Evening star., 1924-03-09

boyhood. 1 lived in town that can
all be put in a very small picture.
l have one of those pictures in my
study IN the White House and will
be glad to show it to you at any
time. 1t is very restful to look at.
1 recall that there were two weekly
papers that used to come into that
town. One came from the north and
one from the south. They were filled
with gossip of the towns about, and
papers, one a Vermont daily paper
and another from the city of Boston.
One of them, as 1 recall. don't want
to do any violence to present news
papers in the thriving, city of Boston,
was the then very powerful and In
fuential Boston Journal. 1t was part
ly from that and partly from in
heritance that / secured my party af-
filiations For the Boston Journal
was the strongest republican journal,
] think, that there was in New Eng
land.
II recall that I began to read 1t
during some of the earliest presi-
Dental campaigns that / remember,
with a good deal of enjoyment, and
hope as a result securing from 1T
some information. 1t was not until
went to high school that i ever saw
the inside of newspaper office or
real newspaper reporter, and then /
came in contact with the press In that
way and afterward / became more or
less acquainted with the preparation
and issue of college newspapers. or
course we had press association
when I was in Boston l recall an
early experience ] had with one of
it's members.
Eager to Make Mark.
IT was anxious to make some kind
Of a mark for myself in the legisla-
ture of Massachusetts,, and / intro
y. III
know now just what the provisions
could have been. / think it was for
lessening the speed of automobiles.
That was some time ago. People
had not then become SO used to dodg-
ing them as they have now. and in
pedestrian had some right on the
highways. That didn't turn out to be
a very popular bill, and I recall that
one of the members of the press
ment- at my expense. 1 think he
said that l had recommended that
some kind of a churn be put on the
rear of the automobile in order that
it might churn buttermilk. That man
afterward became very firm friend
of mine. He would not refer to me
now in any such frivolous way as
that
"But it was after became governor
that I came in more intimate touch
Win the IntTNUtTS VI Tic pfeSS III boS-
ton. I used to have daily confer
ence with them, because I was an i'm
portant individual. Now I have to tell
all that ! know in conference that
occurs only twice a week.
Conferences Brief.
my conferences when I was gov
ernor were not always very long or
exhaustive. Sometimes they consisted
of one of the press gallery calling on
av,d Slr IN
anything had happened. Sometimes
l said, No. and then he went away.
They have to be a little longer now,
Of course. on account of present con-
ditions and present requirements, and
I am exceedingly glad OF an oppor-
tunity to come here and be at your
annual banquet and have the oppor--
tunity to. talk to you as one friend
talks to another.
1--WE have our mutual responsible
tiles. you and I. l don't speak of
them as undertaking to criticize the
way YOU have discharged your re-
suonsibilities, but rather for the pur-
nose of commencing them, for they
are responsibilities In the making,
molding and forming OF public opin,
ion. It is public opinion as you VII VII
eovernment Of the United States
THAT is a rather broad statement. but
there is a great deal of truth in 1t,
FOR in regard to current events, OF
course. people have to get their in
formation very largely from the
newspapers
Gained From Education.
.when YOU come to the great
doctrines of cur govern
nent and our institutions people
don't altogether rely on newspapers
FOR their Information in that respect
hut they nave the information they
have gained from their education.
sunnose that the American people are
Conscious that we have Constitu-
zion of the United States, and know
that they are attach I'd to the defense
and the maintenance of that great
institution. They know that We have
a government that is made up OF
three branches, the Executive, whose
dutv it ia to enforce ard maintain the
laws: the judiciary. that interprets
the law and administers Justice be.
tween man and man, and the Con-
gress or the Legislative branch. which
Is supposed under the Constitution fG
be engaged in legislation. / think
the American people approve hearrtly
Of that kind Of constitutional govern.
meitt, and that they wknt II main.
tained in its fundamentals