The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-28
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l1[IgASJ ONERI | The Three Wise Men SeS the President \ HENRY FORD, Thomas Edison and liar. vey Firestone are on their annual cam
 paign trip. They stopped off at Ply mouth, Vermont, for a call on President Cool idge and left after few hours, reporting no sale.
 Ford made the trip especially to get look at the presidents father and see for himself that there was one man in the United States who still did business with q horse and buggy.
 Edison went along to use his influence to get the Coolidge home to abandon kerosine lamps and put in electric lights. Neither made any progress under the head of new business, but Mir. Ford came, away with a maple sap bucket presented to him by the president. It was a genuine Stradivarius sap bucket.
 The presidents great-great-grandfathe used it back in the days when maple syrup was first discovered, and Calvin himself, as a boy used to milk the maple trees with it. This was in the days when maple syrup was
 
 consumer with no stops for glucose and water Mir. Ford accepted the gift with great de- light. He will put wire wheels on it and give the country bucket that will do IS miles to the gallon and carry four people in- stead of 16 quarts. 4aias. .A Edison and Firestone began to feel slighted at once, so the president gave Tom a solid oak buckwheat-cake trap used by his ances- tors to catch the buckwheat cakes as they came down to the maple bucket to graze. To Mir. Firestone he gave a sausage arrow used by the Plymouth Indians to hunt wild saul sages.
 It was in the maple syrup fields of Yer mont that buckwheat cakes and sausages were first broken to double harness.
 The gift orgy caused grave alarms among the Republican campaign workers. They feared the president was staging a movement for Christmas twice a year.
 Out of the presentations has come a new party campaign slogan: From Sap Bucket to President P eetr
 The Three Wise Men of Light, Traffic Con- gestion and Cord Tires interviewed the pres ident and vice versa, Edison springing his fall questionnaire and declaring any man fit for president who could tell where gutta per cha came from and whether Cleopatra wore button shoes. s2nss
 A, ia Little snatches from cross-examinations follow:
 Mir. Coolidge: Mir. Ford. what're you do- ing up here in the backwoods?
 Mir. Ford: Just trying to get away from my own cars. Would you like to join us? Mfr Coolidge Where are you going?
 Mir. Ford {: Fin not certaint
 Mir. Coolidge: Neither am I.
 Mir. Coolidge: Mir. Edison, what did you think of the various candidates speeches over the radio?
 MT. Edison: Fine. didn't hear them. Mir. Coolidge: What do you think of La Toilette?
 MT. Edison seldom do
 Mir. Ford Mir. President in return for that soap bucket you gave me I would like to present you with something
 Mir. Coolidge: Sap bucket, Hank, not soap bucket!
 Mir. Ford It's all matter of tense soap, sap, soup. ,.4 Mr. Coolidge: I refuse to get into any ar gument with the election so near What gift have you in mind?
 Mir. Ford want to present you with a fender my great-great-grapdfathe used as a rattle when he was child: ss4
 Mir. Coolidge Is it still geod?
 
 Mir. Ford A Ford fender never gets so bad you cant use it..
 MT. Edison: Hank, MT. Coolidge is great man.
 Mir. Ford (sadly) Great! Say if could make my cars as quiet as Calvin I'd retire.