Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-30
If HE CAN SOLVE THEM Salts
FAcToRILY HE WILL WIN CON-
SIDERABLE RENoWN.
RAILROADS AND COAL LEAD
Agricultural Troubles Also Do Not
Seem to Have Passed-President
Said to Be Firm Believer in the
World Court.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

seekers are counting his companion
ship. He still keeps his own counsel
but there areN those who think he is
more communicative than he was in
the days of his vice presidency.
The real administration of President
Coolidge, Of course, has just begun
Most of the problems which face him
are hard to solve. Others carry a
part of the factors for solution with
them, and still others of high impor-
lance are those whose initial terms
are still undetermined.
The problem Of the railroads has
been handed down to President Cool
idge He may find the solution. 1t is
probable that if it is satisfactory to
the conflicting elements concerned
and to the people, the solving will be
considered one of the great acts OF
his presidency.
Today there is in process of forma-
ton a new policy for the American
merchant marine The shipping board
officials have in hand the work Of
collecting and presenting the factors
which must be used to make possible
an answer to question which has
vexed two administrations.
Then there is coal" The country,
with it's memories of shortages in
pinching winter weather, is demand
ing solution of the coal problem.
The country wants fuel, and perhaps
does not care much how it gets it so
long as it does get it but the admin
suits must give consideration not only
to next winter but to the winters that
are to come.
Farm Troubles Still Alive.
Some Republicans here insist that
the agricultural problem already has
been solved It is true that legisla-
ton was enacted under the Harding
administration which was supposed to
relieve the farmer, make the consumer
comfortably happy and to remove from
the field Of politics and economics a
nettle that was as poisonous as the
three-leafed ivy.
If President Coolidge has been hear
ing, as doubtless he has, the voices
which have been raised recently in
Iowa, in the Dakotas and in Mime
sofa, he probably has his own views
of the truthfulness Of the statement
that agriculture has passed from the
period of troubling It is bound to be
one Of the fighting subjects in the
next congress. Some man may owe
his nomination to the presidency to
his belief or non-belief in the state
ment that the farmer problem no long
er is a problem. 1t is probable that
agriculture alone will determine the
question of the formation of third
party with its candidate for the pres
idency.
/ President Coolidge Is known as a
conservative, but he was bred on a
farm. His father and grandfather
were farmers trying to get their living
from an almost wholly reluctant soil.
The President is sympathetic with the
farmer, but his friends say that when
| it comes to the question Of curing ills
he knows the difference between a
nostrum and specific.
Strong for the World Court.
American membership in the world
court is the subject that has been up
permost in the politicians minds here
ever since the announcement Of the
death Of President Harding. Some Of
the manifestations on this subject dur
ing the days Of mourning for the Pres
ident have been almost indecent. The
subject has excluded almost entirely
the discussion of the purely domestic
matters. The word still is that Pres
ident Coolidge is in favor Of Hard
| ing's world court policy and so strong
ly In favor of it that he does not
even approve of the reservations
which seemingly President Harding
was willing to accept.
One cannot tell how much truth
there is in the story, but it is pretty
generally believed in Washington that
when the late w. Murray Crane Of
Massachusetts came to Washington in
the days of the Wilson administration
to urge Republican senator's to stand
by the terms of the Wilson league pol
icy, President Coolidge then governor
of Massachusetts, sympathized with
Mr.. Cranes efforts and attempted to
forward them. A Massachusetts man,
/ who has known the President for
some years and who is now in Wash
ington, has told the writer that the
President not only favors American
membership in the world court but
would not lament If the United States
should join the League of Nations.
The President has taken up the
duties of his administration ION his
own" He has a burden heavier per-
haps than that Of President Harding.
It might be that some Of the annoying
labors which President Harding ought
not to have performed but which he
insisted upon performing may not
fall to the lot of his successor today,
but the heavy burden of work is here
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