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Show ' 0 Back To Ol' Home Towns of Harding I -- (Upper loft) Harding's home In Cor- ' Fba with Mrs Addle Baker In the XX ; foreground. (Upper rihi i Harding 1 ' nt the age or eight. (Center) Some AyCv, Jfl .) of today'' Corsica 1" - (Lower left) . fw.C-t'- Mfife L " t.yAyf Mr- Klin Dlekerson. Hnnllnc's atmt.- n. . ;-3g.V. ' "-'fe ' '' I.oren (left) and mos Haitlliuj, eons- -r.. ins of the presidential nominee. "- IBERIA AND CORSICA BOTH CLAIM HADRING HONORS 15Y ALFRED SEGAL . N. E. A. stuff Special. Corsica, O., July 20. This town and Iberia, which Is eight miles from here. I are contesting for the credit of hav-I hav-I lng giv en Warren G. Harding to the nation Corsica, which is in Morrow county 1 and six miles from Gullon, says- Haid-i Haid-i lng was born here. Ho belongs to ! me Iberia says; I made a man out of him. He went to college here. Here I his individuality found first expres- i Islon. Here as a boy, he edited his I I first .paper, Here he played pranks On college professors. Here he wrote, I Jokes for his paper. We still have 1 l the Jokes. And hero ho indulged In t I poetry. Corsica replies to Iberia "What you say may ;ill be true, but here ho was born." Iberia says: 'Here as a youth ho published and edited the college paper 'The Spectator' and he g.ive it the motto 'Sempor Paratus et Kxcelslor,' j I which means freely translated 'Always I be ready to Go Higher ' Did he ever say anything like that at Corsica?" Corsica replies. ' But here he was ' born " DID HE EVER iu THAT IN CORSICA ? Iberia says: '"You remember little of Harding. But. of course, we can't blame you; be waa only a baby when he lived with you and babies don't make much of an Impression Why hi-remember hi-remember him when be was painting I bouses here to work his way through college. And we remember the Halloween Hal-loween night he and others brought a' team of oxen Into the college halls' 'and left them there all night. Did ho ever do that In Corsica?" Corsica replies: 'But he was born I here nnd he lived here seven years." I Iberia eays: "Wo have his own written and printed records in black and while Mrs. fclnoln Blair, who went to college with him, can show them. "Oh, Mrs. Blair"' M,; BL n; BRINGS PROOF Mrs. Blair brings out a sheaf of copies of Thf Spectator" of tho year l'o62. published by Harding and another an-other student named Viihr. In March of that year Harding had a piece In his paper, on how to get up In ttv world, his motto, as stated, be-lnK- "Always Ready to Climb Higher." "Some young men," said Harding in his paper," Who think themselves gifted gift-ed with genius arc inclined to thn kangaroo kan-garoo style of progressing. They flatter flat-ter themselves that they at least may attain to the heights of fame by a series se-ries of leaps, and that without training train-ing and hard work." Iberia sas And you ought to rend the jokes he had In the papei printed here. How's this one? Teacher to small boy. What does the proverb say about those who live In glass houses? Small boy. Pidl down the blinds. Corsica replies. "Great stuff! But here he was born." Iberia says: And here Is another one of his jokes put in the paper right here by him: Law Professor: What Is burglary? Student There must Do a breaking. Law Professor. If a man came Into your house and took $5 out of youi vest, would that -n burglary? Student: Yes, that would break me What do you think of that, Corsica? Corsica answers: Great! But hero he was born. II HIDING'S POl M VBOl T THE FENCE, Iberia says Here ho lived In a furnished room and did his own cooking cook-ing and often crime over to Mrs. Blalr s I lodgings to borrow i n In water. And litre he often liked to stand on his: hands for tho entertainment of other students. And here ho wrote that poem about the school fence Showi It. Mrs. Blair. I Mrs. Blair has saved It all these' yeurs. It was written with a lead pen-( pen-( II, und here it is: As luck would havo It, there came a atoms And ruined the college fence. The board did need quickly to decide! A new ono to commence. Now there are different kinds of . fe nces, Some board, some palling, some wli e. Tho first is good, the second better. The latter proof against fire The board Is hfgher, the palling nicer, 1 The wire much cheaper, sure So thus the board concluded this. The last one to procure Tho wire waa bought, tho posts were sot, Tho strands were strewn along; The- streets were crowded with lookers-on, An eager, anxious throng To beautify this wondrous structure A gate was conlemplntcd. This gate was great with arch above, , Ono which could not bo mated. Iberia to Corsica: Hero he was graduated and delivered an oration on 'You Cm't Hub It tint." And hero he took part In "a burial of Caesar," ho leading the procession playing the funeral march on his cornet, as you can seo by his paper. From here he stepped out on tile threshold of life. Corsica replies But here he was horn and there Is glory enough for both of us. You made a man of him and I gave him to the world. I And In every window of Corsica j hangs a picture Of Warren Gamaliel illardlng, its favorlto son. VMOS HARDING QUOTES sCRIP-TL'RK. sCRIP-TL'RK. "And over the nosi of tho tribo of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, Gama-liel, the son of Pedahzur.' It is pointed out by Amos Harding, the aged cousin Ot Warren Gamaliel, quoting scrip-ture. scrip-ture. p But there are others In tho village who aay that rather Warren Gamaliel Holding was named after that Gamaliel Gama-liel w ho was the preceptor of St. Paul, "a doctor of law, the gospel suys and "who had a reputation among all the people." One way or another the name fits, says Amos Harding, who Is the patrt-larch patrt-larch of this village that first was cull-; ed Liardingtown; and later Blooming : Grove and now Is Corsica. And it might us well be Hardlng-I Hardlng-I tow n again, with every window dis-playlng dis-playlng bis picture, Including a window win-dow In the house down the road where j Warren Harding lived until ho was 7 years old, and whore the Widow Baler Ba-ler now Uvea with her five children .Hid t;:kes in washings for a living Lsitorj like to tell the Widow Baker Ba-ker that perhaps another presidential candidate will come out of this old house some day, since she has five children NO OM" To HI T HOU8E-U HOU8E-U BECKERS. There la a bit of disappointment because be-cause years ago the little houso in which Warren Harding was born waj Uorn down Ther was no one in Corsica with the gltt of prophesy to stay the hand I of the house-razer by Baying to him. '"Stop! Don t tear down that house. In the year 1020 this little boy will be la candidate for president of the United Unit-ed Slates and from far and near folks ...U oil. e hero to seo the house where I he waa born. So when Warren was two years old, the house was torn down and he was moved to a new house farther up the 1 road and lived there until he was 7, wueii ma tailing jiiuu lu c v a - donla. But the Corslcans say that after all It's not the house of birth itself that counts, but this rugged American fact That from this obscure place there should emerge one man among millions, mil-lions, that what is called the genius of democracy should havo conio to this village to select one of Its own humble folks as a possible president. 00 |