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< j I y ' \ H Bfci ?? m SENATOR HARDING OPENS CAMPAIGN Marion, Ohio, July 31. Ii the opening speech of hia front porch campaign Senator Harding told a delegation from Richland County, Ohio, today that the greatest usefulness of the nation demanded a levelling of class and sectional bearers and a relization of the "Interdependence and mutuality interest of all people." The great war he said, had helped toward such a realization. Closer cooperation in industry and complete assimilation of the Foreignborn he suggested as pointing the way to a fuller national accord. Urging also readjustment of taxation, he expressed boubt whether the war time excess profit levy was in harmony with peace requirements, but added he had not yet worked out details of ft revise*! tor trimtom "We ought to make wealth bear its full share of taxation" he said, nd we we ever will. Having this thought in mind and also thinking of the excessive cost of living, I doubt if the excess profits tax for war percisely accomplshes the end we seek in peace I would gladly recommend a change, but I am not yet prepared to suggest an equitable substitute, though I should have no hesitancy in asking , Congress to seek the earliest possible solution. The league of nations he did not refer to directly, but he declared the nation's "Highest duty is to cling to the fundamentals on which we builded to world astonishment and hold fast to the natioality which inspired our onward march". "It is with a keen sense of delight that Iwelcome your visit today" said Senator Harding. "I am please that you come not Only as republicans, but as neighbors ad friends. We need to cultivate friendliness and neighborliness I sometimes think in this busy, work a day world, we are neglecting those little acts of neighborliness that make life sweet and worth while. It is well enough for one to strive to get ahead in a material sense for through that ambition human progress is wrought. To acquire and accumulate honesty is most laudable, but we should not forget that life's greatest joys lie in the social concourse of friends and neighbors. Out of such relations grow mutual respect, mutual sympathy and mutual interest, y' ' .... 1 >. ( ob] th( ? wi I . / / V without which holds little of real en- h joyment. 1 "The especial thought in my mind * today is the interdependence and the * mutuality of interest of all our people ^ "The tendency to class consciousness * is the product of developing fortunes 1 and is both a reflex of achievement 1 and a menace to maintained progress. * We must caution against class dis- * tinction nd class conflict at every step. 1 "Here in the middle west, where far- c ing is free from tenantry and holds ' to the normal way, and manufactur- 1 ing is mainly confined to the plants of * that moderate size which indexes the * surpassing fabrics of American industry, we have the touch of intimacy I and that closer understanding which t emphasize the thought I have in mind. ? We cannot promote agriculture alone, ( because the factory is necessary to { the making of h market. We can- i not foster the factory and ignore ag- t riculture because the farms are the i base of our food supply. 1 "I can reall readily forty cent wheat 1 flayed from the fields of Richland and ? Morrow. That was before industry 1 developed the home consumer, that was before railways an improved high" r ways opened the way to markets, t That was when farming was a fight ? for subsistence, instead of the present day pursuit of attainment. That was i before luxury became the by-product ? of farm and factory. That was be- ? fore the age af agricultural machin- I ery, that was when we cradled the r wheat and toiled from sunrise to sun- * set, that was before wealth had tak- i en from the earth to alter the way of t our civilization. ( "I trust no one misquote me as H saying I believe in forty cent wheat, 1 because I have indulged my memory, < Sometimes we are very unfair in handling the utterances of public men. I f I remember, when the Senate was t discussing the wartime guarantee on < wheat when we felt we ought to give < the American farmer that assurance t which would encourage a seeding to ] guard against war famine, a western 1 Senator was arguing that wheat could ? not be raised for less than $2.50 per t bushel. I interrupted him to say that I well recalled that Ohio farmers, in i pre-war days had rejoiced to get a i dollar for their wheat. I was speak- t ing of normal days prior to the war. t Yet there are those today who seek 1 to convey that I said a dollar a bush- i el ia enough for wheat today. I am i not so annoyed at the silly untruth aa < ia I am distressed at the affront to or- < dinary intelligence." i "Ther^ia no living today or tomor- i t'i ? . ? I Our subscribe lige us by proir ?ir renewal of 11 V. -1? J ii neip us, aiiu \ i i HBHHBMaHHH ' ? :ow according to the standards of yes:erday. Every normal being is lookng forward. We collect more federal .axes in one year than the entire vealth of the republic a century ago. )nly a little while ago our grievances ibout taxes were wholly local, belause a half century of republican :ontrol of the Federal government leld us free from direct burdens. But the changed policy, the Demoiratic drift to freedom of trade which s international rather <natiohal, and nounting cost of government and inally war burdens, turned Federal axation to a colossal burden. "I would gadly recommend a change >ut I am not yet prepared to suggest in equitable substitute, though I ihould have no hesitancy in asking Congress to seek the earliest possible iolution. The reduced cost of governnent is already pledged, and reduced ippropriation by Congress is already ecorded. We must not paralyize lome or destructive competition from tbroad, because our mutual interest n productivity has made us what we ire. "Despite all the depreciation, I canlot bring myself to accept the notion hat the in^er-relation among our men md women has departed. "We are a democratic people. There s a disposition of some to inveigh igainst ohe section or another, as elfish interest may suggest, but the iroad national welfare contemplates 10 east and no west, no north and no louth. Pride of locality is most comnendable, but patriotism is not secional politically we may divide as 3od gives us to see the right, but ma;erally, socially and economically We nust be an entity?united, harmoni>us and interdependent. "I rejoice to call that when the Treat war summoned our sons to duty ind to death, perhaps, there was no -v.....* ? *?- t>L_ mconvii nuum Kcu|(m|iii)r. ? no uuyu >f the north's dressed front.' with the ions of the south, and all went triumphantly forward to undying fame, lever questioning the origin or the ;nvironment, much less the locality >f their comrades. "If the great world war held for us lothing else,Jt did teach \js that there e something more than gain to be itriven for in this world. We can hail he lofty and blessed rule of commingling friendship. Having givem our iplendid lesson, let us present to the vorld another example, that of con:ord among ourselves, and make America safe for Americans apd the loftiest example of representative denocracy." A , I n j \ . y j / > rs will greatly lptly sending ir subscription. 11 will not hurt yoi Ill I I , r ... . ' , BASE BALL DOPE Chicago, July 31.?Bagging a- hit a day is keeping Tris Speaker, manager of the Cleveland Americans on top of the heap in the race for the American league batting championship. Speaker according to averages released today, widened the gap between himself and George Sissler, the St. Louis star. SnPfllfPP ia hol'+trir* >411 OJ ? ~r~ *w M?*V??U5 nunc OlSler in second place, fell off to 396. in third place, with 395, while "Babe" Ruth, of New York, is fourth, with Joe Jackson, of Chicago, is trailing 393. The averages include Wednesday's games. In his last seven games Speaker crashed out eight hits, while the best Sisler could do was four in five games. Speaker excels Sisler in extra base hitting, having seven homers, seven triples and thirty-two base hits to his credit. In home run hitting Ruth continues to be the sensation of the league, with a total of 35 up to Wednesday. Rice, of Washington, continues to show the way to the base stealers with a total of 40. Sisler is next in the list with 26, while Bobby Roth, also of Washington, is third, with 21. Other leading batters: Rice, Washington, 369; E. Collins, Chicago, 351; Meusel, New York, 347; Jamieson, Cleveland, 343. ' In the National League, Roger Hornsby, of St. Louis, is safely in the lead with an average of 363, although Eayers, of Boston, has an average of 370 for 44 games. Hornsby, however, has participated in 91 games. I Jack Smith, Hornsby's team mate, is Sr second in the list with an average of I 329, and Nicholson of Pittsburg, E foutrh with 327. H Max Carey, of Pittsburg, is so far I out in front in base stealing with a total of 33 that he is in no dangei* of I being overtaken. Cy Williams, of M Philadelphia, with a total of 9 homers, H / nnfiniiAo f/v wuviiiuvo W IVOU til tutuit UUSf fill- Kj ting. 8 Other leading batters: Roush, Cin- B cinnati, 326; Konetchy, Brooklyn, B 323; Williams, Philadelphia, 319; B Hollocher, Chicago, 318. n Grover Hartley, of Columbus, con- B tinues to blaze the trail for the bat- E ters of the American Association, B topping the list with an average of B 372, with Ben Tincup, of Louisville, B in second place with 354. fig With an average of 345, Ellis, of Birmingham, dethroned Harper of Little Rock, for the batting leader- " ship of the Southern Association. Harper is second with 341, while Miller, also of Little Rock, the leading home run hittre, third with 338. Miller has sixteen home runs to his a< credit. Carroll, of Memphis, who is hi topping the base stealers, with 34 is a fourth in batting 331. Other leading batters: Bersen, Birmingham, 318; 0. McLarry, Memphis, 313; Burke, Nash- . ville, 311; Griffith, Birmingham, 298; , Bratchie, Chattanooga, 291; Barnhart, Birmingham, 291. *j Hi K L t 1 ... , .rtf > r? ThT^an^oTTin^ A SURE FOUNDATION I The man who lays a foundation before he starts to build, the H man who sees clear his plan before he takes the first step, is the man H who will reach the goal in the game of business. H It is the minute of talk after the hour of thought, the ounce of H effort after the ton of oreDaration. that n Kminoo. -?*?* * - , - mm I/UHM1VO0 P&VJWU IU H success. 9 Don't flinch?however fierce the fire. Only the scorch of the H flame can harden the steel for its work?can fashion the man for the H responsibilities and problems, the success and rewartis of business. 95 Obstacles are the stepping stones to success. In the chemistry H of business men are tried by fire. H * BEGIN TODAY TO SAVE. I 4 I New accounts came to us today, making a total of | 1759 | Will you help us to reach the 2,000 mark by the time we are one I year old, September the 6th, next. H "9 "The man who aims at nothing in particular invariably hitB his I I mark." The Bank of Union I 1 Authorized Capital $150,000.00 I /! C. C. SANDERS, E. P. KELLY, W. W. ALMAN, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. New One en Snakee. Consecration Restrictions, j .31 { A group of boys, were leaning their Th? Nnzarlte, daring the tern j yWm oses np against the glass case which consecration, was tyound to MSBI arbors the boa constrictor at the rep- ^rom every production of the via- 1 * le house at the New York zoological t 1** every kind of intoxicating ot 9 8 irdens. "Where's its rattler?" asked He wa,? forbidden to cut theAe?<* 9^Bf tie of the kids to a companion. "Ho, head or to appApech agj ^K>' a," roared another of the boys; "he e?en that of hl^nettresf^.^^ jg? ln't got no rattler. When a snaks - Nuiril era 0:121.