Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-08
President Coolidge s
Six Points

tCdVdIlldn IGSS, 10 learn SOIllC'
thing new about President Cal
vim Coolidge, whom the nation
has just given one of the great.
est votes Of confidence in a hall
century. William M. Butler
chairman of the Republican Ma.
tional Committee, has his own
ideas Of what has made Calvin
Coolidge both great and sue
cessful.
Following are the reasons on
which Chairman Butler bases
his conclusions:
1. His reverence of women.
His mother and his step-mother
were unquestionably the most inn
portant influence in his life. To
enlarge upon that statement is
impossible without transgressing
the boundaries of personal conf
dence. But citizens of Massa-
chusetts know that it was his
leadership which set their State
so far ahead in every matter af-
fecting the interests of women
and children and the home.
2. 1t is not by accident that so
many of our Presidents have
been country-bred The farm
er's son is much alone; he is de-
pendent upon himself for the
conduct of his life. He does his
own thinking; he makes his own
decisions. All that is best in our
rural life is represented today in
the White House.
3. Rigid economy was a neces-
sity in his home. 1t was a neces-
sity in the .boyhood homes of
most of our Presidents. No man
can really understand the people
unless he has shared the common
lot. The people of the United
States are experiencing already
the results of Mr.. Coolidge's de-
votion to economy; our taxes have
been reduced. There will be yet
further economies, and every
home will benefit.
A. He promised in his speech
of acceptance that this should
should be a campaign of common
sense. How rare is common
sense in public life; what a fear
full price the people pay for the
lack of it. He has made no gilt
tering promises; he has offered
no millennium. But by sound
business common sense more
progress has been made in
Strengthening out the tangled at
fairs of Europe in the year since
he entered the White House than
in all the five years before.
5. He has been magnificently
trained. Part of our national
difficulties arise from the easy
going assumption that any good
man is equipped to hold public
office. We tend to takers in
our politics, not to trained exc
cutives. Calvin Coolidge began
in the lowest public position. Sue
cessfully he was Councilman.
Mayor State legislator, Senator,
President of the Senate, Lieu
tenant Governor, Governor and
Vice-President.
Thirteen different times the
people we're given opportunity to
review his work, and each time
by their ballots they pronounced
it good. He knows the business
of government and knowledge in
power" He has made a study of
government the work of his life,
from the day he entered college
until now. The results TO his
study have been put into action
in your service and mine. They
are known and read of all men.
6. Finally, he has worked.
suppose there is no man in the
United States of his years who
has put in more hours of concen-
trated hard work. He has never
denounced his opponents, never
considered it worth while to re-
ply to personal attacks, never
sought, by any of the well-worn
tricks, to exploit himself. He
has worked, the results of his
work have done all the talking
necessary. He is typicallv Amer
lean.
What does that mean? What
was it that our fathers sought to
found here on this continent? A
new thing under the sun. A Ma
ton free from special Privilege,
from class control, from any at
tempt to substitute initiative; a
Nation in which the humblest can
aspire to and attain the greatest
heights.
The career of Calvin Cool
idge furnishes another splendi
example for every America
youth. 1t is no idle boast tha
the presidency of the create:
country on the globe may b
achieved by the American VIII
fits himself to occupy the execu
tive chair. Possibly the create;
handicap of any youth seekin
the exhaulted position would b
extreme wealth, The 'counu
lad, poor. honest and ntelliger
has greater chance for success
han bis wealthy neighbor.