Judge — October 16, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Our President ayne it was Mr. Kerney’s eloquent article about M AL Smith in the September Scribner's. Maybe it was the notion that an intimate glimpse of the homely interior of the presidential mind, like a whiff of the bread that mother used to bake, nostalgia those Republicans now straying after strange Democratic gods. Whatever it was that inspired the Bruce Barton interview with terview itself was In the first pl it was not stenographic. No doubt it faithfully paraphrased the President's words and had his official sanction, but Bruce Barton wrote it, and Mr. Barton is one of the most talented advertising men in the country. “No man,” would afflict: with Calvin Coolidge, the in- master stroke. to quote a shrewd estimate of him, “is his equal in assaying the middle-class mind and direct- ing an appeal to it. Secondly, that is to si it was not syndicated in the usual manner manifolded and sent direct to the various flices. Instead, Associated Press to become an item in their regular service. This assured its publication not only in every neck of Unele newspaper it was sent to the Samuel's woods but in all the opposition as well as the Rather ‘cute for such a simple, Or do you think it Administration papers. up-country lad as our Cal, n'est pas? was all Bruce Barton's doing? B" what about the of the most revealing parts of it to us is that in which substance of the interview? One Calvin mentions his boyhood ambition to be a storekeeper. The interview at this point runs as follows: ambition to be a sked “Did you have the usual by policeman or a railroad engineer?” “Living in the country, I did not have much knowl edge of railroad engineers or policemen,” he answered As T now recall it, Th s rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up.” This should be bracketed with of George Washington. Calvin's hero-worship In this same interview he mentions Washington as his favorite historical character, and you ma recall the speech he made over a year ago in Cam- ge, Mass., about Washington. In this speech he showed ther of His Country, study of original sources, that Now, Washington had in marked degree some of the qualities that make a storekeeper. I doubt,” writes W. E. Woodward in a current bi of Washington (running serially in The Nation), other character of the first. im- bric an intimate acquaintance with the derived from a close tonished the country. can find in history any JUDGE Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan. portance who had a passion for counting equal to that of Washington. During his whole life he kept his eye on the number of things. »wned and every foot of land was set down, over and over again, in th Every penny he most orderly and meticulous manner. . Who can doubt that George Washington's ‘fair for hoo! ving is the trait that tips the scales for him in. the estimation of the rather hoped” that he might keep store when he grew up? Who can doubt that such a would make his mark as a reduce of the budget? Little George. according to Mr. Woodward. “loved arithmetic as many another boy has loved Shelley. How about little Calvin? man who, as a little boy, “always man. becoming President, of taxes and a guardian hesitate for humanitarian reasons to. pursue Ww; further the comparison between our first: President and our latest. But we can’t refrain from paying Calvin a tribute what- ever the ultimate estimate of his contribution to the sum of national pro to he richly interview. which, whatever his merits and defects ress and human happiness—seems to us this: Calvin has had the courage to be himself. This: iso mean virtue even in those whom nature has favored above the ordinary. It approaches the sublime in Calvin. deserved, the more obviously so. since And this courage with him is not merely a negative thing he may be said to feature his unimpressive personality somewhat as Hester Prynne did t rlet letter. scene have never ceased r vert observers of the politi to ask what makes the man popular, so lacking he seems in all the vote getting qualities. The that he yy Calvin answer lies in the fact has always been conspicuously content to be Coolidge. affection for something genuine however humble—often the humbler the better. have a curious The people Millennial Note Ponta relief workers recently made an apt country for whisky. But the Prohibition C in Washington pointed out that since the forbids the non-medicinal purposes and the Florida law prohibits the val to the mmnissioner Federal law strictly interstate shipment. of whisky for distribution of medicinal liquor the victims of the hurri- Of course, they can get plenty of synthetic stuff to case their suffer- We Dt Hs cane will have to go without. if they want to, ings, poisoned by the Government. comicbooks.com