New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1923, Page 16

SLENT AL AS UNDERGONE CHANGE Goolidge Not What Country Ex- ‘pected After Becoming President BY GBORGE H. MANNING [Washington Bureau of New Britain Herald). Washington, D. C., Aug. 23.—The most striking fact about President Calvin Coolidge’s first three weeks of administration has been the manner in which he has failed in almost every respect to bear out the thousands and thousands of words which were published about him in every corner of the land when he was suddenly called to the White House. In all the mass of character sketches and personal descriptions of the new president which appeared in the days immediately following the death of his predecessor, the index to the man was given as silence. The portrait was that of a veritable Sphinx—spaking seldom, and then only in monosyllables; smiling rarely, and never heartily; cold and aloof in manner, totally lacking in any human warmth io his personal con-| tacts. | That legend has been abandoned. True, President Coolidge cannot be called verbose; he does not waste words; but when he has anything to say, he says it, clearly, convincingly. straightforwardly, with no need for prompting. In his first formal meet- ing with the Washington newspaper correspondents he gave a universally favorable impression. Under the con- | certed gaze of a hundred pairs of eyes, critically searching every ex- pression, every movement, he showed not the slightest sign of nervousness. He took up one by one the questions which had been submitted to him, and dealth with them stmply, freely. More than once his eyes twinkled as he uttered some shrewd witticism; at the conclusion of the meeting his lips parted in a real smile—and the gath- ering laughed with him. According to advance prognostica- tions, the President was not a poli- tician, He was too superior, too filled with intellectual dignity to con- cern himself with politics. Politician After All And yet almost the first move of the new President was to appoint former Representative Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, as his secretary. Which say what one will as to the personal merfts of My, Slemp and his friends for the pesition, is generally admitted %o bave been one of the shrewdest political moves which has been made for several administrations. Predictions were by no means seavee that Mr. Coolidge would merely fHl the position as Chief Executive &8 a stop-gap, and would be quietly aflowed to retire into oblivion at the end of his term. But not even the most prejudiced observer can now help admitting that Mr. Coolidge looms as the most prominent figure on.the political hor- izon of the next few years. And as for being merely a routine office-holder, following in the well- worn paths made by former presi- dents,—in the first three weeks of his administration President Coolidge has done the unprecedented thing of call- ing off two out of the three regular- ly scheduled cabinet meetings giving as a reason that there was nothing of sufficlent importance to be discussed to warrant a meeting of the cabinet. What a shock to the vicarious poli- ticlans of the country store stoves. It was sald, finally, that President Coolidge would soon show himself to be a rock-ribbed conservative, and would be made the target for vicious onsiaughts by all the progressive ele- ments of the party. So far, no one has beén able to point to anything the President has done or sald or implied which makes it possible to set him down definitely and finally as either a conservative or a radical. He has announced his intention to carry out the Harding policies, s0 no supporters of the old administration can have any quarrel | with him; but he has left himself | free rein in modifying those policies to meet changing conditions, and to s hoped by the anti-Coolldge factions, they will have been able to force the) President into indicating attitude on several vital issues, notably farmer's legislation, taxations, the tariff, and the raflroads, and will then be in a position to capitalize what appears to the shortcomings of his policy, and begin their campaign against him through the country. TESTIMONY OF WARD WITNESS Chanfieur’s Story to Grand Jury Gomes o Light 23.—The full na- ture of the various allegations of the state of New York against Walter 8. Ward, former police commissioner of New Rochelle, became known in all their details yesterday. They were re- vealed in a copy of the minutes of the proceedings before the Westchester County Extraordinary Grand Jury which on July 26 indicted Ward for murder in the first degree for shoot- ing Clarence M. Peters of Haverhill, Ma near the Kensico Reservoir in the morning of May 16, 1922. 'he testimony, which disclosed what the attorney general's office has planned to set forth against Ward when his trial, scheduled for Sept. 4, begins, was that of William Mundia, a chauffeur. Some of his testimony was unprintable. He accused Ward of degeneracy and of having employ- ed “Charley Ross” and “Jack Rogers" to “knock off” Peters. He charged that in an altercation over a $5,000 check which Ward offered him (Mun- dia) as hush money, Ward attempted to shoot him, too. He related alleged incidents in cabarets in which Ward participated and told the grand jury he received money from Ward. Story Incredible But the semsational nature of his testimony scemed minimized in its ef- fect on the jurors, who dozens of times during Mundia’s presence on the witness stand, cross-examined him severely. At one time a juror de- scribed the story told by the witness as incredible. Not all of his story was favorable to the state. Frequently his contra- dictions were so glaring that Attorney General Carl Sherman and Deputy Attorney General Wilber W. Cham- hers, who were conducting the ex- New York, Aug. amination, were moved to take Mun-! dia in hand and scek to: guide him, sometimes unsuccessfully, out of the tangle into which he had injected himself with his contradictions. In one instance Mundia declared in his testimony that Peters had been in New York for weeks before the mur- der, a contention.always insisted on by | the defense, which declared that Pet- ers for days before the shooting fre- quently had been after money from Ward to suppress a story he threat- ened to tell about Ward. has insisted that Peters did not ar- rive from Paris Island, 8. C, the day before the shooting. In this contention the state was corroborated and Mundia contradicted by the te- timony of a subsequent witness. Supported Defense Mundia's testimony supported the defense in one important degree in that he declared he had talked with the “Charley Ross” and the ‘“Jack Rogers” described by the defense as blackmail plotters who sought, with Peters, to mulet Ward of $75,000 in addition to +815,000 Ward had pre- viously given them as hush money. On the other hand, in Mundia's own testimony were contradictions on this date has not been forced to commit himself on any matter in such a way | as to give opening for attacks hy the progressives. Further, the general acclaim which has greeted the “give him a chance” attitude has hound the hands of his would-be critics by putting any untoward criticism of the President in the light of being a breach of good taste. In his handling of the coal situa tion, the President has nothing to fear | from its final interpretation as con- | mervative or radical. The sole issue | %0 far as the public is concerned is | whether or not there will be coal. If | there is no coal shortage this winter, | no group can afford to attack the | methods taken by the [President in | bringing about the desired end; if | there is a strike, and a scarcity eoal, no attacks will be nece It is this refusal of the to commit himself in such » 5 to warrant criticism on any mnlllnl.k} that is giving most concern to those | who would like to see him defeated | in 1924. With no opening offered them thus far, they are beginning to | put their heads together to plan a | method of attack whereby they can | smoke the President out the | open where they can get at him | For this reason, the first message | of President Coolidge, into to the sixty- eighth Congress when it convenes in December wiil be awaited with ill- | suppressed anxiety. 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He told the grand jury that he | had received no promises of any kind |from the attorney general as a re- | ward for his testimony. knew Ward about a year and a half before the shooting. SHALL BOY'S FLIGHT FRON RODF AMAZES Vito Had a Kite Too Big for Him --Lowered Three Stories New York, Aug. 23.—Vito Cici just an eleven year old boy with noth- ing particularly intriguing about him when he went up on the roof of the three story tenement at 112 Melrose | to fly a kite. But fifteen later he had become a personage of importance and was the talk of the neighborhood; he was the boy who had been lifted from the roof by the pull of the kite and had then dropped fifty feet without being hurt, the kite acling as a parachute. Last night Vito held court on the street and told the other boys all about it. The trouble was that Vito over- estimated his strength. 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