Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-05 | Page 1 | Harding Tells Press Club He Feels like He Has Been U. S. President for Twenty Years

r N j Harding Tells Press Club He Feels Like He Has Been UL S President For Twenty Years WASHINGTON. March 4. A re-, turn to normal ways of govern - j I rhent President Harding tonight told: members of the National Press lub, ! he considers an achievement -f hii i first year In the White House, i If nothing else had been accomplished, accom-plished, the president said, 'this Ions j step toward getting back . normal ' ways of government would seem to j me to have been the achievement j: the year." j The address was delivered at an entertainment given in honor of his :!rst "official" birthday, and to mark I the occasion a birthday cako sur-I sur-I mounted by one candle was presented present-ed to him. ' I am not unmindful of '.he fact " I he said, "that m predecessor was I 111 and that the government v .is In I the drift of the reaction from the I war. " Uut he continued, "problems j of readjustment are infinitely more 1 difficult than any of you can imag-J imag-J lne." Mr. liar. Mir; said :ie liked to throw i aside the oares of official life and mingle with gatherings like hii audience. audi-ence. "If there la one trouble with ' this While House job." tie s.t!d. "It Is in being a human beln J A president, he said, cannot hnld Himself, aloof and cannot find time to e,. I r II the things done he would I like lo do. ' i never find myself i done," he said. ' I never find myself , with my work completed, I don't j believe there Is a human beiiio who can do all the work there is to be done In the president's office." i "It seems as thou tii I had been I president for 2o years," he continued, ul.ling -hi'. life h: 1" en .-o full" In the past year, "that there's scarce-1 ly any impression of life outstanding Ijelon I came to Washington except one. my viewpoint of thdfsonate compared com-pared with what it Is today.' He tnphasized that he did not mean tnls in any unkind spirit. There have been 6ome plans which have not been worked out Mr Harding Hard-ing said in discussing his first year in the White House, and some dream.- which have not come true, j 'Maybe some fault lies with the , executive," he added, "but it can't be all, for It's a divided authority." The president said there were compensations com-pensations for all the exactions of his office, however, 'in contributing to 'restored order, and In making bet . ter civilisation we have Inherited " I He asked the support of tho newspaper news-paper men as moulders of pub'ic ; opinion In his task of making "this I ropublie of ours the best goernmcnt In tho world." I Mr. Harding was given an ovation i when he entered the press clnb A demonstration of radio telegraphy was in progress at the timo and ho ' became one of the most interested ' of the auditors From the bowl surrounding sur-rounding the birthday cake, gifts symbolic, sym-bolic, t,e eh.ilrman said, of the events In the fiiFl year of Mr. Harding's ol- ministration, ere brought forth ami , distributed. oo