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Show COOLIDGE IS j0,il" u KATID CITY, S.- 1)., Anjj. 2. ( VV) President ,.uli(iu cnirred toihiy upnii his l'iL'th year as i-liK'L' executive of t!:e United .Slules, fae-iniX fae-iniX the must precarious political situation of liis career. It was jnsL four years tro at 2 a. ni. lu tile day that a sleepy .Troup of newspaper men, including I his Unit I'd l'ress correspondent, rode up to Mr. Coolidtre's farm house it Plymouth Nut.ch. Viininnit, with news that President llanliu had died and that he was to be president. presi-dent. There by thc dim f Urkerinir li.ht of on oil laui he was imlueted into ulfiee wilh thc oath ailnuuislered liy his father, John Cuolidire, who, in stocking feii, stniiried down I lie walled staircase of that farm dwelling to receive newspaper men who were- f rnutieally pounding upon the screen door. Today, Mr. (Joolidge, first, president presi-dent ever to summer in I he west, is meet ing divergent views upon farm relief, tax a tion, a failing Geneva disarmament cont'erenee and dher vital pending problems. Frnm l his panorama of pulit teal colors, Mr. Coolidge's sta r is expected to rise or set and ut this moment it is on the rise. Kami Kelicf Vital-Senator Vital-Senator j ippcr, Ilepnhlicin, Kansas, lender of Ihe senate farm bloc, says Mr. Uonlidgo can have the west if he wants it. but. that -;omo farm relief legislation must he passed at the next session of congress or (he tranquil west will "malic some trouble.'' Capper says Kansas, just as the rest of the west was disappointed ;it Mr. Coolidge's veto of the Me-Xary-IIaiigen bill but that HU of its ion Republican county chairmen already have declared for Mr. Cool-idgc Cool-idgc for re-election. Capper takes care to warm that this situation may not. prevail next roar, if congress fails to enact some relief legislation. |