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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1923. THE PRESIDENT Shipping Head Accused of Being in Too Intimate Touch With Harding. fOostlssW from ps , usede t grt Om.) Inspiration from the Republican leaders and the e Republican metropolitan newspapers of that day. In those long ago yean Harding, by some accident or other, became peculiarly devoted to the Idea of America having a great merchant marine. , He wrote tutorials about It, and thought about It, and arrived at conclusions about It, long before he was president and long before he met Mr. Lasker. Harding was evolving his ship subsidy Ideas la hla sanctum at Marion Ohio, at a time when Lasker was stilt In private life, in the role of owner of the advertising agency of Lord A Thomas ef Chicago, and before Lasker tiad given any thought to a ship eubddy or any. thing else, maritime or marine, whith did not happen to be in the line of hit business. The ship subsidy policy, In short, was liardinjfs own. it developed While he was still editor, it grew upon him when he was a senator, and about the time he was elected president it came forward In his mind as a policy with which he would like to identify his administration, He thought it would be a fine and thing, sentimentally, commercially patriotically, if his period - in the White House could be marked by the rebirth of such an American mercantile marine as this country used to have in Its early days. Lasker became associated with It only after Harding had appointed him chairman of the shipping board. ' Power Overestimated, In the broader sense, Lasker has never had, nor pretended to have, the Influence in publlo affairs which Is commonly ascribed so him in Washington gossip and which is reflected in the dispatches quoted above. It hi quite true that Lacker has been. In Washington not as lobbyist and not close to the as politician, bat as good companion, the common phrase, W hits House." He haa been, in tact, faithful friend, trusted colleague and In conscientious and enthusiastic de which is often implied that Kprope and tn European history by fender of ths presidential Impulses And it and purpose the phrase the palace pet." A loyal and compelling la because the palace pet" is always personality and an acute and vehethe target for all aorta of cynicism, ment business Intelligence theee have envy and gossip that Lasker has been been Mr. Lasker's virtues not without the subject of so much Washington producing in him a certain tincture of talk. It is all a part of th nature of corresponding defect'' the situation. Story Toils Fact But Lasker has been chiefly and Mr. Hard says things that Uvo merely one of Harding's playmates. aruThese relation beths facts about And Harding appears to be a man Mr. leaker. Mr. tween and who makes a distinction between his Harding Lasker is the companion ef th presiplaymate the companions of his dent's or dictator not the lebmre, leisure, and, on the other band, his of his public policies But that All of us who have official advisers. has th association not followed things In Washington since prevented Harding came to the front ran name a from coating Harding something, (Thera is a doten playmates Harding ha had and mostly in petty way still has. But all of ns learned long hint of this In ths closing line of Mr. Hard-In ' friendly characterisation,) ago that these playmates have mt all countries and at ail times "the seemed to have any particular Influ ence in determining Harding a public palac pet always rough tlms Again and again we have of it. To soma degree the palac that policies. observed that men who were and are indulges In a pet has a rough time Hardings frequent companions on the of it, too. Undoubtedly, the feeling In golf links, on his Mayflower trips and the senate and In the bouse, and In In hla H htte House evenings hav had Washington generally, about the Intino particular identification with the macy between Lasker and Harding was responsible for losing to Harding public policies that nave com out of aom of th support for his ship subthe White House. For publlo policies on relies his official advisers. sidy bill which he might otherwise Harding He relies on Hughes for foreign reia. hav had. It appears to be a facilions ind on Hoover for strikes, un- al least It Is so charged that In the employment and such a miscellaneous writing of the ship subsidy bill Harvariety of other things that Hoover ding did not consult anybody except has come to be more or less the man Lasker or at least did not consult who fi.ks the leading role in Let enough others. Jt was commonly said George Do It" In the Harding adraln that this bill, which waa ond of th Istrallon. It Is for his recreation and most important of th admlnlstra amusement chiefly that Harding relies tlon's career, was never shown to the cabinet aa on hla playtime intimates. whole, nor even to any individual member of th cabinet. It Real Position Rhown. also commonly said that the bill As to Lasker's real relation to Har- waa never shown before being introding, the. best and most accurate duced to any ef th Republican leadthe present writer has seen a ers In the house and or, at in the Nation a few weeks ago. least, not to-- enough-o- f senate, This t came from the pen of one of th being the case, a certainthem. number of best artists of characterisation now senators and congressmen said: It's writing for the American press, name- their bill Harding's and Lasker'; ly, William Liard, and it regd in part now let them put It through." This as follows was the sentiment which moved many "The mvstery of Mr. Lasker's inti- who didnt actually vote macy with the president, like virtual- againstperhaps the bill,- - but certainly did ly all of Washington's mysteries, la train from giving it that heartiness of no mystery. Mr. came into aggressive support which might hav Republican national politics in ths made th difference between the sucyear 1920 with wealth, amusing con- cess that It could have been and the versation, intense vitality, a habit of failure that it wa vlaving golf, an inclination to play Also, it it undoubtsdif a fact that ridge, a capacity for remembering on of th most things stories and a talent for telling them, that happened toembarrasing Harding during an aversion toward the league of na- his administration rests on Lasker s conviction a earners tions, that wags shoulder There have been few should earn wages and leave ths spinthings that hurt the administration ning of ths world on Its axis to so much as the disclosure that liquor others, a business Judgment not so wan being sold on ships owned and statistical as Mr. Hoover's, a personal operated by the United States shipcharm not so austere as Mr. Hughes a, ping That seriously mistaken a profound Interest and enjoyment In policy board. was Lasker's own. lacker had sitting up and being companionable to bear for it. and, ths responsibility long after Mr. Hoover and Mr. Hughes b It said to his credit, he didn t have retired to their studies and shrink th from It was responsibility. there wa are! The mystery would be rather serious mistake of Judgment, if such a man did not become an intiIn field and a a is mistake which mate of the president's. , , , Mr. even more important than Lasker has lived through his time in sometime It field of tast Judgment th onght not to have been done. The United States ought not to hav been put in the position of being a cheat, a bootlegger and a hypocrite. But Lasker, characteristically headlong and impetuou being so intent on making a success of the shipping board and so intent on getting th largest amount of business for the ships h a as responsible for, asked his general counsel whether liquor could be sold on those vessels within th letter of th law. Having got th assurance of his general counsel that It was legal, he went ahead and did It. Hs failed to realise that this was case where there is a higher law than th letter of the actual law. He suffered a good deal for it and, because of th intimacy between himself and Harding, Harding also suffered a good deal for it. It was assumed, because ef the intimacy of the two men. that Harding must have known about it and must .have authorised it. This waa peculiarly unjust to Harding, for as it happens he Is Just Ths sort of mn who would not do that sort of thing, who would recognise the obligationsOfof propriety as superior to th letter any law. Ths Incident cost Harding a good deal. But It was of him that he never welched or whmtpered He never tried publicly to throw the burden on Ijtdker's shoulder although it would o thoroughly characteristic of Las-- 1 kerg generous Impulsiveness to do his best to gather in' all ths blame to himself and absolve his friend and chief. Harding bore It all with his customary urbanity and with that fidelity to his friends which la on ef his most striking characteristic Many another president might have bawled out" Lasker and thus saved himself. But Harding didn't. The Incident didnt cause any Interruption In the inti- macy of th two tpen. Harding found other way and deliberate ways, of stopping the sale of th liquor without seeming to rebuke or humiliate his auboralnal Ability Coneeded. Practically everybody, even those in the who, phrases quoted above, whisper about Lasker behind his back. Concedes his business energy and concedes the fact that he has made a success of the shipping board aa much of a success as anybody can make or any business institution that haa to be run under the limitations Of government red tape. One ought not ts state this other than strongly. Lasker has made a really striking success out of a thing which, before he took hold of It, waa about as unhappy a moos aa Washington has teen for a haa pic-lur- iTrr-n- ,- E3il J!f3 Jj;rii3CT!Tr I The greatest May Sale our store has ever held, is now in full swing. The price on every piece of furniture in our entire stock has been cut 20 to 50. 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It was merely meant to be a humorous and friendly satire on lasker'S dynamic bnergy the fury with which he used to gallop up and down the country Lasker Invented serving his client ways of selling automobiles, breakfast food and snaps every other sort of He was a commodity. a man who put things over" ana put them over with a bang. In the course of his career he added to hla ownership of the advertising agency th ownership also of many of the institutions with which he came into contact. He waa the owner or the owner of automobile factories, part tire factories, breakfast food factories and enough other institutions to make him several times a millionaire while he waa still In his early forties. Motives Not Clear. It waa then that Lasker turned to politics. What hla motive may hav been no on can know, although a good many people Indulge tn the liberty of guessing one motive or another. Possibly he waa Just plain tired of making money, of selling and still more things, and thing longed for some different Sort of game as an outlet for his furious and unceasing energy. Lasker's first entry Into national politics was as the friend and one of the managers ol the fortunes qf Hiram Johnson tn the Whether Laa-kcampaign of 1919-2- 9 had any particular identity with Job neon's policies and political Idea or whether he had merely made up his mind to get into politics and considered Johnson to present as good an opening aa any other, as to that anybody is- at liberty to gueaa Itr any Into vent, Lasker threw himself Johnson's effort to get the Republican nomination with hla customary headlong energy. He really thought John-eo- n was going to succeed. Lasker is that always of the temperament thinks his man is going to win th rac Johnson lost. But Lasker didn't kiss his aish to be In national politic and with Lasker to be in anything at all is tit be in the heart of It. 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Regular price 2230.00. May Bale or y I VViLJ You o ST.- Carriages EAST FIRST SOUTH 51-- 57 Western distributors Life-Tim- HAVEN-- O f ZAMhitney Baby Marion was under way. La-dr- ap- pears to have turned up Inat Marion the and tendered hi service of advertlin and salesmanto h himself sold Harding, ship, which mean that he persuaded Harding to set a rather high value on his services snd hi personality. That was the beginning of the acquaintance between him and Harding. Harding accepted tha proffer of services, and the service turned out to be rather more dynamic snd lavish' thaw thews contributed by almost anybody els Aside from the concrete value of the did for the Republican things candidate during the 1920 campaign, and aeble fronv h resourcefulness ef ths ideas that he contributed. Harding appear to have acquired s liking for Laskers personality. Possibly there may be s natural kinship between s as temperament as deliberate and surefooted as Harding's is and a temperament 1 as dashing and headlong as Lasker'S Possibly the more phlegmatic temperament gets an agreeable Stimulus from the excessively dynamic one. In any event. Harding came to like Lasker and determined to have him around when h should be in the W hite UuuTo Entor Newspaper Field.' after he reThey say tires from the shipping board, is going Into the newspaper business tn large way, using his considerable fortune to. aa ths Washington phrase haa ir, "buy string of newspaper" hi IntenIf it Is true that this will mske a considerable tion he splash tn that puddle. Lasker la a forceful, business man, but he la more. Some- of the things ho does seem a bit crude, a bit too direct. He seem to assume rather more universally than Is ths fact that the motive is dominant with ail man. 'As a business man. - when he is a seller he says; "Here- are my good and this is the price." When he I a buyer ho avs; "I want that, and here ts my checkbook what is th price?" 1 - It'a a bit disconcerting to men of more Borne person say deliberate mind that when Lasker starts to sell you anything Its mors comfortable to take it than to try to build up a dam the Niagara torrent of his againji words. But Lasker has a world of common sense that will help a good deal when expanded and distributed through his nesrspapera. if he should buy any. Mors, he has aa underlying streak of Idealism that may. show itself in surprising wav The present writer, who never hsd sny particular susceptibility to laskerS supersalesmanship. who rather deplores the overemphasis on salesmanship and commercial success in American lif was rather impressed by a story about Lasker that had nothing to do with One day, many his business surces years ago, Lasker, happening to be in a downtown district of Fhirago, saw a crowd In a saloon listening to a woman speaker. Lasker stopped t o the edge of the crowd to listen. The woman was talking about the plays of Shakespeare and was talking well. After the 'meeting ne went to the speaker and asked her whv she took a saloon for her forum. She replied that she was regarded by the Chicago police as a radical ard suspected of having had some association with the Haymarket riots. For that reason she wa proscribed by thy police and prevented, partly by the police and partly by poverty, from hiring a real kali. W hereupon Leaker-hire- d the byst hall in Chicago (or her and paid the rent himself. Lasker as a newspaper owner might 4o something like that. -- Upham Expects Chicago to Land Convention CHICAGO. May 8 tree surer of th Fred W. national Up-ha- Re- e convention for the sixth time at Ha forthcoming aenoh-a- . Commenting last night on a statement made In 8t. Louis by Jacob L, Babler, committeeman for Missouri, that a majority of tho fifty-tw- o members of the onrrsnitteo had pledged themselvea to Vote for Chicago as the convwntkm city, Mr. e , said: "Of course, X don't know the committee arm do whew H what mretaln-Decembto cboooe a We have had It flv? Gmea" city and I assume that if w an pull to-th Plrit we can iaha tne convention as&in nvt year," Georg K. Brennan, IWnois apokes- Kis "rtlcnt- Jd hii belief that Chicago could entertain the Democratic national if it went after the convention In earnest. ' Lp-ha- public n committee, can see no obstacles that will preClara, and the glares with vent Chicago from being hoax to the you; dim. juid you world dim alone. . er -- |