Show Coolidge Likened To Singed Singed cat Cat CatLike Like a singed cat he is better belIer than he looks writes Clinton W. W Gilbert e In an e article lId ei fe about C e In tB the March Uen tury Considering the p. from Crom t the e singed cat vie view Mr 1 Gil bert says says' Men fen react In to th tho flie singed cat sense one roan nan accepts c It and nd says I am one but by industry industry Indus indus- try thrift self-control self con tant watchfulness by walking walking- humbly I Ican Ican Ican can nevertheless do much Such a n. aman aman man needs all aU the outside Id he can get He takes to as surely as lie as-lie he grows w ft Thy They e are his Jala guide rail d i and keht hi prop r. o They keep him upright He has hasas hasas as as- many faiths a as he lie can conven conven- i inthy carry about with him Such Sucha a It man i la is Mr Coolidge He lIe I Is the least of or an egoist there has b ben en in the White House since Lincoln n. His ha caution the tIme immobility of his Ancestors an ancestors ancestors An- An his moderate vitality all ll combine to make him a consena- consena tive That Is the solid part of Cool- Cool idge By y y by by k keeping keepin t the e faith bv modest re Belr-re self regarding he has something solid soUd out o of ofa a aman man to Whom nature had not been very generous By shrewdness calculation cal cal- and effort behas he be has put that something Into a hl high h place But nut even after you OU have exhausted exhausted- all the pleasures of discovery this dis covery coven you cannot say sav that that something II IS it great lIe He will be a a. uS useful president I e i i hal enough J He is practical enough to seat eel that and and conservatism dont don't mix I honest en enough to be i frankly franky conservative ns e and shrewd e enough to realize that conservatism may pay in 1924 But he has the mental menta power nor the imagination tion nor the he positive courage to provide a It new formula for tor the fu fu- fu ture With hi his had hard sense he brings about a fine tine discernment of ot the realities He lIe sharpens issues issues' dulled by futile compromises lIe He says the things men want to have ha said That is what he did Old in his message t the 1 That Boston was police I all S strike he lk did d I He Ire regarding gJ did d not 1 settle that strike lIe He has not the daring or egoism to precipitate himself unnecessarily into a difficult cult situation When hen the police pollee I strike was over he sale the things s sI the count count- country wanted to have ha saul salt a. a ll I about it and consistently with Vii hi his J own natural conservatism Ills Hla i words words- rather than his actions made him a hero It was the same with the coal strike He walked talked humbly humbly hum hum- bly bh when it headed toward WashIngton Wash Wash- ington |