New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1923, Page 12

g IS SN R e . given him so much? ~ wealth. | 1.A. JUMP NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, § RECALLS DAYS COOLIDGE AT AMHERST | thing he ought 1o de ~ Former New Britain Minls-, ' ter, Classmate of Presi- . dent, Tells of Latter's Life ; — faith and bank bhook have heen of nedleulable serviee through many | years But Amherst college injected itself in another way-—and this is the see. ond ehapter of the tale. The republi. {ean comvention of 1920 was stewing " at College. | ' Rev, Herbert A, Jump, a former pastor of the South Congregational Ehureh in this eity, has written an in- | teresting article about President (al- vin Coolidge who was a classmate of the president, at Amherst college, The Article follows: If it had not been for Amherst col- lege, perhaps Calvin Coolidge today would not be president of the United ates, This fact has great Interest lor me for | spent three of my college years as a fellow-student at Amherst with the man who {8 now doing his arduous day's work In the offices of | the White House at Washington How comes it that a small New Engiand college 1s able thus to thrust | itself into the affairs of nations and | help to make the chief executive of the greatest republic in the world? It is an interesting and not very compli- cated tale In two chapters, Bome years ago a qule Coolidge had modestly worked hi way up in politics until he was presi- | dent of the Massachusetts State | Senate. Meanwhile in Boston a man named Frank Stearns had worked his way up to a position of influence in the business life of the “Hub," into the possession of some time that he wanted to spend on a worthy object, and Into the possession of some money that could be devoted to what- ever cause his judgment approved. th Calvin Coolldge and Frank wsarns were graduates of Amherst college. 8o when on a certain day Stearns, representing his Alma Mater, sought audience with the president of the senate asking for some help in securing spectal legislation In hehalf | of their common college when Mr. Coolidge politely but firmly declined to promise assistance, a situation was greated that elicited surprisc from Stearns and other Amherst men. Didn't this taciturn fellow named Coolidge care for the college that had However a few months rolled round, and early in the next season a measure was introduced, pushed, and speedily became a law accomplishing the very end sought by Mr. Stearns and his associates. The person who accomplished this was Calvin Cool- idge. Then it appeared that all along Mer. Coolidge had held no antagoniem to the proposition, but that the re- quest for the measure had come in so late that to give it the right of way would have done violence to the pub- lic weal. Cal Coolidge loved Amherst college &nd appreciated the interest of Stearns and others in its welfare. But even so, he was not willing to al- low his private loyalties to take pre- cedence over his senatorial duties asi| & servant of the whole common- Won Lifelong Friend. That incldent, won for Cal Coolidge!| the life-long admiration and friend- ship of Frank Stearns. Stearns im- mediately said to himself, “Here is the cause I have been looking for. I, will make this man of integrity, a per- sonage. He lacks the electric quali~ tiens of personality that will win rec- ognition unassisted, perhaps. I will} talk him up in season, out of sea- son.” And Frank Searns set about: realizing this purpose. How much of any great man's success {s due to @ contributing personalities that!, surround him can never be measured They say that if it had not been for' Booker T. Washington's brother, who ran the busginess end of Tuskegee, ithe fame of that wonderful orator: and prophet would never have be- come what % was. They say that many a man is really made by his wife. Anyway, because Coolidge was unwilling to work his “pull” in be- Half of his own college, he won the allegiance of one whose brains, time, | friends of Coolidge in Chicago, in the heat of Chicage, day after day, It was anybody's guess who would finally receive the nemination to head | the ticket, Meanwhile there one of the shrewdest and most eapa- ble of them was Dwight Morrew of | New York, an Amherst college class mate of Mr, Coolidge and now a WET® | paply was leas an aceurate description and | of the sangfrold, and his clothes lacked the stylish eut that mark the typical undergraduate, He always seemed & Bit shy and afraid of the universe But he was a good scholar, made & fraternity, and while never eblmding himself he ays seemed (o do the Itk fated thal some persons once | asked him in after years whether he had much to de with athietics while | in college. He answered that he nml‘ | mixed with them a hit “Precisely what did you de, Coolidge*" was the further question “I held the stakes” vu the q\llrll lll | answer Now as a maiter of facta, 1 must sist as & loyal Amherst man that lnux he did than It was a speci- | Coolidge humor,” His dry as that of a Yankee philosopher, somewhat s gift had been hat | men of the droll wit, grocery store akin to Abe Lincel member of the firm of J, P, Mor#an | pomarked even in those undergraduate | and Co, I know Morrow editors of a little Amherst collexe literary monthly for a year, He one of the coming men of this eoun- try, a solf-made man like Coolidge, a | ing to one's sense of humor. | true clean, mazor-sharp Intellect, @ democrat and a loyal friend, As the days wore along, the idea occurred to Morrow and others that mayhe some of the second-string men like | before the game was over, And so one night he locked himself Into his room at the hote! and began to write, H: he has the sort of editorial sense that oo '"‘""':lJuduu unerringly, a knowledge of hu- | | man mature and polities that is all but | | car arrogated no airs to himself on | uncanny, RBefore him as he wrote, lay a volume of speeches by Cool- ldge, "Have Falth in Massachusetts,' which Stearns had at his own ex- expense circulated very widely a few months before as part of his personal program of publicity. Mr. Morrow also had other state papers and ut- terances of his Amherst classmate be- | fore him as he wrote. By morning a neat little booklet was in manuscript, “Selection from the Papers and Ad- dresses of Calvin Coolldge of Mas: chusetts,”” or some such title, That day a printing house in Chi- cago was captured bodily and set to work on this unique volume, The next day every delegate in the con- vention had in his possession this at- tractive booklet, and during his spare moments he was dipping Into It out of curiosity to see what manner of utterance was deemed worthy to be thus scattered abroad. The reader of these selections was immediately captured by an un- wonted note, a trick of phrase quite foreign to the usual terms of an ideal- ist. There is an anecdote connection worth repeating, During the days of the police strike excitement in Boston, Governor Cool- idge ran home to Northampton for a brief stay. While there, Mr. Morrow thought to drop in and shake hands on his way back from a trustee meet- ing at Amherst to New York city. He found him—how? Surrounded by the newspapers of many cities, reading what every editor in the United States was saying about his keen courage and his forceful promptitude in tack- ling that perplexing situation? No, He was reading, but he was quietly reading—Marcus Aurelius, Influence of Morrow Booklet There has always seemed to be a bit of mystery at the swiftness and unexpected humanity of Coolidge's choice for the second place on the re- publican ticket. Those who are on the inside assert that Dwight Mor- row’s little book perhaps had more to do with the result than any other sin- gle factor. In the minds of many a delegate the man who .could have written and said the things In that little volume was a safe man to trust with the relatively unimportant honor | of the vice-presidential nomination. But, if Coolidge had not won the nomination fn 1920, he would not have been President Coolidge today. And if he had not gone to Amherst collegé Stearns and = Morrow would never have crossed his path and be- come his useful and effective friends. What sort of individual was Cal Coolidge while an Amherst under- graduate? We' remember him as a serious-minded chap who had come to college apparently for what a col- lege course was supposed to furnish a man, viz, an education. He lacked Tick-Tock A Complete Minute Tapioca Pudding | been out of college 26 years. | the class following his, “Sets” without ice We were mln--‘toondp waited expeetantly | or event; Cool- i idge, might get & look-in on the prize | Is n writer with a trenchant pen, | in this| men who eame to know | to hear | how Cal would set off any situation | it was bound to be distine. nal, and altogether tintillat- | And thn | element of exaggeration or ridiculons [ invention was quite as likely to he present as not—as in this athletic | anecdote just related, | The first time the eampus really heard of him was one day when we read that a prize offered by a clothing | firm, for the hest essay from any un- dergraduate of any Amerlcan |nlll‘¢ | or university on some select of public interest had been won Amherst man name Coolldge, we all sat up and took notice, years, The tive, ori; Hul this account and soon it was forgot- | ten, | The second time he made a dent on our consciousness was in the week of | June, 1895, when he was being gradu- | ated. He was the grove orator and | he gave a grove oration that was a masterplece, Real Test of Humorist, The grove exercises In an Amherst commencement, be it known to the uninitiated, Is that portion of the! week's progragy which offers free play to the romance, humor and playful- ness of the undergraduate world, The senjors and the alumni and a multi- tude of friends gather in an impro- vised amphitheater in open air on the campus, and while the seniors smoke | the pipe of peace and indulge in con- | tinuous and boisterous raillery and | horseplay, an orator makes a humor- | ous speech and a poet reads a humor- | ous poem. The informality of the! occasion leads to more Interruptions than mark a session of the British| House of Commons. The wit of the| speaker on the stage is tested every | instant by some unexpected gibe. On that particular June morning the grove orator, Calvin Coolidge, had | not proceeded 10 minutes before the audlence sensed that it was listening| to a master. For in just this sort of battle of wit Cal Coolidge revelled. To it he was foreordained and fore- | equipped from the day of his birth, | For every blow given him ngrflll\ely‘ speaking, he gave back one thrice as| crushing. - His oration In its handling | of the merry events in the class his- tory of four years and in its crit- icism of current college matters was | & work of the humorist's art. 1 wish now I might secure a copy and read it again in the light of recent events. At any rate it was a unique tour de force of bantering whimsi- | cality. I have no doubt it was as suc- | cessful a specimen of its kind as was Mark Twain's “Jumping ¥rog of Cal- | averas County” or Ellis Parker But- | ler's “Pigs Is Pigs.” President Coolidge's father is said to have remarked of his now famous son, I used to notice that Cal could get more sap out of a maple tree than any one of the boys.” Taciturn as he was Cal Coolidge judged by campus standards of judgment, his penetrat- ing wit even in those days made his rare remarks memorable. He could extract the humor out of an incident better than anyone else in the crowd, No other commencement phrt could have fitted him so well as the one his classmates had assigned to him. No commencement part that year was more conspicuously honored by its | college. | alumni | hand, incumben® than Cal Coolidge's grove oration, The Amherst of 1891 to 15895 was a remarkable college. Perhaps no more wonderful group of real teach- ing personalities ever worked in fel- lowship than the faculty under whom Coolidge and Morrow studied, Thesc | M names are still names to conjure by | in any company of older Amherst | alumni; Garman, Morst, J. B, Clark, Genung, Richardson, Olds, Tyler, Emerson, Neill, Cowles, "Old Doc Hitehcock and others. And if each of these teachers gave something to the | growing soul of Calvin Coolidge, it would not be surprising. They had much to give. And he was the sort of boy who drank deeply of his op- | portunities. 1Is Distinguished Guest One more picture connecting president of our country with | pr the this | colleged in the Connecticut Valley |th House. PUFFS AND NORE PUFFS + FOR NEWEST GREATIONS Coolidge now has We of are holding our 25th reunion in a hotel not many | miles from Amherst. 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APRONS, trim- med with rick rack braid and patch pocket. Just for Wednes- 33 c day .... ing man pays for farm products the The other half “Out of the dollar which the labor ably gets less than 85 cents,” A Boon To Horses In just 15 minutes you can have a delicious dessert. All the materials, egg, sugar, milk, fla- voring, and Minute Tapioca are mixed for you in Tick-Tock. And it takes only 15 minutes to cook. Just add water and cook. When taken off the stove Tick-Tock needs no ice to make it “set.” Tick-Tock Pudding comes in Chocolate Flavor and Cream Flavor. Order both today, Only 15 cents to serve five people. Minute Tapioca Company, Orange, Mass. of "0 is congratulating itself on its | maturing exeellence. Suddenly our | chairman beging to applaud as looks toward the door of the banqueut hall. An instant later in rush a jolly bunch of our ancient foes, the class lof But we welcome them now, for in the midst. as their prize exhibit, walks or rather is dragged, Hon. Cal- vin Coolidge, recently elected vice- president of the United States! We study him with care. Most of us have not seen bim since the day he entertained us at a grove exercise more than a score of years ago. Now he has seen much and strenuous service in the political world. He speaks to us briefly. We note the | lines of care carved into his coun- tenance. We sense a gravity born of bearing much responsibility. But he est gowns, with a double purpose to is the same Cal Coolidge of olden |each puff, in that handkerchiefs, days. We know that if we talked |purses, vanity cases can be concealed with him for 10 minutes some witti- |In any of the puffs while they are not " he Chicago, Sept. 11.—8atin faced |t Canton crepe gowns will not be worn ; this season. The newest thing is| Canton crepe faced satin, according tion here this week. It Because of this edict dressmakers |/ will have their hands full reversing last season’s gowns. It will be com- paratively easy to transform the old Canton crepe to satin by simply rip- ping up the dress and making it over the reverse side. Styles will remain much the same, except for the addition of puffs on the gowns. Puffs on the side, puffs to the sleeves, puffs where one used to wear a bustle—these are the new- n on sound buginess basis in order to Goy to the Art Fashion league in conven- | (i0 €0 EEEE B fte and the ofl pe middie west and said remedy “there he proper economies which in the :nd will be of substantial benefit to he public.” “The present McMaster sald “as distribution system,” established rust, and largely inspired through the owering of cxcess profits, is a blun- der.” He expressed the belief that in the great majority of the cities and towns of the country there are 50 per cent more filling stations than are neces- SATY Senator Smith W. Brookhart of | owa, another speaker at the fair, dis- usscd the agricultural situation in the the farmer's lies in economic cooperation. “8o far as the agricultural situation s concerned,” Senator Brookhart said is no east, no west, no north, cism would pop into the conversation, |in gome picce of quaint humor would throw a soft light over the fopic discuszing. But almost before gervice For ¢ ghown. Black ening wear a new lace fabrie |t velvet and moire for |t jon gowns are good, the experts [t | #¢ bave formulated these impressions g 0 south. It is a problem of agricul- ure all bound and united by interests hat are Inseparable. I have reached he general conclusion that the inter- ts of all producing labor are the| I An ingenious English farmer devised this new nosebag which enables his horse to enjoy his feed down to the last morsel. The bag is fitted to an extension of the shaft and remains steady while the animal is eating. -~