Show I POLITICAL NEWS Coolidge Has One Creed I BE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT NO 10 I I Law and Order In Blood I r lf y j y hs e 4 l i LAW Jc iSS Massachusetts Governor Built on the Type of the i Pilgrim Fathers I By H H. P. P Burton BOSTON March 18 18 It It was through no Casual asual play of ot chance that Calvin Coo Coolidge governor of ot Massachusetts uttered those words that broke the back of ot the famous Boston police strike there strike there Is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere any time Those words clanged through the nation and have caused him to be made one of the candidates for the presidency of th the United States These words typify the original spirit of ot Puritan America Undoubtedly Calvin Coolidge possesses more of ot the authentic flavor of ot the Pilgrim character character character char char- acter than any man standing before the people today TRACES BACK TO 1630 To understand Calvin Coolidge and the slogan that has made him famous one must know that his forebears came cameto cameto cameto to America in 1630 and that his blood Is a the blood of ot the men who could not permit dissension in their own ranks if It they were going to preserve themselves themselves them them- sel selves es against the Indians Calvin Coolidge is a typical down downCast East Cast Yankee with a silent manner a a. Tace face that betrays nothing and a voice that rasps like the Vermont wind In Ina Ina Ina a crisis one would think that he had never learned to smile and reporters that did Sid the Boston police pollee strike said as much yet in an hours hour's conversation with me he told many Jokes some of ot them hem on himself and his laughter was fairly constant If It Coolidge makes akes a run for the presidency it will be upon that creed of ot the Pilgrims law and order An Interpretation of ot this battle cry from the lips Ups of ot the man who framed and uttered It Is of ot great interest to the country and I asked Calvin Coolidge to expand his ideas o on this subject EXPLAINS HIS CREED This is indeed a battle cry for the tle nation as I see It it he said sald The Issue is issue issue is- is sue of ot law and order involves th the very life Ife of ot this nation today for upon the maintenance of law and order depends the he preservation of ot our American institutions In Institutions Institutions In- In as we inherit them from the constitution the constitution the preservation in short of ot our republican form torm of ot gov gov- The problem before us is to see to it that we keep the authority of ot the government where the constitution constitution tion ion and the laws have placed it in the hands of ot our duly elected officers Class CIMs rule by any clique high or orlow orlow low ow capitalist or proletariat la is simply Bolshevism We must face tace the fact tact that there therea is a today and always a menace to our Inherited institutions from the constant Influx of ot f foreign population and also alsofrom alsofrom from rom our own new generation coming on Each Ea-ch of ot these elements If It Americanism Amen Ameri as we know it Is to be preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served must needs be educated In Americanism Our boys and girls cant can't cante be e expected to just naturally absorb Americanism they Americanism they have to be taught It t as they have to be taught tau their mul- mul mulI I tables MUST MOVE AHEAD But nut let us not under the guise cube of ot law aw and order and under the theory of ot preserving our institutions understand understand understand under under- stand that we are to stand still not still not to progress and improve our mode of ot government gov gov- Preserving our institutions certainly means mean keeping them but keeping them in step with the timeA timeA time A lack of ot law and order and respect for or our institutions means In cold tact fact the smashing smashing- of ot everything we have lave built up our civilization upon which progress depends It If our Institutions are are broken down that is reaction that is going back that hat is a return to the first chaos to despotism or anarchy the cessation of ot otan all an the law and order that centuries of mankind has striven to formulate and put Into operation Let us understand tand clearly dearly that this is s what this issue means and then we will see it as the most important Issue is issue issue Is- Is sue In the world today Upon it depends depends de- de ends whether wo we are to live Uve as civilized civilIzed civil- civil zed human beings or revert to a form of ot barbarity BLOOD AND TRAINING And nd there you have it the It-the tho full cIrcle circle circle cir cIr- cir cir- cle of the mind of ot Calvin Coolidge and you see that the man who enunciated enunciated enunciated for the country an aphorism of ot brevity and lu lucidity lucidity lu- lu did not just happen without warning upon this hl high h moment like a a. figure In a drama suddenly coming to toa toa toa a new power but instead only spoke 0 r rin in a crisis what his blood and trainIng train train- Ing had trained him to speak Calvin Coolidge is no man of ot one phrase he is a a. man of ot one creed a creed absorbed from the earth of ot New England a creed stern and strong but filled tilled with a passion for the right the strict sense of ot right as it Is given to few creeds to hold |