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Show COOLIDGE'S DAD PUTTERS ABOUT 'VERMONT FARM Father of New President . 'Getting Things Straight-rte-d Out', to Go Back to ... llome.JnlllaiathuetU PLYMOUTH. VU Aug. By V. P.) Aa aged New England farmer far-mer In blue shirt ' and patched trousers is puttering around th house of his old Orees Mountsln farm her today whil down In Washington his son sits In ths chair of th president of the United Unit-ed State. , - Old John CoolMg he's T now is "getting thing straightened out" to g back to hla home In Maeeachusetta. ' "Course I'm glad Cat ha met success," suc-cess," he said, "hot I'm sorry ths death of Mr. Harding had to b. Cal haa always been a good boy and deserves credit." Mr. Coolldg Hr. was the . first ene flows th tp when W. A. Perkins, th telephone man from Bridge water, pounded on the door at midnight and (Informed him President Harding had died. He was In hla night ahlrt and barefooted, but after n -had told "Cal and Orac" about II. he went back sad put on his ahlrt and pants. Ha waa th first to greet hla son aa president. It was In thla regalia, re-galia, with the addition of a cost, that he swore his son In as president presi-dent of tha United Bute nearly three hoar later rer th family Bible. Th president's ' father doesn't ears much about clothea and doss not believe a man ahould ahave very day to keep up hla reputation reputa-tion 1 ....... H . (j wuiet ' Ilk hi son. and talks little. H Isn't ttsed to all th hurly-burly activity which haa been going on tha last few daya. Ha. ma glad t get the tele-ehone tele-ehone eut of. the huse because It waa alwere bothering ombody. They pet It in th night of th Inauguration. In-auguration. Ha s peeks In words of on Syllabi Syl-labi with that . peculiar New England falsetto that all theatrical farmere have been trying to hnl-tat hnl-tat for years. ' Hla sentences ar usually' from on to 'flv. words In length and are noncommittal. Th father of a prldnt cannot be too careful with 1 1 p rsaen tat I vea. "I gitea maybe some dsy 111 go down to see Cal." h asld. "Yes . a Waahlngton. Tee. I d like lo ses th Whit House." "Tea,' maybe I'l go down some day.". |