Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 12

“COOLIDGE LUCK" NOW REAL SUCCESS President Chosen by Voice ofi People to Highest Office | Within Their Gift. idge of pioneer born and reared farm, whose are merchant pr shoemaker, opportu and thereby thirtieth sut of the United States, now ) this greatest politizal office he world his own right b tes of the sover people. irst came into the presidency by cath of Warren G. Harding, but wmains in the White Ilouse by andat the vote Whe first President throughout the Man_ who ever the Federal Calvin C yer stoc nds town ities Pres comes | in all the | He | the to Washing- came | ‘ \ Career Democratic. of no other Pres has ever with the drama of circum narked the meteorie iturn, sundy-haired posvertul elec- frec peop he carcer the 1 nded this glander arm to the ient | of been | rocky me wosition amoni les idge was Massachu lod particu- So many his ditical eys- Radio address acceptia Homiation e or les wttice th cupied said t Calvin the cit North- House. | ) fight for office iu | t other men have s the oflice came brilliancy swess as a | - busine it by the stiny that | careers | him—unot Lehi awyer vement or Maxim. Lecome u of Calvin the the fri wceept it in t way they accept office have pu becaus tlaenis twing wn g a ma Th or 10 yea Mayflowe o lived Connecticut | Iy countr State of e sturdy picneers of that for generations the Cool- cen farmers right up (the father of Cal- 1s also a coun who never took wother, Victoria | 1 New Englan tion, and hn C. Coolidge n Cool tre sto and art in The Coolidg aleo o neestry . Boshood Uneventful. tCalvin Coolidge’s bovhood wa different from that of thousands thers in New England. He grew up on the farm. His father owned the far: itd worked it. He helped his father an 1 boys usually do until reached the nge where h wanted some higher furnished in rural V He went to Amherst ¢ w lawyer's degre (il mic set up a practice Northampton, Mass. His career allege w )t marked with rarticular cti His cre but tha; ngage in ath led ious, somcwhat retired life. H many friends, but no more than admirers Revolution. llege. That ! American col ars old, | petition. duates red s in e of | Northampton, scrved two yea and { then decided to run for the State Sen- in {ate. He was elected in“ 1912 and re- at jturned to Boston. After a year's serv any|lee he was elevated to the presi- marks | dency of the State Se That was the | in the days when the late W. Murray dia | Crane was in the achu a | sctts politics.. Cr: Coolidg o They were both quict mern with and, Acceptad Profier. ed the sovernor. 1916 he w not like t in Coolidge T In at Amherst College would frou: the humorous ! ticket as lieuten Olio of 18 the class {was o hint that if th nt YOUNE | it might mean the by ar 5 jon. oo mber of college houors, cither those } 70 "00 ained through popularity or work e e i not an D the college o meant political advan v He served two v s lieutenant 4 I 1l 1. |governor, things went well with the n the roll of fheiRepublican party, and in 1818 he suc- At the duty of | ceeded to the no tion as governor Wt 4 hamor- | Quietly and naturall fis_election s Mia Ols | followed. Massachusetts is & Ther i be inferred nment in the ng svernorshi He had nom ut he not that idze the ace: ‘ganization, One College Honor. | After his scnior cl tem: Grove the grove orator i< _speech on class day viccted Dby the iior cluss. That ota « Coolidge's only o at Amherst > marked Dby any outstanding Rev. Tracy B, Griswold. Brook- LDy 3 |save onc, aud that ultimat says, “He was a shy fellow, and iy, "0, for the presidency. © Clargiad notmesdly ver Bim |y Gas w time for labor unrest. The JLLH e v e anicr | policemen of Boston orgunized & Ehe eQitOrs of dhe il | union under the American Federation 1 i the preface of Labor, and, requests for in- seniors. Conceive cased pa cen declined, Roelker and © Ceed sed i Epenuidecined they struck than subfreshmen Nation apparently did not . sed I3, salthotel jof a left defenseless and 3 unpo 1 a strange Big hsic OF | pewspapers sent reporters to describe the vity. Somcthing bad to be Gov. Coolidge had @ conference with fayor Peters of Bostou d sub- sequently the State troops “were o dered out to police the city. The: broke the strike nam =% there Ogatc 1 to pre was un- event put hin f that year o here we vou can, olidge ever The | take | his havin Iming more President things too rot found sllustrious bon-vivants of on the list of Phi Beta And, although he d welf serionsly. | He roomed with Robert and among the questions eniors in order their wit Amherst? > T ution was ut once fo- on. The spectacle name i one. ass Kappa. 10t take not obtrusive. . Mainzer, put to done, did vou answer Brought Limclight. The publ trike put limelight. city attendant upon this Coolidge in the National Because it was cam- ear and was w veritable Practice Not in North slow for chool. He Heavs. mption things were rather | lm oung lawyer fresi from |Paign g N Yith Tnaieront |seramble for the Republican nomina- \coess for o time and then came an {100 With no candidate appearing to Upportunity to become city solicitor. [Rave It cincled, Coolidge's friends 'he job did not amount o much in [SHERLEC A boown Jbr B Northampton, but it was better than | e R othing, so Young Coolidge took it. |IN& nominated for e B e It e o ded |dency with but little opposition. Jita his {astes were simple, and | Vice presidency was not so Srugality was a part of his Vermont | ¢ diin Ghicaso in M2 gality ibe hereafter for many e 5 |litical conventions. Twelve jielcs tone e but about Calvin Coolidge |, He had been WVice o mark him different from Ih(‘,‘(l_l‘l '0" )‘{'l‘llln’g’ n(-mr:‘u;“ O e e i torrny of |carried him into the White America. He was still in very mod- | AT Coolldge came fnto the pre T iretanoes TVINE 10 & “two. | dency under circumstances that were T O e Tor which he paid $35 | unprecedented in American .history. i onth renf. In 1905 he married |#here have been other Vice Presidents O oodhuc, « teacher. Two years | Who succeeded to the White House e n 1907 eame an opportunity to|upon the death of their chiefs—six b 2 it | of them all told—but always there o o8 . He accepted it of * 3 Lo L e eite afottor. | 18 been a varying period of prepar- S e ation for the event, a lingering fatal S ah Gonline. anterca illness of the executive to prepare Nt e s car 1859, when he | the public mind for the transition was 27 vears old. Like many other American boys he had, cven before he W able to vot shown a deep in-{ erest In the political history of his country. In his senfor vear in Am- .rst College in 1895, just before his his be pre highly s it will Years at po- ssed 1 yea \d there little 4 President but when the utomatically political | Drama Without Sequel. In Coolidge’s case there was none. On the night of August 2, 1923, he | was enjoying a brief vacation on his | father's little hilly farm in the rural -raduation with highest honors, he |fastness of Vermont. He retired as Won the first prize, a szold inedal, | usual about 10 o'clock. At midnigh .warded by the Sous of the American | inz of the telephono bell Revolution for the Lest sy outlin- av ¥ e ouly tel ~ Acknoseledqing greetings of publi- | The | THE EVENING STAR playtuiy 'aigom] Anthent. Ditcheng hay at Plywonth, "underwood (143 At s desk_- the messa dicd that Warren G. Harding dramatic suddenness | on the Paclfic coast 3,00 av after a brief illne ne considered serious, and ident of the United States would be as soon as he could ‘the oath. The drama of that night sequel in American histor. While still unaware of the efreuni- stances of President Harding's sud- den death, while still benumbed by the shocking surprise of it all, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in hat lonely Vermont farmhouse ihe flickering light of lamp at ours after he had awakened from & sound sleep us Viee President take Father Administers Oath. The oath of office that made Colvin Coolidg: the th th President of the United States was administered to him by his father; the Bible that the father handed to the son to kiss was the family Bible; the scene of this ple ritual was the itting room of a small Vermont farmhouse | situated on the farm Which the son was born, on which he lived and worked boy and from which he 3 college. it small and unpretentious home, no unlike hundreds of others that stand upon ihe hillside or in the valleys that makes up large a part of the beauty of Green Mountain ) State. Tu and simplicit; and quietness, the rewards of toil and the hall-mark of the honor and | sclf-respect that independence brings all these serve to make it truly “home, sweet e” to father and! to son. President Coolidge believ whole heart that “the destiny of America, the grcatness of America, lies around the heartstone.” He holds that “if thrift and industry are taught therc, and the example of selfesacrifice oft appears, if honor abida therc, and high ideals, if there the building of fortunc be subordi nate t the building of character, Amieri will live in security, rejoic- ing in an abundant prosperity and good government at he and i peace, respect and confidence abroad.’ To luse these virtues, as he believes, |is to lose these blessings. To the committee that notified him of the nomination of his party to the vice presidency he addressed a reply that closed with th message to ountrymen: “Look well to the heart- | stone; “therein all hope for America 1ie Calvin President of on activities on as a tive and Con, wen w to When h Capital, after outh, Vt., the of the mi Exccutive in not take offic ebration. O succeeded “the dignity with 1ia | THe Americ 3 with his | 55 ana, gering naturc Tre tomar this termi With Mrs. home at the rected the there. H announce the ing's ex: dent tazk with Tnder hi dent Harding solicitation, at the White Calvin Coolidge carcer has sense of justic fusal to deal cerities i In his personal lifc simplicity and i sincerity has ruled He has been a | mem] of the Congregational Church I sinee oyhood. He bhas never had | riches and has rexulated his life jcordingly. Mrs. Coolidge, the “First | Lady of the Land.” is a charming and attractive woman and is very popular | in Washington. in all bwn an and with of his pub- unswerving a steadfast pelitical insin- lic ple time to €. Bascom had been to succeed Town Is 250 Years Old. Sherborn, Mass., reached 250th {birthday during the second week of | | October, and a celcbration which last- ed a week was big event in the | community. Sherborn didn’t just grow |like Topsy, but was formally found- ied, and the calebra- [ resigned. Dbers cepted M main in ofice WASHINGTON, 8 [l wes no A8 a studest at Amberst College 195 COOLIDGE Pl ST NOTABLE ONE FOR THE NATIO Coolidge’s the been marked by the United States have | than ordinary | part of the many tense and stirring situations. presented himself been s as Chief Magistrate by Jis father in the old Coolidge homestead in 1 President assumed one ks fa vears amid plaudits contrary, Ly reason of the untimely death of a popular and be- loved Iixecutive, hticst ta to officc Warren G people were in besides the that confronted Takes Up Duties Quietls. Coolidge, calm and quict, entered upon unmistuakablc ation and sincerity of purpos Coolidse, Willard Hotel, affairs of the nation from ! fivst to the world that, President Hard- | he would the burdens he was permitted to lay down and to develop and support the wise principles of he represented.” personal direction, rangements for the funeral of Presi- made. Harding remained House for more four weeks, thus being afforded am- the packing her personal effects, to be moved to the Harding home in Marion. 1t was late in September when the President and Mrs. Coolidge took up | their abode in the White House. of his first acts then was to appoint | of Virginia, sentative 0 vears, secretary | George B. Christian, jr., | who had served in that capacity un- der President Harding and who had In the meantime the mem- of the cabinet, had tendered their resignations, ac- Coolidge's request 1o re- with him. Worked for Economy. Prom the very beginning witit e made inspiration mple,” zovernment which | Mrs. direct Slemp a Repre Zress for nearly all : (., WEDNESDAY, D. Autographixg base.ball for Walter Johtson Keystone W ket he extered Dolities Making a dddress the Fodera the Sta a_ resumpt I OFf {or an early mom ride ) ed REGIME HAS President’s Fifteen Months in White House Full of Tense Situations, AUl Well Handled. ! termination reduce uovern ment’s expense. His prede: sor had iated thiz poli of economy, and dent Coolidge carried it out, with ult that this administration succecded chiefly through the the | agency of the budget to reduce the in al cost of the Government from 38,000,000 in 1921 to 3 000,000, | Besides this, the public debt has been reduced from $24,000,000,000 to $21 B 000, which means an an ife aid ving in interest of more than $120,- nd ccl- | 000,000. The Government has paid had | Off or refunded $7,000,000,000 of short- time obii ions. "The President had not been at the helm of the Government very long before he let it be known that he was going to initiate u movement to reduce the taxes. They were far too high and the burden was becoming unbearable. months as te X it clined Execu- 2 1N as by well as by er of = Senaute orn n- ed by any fover to more the dent Harding. mourn- problems were Brought Tax Cat. legislation finaily enacted into Jaw brought about a reduction of $365.- 1 900,000 & vear in taxes. His legislation to bring about a repeal of the taxes or luxuries and messagqy and amus ments was passed greatly to the re- lief of the public. President Coolidge always has contended, while advo- g a reduction in taxes, that they bear most heavily upon tho poor, and that they diminish industry and com- merce and make agriculture unprofit- able, and he stated in his speech of acceptance that there must be further | o reduction, Another great accomplishment Mr. Coolidge’s administration w adoption by the European govern- | ments of the plan to settle the rep- | arations issue initiated by th ov- ermnent lacting unofficially through | Gen. Charles G. Dawes and Owen D. Young. Adoption of this plan, which brought about the withdrawal of the French troops from the Rhur dis trict, effeSted an agreement for an extension 6f time and a reduction in the present amount of reparation pay ments, and had the cffect of placing the financial budgets of the Kuropean countries in a opsition where they &an be balanced casily and the era jof settled economic polices taken up. What is looked upon as the most im- portant phase of this settlement was | the loan of more than $300,000,000, | | Which the Dawes plan provided, "for | | the restoration of Germany's cur- | rency. | most wholly through bankers in the |the | Unitea States. tions. hig ad-, The first real problem to confront | fration. his cus- | in de s his and di- cial act was to! “Under “take up | ar- | of| A the At his the than 1axif of ducted One cute who | in Con- | and tion of whom tration sion hard governors i worked out a plan ir should have, ditions of furnished fact hot general public The most embarras<ing quest brief sal of Attol incd stand on the sisting from the the faith of the value called upon him b o dism advance of President Americanism by a the Senate 1 that body the vernment dictate. state paper of tha American people that would fight manded invaded The President, Congress leg leases and nection authority of Congress (o appoint spe- | at counsel criminal i the oil reserves and the prosecution | of any guilty of wrongdoing. { These suits are now | the Government case being handled by former Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Democrat, of Philadelphi reform | Coolidge was the reerganization the Veterans’ expose of alleged conduct shown to have cxpeyded more money | than any other single agency of the iovernment. the Department of Justice to prose- Charles R. charged, as director with being responsible for conditions, with auestionable transactions in connec- i with | buildigs. The public mind during more than ! < months of the Coolidge adminis- | ‘Those opposed to the adminlis- NOVEMBER b6, 1924 i | | NaTioNAL Photo | Sppos ¢ oppositi the bif i normal poratic the of the impoverish was the thre coal scetions He summoned nterence | coal-producing whi perated wi s to bring rnn ah Haugen-M have position of at a tixed p The disp Mexico an the Taft in_ bitte Wilson ad to a hap Charles B. | 'z sem Ce of the da decade of isting bou ties have ernment nized Mex friend] two reg At the idge has friendly re tra B production ¢ public as profits minc ope and other conditio sueh as wages and liviy the miners. This cor upon which Gov. Pennsylvania, operaimg e Federal Government 1« bringing about w sett ory the workers ar in- mis- tion andais which devcloped with the Jeasing of vaval und “administration of the t of Justice. This led to a investigation by Senat . to the resignati Sce the Navy Denby and the | General Daugh- plidge took & situatior first that all have a fair hearing, to act until he was officizls involved had lost people and were no long- cabinet nmiembers. The resolutions some weeks ir was the President of sta; in- |ing and de- '@ Court sutisfied The s Spring wh pected 1o « , and -the | that r and virile | Pogition ab arp message to | in which he plzinly told | that it had authority | ecutive branch of the | D in the way it assumed | legislati This was the strongest | ¢¥plaining his administration, and $idered ug else showed to | feasible m the Presi- ; of an adeq de- | tior ss Daugherty his own & showed him vige the leislati ar when and the right porary cor Acted in Oil Cases. The Pres legislation for revi the tu consider- during over oil, w 1 methods to protect the in- the Government in the the alleged frauds in con- with them. He requested providing £ tion of the the last 1o institute suits for the res and of civil itution of | A genul garding on trial, with |signed by islation, and Owen D. guage, @ Republican started by Pre Roberts arc exclud of | act. which followed irregularities, inefficiency and fraud in the of the bureau, which was Bureau, poli urged leg ects, and An investigation con- . providing by a Senate committee led permitted teyior to against ce Forbes, who war of the bureau, being involved in s 8 involved in semo]Sf LS contraets for hospital|{ When t President Keeps Cool. O oy was filled almost ecntirely | congressional investiga- | Through preparing for the 1924 clec-ltion wax N 5 Attt % placed relations President our forcign servier service ion United States. immigration stablished the news of the which w CODLOGEVIETOR " ELATES STEARNS | President’s Most Intimate | Friend Sees Dream Real- ized in Election. The White entertained a Frank W. House probal happicr guest Stearns of Boston, M who has been Ir Coolidg: most intimate friend for years. and w with his wife burried from Boston 3 terday to be with the President Mrs. Coolidge to receive the returns last nj Mr. Stea for Calvin Coo. idge and his contidence in him are 100 upen by many as onc of the t 1 pressive and picturesque litical anna friend a ‘maker looked sense upon but Har ading figur: snal erely u was inexper: and not ac Hann Frequently Frequentls Whit t to met u storm | War ¥ liberal nistratior s veto t s of postal th in: her pro Cor ard checking Lon-liqu of theigor Opposed Class Measures. approve cNar: the price. utes which ex d the United administration, and hostili ministration, w Dy Wa nt o end. Mexico n n the mages caused uprising and t ndary disputes Leen’ rati The U ico ar bday succeeded in “lations with ying out of the volved | Nations, but favoring partic International Reorganires Foreign signed h completely io and hroad. During the last session of President was called on to def at the onsolidation ethod for the uate svstem of to nditions us meet now ident s calling of deg for a the i He suppe or @ complete exceutive bra; session, but w brought up ugain next Winter. nely American by the the President. that it ed under the ' slation later relief cbtained to the Necretdry suspend or readjust users of their inability to make their land rtain water he world was Japanese the ican people to contributc fund, less than two weeks the efforts of soparated from eri n and J ed by i President and which § 2uch toward improving | dura strengthening our | most was immigration reforestati providing ther development of reclamation many of scttlers on Federal projects. E i President | proclamation calling upon the A which v ent in the{w wheat ling ted betwee ites ties brought issioners hn Bar Presiden gotiating sottlemon voth gov ate Leas patio Justice. Service. a bill recog the niost st be n th Cool- continuing | the body other nations | Marion and has continued the policy of Hard reorganized ngres the on transporta with an oppertunity so to adjus freight rates as such te preva some agricultural scetions ve of rted a Te-organiz: neh of hich policy re definitel; 7 n that threatened to impair railroads. However, hs approved | lation permitting consolidations, time that he co as maintenance ¥ n the | Government, which was not acted upon wiil be | = law | While the the { Boost For Reclamation. The President urged a constructiv regarding. an for fu legislatic of the In chargs bee stunned b: aster sued President heartily approved this leg- he did not favor fearing lun- might cause some affront to Japan, whose citizens terms of th d proj- thousands This a to a relier oversubseribed i the Dresi the Palaoy n and which was This loan was obtained al-|with the revelations brought out by | handled by the Red Cross. several dent the Emergency Fleet Corpora- great an followed the devel to a po surance of 1 to the Natio nporta re those of Hu New York, as At tis D. Wil California, Seceretary of t Aside from tt €, and chan, 1 diplonatic service, the Pres dent did not cabinet President Hardi resiened as ambas to which ace Frau ho had just been defeatc tion 1o the Senate fro a, was appointed. The re: Richard Washburn C assudor to was fil Henr who ! named 1 s Ambassod and Joseph C. Grew, whe Minister to Switzerlat ary = liss, who La been ¢ tiie Assistant Secrotarie of State was appointed to succeed N Grey at Switzerland. E. A. Bancrc appointed ambassador to Japa t succeed Sirus C. Wood, a George ieflleld was appointed bassador to Mexico to succeed Charl Warre The President reappointed Cuno 1 doibh and James ¥. Oyster civilia Commissioners he District, ar appointed Gus A. chuldt, who ha re 1 recess uppointment L Harding, as Police Cou reappointed John P. Mc- Police Court judge olidge has dome liti. traveling ¢ he assumed th Presidency He was a member « the uneral party that accompanicd of President Harding 1» i for burial, and went t | Plymouth for the burial of his eou 1 and returned to Plymeu ater for a ten days’ vacu 1t made two trips to Ne !York, one to Philadelphia and ene t Baltimore for the purpose of makir disturb inherited arve to Eritai | Kellogs had 1ast |, “speceh, The cro resident’s jourmeys awa, 1+ Washington have been of bri tion and have been confined entirely to the prisidential | Mayflowe { THE BUMBLE BEE'S NAME. From the Nuture Magazige, The name of the commen bumi bee has brought forth many discu s persons insist that t should “humble boe” whils more precisely scientifie, d borabus bee” There is the advocate of either ! apologize. The bee b |lones to the genus bombus, and t of the genus is derived from t k bombus. translated into En as meaning “abuzzing noiss the distinguished Engli | etymologist. defines the bumble b as @ “bee that hums,” and adds tha* {the verb “bumble” is from the ol Dutch hommel a verb whi means “to bu o hum,” which, he says, is akin to the wor “boom” as applied to a “booming’ sound. “As both boom and hum signify to buzz,” explains Skeat, “ti insect i ed indifferently a bumb! bee or a bumble bee. spelling o Mink an American Fur. Mink is pre-cminently an America fur-bearing animal. It is found almost every part of the Americar continent from the castern part « Canada, where it is a small, silky ani- mal, to Arizona, where it is much larger and its fur is coarser, witi vellowish tones ncar the skin. A mink fur expert can tell from just what locality the nes. - “Wild Quail of Borneo” Now. Every one has heard of the “wil men of Borneq,” #o that the discover of a long, huv!‘x_. reddish-crested quail in Borneo occasions little surpris. among nature students. This odd quail is of moderate sizc and of rich green plumage. It is very distin cuished in appearance and its haunts are in Borneo and Siam, some belng i J