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Show STATES HOLD . OWNCOUBSE COLORADO SEMICENTENNIAL IS FEATURED BY RADIO ADDRESS Sovereignty Of Separate Commonwealths Common-wealths Source Of Strength To Nation; Colorado Progressive State Paul Smiths, N. Y. The sovereignty of the states which go to make up the nation was helil up as a source of Kreat strength to tha federal government gov-ernment by President Coolidge Tues-o'ay Tues-o'ay In an address by radio to exercises at Denver celebrating the semicentennial semicenten-nial of Colorado's admission to statehood. state-hood. Speaking Into a telephone at his vacation va-cation office, Mr. Coolidge had his words carried by long-distance wires to Denver for broadcasting through the ether, the address being the first of any kind he has made since he ramo to the Adirondacks nearly four : weeks ago. j Mr. Coolidge hailed Colorado as a ! state that "always has been progres- j Eive," and declared that "she stands j out like a beacon in the history of I woman suffrage," and praised . "the j majesty of her scenery" and "the wonderful won-derful halm of her climate," yet he asserted her "chief treasure was the principle of local self-government." F |