The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-13
COOLIDGE REVEALS HIMSELF

The striking thing about Calvin Coolidge was hi
gradual transformation from the silent frigd sphinx u
the White House to the yielding who turned to Sport
In the final Of his presidency and became submits
sive to requests upon his time and attention. So sub
issive that allowed the Terry cowboys to deck him
out in chaps and ten-gaon steson In the Black Hills
that he allowed himself to be ured into fishing and be-
ardent with the hook and line submissive that
he then yielded to the temptation to and filled
whole vacation with the pleasure Of ducking off the
Georgia coast
! Mr. Coolidge entered the White House with a tact
turnity that speedily established for him the reputation
\ Of being = dour Perhaps he really was like his
bleak Vermont home hills It takes lot Of effort to get
anything out Of them But sooner Is he out OF the
White House than he raises doubt that he may have
been the grim man he seemed to be. He has speedily
shown that the emotions Joy and grief animate
him that animate other Perhaps 1t the gloomy
auspices under which he assumed the presidency that
made him seem SO gum for so long He went into the
office result Of the death Of hts predecessor
grave trouble developed in his Official .amy He h..
to bear with great national scandal It cam, as a
peculia. enba"- lent to the man he 1i,I TO
on r predecessors policies and with lis choice adj
visers to shake the confidence Of the people
In the wisdom Ct his adminstra. There
con there for affabty. The situation demanded stiit
upper lip and action alone could speak So Calvin Cool
dses picture in the national mind became that OF the
face in the rock.
It was after he went to the Black Hills. to Choose
not to again for the presidency that he began
change-perhaps become himself.
Now his countrymen are permitted to know that all
this time Mr.. Coolidge very. very human ana
that the suppressed seniaity he might otherwise
revealed not alone due to the abuse OF confidence in
his official family the heritage Of sort Of official
ournng based the nature Of his succession In part
Mr. Coolidge silent and Unconditional because for
him the path Of glory somewhat In the language OF
Gray. pognantly associated with the grave.
He tells 1t himself In the March issue of Cosmopolitan
The death OF his Calvin took away for him all the
glory Of the presidency He w1tesand his words best
explain some Of the psychology that Calvin Coolidge
revealed In those days Of the presidency-as follows:
MY participation in the campaign of 1924 de-
1ayed by the death of my son, Calvin, which occurred
on July z. He boy Of much promsie proficient
his studies with scholarly mind who had just
Is. He had remarkable insight into things.
THE day became president he had just started to
work In tobacco teld When one Of his fellow laborcrs
oaid to him. II my father was president would not
work in tobacco field. Calvin replied: II my father
we're your father you would
AFTER he was gone someone sent letter he had
written about the same time to young man who had
congratulated him being the first boy in land To
this he had replied that he had done nothing did
not merit the TITLE which should go to some boy who had
distinguished himself through his own actions
I'VE do not know what might have happened to him
hinder other circumstances but had been presi.
ent he would not have raised blister his toe which
resulted in blood poisoning playing lawn tennis in the
South grounds
I'm his suffering he was asking me to make him we'll
could not.
"when he went the power and glory Of the presidency
rent with him.
The ways Of providence are often Beyond our UNDER
otanding. It seemed to that the world lad need II
he work that It was probable he couii 10.
= do not know Why such price exacted for &C.
llpying the White House."