Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-16
Opinion Takes Many Angles on
Presidents Regular Train Trip

1nstinctively We knew that saving
S1,150 out of the presidential expense
account is trivial compared with hav-
ing a President whose mind is clear
in a vigorous body. Everything that
aids in saving a Presidents health
and strength, in the long run, is
economy. A private car is more COM
Portable than regular Pullman.
therefore he should have q private
car.n According to the Milwaukee,
Journal independent RepnblicanN
The Marion Star, formerly Presi-
dent HaTdlng's newspaper, may be a
bit harsh when IL calls President
Coolidge's trip to Chicago in an ordt-
nary Pullman penny wise ana pound
foolish But there Is logic in its
, argument that 1t costs too much to
elect Presidents to have them assume
the hazards of common travel"
Another thing the Brooklyn Eagle
Gndependent Democratic) suggests,
Calvin Coolidge doesn't have to
prove at this. late day that he Is
democratic or that he is of an eco
nonlical turn of mind. AS an indi-
vidual he has a right to be himself.
but President can be too democratic
and too economical" Perhaps Mr
Coolidge feels the country needs a
shock. thinks the St Paul Dispatch
independently, which says: Perhaps
1t does But what the country needs
even more than shock is the main
tensnce of the dignity OF the presi-
Dental office. and in travelling to Chi
cago as he has the President has not
done this. Thrift is desirable even in
the richest country on earth, but GER
tain1y Its desirability has not yet
brought US to such a pass that we
can contemplate with equanimity the
spectacle. of our President travelling
from the Capital to Chicago as a shoe
salesman might. Among the obliga-
tions of the Chief Magistracy is. the
obligation always to appear as a
Chief Magistrate"
44 x ..-.
Says the Baltimore Evening Sun
independent Democratic): Buying
railroad tickets at the same price
plain citizens would pay, travelling by
the same schedule that plain citizens
would travel by. even If the tickets
are for the luxury of Pullman com
partments. not only sounds econom-
ical, but has the appearance of de-
mocracy. If that isn't a pleasant sop
for the gallery and, withal, a piece of
applied psychology Of a high order
there amt no si6h.' BY so much as
the President Stimulates humility, by
so much does he swell the sense al
importance ana manly prlG6.-Of I'll
pee-pul. The real effect Of suchs
performance is not so much to make
the President like his fellow- citizens
as to make his fellow-citizens lfkc
the President. Clever stuff As.a
grandstand play it ranks with - a.
drew Gump's hiring a caboose." .
ut is curious" observes the Har
ford Times independent Democratic.
how excited q democracy can &c :
when evidence of actual democrati
conduct on the part of considerable
parsonage actually appears. 4 Pre-
ident eats in dining car, and
meal is inveatoried to the fi-ti
crunch of celery. He rides in a
sleeper, and the Nation takes on a
hush as If, he had decided to make
the trip on bicycle. I'm this in
stance the country may preserve calm
and citizens return peacefully 90 their
homes without. disorder. President
Coolidge is At to travel alone. His
mother never had to tell him not to
talk to strangers"