Senator; b. at Fairfield, Ill., June 29, 1865; Educ. Southern Ill.
Acad., Enfield, and U. of Kan.; Admitted to bar, 1889; U. S.
senator from Idaho, Jan. 14,1903; elected U. S. senator for terms
1907-13, 1913-19, 1919-25





WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING


Every time we elect a new President we learn what a various
creature is the Typical American.

When Mr. Roosevelt was in the White House the Typical American was
gay, robustious, full of the joy of living, an expansive spirit
from the frontier, a picaresque twentieth century middle class
Cavalier. He hit the line hard and did not flinch. And his laugh
shook the skies.

Came Wilson. And the Typical American was troubled about his soul.
Rooted firmly in the church-going past, he carried the banner of
the Lord, Democracy, idealistic, bent on perfecting that old
incorrigible Man, he cuts off the right hand that offends him and
votes for prohibition and woman suffrage, a Round Head in a Ford.

Eight years and we have the perfectly typical American, Warren
Gamaliel Harding of the modern type, the Square Head, typical of
that America whose artistic taste is the movies, who reads and