Show t I w i T r r r l o k SHORT ON INITIALS I FEW PRESIDENTS HAD HAQ MORE THAN TWO NAMES If f Your Son Is to Occupy High Position PosItion Position tion Avoid Handicapping Him With an Undue Number of Handles Cases In Point If you are cudgeling your brain for fora a suitable name for your son and have any expectation of ot his being president of the United States dont don't handi handicap ap him by burdening him Wm with more than one given name ame Of the twenty-six twenty presidents of the United States nineteen nineteen nine- nine teen een have had only two names each while seven carried the the weight of ot three names It is a significant fact that while while- three in nomenclature have risen to the highest office in the gift of the people there has never been a case of a four decker rising to this pinnacle pinnacle pinnacle pin pin- nacle of ot fame although people have risen to great eminence in the common common common com com- mon walks of life lite with four and even five Ive initials to the their r names Anyway the he facts in the case are that most atthe of at the successful aspirants for the presIdential presidential presidential chair have sailed under close close- reefed topsails Another fact Is that presidents of ot the United States who have had three names were never never- except elected elected re-elected except In n one conspicuous instance that of Gen Sen Ulysses Simpson Grant Those having a trilogy in their names Barnes who failed to be re elected reelected were John Quincy Adams the first president with a triple name William Henry HentY Harrison who died after having been In office only a short time James K i Polk Rutherford B. B Hayes James A. A Garfield who was was' assassinated and Chester A. A Arthur On the other hand hap of the nineteen presidents who had only two names nine or nearly half were elected to this high office a second time Viewed from the point of of time one finds plenty of warning against carrying carrying carry carry- carrying ing too too much headgear for those intending intending intending in in- tending to enter the troubled waters of politics From George Washington down to the election o of Theodore Roosevelt a period of years It is found that for twenty-eight twenty years of ot this period the presidential chair was occupied by men bearing three names while during the remaining eighty- eighty eight years the place was kept warm by men bearing only two names Wherefore let it be known to all parents with baby boys that if they cherish hope of ot their ever becoming presidents of ot the United States chances chances of a realization of these hopes will be Increased by a curtailment of ol their names |