Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 86

¢ P s ! he likes to be . ‘10 his office by 3 in the afternoon. His is the o ‘seekers who tried to see him as President were only somewhat greater in number than the flocks and mobs who try to get a look at him as ex-President. As President, he had a high-gated iron fence and cheerfully firm bluecoais to keep them off. In the White House, he could take a little air upon the -south lawn without being discov- ered by a prying eye. In Massasoit street, there is only the front stoop, with its rocker cushioned in rose-flowered cretonne. By actual ‘count, of a Sunday, the automobiles pass that stoop at the rate of 10 & minute. Not all of them go by without stopping, either. And, it is said, it is not usually those who have the quaintance or by long devotion, who storm the’ _steps of the homelike, white-painted house. They come by automobile to shake hands. regularly at 8 in the morning, comes home for dinner in the middle of the day and goes back routine day of the neighbors about him., who remember him in Washington can- not be entirely surprised by it. For they re- member that he had been as accurately punc- tual in the White House. It does not seem to be the case that a Presi- 4 : g il il e {it : § E i E il i 2 * 3 g3 f» gs §E§ §§§§E§ eifp il il H :EEE } H H g E. L of incisive comment. CON‘VBSA,TION with him is a combination of such ironic comment with not infre- afraid. I find it charming. It is like motor- ing through what the guide books call “rolling and slightly hilly country.” You amble along up a gentle rise with quiet fields and get to the top of a hill with a sudden view which is de- lightful and amble on once more. It is legal music with passages con fuoco. . could write it as he talks, a book entirely with- nating and profound. And there would be in it not a word about anything he did not know and especially not a word about anything about “which nobody could possibly know anything. It would be a book (if it resembled his conver- sation) devoid of speculation and full of meat. And it would be a dignified book. Washington knew that_Mr. Coolidge as President had a._keen ‘senséef dignity of position. He has also personal dignity. Alwa e F E 1 Bi Science 1 a LaboratoriesWill Discover Improved Methods to Meet Needs of Future Race, Says Scientist— He Predicts a Prneumatic Tube for Travel and New Animal Life. BY H. H. SHELDON. Professor of Physics, New York University. E have pretty well those inventive dreams of our g § i §§z i e K2§ § i 5 5553 i 4 H g i B i : ' g ! g f SEE 5 Beead it il It § ! 1 £ : 8 i £ i H i Ef i % | 53 ; ! i gzé . : % y i i HH : | : ; Wn‘nthhunmkcroundmusm " man’s future from his present-day desires, It is clear that we have accomplished all the B ; : T RO EE 3 g 1E8g] 55523552 y 3 ‘put your £ z' “THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 30, 1929—PART 7 a heavy drinker. He pointed out that he had received more than 150 pipes, and that if * future historians were to judge him in that way they would have to mix him up with Mr. Dawes. Conversation in Massasoit street may be neighborly, aimless. It will not be pointless. He calls his car to go down to his office. It comes. It is one of the cars he had as Presi- dent. The coat-of-arms of the United States has been removed from the door, the red-white- and-blue twisted cord from the cap of the chauffeur. But a chauffeur drives it. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Coolidge likes to drive, In two minutes we enter the offices of “Cool- idge & Hemenway.” WHEN he gave up the practice of law—never in his intention to resume it again—there were but two rooms in those offices. Before Mr. Coolidge returned to Northampton, Mr. Hemenway enlarged them by the addition of two more rooms, equally small rooms, but fresh- ly finished in a sort of light-green wall board. They have become the new offices of the ex- President. Phone number—Northampion 167. his life (even—now it dent!) liked to put his feet up. ‘That desk, meant to stood, when Mr. Coolidge first went into a law office, in the open, away from the wall. it the young lawyer and law student used to read with his feet propped up so stuck out and showed themselves to ing visitor. One day his boss in, regarding the soles of the Coolidge shoes, in- formed the young man that he must take them Featured Role light, non-corrosive material, such as aluminum, it would prelong the life of steel structures enormously. This has been done on a labora- tory scale. Our future bridges may glisten in the sunlight as great white aluminum ultimately produce it. In the field of medicine we now have many things to wish for. Again the accomplishments of the past are a guarantee of the future, No longer is diphtheria almost certain death for the child. No longer do isolated hospitals for the smallpox patients in their last , nor is it often that a community is nearly wiped out by typhoid fever from con £ WImmwwfluonuneer. It too, shall 7 eventually be understood and controlled. ‘Tuberculosis is now fairly well controlled. The common cold, that forerunner to so many dangerous 1ilis, is at least under scrutiny. They sources removed from the competition, many On the other hand, some new and entirely not be produced in larger animals. T might not be surprising to find our cows even replaced by a new_animal with greater milk-giving capacity. Or, for that matter, future - generations be supplied:- by . synthetic products, Propaganda put out by a squeamish individuals ‘might bring this even if it could not otherwise be done for eco- Whatever predictions for the future are made, the question is always asked, Shall we be able to visit the moon and other planets? If we were to base the answer to this on, the.criterion already set forth, man's desire, the answer would have At the present these obstacles mountable. But they are no greater than those that would have occurred to the minds of our grandfathers if contemplating a tic flight. It is not impossible, and if it is not im~ possible it will eventually be by man. This s but experfence. e caught to date and he clicks it out—187. down; they didn't look well. put them wherever he pleases. On the walls of his office are facsimiles of Shakespeare’s will, the Declaration of Inde- pendence and the death warrant of Charles I, with its series of red-sealed signatures. You wonder why this particular document should hang in this particular place. You are told that all these facsimiles be- longed to Mr. Hemenway's father, who would have been appointed to the Supreme Court if Mr. Justice Holmes had not taken the place. You are told that one of the signers of the death warrant of Charles I—William Goff—fled to this region In secret and that this country- side is full of tales of his prowess as a fencer, though no one ever solved the mystery of his disappearance, his death or his burial place. You listen to the amusing anecdote of a fa- mous English fencer who in the early eighteenth century c! all the fighters of all the Hadleys hereabouts (East and South and the rest) to meet him in single combat. One ac- cepted. On the appointed night a great crowd assembled to witness the duel. The Hadley champion appeared with a cheese for a shield and a dirty mop for a weapon. He strove so well that the Englishman cried “You must be the devil himself or Regicide Gofft” These and other stories of our past delight the ex-President. Mr. Coolidge handles no law business in these Today he can became thinks he will never undertake the work of that profession again. Hmhkfimeu:lventohandunzmenor- mous correspondence and seeing—or avoid- ing—callers. He tries to be patient under these unasked-for attentions. Many of us believe that by no means all of the throngs who write to him or seek to call upon hih or even to get a close-up look at him, are mere curiosity seekers. Many of us believe that the effort often springs from a genuine regard for a President who had a great personal following. Mr. Coolidge’s clear eye looks through the argument. He believes it is impossible for any man to judge himself in that respect, to esti- mate what is the real feeling of others toward him—unless in the case of certain friends found and proved true. He is aware of the great danger which con- fronts any one who holds so high an office as the presidency—that of confusing the respect paid to his office with the admiration held for himself. He is aware—he was, as President, In no philosophical generalities does he see these things. Some people like a man in public . Some people hate a' man in public life. Every man in public life has both experiences. It is all as simple as that. is gzen in Main Street. Only in one respect does the presidency seem to have changed Mr, Coolidge. It taught him to play. “Put to him in the guise of a public duty by Not even his recent accident discourages him. He was brook the other day with his rod in his right hand. His foot slipped on a rolling stone and he went down—breaking a at the age of 13 similarly to do an exceptional stunt how meny fish he has He of ex-Sen- _ ator McLean, in Connecticut; in Mitchell Pond, near Petersham, in Massachusetts, and in many And if he keeps on as he hopes have explored all the fishing waters of New Hl: will not go abroad, at least not for some years to come. He would like to see more - of America. But a European trip, with all the formalities inevitable to a man of his position, presents possibilities distasteful to him. He is perfectly contented and satisfied with his life as it:is, divided between the green wall- boarded office and the little house in Massa- soit street. 1f people will let him enjoy it! But there is the question, Will they Ict him? ‘ The housekeeper, who is so satisfactory a In- finds Mr, Coolidge or Mrs. Coolidge just inside the doorway or clearly visible from without. It is a situation becoming more and more in- tolerable. In time it may be that this very interest of the public itself will defeat its own aim. Reluctant though he may be to move, some day Mr. Coolidge may be forced to do so from that little house in Main Street—in Massasoit street. ‘There were no motors to pursue Cincinnatus, nor to weary Washington. If and when Mr. Coolidge, after 30 years, leaves his little famous house for another more commodious, more con- adequate for his new needs than “No, 21, there, as in Boston, in Washington or in Northampton, he will continue to be the same Calvin Coolidge. Main Street has given and Main Strect has .ll'llh