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College of Iberia from which he was graduated, standing high in 

 scholarship; and it was there, as editor of the college paper, that 

 he first displayed a talent for journalism. Like most aspiring 

 young men in those days, he was obliged to stop for a time now 

 and then to earn the money with which to pursue his college 

 course. At one time we find him cutting corn ; at another paint- 

 ing his neighbor's barns; at still another driving a team and 

 helping to grade the roadbed of the T. & O. C. Railroad, which 

 was then being built through that community. At the age of 

 seventeen we find him teaching a district school, and " tooting a 

 horn " in the "brass band " of the village. When young Harding 

 was nineteen, having completed his college course, his father, 

 Dr. Harding, removed to Marion, Ohio, the county seat of the 

 adjoining county, where he still resides. 



Warren G. Harding engaged in the newspaper business at 

 Marion, and in 1884 became president of the Harding Publishing 

 Company which published the Daily Star. In 1900 he was 

 elected to the Ohio Senate and served as State Senator until 1904 

 when he became Lieutenant-Governor, remaining in that position 

 until 1906. He became United States Senator from Ohio in 1915 

 and remained a member of the Senate until 1921, having been 

 elected President of the United States on November 2, 1920, by 

 an overwhelming majority. 



An admirer of the President said of him prior to his election : 

 "Were Warren G. Harding elected President of the United States, 

 the country would have a good listener, a man capable of select- 

 ing a strong cabinet of good advisers, a wholesome man of good 

 physical proportion, a man loving peace but unyielding in the de- 

 mand for protection of the American ideals of right living. " 



When Mr. Charles M. DeForest wrote to the President that the 

 children of the District of Columbia had won the Silver cup offered 

 in the intercity contest of the Modern Health Crusade, President 

 Harding in a charming way consented to present the cup and 

 afterwards wrote the following letter: 



"The White House, Washington. 



"My dear Mr. DeForest: September 27, 1921. 



"I was very much interested to-day in presenting, on behalf of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association, the silver cup won by the school children of the Dis- 



