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MR. CALVIN COOLIDGT, AN
ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARY
If Mr. Calvin 'Coolidge were to
write this column—which God forbid
be would receive about $1,500 for
the chore. That is to say, he would
receive it if the owner of The Moil
and Empire set the same value on
his stuff as the New York Herald
Tribune does, for he is paid at he
rate of $2 a word. For the New York
paper he produces from 150 to 200
words a day. Sometimes, but not of.
ten, his article exceeds 200 words, in
which case he is not paid for the extra
words. So for writing a daily article
a little longer than one of the para-
graphs into which this column is
divided he gets from $300 to $400,
and he writes six of them a week.
Of course the whole burden is not
shouldered by the Herald Tribune,
His stuff is syndicated to hundreds
of other newspapers and pored over
respectfully at millions of Republi-
can breakfast tables. He is supposed
to he the third most highly paid•news•
paper writer in the United States,
or in the world for that matter. The
comical Mr. Will Rogers is said to
earn $3,000 a week for his daily wise-
cracks. The illustrious Arthur Bris-
bane is paid $250,000 a year for a
column which he is said to dictate
into a machine.
So it will be seen that Mr. Coolidge
is doing very well indeed. But he is
not such a newcomer to the ranks in
literature as is generally supposed,
for as John Bakeless remarks in The
Outlook, Mr. Coolidge was a con-
tributor to magazines before he was
president. As long ago as 1921 he
was writing articles for Good House-
keeping and the Delineator. How much
he was paid is not explained, but it
probably was more than most people
could earn by mere ability to write
and think if this happened to he
divorced from a high public office. It
was Mr. Coolidge's name then as now,
rather than his prose style, that was
valuable to the editors. He wrote
then and now on familiar themes.
He sought to rid the country of the
menace of Communism which he saw
springing up in the girls" colleges,
and particularly in Vassar. He wrote
that religion was a good thing and
that people should own their own
homes. At this time Mr. Coolidge
professed no religion that anybody
ever heard of, and he lived in one-
half of a rented house. Nevertheless,
his views were eminently sound and
sane, and certainly were unmarred by
any touch of levity.
Soon after that death placed Mr.
Coolidge rather miraculously in the
presidency, and he ceased to be a
contributor to magazines. Neverthe-
less his vocal and official output
during the years at the White House
certainly made his neckname, "Silent
Cal," a sardonic one. Charles Merz
collected the statistics which showed
that President Coolidge spoke a total
of 8,688 words a month into a
microphone; delivered 75 public ad-
dresses a year, one of which exceeded
by 800 words the Constitution of the
United States; 60 statements, mes-
sages to public meetings or letters to
the press; and no fewer than 176
11.9/1rip +gnashed,! r? li
p�1 kind
aadal fiPr,,4',..:•
le wlrh he `s►rhi'e did nob :<, a Xst ;befQte
ptsot' M t��t ut 1X X he each drug user a0107.70. his
to r p gaud vice and . natwrally•�rotria�ne i1. ` lute
.id nt ar>nally reenter oboist ij•
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re, lin. 1820 it 1Men ui praise xioting the gel .ria;
ls at
ore, eksla etalitatragaxiae. writethexy' had sot the
a supply, We
^ p a eat un & for the curious, and anidous enough to. find
„arie., whi had the satisfaction anything that would give them' even
. , • see ug< praeticaldy , every news- for a short :bine a sense of comfort
MO in theted States give. free and importance which ,dope' bestow$
advertising to he venture. The Opus• upon• its votaries. Hence the vihe
which Mr, Coolidge was to compose spread as it ha4 never spread before,'
was his autobiography. The -manu and generally in the class alreos
'cit was cut into small pieees'� ,and recognized as criminal. In another.
hiis slistri'buted to the typesetters respect also the law • ineteaseci
lest there should be any premature criminality, Thes drug • user who can
leak from this majaestic reservoir of
wisdom. The editor of the magazine,
Xs. +Nay Long,•°,,solemnly ani untied
that "his statements are so imiport-
ant and, so dovetailing that to permiit
the publication sof any fragment
might lead to a raisunderstapliin$ "•
Mr. Bakeless is . unkind ,enough to
comment that it was never explt}in-
ed what might, lead to an understand-.
ing of the articles. We never had the
advantage of reading them but a writ-
er on the New York World said that
they were .vague to the point of sheer
Unintelligibility. The New Republic
thought 'them turgid and platitudin-
ous.
'But neither of these journals was
an admirer of Mir. Coolidge, and
hostility may have clouded literary
judgment.. Mr. •Coolidge was, no
doubt, paid huge sums for the
articles. The difficulty about them
was that they could not run for ever,
though Mr. Coolidge did his best.
What was really required •was a per-
manency. It was this need that was
met by the New York Herald Tribune,
which prints Mr. Coolidge's daily
articles at the top of the front page.
We understand that Mr. Coolidge
goes to his old law office at North-
ampton at nine o'clock every morn-
ing, glances over his fan mail and
reads several newspapers. Then he
writes in careful long hand his little
piece of from 150 to 200 words. This
is then typed and sent to the news-
paper. In the afternoon Mr. Coolidge
thinks out the topic for his next art-
icle, and will keep mulling over it um -
til the next morning, so that any pos-
sible juice or brightness may have
evaporated by the time he sets it down
on paper. We have read several of
these articles and have concluded that
they are probably the best now being
written in the United States from the
point of view of a humorous para-
grapher on the lookout for subjects.
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HELPFUL HUSBAND
"Dora wrote she'd try and come up
this week -end," said Mrs. James to
her husband. "But I'm not sure, and
if she doesn't come we could go out
of town." • ,Hlusband didn't look wor-
ried. He only said, "Why not tele-
phone her?" And then Mrs. James
felt foolish for not having thought of
Long Distance.
LAWS AGAINST NARCOTICS
MAKING MANY CRIMINALS
That there are laws whose chief ef•
feet is to increase crime need not
be argued with anyone who remem-
bers the late unlamented Ontario
Temperance Act. That our narcotic
laws may have the same tendency is
a natural inference from what they
have done in the United States, as
discussed by Dr. Benjamin Karpman
in the American Mercury. As an
eminent psychiatrist coming into
contact with narcotic addicts, Dr.
Karpman speaks with authority or.
this subject. His main contention is
that before the passage of the Har•
risen Anti -Narcotic Act, the Federal
law prohibiting the traffic in drugs,
the addicts were few and compara-
tively harmless. As a result of that
law they have become numerous and
a menace to society. His conclusion
is that the law ought to be abolish-
ed and/ the narcotic drug problem
turned back to the doctors in whose
hands it was before the legislators
interfered. In short, drug addiction
should be regarded as a disease, and
the proper people to grapple with it
are those who have been trained to
cope with disease.
While it is admitted that althougli
there may have been addicts like
Coleridge and De Quincey, who were
men of genius and who may or may
not have been stimulated by the
drugs they used, the general effect
of drugs is baneful. The fact re
mains that those injured by then
were the individuals concerned. Drug
using was not a social influence. The
drug user was not formerly a crim-
inal. He did not have the energy
the power of mental concentration or
the determination which are neces
sary to the successful pursuit of
crime. His whole thoughts were oc
cupied with getting the day's supply
of his drugs Since in those days
drugs were cheap enough and corn
monly dlisposedi by doctors and
chemists the average addict, even
while incapable of earning large
wages, has yet a sufficiency to buy
the small quantity he required. Thus
dosed he was no more a menace to
society than a hibernating hear
There was no noticeable increase in
drug users in those days, for a•ldicts
did not seek to make converts.
Then came the Harrison Act. Im
mediately drugs became scarce and
costly. There followed automatiealls
an epidemic of breaking into drug
stores and physicians' offices where
the addicts knew they might gain
relief from the torments that could
no longer be legally appeased. This
,was accompanied by an outbreak of
forgeries, or orders upon druggists
to which the names of doctors were
signed by the addicts. Some few
doctors also found themselves afou
of the law. They had patients whom
they felt should be supplied with the
drug even if in lessening doses. They
chose to acknowledge their duty to
their )Patients rather than their
duty to the state. In consegnence
several of them were sent to jail.
Drug users began to be rounded up
and herded into prisons. Here thei •
airmen necessities drove them into
a kind of brotherhood. They began
to share their smuggled dope with
get his drug cheaply will not commit
a • crime to get it. Phe drug may
make him 'a liar and a thief, but
it had not before that made him
a gunman. But when the source of.
supply dried up, the user would stop
at no violence to ire -+open it. Then it
began to happen that thugs, tem-
porarily inspired by a grain or so of
their drug, summoned up their nerve
and their courage for murders which
would either provide them with
drugs directly -or provide them with
the large sums of money that were
necessary for their purchase.
But Dr. Karpman says that on the
whole the Volstead Act has produced
more desperate criminals than the
Harrison Act if it has not produced
so many. The liquor -begotten crim-
inals are ready for whplesale crime*,
of violence, for they are criminals
for gain. The addict, on the other
hand, wants] only the_ money that
will supply him with hus drug, and
if he can pick up a few illicit dol-
lars a day this will be enough for
his modest needs. He has not the
mentality to plan largely for the
future, though he is vicious and
dangerous enough when his daily
ration is threatened or withdrawn.
A large part of the present prison
population of the United States con-
sists of drug addicts, and for every
addict in prison there are many more
outside. according to Dr. Karpman.
The habit is spreading far and wide,
pervading all strata of society, from
the workingman to the bookkeeper
and from the preacher to the movie
actor. The writer says with confi-
dence that unless some drastic reform
is undertaken in the near future, we
shall soon have children using drugs.
Indeed some are using them already.
RIGHT HAND MAN OF KING
GEORGE
Et:hind all the glamor of Bucking-
hain Palace, the stately functions and
the impressive ceremonies are a lit-
tle corps of people whose function in
life is to see to it that the wheels
twin smoothly, and that the hundred
and one little details of his majesty's
social life are dutifully) done. Sir Ol-
ive Wigram is captain of this little
army. His official position is that of
principal private secretary to King
George.
Royal private secretaries are no-
toriously invisible people to the gen-
eral public. And so to catch a glimpse
of this man, his personal appearance
and life are about the only means of
bringing him into focus.
.Sir Olive Wigram, above all, gives
one the impression that many of his
days must have been spent as a sol-
dier; his very walk and attitude have
an atmosphere of military alertness
and concentration. The ghost of a uni-
form clings perpetually to his nufti,
s•o to speak. He is of middle height,
with brown hair and moustache. His
eyes arrest attention. They are the
eyes of a mean who has trained him-
self to see things, not merely to look
at them.
Qf his career, the most important
event that has yet befalled him took
place in 1905, when Lord Kitchener
was asked by the King, then Prince
of Wales, to choose an A.D.C. for his
Indian tour. Kitchener selected young
Captain Clive Wigram, and in doing
so laid the foundation of a brilliant
court career which culminated in his
recent appointment as the King's
chief private secretary, in succession
to the late Lord Stamfordham.
Sir Clive was born on July 3. 1873,
the eldest son of the late Herbert Wig -
ram, of Clewer. He was sent to Win-
chester, and later to Woolwich, where
he received his early military train-
ing.
At the age of twenty-nine he was
made captain in the King's Own Lan-
cers, and previous to this he had done
distinguished service on the north-
western frontier.
During the South African war he
was with Kitchener's Horse, and was
present at the relief of Kimberley. He
was mentioned in dispatches and de-
corated for bravery.
During this long military career he
has had war adventures in any num-
ber. But he has had others also, and
one in particular remains engraved
in his memory as the closest shave
he has ever experienced, the one mo-
ment when his diplomacy was of no
use, when he lost all his prestige as
a figure of nate in English life.
It occurred during the visit of the
King and Queen to India in 1911. Sir
Clive, always an ardent hunter, had
taken the opportunity of bagging a
tiger. The hunt had been successful;
he had his wish fulfilled, and was re-
turning mounted on the back of an
elephant. Suddenly there was a fur-
ious stirring in the undergrowth and
a berserk rhinoceros, appearing like a
hash, attacked the elephant. The great
beast, mad with fear, rushed wildly
through the jungle with Sir Clive
clutching precariously 'to its back.
Rapidly he was loosing his grip; in
only a few moments he knew he
would slide off the elephant's back.
Suddenly he felt himself slipping and
in a moment fell to the ground, the
prey of a crazed rhino. But in that
moment the miracle had happened.
The rhino had given up the chase and
disappeared into the jungle, and Sir
Clive, except for a pair of knees that
shook badly, was unharmed.
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