The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-04
Editorial Comment
President Coolidge Returns
,(St. Paul Dispatch)

In summer the nations chief executive moVes
westward with the prevailing vacation currents
|of the time. National affairs year ago were
directed from a lodge in the Black Hills OF
South Dakota. Minnesota's ncighbor Gil the
west This season the summer capital is to
be situated few miles eastward from the
Minnesota border on the Bots Brulc river Of
Wisconsin,
Minnesota joins Wisconsin in welcoming
President Coolidge to this region as summer
guest. Mr.. Coolidge appears to lie making the
Middle West vacation an annual affair. per-
haps later to become tradition Of the presi-
dency
As year ago, when the President came
from the executive business of vetoing the Nc
Nary Haugen bill to vacation in the heart of
the farm belt of the West, so this season his
visit is to be the subject of voluminous
political speculations. In the face of them the
Northwest will again preserve its equanimity.
Of course, this region is mindful of it's political
aspirations. Of course it is aware that the
presence of the President for brief period is
not substitute for his active aid, which has
not been Forthcoming, in meeting the great
problems this region confronts. But hospitality
is not an affectation in the Middle West.
Political considerations here are not permitted
to trepass upon the role of vacation host, par
ticularly when the guest is the nations chief
executive.
The President is to Ee congratulated upon his
selection of vacation spot. Proud as Mime
sofa is Of it's own lakes streams and forest
lands, the country he has chosen is but a con-
tinuation, close at hand of our own delightful
summer playground country.
The Bots Brule river of Wisconsin is an his
toric stream, and its fame in legend and his
tory. added to its natural loveliness make it an
ideal mentioning place for President. Flow
ing nOrthward into Lake Superior few miles
east of Duluth, the Bots Brule river was the
northern link Of the ancient canoe route from
the Great Lakes to the Mississippi. The name
means burnt wood" and is derived from the
swarthy aspect of the skilled French-Indian
rivermen, called Bots Brules, who drove their
canoes up the swift waters of the Brule,
portrayed half mile to Upper st. Croix lake
and descended southwark by the St. Croix until
their craft floated on the Mississippi.
Sieur du Luth made the Brule-St. Croix trip
by canoe to the Mississippi in the summer of
1880 and later, legend has it, built fort on
Upper St. Croix lake few miles from the
lodge where the President will spend his vaca-
ton. One of the duties assigned to Charles
lie Sueur in 1859 as commandment at Chequame-
gon on Lake Superior, was to keep open the
canoe route up the Brue. It was at the mouth
Of the Brue that Henry Schoclcraft met Oza-
windib, meaning Yellow Head, the Chippewa
master of wood lore, who led the explorer un-
errlngy 10 the source OF the MISSISSIPPI river.
The Brule is a short, swift stream, similar
to those on the North Shore of Lake Superior
It is nationally famous for it's rainbow, steel
head and brook trout fishing. The country
surrounding it has been blasted by reckless
numbering and destructive fires. But the
grounds of Cedar Island lodge are made
beautiful by great white pines, cedars, balsam
and spruce which somehow escaped the early
woodsman and the forest fires. Within few
hours driving distance are numbers Of small
lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Arrow
head region of Northern Minnesota itself is
close at hand and the lodge is but few
miles up the Brule from Lake Superior.
While the President is mentioning on the
Brule river in Wisconsin committee of sena-
tors and representatives will be visiting the
Superior National forest region Of Northern
Minnesota, investigating water power projects
there. For this summer at least it appears that
the lakes region Of Wisconsin and Minnesota
is the official playground Of the nation.