Evening star., 1923-08-08
President Friend of Labor,
Massachusetts Record Shows
Signed Many Liberal Bills in FoUor of
Working Men During T'oo Terms
as Bay State Governor.

fected, increasing the maximum
weekly payments under the work
mems compensation law from sl4 to
! SIG, providing weekly payment or
, compensation In cases of paruai IN
: capacity, empowering insurance COM
panies to require companies doing
! business under the workmen's COM
, pensation act to deposit with the
state treasurer cash to meet outStand-
ing claims.
Appeal for Brevity.
His political faith was epitomized
! in his second memorable inauguration
spe. ch as president of the Massachu-
setts senate. when he said. thanking
his associates for again choosing him
as their presiding officer:
Honorable senators, my sincereSt
thanks l offer you. Conserve the
firm foundations of our institutions.
Do your work with the spirit Of a
soldier in the public service. Be loyal
to the commonwealth and to your
selves. And be brief, above all things,
be brief"
That in the writer's opinion. is the
Keynote of his success in public life !:
his loyalty to the institutions of his
country. his martial spirit in the dis
charge Of his public service. his
loyalty to his state and to himself,
and his hrevity of speech. Never go
: TO President Coolidge with a long,
and probably queer your case. If
some of the senatorial windja miners
, could have read his mind while he
was listening to them filling the Con-
gressiOnal Record in the last two
years with meaningless words. qub-
bling over some inconsequential
nothing. they might have been shamed
! into following his advice, above all
! things. be brief"
! Hates Wordy Folks.
: Politicians of every stripe now are
outside his office here. standing in
line seeking an audience with the
man whom a cruel fate has made
/ President of the United States. Some
of them were wont TO speak dis
/ paragingly of him when he occupied
! the Vice Presidents chair. but they
inow shout: The king is dead Long
live the king"
For the time server President
! Coolidge has little use. Do not think
! for a minute that this quiet. unob-
j truSive man does not know them hut
he is not the kind of man WHO carries
GrudgeS. Life is too short. and Calvin
Coolidge has weightier problems to
. solve.
/ He is no crusader-just plain citi-
! zen who Clings to the fundamental
! principles that make men and nations
! great. If a crisis should arise. the
| American people may rest assured
! that he> would meet il with the same
! courage ana determination that he
met the police strike in Boston
! Washington cabinet makers and
, policy builders are busy now recon
) structing Mr.. Coolidge's cabinet and
| outlining the policies TO guide the
! new administration. But al best the
! most of il is mere guess work. The
! correspondents. now swarming the
! Capitol. WI o tried to get him TO elab-
o"ate on his first statement regarding
! the course of the administration found
that he has a mind OF his own. and
could refuse to take the bait OF the
/ accomplished and seasoned journal
! istiC fish ermen.
/ The writer viii hazard this predic-
ton: When Mr.. Coolidge announces
his administration program. 4 Will
meet with the Endorsement of the
great majority of his party. not alone
in the House and Senate. but II rough
out the country. 1t may not be all
that he would wish. and it may fall
short of the demands of the extrem-
lists OF his party. but it will he a plat
form on which every req sonabe re-
publican can stand without apology.
Coolidge is builder-up, not a
tparer- down of party or principles.
a : he said: Good government cannot
he found at the bargain counter" 1t
is a thing that must be bought and
paid for by those wi o would enjoy it,
Just as he believes that the weakness
+ of representative government is the
weakness of us Imperfect beings who
admin. ster it