COOLIDGE MAKES A JOKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 9

COOLIDGE MAKES A JOKE

RETIREMENT FROM OFFICE BECOMES JOURNALIST (Australian q,nd N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Tuesday. ~ One of the rare occasions of Mr Uoolidge’s humour was reported today. The ex-Bresident, who had recently been signing many measures for the creation of game preserves, signed as one of his last Bills one which authorised the provision of an appropriation for the creation of a week-end retreat near Washington for the President. Mr. Coolidge remarked dryly that he congratulated Congress upon its inclination to treat the President with the same kind of consideration it extended to birds and other wild life. . It is npw stated that Mr. Coolidge intends to devote the early days of his retirement to writing. His first article will appear on Friday in one of the Hearst magazines. It will be entitled "On entering and leaving the Presidency.” It is said that this article will include Mr. Coolidge’s first explanation of why he did not “choose” to stand fo.r another term of office. HOOVER’S SPEECH EMPIRE AID FOR PEACE Times Cable. LONDON, Tuesday. In a leading article on Mr. Hoover’s installation speech "The Times” says: As befits an opening chapter it was wisely and welcomely free from deafening dialectic. The new Government of the United States stands clea.r of well-trampled ground. It begins by inviting construction, not controversy, and it offers to collaborate toward peace within limits that are now well understood. It may be that the adjustments bv means of which the United States and Europe endeavoured to repair the political fracture of 1920 have been mutually instructive and have provided a greater store of the knowledge which leads to understanding and results in a chastening of credulity and a rebuking of suspicion. Nobody who hopes to see America unhesitatingly backing the movement against war will either be impatient or complacent. It would be easy to increase o.r to make light of the difficulties, but the adoption by Mr. Hoover of a cordial and generous tone will enable the negotiators to be half-way through the business at the beginning. In so far as the help of the British Empire is needful to fulfil Mr. Hoover’s ambition to advance the cause of peace, it may be taken as already pledged.