Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-17
TAFT'S NAME |S AS SHORT
 AS FOLKS
Other Presidents Names Had Five or More Letters = Liked Because It is Easily Pronounced

WASHINGTON. March 16.-Study of the names of presidents of this 1 country shows but one as short as | Taft. The preceding instance of | name with four letters Eas that of
 Polk
 George Washington still leads the ! list of presidents. with ten letters in ] his name Roosevelt, Cleveland, and | Jefferson run second, with nine char | aeters constituting their surnaIn-a | Six presidents had eight letters in l their names, five needed seven let i ters to spell theirs, while six and five l were used sy three chiet executives. i Perhaps the minimizing person | would give but little attention 10 the number of letters in the name of a president. But when rhyme, meter, and space are considered, 1t will be l readily seen that e vast deal of thought must be given the make up of 1 the name by a great many persons To populariZe a presidential candt date, it has ever been deemed essen tial to keep his name constantly be
 fore the voting population This is Ione throughout campaigns by means of poems, songs, slogans, and ban ncrs. The name should have a given
 number of fleet" in it to make good
 poetry, the proper syllable sounds to
 make up swingy. tuneful songs. For slogan a short name is preferable.
 R Popular Souvenir. Souvenir hunters found in Washing
 ton this year one of the most pleasing articles ever produced for an inauglr-
 ation. This was a small gilt pin,
 half an inch in width and Of tho
 same height. spelling the entire name of MT. Taft Because of the few let ters it was possible to spell the name almost in the form of a monogram. With two "T's" an "A" and an 'F" all made up of horizontal and per pendicular lines. the feat was possi- bIe. Had a circular or curled letter appeared in the name the character scheme could not have been carried out.
 More than this. however, Mir. Taft, by virtue of bringing into the White ! House the shortest name. has forever | endeared himself to the hearts or ! news paper "copy-readers' or writers
 Of caption lines at the heads of col umns of news. whose creed is "mul- i tum in paryo.'
 It is probably generally known that ] the number of letters which will 'go' | in the first line of a head" averages 1 from 10 to 20. Another little creed | of the "copy-reader" is that every good head must ''say something" In other woros. it must have a noun and a verb in it.
 With Mir. Rooseyelt's name taking up nine letter spaces. few long verbs 1 ever followed it in oUe-liDe head ! That Mir Taft be elected for life. | enjoy good health. and live forever, ] is the sweetest dream of the copy | reader"
 Second Unitarian President. | IL might be of interest to many to ] learn that Mir. Taft is not the first man of the Unitarian faith to occupy ! the presidential chair. as President Fillmore also was a Unitarian.
 History shows that two Unitariaus, l two Congregationalists. two members of the Dutch Reformed church. one 1 non-sectarian. eight Episcopalians. six Presbyterians. and four Methodists have been the incumbents of the White House. President Arthur was the last to represent the Episcopal l faith, Harrison the last Presbyterian, Mckinley the last Methodist, ROose- welt and Van Buren wcra the Dutch
 Reformed, Jefferson professed no re- | Iigion
 William Howard Taft is the first | Yale graduate. sixth Ohian, and nine | teenth lawyer elected president. liar | yard had three epresentatives-the ! two Adamses and Roosevelt. Madi- ] son was graduated from Princeton. | William and Mary gave three presi- | dents Virginia still leads in the num- | Der of favorite sons. she having giv- i en seven names to presidential his | tory.
 President Taft is the second man ! elected to that office who was born ! Tn a c1ty- Roosevelt was porn m
 New York. and Taft m Cincinnati All i others were born somewhere in the 1 country" Mir Taft is the fourteenth
 man of English descent 10 be presi- 1 dent. and the third secretary of war ! to be elevated to the White House. l Monroe and Grant were elected after ! resigning from the office which MT. | TafL held up to the time of his nomi- nation.
 Defeated Six Opponents.
 The new president enjoys the dis
 tinction of being the first candidate for the office to defeat six opponents