Show I e- e e'S S 'S I AN EDITORIAL BY 1 I FLORENCE DAVIES 4 p pA A LETTEn A WEEK WECK I 1 Perhaps because he is a man manot manof manof ot of few worda orth call can 1 Coolidge go cold and aloof aloot But those who ho know him bun will I remind us that 01 s may be bo only chatte For Instance a ete a political reporter writing of ot him In la a Nov November ember magazine magazino sas n sais It Is right to Lo set iet et down lown this I II i i iii I Coolidge wrote rote to his hia step mother step letters not less than once II a week Sinco always Sinco his step step- step s death th 1920 he has haa writ writ writ- written written ten not less often otten personal persona letterS letter'S I to his father tather It i la 11 right to add thIs the 10 boys bots by bythel thel their father tather 8 a teaching and exam exam- pIe write not lees les than titan once oneo a to their grandfather ra This e evidence Is oUe ed to pro prose proe pro e that underneath the President s seemIng aloofness mete Is a great depth of ot affection and 10 lo alty ally But the story means something Ion tor Itself It Jt means thit th PI nt Coolidge es there are aro some In life lite which count sonic some thIngs which al ate ale e fundamental and which one inuit t attend to some things for which one alwa always has time In spite of being Goi GO Go or orV President ice iee President or President of ot the United blats blat's erd ono one of these things s Is a mans man's It Ii lo easy enough to take tale the tte theother theother other side of the argument It Is l leasy easy to call a a 0 to point out that it es is ith ithone's ones one's freedom that it Is often otten dir dir- dif difficult and and ottell annos a by Its excess ot of o zeal In d di- di di directing reeling us how to order our aHa rb But alt all these things are oro morn mere pin pricKs s They have nothing to tb sith Ith the that a mans man's tam fain ily lly belongs to him and he to them and that Willy nilly like It or not h hu he Is bone of ot their bone flesh sh shot ot of their theil flesh and that common demand that he regard interests their aa own o and cling to the Ideals and traditions for v h Ich they o hn hM 0 stood People who who- n neglect things are aro essentially their 0 own nail ate aie shallow low people who 11 P II p In a 1 shan Shallow OW orld who tho ho neier de develop elop enough l reality or depth to tike root In deep soil soli They TheIr al ent vet vet-I ver er rJ President Coolidge Isn't t that kind of ot a Q man lIe He mil tony may be ba president president dent of the mot most 10 powerful erful nation lit In the world but he Isn t I too busy to v write rite rite to hit father lilt HIi sons are not too much with football or moiles mo or school I Octet e tei to get acquainted ti Ith their grandfather and then to keep kep the friendship allIn alive all In the daa daSto to come that grandfather Is going to mean something more to those bo boss s than an empty name He Iq 1 I going to be bo a Hi Ih lug Ing personality ho it ho has become a part of ot theIr lives Most of or us thin think Ie that hat weare eare P too busy for these softer sotter things p I Now that John ha has haa such suh a big I job John pJ bably having been I promoted to be bo superintendent of ofa ofa a button Jutton he can ean t be bo ex- ex expected expected ex expected to write Tile letters home ho he helea es lea leates es all that for the omen tolls folks That Is the wa wo ie 0 explain hoI I It But John with his Ws button tac- tac factory fac factory tory isn ian t any busier than Coolidge And all the buttons l Inthe the 1 rold arent aren't quite as tant tan tant as happy memories am ante amt 1 close with thos those thoad we ne e love Suppose vo no check up by the Iet let let let- ter tot home test tet and see who is ismore Ismore more and Indifferent our New Ingland president of or few it I ISI or some of or ul u us who e hate time to chatter with ery t one but no time for tor the things that ii will III count alt down o the ears cari HI I |