SWEDISH PROFESSOR SAYS AMERICA
LEADS THE WHOLE WORLD
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20. (AP)—Americanization is
the key to the future progress of the world, and
Amerfca, clearly on her way to the cultural heg
emony of the world, has in the short period of 150
years, built up a majestic national structure which
has no counterpart in the history of the world, ac
cording to Professor Johan Bergman. leading po
litical figure in Sweden’s liberal party, in one of
the most striking speeches in the recent electoral
campaign, delivered in Vlsby and published through
out the Swedish press.
Professor Bergpian, who is incidently a leader
of the prohibitionist movement in Sweden, said that
the reasons for the gigantic growth of the United
States were to be found, not in natural resources
alone, since other unexploited regions of the world
had resources that were virtually just as great,
but in the fact that the American people, whose
leaders are gifted with enterprise, foresight and
daring, have labored industriously and with com
mon sense, maintaining a high standard of high
living under liberal laws. He urged Sweden to
follow America’s example, to show bold initiative
in undertaking to develop on a larger scale her
own resources of mineral deposits, forests, and
water power.
TRANSVAAL GOLD FIELDS ARE
PRODUCING IN GROWING STREAMS
LONDON, England. (AP)—A large increase in
the gold production of the Transvaal is interest
ing several English companies, who are organiz
ing prospecting expeditions into the little explored
regions of the district. The reports of the ad
vance agents of the companies indicate that the
gold producing areas of the Transvaal are by no
means limited to the sections now being exploited.
They say that they really extend far into the in
terior, and it is probable that gold may be found
in the waste lands to the north. The compan
ies are sending engineers to South Africa immed
iately to make investigations.
The total output of gold for the Transvaal for
the month of July amounted to 829,437 fine ounces,
the largest ever produced, and is only the second
time in the history of the Transvaal gold mining
that the monthly production has been more than
S00.000 ounces. The value of the output for
July was about $18,000,000.
The value of the gold produced for the first
six months of the present year was a record and
amounted to about $100,000,000.
DISCOVERIES SHOW OLD ROMANS
WERE PASSABLY GOOD DENTISTS
RICHBOROUGH. England, Nov. 21, (AP)—Ar
chaeologists excavating the mighty foundations of
Richborough Castle, the Fort Rutupis of the Ro
mans,, in an effort to uncover evidence of the dur
ation of the sojourn of the Romans in Britain, have
discoered a delivcately fashioned dentist’s probe, ex
actly like that used by present day dental operators.
A British Museum expert who is helping with
the excavations declared the old Romans were quite
up-to-date in their methods of dentistry, and that
evidence has been found that they used gold fillings.
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a confidence in herself and those about her that
endeared her to many thousands. After she be
came First Lady of the Land, as always in the
years preceding, the helpless and the unfortunate
received the first and fullest measure of her atten
tion. Wounded veterans of the World War owed
her many a debt for hours gladdened by her visits
to the hospitals or by flowers sent by her personal
order from the White House conservatories. Her
unusual outgiving of sympathy extended to animals
many of whom she befriended and protected.
In her thoughtfulness for the interests of others
and in her loyalty to her friends, she was outspoken
to a degree that won for her recognition as one of
the most vigorous -minded women who ever pre
sided over the household of a president. On the
night of election day 19 20 she announced her de
termination to send away the policemen stationed
at the White House door since the United States
enterd the war—a purpose which was fulfilled on
the very day .Mr. Harding took office. Before he
even had looked around his offices he issued an
order throwing the gates wide open, and hundreds
trooped in across the lawn and peeped in at the
windows while the new First Lady of the Land was
presiding at her first White House function an
informal luncheon for old friends and neighbors
from Marion. Ohio.
During the whole time she was mistress of the
Executive Mansion, Mrs. Harding combined with
her social duties an unwavering allegiance to her
convictions, and displayed in doing so a degree of
tact which won her universal esteem. The social
usages so long a part of official Washington life were
preserved by her to a letter but without ostentation.
And at the same time she found opportunity to show
in many ways that she had lost none of her interest
sof home folks from which she had
for the clas
“Say that we are just folks.'’ she told news
paper men when they asked her for a message to
the people at the time of Mr. Harding's inaugur
ation. “We are just folks, but when I enter the
White House I propose to accept all the social ob
ligations and become the First Lady of the Land
in truth as well as name."
Nor did she interpret in any narrow’ sense the
obligations of mutual helpfulness she assumed
when in 1891. she became the wife of a struggling
newspaper editor back in Marion. Even in those
days she gave vastly more to the marriage partner
ship than a woman usually is able to contribute,
and grown men in Marion today remember how
she used to count out newspapers to them when
they were newsboys. When the future President
entered politics, she found new and unexpected
wawys of hlping him. As the wife of a Senator,
she kept in touch with hundreds in her state who
wanted help in Washington, besides maintaining her
place fittingly in the social life of the capital.
From the time Mr. Harding became interested
in politics, she made a study of things political just
as she had familiarized herself previously with the
Marion Star printing plant, and when the results
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of the 102u elections had been written into polit
ical history, neighbors in Marion nodded iheir heads
and related how the young editor's wife had prom
I ised her intimates on her wedding day that “some
(lay I "ill make him President.”
For a time after she came into the White House
Mrs. Harding continued her close association with
the details of her husband's work. She visited
the executive offices, met every employe, and made
more than one suggestion for facilitating the pub
lic business. But her health and her growing so
cial duties son caled a halt, and her discontinu
ance of these visits was the first signal that she
had been compelled to narrow the scope of her
activities. The White House social program, how
ever. was continued without abatement up to the
time of her collapse and serious illness in the sum
The Armament conference, which brought to
Washington in 1921 many distinguished men and
women, imposed upon the mistress of the White
House a task particularly trying. Mrs. Harding
saw the advantage to be gained in the direction of
good understanding by properly entertaining the
visitors at the President’s table. To those who
inquired about her health she replied that if she
were given strength- to do her part during the con
ference she would be satisfied that her occupancy
of the White House had not been in vain.
It was not long after the conference ended that
she began to fail appreciaby and by ate summer
she lapsed into a condition from which some of her
physicians believed she could never recover. That
she was able to do so. they conceded, was due in
large measure to her unalterable determination and
confidence. For weeks she was confined to a
wheel chair, and then when she began to get about
and see her friends again she was taken to Flor
After this illness, her thoughtfulness for others
who wen ill. appeared to increase, and from her
vacation houseboat in Florida waters she ordered
that thousands of Easter flowers he distributed from
the White House conservatories to the Washington
hospitals. Both before and after she entered the
White House the wounded war veterans had been
her particular care, and more than one owes to her
his rehabilitation, possibly his life itself, and cer
tainly his interest in life. She made a study of
their treatment and was instrumental in founding
the Veteran’s Bureau and the establishment of a
better system of hospital treatment.
The wounded men at Walter Reed Hospital, on
the outskirts of Washington, were paid many sur
prise visits by their friend, laden with fruits and
flowers. Weekly, huge bouquets were sent also
to other nearby hospitals. During the summer of
1322. when because of poor health she was unable
to carry out the usual program of garden parties
on the White House grounds she insisted on giv
ing one at which the honored guests were the
wounded soldiers from all the hospitals near Wash
ington. More than two thousand of the crippled,
blind and deaf fled past her and each received a
word of greeting and encouragment. Repeatedly
she left her place to guide a blind boy across a
rough piece of ground or to bring plates or re
freshments to those unable to leave their chairs.
Mrs. Harding was born at Marion. Ohio, in 1860.
of a sturdy stock of pioneers, her father. Amos
Kling. being one of the town’s first settlers. She
married Mr. Hardin# in 1891 when things did not
look too bright for him. He had just taken over
the ownership of the Marion Star, and it was load
ed down with mortgages and still had to make a
place for itself in the community. She had never
' been used to extravagance, however, and she imme
J diately turned to the task of helping put the news
I paper on a sound basis. She went to work in the
! business office, and soon was in charge of the adver
! tislng and circulation, buying the print paper and
1 other supplies, and even standing by the presses and
j instructing the carriers before they started on their
routes. She mothered the club established for the
carrier boys, one of whom, answering to the name of
I Baldinger. entered the army, rose to the rank of
Major and was later detailed at the White House
as military aide to the President. Another was
George Christian, who became the President’s priv
ate secretary.
Of slight build and medium height. Mrs. Harding
carried herself strongly erect and with charming dig
nity. Though her hair was silvering before she
came to the White House, her eyes were as bright,
her manner as vivacious, and her glances and smiles
as radient as when she was a girl.
She was always well gowned, but never cared for
extremes in dress. Her coiffure particularly was
said to be the mystery and envy of many Washing
ton society leaders. She had an interesting collec
tion of laces and some rare and handsome piece us
ually helped to complete her gown. She did not
afreet jewelry and usually wore only a diamond soli
taire or diamond clasp or a piece of black velvet
about the throat.
In her younger days she had been an expert
horsewoman and an accomplished pianist Many
musicians will always remember the interest she took
in them. While in Marion she taught music, and
her pupils.
and girls of her home
If was from her training as a horsewoman that
she acquired the love for animals which became
more and more marked in later years. In the White
House ‘‘Laddie Hoy,” the President’s Airedale, was
her constant companion. More than once she stop
ped on the street to reprimand drivers who were
punishing their horses. At least one horse. Old
Clover, who lived in Pennsylvania, would have been
willing to attest to her compassion. Hearing that
Clover, who was 51 years old. was about to be killed
because his master was unable to provide for him
in his days of useless old age, she sent the owner a
SI00 check to assist in keeping him in comfort to
the end of his days.
Mrs. Harding was active in philanthropic circles.
She devoted much of her time to girls’ work and
was the National head of the Ciirl Scouts organiza
IHvWF.KS r\IM> MAX'S WORK
VANCOUVER, Wash., (AP)--A colony of beav
ers near here recently has been staging a contest
with the State Highway Department. To protect
the North Bank Highway, a small lake was drained
l ut the beavers immediately constructed a dam
that resulted in the overflow of tli-j r- ad. T e
dam was torn *.vn, and in a sinr’.e night the
to keep the b a ers away from iha o it.let
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