Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-09
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LETT Ere
BY MARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The
high intellectual plane on which
president Coolidge's campaign for
reelection is to be based is inJi.
Gated by the creation, inside the
Republican National Committee, Of
a special College Bureau"
1snis bureau has been charged
with the job of lining up The young
er generation of thinking voters"
n support OF president who may
oe expected to uphold the "bee5
deals of collegiate life and the his
torit traditions of our country"
All previous attempts to organize
:ollege students politically will be
over5hadowed by the campaign to
be Vqaged this year to swing them
IN rnasse behind Coolidge.
While organizations of sil,.-
lar character" says a statement by
Republican headquarters. "have
beem undertaken from time to time
in previous years, it is felt essential
that the movement now be placed on
a permanent, national basis, with
definite and uniform program"
As might be expected, one of he
first clubs to get under way in this
campaign, was THE Republican
| GLIB of Amherst. Similar organi-
cations, however, already have been
started in more than 100 colleges,
and the list is to be broadened I'M
til every educational institution
tea ching men and women of voting
age is covered,
Ohio leads the list so far in num-
beI of clubs formed under the Re-
publican College Bureau, with II.
Indiana comes second with II,
Iowa third with 10, and Illinois
and Pennsylvania arc tied for fourth
with nine each.
Among government officials and
Others sponsoring and aiding this
organizing of a Republican intelli-
gensia to sweep Coolidge back into
power are Louis A. Coolidge, former
assistant secretary of treasury:
James B. Meek, solicitor general Of
4ne United States; Senator James
W. Wadsworth Jr. of New York
and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
assistant secretary of the navy.
AS soon as the student BODY in
each of the colleges has been or
ganized, the bureau will reach out
TO include in its scope the alumni
Of the various institutions. No col
lege man is to be overlooked in tie
appeal that this is the time for all
good students to come to the aid of
their colleague-Coolidge of Am
herst
incidentally, it may he of inter
est to note that Boies Penrose II is
on the executive committee of the
newly formed Harvard Republican
Club.
That name brings back memories
of the days when the original PEN
rose, from his throne as chief of the
Old Guard, laid down the law as to
who was who and what was what in
The Republican party. Though a
college man himself, Boics the First
preferred to run politics through
practical" and mature men of at
fairs" not through college can
paigns.
Boies Penrose II is not the son
of the forme G. o. P. leader. Sen
ator Penrose was bachelor.
/ Turning from politics to poetry
"a far jump Erwin Markham, re-
garded by many as Americas great
est living poet, has just paid Wash
ington one of his periodic visits
And while here, perhaps just to
make his eastern hosts feel good.
he poked bit of fun at that Gold
en- West where he has his home.
One of dinner party at which
Markham was present remarked
that it seemed to him-he was try
ing to "salve" Markham d bit-that
the brightest men came from the
west.
Yes" Markham said, "and the
brighter they are the quicker they
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