The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-22
COOLDGE'S LUCK IVPOLETICS RUNS
 TRUE TO FORM
Breaks Of Campaign So Far With Him, Says
 Nicholson
By CHARLES M1cHELsoN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Presi- aent Coolidge is certainly getting all the breaks of the game in the cam paign so far.
 Mir. Davis, in a country that is due for 20 cloudless evenings out of 30, has to deliver his speech of acceptance in a deluge while the Presieent, in a city that is notorious for the willing quaI- ity of its August nights, hits on one that is cool and cloudless so that his audience inside and outside Memorial hall are as comfortable as if they had been in the mountains or at the sea shore.
 The outdoor crowd that listened to his address, via ampiifier, really had the best of it. They missed the thrill ing minstrel lineup of the. cabinet in short coats, white flannel trousers and white shoes, with Secretary of State Hughes in the place usually occupied by Mir. Tambo-acting as cheer-leader, but the Presidents words came to them in pleasanter consonance2 than it did to those who saw him as he spoke.
 Mfr. Coolidge is noAerator. There is D wire-edge to his voice, due in some degree to the regular nasal twang of the thirty-third degree Yankee, and in part to his meticulous enunciation of each syllable, but, according to the professors of the new art, he has a per feet radio voice. The twang and shrill- ness disappear somewhere along the aerial and he sounds through the ether with exact clearness as we'll as soft ness. Mr. Davis, on the contrary, has q voice which to the direct auditor has that bell-like quality of resonance that doubles the quality of his delight full rhetoric. Via radio, however, this muffles and fogs to some extent.
 The radio was perfected just in time for MT. Coolidge. His adversary has all the best of it in presence and per eonal magnetism. Davis is tall, with a face that would fit in a group picture of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and features like an ideal istic medallion. Coolidge looks shorter than he is, his features are sharp and give. probably unjust impression of peevishness. Before an audience Da- wis glows, while the President always looks unhappy whether he is oranot.
 COolidge's Salvation
 Under these circumstances the radio must be MT. Coolidge's salvation. He doesn't look as if he had the physique to stand the strain of an old-fashioned campaign-half a dozen speeches day and travelling every night for months- m the first place, and in the second his Pard, statistical, analytical method of expression is scarcely calculated to coun- terbalance the unimpressiveness of his appearance.
 So the advent of the radio must be hsted as one more item in the total of the Coolidge luck or destiny or what ever It IS that seems to make things come right for him politically.
 botn candidates are starting off with Transforming, but the pressure will get strong as the campaign progresses a6S It IS doubtful if either will he ahle tc resist it. The President will hold ont longer, but even he may succurnb. Ev. cry congressman, with fears of his owu elecuon, will try to, get the head of bie tlcket to visit his state and help pull nm through. The people will demand chance to look at the man for whom tney are expected to vote, and the bear CT or ll-tldings will always be on, hand 70 suggest that this state or that ia hanging Tn the balance and requires the eandldate's presence to give the decid- ingl turn to the scale.
 If Davis goes on the stump tba on- posldon, whenever he appears. will er- agserate his effect in the effort to bring the President there to gather equal crowds, for the politician is i'm. movable in his belief in the psychology of ballyhoo.
 Farmers PIacated.
 To get back to the phenomenal run or the Presidents cards: The farmers were lost to him; they couldn't take care Of the interest on their mortga res, sneir banks were crumbling. In their oisCress they were demanding impos- Eaole things in legislation and blaming the. administration because they didn't get them. La Toilette was loominc Esiger and larger, with promises that sounded like ''forty acres and a mule to every colored man" of another polit. lcal day. States that have not gone ether than republican since there -yvas such party were tottering. Right ir the nick of time rust hit Canadian wheat and the American farmer is SC busy gathering in the sheaves of the bigger prices that it is doubtful if he ls golng to have time to think of the McNary-Haughan bill or any other.
 Take another angle: A few week, ago. the administrators foreign policy was a music-hall joke Our "unoffi cial observers at one European confer enee after another furnished a sneerinl post for Congressman who wanted tC throw a brick at the White House. Tn, separations tangle was getting wors, all the time. One day the reparationI committee invited the attendance O. Americans to sit on two committees With every direction that they must no be taken as representing the govern ment and warnings that the governmen was not responsible in any way fo them, Gen. Dawes and Owen Young werI allowed to go in strictly private capaci ties and presently we heard of the Dave plan. Even now the average ma1 knows no more about the Dawes plal than he does about Einstein's theor, of relativity. Along came the repub hcan national convention at Cleveland Lewden. turned down the nomination for vice president. Borah refused t let them pin it on him. Tn despera ton that hectic night drag-net wa thrown out and Dawes was the bigges fish brought in, so he got the nomina tion. Now the Dawes plan has beel accepted and while the ordinary vote does not know if it is process O doubling the output of frankfurters, O lhaking the French franc the unit O coinage in Palestine, the newspape headlines tell him that the reparation knot is going to be unravelled and agai MT. Coolidge is the beneficiary.
 Nothing To Do With It.
 He hadn't any more to do with than he had with the rain-storm a Clarksburg, the perfection of the radi ! or the blight on Canadian wheat. Tn