Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1928, Page 6

6 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 18, 1928—PART 'CALVIN COOLIDGE'S PLANS AFTER MARCH 4 BAVES REVEAI‘ []“] KEEP NORTHAMPTON ABUZZ WITH GOSSiF . INDIANS® RELIGION Taa Ceremonies of Pueblo + City Dating to 1542 Ex- :F plained by Ethnologist. Ancient and mysterious religious ceremonies conducted with extreme secreey in subterranean chambers were ton of the Bureau of American Ethno- Jogy in an old pueblo city of the Taos Indians in New Mexico. This pueblo town, located on an eastern tributary creek of the Rio Grande about 60 miles north of Santa Fe, has about 800 Indian inhabitants.| yrien Exclusively for The Star and the descendants of the largest-statued and most warlike of the old pueblo tribes. ‘l {17.—"One thing sure, h: | expected. Always does,” says Ralph W. Above ground it has been invaded by a colony of artists, attracted by the pic- turesqueness of the country and of the native life. The Indians, however. have centered their ceremonial life below ground, where it is safe from prying eves and, | Mr. Harrington says, no_consideration | whatever would induce them to admit | a stranger. This, he believes, is a wise { provision, effective in keeping the old customs intact. Estufa For Each Clan. These subterranean chambers are known as estufas, and there is one for each of the seven Taos clans. They | are entered through hatchways at the | top from which project the tops of long, primitive Indian ladders. In the | center of each estufa is a fireplace and | ttey serve as clubhouses for the men | when they are not in use for religious ceremonies anc ~ouncil meetings. thus enabling the Indf*ns to keep their so- | cial life to themselves. This pueblo, Mr. Harrington says, is the holy city of the tribe. O\'erlol)k~l ing it on the northeast stands the| sacred mountain, Naxwalana, a peak of | the Southern Rockies. The religion | of the people, he says, prevents any of | them from leaving the pueblo perma- | nently, lest they be followed by bad luck | or death. Throughout their customs | he finds & curious resemblance to some Chinese customs, particularly this de- votion to the homeland. Dates Back to 1542. ‘The present pueblo town replaces the one found by Coronado in 1542 near the same site. This first town was destroyed in the fighting between the pueblo Indians and the Spanish toward the close of the seventeenth century, and the present buildings ‘were erected a few hundred feet away.| The town has two groups of pueblo houses, north and south of the creek. Originally each was five stories high, in conformity with the mystical signifi- cance of the numeral five in the Indian religion. It stood for the four points of the compass and the center. Now | the southern group has only three stories, the upper walls having col- 1apsed. 'EFFECTS }Supreme Court and Business | found this Summer by J. P. Harring- | | | had together {New England. g _ ABOUT NICHES FOR EX-PRESIDENT TO FILL iFormer Law Partner Sees! | Uncertainty After Leaving White House. | SENT HOME Posts Suggested as Fu- ture Vocation. BY LOUIS LYONS. North American Newspaper Alliance NORTHAMPTON, Mass., November 1 do the un- Hemenway, who still keeps Coolidge's name on the door of the law office they We were talking about what President Coolidge will do after March 4. Of all who know Calvin | Coolidge, his old partner’s hunch may be worth as much as any. Hemenway wouldn’t bet on the return of the President to his home city. “He's been used to having things done for him. Nobody's going to do| anything for him here,” reasons the lawyer. “No man’s a prophet in his home town. He isn't the President here. He's just Cal Coolidge.” “If he does decide to come back here.,” Mr. Hemenway ventures, “he | won't let any one know He's just as likely to come in some day after March 4 and say, ‘Well, here I am back. Where shall T hang up my hat>' " Well, what is Calvin Coolidge going to do next? This is anybody’s guess and | everybody's gossip in the President’s home town. ‘Will he return after March 4 to the half a house at 21 Massasoit street, and to the Main street law office which has carried his name on the door through- | out his eight years in Washington? Is Massachusetts to have Mr. Coolidge back or is he now too big a frog for the rather small puddle where he began his political career? Northampton rather | guesses he's too big a frog or that it's! too small a puddle. | is has been the Coolidge home through adult years. Here are first| M2y return after March 4. neighbors and long-time friends. It is | Picture shows the fireplace in the sitting room. Interior views cf the Coolidge home at Northampton, to which the President The upper is 4 view of the hallway and the lower When the President and Mrs. one of the loveliest of large towrs in | Coolidge went to Northampton to vote, they took with them several pieces of Gossip About Future. It looked at one time as though Mr. | B ! furniture, souvenirs and trophies, which they stored in the house. 21 Massasoit street, is rented, but not owned by the President. The house, at —Associated Press Photo. Coolidge's problem would be settled for him by election as president of Amherst | and emissary, Dwight Morrow, has the College. His fellow alumni were loudly | inside track. anticipating this three years ago, but| The Gazette in Northampton Ambherst has a new president now. “the first intimation that President Offers from a New York law firm |Coolidge may return to Northampton have been hinted. Gossip in Washing- | to live after March 4 in the removal of ton has placed Mr. Coolidge first in the | some 40 barrels and boxes of personal shoes of Judge Gary and then in the effects from the White House to Mas- house of Morgan. where his classmates | saspit street home. If h> does return to sees that two-family house Mr. Coolidge's will be the most modest retirement of any ex-President. Should Mr. Coolidge not come back to Northampton, then he will be almost the first President who did not go back home to live. The President could afford a larger house. The income of his private for- A Manufacturer Overstocked! and Hahn’s grabbed an opportunity to make a wonderful special offering SALE $6.50 to 58.00 FASHION Suedes Lizard Calf and Alligétdr! THI‘:RH are a number of smart TIME TO 7les. Black, Brown Burgun- dy and Blue- suedes—velvets——and patent leathers—bhrown lizard cali and alligator. and low heel ties, side-laced oxiords all sizes. J &l most and black Both high core pumps. sandals, Plenty of short, the notable Shoe Event of the present sea- son——sure to at- tract record crowds here to- morrow. — and all next weel:! ERY! lmmh certainly well above the $10,000 fguim3 Jie lived on as governor. " He lived here on a legislator's salary not is0 many years ago. He probably would |not need to do any further work, but it 'is scarcely compatible with his char- acter not to have a job. Few ex-Presidents have found them- selves in a better way to mcet the ‘problems of retirement to their own | satisfaction than Mr. Coolidge. No | longer the poor man he was when he | entered the White House. Not old— | only 56—he may expect a longer span than has generally been allotted ex- | Presidents. May Take to Writing. It has been predicted he would turn to writing. When Roosevelt got a dollar a word from the Outlook, that | was big news and big money. Cleveland, |'pressed for cash. wrote hard for several | years to earn $16,000. Grant, forced to 1slave to the week of his death with unaccustomed pen, to pay debts of | honor from his Wall Street debacle, had | bargained his memoirs away at $500 a chapter till Mark Train intervened | to find him a market worth a fortune ! to the general's estate. | _In this modern day of great syndicates, | Mr. Coolidge might earn as much as | the aggregate literary harvest of Grant’s, Cleveland's and Roosevelt's i output, with a few articles. Has Mr. | Coolidge the flare for popular articles? What sort of public could Coolidge com- mand, outside the white light of the presidency? Law Office Ready. If he shouid take his home town thus by surprise, Calvin Coolidge would find his old office ready for him. It is | a severely plain little office back of | the stairs on the second floor of the | Masonic block, that was new when Mr. | Coolidge began at the law. His desk is still here. His full set of { the revised statutes are still on the shelves and Mr. Hemenway has kept \them complete. And Calvin Coolidge still has the key to the door where the names read: CALVIN COOLIDGE. R. W. HEMENWAY. Here, looking, irom his desk out !across: Main styeet to the depot, sits | the man Mr. Coolidge might have been |if he had Stuck to the law. There are 30 lawyers in town and Mr. Hemenway' does as well as most, He's vice presi- | dent of the Hampshire County Trust | Co. and does the law business for a loan company. He has his name also on an office next door that does “gen- eral insurance.” His name is at the ! bottom of some of the little oblong | yellow notices that crowd each ocher | on the Hampshire courthouse board of | probate notices and sheriff's sales. Mr. Hemenway is younger than Mr. Coolidge, and is a big, square-jawed man with blue eyes and sandy bair, just ia little thin in front. A bigger, more | robust, readier man than Mr. Coolidga —a bluff, square, energetic and easy- {talking man. He has a nice roomy house that looks over the valley to Holyoke’s hills, and he has seen his son | start a home on the same streef. | 'Back when Calvin Coolidge became governor Palph Hemenway thought it more suitable to take his partner’s | name off the stationery. They did| collection business. Mr. This Is YOUR Chance to Beautify YOUR Rcom A Stoick of Over Seventy-Five to Select From»7 Distinctive Styles Early American Duncan-Phyfe Harpsichord Florentine Larin Spinet $400 $4,000 A Ao w Ko .a.b Vollmer Regent Coolidge agreed. But the name myed!wms fell upon such comfortable times on the door. that prosperity pr: e “I just never took it off." says Mr.l Hemeway. Not in 10 years has it| profited Mr. Coolidge to have his aame | 5 on that obscure door, if indeed it ever | rior among ex-Presidents of recent tim: a nated party opposition in the “era of good feeling.” Taft has been the really happy war- | profits if there were any. | Coolidge's_name off ‘the letterheads, | naturally Hemenway kept all he made. |t | Massachusetts predecessor. OUR Brewster Drachman profited him much, Early Days at Bar. “All he was doing here was paying office rent when 1 came.” Mr. Hem=n- way took care of the law business, what there was of 1f, while Mr. Coolidz> sat in the Legislature and came iome Sat- urdays. They always split 50-50 on the After 12 took He seems to have made as littie as Coolidge himself out of having the President’s name on his door. Nice o! ladies don’t come in to get the Pres dent’s law office to do their wills and trusts. “Nope,” grins Hemenway. Only strangers question him about th> names on_his door and not many of them. Mr. Hemenway has to appeal to “the girl.” Miss Mary E. Hayes, wheather it was 1912 or 1915 he came with Cool- idge. She thinks 1916. Hemenway had lived on the same street with Coolidge. and as student la an office up the street had handled what business came to Coolidge in his legiclative absences. Finally Coolidge suggesied Hemenway move down with him. They had desks in one little room, with two telephones and one girl. There was a little back room they used for consultations. Now there are two girls and Hemenway's son. Hemenway has pushed through the wall to the tailor shop next door to get space for a private office. Future As to Politics. ‘Will Coolidge withdraw entirely from politics? They are booming Al Smith for mayor of New York. Mayor of Northampton would not be quite a parallel, perhaps. Some people, tongues in cheek, say the Republicans will have to draft Coolidge in 1934 to get a can- didate against Senator Walsh. Presidents have taken themselves per- manently out of politics. In his last John Quin- cy Adams, precedent for serving in lesser office | than the presidency. One of the least successful Presidents, ' Adams made a valiant record after the ‘White House. From Washington on down. the strong Presidents have held or tried to hold the reins of party leadership after their retirement. Jeffersoin, founding a university and mixing | philosophy and farming, found time to be more truly President emeritus than ex-President during the 16 years of his two Virginia successors. Jackson, having made his first lieutenant, Van Buren, President, kept the party reins in his own hands. Van Buren kept right on running for President nearly 29 years. Millard Fillmore let himself be trotted out m a hopeless race. Grant and Roosevelt tried for third terms. Andrew Johnson returned to Washin ton a Senator to face his old enemi Only Cleveland of the ex-Presidents ever made a real political comeback. Supreme Court Question. Coolidge has not handed down the presidency as did Roosevelt and Jack- son. He ends his administration rather in the position of ‘Monroe, w SPECIAL P Few | Coolidge can find brave | Of course, there cannot be chief justice- | ships for all ex-Presidents, since half a | dozen have done for the whole span of | the republic. But there will almost cer- | tainly be Supreme Court :acancies dur- | ing Hoover's term. From what place could Calvin Cool- idge so suitably be appointed to ths | Supreme Court as from the leisurely | Main street law office over the millinery | shop in the Masonic block in Northamp- on? . 1923, by North American News (Copyright. 107%oer Alliance.) ¢ AMNESIA NEW THEOR | IN FURNACE TRAGEDY Miss Knaak May Have Burned | Herself Without Knowing, Brain Specialist Says. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 17.—Dr. James Whitney Hall, brain specialist, today announced thal Miss Elfrieda Knaak, former university student and book agent, found fatally burned in the basement of the Lake Bluff City Hall, may have bee:i suffering from a form of amnesia which would make it pos- sible for her to burn her hands and feet without being conscious of what she was doing. | Dr. Hall made the announcement after examining the brain of the girl at | Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago. Miss Knaak, found Oc- | tober 30 in ‘the village hail with arms and legs burned to the bone, insisted before she died that she had thrust her limbs into the basement furnace to at- tain spiritual purity. A coroner’s jury decided she had committed suicide, but Lake County authorities are looking for a more plausible explanation than the one she made. “Her brain,” said Dr. Hall, “shows a marked enlargement of two small blood vessels in the two innermost mem- branes.” almost to a hemorrhage condition. HAINISCH MAY RETIRE. Austrian Social Democrats to Block Efforts to Extend Term. VIENNA. November 17 (#).—Social Democratic members of Parliament will block every attempt by OChancellor Seipel to revise the constitution in or- der to extend the term of President Hainisch for another four yecrs and to increase the President's power. Although President Hainisch was pre- pared to run again, his chances are now | regarded -in political eircles .as almost negligible. His most likely successor appears to be Wilhelm Miklas, President of the National Assembly, who 15 2 member of Chancellor Seipel’s. 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Devoney of Chicago, president; Moses A. Isaacs, Chicago. vice president; Isaac Marks, Indianapolis, and J. H. Briskin. Los Angeles, directors, and T. J. Mc- Reynolds, St. Louls, treasurer and director. All have been arrested and | have made bond. ‘Thos> indicted in connection with | operations of the Daytona-Deland Corporation included Devoney, Isaacs, Briskin and one other man whose name was withheld, pending his arrest and | arraignment. Charge Misrepresentation. The indictments. set forth that the defendants fraudulently represented that Daytona Shores, Inc., was a sub- urb of Daytona Beach on which $75,- 000,000 would be spent for improve- yment and development, whereas the | land in question was not a suburb, but !a wild tract 6 miles from Daytdna { Beach. #2s | Charges m the Daylona-Deland Cor- poration case set- forth that the de. fendants represented afd promised th. the Atlantic Bank & Trust Co. of tona Beach, of which:MeReynolds was vice .president, would .be ‘and was trustee for all funds derived frém the sale of land owned by the corporation and that the bank had “guaranteed the | construction of improvements to be paid out of the second instaliment from persons defrauded.” The indictment further stated that the “bank never guaranteed construc- tion of improvements and the defend- | ants_converted to’thelr own use a large | part ‘of the money derived from the sale of the land.”: Thrown From Colliding Auto. 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