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Show .... , ' HARDING WOULDN'T CHEAT HIS FELLOW NEWSPAPER MEN A lot of twaddle will be written about . President-elect Harding and his family in. the next four years. Much of it will be so-called human interest stuff, sloppy sentimental trash framed to arouse emotion in the saucer heads, those men and women whose shallow skulls have not room for brains. Romance will be written on the way in which the President smokes a cigar, on how "the first lady in the land" enjoys washing a baby more than an evening at the opera. There will be stories of the Hardings and the Hardingettes, the cousins and the aunts and the rest of the vermiform vermi-form appendices. All of which is a iity, because it robs the recital ' facts of a real emotion. Read what Warren G. Harding had to say of his fellow newspaper men on the occasion of his birthday, when the issue of the election was all but decided. Pathos needs no adjectives. "Feiiow members of the Star: You and I have been associated together to-gether for many years. I know you, and you know I wouldn't cheat you. T am coming into- a position of very great responsibilities if the present returns are Interpreted correctly. I don't know whether I can meet them adequately. I know one thing. lean meet them with the same Justice and fairness as in the dealings which I have had with you. "There is my old friend Miller, the oldest employee on the Star. 30 years we've been together. Somtlmes the road was thorny. Sometimes I have known him to draw his ay 'when I had borrowed it from my mo- tber. J Thrre were other times when 1 had i to borrow Miller's pay back from ihim in the morning. I am just a ; plain fellow, but if I've been on the .square with you. 1 wouldn't cheat you now. T am going to be on the square with everybody." J Has any man since Lincoln match-! match-! ed in simplicity these words of the country publisher President? |