The Womb of Tragedy

The Searchlight on Congress, K. K. K. journal, last week beamed editorially :

"Misfortune--to others--has been largely the foundation of the Coolidge career. Each of his greatest advancements came directly from the womb of tragedy:

"A predecessor's defeat gave him his chance to become President of the Massachusetts Senate with the inevitable, machine-controlled sequence of Lieutenant Governor and Governor.

"Next came the Boston police strike, which left easily avoidable death and devastation in its wake--that gave him the Vice Presidency.

"Then Harding died; and he thus became President.

"The Boston calamity was his political chariot. The Harding hearse carried him into the White House.

"These are harsh facts, you may say. They are."