Evening star., 1925-03-16

Calvin Coolidge is described by those
nearest to him and with experience
| in watching him weather q crisis as
! 4 natural philosopher. Worry Is not
in his lexicon. The storm that is
raging around him In connection with
Mr.. Warren is probably the most
tompeBtuous the President ever faced.
But the barometer OF his tempera-
| ment. In the midst OF II. is reported
| to register mo change" 1t Is not
! that he Is exactly Indifferent to tribu-
| lation. He just doesn't let II un-
/ nerve him. It tightens UP his innate
tactturnity q bit, and he Is not quite
as ready for diversion. But Coolidge
never let's the clouds look any black
er than they are. He relies pretty
Implicitly upon his proverbial good
fortune. Lady Luck long ago adopt
ed him as one of her favorites. When
things look the worst, Coolidge is
boistered up by the thought that she
seldom deserts him for long.
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Detroit has had an unfair proper
tion of senatorial excitement and
limelight these past three or four
years. About every major. crisis that
has animated Capitol Hill since 1921
has had q citizen of the motor me-
tropolis for, its hero--or its victim.
First came Truman H, Newberry and
HIS troubles Then Henry Ford, with
his Muscle Shoals proposition, bound
ed into the center OF the stage. Last
year Edwin. DENLY gave the Senate
opportunity for certain discussion
that monopelized national attention.
This year--Satarday,~ March IA of In
delible memoyy-two Detroiters, Sem
ator James Couzens and Charles
Beecher warren between them usurped
the time and thought Of the Senate
(and of the country to the exclusion
of all other issues. Hollywood will
have to look~to its laurels. Detroit,
having madeJthe front page, seems to
have the habit of keeping it.
There's one sidelight on the Warren
sauabble that has escaped general
notice. Vice President Dawes ngures
eonspicuousIy in II. At the Reput II
can national convention in Cleveland
in 1924, when he was non1in ated as
President Cool!dge's running mate,
the Michigan delegation of 33 voted
solidly for Dawes except one lone
delegate. That deleEate was Charles
Beeeher Warren. The vote was a2 for
Dawes and / for Hoover. On March
t1o, 1925. almost nine months later to
the day, it was a single vote fand
that the vote Of Charles G. DawesJ in
| the United States Senate that pre-
vented Charles Beecher Warren from
becoming Attorney General of the
United States Nobody seriously sug-
eests that Dawes absented himself at
the critical moment out of revenge
for what happened at Cleveland, al
though some wag did say, In the
midst of the carnage, that every
Dawes has his day.
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c. Bascom Slemp, former assistant
to President Coolidge, is an oficially
lisinterested bystander al the hos
tilities between his one-time chief
and the Senate. 1t is situation in
which Slemp would have reveled. and
one In which, by general consent. he
would have been tower OF strength
for Mr.. Coolidge American politics
has produced few shfewder measurers
of distance than Bascom Slemp. He
is not known ever to have leaped be-
fore looking. Counting Of noses in
advance OF uncertxfn events is his
speciality. His principal disappoint-
ments and disiliusionments in latter
Aav times concerned himself uha-