The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
POLICE STRIKE
SH0W!SC0URAGE
OF PRESIDENT
by The Associated Pres,

fBy The Associated PresS)
Calvin Coolidge became the Both
President of the United States on
August 3, 1923, through the death of
President Harding, and today became
the second man in the history of the
republic to be inaugurated chief ex-
ecutive in his own right after having
been elevated directly from the vice
presidency to the nations highest
office. The other so honored was
Theodore Roosevelt.
The chief executive of the nation
for the next four years was born ON
independence Day, 1872, on Il farm
that lies hedged in by the Green
Mountains on the outskirts of the
little village of Plymouth, Vermont.
His ancestors settled in Massachu-
sets in 1890, John Coolidge, now in
his 10th year, still lives on the farm,
and it was in the farm-h house that
Calvin Coolidge took the oath of Of
flee upon the death OF President
Harding. His mother. Victoria Moor
Coolidge, died when he was 13 wears
old.
Mr.. Coolidge received his educa-
ton in the common schools, at Black
River Academy at Ludlow, Vermont,
II miles from Plymouth and still
Plymouth's nearest railroad point. at
st. Johnsbury Academy, and at Ann
herst College, from which he. was
graduated in 1895 after four years
in which he attracted no more at
tention than any hard working stu
dent unless it was by his silence.
His college course finished, Mr..
Coolidge returned to his fathers
farm for a summers work and in
the fall started to study law at
Northampton, Mass, since then his
home. He was admitted to bar soon
after he became % years of age. Two
years later he was elected to his
first office, city councilman of North
ampton, and put his foot on the low
est rung of the ladder that he, climb
ed upward through the. offices of
state representative, mayor of North
ampton, state senator, president of
the state senate, and lieutenant-gov-
ernor to the governorship, and from
there to the Vice Presidency and FIN
ally to the Presidency. - XIX
While progressing upward on this
political ladder, he married Grace
Anna Goodhue, a graduate of the
University of Vermont and then a
teacher in the Clark School for the
Deaf at Northampton. Two sons
were born, John, now 10 years of age
and in his first year at Amherst, and
Calvin, Jr., whose death last July Mt
the age of l6 brought sorrow that
still hangs over the White House.
The wedding of Calvin Coolidge
and Grace Goodhue led to Mr.. Cool
idgc's only political defeat Before
leaving Northampton for Burlington,
where the wedding took place, Mr..
Coolidge came out as a candidate for
the school board. Thinking his pros
poets of election were, more than
good, he let the matter. fade into the
ck-ground. At the last moment a
third candidate entered the lists, and
after Mr.. Coolidee's honeymoon it
was too late for him to withdraw
from u hopeless three-cornere con-
test. The Democrat was elected.
The Boston police strike which oc-
Cured while Mr.. Coolidge was serv-
ing his. second term as governUr
brought him before the country with
his declarations: "There is no right
to strike against the public safety
ny anybody, anywhere, any time"
Some say this labor disturbance
made Calvin COOLIDGE. b;s oinaos+