The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-06
CAL WILL MAKE
GOOD, !" SAYS
FATHER
Declares New President Way
Always Dependable and In
dustrious Boy.

PLYMOUTH, VT, Aug. g.
"Cal will make good"
That is the judgment of Col.
John C. Coolidge, the first father
in America to swear in his own
son as President of the United
States.
Colonel Coolidge, seventy-eight,
but looking sixty, and not the
least bit worried today, sat on the
porch of his home in Plymouth
Notch and granted the first formal
interview since he swore in his
son at 2:3O Friday morning.
He is a notary public and probably
the lowliest person in official status
ever to administer the oath of a
President, but Is confident he aid
Just as good a job, even in the glow
of Pickering oil lamps, as could
have been done by judge OF the
highest court.
Father Believes in Son.
Eyes" he repeated, looking across
the peaceful knobs and valleys,
where the future President roamed
as a boy, Gal will make good"
Colonel Coolidge spoke with IL
nality admitting not even the faint
est doubt. It was gospel to him.
Gal was just an ordinary, good,
common boy" he continued. "There
was one thing about Cal when he
was a boy
The proud fathers stiffness disap-
peared as he gazed off to the grim
mountains and paused, his thoughts
seeming to drift back to the past.
You could always depend on
him." he shot forth eventually.
You told him to do something;
he did it. If he didn't like to
do 1T he never said so.
ut. was always done and done
well. Yes sir, he was dependable,
always.
"I believe the people will find
him the same as President. What
be believes he ought to do he will
do regardless of opposition. Thar
is my boy as I have learned him."
In vain did the interviewer plead
with Colonel Coolidge for tales of hoy
ish pranks of President Coolidge.
Surely the future President had
burr under the saddle Of Old
Bess, or even played hockey"
"He was good. common boy"
he replied, HE had one ambition
to gain an education-and he ham,
mered on until he was graduated
from Amherst College"
Invariably Colonel Coolidge re-
called stories of dependable Call
AZ remember when Cal would
come home" he said, don a home.
spun coat made for his grandfather
by his grandmother, and a pair OF
handmade leather boots made for
the Same grandfather when the lat.
ter was State representative, and
go out blowing"
Fathers Public Service.
Colonel Coolidge has a picsure of
his son at such work. On his bed
room wall hangs his choicest possess
sion, a picture Of baby Cal at the
age of four.
The father of the President was
assistant postmaster Of Plymouth
Notch for forty-nine years, collector
of taxes thirty-five years, constable
forty years, and over a long period
was a deputy sheriff He kept for a
decade the store in which, upstairs,
the President was born and later re-
turned to his farm. He is now re-
tired
The excitement here has died
away, leaving Plymouth and Lud-
low to their routine after having
experienced a thrill that comes to
few villages. Back in the hill Notch
sits an old man who says he will go
frequently to Washington ito see
how Cal is getting along"
But that will merely be an ex-
cuse,' he added, waving a farewell
"Cal is dependable"