Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23

One Of these days a full-blooded
Indian named Coolidge will be coming
10 see the Great Father at Washing
ton. He is the Rev. DR.. Sherman
Coolidge. canon of St. Johns Cathe-
dral at Denver. Wyoming Arapaho,
whose parents were known as Ban
as-da and Ba -ad-noce. How this In
dian Coolidge came to bear the name
or the thirtieth President of the
United States is a tale worthy of
Fenimore Cooper. In the early six
ties, our Indian tribes were frequently
at war. One day. following bloody
engagement between the Arapaho
and their traditional foe. the Apaehes.
Maj. Larrabee. Of the United States
Army found a papoose lying along
side its dead mother on battlefield
near Goose Creek, Wyo. LARA bee
turned the baby, boy, over TO
the wife of a brother officer, who
gave the child his own name of
Coolidge and the Christian name of
Old Tecumseh, then the idol of the
army. Eventually the lad was educated
at a military academy and Hobart Col
lege; became an Episcopal minister
and a missionary among the Wyo-
ming and Oklahoma Indians, and an
advocate of Indian interests through
out America. DIR. Coolidge is homo
rary president of the Society of Amer
lean Indians. is sixty years old. and.
as becomes Coolidge, is republican.
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Here's a Calvin Coolidge quotation
of more than ordinary interest in
view of approaching events in the
anthracite fields:
"The problem of unemployment is
aggravated not only by the alien
knocking at our gates, but by the
laborer at home slamming the door
of production behind him and walk
ing out. There are those who
teach the iaborer that the fewer
hours he works, the better off he is.
In order to maintain that belief they
have attempted an organization TO
dictate to government. This attitude
Is against public conscience, against
the working OF economic law"
1t appeared In an article by Mr..
Coolidge in the February, 1921, num-
Der of Good Housekeeping on the immi-
grafton question.
Aspiring and resolute seekers of
public office in the United States
should take heart from the recent
triumph of Robert Smillie. Scottish
seven times in succession Smillie un-
successfully contested an election for
a seat in the house of commons. He
has just been victorious in his eighth
effort, at the age of sixty -four. There
seems omen and hope for William
Jennings Bryan in Smillie's experience.
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Friends of Newton d. Baker, Secre
tary Of War during. the second half
Of the Wilson administration. are cir
culating in lea1et form a speech he
recently delivered in Cleveland on
international affairs. Its peroration,
which is said to have brought an
audience of 400 business men to their
feet amid cheers and tears read;
Men of America, 1 plead with YOU,
I beg of you, lay aside craftsmanship.
Let us tease each other about the
tariff and bicker over the federal re-
serve system. But on the question
whether the beauty and the sweet
ness of civilization are to be de-
stroyed by another war. let us. say,
nut away our partisanShip. and IS
grown men consider and deal with
this matter, and we may yet save the
world"
teas entry into the world court.
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Rumor. for the dozenth time during
the current political season, has put
"the skids under" John T. Adams. re-
publican national committee chair
man. When Mr.. Adams decides to
step down and out, his committee col.