Show SHYNESS TRAIT OF I MANY GREAT MEN Famous Figures of History Among Them There Is ample authority tor the he assertion thai President Hoover Is shy President Coolid Coolidge e was also shy and so was President Wilson No one ever noticed shyness in President President Pres Pres- ident Roosevelt but the list of our shy Presidents Is a Q long one Grant was shy and some seine said Lincoln Lin Lin- coin coln was That Is they seemed shy to some of the people they knew or or- met who met who wrote their personal impressions Impressions Im im- im of them af afterward erward Jeff Jefferson Jeffer orson or- or son was a n highbrow and no mixer you could not slap him on the back There was nothing of ot the shrinking violet Iolet In John Adams but his eminent eminent emi emi- nent flout son J John hn Quincy was reserved and distant Henry Clay thought he e ewas was a n prim little Puritan as as' as cold as a fish when he met him at Ghent George Washington according to a clergyman man who knew him was sh shy silent slow and cautious This clergyman Rev Jonathan Boucher was an nn Anglican churchman who returned returned re turned to England at the outbreak of the Revolution and the manuscript containing his recollections of ot the first President recently sold at auction in London for 05 93 Rev Mr Boucher saw Washington socially and also In connection with the edu edu- cation of 01 a young relative e His testimony test testa mony has hns some value So many Presidents of the United Sta States es have been described as as sl slay shy y even the most eminent of them that shyness must have ha been exaggerated as a n personal handicap In the struggle str struggle g. g gle ble for success What seems to Lo b bi be genuine shyness may be overcome by a strong will ambition and determInation determination de de- termination to get results Outside of ot public life some of ot the most successful men have been said to be shy Henry Ford has Impressed impressed Im im- im pressed many people a as cry tery dim dent Even the late J J. J P P. P Morgan prince of or financiers shunned publicity publicity pub pub- as If he were obsessed with the desiro desire for privacy He would never never attempt attempt to make a speech Au audience of ot schoolboys frightened him But even an orator may b bi naturally solitary Some great actors actors actors ac ac- ac- ac tors hava been shy Edwin Booth who was i to take tako fiva curtain calls In accession was said to be And what of ot President H HIa- HIa n. n denburg He Is very different from William Shyness signifies no lack of ot essen essential n.- n. teal strength It Is a n superficial not nota a fundamental weakness Springfield Spring Spring- field Republican |