Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

primarily, were early exceptions to this
rule. And now there are innumerable
exceptions. including the Van Swer-
ingen brothers, goodly quota Of
lawyers, some accountants and others.
The railroad industry has graduated
large number of trained administrators.
Likewise in many other directions there
is an ever-increasing movement Of
trained administrators from one indus
try to another token Of the fact that
administration is a kind of separate
science, with its technique more or less
established.
Here, for instance, is a lawyer In the
presidents chair of a leading company
manufacturing candy, an industry
wherein virtually all such major execu-
tives long have been engaged in manu-
featuring candy. Here is the head Of
major company engaged in manufacture
ing chemicals who was graduated from
Annapolis and hardly more than year
ago was in command of a warship.
There is an interesting analogy be-
tween our new executives and our Presl-
dents. CHANGING back over the lives
of the last five Presidents. We find that
none of them has been business man;
that they came from different sections
of the country; that one of them. Mr..
Harding. had practically no college
were graduated from Princeton, Yale
and Harvard in successive years, and
Calvin Coolidge was graduated from
Amherst.
The moral, Therefore, might be drawn
that for any mothers son to be the
President of the United States he ought
to be, If there is anything in the idea
that history repeats itself. different
from any and all other Presidents In
the memory of generation. We never
repeat, it seems. All the same, it Is
observable that all of these five men
had had. In one or more directions, no
little administrative experience. And
the instinct for administration Of each
had lot to do with the record he
made.
At any rate, every one seems to be
agreed that Calvin Coolidge has an
extraordinary talent for administration.
He Is, In other words, pre-eminent ex-
ample OF the new executive.
And there you have a theme. II you
are by any chance engaged with writ
ing an Grafton to deliver, say, on the
next Fourth of July, Citizen Coolidge's
fifty-seventh birthday.
Here was a red-headed farm boy in
Vermont, State that politicians would
have said to be negligible in the strategy
supposed to make Presidents. Here half
a century later, not only is Calvin Cool
idge's name known all over the world,
but he seemingly Is accredited every
where In the United States with hav-
ing been our President during just
about the most gratifying interval in
the Nations history. Then you can add
that while he was President not only
did he manifest unique abilities as an
administrator, but big business put its
house conclusively in order and created
new demand for new executives of
just his type. Finally, you can say
what celebrated business man said
that God sent him to justify and join
in badly deferred union the larger des-
TIMES of business and of government"
At any rate, you can repeat what
scores of business men and others In q
score of States have gone on record as
saying: That business needs Calvin
Coolidge; that there is no conceivable
arena in which he could exercise larger
and more wholesome influence than in
business; that there is no field in which
the executive abilities of the man could
be more fruitfully applied, and that
business life would really afford him a
larger opportunity for expression Of his
gifts than even our Government, In
which he was hemmed In by an infini-
tude of restrictions and pressures, has
done.