Show HARDINGS HARDING'S DAD OBSERVES 8 ERVES HIS l TH BIRTHDAY I Father of President Hitches Hitch Hitch- es Cs Up Sorrel Mare and Drives to Marion Star Sta Says Says to Eat Rye Bread MARION 0 O. June 12 Dr George T. T Harding arding father of ot the president was up ea ear ealy ly y today hitched h d up up his sorrel mare and after aCter a hearty breakfast drove to the Marion Marlon Star building where the presidents president's newspaper newspaper r is 10 b lo located and prepared to receive congratulations For today Dr Harding is Js celej celebrating cele cele- brating his seventy ninth birthday Just three years ago toda today he j recalled as he came cant came into the Stars Star's edit editorial rial rooms rooms he was perhaps the happIest J man in the United States for his son had bad been nominated nominated nomi nomi- I n ted as the stardard standard bearer bearer of ot the tho Republican party Im a pretty good man Dr Harding commented as the force torce of ot the Star congratulated him Asis Asis As Asis is his custom each day he went Into the city room of ot the Star the I first thing on his arrival at his office and proceeded to read the morning papers commenting briefly on the nights night's news You rou dont don't need to tel te tell 1 me the world Isn't better I know better better bet bet- I ter he be commented as he be finished reading the papers lIe He then began I to to reminisce about his boyhood i days spent on a farm farm near Bloom Bloom- Bloom I where the president was born Asked how he had bad kept in I such a good state of ot health for heis he heis is seldom ill he declared that 1 I eating rye bread and oatmeal was the secret for tor he said that I keeps the arteries clean Dr Harding received from the president a gift of oC money Congratulatory Congratulatory Congratulatory Con Con- I gratulatory messages came from all parts of ot the country I |