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Show Biography of Ygrrea G. Hardlag given authority" with hla approval to Increase or lower rates within prescribed llmltatlona. Upon signing sign-ing ths bill, the president declared It constituted ths greatest tariff reform re-form In American hlatory. OF PIONEER STOCK ' '..' Mr. Harding cam of hardy pioneer pio-neer stock. Ha vrai bora at Blooming Bloom-ing Grove. Morrow county,. Ohio, November I, lle, th son of a country doctor, George T. Harding. Like moat country boya. he went to Country school between morning and night chorea and later attended college at Iberia, Ohio. He tried echool leaching for a year, but having hav-ing had -a amell of prlnter'a Ink while atlcklng type for hla college paper, the lure draw him Into tha new ape par field. Hla family meantime had moved to Marlon, In an adjoining county, where he obtained hla first newspaper news-paper Job and where hla Ufa Inter-eata Inter-eata wars esntered thereafter. Mr. Hardlng'a ambition waa to become a publisher end It waa resllsed st the age of 1. whsa he bid In the Marlon Star at a sheriffs sale. Ths paper waa purchased under a heavy mortgage and hla frlenda have often said that ths struggles -nd hardships which were hla in making mak-ing thla paper a soocees hsd much to ds In fashioning his character and developing a broad patience and tolerance which wera hla chief eharaeterlatlc twenty year ago. Whatever kla other attainment. Mr.- tt ai illng's groseest .fii Ide wss In his professional eccompllahmeate and training aa printer, editor and publisher. Nor did th Interests end exacting dutlea of hla high eflfce serve to dull hla delight In puttering about a com peeing room. On his first trip back home after hla Inauguration ha want to, the Star office, pulled oft hla coat, rolled up hla aleevea, borrowed a chew of tobacco and helped "make up" the paper- Hla luck charm waa a prlnter'a rule carried always I a vest pocksL As his ambition had carried him Into the ranks of publlaher, ao hla fancy took him Into the realm of polltlca. Krom tha flrat ha waa an ardent part lean and hla Inalatence upon westing a "stoveplp hat." ths nan'toof support of JameaO Blaine, while a reporter on a Demo- j cratlo newspaper, brought him s harp reprimand from bis - chief, who held It to be Inconattent for a worker on a Democratic paper to so prominently dlaplay th symbol of hla republicanism. ABLE SPEAKER. : Th future president's ability as a stump apeaker won him early recognition from his local party leaders. Marlon county then waa In the Democratic column and he undertook un-dertook to switch It to the republican republi-can party, but hla flrat effort at office on his party ticket resulted In a defeat, although he commanded an unaxpected vote. Mr. Harding's first political offlc wss that of Ohl siste, senetor, to which he wss sleeted at tha age of 14. lie served two terma and later waa elected lieutenant governor of hla tats In 110 he sought tha governorship, gov-ernorship, but waa defeated. VxyuT yeare later he wes sleeted to the United 8tstes sensts. where he eerved six years, much of ths ttms sg a member of ths Important foreign for-eign relations committee. From this place he waa elevated to the presidency, presi-dency, the first eenator. to . be . elected chief executive. Early In hla years of political service ser-vice hs met William McKlnley. to whom his closs friends-hsvs moat often likened him. and 1th whom ha had In common a predominant passion for obliteration of claas and up between the two men. Mr. Harding also was closs In later daya to Theodore Rosaevsll, Bens-tors Bens-tors Foraksr and Penrose . and other high In hie party counsels Ths prsaldsnt waa a lifelong Hap-list Hap-list snd wss a truates of his home ohurch In Marlon. He also had been a member of the Kike and Monae fraternities for yesrs snd sftar hla election ss president he became a thirty-second degree Mason snd a Bhrlner. Ooll waa his .favorite recreation, but ha ale liked to flah. although hla opportunltlea t that a port wera limited after he came to the White Houae. He played hard and pnsseeeed the faculty of putting all hla worries behind him durlrg his recreaHon hours Warren O. Hardlror brought to th presidency an Infinite patience and kindnsia In dealing with public pub-lic questions and men which enabled en-abled hint to handle th problems of government without' the stress snd worry which had handicapped many of his predecessors. Whatever slss historian may say of him. there probably will be little lit-tle dlsputs that few chief exeou-tlvea exeou-tlvea cam to office In peam time feeing problema mora evmpik In their nature or greater In number. All International affair were unbalanced un-balanced aa never . before, with msny principal settlements of the great war .still to be effectuated. At bom th work of reconatructlon had only just begun, with business depressed, agriculture prostrate and unemployment general. ' How Mr. Harding measured p to th task before him muet be left to th historian, but hla frlenda aaid that coming to the presidency aa ha did with an open mind, a deslr for counsel and aa Intimate knowl-sdgs knowl-sdgs of ths processes of government govern-ment acquired In hla services In the senate, he waa the type of man needed for ths Job ac auch a tlma. Preaching upon every occasion th deotrln of Americanism, hs set his face resolutely againac "entangling alllancee," whfle thua adhering to what h Wa p teased tor term th principles otgih founding fathers. Hs nsvsrtheiess Isnt ths moral assistant as-sistant of ths government In the efforts to bind up th wound of th world. , , PROBLEMS SETTLED. '. t -i .That Influence waa once declsrsd by him to be not Inconslderabr. and ao America, under hla guidance, had a part, ilnt though It was. in th main. In affecting th settlements settle-ments of many vexing world question ques-tion a. Its chlsf contribution was tha Waahlngton arms conference, at which the. principal powers covenanted cov-enanted to limit the alsa of Uielr navies and thua lift from tag weary peoples tha burden of maintaining th race for naval supremacy, ontvthheroferofrmjn gel - la effecting srorld sslUeroent went anvlnslstsnc that Americas right b -recognised. Jn- polished phrase, but with a directness of sxprssslon that waa not to bs misconstrued, mis-construed, ths world wss givsn to undsrstsnd from the very first ori the Harding administration that th United Biatee freely respecting tha rights of other natlona, asked for herself only that to which aha was entitled-tn almpl Justice, snd that shs could aoospt nothing leea. While In his dealings with congress con-gress Mr. Harding preferred . th role of counsellor rather than dictator, dic-tator, .he apeedlly removed any doubt that his gift of patience denoted de-noted any lack of purpose one h had charted a course. Thua he told congress thst soldiers' bonus legislation legis-lation slther should carry the means of financing or be postponed, and when the leglslstor put aaid hla advice h promptly vetoed th bill they eent him. SOUGHT ECONOMY. HI tenacity of purpos wss further fur-ther exemplified In his - continual pounding for economy In publlo expenditure ex-penditure and again In hla Inalatence Inalat-ence that eongreee pasa th merchant mer-chant marine aid bill with a vlsw to curtailing . the continual drain which the operation of th war-built war-built commercial fleet hsd become opouTh trsasm-y. Htcgreatsac slngls stfort In ths field of domss-tic domss-tic legtalstloa was In behalf of this measure. ' Mot Infrequently Mr. Harding was called upon to play th role of peacemaker In governmental affairs. af-fairs. Hs Intervened In a dlsputs between congress snd ths treasury ss to the form gsnsral tax revision wss to take, and the program he approved waa carried eut in the main with a reduction of more than hair a billion In th nation' tax burt!en. . Llkewlss hi counsel settled ths long controversy between the house snd ssnata upon ths question of American valuation In - th tariff Isw. Hs proposed In It place a flexible tariff arrangement ander which the tariff commlaalon waa |