Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13
JNcLE TED's BEDTIME STORIES
A LESSON FOR THE KNocKER

/ face as long as yard SUCK. he IN
deed looked as though his last friend
had left for China.
Not hearing him say anything, an
unusual thing for a growing boy,
Uncle Ted looked up from his paper
and graped.
my, my, what face. can't
imagine anything being quite that
bad. What in the world is your trou-
BILE. 1t would seem to me that after
our marvellous victory at the polls
Just few days ago there should be
nothing left anywhere but JOY and
sunshine. Even the Democrats in
most places are beginning to smile
because they realize at least that
Coolidge and Dawes and the Repu-
blican party will mean continued
prosperity, clean government and
business like management of our af-
fairs at Washington.
IL S6GIIS W lllS LidG tllio WOiiStSA
full victory is important and graft
flying because it is a personal tribute
to an unassuming, hard working, 10y
al American as we'll as a record OF
the voters that they will not stand
for or listen to continuous knocking
! Calvin Coolidge will be President of
the United States for four more years
i because the people kow that he is
i honest, that he represents a party
that can manage the affairs of the ma
ton as they would manage their own
/ business.
81 think the outstanding thing
about this election was; as l said
a minute ago, that the American peo-
pie will not be led into voting for man
! because he attacks the other fellow
1 from all sides. 1t seemed to me as
| read, and listened to the campaign
arguments, that both the Democrats
and Mr. La Toilette, did nothing but
/ tell the world how terrible the Re-
publicans were. Seldom did | hear
4 them give sane argument as to
why they should be put into power.
The American people do not want
that sort of thing They are for
the man who does things and you
Riddles can learn a lot from that fact.
No one likes the fellow who goes
about Dragging and saying how good
he is and how bad is the other fellow.
Boys and girls have no use for their
friends who do that. Men and wom-
en- will not stand for it in their every
day life. And certainly they will not
stand for it when it comes to voting
for man to lead their government
for a period of four years
"Why did they talk that way?"
asked Jack.
Because, Jack, they had no past
record to stand on andno party prin-
ciples they could satisfactorily sup
port. You know. when you do things
you don't have to go around shout
ing it to everybody. If what you do
is right and worth while friends will
know, your enemies will know, and
nothing you or anyone else can do
will stop everybody who is interest
ed from knowing.
"And so it has been with Calvin
Coolidge He has conducted himself
not only as great leader throughout
the campaign, but as gentleman as
we'll Me went on no speaking tour.
He didnot attack the men who were
running against him on the other
tickets. He knew that the death of
his former chief Warren G. Harding,
placed him at the head of the Gov
eminent. He knew that his was a
grave responsibility He felt that
his job came first and he was not
going to shirk that job no matter
what the cost might be. That was
his first duty.
There is a great lesson for yor
, Jack. There is an! old saying that
! virtue is it's own reward You might
go beyond that and say that if yor
do your work as it comes and do i
, to the best of your ability no matter
if the rainbow is off in the other di-
: rection, you will gain more in the enc
) and be serving yourself as well az
: others.
: "There is every reason for all Of
r us to rejoice over the result of the
!, that the people of the country APP
E preciate man who is faithful, but
7 it assures us that several vitaily i'm
$ portant questions are settled.
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