Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-06-03

Mrs. Coolidge was the recipient at
Mercersburg Academy this week OF
beautiful memanto of her younger son:
Calvin. frs sotourn at that school.
The class Of 1925, which has just been
graduated. comprised little CARS mates.
1t is the custom at Mercersburg Tor
each outgoing class to leave me-
mortal OF some kind on the campus.
The lads OF '25 decided. instead to
honor the memory Of their departed
classnate by bestowing upon his
mother a magnificent platinum wrist
watch set in diamonds. The watch
was given to Mrs. Coolidge on her
visit to Mercersburg to attend the
unwilling of a portrait OF her boy, pre-
scented to the academy by the student
body. Mrs. Coolidge is beloved at the
school, which both Of her boys at
tended. Che used to go there fre.
auentiy and entered into the academy
life with all her native zest. Lieut..
Comdr. Joel r. Boone, one of the
White House physicians, is an alum.
nus Of Mercersburg. He wooed and
won Mrs. Boone while she was a
boarding school girl nearby.
Thomas r. Marshall was Vice Pres
ident when the salary attached to the
Office was only $4,000 a year. 1t was
raised to $4,000 last February. Mar
shall complained ceaselessly and vehe.
mently because Uncle Sam paid his
second In command so niggardly a
wage. Discussing his financial embar-
easements at Washington with this
writer In 1920, Marshall said: The
Vice President Of the United States
has the choice of three alternatives.
He can live above his means, ne can
craft. or he can make money on the
side. / exc out my official existence
by lecturina and writing. Then Mar
shall lamented that he'd never been
able to afford an automobile and that
his entertaining expenses In single
month that Winter ate up nearly a
third of his annual salary.
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President Coolidge's advocacy of
more governance of their own AFFAIRS
by the people of the States gives time
illness to controversy over the origin
of Lincolr's Government of the peo-
nile. by the people, for the people"
James D. Law, Pennsylvania his.
torian. AYERS that the phrase was first
used by Daniel Webster and Theodore
Parker, Now comes Philip Kerr, who
used to be David Lloyd Georges sec.
rotary. and says that the maxim was
coined by Robespierre 70 years before
Lincoln inmortaiized Ii. That is not
the worst Of II, for Sir Hall Caine, an.
other E,ng1fshman IL to the fore with
a claim that almost 500 years before
the Gettysburg address John Wyclif.
in the first English translation Of the
Bible, has the following passage In his
preface: The Bible is for the govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people," Game is certain that
the greatest OF political democrats
wes inspired by the preface written by
the greatest ecclesiastical democrat to
the most democratic book In the
world" $685.
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Mrs. woodrow Wilson will find she
is not forgotten when she revisits the
scenes of the war Presidents trfumphai
tour through the allied capitals on the
eve Of the peace conference In 1918 and
1919. This observer was member OF
the extensive flewspa per party that &C.
companied the Wilson's on that hectic
expedition. 1t was common In London,
Paris, Rome and Brussels to hear
Europeans say that our then first lady
of the land comported herself as IL she
were every inch a queen. On occasions
to which Mrs. Wilson was a complete
stranger the instructive talents Of the
American woman Of breeding never
failed to serve her. Everywhere and
always the descendant OF Pocahontas
acquitted herself with grace and dig.
| nifty. Once ct least she literally loomed
far above royalty. That was when
King Victor Emmanuel OF Italy led
her into a gala reception at the Cap.
haf in Rome Though Mrs. Wilson is