earth
shall have established a freedom like
our own and shall have sanctioned
the pursuit of peace as we have prac
ticed it, I believe the Jast sorrow
and the final sacrifice of interna
tional warfare will have been writ
ten. Our Supreme Task
"Our suDreme task is the resump
tion of our onward normal vay. Re
construction, readjustment, restora
tion all these must follow. I would
like to have them. If it will lighten
the spirit and add, to the resolution
with which we take up the task, let
me repeat for our nation, we shall
give no people just cause to make
war upon us.. We hold no national
prejudice, we entertain no spirit Of
revenge, we do not hate, we do not
covet, we dream of no conquest, nor
boast of armed prowess.'
"Tf. desoite this attitude, war is
again forced upon us, I earnestly hope
a way may oe touna wmcn win uni
fy our individual and collective
strength and consecrate all Ameri
ca, materially and spiritually, body
and. soul, to national defense. I can
vision the ideal republic, where eery
man and woman Js called under the
flag for assignment to duty, for
whatever service, military or civic,
the individual is best fitted, where
we may call to universal service,
every plan, agency or facility, all
in the sublime sacrifice for our
country and -not one penny of war
profit shall inure to the benefit of
private individual, corporation or
combination, but all above the nor
mal shall flow into the defense chest
of the nation. There is something
inherently wrong, something out of
accord with the ideals of representa
tive democracy when one portion of
our citizenship turns its activity to
private gain amid defensive ' war
Servant Problem at
White House Solved
Mrs. Harding Learns
Washington, March 4. Mrs. War
ren G. Harding found her servant
problem solved for her when she
became mistress of the White House
today. .
Cooks, chambermaids, laundry
women, butler and pantrymen 20 in
all are provided by the government
at a cost of $30,000 a year and there
is a housekeeper who has been in
charge of the servants since the ad
ministration of former President
Taft. Previous to that time a steward
was in charge.
Only the expense of the personal
servants which a new president and
hi wife mav choose io have accom-
papy them io the White House is
borne by the chiet executive. Mrs.
Harding has retained the services of
Inez McWhorter, her cook, -and a
chauffeur, but she found at the
White House four cooks retained
by the government and four chauf
feurs. The .matter of supplying the White
House table may not prove as sim
ple for all food purchased whether
for the private table .or for 'state
functions must be paid out of the
nocket of the chief executive. Cater
ers to the White House usually are
selected by the housekeeper unless
the "first-lady ot the land desires
to follow particular preferences
w"ich may previously have been
termed.
while another is fighting, sacrificing
or dying for national preservation.
Unity of Spirit and
Purpose '
"Out of such universal service will
come a new unity of spirit and pur
pose, a new confidence and conse
cration which would make our de
fense impregnable, our triumph as
sured. Then, we should have little
or no disorganization of our eco
nomic, industrial and commercial
systems at home, no staggering war
debts, no swollen fortunes to flout
the sacrifices pf: our soldiers, n
excuse for sedition, no pitiable slack
ersm, no outrages of treason. Envy
and jealousy would have no soil for
their menacing develppment -and
revolution would be without the pas
sion which engenders it.
"A regret for the mistakes of yes
terday must not, however, blind us
to the tasks of today. War never
left such an aftermath. There has
been staggering loss -of life, and
measureless wastage of materials.
Nations are still groping for return
to stable ways. Discouraging indebt
edness confronts us like all the war
torn nations, and these obligations
must be provided for. No civilization
can survive repudiation.
"We can reduce the abnormal ex
penditures and we will. We can
strike at Avar taxation and we must.
We must face the grim necessity,
with full knowledge that the task is
to be solved, and we must proceed
with a full realization that no statute
enacted by man can repeal the in
exorable laws of nature. Our most
dangerous tendency is to expect too
much of government at-' the same
time to do for it too little.
"We contemplate the immediate
task of putting our public house
hold in order. We need a rigid and
yet sane economy, combined with
fiscal justice and it must be attended
by individual prudence and thrift
which are so essential to this try
ing hour and reassuring for the fu
ture. 4 ,
Reflection of War's
Reaction
The business world reflects the
disturbance of war's reaction. Here
in flows the life blood of material
existence. The economic mechanism
is intricate and its parts interdepen
dent and has suffered the shocks
and jars incident to abnormal de
mands,, credit inflations and price
upheavals. The normal balances have
been impaired, the channels. of dis
tribution have been clogged, the re
lations of labor and management
have been strained. We must seek
the readjustment with care and cour
age. Our people must give and take.
Prices must reflect the receding fe-.
ver of war activities. Perhaps we'
never shall know the old level of
wage again, because war invariably
readjusts compensations and the,
necessaries of life will show their
inseparable relationship, but we must
strivc-for normalcy to reach stabil
ity. All the .penalties will not be
light nor evenly distributed.
"There is no way of making 'them-
so. There js no instant step from
disorder to order. We must face a
condition of grim reality, charge off
our lossesand start afresh. It is the
oldest lesson of civilization. I would
like government to do all it can to
mitigate them. In understanding, in
mutuality of interest, in concern for
the common good our tasks will be
solved.
"No altered 'system will work a
miracle. Any wild experiment will
only add to the confusion. Our best
assurance ' lies in efficient adminis
tration of our proven system.
From Destruction to
Production
"The forward course of the busi
ness cycle is unmistakable. Peoples
are turning from destruction to pro-
t . t . .i
unction, maustry nas - sensed tne
changed order aijd our people are
turping to resume their normal on
ward way. The call i for produc
tive America to go on.I know that
congress and the administration will
ravor every wise government pol
icy to aid the resumption "and en
courage continued progress.
VI speak for administrative effi
ciency, for lightened tax burdens, for
sound commercial practices, for ade
quate credit facilities, for sympathet
ic coHcern for all agricultural prob
lems, for the omission ot unneces
sary interference of government with
business, for an end to government's
experiment in business and for more
efficient busine'ss in government ad
ministration. With all of this must
attend a mindfulness of the human
side of all activities so that social,
industrial and economic justice will
be, squared with the purposes of a
righteous people.
"With the nation-wide induction
of .womanhood into our political life,
we may count upon her initions,
her refinement, her intelligence and
her-influence exalt the social order.
We-count upon her exercises of the
full privileges and the performance
of the duties of citizenship to speed
the attainment ot the Highest state.
Prayer for Industrial
N Peace
"l wish for nil America no less
alert - in guarding against dangers
from within than it is watchful
against enemies from without. Our
fundamental law recognizes no class,
no group, no section. There must
be none in legislation or adminis
tration. The supreme inspiration is
the common wtaL Humanity hun
gers for international peaci and we
crave it with all kind. My most rev
erent prayer for America is for in
dustrial peace, with its rewards,
widely and generally distributed
amid the inspirations of equal op
portunity. ' , .'
"No one- ju3tly may deny the
equality of 'opportunity which made
us what we ate. We have mistaken
unpreparednes to embrace it, to be
a challenge of the reality; and due
concern tor making all citizens fiti
for participation wiii give added
strength oi citizenship and magnify
our achievements.
"If revolution insists upon over
turning established order, let other
peoples make the tragic experiment."
There is no place for it ill America.
When world war threatened civili
zation we pedged our resources and
our lives to its preservation, and
when revolution threatens wc unfurl
the flag of law and order and renew
our consecration. Ours is a consti
tutional freedom,, where the popular
will is the law supreme and minor
ities arc sacredly protected. Our re
visions, reformations and evolutions
reflect a deliberate judgment and an
orderly progress, and we mean to
cure our ills, but never destroy or
permit destruction by force.
"I had rather submit our indus
trial controversies to the conference
table, in advance than to a settlement
table after conflict and suffering.
The earth is thirsting for the cup
of good will. -Understanding is its
fountain source. I would like to
acclaim an era of good feeling amid
dependable prosperity and all the
blessings which attend.
Protection of Industries
.
"It has been I proved again and
again that we cannot, while throw
ing our markets open to the- world,
maintain American standards of liv
ing and opportunity and hold our
industrial eminence in such iuequal
competition. There is a luring fal
lacy in the theory of banished bar
riers of trade, but preserved Ameri
can standards require our higher
production costs to bs. reflected in
our tariffs on imports. Today, as
never before, when peoples are
seeking trade, restoration and ex
pansion, we must adjust our tariffs
to the new order. We seek partici
pation in the world's exchanges, be
cause therein lies our way to widen
influence and the triumphs of peace
We know full well we cannot sell
where we do not buy and wc cannot
sell successfully where we do net
carry.
"Opportunity is calling, not alone
for the restoration, but for a new
era in production, transportation and
trade. We shall answer it best by
meeting the demand of a surpassing
home market, by promoting self-reliance
in production and by bidding
enterprise, genius and efficiency to
carry our cargoes in American bot
toms' to the marts of the world.
An America of Homes
"We would not have an America
living within and for herself alone,
but we would have her self-reliant
independent and ever nobler, strong
er and richer. Believing in pur high-,
er standards, reared through consti
tutional liberty and maintained op
portunity, we invite the world to the
same heights. But pride in things
wrought is no reflex'of a completed
task. Common welfare is the goal
of our-national endeavor. Wealth is
not inimical to w4fjare,'- it ought -to
bft' its friendliest agency.
"There never can be equality of
rewards or possessions so long as the
human plan contains varied talents
and differing degrees of industry and
thrift, but ours ought to be a coun
try free from great blotches of dis
tressed poverty. We ought to find
a way to guard against the . perils
and penalties of unemployment. We
want an America of homes illu
mined with hope and happiness, where
mothers, freed from the necessity for
long hours of toil beyond their own
doors, may preside as befits the
hearthstone of American citizenship.
We want the cradle of American
childhood rocked under conditions so
wholesome and so hopeful that no
blight mav touch it in its develop
ment and .ye want to provide that
no selfish interest no material ne
cessity, no lack of opportunity, shall
prevent the ' gaining of that educa
tion so essential to best citizenship.
"There is no short-cut to the mak
ing of these ideals into glad reali
ties. The world has witnessed, again
and again, the futility and the mis
chief of ill-considered remedies for
social arrd economic disorders. But
we are mindful today as never be
fore of the friction -of modern in
dustrialism and we must learn its
caused and reduce its evil oine
qiences by sober and tested meth
ods. Where genius has made for
great possibilities, justice and happi
ness must be reflected in a greater
common welfare.
The Supreme Commit
ment "Service is the supreme commit
ment of life. I would rejoice to ac
claim the era of the Golden Rule
and crown it with the autocracy of
service. I pledge an administration
wherein all the agencies of govern
ment are called to serve and ever
promote an understanding- of gov
ernment purely as an expression of
the popular will.
"One cannot stand in this presence
and be unmindful of the tremendous
responsibility. The world upheaval
has added heavily to our task. But
with the realization comes the surge
of high resolve, and there is reassur
ance in belief in the God-givcu .des
tiny of our republic. If I felt that
there is to be sqje responsibility in
the executive for the America of
tomorrow, I should shrink from the
burden. But here are a hundred mil
lions, with common concern and
shared responsibility,iiswerable to
God and country. The republic sum
mons them to their duty and I invite
co-operatioji.
"I accept my part with single
mindedness of purpose and humility
of spirit and implore the favor and
guidance of God iihis heaven. With
these I am unafraid and confident
ly face the future.
"I have taken the solemn oath of
office on that passage of Holy' Writ
wherein it is asked, 'Whatdoth the
Lord require pf thee but to do justly
and to love mercy and walk humbly
with thy God?' This I plight to God
and country." '
Mrs. Harding
She Is Working for Interests of Warren
J ' " . l
President Classifies Self
At AlKTimes as News
paperman; Is Never
More at Home Than
When in Shop.
Washington, March 4. Whatever
else he may he, .Warren G. Harding
always classilies himself as an edi
tor, publisher and printer, proud of.
his professional "accomplishments
and training. His luck-charm and
most sacred possession is a printer's
rule, carried in his pocket wherever
he goes; andhjs close friends say
he would rather set a stick of type
any day than grant an audience to
an ambassador.
For more than 30 years Mr. Hard
ing's bread and butter has been earnel
by the' Marion Star, whose responsi
bilities he assumed under heavy
mortgage and whose early years he
nourished at the expense of going
hungry more than once himself. Since
his nomination for the presidency he
has faced only one public ordeal that
arottsrd emotions he could not mas
ter. That was the temporary sever
ance of the ties that bind him to the
Star. On election night, when a
group Of his employes came to con
gratulate him, his voice broke and his
big frame was shaken by sobs when
lie undertook to speak of the separa
tion that must be the price of his
triumph. .
Elected on His Birthday.
Election day was Mr. Harding's
55th birthday, and all the interests
of his lifetime had been rooted in
the immediate vicinity of Marion. He
was born at Blooming Grove, O., in
an adjoining county, the son of a
country doctor, George T. Harding,
who, still visits his patients about
Marion in the one-horse carriage of
the old-school practitioner. The new
president's mother has been' dead for
many, years and his father is re
married. Young Harding attended college at
Iberia. O., and then trie'd school
teaching for a year before he began
his newspaper career. Always a
partisan and a republican, he lost his
job as a reporter by wearing in the
presence of his democratic editor a
Blaine hat, the stovepipe which
was a badge of support of James G.
Ulaine.
Althouglyit was a pioneer newspa
per age, ' Mr. Harding's mind ran 'to
progressive notions even in the day
when the Star still was a liability,.
He broke with his first partner over
the question of installing a telephone
in the newspaper office, a proposal
which the partner held to be imprac
tical,' extravagant and revolutionary.
Although he retains a controlling
financial interest in the Star, now a
successful newspaper, Mr. Harding
will occupy but a titular relationship
to it during his presidency.
Three Public Offices. 1
Three times before he has held
public office. He crved in the Ohio
legislature and as lieutenant gov
ernor of the state, and six years ago
he was elected to the United States
senate, where he became a member
of the for5ign relations committee.
In 1916 he was chairman of the re
publican national convention.
In personal appearance the new
president is a man to attract a sec
ond look in any crowd. He carries
his 210' pounds without a hint of
obesity, although he is not quite six
feet tall: and his massive features
round out an impression of force and
distinction. His hair is iron gray
almost silver' gray making- sharp
contrast with the unusually heavy
black eyebrows that almost mask a
pair of calm .array eyes. It is only
in repose that his face takes on the
aspect of severity seen so often in his
photographs. When he talks or
listens the lines are broken by a
smile that radiates cordiality. ,
Is Very "Deliberate. ,
President Harding walks slowly,
talks slowly, and makes up his mind
slowlv; but he gives the impression
of polished deliberation rather than
of over-caution or abashment. He
is a good conversationalist and a
good listener, and has a faculty of
getting through embarrassing situa
tions with little show of emba
rassment. .As an orator Mr. Harding never
has rated himself - as , witty or elo
quent, though he attained consider
able success years ago on the Chau
tauqua platform. He seldom at
tempts fine word pictures- or humor
ous passages, 'but cultivates a delib
erate, unembellished utterance.. '
He ncvejr gives the impression of
stilted dignity. He likes to know
men well enough, to call them by
their first names and to slap them
on the back when he meets them. He
likes to shake hands and make con
versation about the weather and the
crops, and when he does he usually
lapses into the vernacular of 1 an
Ohio- countryman.
Is Very Affable.
It is Mr. Harding's affability that
has made for officials close to him
some of their hardest problems. He
never likes to refuse an audience or
to terminate a conference until his
visitor has talked himself out. On
his first campaign trip his managers
to Warren Go Harding
: ilr i;j T1-!!..
Is Indefatigable Whn
ruled that time and endurance would
not permit him to appear at way
side stations,, but after the train had
whizzed past the first waiting crowd
ho ordered that 'a stop be made
wherever the people had come 'out
expecting to see him.
The new president is unusually
fond of children, though he has none
of his own. He is a life-long Baptist
and a trustee of his home church in
Marion. He has been a member of
the Elk and Moose fraternities for
years, and since ui election, to the
presidency has become a thirty-second
degree Mason and a Shriner.
Golf is his favorite recreation and he
likes to fish but does not hunt. He
plays hard and possesses the faculty
of putting all his worries out of his
mind during vacatiorf hours.
Of all the presidents, Mr. Hard
ing's close friends liken him. most
often to McKinley, with whom he
hasn common a predominate passion
for obliteration of class and section
al ..lines.
Harding May Coin
Phrase That Will
Live for Eternity
Only Five of His 27 Prede
cessors Have Done It and
One of Them, Lincoln,
Did It Twice;
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Washington, 'March . 4. WU
President Harding utter any phrase
today noon that will be accurately On
everybody's lip?
Only five of his 27 predecessors
have done it, and one pf the five did
it twice.
The inaugural dayhrases of all
five took such a hold on the mind
and ear of the world that they eot
themselves embedded in the authori
tative books of the quotation. These
six phrases are the only specimens
ot inaugdral utterances that have
passed into the common coinage of
the English language as spoken oh
this continent. ' ;
It took 120 years and 38 inaueural
addresses to accumulate them.
Jefferson Was First.
"Honest friendships with all na
tions, entangling alliances with
none." March 4, 1801 ,(Thomas Jef
ferson). My lllustrous predecessor."
March 4, 1837 (Martin Van. Buren).
"The mystic chords of .memory.
stretching from every battlefield and
patriot grave to every living heart
and hearthstone all over this broad
land will yet swell the chorus of the
union, when again touched, as surely
they will be, by the Setter angels of
our natures." Marc.h 4, 1861 (Abra
ham Lincoln;.
Lincoln Makes Two. '
"With malice toward none, with
charity for all, with firmness in the
rig, as God gives us the right, let
us strive on to finish the work we
are in." Ma?ch 4, 1865 (Abraham
Lincoln).
"I know no method to secure the
repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so
effective as their stringent execu-tion."r-March
4, 1869 (U. S. Grant).
"He serves his party best who
serves the country best." March S,
1877 (Rutherford B. Hayes). "
Army and Immigration Bills
Given 'Pocket Veto' by Wilson
Washington, March 4. President
Wison today gave the army appro
priation bill a "pocket veto." The
president also gave a "pocket veto"
to the immigration restriction bill.
Harding Takes Oath With Hand Resting on
Bible Used at Washington's Inauguration
: Washington, D. C., ' March 4.
When President Warren G. Harding
took the oath of office as president
of the United States at the inaugural
ceremonies today he laid his hand
upon the same Bible which was used
for the first inauguration of George
Washington in 1789. .
President Harding expressed the
wish that thi3 sere anq yellow Bible,
carefully preserved for over 132
years, be used in administering the
oath of office instead of the Bible of
the supreme court of the United
States, which is customarily used at
inaugurations.
The o)d Bible is the most sacred
and treasured possession of St.
Johns lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, No. 1, of New York City. In
recent years it has been kept perpet
ually under lock and key in a safety
deposit vault to p"rotett it from the
ravages of time. It was taken from
its resting place a few days ago and,
guarded by a delegation of three
stalwart ; Masons'," selected by the
lodge, was brought to this city. These
guardians of the priceless treasure
New First Lady of Land
Has Ideas of Her Own
On Many Subjects and ,
Often Expresses
s Them.
- Washington, March 4. Florence
Klihg Harding, the new first lady of
the land, possesses an unusual de
gree of pluck and outspokenness. She
has ideas of her own on many sub
jects and she does not hesitate to
speak her opinions straight out from
the shoulder. Those who work fyr
her count her a kindly and delightful
mistress, but they know that a de
linquency will call down a reprimand
they will not soon forget. On occa
sions she has been seen shaking .a
forefinger at her husband but of
course nobody knows what that all
is about.
All her life Mrs. Harding has been
a determined and tireless worker,
not only in the details of her house
hold, but in the broader field of busi
ness and community welfare. She
comes of fighting blood, her father,
Amos Kling, having been a rugged
power of the pioneer days of Marion.
She was born there, and although in
her girlhood her parents attained to
moderate' mean?, they were not the
sort who lean to extravagance.
Aided on the Star.
When she married Mr. Harding, in
1891, his newspaper, the Star, was
not yet out of the woods financially,
and she went to work in its business
department. She applied herself to
advertising and circulation problems
with an eye for efficiency all along
the line. She watched the original
purchases of print paper and materi
als and she stood at the presses and
gave instructions to the newsboys
daily before they started on their
rounds with, the finished product.
It is said of her in Marion that
when she became the wife of the
struggling young: editor she told her
friends she expected to make him
president some day, and it is known
that at some of the most discouraging
stages, of the preconvention cam
paign last year it was' she who in
sisted most vigorously that the fight
be continued.
Active in Campaign.
During the strenuous days when
thousands were marching to the front
porch of the Harding residence on
Mt. Vernon avenue, she was the most
active figure about her husband's
headquarters. .She was beside him
every time he spoke at home or
away; she shook hands with as many
men and women as did he; and she
was in and out of his offices from
morning until night, rounding up de
tails and giving him advice on all
serious questioi.s before him..
Late on the night of the last front
porch meeting a newspaperman pas
sing the Harding home saw some
one moving about the dark recesses
of the big veranda. It was Mrs.
Harding, drawing the porch chairs
back against the wall for the night
and softly whistling a quiet little ai
of contentment.
"You seem happy enough," he
called across to heaf
"I surely am," she replied, "and
why shouldn't I be? Isn't it wonder-,
ful?"
Mrs. Harding Is Methodist.
Mrs. Harding is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and
the Hardings alternate attendance
between that and 4hc Baptist church,
of which the new president is a
member. ' She loves children and
chooses horses and dogs for her
pets. Cruel treatment of dumb ani
mals arouses her to militant protect,
and on more than one occasion she
has stopped on the streets of Marion
and Washington to reprimand a
drayman or a cabby fot abusing his
horse. In her younger days she was
a skilled horsewoman.
have never allowed the Bible from
their sight during the inauguration
trip and they were stationed on the
inauguration platform tdday, hand
ing the book to Chief Justice White,
who administered' the oath to the
president. After the oath was admin
istered the Bible was immediately
returned to their keeping.
The Bible became the instrument
of. George Washington's induction
into office in a curious way. The first
president was sworn into office at
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York Qty, which stood on the site of
inc present suD-ireasury. mere was
not a single copy of the Bible in the
building and Chancellor Livingston,
who was to administer the oath, was
master of St. Johns lodge of Ma
sons. He sent a messenger to the
lodge rooms nearby for the lodge
Bible and Washington placed his
hand upon it as the oath was deliv
ered, and at its close pressed his lips
to he open page before him.
The- Bible will be returned to the
safety deposit vault after the inaugu
ration today,
' V
Coolidge Tells
Senate He Will
Strive to Please
Vice President's Inaugural
Address Sets Forth tdeals
Which Will uide Him in
Exercising Duties. j
Washington, March 4. Following
is the full text of the inaugural ad
dress of Vice President Coolidge:
"Five generations ago there was
revealed to the people of this na
tion a ndv relationship between man
and man, which they declared and
proclaimed in the American consti
tution. Therein they recognized a
legislature empowered to express
the will of the people in law, a ju
diciary required to determine and
state such law, and an executive
charged with securing: obedience to
the law, all holding their office not
by reason of some superior force, ,
but through the duly determined
conscience oi their countrymen.
"To the house, close to the heart
of the nation, renewing its whole
membership by frequent elections,
representing directly the people, re
flecting their common purpose, hai
been granted a full measure of tho
power of legislation and exclusive
authority to originate taxation.
Is Reviewing Court.
"To the senate, renewing its
membership by degrees, represent
ing in part the sovereign states, has
been granted not only a full meas
ure of the power of legislation but,
if possible, far more important
functions. To it is entrusted the
duty of review, that to negotiation
there may be added ratification and
to appointment approval: But ita
greatest function of all, too little
mentioned and too little understood
whether exercised in legislating or
reviewing, is the. preservation of
liberty.
"Not merely the rights of the ma
jority, they little need protection,
but the rights of the minority, from
whatever source they may be as
sailed. The great object for us to
seek here, for the t constitution
identifies the vice presidency with
the senate, is to continue to make
this chamber, as it was intended by
the fathers, the citad of liberty.
An enormous power is here con
ferred, capable of much good or ill.
-open it may be to abuse, but neces
sary, wholly and absolutely neces-.
sary to ecure the required result.
Continues Its Goo
"Whatever its faults, whatever its
human imperfections, there is no
legislative body in 11 history that
has used its power with more wis--dom
and discretion, more uniformly
for the execution of the' public will,
or more in harmony with the spirit
of the authority of the people which
has created it, than the United States
senate. .
"I take up the duties the people
have assigned me under the consti
tution which we can neither enlarge
nor diminish, of presiding over this
senate, agreeably to its rules and
(egulations, deeply conscious that it
rill continue to function in harmony
with its higher traditions as a great
deliberative body, without passion
and without fear, unmoved by
clamor, but most sensitive to the
right, the stronghold of government
according to law, that the vision of
past generations may be more and
more the reality of generations yet
to come."
House and Senate
Lose 129 Members
Three Retiring Congressmen
Will Return
Senators.
as
Washington, March 4, One hun
dred and twenty-nine members o!
the house and senate retired today to
private life. Most of them went out "
in the backwash from the tidal wave
which swept the republican party
into full control of all the function'
of the government, but some few, re
publicans as well as democrats,
elected not to run for their seats.
The actual number of house mem'
bers quitting was 118, but' three ol
these McKinley of Illinois, (Har
reld of Oklahoma, republican, and
Caraway of Arkansas, democrat, go .
to the other end of the capitol as
senators. McKinley's house record
was 14 years.
Large G. O. P. Majority.
The political landslide of Novem
ber 2 gave the republicans a much
larger working majority in the hous
too big in the opinion of some
leadcrs.v The new extra session ex
pected to be called soon will start
with 301 republicans. U2 democrats
and one socialist. The lone prohibi
tionist in the closing congress under .
which the country went dry was
beaten. There is one man shy,
from Pcnnsylvania-at-large. The rei
publican vacancy caused by the
death of the member-elect, will not
befilled until fall.
The new senate, which convened
today in special session to act o;i
nominations by President Harding,
contains 59 republicans and 37 dem
ocrats, giving the republicans a ma
jority of 22 as against only two ma
jority during most of the last con
gress, when the lineup'was general
ly 49 republicans and 47 democrats.
The seating of two republicans in
January in place of democrats gave
the former a slightly larger work
ing margin during the last fev
weeks.
Woman in House.
For the second time in liistory
the house will have a woman menr
bcr, Miss Alice M. Robertson of
the Second Oklahoma district, who
succeeds William W. Hastings.
For the second time in the history
of the house the territory east of
the" Mississippi and north of the
Ohio river will dominate legislation,
republicans from that area being in
full control and strong enough to
overcome all combinations of re
publicans and democrats froni the
south and '
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