Evening star., 1925-03-04

dent becomes concrete and prophetic
In the realm of policy. He strikes
with precision and familiar empha sis
his favorite twin-note Of govern.
mental economy and tax reform On
those lines Calvin Coolidge obviously
Is determined to fight 1T out. If it
takes all Summer of every Su ntrner- he
is in the White House. BY All the
signs of the political zodiac, economy
and reduction of taxation will be the
perpetually paramount issues of the
Coolidge administration now at the
outset of it's four-year term Mr.
Coolidge will work incessantly in
those directions. He will leave no
stone unturned to preserve unfair
nished the matchless wisdom en-
shrined in our Constitution"-the
prettiest. phrase in his address. He
wants to work with Congress-. At
which he. throws passing bouquet.
But he foresees no hope of practical
cooperation between a Republican
Executive and a Republican legislature
in Washington until Republicans elected
as Republicans act and vote as such.
Page Messrs- La Toilette, Brookhart
johnson, Norris. Howell-and perhaps,
even Borah.
HerelnoeIore is set forth that
Coolidge has undergone a change,
even though his major policies re-
main unaltered. No one who has
seen the President at close range
since the November elections fails to
obesrve the change in him. He is
enveloped in cloak of authority
that was missed in the past He cuts
more the figure or q man ready now
to stand four square to the winds. no
matter what betides. It is.not arro-
gance or an exaggerated sense of
self-importance that men now de-
tect in Calvin Coolidge. 1t Is rather
a consciousness af inherent strength
born of events, that converted him
from an accident into President In
his own right. He, himself refers. to
1t In his inaugural address-"this, ad :
mfntstration has come into power
with very clear and definite man
date from the people, Coolidge for
many weeks past has been acting nm
der the impulses which such man
date, as he thinks, justifies. Hes has
become every inch a President, and
as President he means henceforward
to comport himself. That is "the new
Coolidge"
Who are Calvin Coolidge's chief
advisers to be? That is a question
asked ten thousand times in wash
fngton this week. He has surrounded
himself with a fairly "all- Western"
cabinet. Will the refreshing political
breezes that blow across the country
from the coast, the Rocky Mountains,
the Mississippi Valley and the Middle
West be the winds that will largely
determine the ship of states course
Has New England, scene of Calvin
Coolidge's birth, environment and
political fortunes, abdicated at WASH
ington? Time will show. Mr.. Cool
idge has an "all-Western'' cabinet.
more or less. but he has an 'all-New
England" circle of intimate counsei.
ors. There is Mr.. Stearns of Am
herst. There is Senator Butler Of
Massachusetts,. There is Senator
Giliett Of Amherst. There Is Mr..
Justice Stone of Amherst There is
Tied" Clark of Amherst at the presf-
Dental elbow. And last. but by no
means least, there Is Dwight w.
Morrow of Amherst. Lord Godfrey
Amherst" Is Calvin Cooiidge's ia
vorite song. VIII the Amherst Bloc
be his fayorite group of cider statss~
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