Evening star., 1928-05-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.

President Coolidge has Just had q
mortgage foreclosed on him. Thereby
hangs as diverting tale as has come
down the Washington pike In many a
day. About two weeks ago the sheriff
of Pulaski County. Ind. came into the
court OF Judge w. G. Pentecost at
Winamac, and called out In statutory
and stentorian tones Calvin Coolidge! |!
Calvin Coolidge. Calvin Coolidgel"
The name having failed TO be answered
three times In succession. the judge
decreed that foreclosure judgment by
default would be entered against the
President of the United States for non-
payment OF a mortgage on farm prop
erty, of which Calvin Coolidge was the
recorded owner. Proceedings ensued
under warranty deed. dated October
II, 1927, conveying i76 acres OF land
In Pulaski County 10 ''one Calvin Cool
idge OF the District of Columbia, as
trustee for Andrew Mellon OF PcnnSyl-
yania. James Reed Of Missouri Simeon
Fess OF Ohio. Julius Barnes OF Minne-
sofa, william Jardine OF Kansas, Her
bert Hoover OF California, Pat Harrison
OF Mississippi and Finis Garrett OF
Tennessee"
Now comes the story. The man who
decided the property TO MIR. Coolidge Is
Luke w. Duffey. well known Hoosief
farm leader and evidently no supporter
Of the Presidents rural policies. HIS
''indenture witnesseth" that he and ms
wife. Mary Amos Duffey convey and
warrant" the land to the men named.
las tenants In common and Tor the
sum of an nnrendered service TO Ameri-
can agriculture. receipt whereof Is here
! by acknowledged. Messrs. Coolidge ct
| nj. are Ito have and hold said l76
acres, and to maintain and support the
| same during and throughout the period
| In which the Liverpool free-trade price
| level. known In America as the Grover
| Cleveland plan OF crop valuation, anail
| fix, underset or rtiinously control the
value OF any and all commodities grown
upon the within described real estate
| This title To endure and remain SO vest
| ed as long as the paint-barren gloss oI
! trade discrimination shall remain OIL
| the majority OF the farm buildings oi
the United States"
| ~ #&
The concluding clause OF the Quincy"
| Coolidge deed reads: 1T Is expressly
| provided herein that this trust shall
| not cease until American agriculture
| has been provided with a well placed
and effective niche In Our national tarllI
scheme; until the farm life OF the
! states has wholly stripped our Eastern
margin hunters Of all their priority
| rights; until the establishment OF a
protective farm policy, which VIII make
| the farming industry, anywhere Witiihi
| the sacred confines OF the stars and
| Stripes. entirely free OF free trade, and
until the setting up OF relief or equal
| ity arrangement In our commercial pro-
eedure, which will treat the surplus
bushels Of the farmer like the surplus
stocks and dollars of the city man, and
make them blessings and assets lnatead
OF curses and elements OF ruination''
| -
| Rear Admiral C'Iutch') / Cone, u
| f. NJ, retired, who succeeds Admiral
William 3. Benson on the Hhlppinh
Board seems to be another case OF the
sailor who just can't keep away from
his natural element Cone left the
Navy IN 1922 to become vice president
and general manager OF the Emergency
Fleet Corporation OF the shipping
Board btl two years ago he accepted
the vice presidency Of the Glggsnhelm
Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautles.
Evidently Hutch" Cone, who III nne oi
The real fighting heroes OF the Navy,
| prefers The Sea 10 the air, lie had
only been out of Annapolis four years
when he found himself lieutenant
IN DeWey's squadron at Manila. Dur
ing the World War he was wounded
when the steamship ieinster was sent
10 the bottom of the Irish Sea by a
German submarine, Cone has limped
ever since but WAS never discharged
from the Navy as physically disabled
he was born IN Brooklyn Was brought
up In Florida and 10 aT years old,
y
No body Vt men and womsn In WaaA.