New Britain herald., 1923-09-11
REV F. 4. JUMP RECALLSDAKS MYTH COOLIDGE ATAIM,HERST

faith and hank hook have beeR of
 lnealeulable service through many
 years,
 Dut Amherst college injected itself
 iA another way-aRd this is the sec
 end chapter Of the tale, The republi-
 ean convention pf ls2a was stewing
 in the heat of Chicago. day after day,
 II was anyhody's guess who would
 inaily receive the nomination 10 head
 the ticket. Meanwhile there were
 friends of Coolidge in Chicago, and
 ane of the shrewdest and most eapa-
 hle Of them was Dwight Morrow 0f
 New York, an Amherst college class
 mate of Mr, Coolidge and now
 member of the firm of J, r, Morgan and Co.
 know Morrow, We were fellaw- editors of a little Amherst college literary monthly for year, He is one of the coming men Of this eoun- try, self-mafe man like Coolidge. a clean, raEor-shaFp intellect, true democrat and a loyal friend, As lhe days wore along, the idea occurred lo Morrow and others that maybe some of the seeond-string men like Cool idge, might get a look-in on the prize before the game was over. And SO one night he locked himself Into his room at the hotel and began 10 write, He Is writer with trenchant pen. he has the sort Of editorial sense that judges unerringly. a knowledge Of hn- man mature and politics that Is all but uncanny. Before him as he wrote. lay volume Of speeches by Cool idge, Have Faith in Massachusetts" which stcarns had at his own ex- expense circulated very widely q few months before as part of his personal program of publicity. Mir. Morrow also had other state papers and nt- teranccs of his Amherst classmate be- fore him as he wrote. By morning a neat little booklet was in manuscript, | Selection from the Papers and Ad- dresses of Calvin Coolidge of Massa- or some such title.
 That day printing house in Chi cago was captured bodily and set 10 work on this unique volume. The l next day every delegate in the con- vention had in his possession this at tractiye booklet. and during his spare | moments he was dipping into 1t out | Of curiosity to see what manner of | utterance was deemed worthy to be | thus scattered abroad.
 The reader Of these selections was captured by an un- wonted note. trick of phrase quite foreign to the usual terms of an ideal ist. There is an anecdote in this worth repeating.
 During the days of the police strike excitement in Boston, Governor Cool dge ran home to Northampton for a brief stay While there, Mir. Morrow bought to drop in and shake hands ,n his way hack from trustee meet ng at Amherst to New York city. He ound him-how? Surrounded by the newspapers Of many cities, reading what every editor in the United States vas saying about his keen courage nd his forceful promptitude in tack ing that perplexing situation? No, 1e was reading, but he was quietly Aurelius.
 Influence of Morrow Booklet
 There has always seemed to be , it of mystery at the swiftness and nexpected humanity of Coolidge's hoice for the second place on the re- i. uhlican ticket. Those who are on le inside assert that Dwight Nor ow's little book perhaps had more to '. 0 with the result than any other sin le factor. In the minds of many aa elegate the man who could have ritten and said the things in that tile volume was safe man to trust ' ith the relatively unimportant honor B the presidential nomination g ut, if Coolidge. had not won the a omination in 1920, he would not V ave been President Coolidge today. s nd if he had not gone to Amherst Ii ,llege Stearns and Morrow would r ever have crossed his path and be- e ,me his useful and effective friends. b What sort of individual was Cal oolidge while an Amherst under 'aduate? We remember him as a c rious- s-minded chap who had come c
 college apparently for what a col n ge course was supposed to furnish a il an, viz, an education. He lacked o