The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-02-05
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WILL RULE AT
WHITE HOUSE
Eevrett Sanders. New Secretary to
President Coolidge. Spent His Youth
in Cornfelds of Indiana.
Written Specially for the News)
By Robert Fuller
Thru Autocaster Service.

! written Specially for the News)
By Robert Fuller
Thru Autocaster Service.
Washington, D. C. January 30, 1927
When Everett Sanders reports a,
private secretary to President Cool
idge at the White House next Monda,
morning, Feb. 2, our nations affairs
will be in the hands of two former
farm boys.
President Coolidge from that bleak
New England farm near Plymouth
Notch Vermont and his secretary
Everett Sanders, from the waving
cornfelds near Coalmont and Terre
Haute Indiana.
Both boyhoods were spent on the
farm in the hard work of sowing,
reaping and the many other hard
rounds of long days, from before sun
up til after shutdown, No doubt many
who read these lines now know the
farm day and the demands each new
dawn make. Perhaps they can gain
inspiration in knowing that Calvin
Coolidge and Everett Sanders know
from first hand contact all of these
labors, having struggled in youth
with the same exacting tasks.
The retirement of c. Bascom Slemp
as Secretary to President Coolidge and
the selection of Everett Sanders came
as the result of Mr.. Slemp's resolve to
get back to private business. 1t has
been known for some time that our
first millionaire secretary to presi-
dent was tired of his job since things
politically had failed to move as he
had hoped.
1t is no secret that Mr.. Slemp as
pired to a place in the presidents
family as a cabinet member. 1t was
thought that his ability to line up
Southern delegates for Coolidge would
be rewarded with higher post. How
ever, many things interfered with that
program. VIM. M. Butler beat him
out with the president as chairman Of
the Republican National Committee.
Then Harry New decided to remain
as postmaster general, the job it had
been assumed Slemp aspired to.
Sanders Has Struggled up From
Poverty.
Sanders has experienced romantic
career of poverty and must have been
reluctant to interrupt his plans, which
at last promised much, to become sec
rotary at approximately the same sal
AIRY he was receiving as congressman.
Whereas, Slemp is wealthy, San
ders is not. Sanders could have been
reelected to congress from his dis
trict last fall but he declined to run,
announcing that he desired to get back
to law and attain bit of financial In
dependence.
Sanders father, Rev. james San
ders, was farmer, when he was not
preaching in Indiana. The boy worked
and worked hard on the farm until
he was full grown. He got such
schooling as was possible in the inter-
walls between ploughing, sowing, reap
ing and other farm work.
But he was ambitious. Finishing
the district school he managed to
scramble through the State Normal
School, taught school for three years
and then by waiting on tables and
other such mental work, he managed
to get law education at the Univers-
ity of Indiana, graduating in 1907.
Then he took up the practice Of law.
Finally he entered politics and
gained first state office as assistant
Attorney General of Indiana. Then
he aspired higher and finally entered
the race as representative of The Fifth
Indiana district and was elected to
congress. He served four terms in
Washington.