IX 



Why Is A Weed? 



THIS has been a week of intense 

 heat and humidity such as 

 hatched Warren G. Harding out of the 

 National Republican Convention in 

 June a year ago. Don't "shy", dear 

 reader, at this reference. Although I 

 attended some of the sessions of that 

 convention, and am always interested 

 in major politics, still I am not half 

 as much concerned about the govern- 

 ing business these days as I am in 

 haying and "hiking." My first vote 

 for a President was cast for one great 

 Ohioan, James A. Garfield, who came 

 up a poor boy from the farm, and, like 

 Lincoln and McKinley, was shot as 

 his reward. I wonder if the young- 

 sters who are so eager for the blare of 



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