Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 3

PRESIDENT WALKED INFATHER'S STEPS Gave Parent Credit for Mold- ing Character After Elec- tion Victory. dent Coolidze, in fusi after his re-election as Governor|and at once a subscription list was of Massachusetts following the Hos.|placed in circulation. Several thought ton police strike. was asked “What | = — — I formulative influence forinulative influence iy o1 tarily contributed to the Inter. i were the twe words of | View e e e ien Mussac| “The morning after my son was o e ™ | elected muyor of Northampton he hap. liboration of the veply. just those | bened to meet the man that he h 1. S beaten. 1 didn't vote for you, Cal But they carried ample conviction said he. ‘Somebody did. and acknowledzement by the son who |, The interviewer fold the colonel that dent of of his racter be- ne Pre: influence iz of the ct pose that lay the predomina an interview 1 By the Associated Press. | pELYMOUTH, = Vi, March 19— Plymouth will follow its time-honored custom and lay a community wreath on the grave of Col. John C. Coolidge. The neighbors decided this today as they waited for the President to come to the farmhouse here, where his aged father lies dead. . From the early days of the village it has been customary for the nelgh- bors to contribute a memorial wreath on the death of a resident. About the stove in the general store this morning the question came befors he left he would like to see the parlor m which the father adminis- tered to his son the oath of the office of President of the United States, an THE EVE Plymouth Will Lay Community Wreath On Grave of Neighbor John Coolidge the humble tribute might not be fit- ting In the case of the father of a President, but those were overruled quickly. “It's been done for everybody else, so why not for John Coolidge?’ was the answer that clinched the argu- ment. Aside from a knot of crepe on the door of the Coolidge home and the drawn blinds of the parlor in which the colonel’s body lay, Plymouth’s only outward sign of mourning was the half-masted flag on the schoolhouse. The flag staff was presented to Col. Coolldge a year ago by the Massachu- setts Sons of the American Revolu- tion. Tt was on the statehouse in Bos- ton while the colonel’s son was Gov- ernor of Massachuset!s. SQUADRON OF CAVALRY IS READY FOR FUNERAL Will Be Avnilal;: if President’ Wishes It, Assistant Secretary MacNider Says. FEW PRESIDENTS HOST TO FATHERS Harding and Coolidge Believ- ed Only Two to Have Had Privilege.. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Within the memory of thé oldest inhabitants of Washington no one re- calls that Presidentes of the United States, other than Warren G. Hard- ing and Calvin Coolidge, ever had the | privilege of entertaining their fathers at the White House. It seems that fathers rather have shunned the reflected glow of their sons’ greatness, for nefther Dr. Hard- ing nor Col. Coolidge cared to spend much time around Washington, Presidential mothers have been more in_evidence than fathers at the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C President's first son was named for Col. Coolidge. On account of his failing health the President tried to prevail upon his father to spend the present Winter at the White House, where he could have every comfort and care and be freed from the hard frozen Winters of the Vermont hills, But Col. John loved those hills. He also felt he had his own place, his own niche in the cosmic scheme of things, and he| knew that place was not at the White House. Was Leader at Home. At the Executive Mansion Col. Coolidge would only have been the Preeident’s father. He would have had nothing to do. At Plymouth he was the leading figure of the country all about. He was sought out by vis- itors. FHe eonducted & voluminous |C ndence as long as his en- [rbebung “strength would permit. He |d! loved to play host at the home where he administered the oath of the pres- idential office to his son, the first time in history that such a thing ever oe- curred. . When Col. Coolidge was in Wash- ington to attend the inauguration of his son, a little more than a year ugo, he seemed to be in the very best of health. There did not appear to be but a scattering of gray hairs in his head, despite his approaching eightieth birthday. At a slight distance Col. D rolling hills of Vermont to the display n Coolidge far and formality House. 'FRIDAY. MARCH 19, 1926. COL. COOLIDGE HAD “NICE TIME” IN .. ‘“Home’s a Pretty Good Place,” He Said, However, After Visit Here. Washington knew Col. John C. less intimately than it wished, but on the few occasions he id come to the National Capital he was given no reason to doubt its sin- cere hospitality. Quiet and retiring nature, he preferred, however, the eace and freedom of his farm in the ‘White of life at the On the occasions he did visit Wash- ington he never remained so long as two weeks, was for 13 days, when in the Sum- In fact, his longest visit ner of 1924 he accompanied the President and Mrs. Coolidge to Wash- el official residence of his were for inauguratior son as Vice President President, In 1921 he was a silent. but proud observer of the inauguration of Cal- vin Coolidge as Vice President, sitting in the Senate be Mrs. Warren G. Harding, and in 1 he stood an im- mobi® figure close by his son when the latter took the oath of office on the plaza before the Capitol. The visit tn 1921 was but for a few days, while that in 1924 was for just one week. Spent Time With Son. In that longest visit to the Capital, in the Summer of 1924, Col. Coolidge spent much of his time in the exec- utive offices with the President, and accompanied the President an@ Mrs. Coolidge down the Potomac on the Mayflower. On one such trip a land- ing was made at Wakefleld, Va., so that he and the President could visit the birthplace of George Washington. The President, with an eyve to his father’s physical condition, during that visit to Washington had the colonel's eves examined and then had him given a thorough ph al exami of his then as first and nation at Wafter Reed Hospital, but if any serious trouble was revealed . was never announced. The colonel was a keen but taciturn man. Quite approachable by news-- paper men, he usually confined his to thelr questions to a “ves™” POSSE KILLS SLAYER. Insane Negro, Who Murdered: Farmer, Arrested. COLBY, K March 19 P - A sheriff's posse terday shot and kil A negro, who three A murdered Wil liam Pearson, a farmer. With no ap parent motive, the negro shot Pearson &s he was driving along the highway.. Sheriff W. D. Pratt left here imme diately wi'h a posse for the scenr and, after an exchange of shots, ar | rested the negro. Griffey was killed | when he grabbed a gun from one of the men and commenced firing. He hag been released recently from an flua for the insane. The South vements that have ele- | experience that has come to no other, White House, and also the mothers of | Coolidge really looked no older than |ington after the burial of their | d him 1o that of o Dl s Heled |\ iltary escort for (he funeral | the first ludies of the land, the President. His coloring was a|younger son, Calvin, in Plymouth. | Col. John C. Coulidge the | the e, i stood.” he'saia |f Col. John C. Coolidge wax offered | Presidents, us a rule, have come late |little darker, but the general physique | Then, it was frequently commented, third generation of the s T atook e i o aide of the Tit: | to the White Ha today by the [0 the chief mugistracy, and most of jand physiognomy of the father was|he devoted himself to comforting of Coo who were born on the ””j 1' o ‘H:’ u‘\hl;h l.l‘ ‘.: 4 “!: War Department, h nt m:- Presidents seem to have lost their | strikingly portrayed in the son. Mrs. Coolidge in her great loss. [ Vermoni wil o e Tie hamler of | U tible i the conter, of {he roon, | oy MaeNider. The tender was | ihers in their bovhood. ~Washing-| Cal. Coolldge had the same wry Preferred Old Home Plymouth and tilled that soil with the | [tleres where 1 stood. “The ‘;m‘ rhea |reterred to Plymouth ton's father died when the son des-|little smile, the same unemotional i ‘ Chrift und Industry that has charac. | But the oil lamp that had furnished | PG, O, e e upon |tined o become the first President of | tace. Perhips his features were just| When the President and Mrs. terized each of them. he hadthe dim light for that great event in |q,ch mjitary repr tion, u squad. | the sreat new republic was just six-|a little more mobile than those of the | Coolidge became concerned last No- i ymbitions for his cat| e Sithaes o S islag 0o bt [ Ton of Cavalry from Fort Ithan Allen, | t€en. Grover Cleveland was only 16[son and there were more smile wrin.|vémber at the health of the colonel r Son. o raved Bl arg | Coolidge homestead he squadron | /23 Sk ) 8 C] . Pres- On the day of the inauguration ] y: " S s for Son. | bt e waved his hand taward ) potORs, SRGCUG (s T readl. | idents Wilson, Tatt, Roosevelt, Harrl-(some one suid (o the colonel they |Patched to Plymouth with an urgent and then some h of his | the wall a pictura of Calvin when | €58 e '} 4 and others lost their|would give a great deal to know what |Invitation for him to ’"’"‘:" Y e, i just after | he was ernor of Massachusetts. It was pointed out that Cavalry "U"t‘;" efore coming to the White [his thoughts were, ter at the White nu;se, e preflerred jed to the presi-|That"—a small tintype in the |Would be better suited than foot se. “Well,” replied the colonel, I guess|t0 remain in the olh h;:mdesu‘a t”;o sident Hard. | [tame—"is his mother. troops for the ""‘*""‘”“"-‘ “'”l’d“"s‘” Special Honor Canceled. it:uskx_».- one of the davs when I'm not :“:m‘,'i!:::! where he had spen veriesited o L e e ob e vath o trom |, ashington tosk a keen interest | : Tiia Views were expressed, apparent- msidered was the Stoic answer the 1 1o portunity i never given » chianee Wi it your idea or your son’s that he 20 1o Coll “1 don't know about that. Guess it was his. 1 asked him what he wanted to do. e said he wanted an education. I thought he might make i or.' “You didn't want him to stay here on tha farm? “He once asked me if 1 wanted him to take up my work. 1 said, ‘No.' As tax collector 5 vears here, jus- tie s on, T've s 5. settled £ood many demands. None of it w: work of muech caliber. Of course. it was important to the people con corned, and. of course, T was glad to dn i, for it was the work that fell 1o me and that gave me and my family a living. But 1 felt that if Calvin had the chance he could do work of a bigzer caliber. ation Need. e him to go to wanted to go, 1 anvious that he should. thougzht it opened bigzer op- wan life I've seen m he want of an educ son work his times tion."” way ur h collex helped that wig pail most of the bills him to have any sch didn’t make good I did i 1 some, but I I didn't want rship: if he t want to feel that he'd used some one else’'s money for nothing.™ How did you feel when your son in politics” 1wt there was m it He got a =i Then he got a little big- ger job. And so on from that. When Calvin was a boy on the farm, if I 1y and there was any nted him to do. I would when 1 came back I hut 1zht of going to see if he 1 knew it was done. Cal- bt that habit. It hasn't : ever talk political matters with vou.” “We talked son “And gzet your Recalled Son’s Wit. I wouldn't exactly say that, but gan to laugh, or rather That chuckle was the pre- Iy_the only thing that T DRUGLE: 8 Kresg 11:30 to 1 A MAID- Potomac apls OAD OF mmhlphm or _Ball ANSTSTOR N " THAT CER- ¥e (5) shares of the i Cortifionts No. 480, for THIS IS tificatn No St fen (10) b of the 87 cumuiative pra- ferped stock of the Washington Mortzage & Ynvestment Corporation. issued to F. A: Mager. have been have heen voided their warned against nego- 1ficates L FULL O ATL ¥ m? DARTLOAD PITT: WAN Yo nn Hm\l E FOLLOWT charges a1 Weschinr's Aav, April 3. 192 Fuaex touring car ‘ d sedan, 161t by A Carlson. It by W. Sheetz war. left by Warren Fer- left by Jos. . 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"Calvin's mother and his only sister | died in this room «wwhere he took the vath of office as President of the United States. Then. quickly. he brought to his lips a smile that he meant to be deprecia- retty rough sort of a room, sn't Family Distinctive. little hamlet among In Green Mountains where five genera tions of Collidges have lived, where the the | four of them were horn, a place that has produced as pure and stalwart brand of Vermonter as any that grows, the Coolidges alw hav Bwn sncieniot tinctive.” They have stood out as men of marked haracteristic This was particu. arly true of Col. John C. Coolidge. | he colonel made his living by farming and by holding small loc offices. “If John went out for an: thing he usually got it,” one of hi twonsfolk once said. There were two factions, but it was said that he ran the town meetings. Also he ran the church, according to this neighbor. “Twenty vears ago.” he said, “John took chi of repairing the church, He collected the money and bossed the work. Mr. Brown came over to our house and says: ‘I'm willing to do my part, but I'm going to say noth- ing. John Coolidge will have his way anvhow, so there’s no use my saying anything.' Yes, John was very set. lut a good manager. He spent the money wel When the blacksmith left Ply- mouth, John Coolidge ran the shop, and “could shoe a horse or tinker a buggy in good shape’ He had a of forceps and could pull a At funerals he usually looked 3 the seating of the peuple. He taught the Sunday school Demanded Real Work. “When he was road commissioner the people didn’t like him because he was so close. If a man didn’'t put in full time he'd dock him. He'd only pay a man for the time he worked. “How about money that was owing Why, he expected to be paid owing him, but he would | _ him ? what was never crowd a man. “If they were rafsing mon any public ‘purpose, he alwayvs gave his share, and gave it willing During the war he was a large con- tributor to the Red Cross. But he's not wasteful, very saving, even in: little things. “He used to cut his cordwood in such even lengths and pile it so y for the nearest d connection DAUGHTER GETS $27,000 OF MRS. WYNNE'S ESTATE Compromise Effected A(ter Mother Fails to Make Provision for Marriage Settlement. Mrs, 1da Marcelle Wynne French, wife of Capt. Hugh Ronald French, of the British army, will receive $27,000 from the estate of her mother, Mrs. fary Ellen Wynne, widow of former Postmaster General Robert J. Wynne, through a compromise filed today in the District Supreme Court. \When Miss Wynne was married June 15, 1909, a marriage settlement was drawn up by which she was to receive a certain share in the estates of her father and mother at their death. In making her will Mrs. Wynne neglected to provide for the marriage settlement contract, and proceedings were instituted for & share in the $180.000 estate. Attor- neys Cromelin & Laws appeared for the brothers, Charles and John Wynne, while Hayden Johnson and Minor, Gatley & Rowland represented the English contestants. D. C. Residents Commissioned. the Officers’ Comw in ions Dental Corps: to Augustus E. Hass- kari, George Washington University, this city, as first lieutenant in the Milita Intelligence Division; to Herrold E. Brooks, War Department, as a first lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service, and to Clinton J. Muncie, 47 Bast Linden street. Alex- andria, Va., @8 a first lieurenant of Engineers. 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Boss. 3307 Northamptor street, this city, as a major in the in the fact that President father made fo give special honor to Dr. Harding in the inaugural parade, but that affair and all other forms of cele- bration of the MHarding inaugural were called off, and it begins to look now as if there would never be a resumption of the old-time pageantry vhich always marked the advent of & new Chief Executive. Dr. Harding, a country physician of the old school, wanted to ride down Pennsylvania. avenue fn his old “doc- tor's buggy” which he had used so long on the dirt and then the con- crete and macadam rvads about Marion, Ohio. Dr. Harding promised to be a somewhat frequent visitor at the White House, but during the first year of his son’'s term he “eloped” and was married to a young lady in his office. The new matrimonial ties, and possibly the lack of fillal blessing from his distingulshed son, brought the White House visits virtually to a close. 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