The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-07-14
ryclUSlvE SET ARE
sNIIBBED BY COOLIDGE
,1c11NES TO BE TAKEN up
BY ARISTocRATs WHO 1G-
MoRED HIM AS GOVERNOR.

cWAMPSCOTT, Mass.-If Father
r1,dorf's seismograph at George
lol,; i recording severe tremors at a
lo", about 900 miles northeast of
Wilmington you may put them down
' the presidents formal and official
10 ,bb;ng of the exclusive North Shore
social set. , -.
t',nda+ions of this rockbound and
t;Jabound coast by his public refusal
l0I participate in the activities of the
~ ,.I p season. He has declined cour-
'oonsIv to be taken up" by one of
.Lc most aristocratic and exclusive
clioues in the east.
Sets Tongues Wagging.
He has set tongues wagging from
Na,,nort to Bar Harbor. Many a
ao,nnous dowager is muttering to her
P peli Steel, textile and grain million
o;res are not impervious to the slight.
crb.debs are dismayed that young
1ohn Coolidge will not be available for
their hops.
Instead of a dinner jacket John is
,rearing overalls at Plymouth. Where
he might be dancing at teas at the
Essex Country club he is doing the
obores At the time the jazz bands
6are forth for dinner dances the pres
dents son is playing checkers with
the neighbors of his grandfather at
the top of the notch.
Palm Beach and Miami had Presi-
dent Harding for his winter vacations.
The Long Island set had the Prince
of Wales. Chicago's gold coast has
Wire President Dawes available for
.wankv dinners and country club par
te, The North Shore was ready to
lionize President Coolidge and there
by to enhance the prestige of its best
homes.
Refuses Invitations.
He will have none OF it. Through
hi, secretary the president has an
nounced that Mrs. Coolidge and he
have received many invitations to
North Shore homes, but that they in
tend to accept none of them.
This section has monopolized such
dignitaries. 1t seemed to have regard
ed the president as logical catch"
for exclusive dinners.
The situation is not without its
ironical side. This is not the first sea-
son the Coolidges have been at
Swamscott. Not at all They have been
coming here for years. Mr. Coolidge
came as governor of Massachusetts.
The North Shore clique overlooked
him as a social possibility. He came
again as vice president. 1t is not OF
record that any dowager broke her
neck trying to get him to a dinner.
In those days the Coolidges remain
ed at Red Gables, the summer home
of Frank w. Stearnes, which adjoins
White Court, the summer white house.
The Coolidges and the Stearnes did
not 90 in for the teas and parties at
homes and country clubs. The North
Shore clique let them decidedly alone.
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Mr.. Coolidge has become an outstand-
ing world figure His political popu-
larity is Unprecedented. Massachusetts
boasts OF him and asserts claim to
him superior to that of Vermont.
Danes and mesdames yearn to open
their doors to him and garnish their
dinner tables with the gold braid OF
his military and naval aides.
A Suggested Ambition.
Who knows but that many OF them
might desire in return an invitation
TO a white house dinner or a week
end when the Coohdges return to
Washington? A sail on the Mayfiower
from Marblehead Neck-with due no
tice of the guest list in the Boston pa
pers-is not an unworthy ambition IN
Itself.
No social bird flies so high it will
not light for a white house invitation.
The North Shore colony is very Sc
cure Its foundation rests on those old
families of New England, whose for
tunes started with the clipper ships
and was expanded by textiles.
Wealthy New Workers began to
come here a generation or so back.
There is steel as we'll as wool and
cotton money. To that is added a
sprnkling of middle westerners, hog
and corn money; emigrants from New
England, but with impecable social
connections and ability to conjure up
marvellous landscape gardens d
houses with towers. Top that off with
the embassy group from Washington
and you have it.
Mr. Coolidge has spoiled the play
He refuses to do the lead He will not
be lionized, He has not changed since
he came here some years ago. He de-
cllnes to change with the social clique.