Show Log Cabins and Fool Friends 0 Q HARDING HARDING- shows good sense in disclaiming disclaim disclaim- SENATOR S 5 ing lug that he lie was born in a n. log cabin He was not born in a Jog log cabin aud what particular virtue thero i is jn having been born in a n log cabin anyway ay it is difficult difficult cult cult t 16 tO se see Log cabins w were ro common in Kentucky when o Abraham Lincoln was born but they were not numerous numerous numer numer- ous OtIS in Ui Blooming Grove 0 in 1865 when Warren G. G Harding was born Lincoln was born in a n. log c cabin in and md was not ashamed of it but buL his greatness was due to himself and not to the environment of his birth Perhaps it may may add acid interest or glamour t to the story of a successful man to say that be he sprung from froin humble surroundings and fought his way to distinction If this is the aim of the obsequious friends friends' of the tho R Republican Re Rb- publican nominee for the presidency ncy who maIl maIla manufactured a tho I ho the log cabin story they could have accomplished it without exaggeration But politicians seeking to make political capital out of log cabins do not seem to been be been been en rapport with Senator Harding A man in-an of or less candor and honesty might have contented himself to keep kiep silent and let the myth be used for all it might be worth but Harding docs does not seem to be that kind of a man man He lIe promptly nailed the falsehood before it became be be- came ame current l As s a 3 matter of fact poverty in in early life me inc may mayto tend jena to retard rather than to promote the growth of those qualities we wish to see in our Presidents Greatness is not ot produced by straitened circumstances log ca cabins ins and restricted educational opportunities but rather in L spite of these We Ve have left the thc log cabin era long behind us Lincoln had bad won the Civil war when Harding Hard Hard- ing jug was born bornt It would be bc difficult for Harding to ride into office as as a a n splitter rail or a boy who read his Books hooks by the light of an open chimney of pine logs Fool friends are sorrowful pests |