Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 13

" IDEAL “FIRST LADY" - [SMRS. COOLIDGE Vivacity, Graciousness and| Competency Endear Her to the Public. BY SALLIE Veighe the de ive on Mra nt and V. H. PICKETT. the world at resic President-elect of States. Since her husband sath of office by the dim coal-0il lamp in the simple his futher at Plymouth, Vt.. sgust 5. 1923, Mrs. Coolidge has calized Ler position as the Nation's 5. and has made good. In her official social life as the mis- the White House she has ful- h duly with grace and dis- lins o touch of effervescent n the very love of living almost unkfown in her position. She car- ried the prescribed official of dinners and_receptions in the s dded vi carden parti tar e fact that ihe White Hou it and the grim visitor 100k from her h has led on, a by ie public in the way of oin her way in a dnpross with nited K the ght of ome ¢ nlled eca came into ail of death came 1 unzest she from boy little privacy manner to least whom she came in ns in Public Bye. endured the glare came to f the Vice lady ned ove vernor. period in when great have be idse had lite b th as wife s the of the oOr liuse she re the ¢ was at a he country would al aff of rurse istory ics that of ocial noor taste e World War, er lot do she zrace and dignity Com to Washington as the wife Pres t role " between mistress o display but whatever fell to did it, and with nt, s of forming the the public and the White House, giving ntertaining Juncheon and £l losely with the as the First Lady of the permitted to do. olidge easily impresses one personality—her strongest and she brought to the White a sp atmosphere, »ss which it had not ince the day President Cleve- his bride there as the First Land. the ptaneous Known s land too Lady of the “Her Mrs, adness Is Enough.” of coursa older Cleveland, who was bears the crown of years spent in glare of the oflicial world, but rer splendid spirit is so manifest that when at an indoor garden party at the White House lish-speaking diplomat atked another who is a stranger to our language if he understood what Mrs. Coolidge said, the response was, “That is not « to look upon her gladness is, is enough.” Mrs. Coolidge was born January 3, 1579, fn_a simple old house on Maple street, Burlington, Vt., and that was the home from which she married, October 4, 1905, Capt. Andrew I ioodhue, who died after Mr. Coolldge hecamo Vice President, gave his daughter away, and the mother, now . confirmed invalid in tho home of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at Northampton, lent a gentle grace and hospitality to the simply arranged event. Capt. Goodhue was a Democrat, and received his appointment as steam. hoat fnspector from Grover Cleve- land, filling the position for 37 years. 2rs. Coolidge was graduated from the University of Vermont, a co-educa- tfonal institution, and is a Pl Beta Thi. After her graduation Mrs. Coolidge went to Northampton to teach in the Clark School for the Teaf, a career soon cut short by her romance with the President. Courtship Not “Official.” There are droll, sweet tales told of the courtship, but the President and Mrs. Coolidge are smiling but silent on the subject, and gently enough zive the world to understand that at least that part of their lives is not official, Hundreds of thousands of women the world over are wondering about the First Lady of the Land, for she must stand out boldly, typifying cverything that Is best in American womanhood. To answer any ques- tion about her honesty one would have to grow a little too enthusiastic, for a lovely woman of 45 years, pos- <essed of pofse, graciousness to a marked degres, a keen, intelligent nderstanding of those around her, teeming with vitality, gently sym- pathetic, industrious, painstaking, meticulouely neat, fond of music, fond of children and flowers and ~verything that makes the world lovelier—that is Mrs. Coolidge. Nor is the plcture overdrawn. You know what kind of a woman loves birds and flowers and little children—that gentler sort who has 2 continuous rift of gladness in her naturé? That is Mrs. Coolidge. One thinks of her as a mere slip of a girl if you come on her suddenly, stand- 'ng on tiptoe peering into the cage of her lovely troupial, handsomest of all her caged birds, a native of north- orn South America, with a terrible Jot of jabbering golng on between them as she holds a grape between 1er teeth to tempt him. President Also Bird Lower. { This wonderfil bird is of the black- bird variety, and while his notes are not as sweet as those of the two canaries hard by, there is something | lilting in his whistle that lends the same quality of tone when they all | sing at once as if given by the bugle | n an orchestra. Both the President and Mrs. Coolidge love him. Daintiest of these singers is the siskin Brist, a tiny fellow, littlier than a canary, and termed the real baby of all the singers. The birds and squirrols on the great White House lawn. with its 10 acres set with forest trees and shrubs, are nq end of interest to both the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and one often sees her raking a nut out from the leaves with the toe of her shoe to entice a bushy-tailed squirrel a little nearer. The birds, their nests, their houses, are a never-ending joy to Mrs. Coolidge. Asked what is her first morning task following breakfast with the President and arranging with the housckeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, the menu for the three meals of the day, Mrs. Coolidge will tell you it is to look over her mail. One President's wife has Deen pictured as opening every ctter addressed to her. Perhaps one might botter have written that she personally opened cvery letter placed on her desk. In Mrs. Coolidge’s mail there are soveral hundred letters each morning, ranging from polite little notes from friends, family letters, ad- vertisements from importers and lo- al merchant kings to “request lot- ters,” which make up more than two- thirds of her mail. Many of theso letters—in fact, most of them—she sees. Others are read, digested, condensed by her secretary, and. the gist of the communication placed before her for decision. There is a subtle understanding between Mrs. Coolidge and her secretary, Miss Vaura Harlan, which is a wonderful =aving of time and vitality in the lifc Af Mrs. Coolidge. This pertains to and not found wanting is | large must | ilvin Coolidge, wife of | proc| last | Notwith- | r and | and | the | n in | 1t of the scars of | assumed | | | last Spring an Eng- | an the dozens of requesty received daily - Y W xearyRsaneavesart for Mrs. as a terprise. Alded Animal Rescue League. For the most, these requests come trom well known source: Animal Rescue League, to which Mrs. Coolidge last year lent not only her name as a sponsor, but her dog, Roy, as a special exhibit at the an- nual card party at the Club. Mrs. Coolidge Coolidge to lend her name patroness to some worthy en- never minds spon- soring a good use, and when last April a committee from the Women's Law Enforcement Convention upon her she consented to be their honorary sponsor. Three former first ladies of the la were also patrons: Mrs. Warren G. farding, Mrs. Wil- liam Howard Taft and Mrs. Thomas A. Preston, jr., formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland. ' Mrs. Herbert Hoover was chalrman of the convention, and Mrs: Henry C. Wallace, wife of the late Secretary of Agriculture: Mrs. John W. Weeks, wife of the Secretary of War; Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes and others of the Cabinet circlo actively participated in the convention Mrs. Coolidge never refuses the use of hor name when it is possible to give it. Thus she sponsors the ball for the Navy Relief League, that for the Children’s Country Home and the Children’s Hospital, other hospital benefit balls and other charities. To some she contributes a sum known only to herself and tho treasurer, and to many she sends flowers, which are later sold and the money added to the revenue from the entertainment. Member of Pi Beta Phi. She goes heart and soul into an en- terprise when her assistance is pledged, and gives close study of the work accomplished. She takes un- usual interest in the Pi Beta Ph woman's fraternity, of which she is a member, and which is the sole sup- port of a mountain school in Ten- nessee—a. movement which has broadened out from a single school- room at the start into a general seat of learning, and one which figures as the largest asset in community work in that part of the State. It was this organization which, in rec- ognition of her helpfulness and in- terest, ordered the beautiful portrait by Howard Chandler Christy, now hung | in the lower corridor of the White House with portraits of other first ladies of the land. It is a tribute of the gratitude and appreciation of the Pi Beta Phi for her co-operation with them over a period of many vears. There are dozers of requests by letter to meet Mrs. Coolidge, and, of course, these must be individually submitted to her for decision. Then there are letters asking for a contri- bution to a church fair or a bazaar to be held for some worthy These requests, unless manifestly of doubtful nature, are always granted, Mrs. Coolidge spending considerable time each day affixing her name to exquisite steel-engraved picture of the White House, which is her re- sponse to all such requests. Gifts by Other First Ladies. The late Mrs. McKinley, when mis- tress of the White House, undertook to knit slippers to fulfill all such re- Roose- | by the| hundreds to be accompanied by & | quests, and her successor, Mrs. velt, bought handkerchiefs note, to which she subscribed her signature. Mrs. Coolidge found that Mrs. Taft and the mistresses of the mansion since that time had adopted the engraving, and, being an exqui- site tribute and one always in un- questioned taste, Mrs. Coolidge also uses it. Mrs, Coolidge and Miss Harlan go over as much of the mall together as is necessary, and certainly over everything of a personal nature, the secretary making notes, after which it is turned over to a group of secre- taries to write the letters and arrange the correspondence for signature. Each afternoon during the Winter season Mrs. Coolidge receives small groups of women, and often men, by special appointment made through Miss Harlan, who sends a little card, engraved for tho purpose and bear- ing the White House seal in gold, an- nouncing that Mrs. goolidge will be pleased to meet the visitor on such a day and at such an hour. To be late for such an appointment as this is an unpardonable error. The guests generally arrive 10 or 15 minutes before the K appointed time, are assembled in the blue room, and later a White House aide arrives, with every one present, and Coolidge is ready to re- Ve in e red room—always the Washington | waited | cause. | THE -.EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NATIONAL HoTon parlor used for such small gather- ings—the door is opened, and, taking his place beside the President the aide makes the introductions. Cordially Recelved. Mrs. Coolidge conducts thesa little meetings in the most natural and in- formal manner, having pleasant con- versation with every one, and finally accompanying them to the cozy little tea table arranged in one corner of the room beside the fireplace, where cheer! blaze a few logs. Not in- frequently she presses the guest to try one of the dainty cakes, saying that the White House cook makes such delicious ones. The gracious mistress of the mansion wears charming, but never elaborate, after- noon dresses on these occasions, and always sets them off with some ap- propriate touch of “costume jewelry,” such as a chain and pendant, with earrings to match, or a chain and bracelet. Mrs. Coolidge declares that of all the groups of women with whom she has been associated in Washington he perhaps has more intimate friends { among the House and Senate women. As the wife of the Vice President she became a member of the Senate La- dies’ Lunch Club, and while her hus- band presided over the Senate she was closely affiliated with them. When Mr. Coolidge succeeded to the | presidency Mrs. Coolidge naturally clung to these associates, dining with | the Senate ladies each Tuesday, and whenever the wjves of Senators Representatives ask the favor of tak- ing their friends and their husbands' constituents to call on Mrs. Coolidge the request is granted. Finding how cruelly the big organ- izations drew upon the strength and vitality of her predecessor, Mrs. Harding, who became critically i1l from fatigue, Mrs. Coolidge has met fewer large bodies of citizens, and has distributed her strength as judi- ciously as possible. Mrs. Coolidge Real “Sport.” Mrs. Coolidge is a 2 a good sport, and she is an -around” sport. She has the vigor of vouth to back her in this, and whether steaming down the Potomac on the Mayflower with the President and friends aboard, ‘rootigg” at ball games like the world seribs, or sim- ply walking at a brisk galt in steady, even, swinging stride, one glories in her animation, the vitality of which shines in her every feature | adviser, | Rob Ro or| swimming pool no other visitors are | permitted to trespass a stir was created by the an- | Quite nouncement from some out the President and Mrs. Coolid adopt_the favorite exercise of dent RoosevelUs reign in the House and take str. back riding. The President h den on two or perhaps thres o and Mrs. Coolidge not at all instance, had you be: of the Whits House grounds around the White House in the of a July morning near the the month—say, the 1st—you have met the Pre John Coolidge, on dapper-looking mounts, a om nied by Maj. F. Coupal, the White Iouse medical galloping briskly over bridle paths which were laid out un- der the diroction of President Roose- velt. The ride was taken quite early der that Presi Wh s rid- &r end woul ent and his son | enough for the President and his son to return to the White House for an early breakfast and the Chief Execu- tive to reach his desk in the White House offices before 9 o'clock When Mrs. Coolidge, with buovant step. walks down the graveled paths of the W a morn- ing w utiful white colli dashing along before her one almost feels like cheering, ther so much life, £0 much animation about both. As a tourist, a hardy man of the world, said day while watching Mrs. Coolidge and her dog from the east room windows overlooking the lawn. “Why, you al- most expect her to break into a race with the collie.” “My. but Rob Roy loves her,” say another traveler, watching the beau- tiful anifal turn back to meet his mistress and stand in respectful s tention before her. And Rob Roy oes love her, too. Paul Prye, the White House Aire- dale, is such a mischief-maker, such a saucy, self-assertive dog that accompanies his mistress much frequently than does Rob Roy. Both are prime favorites with President, however, who, with Mrs Coolidge, agrees that dogs are much more constant in their affections than are cats. Cats Not so Constant. For a fact, each of the two Tige and Blackie, that claimed President and Mre. Coolidge as m ter and mistress, took to the alleys when they got good and ready, and unless brought back by force refused to return. Their loss to Mrs. Cool idge was fully made up in the free les: cats, the lawn, who apparently prefer caninec to feline attentions when picking | | ner | while over the smooth grounds or resting on low-savung branches. It was at one of Mrs door garden parties last Spring that a visitor who chanced to promenade | on the portico espied a big wire cage in the garden of the south front lawn | in which Tige, because he is a tiger cat, and Blackie, because he is black, held sportive sway, and called her friends to see the wildcats that the President kept confined in the garden. Mrs. Coolidge is of a domestic na- ture. She shows this in her every move within the White House. She and is betrayed in her every move. | essays no changes, no innovations as he is a graceful skater on ice and dances wonderfully well. Mrs. Coolidge can no more help “rooting” at a ball game than she can help smiling. She just has to “root,” and instead of the President, with all his false reputation for aus- terity, glaring down upon her or try- ing to suppress her, he ‘thuses up with her and they both “root” as cheerily as any of the other famous fans about them. This young mistress of the White House plays tennls, likes all games, and is an expert swimmer. Mrs. John B. Henderson, widow of Senator Hen- derson of Missouri, who maintains a tennis court and swimming pool for diplomats and members of the Cabi. net and a few others, has, since Mrs. Coolidge first came to Washington, given her the use of the pool for three mornings a week during the Summer season, when she could duck and dive and swim to her heart's content. Mrs. Henderson personally sends cards to the exclusive few who en- joy her ‘“country-club” hospitality, and when Mrs. Coolidge expressed a desire to have Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones, wife of Senator Jones of East Las Vegas, New Mex., and Mrs. George Wharton Pepper, wife of Senator Pepper of Philadelphia, Pa., g0 ssim- ming with her, Mrs. Henderson’ sent them each a card. During the hours Alrs, Coolidge and ber friends use thy its mistress, but, just like any good housewife, she stops here and there | to arrange books and papers, slips downstairs and out into the colonlal gardens, whero she picks flowers to arrange in vases in the rooms of the second floor of the White House, re- arranges chairs and lamps, and other- wise lends a home touch to her quarters. There were many erroneous storfes afloat about Mrs. Coolidge scrubbing, cooking, washing and lroning, mak- ing 65-cent shirt walsts, and €o on through a series of domestic gym- nastics that would put a farmers wifo through the paces. For a fact, she can do almost anvthing in the way of housckeeping, just as can any other Now England-bred woman. ery girl in the big New England colleges qualifies for some ‘“voca- tion,” such as chemistry, journalism. school teaching, music, painting, do- mestio sclence or something else to help along on life's road. Mrs. Coolidge, as Grace Goodhue, chose teaching. Mrs. Coolidge was fond of books, and her parents cultivated this trait in her. As Mrs. Miles Poindexter, the wife of the Ambassador to Peru, once said, Mrs. Coolidge was a bonny exception to the traditional New England school “mam.” Like other women of her acquaintance in New England Mrs. Coolidge couid do whatever she D. C, would | uously to horse- | For | 1 walking back | and | of | the | | NATIORAZFHOTO: e he | the | | 1adie dom of the birds on the White Housc | Coolidge's in- | | tail the daily NS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, INTERNAT I ON Ad—. was called upon to do, little or no real drudgery in her life, and, belng an intelligent manager of hou“ehold affairs, could practice econ- nomy and lend herself to other things While little time is given Mrs. Coolidge as mistress of House in which to sew or knit, she always has a bit of work near at hand, and one of her real passions is for dosigning a dress or hat, adding an extra touch to a costume or look- ing after the niceties of a toilet. This trait keeps her v from the merely conventional and gives even her simplest costumes an air of dis- tinction. The huge closets built in the White House to accommodate the extensive wardrobes of latter-day mistresses of the mansion, instead of the few wooden pegs which occupied the wardrobe walls of Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Madison and other early-day first , are not now filled to overflow- th superfluous clothing—cos- tumes to be worn once and never again. Indeed, Mrs. Coolidge chooses wardrobe with such care that, she has suitable costumes for possible occasion, she has enough and no more. She is always correct, stylish and up to date, per- haps more so than any woman who has ever presided in the mansion. Sho loves the orange and brown hades, certain shades of red, and has a gown of king's blue on which she dotes. Same White House Routine. When Mr. Coolidge assumed resi- dence there and took his first meal there as Prosident, the evening of August 21, 1923, neither he nor Mrs. Coolidge instituted the slightest change in management, except to cur- menus, adapting them to their own tastes. No one need be afraid now of either the President or Mrs. Coolidge disturbing the sa- cred traditions of the mansion. They accepted without question the man- ing w every | agement of the White House affairs, reallzing that those who had for many years the full run and control of the house and were accustomed to adapting themselves ,to the smaller domestic lifc or the larger official lifo of a President and his family were best suited and qualified to carry on in the mansion. Of course, there was a change in tasto between that of the late Presi- dent and Mrs. Harding, who were Middle West, and President and Mrs. Coolidge, who are New England, so deep-crusted custard and apple ples soon found their way to the table, the formulas for which come from Col. John Coolidge's housckeeper. There are fewer hot breads there now, and days in the week when Boston brown bread achieves the place of honor. However, one who has dined in the White House with each successive administration for the last 40 years declares that there is very little, if any, difference in the dinners and luncheons sorved at the table of *Prestdent Coolidge and that of his predecessorsy but she did| the White | GEN. DAWES WELL QUALIFIED TO ASSUME VICE PRESIDENCY Experience in National and International Affairs| More Comprehensive Than That of Predecessors. E ice Tresident-elect Charles it should befall that he is some day ealled to the office of Chief Ex- ecutive he ought to enter upon it bet- ter qualified by proved executive ability and practical experience in big national and international affairs than any of his predecessors. And when all is said and done that is why we have a Vice President—as a man ready to step in if the need arises. Gen. Dawes has been intrusted by three Presidents with responsibili- ties involving autocratic powers. He served as controller of the currenc as first director of the Bureau of th Budget and as general purchasing agent for the A. E. F. before he was chairman of the interallied commit- tee which drafted the plan to rescue German finances. He quit the prac- tice of law for business and made a howling success of it. But that is not all. Gen. Dawes has also made a name for himself as a|jjyver without influence and with a banker, engineer and musician— hard-boiled and hard-hitting, but of { .a vivid and intensely human person- ality. He has had a carcer of kaleido- scopic_brilliancy beginning August 27, 1865, in a modest home in Ma- rietta, Ohio. He thus “carries on” from puritan and patriotic ancestry. His father, Rufus C. Dawes, was bre- vetted brigadier general after four years of fighting with the “Iron Bri- gade” in the civil war, and one of his forebears, it is related, accompanied Paul Revere on that historic ride be- fore the battle of Lexington. “Hell and Marin” Dawes. But Gen. Dawes, widely heralded as “Hell and Marfa,” and the man who astounded the Germans by smoking his pipe “upside down,” did not worship longer at the altar of ancestry than to gain from it his qualities of hard work and brilllant application. For he branched out into a character so distinctively, €0 sharply his own, that his reputation has been builded, not alone upon the merit of his achievements, sound and common sense as they are, but also upon the originality of his methods and tifgeesiness with which he has sailed thtough what to others at times have seemed insurmountable obstacles. The anecdotes on “Heil and Marin” are legion. In many habits of mind and dispo- sition Gen. Dawes is the foll to his chlef, Calvin Coolldge, cach sctilng 4 G.|off the other to advantage. ga es has served his apprenticeship. | ling room In which they Social, lively, full of good humor and funny stories, Dawes contrasts with the silent” man in the White House. Graduated at Marietta. “Charley” Dawes went to school at Marietta, Ohio, until he had graduat- ed from Marietta College as a civil engineer, or, as he described himself. “a fair second-rate civil engineer.” It was not his ultimate dream to fol- low that profession, ‘but his experi- ence with it helped put him through Cincinnati Law School, where, at 21, he took his LL. B. in 1886. During those early college years he gained valuable experience, and funds as well, from a little railroad, now a part of the Toledo and Ohio Central, for which his uncle was re- ceiver. The engineering experience came in well a few vears later, one biographr relates, when he established himself in Lincoln, Neb, a newly fledged very few clients. Lacked Professional Prestige. At this time, it is said, “a brother of his father had been Governor of Nebraska, but this gave him more social than professional prestige. Odd jobs of engineering in the intervals of law practice gave him a living— that is, including board at the pala- tial 15-cent lunch counterirun by one Don Cameron for the benefit of uni- versity students and struggling young business and professional men. “A good many men of Substance and renown remember that lunch counter of Don Cameron, where food of excellence and abundance unbe- lievable in these days was dispensed. Two of the greatest of these men are Charles G. Dawes and Gen. John J. Pershing, who likewise began his career in Lincoln, having gone there on his first detail from West Point to drill cadets of the Nebraska State University. The lifelong intimate friendship between the two began in the Don Cameron lunch, and Dawes never let Pershing forget it. In his ‘Journal of the Great War,’ Dawes records his first meeting with the commander-in-chief of the A. E. F. in the beautiful house lent Pershing for a Paris residence by Ogden Mills. Spoofs Gen. Pershing. “Tohn,' said Dawes solemly ing his cyes around the statel roll- draw saly ‘when I these barren surrounding luxuriousness of our car life in Lincoln, Nebr.. it docs a good man has no real cha world.! And Pershing repli acteristically Don’t it beat The commander-in-chie {at a'loss for a reply on ar lsion when he was host party in the Paris leancd wcross the him to give the lady person in Paris iniscenses of the ish grandoe, m in their 80 often dined.” At Lincoln, howe ed successtully. into hi leaving the Don Camerc days behind, and becomin ner in the law firm of roth & Cunn L public utility selors He later acquired interc n s plants throughout the We ing large holdings in Dawes was per Lincoln, although, he | the town's idol, Wil Bryan, then at the upe as “boy orator” of ti | apostie of the free-silver ‘These two men de T | the free-silver que | the debates gr ! Dawe: g of the {ronlrasl | plendid old Spa carly da ey 1 United Moved to Wis Moving to Wiscons became president Gas Light Comp to the South presidency of the Light and Coke ton, 111 whie] merged into the and Coke Co br Na Comp during partly and his the © He v erprise when accepte of the board of i ing personal di new chief execu | In 1917-9 he | most of the time general purchasir {dled the supr forces. In 192 first director administra carrfed the In the two s co-ordi fed ral ized Ilinol this en ¥ dire day atter pe two vears of the Gen. Dawes gust, 1917, Engineers sociated transportation tioned at gen member of Ge trative staf to the place agent for the Amer the rank of bri membership of allied supp he acted on dation Comm return 19, after an e was awarded service medal of tk named a commander of Honor of nce and Marshal -Foch in French War Cross degree of doctor of conferred on him by lege in 1921 lat Budget in the e as a He wa ng to Ct Paris Renowned as Dawes’ won Rooki. conduct him rern Gen soldier friends. The story of the general's cor with his leather puttec in the circle of intim ject. After enduring the |new puttees as long whispered his trouble ficer. An examlnation | the banker wore a p neath the leathers Gen. Dawes is widely for his appearance before a committc Representatives inves duct of the war. F marks in spots with a teamster, and temper the vehen he scored the inqui verbal broadsides which | terminated the activitics | vestigators. | The committee, the { was “looking for flaw record of the Army | “There are too ‘many | throwing mud.” he excl |other point. Then he added “If you men would spend | trying to stem the mil ! going on under vour 1 |nave a hell of a lot t { ment.” as wn a to rev et virtu of the witness in the brili pint “Bawled Out” Member. “Don’t call me general'” he shouted to a commitice member had addressed him by his mil title. “Hell Maria,” an expletive sev | times repeated during his testin associated with tt erul's n. e, and for m {was referred to by his “Hell Maria Dawes." Gen. Dawes first bec | known politics | succeeded in a ca Ilinois delegation national convention McKinley. He took his floor of the te Springfield and carried t his candidate. As Illir thing of a pivotal paign of the swir gation to the sid “gold” brought w the campaign ma tional conventior ‘volm.\(i a member ecutive commit national committec Hanna was chairman. In elected chairman th State convention of Illlinois ar 1903 was appointed to the Memorial Commission Opposed Sherman Luvr. In 1905-6-7 he the enactment of trust law, becoming a fight against the meas per on “The Defects of th Anti-Trust Law and a Defe American Business Man,” regarded as one of the hensive ever published or ject. His opposition to the based on the fact that it tinguish between conspiracy t strain trade and co-operation public interest within a trade were some agrecments in restra trade, he declared, which we public interest In 1919, following return France, h urged ru ration of treaty of Versailles and American ceptance of the Leaguc of Natio The following vear unched campaign in lllinoi budget bureau ny pa z After Mr. Dawes wa 't the £ the vigorously of the Sherman the the Illinois senatc 1920, but refused to enter the race He was understood, also, to have b considered for a post in the Hard cabinet the same ycar, which he a refused In June, 1921, following the ena ment of the McCormick budget bi! | Gen. Dawes was named first director {of the budget, in ch U regu lar appropriation bills for the oper tion of the Government. Hc accepted the place with the understanding tha " (Continued on Fourteenth Fage)