The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-04
COOLIDGE WON FAME IN
 STRIKE

Washintgon-Calvin Coolidge is the first Massachusetts man to hold the office of vice president since Henry Wilson served in the second Grant administration nearly half century ago. His advent into office adds to the prominence of his state in na- tional government affairs for it is re-
 garded as almost certain that Senator
 Henry Cabot Lodge, will be aSa1n
 chosen as Republican leader in the
 Senate, and Rep. Frederick Il. Glllett
 as sepaker of f'the House.
 Should MT. Gillett succeed himself,
 a Massachusetts man will preside
 over each branch of congress, most
 unusual coincidence. More unusual
 still is the fact that both Mir. Coolidge
 and MT. GHlett come from the same
 Congressional district, Northampton, the home of the vice president being in the same district as Springfield, the
 home of the speaker. Both men are
 graduates of Amherst college
 Vice President Co1lidge is entering upon his first service in the field of
 national politics, but for 20 years he
 has been active in the political ser vice of his state, rising from member
 ship in the council of his city to gov Rnor of the commonwealth.
 It was his intensive study of af- Airs of state that first attracted to . him the attention of prominent Re publican leaders, notably the late Sen ator w. Murray Crane of MasSachu- setts. For a number of years they watched the development of his ca reer with a view to directing him into the natnona1 political arena Their opportunity came when the spectac- ufar Boston police strike, during his first term as Governor, attracted na- uen-wide attention
 The crisis which was precipitated by the strike, according to these friends, merely revealed the powers frankly and openly seized the oppor- funty to press for him claims for the Republican Presidential nomination at Chicago last June. They pointed utrt that as councillor in his home city and later as city solicitor and mayor, as a member of both branches of the legislature including a term as pres | ident of the Seante and then as lieu tenant-governor and finally as gov ernor he had been elected with ever increasing majorities culminating in the vote of confidence after the pO- lice strike when he was again elected ] governor by a plurality of 126,000 Probably the most attractive part :. of MT. Coolidge is his home life. Ever since his marriage 15 years ago, to : Miss Grace Goodhue, of Burlington. Vt, University of Vermont grad l; uate whom he met as a school teach i CT in Northampton, he has lived a ]. quiet, modest life, most of the time in ]; the shadow of Smith College in a ! house which he has rented for $32. 50 a month.
 Save, no matter what your salary may be- has always been his motto and, as he has enjoyed beyond the in come earned in public office only meagre returns from his law prac- tice because of pressure of public du- ties, he has been obliged and content to live simply. There are two boys in their early 'teens but all do their bit, even to moving the lawn.
 During MT. CooHdge's official resi- dence at Boston he and Mrs. Coo 1idge lived in apartments at hotel, aS~ they will do here in Washington, while the boys have been away at school. In dress, too, MT. Coolidge has been not eXtravagant, although always immediately attired and not given to use of the threadbare, what ever the popular impression to the contrary may be.
 His coming to Washington means the preSence of a man who, his friends say, personifies the best of American standards, not given much to social life, perhaps, but a thor ough student, a hard worker and a clear-headed, solid American.