DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 6

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

FOUR MODEST MEN

'Copyright, 1927; is one of the chief characteristic sof true greatness A gre*man can hare no further commendation or no sweater bid for pc pula*Hf than to have it said that he is modest. This has been a characteristic of President Coolidge. He ha- s' the spotlight and attended to the serious dunes of his off. wu:i oeconu humility. His reeent word that he did not choose to run for President af should be taken at its face value. It is the solemn dictum of a man having achieved the acme of his popularity, desires to step aside country has prospered tremendously under his administration. bu r be ■' bouring no delusion that he is the only man who can occupy the exalte* position of President. Another man who is winning all kinds of plaudits and reaping 50 of popularity from his becoming modesty is the Prince of Wales. Of cW* he deserves no credit for being born the son of a king, but he does desef” credit for not slopping over. He has managed to say the righ r thing *rright time and to conduct himself with becoming decorum in wha'-var i-*y light he may be placed. While he is not to be credited with the dist ort** of being born to royalty, he is entitled to the distin ‘ion o? caring tor t* duties of this superior place as he should. He is well liked not o* throughout the British Dominions, but in the United States and elsewh** throughout the world. To those who have met Jack Dempsey personally he has been a su'PfJ*They expected the Manasa mauler to look like a bruiser. They were prised to find him gentle, well liked by everybody, and courteous form is slim and is manner is that of a gentleman. He is affectionate in “ family relations, and altogether those who know him are not envious of fame. jj The fourth modest man that has recently loomed in the hcriz.n has b*** Lindbergh. After achieving a feat that brought him the plaudits of kiaP and nations everywhere he apparently was not possessed of the idea the! ** was a super-man, bat modestly restrained his claims to these of a flying Tie had crossed the ocean alone in a flying plane, but did not suppose because he had done a stunt with his machine in the air he could do ow other kind of thing. As far as we know, he has made no enemies, for the one thing that an enemy is over weaning egotism-