Show HASN'T MADE A SPEECH IN 25 YEARS OF POLITICS Former Newspaper Reporter Elected Mayor of Detroit in Campaign wherein He Banned Use of Billboards Pictures Cards Promises Attacks on Others IS FAR MORE 3 SILENT I i A r- r HE PUNS MS AS SUCCESSFULLY 2 S UNDY S e 4 h OF V A NOVELTY HE WOULD IM OS SENATE By ByEA EA N A Service Mich Nov 17 D troit DETROIT D Is about to Install as mayor that thai I rarest of living hying creatures cr tu a s-a a politician who will not make ke a speech or a a. proul- proul Ise President 1 ie la nt Coolidge great pope pope- popularity pop larity by being mouthed close clos mouthed But John C C. Lodge who who won w n out I over Mayor John W W. Smith In the I most moat stirring election this Usia automobile metropolis ever experienced Is so as st silent that he makes President Pr Coolidge seem s m positively loquacious furthermore his is of long l ong dg standing st NEVER IHS HAS BEEN BEATEN Lodge has been a II prominent figure in Detroit politics for 25 years He Henas has nas never been defeated in a a race for office on all but a few occasions he heras hehns has r-as led the ticket Yet In all this time lie ho has lus never once asked the t e voters to elect him Not once has he formu formulated la d publicly a platform Not once has he made A no campaign c promise In the recent m campaign Mayor came casne out as a a. dripping wet vet From the beginning to the end Ledge Lodge said nothing about prohibition Today with the election over most rs ra have hoye not the faintest idea whether Lodge is a wet we or or a dry Lodge e Lodge h has IsaS grown n up tip up with Detroit F ru m 66 years ago in n the days clays ays when Detroit was w-s a email quAt city he Has nas seen it develop Into one of the great cities of the nation For the last quarter of a century he has s been close close- closely close closely ly 11 identified with its government go Now he is to be bo its chief executive He lie began his career as a a. reporter for a 0 Detroit paper end and after his Isis apprenticeship Iud had been served he heas was as assigned to the city hall hail beat He lie became so so- popular with the city hall crowd that when he finally was pro pro- promoted pro pro- muted and made city editor of his paper the Detroit city council passed a resolution congratulating con him and expressing its regret at losing him from city hall balL balLIN IN POLITICS 25 YEARS YEAnS In 1902 Lodge left the newspaper field to become chief assistant to the Wayne Wane county board of ot auditors a position he ise held until 1907 when he was as elected to the stats state senate Two Continued on Page Pace Two Too HASN'T MADE STUMP SPEECH Continued from Page Pate Oue One ears jars fears later the thc alderman representing the ward In which Lodge lived died and nd neighbors asked Lodge to run to for his place He consented making no campaign whatsoever and was duly elected N He has us been In la the dry city council ever since Under the old old system of ward rep rep- representation the aldermanic political 1 tame frame was deep and end Involved Im As A De De- Detroit trot troll began that tha rapid expansion that carried It to fourth place In the na na- nation nation tion It became evident that this old cumbersome system was outgrown and Lodge Ledge dge was primarily responsible for tor t the e adoption of a new regime whereby hereby De De' Detroit troit was governed go by nine councilmen chosen from the je city at large Lodge dge was wu returned to that Clat council perennially Almost Invariably he led the ticket and thus automatically be became be- be became became came president of the council and In Inthe inthe n the mayors mayor's absence a ence acting mayor As Asa Asa a eo matter of fact he has been acting mayor maor for a longer period of time than nil all but seven se of Detroit's 52 51 mayors have hA held the office It was during the war var that Lodge made raade his most favorable Impression on his fellow tellow citizens Detroit In those days was expanding at an unheard-of unheard rat rats rate Every Eves Ever factory In the city was Increasing Its force Housing Homing condi condi- conditions conditions conditions were were- Intolerable i new arrivals were putting up tar paper shacks on vacant lots sub-divisions sub were grow grow- growing growing growing ing up over oer night on the erge ergo of the town It was in m this situation that Lodge dge became most active seeing to It that emergency legislation for Im lm- Improvements Improvements In the new areas was rushed through the tho council LODGES LODGE'S CONDITIONS CO Several eral times Lodge Lod was WS urged to be bea beIL a IL candidate for tor mayor but always he refused When the last campaign op op- opened op- op ened coed however people signed a a. petition urging him to run Lodge told the committee that brought him this petition Gentlemen If It you want me to be mayor Ill I'll accept Then he laid lad down these astonishing conditions There must b be billboards no nop I pictures p no cards no sand fund wagons There must be no reflections cast on onny any any ny of the other candidates and this rule shall apply to the worst as well wellES as ES the best of them No candidate must be criticized Perforce the committee accepted though one member who ho was some some- something something something thing of a golfer goUer muttered Well for my part I though we could at least start out with a a. driver but here we are without a a. putter Then began the strangest campaign In Detroit's history Interest was at fever heat The opposition shouted itself hoarse Smith became the most ardent wet in fn the country The klan Issue was raised The Smith forces made speeches galore used billboards Issued advertisements worked like beavers only more noisily But Lodge said never nevera a a- word Once he went so far as to say The people know my record and If they believe flU ell of these things they do not want me for mayor maor But that was all And he was elected SCORNS S AID OF DRYS After Arter his election he unbent long enough crough to remark that prohibition had hadnot hadnot not cot been n an Issue In fn his campaign and hat he would run the mayors mayor's office without the thc aid of the professional drys drS But Detroit sill doesn't know net what to expect from him when he takes office Lodge Is t a bachelor living with his ster star Miss Harriet Lodge and Is known as a a. reserved rather aristo aristo- aristocratic cratic I C gentleman of the old school He Is fond of ot sports spends his vaca- vaca vacal tons t l' ens ons In Maine and belongs to a num- num number ber 1 er cf of exclusive clubs He Is an uncle of Mrs Evangeline E Lindbergh mother of the trans-At- trans 1 flyer fler |