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Evening star., 1924-11-05
Acknowledge greetings Of
6dMtforS

the message that Warren G.. Harding
had died with dramatic suddenness
in a hotel on the Pacific coast 5000
miles away after brief illness that
no one considered serious, and he was
President OF the United States-or
would be as soon as he could take
tho oath.
The drama of that night has no
sequel in American history.
While still unaware of the circum-
stances of President Harding's sud
den death, while still benumbed by
the shocking surprise of it all. Calvin
Coolidge took the oath OF Office in
that lonely Vermont farmhouse by
the flickering light Of kerosene
lamp at 2:57 am. scarcely three
hours after he had awakened from d
sound sleep US Vice President.
Father Administers Oath.
The oath of Office that made CoIvin
Coolidge the thirtieth President of
the United States was administered
to him by his father; the Bible that
the father handed to the son to kiss
was the family Bible; the scene of
this simple ritual was the sitting
room of Il small Vermont farmhouse
situated on the farm on which the
son was born, on which he lived and
worked as a boy and from which
he went away to college. 1t is a
small and unpretentious home, not
unlike hundreds of others that stand
upon the hillSideS or in the valleys
that makes up SO large Il part of
the beauty of "thc Green Mountain
State" It's dignity and simplicity
and auietnesS, the rewards of toll
and the hallmark Of the honor and
solf-respect that independence brings
all these serve TO make it truly
home, sweet home" to father and
to son.
President Coolidge believes with his
whole heart that the destiny of
America, the greatness of America,
lies around the heartstone." He holds
that If thrift and industry are
taught there, and the example of
self-sacrifice oft appears, if honor
abide there, and high ideals, if there
+. the building of fortune be subordi
nate to the building of character,
America will live in security, rcjoic-
I ing in AN abundant prosperity and
good government at home, and in
peace, respect and confidence abroad"
TO lose these virtues, as he believes,
is to lose these blessings. To the
committee that notified him of the
nomination of his party to the vice
! presidency he addressed a reply that
closed with this message to his
countrymen: Look well to the heart
stone; therein all hope for America
! lies"
Calvin Coolidge in all of his pub
! lie career has shown an answering
sense of justice and a steadfast re-
! fusal to deal with political insin-
cerities.
| In his personal life simplicity and
| sincerity has ruled. He has been a
member. of the Congre gationaI Church
| since boyhood. He has never had
| riches and has regulated his life ac-
| cordingly. Mrs. Coolidge, the First
Lady of the Land" is charming and
attractive woman and is very popular
| in Washington.
Evening star., 1924-11-05
THE BUNDLE BEES NAME.
From the Nature Magazine.

From the Nature Magazine.
The name of the common burltl.
bee has brought forth many discus
sions. Some persons insist that III"
word should humble bee," while
others, more precisely scientific, DE-
mand ''bombus bee" There Is no
reason for the advocate OF either
spelling TO apologize. The bee BE-
longs to the genus bombus. and ths
name of the genus is derived from tn"
Greek bombus. translated into Eng
lish as meaning ''abuzzing noise.
Skeat, the disting guished Englisa
etymologist. defines the humble b..
as d bee that huns" and adds that
the verb "bumble" is from the old
Dutch bommelen, verb which
means ito buzz" or ito hum" and
which. he says. is akin to the word
boom" as applied to a booming"
sound "As both boom and hum
signify to buzz" explains Skeat, "thc
insect is called indifferently a bumblg
bee or u humble bee"
Evening star., 1924-11-05

Calvin Coolidges Is months as
President of the United States have
been marked by more than ordinary
activities on the part of the EXecu-
tive and Congress, as well as by
many tense and stirring situations.
When he presented himself at the
Capital, after having been sworn in
as Chief Magistrate by IBIS father in
the old Coolidge homestead in plyn-
outh, Vt, the President assumed one
of the mightiest tasks faced by any
Executive in many years lie did
not take Office amid plaudits and cell
ebration. On the contrary, he had
succeeded to Office by reason of the
untiinely death of a popular and be-
loved Executive, Warren G. Harding.
The American people were in mourn
ing and, besides this, the problems
that confronted him were of q stag
gcrinS nature.
Takes Up Duties Quietly.
President Coolidge, with his GUS
tomary calm and quiet, entered upon
this task with an unmistakabic de-
termination and sincerity of purpose.
With Mrs. Coolidge, he made his
home at the Willard Hotel. and di-
rected the affairs of the nation from
there. His first public act was to
the inspiration of President Hard
ing's example," he would take up
the burdens he was permitted to lay
down and to develop and support the
wise principles of government which
he represented"
Under his personal direction, ar
rangements for the funeral of Presi-
dent Harding were made. At his
solicitation, Mrs. Harding remained
at the White House for more than
four weeks, thus being afforded am
pie time to direct the packing of
her personal effects, to be moved to
the Harding home in Marion.
1t was late in September when the
President and Mrs. Coolidge took up
their abode in the White House. One
of his first acts then was to appoint
c. Rascom .Slemp of Virginia, who
had been a Representative in Con-
gress for nearly 20 years, secretary
to succeed George B. Christian, jr.,
who had served in that capacity un-
der President Harding and who had
resigned. In the meantime the mem
| bers of the cabinet, all of whom
had rendered their designations, ac-
cepted Mr.. Coolidge's request to re-
main in office with him.
Worked for Economy.
From the very beginning. his adj
f., l. H., Il
Evening star., 1924-11-05
Mink an American Fur.

Mink is pre-eminently an American
fur-bearing animal. 1t is found in
almost every part Of the America
continent from the eastern part of
Canada, where it is a small, silky ami
NAL, to Arizona, where it is much
larger and its fur is coarser, with
yellowish tones near the skin. \
mink fur expert can tell from just
what locality the fur comes.
Evening star., 1924-11-05
Wild Quail of Borneo" Now

men of Borneo," so that the discovery
of i long, hairy, reddish-crested quail
in Borneo occasions little surprise
among nature students. This ode
quail is OF moderate size and Of ricil
green plumage. 1t is very distiu
guished in appearance and its haunts
ar" in Borneo and Siam, some being
tauI.,l IN JaNn
Evening star., 1924-11-05
Town Is $50 Years Old.

Sherborn, Mass, reached it's 250th
birthday during the second week of
October, and celebration which last
ed a week was a big event in the
community. Sherborn didn't just grow
like Topsy, but was formally found
ed, and for this reason tho ce!ebra-
t!gu "a. wovt .isUificout
Evening star., 1924-11-05

| Revolution. Undergraduates in all
! American colleges entered this COM
! petition.
! In 1910 ne was elected mayor of
Northampton, served two years. and
| then decided to run for the State SEN
! ate. He was elected in 1912 and re-
turned to Boston. After years sery-
ice he was elevated to the presi-
dency of the State Senate. That was
in the days when the late w. Murray
Crane was in the saddle in Massachu-
setts politics. Crane liked Coolidge.
They were both quiet meu.
Accepted Proner.
In 1916 he was asked whether he
would not like to go on the State
ticket as lieutenant governor. There
was a hint that if things went well
it might mean the GovcrnOrShip later
on. Coolidge accepted. He had not
. asked for the nomination, but he was
not turning anything down that
meant political advancement.
He served two years as Iieute nant
governor, things went well with the
Republican party, and in 1918 he sue
ceeded to the nomination as governor
quietly and naturally. His election
followed. Massachusetts is Il Republi-
can State.
His career as governor was un-
marked by any outstanding event
save one. and that ultimately put him
in line for the presidency.
1t was u time for labor unrest. The
policemen Of Boston organized a
union under the American Federation
| of Labor. and, their requests for in
| creased pay having been declined,
| they struck.
! National attention was at once TO-
rln Rt q.
, of 4 great city left defenseless and
unpoliced was Il strange one. Big
! newspapers sent reporters to describe
! the city. Something mad to be done,
GOV. Coolidge had a conference with
| Mayor Peters of Boston, and sub
sequently the State troops were or
] dered out TO police the city. They
broke tho strike.
Brought LimcIight.
! The publicity attendant upon this
strike put Coolidge in the National
| llimelight. Because it was cam
paign year and there was Il Veritab BILE
scramble for the Republican nomina-
ton, with no candidate appearing to
have it cinched, Coolidge's friends
started a boom for him.
1t ended in Chicago with his be-
ing nominated for the vice presi-
dency with but little opposition. The
vice presidency was not so highly
regarded in Chicago in 1920 as it will
be hereafter for many years at po-
litical conventions.
He had been Vice President but
little more than two years when the
death of Harding automatically
carried him into the White House.
Mr.. Coolidge came into the presi-
dency under circumstances that were
unprecedented in American history.
1here have been other Vice Presidents
! who succeeded to the White House
upon the death of their chiefs-six
of them all told-but always there
has been a varying period of prepar-
alton for the event, lingering fatal
illness of the executive to prepare
tho public mind for the transition.
Drama without Sequel.
In Coolidge's case there was none
On the night of August ., 1923, he
was enjoying a brief vacation on his
fathers little hilly farm in the rural
fastness OF Vermont He retired as
usual about 10 o'clock. At midnight
the jangling Of the telephone bell
awakened him. II was the ou1y tcl"-
.hyr. r.y miles around. Il l.ES h..
Evening star., 1924-11-05

From the very beginning. his adj
Hini.trutiCu W"S marked by c de
Evening star., 1924-11-05
Drama Without Sequel.

In Coolidge's case there was none.
On the night of August 2. 1923, he
was enjoying a brief vacation on his
fathers little hilly farm in the rural
fastness OF Vermont He retired as
usual about 10 o'clock. At midnight
tho jangling Of the telephone bell
awakened him. It was the ouly tc1e-
.hgr- r.I g!ii-s around. Il lyES H..
Evening star., 1924-11-05

The public mind during more than
six months of the Coolidge admins
tration was filled almost entirely
with the revelations brought out by
the several congressional investiga-
tions. Those opposed to the adminis-
tration. preparing for the 1924 cleo
tiGn. maIc cEnrN lttcnnt 70 mako
Evening star., 1924-11-05
COOLIDGE LUCK"
NOW REAL SUCCESS
President Chosen by Voice of
People to Highest Office
Within Their Gift.

Calvin Coolidge OF pioneer May
fower stock. born and reared on
rocky Vermont farm, whose two best
friends are merchant prince and
:. town shoemaker, opportunist i'll
rolitics and thereby thirtieth Presi-
lent of the United States, now comes
10 this greatest politi i-al Office i'll all
.he world in his own right by the
votes of the sovereign people. He
first came into the presidency by the
death of Warren G. Harding, but he
remains in the White House by the
mandate Of the voters
When he first came to Washing
ton as Vice President he was as
little known throughout the United
high office in the Federal Govern
u"ut.
Career Democratic.
The career of no other President
of the United States has ever been
attended with the drama of circum-
stance that has marked the meteoric
rise of this taciturn, sandy haired
New Englander from rocky Yer
mont farm to the most powerful cleo
live position among the free peoples
OF the world.
Fen years ago Calvin Coolidge was
.lautenaut governor Of MaSsachu
-rtts. He had not struggled particu-
larly to get the job. Like SO many
lieutenant governorships in this
Hurly burly American political sys-
',nl of ours it had been more or less
wished uS him.
In fact. the same might he said
bout every elective office that Calvin
coolidge las oCcupied-from the city
s"liCitorship Of the village of North
tmpton, Mass, to the White House
He has never had TO fight for office in
ne same sense that other men have
had TO fight. Always the office came
"a him-not because OF his brilliancy
Of achievement or his proWess as d
dwSer or business lnan-but by the
FAVOR Of that inScrutsble destiny that
sometimes watches over the careers
e! the chosen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
NORTHWESTERN
 STUMPS EXPERTS
Team May Accomplish Unexpected And Beat
 Irish
By HAROLD ANDREWS (Leased Wire to The Age -Herald.)

CHICAGO, Nov. 2O.-The Purple football team at Northwestern univer- sity having conducted itself like fif- teen-minute egg all season, thus giving the merry ha ha to the prophets who assumed from the very first that the team would react a la egg shell to every encounter, it seems that a great conspiracy of silence is being main- tained as to what will happen Satur- day when Northwestern plays Notre Dame. Suspecting trap, the football ex- perts are sneaking off to the left, doub- ling the trail and approaching the log at point higher upon the trunk. Of course Northwestern has lost almost every game this season, and Notre Dame hasn't lost any, but that doesn' mean anything to the expert who has followed middle western football this season.
 At the risk of being regarded as man with ball and chain on his cere- brum, one veteran prophet, who wrote , about Red" Grange with thick honey | instead of ink until the Minnesota game, has put forward the assertion that | the best football team in the middle west is not in the big ten conference. He probably means Notre Dame but then, one has been fooled so often. It seems that the scrub football teams this season have been able in seven days to develop into great fighting machines, thus proving that the coaches are fast workers, and that college athletes are as temperamental as poets.
 At any rate, the center of interest in middle western football Saturday is l in the Northwestern-Notre Dame game, although Chicago has the conference title cinched if Wisconsin is laid low. Tickets Sold Out
 The Notre Dame Northwestern game will be played in Grant park stadium within hearing distance of the rumbling of the elevated trains in the loop, and only standing room is now available.
 Baker, the triple threat" man, is expected to show his stuff to the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, and the game is sure to be picturesque and thrilling, The word has come from South Bend Indiana, that Notre Dame expects ito eat 'em alive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
COBB WAS FAILURE . INV 3 WORLD SERIES
After Leading League Each Time Great Swats- .I s.4 @ man Fails In Three Chances

successive time. The Tigers met the Pirates under Fred Clarke. Cobb had finished one of the best seasons of his career. He batted 53 points higher than in the previous season. He won the batting championship of his league again, with an average of .377. He made 216 hits that season and stole 76 bases. He scored He runs. It was a record that made him the big gest sensation in baseball, that estab- lished him as the kingpin player of the season.
 Due to his improved play in 1909 he was expected to turn the trick in the world series. Cobb alone made the Tigers favorites. His two successive failures against the Chicago Cubs were forgotten.
 And, in the first Detroit Pittsburg game Cobb was the sensation that he was expected to be. In that game he made clean steal of home with Babe" Adams pitching and Gibson catching. It was a perfect play and his work that day made the baseball sharps pre- dividual honors of the series.
 But Cobb ceased to shine after the first game. He was trying harder than ever but his best efforts were wasted. This was due chiefly to Babe" Adams. The pitcher had rarely been mentioned in the preseason stories. He was not one of the dependable regulars and when Fred Clarke started him against Detroit he was severely criticized for picking an untried youngster. Adams, they said, lacked the needed major league experience to pitch in series as important as the one with Detroit.
 Adams The Hero
 Clarke made a fortunate choice. Adams was the hero of the world series of 1909. The series was won by Pittsburg and Adams pitched the Pi- rates to victory in three of the games they won. He had curve ball and a slow one that Detroit could not hit and Cobb, star player. of the majors, made one hit off Adams in the three games. He faced him Il times.
 In the two preceding world series against Chicago, Cobb found Nemesis in big Jeff Overall. He pitched four of the games these two teams played in two years. Cobb facer Overall in all four games, He batted' 16 times against him and made two hits, one of these q threebagger.
 Cobb played IF games against Chi cago and Pittsburg in the three world series. He was at bat 65 times, scored seven runs, made 17 hits, stole four bases and batted for an average of .262. His average against Adams was .091 and ag1inst Overall it was .125.
 He always keenly felt his failure in these series. He always wanted to get into anothfr world series to redeem himself. But the opportunity never came again.
 (Tomorr6w: Chapter XIX-Confi- dence.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
HARVARD PLANS
 TOSTRIKE HARD
Will Play Kicking Game If Score Comes
 Early

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 2O.- With the cheers of the student body ringing in their ears, the Harvard foot ball warriors who will attempt to stop the highly rated Yale eleven, went through their last practice of the season Thursday.
 Bed by the Crimson band, the under graduates marched in a body to Soldiers Field and there noisly endeavored to make the players feel that Harvard ex- poets them to bring back victory from the Blue Bowl.
 The Crimson wound up it's prepara- tion for Eli with light signal drill, Friday morning at 10 o'clock the squad, numbered 47 will leave for New Haven. One of them, Leonard Robb, an end, will go along on crutches, as the broken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
Famous Grid Authority >-
 Seeks To Change Tumble

their minds and scores their brains and brawn in preparation for this game. A contest in which so many men combine for so many months should not be de- cided by Aapless, insignificant fluke. Terrible Result
 A superb player should not be sent down through life with the memory that helpless tumble on his part lost his university or college it's greatest game. Football as modernly organized should be game of perfect fairness in the rules. The present custom in re- gard to tumble is monstrosity. The rule committee of 1925 can modernize this uncouth relic by a rule in twenty words. There is at present no rule cov- ering the tumble. The present prac- tice is based upon custom. There is no glory in victory won through fluke.
 There is lifelong regret over a battle lost through fluke. Do away with the monstrosity. It has no place in the modern game.
 This fall, notwithstanding the great backs that are adorning the gridiron, fumbles are occurring in unprecedented profusion, and in some instances they are winning games. A list of the play CTS scoring with fumbles; together with the length of their run and the game in which made, are as follows:
 xIndicates that the play won the game.
 Yards 90, Bomar, Vanderbilt, vs. Quantico Marines.
 Yards 90, Pullman, West Virginia Wesleyan ys. Syracuse.
 Yards 75, Bea y, Maryland vs. Wash ington.
 Yards Meeker, Kansas Agricultural
 Yards 65, Strauss, Gallaudet. vs. Bucknel.
 Yards 60, Laux, George Washington vs. Western Maryland.
 Yards 60, Edwards, W. and J. vs. Waynesburg.
 Yards 60, Daly, Juniata vs. George Washington. \
 Yards 42, Crowley, Holy Cross, vs. Harvard. Yards 50, Eitel, Lafayette, vS. Buck nell.
 Yards 45, Wakefield, Vanderbilt, vs. Auburn.
 Yards 40, Bermoske, Indiana, vs. Louisiana State.
 Yards Kenneally, St. Bonaventure, vs. Rutgers.
 Yards 40, Marshall, Manhattan, vs. Fordham.
 Yards 40, Maisel, Union, vs. Trin- ity.
 Yards 40, Hawkes., Union, vs. New York University.
 Yards 35, Maher, Harvard, vs., Bos- ton University.
 Yards 30, Hartwell, Cornell (Iowa) vs Grinell.
 Yards 30, .Laux, George Washington, vs. Maryland.
 Yards 30, Pegano, Wake Forest, vs. w. and l..
 Yards 30, Hanson, Syracuse, vs. Penn State.
 Yards 90, Robertson, Nebraska, vs.
 Yards 9, Greenough, Harvard, vs. Virginia.
 Yards p, Weber, Wabash, vs. Pur- Y,rds 25, wyckoff, Georgia Tech,
 Yards 25, Minahan, Georgetown vs.
 Yards 25, Wise, Holy Cross. vs. Yer mont.
 ola.
 Yards 10, Ide, Williams, vs. Cornell.
 Yards 10, Rugg, Syracuse, vs. Pitts
 Yards 10, Bender, Rutgers, vs. La Fayette.
 Yards none, Schmidt. Army, vs. Bos- ton University.
 Yards none, Gibson, Rutgers, Vs. La Eayette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

bone in one of his ankles is still in splints, but the others are expected to be ready for action when the battle starts.
 The backfield, it is understood, is to contain at least one of the lighter, more elusive backs; either Maher of Zarakoff, along with Gehrke and Mil Ter, Gehrke and Hammond, or Ham, mond and Miller, whichever combination is started.
 Harvards plan of campaign will be to strike hard at the start, score early if possible and then play a kicking game, not only to hold the lead safe, but in the hopes of getting the breaks l to score again a
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NRy Fl. c. sALsINGER

Copyrighted, 1924, in the United States, Canada and Great Britain by North Amer. gicen Newspaper Alliance. All rights re-
 CHAPTER XVII
 A MONG the world series heroes of A baseball you will not find the
 k. name of Ty Cobb, although he played in three, against the Chicago Nationals in 1907 and 1908, and 1909.
 He had just finished his first full and successful season in 1907 when De stroit, under Hughie Jennings, met Chi cago for the world title. He had won the. batting championship of his league, had made PIP hits and stolen 49 bases. He established himself that season as the most important baseball figure of
 Cobb was expected to do some remark able work against Chicago. He was picked everywhere to be the star of the series. Most .of the pre-series discussion concerned Cobb. And that was the trouble. Cobb, sensitive, reading much ofsswhat was written, hearing more, went into the series to outdo himself, to do all he was expected to do-and ! more The result was that Cobb over tried. He over-pressed. He failed abso- lutely. There has probably never been a bigger failure in world series than Cobb. His work was most ordinary. His team lost the series and much of the glory that he had accumulated dur ing the playing season was lost by his poor showing in the world series.
 s2 Alibis Were Out
 Various excuses were made by those who had faith in Cobb. They were sure he would get another chance and then vindicate their predictions.
 He got another chance. Cobb enjoyed another brilliant season in 1908, al- though not as good as in 1907. He ship of the American League, aI- though he batted for an average of only 1924. But in 1908 the American League saw the best pitching in its history, a fact that may be surmised from the top batting average. Cobb stole 10 bases less than the year previous and made 24' less hits. But, when the Ti- gers met the Cubs again in the fall of that year, Cobb was expected to vindi- cate himself. He was once more the most discussed player in a world series.
 His second attempt to establish him self as a big series player did not meet with much more success than the pre- ceding effort. He once more was a dis appointment. Cobb deeply felt the hu- initiation of his failure in 1907 and tried to make amends. He tried too hard. He pressed himself too much. He felt too keenly how much depended on his showing. And he was just an ordinary player. The demand had been too great.
 Flashes A Spark
 He got his third chancesin 1909 when Detroit won the pennant for the third