Show 99 MAA AV 1 ak ACV J ja 1 N A V le am O 0 A s C JAY 69 elf t 46 illuminating acle lh b on oil the he Cha character racer of our thadieth h clen 4 silent cal call ibcal I 1 m ital all right but im not silent by a long hot president calvin coolidge by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ALVIN ALIVIN COOLIDGE thirtieth d dent e nt of the united states entered the white house to face grive grine and d diverse N ere problems 9 both national and international there are factions in the president presidents s political party lead ersi ip lp has been unhorsed an I 1 ambi bious malcontents are struggling for the stinus the sixty eighth con gregs ress which meets in december will contain many ne v and untried men of radical view s what wonder then that all tl e world Is interest ed in knowing all about the man elevated bv the NN 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 ills 1 character and ils 1 Is personal pers onil an 1 pub he lie record are under the X ray thousands of keen and analytical minds are weighing his every recorded word in the hope of guessing his pos sible and probable action in public issues at home and abroad this article Is intended to be informative and nothing else there Is no burp se to try to gu ss the political policies of calvin cahill coolidge the writer holds no brief for or against calvin cool idge either as a man or as a possible can for the presidency in 1924 or for or against the I 1 residents resident s political part party it Is prepared solely with the view few of throwing light upon the person peron I 1 i ity of calvin coolidge As to the pi oto graphs no 1 Is calvin cool idge s latest close up no 2 shows him enjoying his vacation on the tile J ancestral firm NN where here he 4 e took ta tie e oath of pre 1 dent harl hart i v ork never worried cal says bays his bis father la no 3 is a ot showing the president tak ing an early morning hike in NA v as ington for ex arcise so no 4 shows a family group at the farm left w to right tol n C coolidge the father mrs airs calvin cahill coolidge calvin callin coolidge calvin coolidge jr the younger son no Is cali 11 1 1 coolidge in his benlor jear 3 ear cli ss of ou 90 at amherst he was mas graduated L A clitu laude and won an essay competition open to stu dents of all colleges t no 6 shows the president and mrs coolidge at evening looking at the I 1 in the farm gar den of old fashioned flow ers one tl ing that n akes the american people eager land for every revel re n co cern ni u tl it e life li feind and career and personality of chin coolidge is the tact fact tl ti at i he is a new type of man in tl ti e white house to the present generation of amei leans a ne key v england er of native stoc it Is sixty six years bears since new ln england land has hail hai a dpn man in the white I 1 house louse an I 1 1 almost one hundred years since a citizen of massa chu has held he the dofice of president frink tin pierce ot of new hampshire Hamish lre was vas president 1853 1857 john quiley auh cv adams son of john adams the president w as president 1820 1829 calvin coolidge Is by lincie birth and ing a new englander of new englanders a simon pwe pure vermont yankee aid ai d he s proud of it H said in 1920 to a large gathering of his neighbors ti A v A ali st t iff A vermont Is my birthplace here one gets get c to nature in the mountains in the brom brooks the waters of hurry to the sea in the lakes shining like silver in their green setting in I 1 the fields tilled not by machinery but by the brain and hand of man my folks are happy and con tented they belong to themselves live within their income and tear fear no man new england of course belle believes ves implicitly in the iet ew england type it also balls halls the president as a fine simple of the type the boston post a democratic nes newspaper paper speaks for or new england n wl I 1 en it say says s 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 eng land has given to america so new england elects to stand or fall with calvin coolidge Cool idse as a cautious discreet tl ti tight mouthed god fearing efficient down doan east yankee the Coolid es certainly go back to to the beginning of things in ne nev v england the first american america coolidge cime oner 01 er about 16 1610 in he tl e first flicht of the puritans and settled in watertown if s ss in 1760 john coolidge the president presidents s great great grandfather after service in the revolution moved to plymouth it t he ile hired out oc cassion slon ally to his neighbors and he left a farm to each of his five children t I 1 ach succeeding generation of these I 1 clymouth yankee farmers seems to have run true to yle e e calvin coolidge s grandfather was justice of the peace constable selectman and town agent and attended all the political state and county e anven john cahan coolidge the presidents fa ther hale an I 1 hearty at eight the prest dent sais he be has been the most formative intuit ence in his life owns the farm where his great grandfather settled he ile was tax collector and constable for thirty eight years ile was justice of the peace he ile served fe the sessions in the legis lature two in the senate he ile kept store ran the shop when nhen the blacksmith left town child pull a tooth was as road commissioner settled estates taught in the sund sundie tv school and usually looks after the seating of th tb people at funerals the erts great grandfather grand fati er was Nit without hout school chool in ing his grandfather giand father went to the district school his father went to the academy at ludio v the Preg president ident himself him elf Is a haser and a college grad aate CoD collidge Coall lidge dge luck has become proverbial he ile started out by being born on the fourth of july he ile bis hir been in public office almost contin loesl since 1899 he ile has never met defeat at fe tle polls he WOE won a wife who Is a genuine I 1 helpmeet he ile las two to fine sons A police strike in UW mide him fan ous over night there are ambitious p 11 who nho would gle ghe millions for the popular appe I 1 of the setting in wl NA ich he took the oath of of off ce tt tie e p cirlor arlor of the old I 1 ome the old fashioned kerosene lamp the dithered gi neigh neighbors bort bubl out ie in lit the darkness the fati er a notary pub uc ile reading the constitutional oath to the son the son with raised hand repeating the oath and add ing so help me god I 1 hever everi I 1 things evidently must be taken into con Ide ration in connection with the coolidge luck and the presidents politic il career to dito dite I 1 nil if tics with calvin coolidge has been a profession here is its 1 is creed stated publicly politics Is not an end but a means it Is not n ot a product but a process it 11 Is the art of govern goern ment like other otner values it has its counterfeits it Is the process of action in public affairs cain cabin in coolidge I 1 inos no N s politics more thoro thoroughly highly than the average man knos the table he has learned the game from ue tle botton up he ile I 1 as been ably tutored his ills opponents say that when the on demands expert chauffeuring of 0 the steam roller coolidge Is a good in in tn at the wheel he has had poix powerful erful and devoted friends back of hirn and the record records seems to show pretty conclusively that coolidge has made good in every position he has held in reiding his speed es 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 pirty party min regular he believes in the party system he said when governor of massachusetts we ha have hae e a government of parties we must recognize party A min ought to be loyal to those who have been loyal to him I 1 resident coolidge it Is everywhere agreed Is taciturn and reticent ills friends say he was vas born tight mouthed those who nho have opposed lit hin n add that he has also cultivated it as a political asset here Is a sample of coolidge brevity when he mide made lit his inaugural address as president of the state senate the second time he said just this and no more honorable sena senators tort my sincerest thanks I 1 of ter fer you conserve the firm foundations of our in do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service be loyal to the corn com mon wealth and to yourselves and be brief above all things be brief yet coolidge can talk when he feels like it and the oce ision warrants speech ates say he lie can pound the desi and say D n ta trey ey als ats say ray that when hen he be does read the riot act net his lan tall guage Is blistering he has made many notable public speeches he fooled the new sp iper correspond corres u poni 1 blits at washington coolidge as vice lei let t was singularly unobtrusive Fd edard ard G loiry in his book NN washington ashington close ups described him as a politician who does not note who will not who ho seemingly cannot talk tall and this came to be the view generally accepted by the newspaper correspondents spon dents at the capital practically the first official act of the I 1 resident upon I 1 Us Is arrival in washing n vi was as to receive the newspaper men men nien and 5 women omen he ile s ihal gave the impression that he wis inis anxious to lish person il it relations with i ith tl em he ile also qa sir ve vel 1 unmistakably that he was as master of the situ si tuition he opened the InterN interview feiN with a it short speech st i av of the presidents words slows both speech nn tin answers ers to be c nelse deal cleat an I 1 admirable rl 1 e result was that this body of ext cali I 1 fe generally enera lh cynical and fi unapt e ne vi iper people repaid him a hearty roun roud I 1 ot of appi nie luce coolidge contrary to report Is not at tit all lackin lack ln in a set se of hum r his 0 own n brand Is very dry dr he Is of course thrifty analysis of coolidge s record shows hit thit he ahto 14 aften been able to make men of dl divergent verent anteri ls vork cork together an 1 b his is retained the goo I 1 will of or both bides competent observers i 1 on afe d e iii a it ington correspondents say sa that n st if f his in na n and i various arlous callers nee he I 1 became I 1 rest lent h hive i e gone a avay ay in a friendly spirit tl ti bugl the min in the IN hite bite house had s id little and promise I 1 noth ing L era body s trend rend 1 they call t tin I 1 alf if in compliment half in jest i Cool coolidge luge I 1 as a fe v antimi tes v v I 1 0 insist th tint thit it I 1 e I 1 nuch inch warmer arside th n his exteria r in nd give ghe various arlous facts in eNi evidence dence I 1 ut even eden these tho antin ates tl it auh they may call h in a al don t slap him on tl ti e back when they s y it cah calvin in ige I 1 as n nd ile i ie Is ai at d a nt tit ot of service serice re I 1 h s H e it ditl it 1 in at s let isetts if 5 vou ou dout boult t his I 1 urit it i t t forefathers fell first apoi tier knees and then upon tl e spirituality n 1 I 1 ethicality both b ik lare in the character of I 1 e men who nho settled new nena augland and in tl it t strange blend whick has produced the down donn last yi akee aho N vho ho is thirtieth 1 I resident of the united estates 01 ol america |