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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

on that issue. Here are the Coolidge
family high spots, reproduced as the
Governor pointed them out:
To America in 1880
John and Mary Coolidge came to
Watertown, Mass, in 1880. John
Coolidge held office there and was
one of the founders of the town.
Grandmother Coolidge's great-grand-
father was Colonel Samuel Brewer,
who fought at Bunker Hill. Cap
tain Joseph Coolidge was killed at
Lexington. He was from Water
town and the only man from Water
town killed that day. 1t was April
10, 1775. He was not direct an
cestor of mine, but he belonged to
the Coolidge family.
"My great-grandfather," the
Governor added, with his slight
Yankee twang, was John Coolidge,
one Of the first settlers on the mill
tary road that runs up from Charles
ton through the Connecticut Valley.
He was in the Revolution and came
to Vermont about 1880.
ga curious coincidence was the
case of Adam Brown, member Of
the Coolidge family. He fought at
Saratoga and helped to take General
Burgoyne a prisoner. He was mus
tered out of Revolutionary service
here in Northampton, and then he
settled in Vermont and was the first
town clerk of Plymouth. Adam
Brown is the ancestor of a Governor
and United States Senator. I'm
the Governor, and the Senator was
Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah.
THE early Coolidges in Vermont
were lime burners and they raised
horses. There are several old har-
nesses in the attic on the farm at
Plymouth to-day that were used to
draw lime more than one hundred
years ago. There is also an old spin
ming wheel and loom there with 4
Coolidge burned into the wood. The
= stood for the y in John. They
used to use it because the alphabet
in those days failed to supply -
The American Revolutionary
list" explained the Governor, will
show no end of John Coolidges.
They were most all Johns But
Calvin is a family name. Ny great
grandfather's name was Calvin; it's
my fathers name; it's my name, and
one Of our boys is named Calvin.
They probably had to switch to Cal
vim when the Johns became so
numerous they couldn't distinguish
among them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
GOVERNOR COOLIDGE
~ formally accepting the
Vice Presidential nominu-
ton at his home IN North
Gmpt0n

notification committee as follows:
"You've selected a man who has
proven his fitness for any office. And,
if elected, he will bring to the Office
of Vice President of the United
States the same sound, fair judg-
ment and high dignity, the same
rugged principles, he has brought to
every office he has ever held.
"Whatever our politics." said
Northampton's little Irish Mayor
with his quaint brogue, eve all be-
lieve in the sincerity of his excel
lency."
"Coolidge Luck"
"Many people think Cal Coolidge
has been going about with a political
horseshoe around his neck all these
years" said member of the local
reception committee cts true he's
been lucky in politics, but a man
can't be lucky all the time unless
there is something more behind it."
New Englanders know Cooldge's
rugged principles, fair Judgment
and high dignity" and they know he
is not an orator, but they are going
to vote for him in November unless
all signs in the political horoscope
have been badly assembled.
Coolidge will not have to talk for
votes in New England. He will not
talk for votes anywhere. And
among those who know him it is
pretty safe wager that the time
worn method of transforming up
n.omentary enthusiasm will not
carry half so far toward the DOLLS
this year as the simple, plain state
nents of fact that the country may
expect to hear from the Republican
Vice-Presidential nominee.
1t is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's
more intimate relationship with
those souls Of Valley Forge, Bunker
Hill and Lexington than many other
men in modern politics that keeps
him from invoking them and their
traditions to sway his audiences.
Genealogically speaking, Calvin
Coolidge is 100 per cent New Eng
land-Yankee American. Almost a
century and a half before the Min
ute Men left their plows in New
England fields and grabbed up their
flintlocks, the first Coolidge-John by
name-landed on New England
shores from England and helped
found Watertown, Mass. He also
got into Colonial politics in his quiet
Coolidge way, and was repeatedly a
Watertown "Selectman" between
1886 and 1917. Judging from his
will, filed for probate on June Is,
1891, he was as honest and poor as
the present claw and order" Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,. He left
widow, hVo chlldren and tZoU ID.
In the Public Service
A Coolidge fought at Bunker Hill,
a Coolidge was killed at Lexington,
q member of the Coolidge family
fought at Saratoga and was one of
the guard which captured General
Burgoyne, a Coolidge has been Gov
ernor of Vermont, another Ambas-
sador to France, another Governor
of Massachusetts,, and, if you ask
most any one in New England to-
day, you'll be convinced that Cool
idge will be Vice President of the
United States.
1.-The Coolidges have always been
in the public service" explained the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

railroads will notice that there al
ways is nice, smooth path right
along the edge of the ties on the
track. Any railroad man will tell
.ou that the reason for that nice
little smooth track is a speedway
for the jackrabbits. Many engineers
regularly race with the rabbits
every morning or evening. The ra5-
bits come up on the track and sit in
the middle until the train is about
twenty feet away. Then the rabbit
gives one jump and lands, going
fast, right in the path, and the train
and rabbit are off at an even start
for a race. The rabbit may run out
of wind and quit to take a rest, but
he never lets that train get up even
with him. Any one with real sport
ing blood should ride the cowcatchers
of the fast trains early in the morn
ing or evening and see those races.
Only the engineer and fireman and
an occasional bum ever get to see
the real sport.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

1oAi, Wnen w after and Ralph Coal
ydg were assessed for lands.
"1n the time of Henry VIII" says
the book, "the family were seated at
Arlington and, judging from the
wills, were at that time of wealth
and great responsibility, belonging
to the gentry"
Nathaniel Coolidge, who died in
Watertown, Mass, October IS, 1857.
was both tailor and large
farmer" having left property valued
at s412, which "inventoried three
farms, mills and fishing gear"
Coolidges We're Teachers
Many Coolidges graduated from
Harvard during the Revolution
airy days, according to Bonds his
tory. They became lawyers, doctors
and professors mostly. One of these
was Samuel Coolidge, described as
librarian and bachelor, who was
graduated at Cambridge in 1924. He
was reported Incorporate at times
and addicted during these intervals
to speaking Latin exclusively. One
day he was passing an apothe-
cary's shop in a drenching rain.
Some one standing inside addressed
him thus: Domino Coolidge, plat
tantum nescio quantum, scisne tu?"
GLOW much has it rained; can you
tell?) Quick as flash went con-
venient cobblestone through the drug
store window, smashing the window
display, and blending with the echo
of shattered property came the re-
tort:
"Fregi tot nescio quot, scisne tu?"
(Iow much damage have | done, can
you tell?)
However, the prediction for Har-
ward of more ancient members Of
the present Governors family drifted
to Amherst in later years, and &C.
cording to Calvin Colleges closest
friends Amherst and Frank w.
Stearns, of Boston, are jointly re-
sponsible for all things which now
make Coolidge family. story of in
terest.
Stearns is Boston business man.
Coolidge's "Discoverer"
II have been given credit for dis
covering Calvin Coolidge, and per-
haps you can call it that" said Mr..
Stearns to The Tribune a few days
ago in Northampton during the
Coolidge notification exercises.
Il am a graduate of Amherst
College and so is Governor Coolidge.
| am also a trustee of the school.
About eight years ago there vas
some little legislation to be done at
the State House regarding a college
matter. Coolidge was then in the
State Senate. We were anxious for
quick action, and l wrote him a
letter. He never answered that
letter and it made me mad. The
more l thought about it the madden
I got. Finally l got mad enough to
investigate personally and thor
oughly. l found that Coolidge had
not answered the letter because the
legislation would have been impos-
sible, the Legislature adjourniag
within day or two after he bad
received the letter But he put it
through at the beginning of the next
term promptly.
Il suppose some people have the
knack of knowing men. | thought
had. because after my first talk with
Calvin Coolidge was convinced
that he was out of the ordinary. He
was an Amherst man, and, Of course.
that lent interest. l got behind him
n any way | could and he became
known. You know how he has come
straight up since then. If you can
call that discovery, I suppose that
IS what it amounts to-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

about the jackrabbit being plumb
crazy, but they do object to compar-
ing the speed of Mr.. Rabbit with any
old passenger train going forty miles
an hour. That's poky-for a jack
rabbit
Last year when Senator Capper
was out campaigning over the state
his big twelve-cylinder car was hit
ting it up across the prairie at fifty
miles an hour when a jack jumped
up ahead Of the car and took off
down the road. John, the Senator's
driver, stepped on err but he
never got within hailing distance
of the rabbit, because when the car
got to going above seventy miles an
hour the Senator leaned over and
remarked:
~ wouldn't go any faster, John.
We're making too much dust for the
other cars following us and we might
hit calf or something"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
SMALLPOX At Fairfield

More smallpox has been found az
Fairfield by DR.. John +. Hogan, as
sistant Commissioner of Health. A
negro who has been i'll since last sun
day was sent TO quarantine.
DR.. Hogan said that the negro went
to MeKeesport, Pa. three weeks ago,
after having been in contact with
others having smallpox at Fairfield at
the time of the first outbreak there.
tie was in McKeesport when squad
of health officers went to Fairfield and
vaccinated all persons in an industrial
plant in which the negro was en-
ployed.
DR.. Hogan notified the he lth off,
Gals of McKeesport that the negro
had been in their city and advised that
contacts be looked up and vaccinated
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
Lauuhinq in Your Sleeve.

Judging by the fact that we have
this expression i'm French, German and
Latin, there must be lot of surrep-
titious laughter in the world. But a
laughs 4 laugh for all that, and it's
good for the digestion. It's hard to
see how anyone could have a laugh in
any of the tight little sleeves that are
de rigueur this season. There's hard
ly room to have an arm in them. But
not so in the "bellH sleeve of last sum-
mer which was a diminutive replica of
the sleeves worn liy the ancients, who.
not concerned with changing fashions
with the seasons, wore one style long
enough to make it famous. With them,
when anyone seemed TO be screening
his face behind the long flowing folds
of his sleeve. there was always the
suspicion that he was Laughing in
his sleeve" And to this day laughing
behind anyone's back, whether it be a
fan or a hat that screens it, we call
laughing in your sleeve.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
MEN "WALKED WITH DEATH"
Sailors on Mine-Sweeping Trawlers In
Constant Peril Of Sudden and
Awful Disaster.

Imagine yourself trying TO walk
through a dense wood at midnight
without a light. the penalty for touch
ing a tree being death. That VIII
give you some idea of the dangers that
the men on mine-sweeping trawierS
faced when their vessels were steam
ing through a freshly sown mine field.
The minesweepers were divided into
groups, each Of which was commanded
by a naval officer. The vessels left
harbor about daylight and steamed out
to sweep for mines.
They worked in pairs abreast OF
each others. Between the vessels
swung The sweep wire. sunk TO the
necessary depth in the water by means
of towed kites-wooden Arrangements
acting on the same principle as ordi-
nary air kites.
These wires can be regulated 10
travel TO any depth beneath the sur
face. When mines are caught they
are dragged to one side and destroyed
by rifle fire. If the bullets hit the
detonator the mine generally explodes
NJ once; but, If. on the other hand,
water enters the buoyancy chamber
and floods 1t, the mine goes TO the
bottom like stone and becomes In
nocuous.
AS the trawlers themselves may
draw as much as - feet of water
they may come into contact with a
a.
n mine sweeper is struck and the re-
sultant explosion occurs forward In
the bows, it may keep atioat and even
tually be toWed into harbor by one OF
her consorts. If the defamation took
place amidships or in the stern, how
ever It was unlikely that the ship
would survive, and the men in the en-
CINE room or boiler room would prob
ably perish with the vessel.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
ROAD SIGNS EASY TO FOLLOW
Comprehensive System Soon to Be Put
in Effect on the Highways
of France.

A new system of road marking,
born of the war, is to be put into
effect i'm France as soon as may
be practical. 1t provides for road
signs which those who ride in fast
automobiles may read en- PEASANT.
On both sides of the fighting lines
these great staring signs, painted
ON wall or on large bulletin boards,
were put at all road functions. They
were not esthetic, but we can count
on the French TO improve that. The
new plan provides for boards at least
n yard in length on which the name of
the place where it is posted shall be
painted full size-white on n blue
ground, with only slightly smaller in
dicatlons-names and distances in
kilometers-of the next place in either
direction. The kilometer stones by
the roadside are TO have distinctive
colors marking the main road and one
has only to follow the red or the blue
or the green to keep to the road. One
suspects this is a relic of the system
first employed in America by paint
Ing the telegraph poles along main
roads distinctive colors.s
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
InaIorious obstructIonists.

Some folks are ut their best in sprag-
ging the progress Of others. They mis-
take the right TO obStruct for evidence
of the power to construct. Yet what
child does not know the difference?
Any fool can stand in the way Of prog
ress. And the more obstinate he is the
better success viii he have. But the
fact that he dare oppose himself to the
combined judgment of others does not
prove him man of strength. In fact
the chances are against his being in
the right. There may be some pleasure
in bucking the crowd. but it takes a
hero or a fool TO do it. All honor to
the man who, knowing he is right
dares to face any odds in the exercise
of his conviction. The world will bear
from such in the buildings they leave
as marks to fidelity and faithEGrit.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
PEPPER TREE OF GREAT SIZE
ping Branches Are Particularly
Ornamental.

As the elm or maple tree is TO the
New England village, so is the pepper
tree (Schinus molle) to southern Cal
fornia cities and towns. For beauty
of shape and color. for grace and for
shade, it is a tree almost unique. Be
ing of quick growth, the pepper tree
soon attains a large. luXuriant size
and the great dropping branches form
cool archways which protect passers-
by from the too vigorous rays of the
summer sun.
The delicate feather leaves droop
and sway like those of the weeping
willow. SilveTy green. they glisten in
the yellow sunlight, and when the
panicles or clusters of tiny pale flow
ers festoon each slender branch, the
whole tree is a shimmering, fairy bou-
quet. Soon the rath under the arch
ways is sprinkled with the tiny green
ish flowers. and grapelike punches of
green berries hang from the trees.
Later, as If touched by mysterious
fire. n vivid red flames from each
branch OF berries. The sunshine
glances through the green feathered
leaves Upon the swinging lunches of
red fruit, and the trees glow in color.
The breezes lift and turn, shake and
twist the myriad brilliant berries I'M
til soon a gorgeous scarlet mantle is
spread for all to tread 'upon.-Chris-
tan Science Monitor.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19

cause the wild cat IS no good
even when he is tame. But it
makes all the difference in the
world whether useful livestock IS
trained or wild. The finest colt
in the world. product Of the best
draft stock, is OF little use to a
farmer unless he has been broken
to harness. is bride. wise and
tractable.
a COW may be champion
milk producer but she IS Of COM
paratively little value if nobody
can milk her. a setter may
carry the blue blood of Count
Gladstone and have nose for
birds that IS unequalled but no
body wants 10 hunt behind him
unless he has felt the jerk of the
trainers choke line and learned
not only to find birds but to give
his owner an opportunity to bag
them.
1t is exactly the same way with
dollars. The country today is
overrun with wild dollars. They
are as numerous as the herds OF
wild horses and buffalo that used
to roam the plains Of the west
and just about as useful. If you
lcapture them. all you can do with
them is lock them up in a cage
70 keep them from getting out,
destroying your financial fences
and trampling your garden plots.
You cannot even handle them
without their getting away or
doing you some harm.
But if you tame them and train
them by continued and patient
and regular investment in safe
securities such as War Savings
Stamps, Treasury Savings Ger
tiicates or Liberty Bonds you
can make them work for you
faithfully and we'll. Investment
IS the only known method of
subduing wild dollars But it must
be safe investment. Like every
other animal trainer You must
have patience and the lesson
must be repeated until it is thor
ouPhly learned.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
chiIdren,s Library for Madrid.

The ministry of public instruction
In Spain has instituted a special libra
ry for children in the building of the
National library. The proposed libra
ry is to be open during the same
hours as the National library itself,
and it is to admit children under IA.
once it has begun to be operated,
children under that age will not be
permitted entrance into any other
library of Madrid without a special
permit specifying the books needed.
Special funds have been provided for
the library, which will specialize not
only on Juvenile books, but also re-
views and papers that concern them
selves with youngsters and their par
tieular problems.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
Plants Great Vitality.

There is a creeping moss found In
Jamaica, in Barbados and other
islands of the West Indies. which is
called the 'life tree" or, more proper
~, the ''life-plants It's powers of vi
tally are said TO be beyond those of
any other plant. 1t is believed TO be
indestructible by any means except
immersion in boiling water or the ap-
plication of a redhot iron. 1t may be
cut up and divided in any manner
and the smallest sllreds Will throw
out roots. grow and bud The leaves
of this extraordinary plant have been
planted in a close. alright, dark box.
without moisture Of any Sc {, and
still they grew.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
The Big Idea

A man Isl not success in life till
a dominant purpose takes hold Of
aim. to- which all bther procedures
and measures and all the powers of
dis being arc subbrdinated. Sorrow
|ifal is the state Of the man who, at
any age. has let himself be tanned and
chastened down TO an unseeming, I'M
thinking jog-trot in the same old rut.
day after day.
A man is not old till he refuses
to admit new light, embrace fresh
experiences. entertain thoughts that
never occurred to him before. open
the doors and windows of his mind
70 the morning.
Perhaps we Rugged to ourselves the
delusion that we we're doing the best
we could, 1t is so easy to feed the
aspiring spirit upon that anodyne. Il
s easier to dream than TO make an
effort, easier TO accept things as they
are than to change them; easier to
conform than to quarrel.
Then comes a vision of what we
might he and are not, and it chal-
lenges US and will not let us rest.
We must he up and doing. We know
at last what we were made for, what
we were sent into the world to do.
Life becomes purposeful and each
waking minute has its mission.
1t is so easy to drift with the crowd,
to accept what each day brings, to
throw the sop of complacency to con-
science, to admit that circumstances
have mastered us.
But if we give room and chance to
The driving impulse, life is no longer
The same-Philadelphi Ledger.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
WEAR BATTLES ON ANKLES
Girls Of Mozambique Don Their TO Aid
In Keeping Time in Their
Peculiar Dances

Consider a country as big as the
Atlantic states from Florida to New
YORK. with the capital near the south
ern boundary. having a population OF
more than 100000 inhabitants, of whom
only about ] per cent are white. anu
you have Mozambique, Portuguese
colony in Africa TO the south of what
was German East Africa. says a bull
Ietin of the National Geographic so
ciety.
Mozambique is one of the oldest OF
all European possessions, aud one OF
the richest ia agricultural possibilities.
but is one Of the least known countries
in the world. There are five towns
and small. up-to-date capital city,
with a number of military posts and
oufposts. There are no deserts. salt
sinks. swamps or mountainous wastes.
The colony is altogether inhabited by
about twenty tribes.
Among the curious customs of the
land is the wearing of rGttles by the
girls on their ankles at dances. Hol-
low spheres are made of palm leaf or
grass and are partially filed with large
seeds or pebbles The noise of these
ankle rattles is supposed to assist in
keeping time in the dance. Similar or
naments are frequently worn by the
boys.
The popular music used at batuque
or ball is that of the marimba, or huge
xylophone, which gives out n blood
freezing death chant during the EEK
preston" dances OF both men and
women
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-19
Chinese Adopt United States Idea.

There are about 100 Chinese women
and girls in New York city, few of
them students, but most of them wives,
mothers and daughters of merchants
and other business men. These wom-
en- will some day carry back to Chi
ma western ideas end methods, and es-
pecially the practices of American
women. They are interesting them
selves in everything that American
women do. I'VE are hoping to learn
Of the best elements in American w0m-
anhood," says one of their leaders,
land Mt the same time to retain our
ideals of Chinese civilization" This
is a Chinese branch of the y. w. G.
A.. that will train women in citizen
ship, American customs, organized rec
reation, physical exercise and all the
usual lines of activity.