Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1923, Page 5

Coolidge Kind-Hearted, Sincere, Keen and Honest, Says Friend ‘ Human Side of New President Misunder- stood by Public, Says New England Poitical Writer Who Knows Him. BY M. E. HENVESSY, (So abrupt and startling were the events that brought about the eleva- tion of Calvin Coolidge to the presi- dency, and so complete the anonymity surrounding the office of Vice Presi- dent, that literally millions of his fel- low citizens have no conception of the character and ability of the new Chief Executive. M.E. Hennessy of the Boston Globe is the dean of political writers in New England .and in addition is a closs personal friend of Calvin Cool- idge Mr. Hennessy has followed Mr. Coolidge’s political career from its out- et. published a biography of the new President. In a series of dispatches be- sinning exclusively today in The Star Wr. Hennessy will deal with the human ide of the new executive and give the mate, personal details of his re- markable career.) To great majority of his millionsy of fellow Americans the new Presi- dent, Calvin Coolidge, is an enigma. But that is not strange; if you know him, he is an unusual type of public man. Politiclan? Yes. but not the sordid type—not the glad-hand style of the old school. who entered politles for what they could get out of it. in Coolidge is not a hail fellow REST AND PRAYER FILL CODLIDGE DAY Attends Church in Morning and Later Receives Few Guests. . By e Associsted Press. President Coolidee rested and pray- ed yesterday in preparation for the ad events of the coming week. While the Harding funeral train was speeding castward the new President «ttended morhing services at the First Congregational Church and then returned to his suite in the New Wil- lard hotel to relax for the rest of the day. Mr. Coolidge, although he has not spared himself long hours, showed no signe of fatigue when he arose at eight o'clock and, coming to the door of his suite, calleq for morning p. vers and a light breakfast. A few minutes before 11 o'clock he again reappeared with Mrs. Coolidee and their intimate friends, Mr. and Mr Frank W. Stearns of Boston, ready for church. Church Crowded. Only a few persons were gathered about the door of the hotel as the Presidential party left to enter an automobile. A small crowd also stood in front of the church, located a few blocks from the hotel, at 10th and G streets, northwest. ' The _church, which Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge have at- tended regularly since coming to Washington, was crowded. worship- pers standing two deep at the rear of the auditorium. The_sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, the pas- r. tormerly of Dorchester, Mass., a graduate and trustee of Amherst Col- loge, which the President attended. His theme was “Love is Near.” Reference to Dead. It was a brief sermon, woven into the communion service, but in it Dr. Pierce referred with sorrow to the train bearing Mr. Harding's body to the capital, and declaved that while a few hours ago there might have been some men ready to criticise any hief magistrate, the heart of Ameri- ‘a now was filled with love, sympa- thizing with Mrs. Hafding in her hour of sorrow : 3 “We meet at the Lord’s table, said Dr. Pierce, remembering what #we oannot forget—that train on its wa from the Pacific coast bearins all that is mortal of him who a few hours ago was our President. “Mingled with our thankfuiness to God Is our deep Sorrow. comprehend- ing love for the one who is bereaved the m —the wife, the companion, the lover, the partner of life. “A few hours ago there could be found men who would find fault with any Chief Magistrate. But let come what has, and all the heart of Amer- a is a heart of love, full of sorrow, »f sympathy, of comprehension. “Love is always near—the love of God that will not fall Mrs. Harding, that will not fail the bereaved mem- bers of the cabinet or the aged father hack in the home state, or the broth- er and sisters—the love that will not fail America. God will guide the destiny of America.” In Crane Pew. The only direct reference made by Dr, Pierce to the presence of Mr. Coblidge was at the close of the mervice when he requested members of the congregation to remain in “hefr pews until after the presiden- tial party had left the church. The President and Mrs. Coolidge occu- pled a pew formerly used by the late Senator. Murray Crane of Massa- Zhusetts. Despite oppressive heat Mr. Cool- idge wore @ cutaway coat and a silk hat. Mrs. Coolidge was dressed in a gray silk gown with blue fgures find a bit of lace around the neck, She wore a large black hat, gray stockings and blue shoes. Among those who called during the at the Coolidge suite were Sena Brandegee, republican, of Con- cctidut, who said later he had mere- pald a friendly call, and William Butler of Boston, republican na fional committeeman for Massa- chusetts, Secretary and Mrs. Hughes also paid a half-hour visit. } The new President remained in his notel during the evening. Rev. Dr. Pierce, whose sermon he had heard in the morning, preached last night on “Lessons From the Life of President Harding.” Eulogizing the late President as “divinely hu- man,” he declared President Harding had faced a harder task than any other President in history. " Killed by Work. “In his_own words, he had 'a man- lling job,’ said-Dr. Plerce. has killed him. Tn the providence God President Harding was led to ake his Vice President a member hie cabinet. Think what value that vow signifies! And thank God that our new President is a man of faith, «f strong religious convictions, of un- selfish service!” Chief Justice Taft yesterday tele- graphed President Coolidge from Pointe au Pic, Quebec, that he would pavticipate in-the Harding funeral Several vears ago he wrote and; “At mtT 1 everything to gain voles. epticn of a politiclan is one who is willing to put into the government of his country more tham he can get out of it, '\vefl met, who promisey anything and Ix Master of Detal Calvin Coolidge is so utterly different from the usual run of politicians that most people wonder how it was that he succeeded. In personal appear- ance he is no Beau Brummel. He is of the average height, thin and wiry of body, With a sharp, angular nose, blue-cyed and auburn-haired. His long pointed fingers denote a man who loves to investigate every prob- lem he is called upon to consider. He is a raaster of detail. This he is proving since he came to Washing- ton as President and took up the {reins of government which fell from the hands of Warren Harding when the latter passed away in San Fran- isco. | Mot Presidents of the United States would have been isfied to summoned their military aides and secretaries. outlined what they want- ed done In_the nation’s tribute to their dead predecessor and permitted the subordinates to have worked out the details. Not so with Calvin Coolldge. He has taken personal charge of the fumeral arrangements of President Harding, and every little detail has been worked out by him or received his personal direction. Calvin Cool- idge iv one of those old-fashioned men who cling to the idea that if you want anything done well do it your- self, and you are certain that it is done and done right, Honesty Convinces. The new President is not an elo- quent public speaker and vet more people would go to hear Coolidgo make a speech in his home state than would turn out to hear a grandiloquent _spellbinder. They g0 because they know what he has to say he says in such a way that it impresses them, and, what Is more, gives them think about. He convinees them that he is honest. He is alwa; willing to allow somebody else to wve the flag and beat the tom-toms. Facts are his_hobby. Most people think that President Coolldge 1is sh but he is not. A lot of folks believe that he is timid. He is mot. It is true that Cxlvin Coolidge does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, but folks up around Northampton, Mass., his home town. know that he has a heart as big as an ox. He Is chock full of senti- ment, but he is not lachrymose. His word is as good as his bond. 1f Cal- vin Coolldve tells a nator or a representative that John Smith will be appointed postmaster they can go says. He home and not waste any waking mo- ments on that promise. It will be: redecmed. Is Deeply Religious. President Coolldge is a deeply re- ligious man. His accession to the presidency will be hailed with joy by God-fearing men and women. but Cal- vin Coolidge carrles his religion and not his sectarianism into his public life. He has never been ashamed to acknowledge his religious convictions no —not in any narrow sense, for American is more tolerant in t matters than the new Chief Executiv Yet one can sense the deep religio side of his nature when his last act before leaving his ancestral home up in the hills of Vermont after he had been sworn in as President of the United States. was to visit the little family cemetery back of his-boyhood home, where five generations of Cool- idges are laid to rest, to pay homage to his mother. With uncovered head alone under the clear blue sky he spent several minutes beside her grave communing with his creator and the spirit of his mother. Like Lincoln and all great men, Cal- vin Coolidge has a deep veneration for the memory of his mother. Like Lincoln’s mother, Mrs. Coolldge died When Calvin was a small boy, but he always has her in mind. When he was Governor of Massachusetts there used to stand on his big, flat mahog- any desk at the State House a little old daguerreotype of his mother. When confronted with a difficult state problem it was to-that little old ple- ture that he turned for inspiration, gutdance and advice. Her memory to him is the sweetest thing in his life, together with his beautiful and ac- complished wife, his two manly boys and @ noble father whose Yankee modesty” prevents him from publicly speaking In praise of his gifted son “Raised” on Farm. : Calvin Coolidge. who was chris- tencd John Calvin Coolidge, was “raised” on a Vermont farm, as they knows the trials and tribulations of the dirt farmer. There is not any thing done on a farm that he can- not do. The writer saw him pitching and raking hay in the field near his father's home the dav before Presi- dent Harding died. The way he handled the horse and the hay rake and the manner in which he drove his three-tine’ fork into the win- drows of new-mown hay proved that he was a haymaker par excellence. He can milk a cow, drive a yoke of oxen, handle an ax like a woodsman and swing a scythe with the best of farm hands His father told me the same day that when Calvin was at home in his college days he was worth any two men the old gentle- man could hire Won College Tonors. When young Coolidge went to col- ¢ at Amherst he attracted atten- tion and comment for the same rea- son that he attracted attention in public life. He was different from. the run of students. He wasted no time on athletics, but he did study hard, and the honors he brought home proved it. He was_the orator of his class. The year of his grad- uation he won $100 in gold for the best essay submitted by college grad- uates that year on American history. With his characteristic modesty, the eseaylst told nome of his friends of his ‘good luck and if it were not that one of the partners in the firm where he was studying law read an item about it in the local Springfield Paper nobody would have known it Calvin [to enter a law school to study law. | He fitted himself for the Massachu: |setts bar in a law office in North- {ampton, Joing clerical work and | running errande in payment for his | instruction. With a little help finan- cially from his farmer-sheriff father, he mastered enough law to be ad- mitted to practice, hung out his shingle in Northampton and lived on his income. Living within his income and saving a little besides, {it may be noted. has been one of i his rules of life. It was in North- ampton that he wooed and won Grace Goodhue, a bright, vivacious school teacher from Burlington, Vt., and this gracious, kindly woman 1§ now the first lady of tHe land. In the same little Massachusetts city Calvin Coolldge started on his meteoric political career, which has led him into the White House. (Mr. Hennessy's dispatch_tomorrow will deal with the new President's surprising nolitical career). (Copyright, 1923.) H ——e—— | | BULGARIANS-ARE ASKED ! TO MOURN FOR HARDING By the Associated Press. N SOFIA, Bulgaria, August 6.—Pre- His con- | have | they remember most of the things he | something to { say in the Green Mountain state. He ! Coolldge could not afford | ceremonies, both here and in Marion. | mier Zenkoff issued & decree request- In his message Mr. Taft also said: |ing the people of Bulgaria ‘to join .+t me express my high respect, my |in the mourning of the American deep sympathy with your heavy bur- | people ‘over the death of President den and my confidence in the result.” ding. Bulgaria had suffered the loss of a He said he would arrive in Wash- sigton tomorrow: afternoon, l}ml'r(!lend. he said, - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, |at the capital is Rev. Dr. Juson Noble | Plerce, class of 1902, and it is at Dr. { Pierce’s First Congregational Church that the Coolidg in Washington have always worshiped. Another Am- herst Washingtonian is Robert Lan- sing, former Secretary of State, clavs of 1886. With Lansing, at Amherst reunions, President Coolidge often bas discussed current international affairs and especlally world war and peace conference history. Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House, is an Amherst man, class of 1874, and Coolidge has s a good deal of him at Washington because of No “Inner Cabinet” of Cro- nies Likely During His [collese asociations " Gurer Amherst | Administrati {bert Grosvenor, president of tife N . . tlonal - Geographic Society; Repre- ministration I sentgtive Treadwyy of Massachusetts, g who recently urged a special session | of Congress upon President Harding | {to deal with New England coal prob- lems, and Joseph B, . inter- COOLIDGE HAS FEW " INTIMATE FRIENDS ! BY FREDERIC WIL AM WILE. not likely. to be any |sate comme p Tt “inner cabinets” in the Coolidge ad-|these men have enjoyed intimate con- ministration, Roosevelt had his | ta¢t With Mr. Coolidge, they prob- ' lably exhaust the list of those who “tennis cabinet” and Harding had his “golfing cabinet,” but Calvin Coolidge, Leing addicted neither to outdoor sports nor cronies, will eschew private cliques of that sort. The absence of a “presidential set” promises to be one of the noteworthy have had that privilege. Friendly to Lodge. Relations between Mr. Coolidge and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge have al- | ways been ‘“normal” and still ' are | friendly, although Frank W. Stearns | and the senior senator from Massa- | chusetts fell out after the Chicago | differences between the new and |Sonvention, Massuchusetts republicans | 2 ave Stearns is sald to have felt the old administration. President|that Lodge never got behind che | Coolidge's only political and personal | | intimacies are expected to be of a strictly ofiicial character. In a way, the man from Massachusetts will be | a complete innovation, for erer since the days of McKinley the master of [the White House been surrounded ‘Coolidge boon hicago as e iby a chosen few, s fmes fron within the cabinet 1 sometimes from both within and without the | cabinet, Who have ranked as powers behind the throne. It is apparently not the Coolidge way. The one man | on earth acknowledged to be a boon | cmpanion of Calvin Coolidge—Frank W. Stearns of Boston—will not be in * | Washington. Intimations have already gone forth from the tempora: White ' House at the Willard that both the | President and Mr. Stearns resent the | “Mark Hanna” and “Col. House” sug- | gestlon. Mr. Stearns, it is declared, is to remain what he always has been merely a friend. asking nothing for ! himself, intruding no counsel, und | importuned for none % H Few Fricnds Here. This writer spent a_considerable por- tlon_of Mr. Coolidge’s first week end {as President in endeavor 1o trace 1his nearest and dearest Washington con- nections. As Vice President, he has {lived here for two und « half years. He hd Mrs. Coolidge have been the most entertained couple in the cupital's mod- ern history. They hav, gone evers- where, met every o ind been lionized o a quite unprecedented degree it proves impossible to locate lentitled to the distinction o friend of the President, in the for instance, that “Joe" Frelinghuy: “Fred” Hale, “Al" Lasker, Harry X Harry Daugherty, Fra < . ard Sutherland or * MeLean L Coolidge is not a golfe He is said to have played twice in W urhington, but no one can remember whore, when or | Wwith whom. He is a hard smoker, ith a fondness for long cigars, and derives some of the comfort from that habit that other men secure from outdoor games. The new President has a “bridge mind.” but is not known to he especially fond of card i cultinated no regular comp the Senate. Backed Up Coolidge. Iy . The comradeship with Frank W.| Stearns, Boston department = store | magnate, is as old as Calvin Cool idge’s career in politics itself, which mexns about half his life, or twenty five vears. It st « origin, though . who ia sixty- | seven ' years sixteen years Coolldge’s senior, was graduate Amherst in the class of 1878, whila | Coolidge didn't get his degres there | until 1585, Stearns' ambition for more | than twenty years has been to “I Cal Coolidge” in the \White Houss: | He had an ablding faith that aspira- | tion would he realized. He has su jPlied the sinews of war for Coolidge s | local campaigns “in Massachusetts politics and was the financial impre- | sario of the nation-wide effort to nominate Gov. Coolidge for the | presidency in 1920. It av who commandeered the James B. Reynolds, former secreta of the republican natlonal committee land a Massachusctts man, to orzanize the - Coolldge pre-convention ~cam- paign three years ago. It was con. ! {ducted from’ elaborate headquarters i in a Washington hotel. Reynolds now vice president of the Com E Natlonal Bank of Washington. -\ True to Amherst. Amherst tieg are probably about near to any “chumminess” as Presi- dent Coolidge has indulged himself | at Washington. He has been active in the Amherst Club, being alwo 4 | trustee of the college whioh was re- | cently In the limelight in connection with the troubles of Ppesident Mei- klejohn. Mr. Coolidge for two years | and more has not actively attended | to his trusteeship duties, and had no | part in_the Meiklejohn fracas. e of the Presiden ol ! Eye Advice | Clafin Optical Co- %45 3, l an T | of oy T 1 Prohibition I —is not in mind %hen we plead guilty to hav- ing helped “keep Wash- ington dry” for years. 1 What we have seference l to is TINNING and ROOF | REPAIRING, for .which | &7 Let us estime lour services have long G\ym that we're and_convino nable as |been in demand. well as reliable. MAURICE J. COLBERT Heating—Plumbing—Tinning SUNT £ 621 [ Street "l yas B LTI LT LI | TIAGARA FALLS EXCURSIONS THURSDAYS August 16, 30; September 13,.27 and October 11. 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Weeks as republican na tional committeeman from Massachu- setts. Butler is a disciple of the W. Murray Crane school of politice in the Bay state, with which Coolidge himself long was identified. If President Coolidge is to have a “kitchen cabinet,” or any kin: other than is statutori d, it remains to be created. guess is he never will have. h groups of cronies are the ex- on of a temperamental fond- for an intimate cirele. In Cal- vin such thigg. reliant, though perhaps not a “sing| Coolidge’s He icon there entiall no a self track mind” man, who will do th bulk of his thinking and his acting for himself. i (Copyright, 1623.) e Ceylon's reputation as an impor- tant gem center is being badly in- jured by the flooding of the market with synthetic stones, which are daily sold to unsuspecting purchasers for sums far abov Made with a purity that has taken the house of Anheuser-Busch well over half a century to perfect. A delicious quality ale, sold wherever people want the best. 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