Coolidge Will Make a Good President, Says Scott Poole, Aug. 16, 1923

The day before he was sworn in as president of the United States Calvin Coolidge was loading hay on his father’s farm, and he took the oath of office by the light of a flickering kerosene lamp. His father, a Notary Public, administered the oath of office. The Coolidges are poor people, honest and intelligent, and Calvin, while governor of Massachusetts, shows he wants to play the game of life fair, and insists that others do the same thing, so we conclude he will make a good president. They are congregationalists in church affiliations.

From the editorial page of the Hoke County Journal, Raeford, N.C., Aug. 16, 1923, D. Scott Poole, Editor.