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Show REED'S TRIBUTE TO HARDING. In the life of President Harding there was nothing of that "glamour which goes with riches, nothing of that arrogance which sometimes comes with success," Senator James Reed of Missouri today told members mem-bers of the Rotary club at a memorial mem-orial meeting held to honor the chief-executive, chief-executive, who died in California last Thursday. "Sitting in the sunlight ot great triumph," said the senator, "Mr. and Mrs. Harding appeared plain, typical Americans. The president regarding re-garding his success not as a bauble of glory or a crown of honor, but as a great responsibility assumed. "None will question his sincerity of purpose, his .high impulse of heart. As the good' a man does lives after him and is never interred with his bones, so down the centuries to come will shine the kindly light of the life of Warren G. Harding." "Poitical differences should have nothing to do with our estimates of men. declared the senator, adding that in the close and: intimate association asso-ciation of the senate, many friendships friend-ships were formed regardless of political po-litical alignment. "Mr. Harding" he said, "was an intense party man, but that was because be-cause he believed the policies of his party were necessary to the welfare of the republic, and so sought that instrumentMitv to realize his wish that the country might prosper and Its people remain content and happy. "His sincerity of purpose, the intense in-tense ardor of his patriotism, the kind, affectionate regaTd: in which he held the people of this land have never been challenged by any reputable repu-table man and the nation today stretchses forth its hand to lay the tribute of affection upon the bier of its departed chieftain." |