The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-28
EVERY MAN MUST BUILD OWN FUTURE, SAYS DIR. BURTON
BY NEA Service o. v,I GALS OLD NEIGHBORS
By NEA Service

ny NEA Service
Cleveland, June 27.-Shape your
own career! You can do a better
job of it than anyone else.
Marion Leroy Burton believes
that. He believes it thoroughly.
He states his theory convincingly.
Life can net be standardized. We
are all captains of our own ships.
He doesn't point to his own sue
cess and the achievements of his
children as proof of his theory, but
this is just where the proof lies.
Burton was born in Brooklyn, Ia,
SO years ago. Left fatherless at an
early age he sold papers on the
streets of Minneapolis. He worked
in drug store. He read much and
studied more. He wanted an edu-
cation and he got it.
Burton's oldest child, Theodosia,
now %, went to Vassar, but grad
uated from Michigan. OF II study
hours Is were GA" and two We're
"B". She recently married George
r. Stewart Jr., an instructor in the
University of California.
\ Paul Leonard Burton is IS. He
graduated from Culver Military In
stitute just the other day. He is
five feet ten, weighs 165, played
tackle on the football team and is
an aviator. In his studies he stood
sixth in his class and twelfth in tn
student body Of 700.
Jane, the youngest child, com7
pleted her freshman year in high
school at Ann Arbor this year She
is only IL and still plays with her
pet doll.
Likes To Fish
"This was the first country that
obligated itself to educate every
Cne," he said. 1--WE haven't done
that as yet, but we have done more
than any other country to afford
everyone the chance to progress to
the farthest limit of his inherent
capabilities"
There was earnestness, convic-
ton in the voice of Burton as he
said that. He had just unfolded his
six feet two inches of body from
the chair in which he sprawled. His
lips were in one thin line. Some
thing keen and hard cleaned in his
brown eyes as he fixed them on the
interviewer. He was in dead earn
est. Otherwise his words might
have seemed bromide, after-din-
nerish.
"Any fellow can get along here.
That is the glory of America. All
he needs is his own pep, his own
steam, his own will to do"
In Ann Arbor, Mich, where Bur
ton receives $4,000 a year as pre-
sident of the University of Michi-
gan, they tell you he is not always
so serious.
He is one of the liveliest of the
Rotarians. His fellow members
call him MARY Ann"
Almost every day you can find
Burton in his backyard pitching
horseshoes with DR.. John Sund-
wall, director of student welfare.
He plays tennis and golf, but
next to horseshoe pitching he likes
best fishing, boating and swim
ming. Each summer Papa and
Mama Burton, whom he calls Nina,
take the family up to Cass Lake in
Minnesota. Papa chops the wood,
makes the fire and does the outside
chores md Mama cooks, washes
and cleans.
1t is very probable that the SINH
lar domestic qualities Of Mrs. Bur-
ton and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge form
the strongest tie between the two
families.
He's Red Headed
When Burton was president of
Smith College and Coolidge was
mayor Ct Northampton, Mass,
their wives were engaged Tin the
ladies' aid and missionary activities
of the Jonathan Edwards Congre-
gational Church.
When Burton left Smith College
it was to become president of the
University of Minnesota. In 1920
he became president of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. He raised ten
million dollars for building pre-
gram.
In Michigan they say he can do
things because he has a dynamic,
magnetic personality.
'I'm just as ordinary red-headed
fellow with some sand in my giz-
zard," he describes himself.
And if Burton bec0mes vice pre-
sident, America witnesses the full
fillment of its one great tradition
two Main Street men starting from
scratch and winning out.
And both are red-heads.