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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH SILENT CAL' Coolidge Friend of Disabled Veterans a President Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the veterans bureau, the chief executive expressed his desire to carry out the policy of President Harding In all matters relating to the veterans bureau. He also expressed his desire that the energies of that bureau should be dir rected toward affording all possible aid to the disabled veterans of the war. President Coolidge received from General Hines a complete review of the activities of the bureau and an exposition of the Harding policy as it had been Interpreted and put into operation by the head of the bureau. After the conference General Hines said he had been instructed by the President to continue the policy under which the bureau is now operating and to make It the business of the organization to extend the fullest measure of relief to Its beneficiaries. General Hines will prepare for submission to the President an estimate of what is needed in extending care and relief during the next year and a statement of the manner in which it should be conducted. This estimate will be separate and quite distinct from the estimates of general appropriations for the support of the veterans bureau. It will suggest some extensions In the activities of the bu At WASHINGTON. reau that Director Hines believes t be necessary in order to give the disabled men the advantages to which they are entitled under the law. The general hospitalization program of the bureau was discussed at lengthy and the President is understood to bars given his approval to all that the, board has done. General Hines saldj after the conference that Brig. Gen.j Sawyer, the White House physician, would continue to serve as head of thf federal board for hospitalization. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines was bom In Utah In 1879. While with the coast artillery corps he specialized li artillery engineering and fortifications.! He served In twenty-tw- o engagements in the Philippines In the World wa was chief of transportation servlc of the army and was largely responsible for developing the organization which carried our soldiers oversea and brought them home. He was awarded the D. S. M. (both army anA navy) and has decorations galore. Dr. Charles B. Sawyer was bom is, Ohio in 1860 and became resident o Marlon In 1893, where he extabllshed K sanatorium and became famity phyMarch 12t sician to the Hardings 1921, President Harding commissioned him brigadier general of the medical reserve corps' of the army. Later ha was made head of the federal board for hospitalization. -- e Wrangell Island Appropriately Named1 THE Illuminating fSide-LtIr- ta on the Character of Our Vermont Is birthplace Here one sets close to nature; In my the mountains, in the brooks, the waters of which hurry to the sea; In the lakes, shining; like stiver In their setting; In the fields, tilled not by machinery, but by the brain and hand of man. My folks are happy and contented. They belong to themselves, live within their income, and fear no man. New England, of course, believes Implicitly In the New England type. It also halls the President as a fine sample of the type. The Boston Post, a Democratic newspaper, speaks for New England when It says : . Thirtieth President'"' Tm !a.l, all right, but Im not silent hot. President Calvin Coolidge. i By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ALVIN COOLIDGE, thirtieth presi- dent of the United States, entered the White House to face grave and diverse problems, both national and international. There are factions In the Presidents political party; leadership has been unhorsed and ambitious malcontents are struggling for The Sixty-eight- h the stirrup. which meets in December, will contain many new and untried men of radical views. What wonder then that all the world Is Interest-fe- d In knowing all about the man elevated by the working of fate into the most Important position on earth as the presidency of the United States unquestionably Is. Calvin Coolidge emerges from the comparative obscurity' of the vice presidency into a fiercer limelight than ever beat upon any throne. His character and his personal and pubThousands of lic record dre under the keen and analytical minds are weighing his every recorded word In the hope of guessing his possible and probable action In public Issues at home and abroad. This article Is intended to be informative and nothing else. There is no purpose to try to guess the political policies "of Calvin Coolidge. The writer holds no brief for or against Calvin Cool-ldg- e either as a man or as a possible candidate for the presidency in 1924 or for or against the Presidents political party. It Is prepared solely with the view of throwing light upon the personality of Calvin 'Coolidge. As to the photographs: No. 1 Is Calvin latest close-up-. No. 2 shows him enjoying his vacation on the ancestral farm, where he took the oath of president. Hard work never worried Cal, says hls-father. No. 3 Is a snapshot showing the President taking an early morning hike In Washington forex-ercis' . , . ( Calvin Coolidge cannot fall. He embodies not alone all the hopes of New England, but her very life blood. He is the inheritor of all the splendor and all the magnificence of service that New England has given to America. So New England elects to stand or fall with Calvin Coolidge as a cautious, discreet, thrifty, efficient Down-EaYankee. tight-mouthe- God-fearin- g, st con--gres-s, The Coolidges certainly go back to the beginning of things in New England. ' The first American Coolidge came over about 1630 In the first flight of the Puritans and settled in Watertown, Mass. In 1780, John Coolidge, the Presidents after service In the Revolution, moved to Plymouth, Vt. He hired out occassion-all- y to his neighbors and he left a farm to each of his five children! Each succeeding generation of these Plymouth Yankee farmers seems to have run true to type. Calvin Coolidges grandfather was justice of the peace, constable, selectman and town agent and attended all the political state and county conventions. John Calvin Coolidge, the Presidents fathe Presither, hale and hearty at seventy-eigdent says he has been the most formative influence in his life owns the farm where his greatgrandfather settled. He was tax collector and constable for thirty-eigh- t years. He was Justice of the peace. He served five sessions in the legislature, two in the senate. He kept store, ran the shop when the blacksmith left town, could pull a tooth, was road commissioner, settled estates, taught in the Sunday school and usually looks after the seating of the people at funerals. The was without schoolPresidents ing; his grandfather went to the district school; his father went to the academy at Ludlow ; the President himself Is a lawyer and a college grad- ' uate. has become proverbial. He Coolidge luck started out by being born on the Fourth of July. He has been in public office almost continuously since 1899. He has never met defeat at the polls. He won a wife who Is a genuine helpmeet He No. 4 shows a family group at the farm: Left two fine sons. A police strike In 1919 made has to right, John C. Coolidge, the father; Mrs. Calvin him fampus over night There are anibitious polCoolidge; Calvin Coolidge; Calvin Coolidge, Jr who would give millions for the popular iticians jthe younger son. of the setting In which he took the oath of appeal No. 3 is Calvin Coolidge in his senior year, class 0flice the parlor of the old homestead; the of 95, at Amherst. He was graduated B. A. cum kerosene lamp; the gathered neighbors laude and won an essay competition open to stuoutside In the darkness ; the father, a notary pub-- ' . dents of all colleges. , 11c, reading the constitutional oath to the son ; the No. 6 shows the President and Mrs. Coolidge at" son, with raised hand, repeating the oath and addevening looking at the hollyhocks in the farm garing So help me God! den of flowers. Several things evidently must be taken Into conOne thing that makes the American people eager sideration In connection with the Coolidge luck ,for every revelation concerning the life and career and the Presidents political career to date. Poll-tic- s and personality of Calvin Coolidge is the fact that with Calvin Coolidge has been a profession. lie Is a now type of man In the White House to the Here Is his creed, stated publicly : present generation of Americans a New England-ie- r ' It Is not Politics Is not an end, but Isa means. of native stock. It is sixty-si- x years since New the art of govern- a but a process. It product, its values it has man other a Like in had the White House and ment counterfeits England has , . . It Is the process of action in public affairs. 'almost one hundred years since a citizen of has held the office of president. FrankCalvin Coolidge knows politics more thoroughly lin Pierce ot New Hampshire was president, than the average man knows the multiplication John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, table ; he has learned the game from the bottom lithe second president, was president up. He has been ably tutored. His opponents expert say that when the occasion demands Calvin Coolidge is by lineage, birth and upbringa New slmon chauffeurlng of the steam roller" Coolidge is a of New Englanders-a Englander ing good man at the wheel He has had powerful and grare Vermont Yankee. And hes proud of It He devoted friends back of him. And the record his of a to 1920 In neigbborsi gathering large jaald X-ra- Cool-ildg- e. - Massa-jchuset- 1853-il85- 1825-182- 9. ts ht i tpems to show pretty conclusively that Coolidge V&s made good in every position he has held. In reading his speeches and writings one finds often the words duty and service they bulk large In his political creed. In politics Calvin Coolidge has always been a party man regular; He believes In the party system. He said, when governor of Massachusetts : W have a government of parties. We must recognize party. A man ought to be loyal to those who have been loyal to him. President Coolidge, It Is everywhere agreed, Is taciturn, and reticent His friends say he was born those who have opposed him add that he has also cultivated It as a political asset ' Here Is a sample of Coolidge brevity : When he made his Inaugural address as president of the state senate the second time he said just this and ' no more: tight-mouthe- Honorable senators My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier In the public service. Be loyal to the comAnd be brief. monwealth and to yourselves. Above all things be brief. Yet Coolidge can talk when he feels like It and the occasion warrants speech. Intimates say he can pound the desk and say D n. They also say that when he does read the riot act his language Is blistering. He has made many notable public speeches. Certainly he fooled the newspaper correspondents at Washington. Coolidge, as vice president, was singularly unobtmslve. Edward G. Lowry In described him his book, "Washington Close-Upas a politician who does not, who will not, who And this came to be the seemingly cannot talk. view generally accepted by the newspaper correspondents at the capital. Practically the first official act of the President upon his arrival In Washington was to receive the newspaper men 132 men and 5 women. He subtly gave the Impression that he was anxious to establish personal relations with them. He also showed unmistakably that he was master of the situation. He opened the interview with a short speech. Study of the Presidents words shows both, speech and answers to be concise, clear and admirable. The result was that this body of exacting, generally cynical and frequently unappreciative newspaper people repaid him with a hearty round of applause. Coolidge, contrary to report, is not at all lacking In a sense of humor; his own brand Is very dry. He is, of course, thrifty. Analysis of Coolldges record shows that he bas often been able to make men of divergent Interests work together and has retained the good will of both sides. Competent observers among the Washington correspondents say that most of his many and various callers since he became President have gone away in a friendly spirit, though the man In the White House had said little and promised nothEverybodys Friend they call him, half in ing. compliment, half in jest. Coolidge has a few Intimates who Insist that he ie much warmer inside than his exterior indicates and give various facts In evidence. But even these intimates, though they may call him Cal, dont slap him on the back when they say It. Calvin Coolidge has Imagination and Ideals and a militant spirit of service; read his Have Faith In Massachusetts if you doubt. His Puritan (not Pilgrim) forefathers fell first upon their knees Spirituality and and then upon the aborigines. practicality both bulk large In the character of the men who settled New England and In that strange Down-Eas- t Yankee blend which has produced the United States ol of the President thirtieth who Is s, s , America. , , news of the death by of the three Americans one Canadian who were sent to Wrangell Island two years ago on a private expedition by Vllhjalmur Stefansson to claim the island as a British possession raised once more the question of the ownership of this Island, which has been variously claimed for the United States, England, Russia and Japan. The loss of this party in what Stefansson calls The Friendly Arctic was reported as likely to revive the controversy concerning Stefansson, who was attacked by some of the members of the Canadian Government Arctic expedition which made a landing on Wrangell' Island In 1914. Several of Stefanssons followers accused him of exceeding Instructions, while he accused them of mutiny, and the faction has repeatedly sought to Induce the Canadian government to make an Investigation of that controversy. The attack on Stefansson by his former colleagues' was raging in Canada early In 1922, when he suddenly made the announcement that he had taken Wrangell Island in the name of the Canadian government He represented that the Island had great possibilities as an air base, -- that It dominated the Arctic and that it might possess great economic value If; the. Arctic had the development whlchi he anticipated. This present to Canada of an island as big as Jamaica had! the effect of stilling the debate 'over the Arctic expedition.. The island Is 75 miles by 40 miles just north of' Siberia. In England the Lloyd George government gave out a statement that it. was absolutely indifferent over the fate of this polar territory. The Canadian government looked on It differently, however, and claimed Wrangell as a Canadian possession. Immediately after Stefanssons announcement It was made known at: Washington that the State department considered this island to be the property of United States. Stefanssons claim for the Island on behalf of Canada may be destroyed b the death of all members of his party. Southern Society Plans Active Winter for broadening Into one largest organizations of in America are being formulated by the directing heads of the Southern society of Its personnel already Washington. reading like a Whos Who at the National Capital" a campaign soon will be begun for a membership and a boosting of Its personnel in both numbers and personal and official caliber. This Is part of the program laid down by Charles A. Douglas, president, and the prominent official, professional and business - Washingtonians associated with him In the management of the organization. Receptions to be given to President and Mrs. Coolidge, to former British Premier Lloyd George and to the representative women of the South who will be In Washington as delegates to the annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, are part of the preliminary seasonal arrangements decided upon by the societys executive committee and advisory heads of PLANS committees. These functions will be elaborate In scale and are expected to be among the most brilliant of the winter events in Washington. The societys membership geographically stretches from the lower, reaches of the southwestern states to line. the Mason-Dlxo- n It embraces members from the District of Columbia, Maryland and all the states la the category of the Southland. O, Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Coolidge, joined the society when he was a member of congress from Virginia. Commissioner of Internal' Revenue David H. Blair, a North Carolinian, heads the membership committee this year. Civil Service Commissioner Helen H. Gardener heads the membership extension committee. Interstate Commissioner McChord heads, the floor committee, with John Temple Graves as his chief assistant, and so the list runs, with an personnel as the societys combined directing genius for the coming year. all-st- ar Increased Travel to the National Parks parks bave made an record this to estimates of park service of the Department of the Interior. The 1922 travel to the national parks and monuments was over 1200,000 ; It Is expected that the final 1923 figures will total 1,500,000. Reports show that In several of the big parks up to August 15 the attendance had been much larger than In the same 1922 period. Rocky Mountain, however, will be lucky if it holds Its own. Ever since Its establishment in 1915 It has been by far the most popular of the 19 national parks, with an attendance equal to that of Yellowstone, Yosemlte and Glacier combined. This season has been extraordinarily wet In Rocky with rainfall at times Mountain, amounting almost to cloudbursts. Eight years ago there was little rainfall ; the Irrigation of hundreds of thousands of acres east of the front range of the Rockies seems to have produced at least a temporary change In the climate. Moreover, the newspapers of Denver, which Is obsessed with Its own little municipal mountain parks, are prone to make sensations of any damage caused by rains to the automobile highways into Rocky Mountain. Anyway, during July Rocky Mountain had a shortage of 8,185, as compared with 1922. It had a surplus NATIONAL of 2,668 during the first two weeks of August. Yellowstone, oldest and largest and most famous ot the parks, will show an Increase. In 1922 there were 98,223 visitors ; up to August 13 of this year, there had been 102,926. July 18, showed a record attendance 2,536 visitors. Yosemlte had 44,278 visitors during July and August 11 the attendance passed the 100,000 mark ; the park Will show a largely Increased total, Glacier shows a total of 29,080 for, the whole season, an Increase of 31.6 per cent over 1822. Up to August 15, 83,888 visitors registered in Mount . Rainier National park as against 70,371 visitors registered for the entire season of 1922. More visitors entered the park In the month of July than in any previous month In the history of the park. On August 15, travel to Grand Canyon National park was only 3,000 per-eons less than were registered during' the entire 1922 season. The number of visitors to the North Rim had almost doubled the 1922 record. On August 15, travel to Hawaii National park had surpassed the total number of visitors to that , park la 2 1922, there having been registered visitors, as against 27,750 In 1922. Reports from custodians Indicate Increases In travel ts the principal national monuments. v 34,-43- |