Show W Z INN le zi 1 al q ai by ELMO SCOTT WATSON P F SOME one suddenly demanded that you name the J fourteenth president of the united states could you do it or if they said who was president just before millard Fl ilmore and who just after him could you answer promptly if you were one of those persons who as a school boy or girl had to learn the presidents in rhyme perhaps you could dont you remember it that long string of couplets which listed the presidents in order and to which some one added another couplet whenever a new chief executive was elected it if you here it Is first stands the lofty washington that noble great immortal one the elder adams next we see bee and jefferson comes number three the fourth Is madison you know the nth fifth on the ll 11 list sit monroe bl onroe the sixth an adams comes again and jackson seventh in the train van duren buran eighth upon the line and harrlson harrison counts number nine th the tenth Is tyler in his furn and polk the eleventh as we learn the twelfth Is taylor that appears appear S the thirteenth fillmore fellmore nils fills his years then pierce comes fourteenth into view buchanan is s the fifteenth due now lincoln cornea two terms to nil fill but god overrules oer rules the peoples wilt will and johnson fills the appointed time cut short by an assassins crime next grant assumes the lofty pent peat the man who never knew defeat two terms to him then hayes succeeds and quietly the nation leads garfield comes next the peoples choice but soon noon ascends a mourning voice from every hamlet bankiet in the land A brutal wretch with murderous hand band strikes down the count rys chosen chief and anxious millions mourn in grief arthurs term was then begun which made the number twenty one then came the man blan of destiny honest and strong in policy grover cleveland whose first term made hade the politicians squirm but when election day rolled round harrlson harrison was more popular found A man ot of intellectual mold in action cautious manner cold so when hla his single term was over there followed tour four years year more of grover mcgint try then the he well beloved A most efficient pilot proved A crazed assassin laid him low again the nation voiced its woo woe I 1 to nil 1111 the interrupted term laur our teddy followed staunch and firm A fighting statesman forceful true and brilliant as a scholar too he taught the nation strenuous life yet kept it from internal strife next tart taft the jurist reached the goal four quiet years he held control then woodrow wilson princeton man right eight fateful years of rule began for under mm him our armies brave went forth a whole worlds world a peace to save the won but at what cost the nation soon noon this leader lost I 1 i in peace was hardings term begun but death claimed him ere it ft was jo done j ihen 1 hen calvin coolidge calm and cool gave our states state a cautious rule but what couplet will be added next will it be something like this now herbert hoover of belgian f fame no I 1 adle adds to the hat flat the thir thirtieth aleth name i i or mill it read something like this and now the roll call here ends with champion alfred smith 1 the answer will be written on november Kove niber 6 0 but whichever it Is some new items will be added to the record of what may be called interesting facts about our presidents 1 I first of all consider the historical I 1 Is firsts rats which will be written into tile annals annall of the nation no matter whether the ibe next occupant of 0 the white house Is ili herbert C Q hoover or alfred E X smith it hoover Is elected Pre president he will be the first bearing the name of herbert the first who was a native of lona jovia the first born west of the mississippi the first who sho was a citizen of california for fornia iala I 1 the first looted elected from the trans mississippi west the first who was wa a quaker in religion the first brat secretary of commerce to be elevated to tho the presidency the first mining engineer to occupy the white house if smith Is elected president he ha will ill be the first bearing the name of alfred the first who was a catholic in religion the fir farst t market man to become chief executive executive although hoover if elected will bring more firsts as shown above smith it if elected will be a better ex aurple of history repeating itself bajo dooer er as cabinet member becoming president will be the tenth to do that Jefre jefferson madison alonzoe john quincy adams martin van buren air oaid james buchanan Buch annn all served as secretary tary of strife state before they became president and monroe grant and taft served terms as secretary of war so the promotion from froin the cabinet to the white house will mill be hoovers Ilo overs only oaly example of follon following ing precedent should smith be elected he will be the fourth president born in new york and elected from that state martin van buren millard billiard and theodore roosevelt belne being the other three he will mill be tile the sixth Pre president elected from the empire state ho however mever since chester A arthur and grover cleveland though born lit in vermont and now new jersey respectively ively were residents of new york fork when sillen elected smith will also be tire the second president to have been a new york sheriff cleveland being the first if smith Is elected it nil be the third time that a governor of new york has gone from the lie execl tire mansion to in albany to the white house the other two were van buren and roosevelt if smith Is elected it will place new york fork on almost an even basis with virginia and ohio as a training ground for presidents the old dominion still rightfully retains her title of 0 mother of presidents with seven men born on her soil who became president they were washington jefferson I 1 madison monroe SI onroe harrlson tyler and wilson although harrlson harrison and wilson were elected from ohio and new jersey respectively chios record Is bix native sons elected to the presidency they the y were grant who was elected from illinois however hayes garfield garf beld n le y taft and harding since the religious issue h has as been so prominent in the present campaign it Is interesting to note the variety of religions which have been represented sl rated lo 10 the white house there have beeta been eight different sects and whichever way the election goes this year a ninth Is duo due to be added eight presidents have been episco pa lians seven presbyterians rians four methodists three unitarians Unit two of the reformed dutch faith one B baptist one a member of the Dis disciples ciPf s president coolidge Is a congregation falast thomas jefferson was classed as a liberal and a noted biographer tit declares that he was a believer in cha christianity alt although hougil not dot ft a sectarian while president johnson W was as not a church member he was a christian believer and his wife was a methodist resulting in him being accredited ace credited to that faith the presidents who ware were episco Epla coo gullans were washington madison monroe harrison tyler taylor fierce and arthur those claimed as presbyterians rians were jackson pulls P olk buchanan lincoln cleveland harrl son and wilson the methodists were johnson grant hayes and mckinley john quincy adams fillmore und land taft were unitarians van euren duren and roosevelt were of the reformed Ket ormed dutch faith was a baptist and garfield a disciple seventeen of the presidents were oi english ancestry six sl of scotch irisi two wore were mostly scotch and two of dutch descent one chiefly welsh and another scotch and dutch fifteen presidents were sons of 0 far farmers and planters tour four were sons of lawyers three of merchants three of clergymen find and one each of a doctore doctor a constable a tanner and an iron maker light eight presidents as well as the pre present tent nominees were born of families we not blessed with worldly goods others were born in varied circumstances mostly middle class although born of poor parents washington washing ton became one of the rich landowners of his day while none of the others attained riches if fate should decree the electro n of herbert hoover vrho whose se wealth Is estimated nt at several million dollars lie fie will probably ably enter tire the white house as the president ever to assume office there have been twenty presidents who went to college some of thern by their own ef efforts borts mr air hoover Is also a college man lunn hut but governor smith went through the school of experience fifteen pres presidents were soldiers in one or more of the wars in which amerlean Amerl ci has participated neither of tile the two present nominees saw military service both of fit the candidates tills year are a little over the average a age ge 0 of f their predecessors on inauguration which was fifty four years land and tour four months hoover Is flaty six and smith Is fifty five the age of presidents at their death was sixty eight years and seven months roose noose velt waa nt at forty two the youngest president to assume office grant cleveland pierce fierce polk and garfield were presidents before they were fifty william harrison was the being sixty eight garfield died youngest forty nine the vie vic tin or of an assassins bullet john adams lived the longest to ninety three presidents lincoln garfield and have been assassinated jackson machson was fired at while in office and roosevelt was wounded by it a crank during the campaign in which he was a candidate for a third term ten of the presidents have been elected twice they are washington jefferson madison Monr monroe lie jackson lincoln grant cleveland M mckinley and wilson eight served eig eight bt complete years all of 0 the above except lincoln and mckinley the victims of assassins bullets william henry harrison had the shortest period of service as president dying after one month in the lie white house four who mho served as president were never elected being vice presidents ubo n lio served out the terms of their presidents who ho had bad died they were aler fillmore johnson Jo linson and arthur two vice presidents however who were elevated to the presidency were afterward aftem urd elected in their own right they bere ere roosevelt and coolidge cleveland was a two term president whose record was as unique he fie served one term 1885 1985 issa was defeated by benjamin harrison in but was elected again in 1802 and served front from ISO 1803 to 1807 all presidents wert were married when elected with tire the exception except iou of on an tyler allmore fillmore ill more benjamin harrl hard sort bon roosevelt and wilson married twice tyler lind hd the roost most children seven by each marriage washington madison jackson polk and harding childless john adams wai the father of a president PreM dent ilent and william henry harrison the lie grandfather of one |