Colyumist Smith

As similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics or any other subject," and, according to McNaught editors, "will not be so serious as to be dull."

The bagging of Colyumist Smith ended six years of persistent stalking by McNaught's General Manager Charles V. McAdam. The fight with rival syndicates was bitter at the finish. Hardly was the ink dry on the contract when orders for the Smith colyum began to pour in. Among the first to buy it: Scranton Republican, Boston Globe, Louisville Herald-Post.

Until last fortnight the Coolidge colyum appeared on page 1 of the Boston Post under the Bostonesque heading: "Thinking Things over With Calvin Coolidge." A few days before Election Day-with its local Democratic landslide-the Post relegated Mr. Coolidge to Page 31. Since then, only a little boxed front-page notice has appeared to tell Colyumist Coolidge's largest Massachusetts audience where he may be found.

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