Evening star., 1924-06-07
DR.. BURTON LOOMS
FOR VICE PRESIDENCY
Considered Dark Horse at G.. 0. P.
Convention for Post as Coolidge
Running Mate.
PLEASING TO THE PRESIDENT
Educator Friend Of Executive and
of Same Scholarly Type.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Dr. Marion LIE Roy Burton, president
of the University of Michigan, is the
eleventh-hour dark horse for the Re-
publican vice presidential nomination.
Personally selected by President Cool
idge to place him in nomination at
Cleveland next week, DR.. Burton en-
joys high favor at the White House.
Ii the convention adopts him as Cool
idge's running mate, it will bring not
only satisfaction, but qualification, TO
the head of the ticket Dr. Burton's
name has hitherto not been publicly
mentioned as a vice presidential pos
sibility. But as the signals at this
hour are set, there is excellent reason
TO believe that surprises in that direc-
tion are in prospect.
The Ann Arbor executive has never
held public Office. He catalogues him
self officially as a member of the Re
publican party and has consistently
| supported its candidates and principles
but there is no record Of any organiza-
tion or partisan activities on his part
DR.. Burton has attended exclusively 30
the professional knitting with which
he has been identified for exactly
twenty-five years. Almost uninter-
ruptedly since 1899 he has been either
| a college teacher, university profeS-
sor or university president. He will
not De nifty years old until August this
year, being about two years the Junior
| OF President Coolidge.
Born In Iowa.
The G. o. p. is determined to put q
western man in second place at Cleve-
land. DR.. Burton qualities in that geo
| graphical sense. He was born in the
little town Of Brooklyn, Iowa, and got
| his first A. 3. from the small-town col
lege of Carleton, at Mortified, MINI. a
couple Of years later he won a sumna
cum laude B. d. at Yale. DR.. Burtons
| first executive post was that of presi-
dent of Window Institute. in Mime
| sofa. In 1907 and 1908 he held an as
slstant professorship at Yale. and
during the succeeding two years was
pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims.
IN Brooklyn, n Y. In 1909 Smith Col
| Iege, at Northampton, Mass, where
! Calvin Coolidge was on the verge of
| his mayoralty. elected DR.. Burton
president of that famous womans
institution, and, after election, sent
| MIN travelling IN Europe for ideas
| higher education for the fair sex
| In 1910, he took Office at Smith.
few months before Calvin Coolidge
| occupied the mayors chair at North
ampton. Burton presided over Smith
| for seven years. They were the pc
riod in which Coolidge was growing
in stature from a rural politician into
a nationally known fgure-the years
| in which the President was a factor
in the Massachusetts legislature. and
In which his friends were grooming
him for the governorship. II was in
| the mutual days at NORTHAMPTON
with Coolidge that DR.. Burton formed
| q friendship with Frank w Stearns
| and William NJ. Butler, the two gen
| eralissimos OF Calvin Coolidge's po-
| litical career.
Rules 10000 Students
From Smith College DR.. Burton was
! drafted into the presidency OF the
University of Minnesota, where he
was on duty until 1920, when the
| University of Michigan secured him
as it's chief executive. There he con-
trolls the affairs of a student body of
nearly 10000 and faculty OF roundly
700 members. Burton is regarded
| throughout the American academic
world as an administrator of unusual
/
His writings and books do not sup
ply many clues as to DR.. Burton's po-
| litical bent, though this is put down
as ruggedly conservative. He is the
| author of The Problem of Evil"
The Secret of Achievement" Our
| Intellectual Attitude in an Age OF
| Criticism Life Which Is Life In
deed" First Things" "On Being Di-
vine" and numerous addresses and re-
ports. Politicians of the hard
| boiled variety-every convention is
filled with them-are usually I'M
pressed by speeches. especially nomi-
mating speeches DR.. Burton Is an
orator of the scholarly, rather than
the spellbinding, type-a respect in
which he resembles President Cool.
idge. But his theme at Cleveland
| will be an agreeable one to the msn
and women who hear him discuss It,
and, if he gets away with his job
in any sort Of spectacular fashion his
vice presidential boom will be-
launched to some purpose.
| There are going to be no cpnceS--
sions at Cleveland to the ultra-pro-
gressives for purely window dressing
purposes. The Coolidge high COM
mand wants a balanced" Coolidge
| ticket. The more 1t is like the head
the better the tail will be liked by
| the men who will control the ratifi-
cation meeting on Lake Erie. Ma
rion LIE Roy Burton, teacher and
preacher. measures up, in their esti-
| nation.