The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25

 say so, their whole attitude indicated that only the views of such personages as themselves were worthy of consider ation.
 Now wouldn't you, as a voter, rather get the intimate truth about candi. date from those who are of his house hold than read comments made for pub ication by the~candidate's business or political friends, some of whom could be figuring on receiving favors should the candidate reach the White House
 When I start gathering material for a character sketch of man, l set more stock by what his employees say about him than by what any other business leaders say.
 Why
 Because, while a so-calied big man may wear a pleasant smile and act the role of a good fellow while he is at his club or, on his yacht, or at the golf course, he cannot fool, at least very long, either his own workers or, for that matter, ,Shis domestic servants.
 Again. while a man may maneuver to win a reputation for generosity among those of his own class, you can depend upon getting the genuine truth from those who draw their pay from him. If he grinds down his own em- ployes and pays them just as little as he can get by with, then know that he doesn't ring true at heart.
 It was not tenth rate journalism to have reporters quiz Mir. Davis servants and get from them close-upss of their employer. It was distinctly intelligent journalism. venture |. to say that more people read what Davis chauffeur and cook said about him than read the oration delivered in nominating MT. Davis at the conventional can't recall off-hand who made the nominating speech nor, find, does the stenographer who is writing this.
 After all, public opinion consists of what the public thinks, not of what a handful of high brows think.
 Last weekend I happened to be with two bankers when one of them picked up a newspaper which had big picture aef Davis in his golf suit.
 l'That's bad" remarked the banker. The newspapers Chat are for Davis should go easy with pictures of this kind and pictures Of his wonderful eS' tate on Long Island. They should play up his boyhood days in Clafks- burg, They should tell us about the devilment he got into when lad. They should play up the fights he had with other boys"
 Both bankers being southerners, they naturally felt friendly toward this Vir- ginian and the second banker cordially agreed with the first.
 When I visited Washington shortly after Calvin Coolidge became president I made it my business to talk about him with the rank and file of the people rather than with leading citizens, and, as. a matter of fact, the most interest ing comment of all was the bne I got from a veteran elevator operator in the New Willard hotel, where Mir. Coolidge had been staying at vice president be- fore he moved into the White House. Said this elevator operator:
 MT. Coolidge is a very human man and he has two of the finest lads you ever met. I have known all of the presidents for many years, and tell you that MT. Coolidge is as good a man as the best of them. He stayed at this house as vice president and as Presi- l dent. The big job didn't go to his head and it didn't go to the heads of his boys, either. Of course, Mir. Cool idge doesn't go in for dancing and he's not strong on your swell dinners or in Radding around. But there are enough people to go in for that sort of thing. He believes in attending to his business without any fuss. It's good thing for the country to have a sensible man like him in the White House."
 One of the richest financiers in America, said to me a few days ago q don't care what the public thinks about me. I. care only about my friends" But the truth was that this man, who knew he. had very little longer to live, was soured at heart be- cause he knew that the public regarded | him as a greedy, selfish, bloOded old skinflint.
 President Lincoln realized better than most men of his day that 1t was more important to stand right with the many millions of Common people" than with a few prominent nabobs. And what other American, living or dead, has made such a place for himself in the hearts of his cOuntrymen?
 If you are wise you will not despise what workmen and servants think about you or about others. Isn't easy to fool workers and servants.
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