The Dolores star., 1923-10-05

TO nature in the montains in brooks
SHINING like silver in tn cir setting; In the
nnS bd tItIed not by machinery but by the brain
tented TENT They belong to themselves. live within
'he'r INCOME and fear no
New England, of course believes implicitly in
the New England type. II also halls the President
as fine sample of the type. The Boston Post. a
Democratic newspaper, speaks for New England
when 1t says
alone all hopes Of New England but her very
and all the magnlhcence Of service ii that New EnS
iand has given to America.
So New England elects to stand or fall with
Calvin Coolidge cautious, discreet thrifty
tght-mouthed God-fearing efficient Down East
Yankee.
The Coolldges certainly go back to the beginning
or things In New England. The first American
Coolidge came about 1880 In the first flight
Of the Puritans and settled In WATERFOWL Mass
In 1880 John Coolidge the Presidents great great
grandfather, after service In the Revolution
moved to Plymouth Vt. He hired out occasion.
ally to his neghbors-and he left a farm to each
of his five children
Each succeeding generation of these Plymouth
Yankee farmers seems to have run true to we
Calvin Cooldges grandfather Justice of the
peace, constable, selectman and town agent and
attended all the political state and county conyen-
Presidents
ther. hale and hearty at seventy-eIght-the Presi.
dent says he has been the most formative intu.
ence in his fe-owns the farm where his great.
grandfather settled He was tax collector and
constable for thirty-eight years. He was Justice
Of the peace. He served five sessions in the legis.
lature, two In the senate. He kept store ran the
shop when the blacksmith left town. could pull a
tooth, road commissioner, settled estates
taught in the Sunday school and usually looks
after the seating Of the people at funerals. The
Presidents great grandfather wns without school.
Ing; his grandfather went to the district school:
his father went to the academy at Ludlow: the
President himself is lawyer and college grad
uate.
Coolidge luck" has become proverbial He
started out by being born the Fourth of july
He has been in public Office almost continuously
since 1899. He has never met defeat ut the polls
He wife who is genuine helpmeet He
has two fine sons. A police strike In 1910 made
him famous night. There are ambitious poli-
tIcians who would give millions for the popular
appeal of the setting in which he took the oath OF
ofice-the parlor of the old homestead the old
fashioned kerosene lamp; the gathered neighbors
outside In the darkness; the father a notary pub.
Iic reading the constitutional oath to the son the
son, with raised hand repeating the oath and add.
ing so help me God!'
Several things evidently must be taken into con-
sideration In connection with the Coolidge Iuck"
and the Presidents political career to date Poll
tics with Calvin Coolidge has been a profession
Here Is his creed, stated publicly:
Politics Is not end. but q means. 1t is not
product, but process 1t Is the art of govern
nent Like other values II has its
1t is the process Of action in public afrairs
Calvin Coolidge knows politics more thoroupbv
than the average man knows the multiplication
table; he has learned the game from the bottom
up. He has been ably tutored. His opponents
say that when the occasion demands expert
chauffeurIng of the steam roller" Coolidge Ia n
4 Tho yhno1 He had
devoted friends back Of him. And the record