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Show Harding Praises Covered -Wagon- President Harding, in hla apeach at Meacham. Ore., gave high geaia to the Paramount picture, "The Covered Cov-ered Wagoa." Tha tribute wai a-px-lally remarkable eoming from the president, aa It waa delivered oa the Old Oregon trail ta children of the men and womea who made th trip to Orrgon In covered wane. In his spoech the preeident aald: Not yry long ago I saw The Covered Cov-ered Wagon In the moving picture. I sat entranced. There we mors than the pirtureeqna, mors than sorrow sor-row nJ d.r'fr.turnirvrnenL mnre than appallt.g ciinractera atiti enthralling hervism. Tnere was mor than tl-e revelation of the Irresolute who tuiled In f:tncM to survive, more than tragedy trag-edy and cttnedy In their Inseparaol bleirrt. There was more than the arouta who ourpased our fancies, more than nature s relentless barriera revealed. Everywhere aflame was the aoul of unalterable purpose and the commanding alurdlneaa of elemental great neea. . , "Much the same spirit was revealed In the making of tha Central Wret, where the dftermlneU pioneers budded budd-ed In the oonflderico wfii. o titer h-d la themaelvea. Tiver hauled tvila a-v-ture and every ouala.ie which thev encountered. beroa perished without famt'a aclalm, and Uvey conuuernd and wroia their big part In the making mak-ing Of the greater rrpuhlic. Their vle-tory vle-tory proclaimed the strwr.grh of resolute reso-lute purpctoe, and the human genius, ron fl den t In 1 leal f and eager to achieve on tta own account. 0 "The le-envnn cannot fall to Impress Itself In the test of self-reliant cltl-enahlp cltl-enahlp there came the msged, militant mili-tant and wboleeom West. Ureatef things wre wrought, lanrer awm pkiehineala war re-orde1. sreatet vie- I tory was won In tma whoiee-me. In-1 spirmg Ind ivuiuiilien) than wii ever attend paterrelism o ''n'Tiental aasumptlon of the tasrt wntrh are the natural lnhfrltanre of the t clrrs who may bottar servs for ttoen.w. ta." |