Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1923 — Page 4
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It central Europe had money they would be engaged in a terrible war. according to David Lawrence, now always some bright spots. That's one place where and when its a good thing touring over there. Well there is some one is broke. Weeds are ugly. They ruin the appearance o£ your yard and they spoil the looks of the community. They injure health and to permit them to grow is a violation of the, state laws and city ordinances. You ought to cut them because of your pride, but if you don't, it will be necessary to do it and charge the expense to you. Please don t make the officers do that . The market pages in this paper are of great value to those who use them. We are assured by the grocers themselves that the people read the announcements and oi|en bring them with them to the store. You can trade from our market page and secure excellent results. If you have never tried it. turn there now ami look oyer the advert isments. Make up your list for Saturday's trading. It will save you time and prove a help in various ways.
. ■ The city health board, inspecting the various places of business in Decatur, report several where improvement should be made. At this time of year too much care cannot be given, especially by those who serve the public with food. At' all times of course this is important, but during the next few weeks, perhaps more so than any other period of the year. It is fair to state that the board report that in most places they found every possible effort being made to do this. Let’s be careful. Frank W. Stearns, a Boston millionaire merchant is the Col. House i for the Coolidge administration. He found the Vermonter, boosted him for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, then governor, then vice-presi-dent and is now his closest personal friend and adviser. It is quite probabfe he will try to steer the president along a course which will assure him the nomination next year, but he will find it some big job, even for a successful merchant. There are so many things which enter in . The late president, Warren G. Harding struggled from a poor lad to printer, editor, senator and the presidency; Garfield came from the tow path, the father of Coolidge was a poor and struggling farmer, Grover Cleveland was a poor lad in Buffalo and Senator Pat Harrison who spoke here last week, rose from a job as waiter in a restaurant to a leader in the United States senate in sixteen years. There should be nothing discouraging to the young man who aspires to power or wealth in this country. Its a long, hard road and ■ I requires honesty, ability and a desire to serve, but you can do it boys, if you will. Its a good thought for you today. It’s the fifty-miles-an-hour-er, the white-mule-er and the cocky, insolent, chip-on-his-shoulder automobile driver that is bringing the entire automobile ownership fraternity in Indi-
ana and every other state Into di#rej) pute," says a statement Issued today by the safety bureau of the itoosier State Automobile Association. The statement adds: "This class comprises perhaps only one-half of one percent of all automobile operators, but the well moaning and usually careful operator of motor vehicles may as well put this fact tn his pipe right now and light up: This small proportion of reckless fools is likely to cause so much resentment as to bring about the enactment of such stringent restrictions as to kill most of the pleasure and a lot of the real utility of automobiles. The last rites are being conducted today at Murion for our dead president and simultaneously memorial meetings are being conducted in thousands of hamlets and cities and
communities all over the United States. We respect our presidents and we all deeply and sincerely regret 1 that President Harding was called from his services on earth just at the i noon tide of his usefullness. There is ( nothing we can do but to pay our . respects to his memory and this is t being done today. Business will be suspended this afternoon, bells will 1 toll, eulogies will be spoken and pray- f ers offered. It is a sad day for Amerl- ; ca. But our institutions will live and i our government will go on, the best (
proof being that regardless of everything in times like these, we join in supporting the government and her officials. Tomorrow the gloom will begin to lift and we will turn attention to the future, remembering the great ami good qualities of the departed leader. THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE TODAY (Continued- from page one) no higher than the lowliest man in Marion. Warren G. Harding was the nation's; today he :s Marion's and with love’s privilege, his widow and aged lather and his friends and neighbors
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- have claimed the right to lay his body - away with their own hands. • A column of people standing tom ■ abreast, stretched nearly a mile down East Center street from the Harding . home, began moving past the casket early today. At 5:30 a.m. the line was five blocks long, waiting for the door to be opened. Twenty tour thousand, according to estimates of army officers handling the crowds, looked down upon the dead face of the president yesterday. They kept passing until an early hour this morning. There was no sound except the chirping of crickets and the shuffling of feet. Thousands more were trooping into town by automobile, in rickety buggies and surreys and on foot. Some of the dust-covered pilgrims looked as if they had tramped miles. Mingling with them were gaily dressed, smart looking women from the cities, laughing and chatting with their escorts as though it were a lark. Hundreds slept in the lobbies of hotels and were up at dawn to join in the struggle for food in the restaurants, some of which ran low on provisions. Those going through the house were admitted by a side door where soldiers stood to assist the twisted cripples, the doddering old folk who stood in line hours before even get ting within sight of the building. The line filed into an old-fashioned, rather small living room with a bay window. In times past it was ths scene of happy family reunions when Mr. Harding came back from Wash- ' ington for a visit. Today is was ' crowded with flowers, dimly lit with ' electric candlebra and on the right
of the column of mourners stood a guard of honor, stiffly at attention, 1 casket, on a low’ catafalque. The * still as wax figures, was drawn up be- I hind the coffin. Each person wa: • given time to pause for the briefest ’ instant, glance for a fleeting mo- l ment down at the president’s face, t then those behind came on and those t in front found themselves out on t the porch. There at the steps, twe 1 husky young soldiers hag the task « of helping each person down thd 1 front steps. Hie work was strenu- r ous as the men and women 'and i children came through at the rate of s 40 a minute. « MARION NATION'S CENTER Marion, today was the nation’s cen 1 ter for the second time in three t brief years. In joy it opened ;’f t
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/ gates when from every quarter men oegan to seek l'»c tront poren of an unpretentious hone on one of its i shaded streets, to cheer for the man ; who had made Marion renowned. In sadness today It received back many of those same men, come now to walk with bowed heads behind the mortal , clay of the same man. Distinguished Americans from aIL points within reaching distance of. this little town mingled with the hum bier mourners. Thomas A. Edison Henry Ford and Harvey 8. Firestone, the president's companions on happy camping trips, came to stand by bis tomb. Virtually the entire personnel of the federal government of the United States was in or nearing the city, But no man, no matter how high, could detract even the slightest attention from the wooden home or shady East Center street where th I body lay. The coming of the new I president of the United States at I tracted no attention whatever. Marion Star Employes View Body At B’3o o’clock this morning the employes of the Marion Star, built by Warren G. Harding, tiled through for their last look at the chief they had come to know so intimately. While this line passed. —a line in which the mightiest the humblest rub bed elbows in equality of reverence —
the final preparations for the last rites were being made. In upper rooms of the Harding home, the aged father and the courageous widow made ready for the supreme ordeal. Mrs. Harding Brave Mrs. Harding, surrounded by thronging memories of the years when she and Warren Harding were young, in Marion—memories of courtship, days of struggle together to make the Marion Star a success: of days o', happy fellowship with friend and, neighbor—was still inspired by a fortitude horn of her great love. Though the very walls of the old house must have cried out to her with heartstabbing recollections, she crushed back grief and fought physical weakness and weariness, borne up by the. invisible arms of her love with t; strength at which men have marveled. Dr. George T. Harding, the father likewise made a valiant effort to face the parting with calmness. He told friends who had come to com
fort him that he wished he and not Warren, had gone. "My boy! My boy!" was his wail, repeated over and over as he pre pared to follow that son to the mouth of the grave. Widow and Father View Remains At 1 p. ra„ the house doors will be closed. All the world, even Murion will be shut out for an hour, while Mrs .Harding and the aged tathei look their last upon the still face. That hour will pass. It will be age-
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.... *o* !h: " "'’"'"' I and thqt old man. When they have left the silent room Jr., the brother; Mrs. E.E. Rems berg. Abigail Harding, and Mr.. Ne her votaw, the alters, with he 1) families. will be admitted for their farewells. , , , Softly then the casket will be shut —forever. The members of the cabinet, I real dent Coolidge and the party that went from Washington to Aln.sk.t_
[with Mr. Harding will gather, and afterwards the coffin will be carried for the last time from the father's house by the same honor guard ot .non of the nt my, navy and marhu corps who have borne it since it was carried from the palace hotel in San Francisco a week ago today to be pi ac . ed on the funeral train for Washing ton. - - —o — p. w. Beery and W. A. Lower are at North Manchester today.