| Show v 1 U O c x Be ringi n I S t Sor w wr i Iv t P t iV ilin t in C W il r it w f w IU I InO LO JILl AJ 1 i. i r I How OW Fate L' L P a t. t e n Decreed d I That a a. a t I G era 1 Sho uld Be Drawn President Coolidge e and General n Dawes Shout 1 f t tl rv A Together Under the Tragic Circumstance of o ofa a a i Beloved I l Art I tr vM t rf F Son Lost in the Bloom 0 Oln of 0 Youth When en Life V I e Held i r 9 4 r t t I i rt r f. f 4 h r All All the Zest of the Mornings Morning's Glory r 1 t tN N M A Mt 1 i f r i y I i l pe R r Sd b l i y c S' S A F 7 i hr t aa it k 1 ut i of t R tr of Ir f 4 JL R 1 X A p 9 y General R k t dS A f t R f f ty t n b f P vf a d t f Y f p f 4 r with C f S G in Dawes ty 3 x n 5 1 f t f f y Y Y M t t l' l hisA his wife A Their two x y wt adopted chil chit A r w J r F r i F dren Dana t Virginia it mia and d R jJ i PIr PIrt and their h t daughter aughter 4 S r h Mrs 1 C. C M. M C f V f 3 aa a t rn 4 Ericson and f A m her husband v yr f v i 1 A x n q f Y av Y w NR r Ab 13 7 J i f f i fry L c. c Tr r ST y r F n. n L w ts' ts f f r b t The President v l Mrs Coolidge Y J. J I l- l Coolidge Jr the lf f whom they recently lost i. i c. c r Y n U UNDER DEir the shade of the spruce ce trees j in ina a little cemetery on the side of a l Vermont hillside sleePs an A merican baY 4 The summer winds softly stir grass gras that is is newly grown Br Bright gh flowers flowers- recent recent- 4 f ly iy y pl planted sway in the breeze B Birds Birds' sing sweetly and there is no outward sign of of- sorrow J- J r A thousand miles miles away vay in inca a cemetery just outside the city ot of of Chicago another Am American rican boy sleeps i Twelve years ago infinitely tender tender- hands an s bore him there r i Here too now the breeze plays through t c i the h grass Here ere too birds sin sing and gay a f 5 flowers o rs bloom for or yo youth th Just two graves raves widely separated d b by 1 time and space Yet behind them thema a astory story av 1 of poignant coincidence lies To one of I 1 them under a blanket of pink and white whito A roses was borne the mortal remains of Calvin alvin Coolidge Jr Jr not not so long ago r 4 The other bears on its stone the name name of H. H Rufus Fearing Dawes a Fate Fate- has presented many strange k r parallels but perhaps never a sadder one than that which may be drawn now bek between between be- be k tween President Coolidge and Gen General ral 4 t Char Charles es G. G Dawes Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees nomine s for the n next term in the White House 1 The These e standard-bearers standard for the Republican F 4 v can Party are fn facing the most important nt f. f contest in the life of an American citizen jJ 4 f with the same deep p private grief in their th err i hearts Each has lost under sudden 1 tragic circumstances ces a son in the full l bloom of his youth 4 l' l THE HE heart of every mother and every d I father in the land went out to President President dent and Mrs Coolidge during their pathetic pathetic pa pa- vigil at the bedside of their six six- year teen-year-old Parents son praY prayed d as earnestly that God might spare them the child as if it it had been one one of their own Not since the days when th they y carried the still form of year thirteen-year-old Willie Lincoln from the White House has thero been a a funeral funera service fraught with so- so much nuch pathos He was WS the first son of a i 1 President to die in the White House Calvin Coolidge Jr was the second r. r Ag Against the grandeur pomp pomp and nd tradition b. b tion of the White House in that historic 4 r spot in the East Room where so many of the Nations Nation's great have ha lai lain in the solemn panoply of state rested the pathetic I figure of this boy whose hose only claim claim to to g glory ory was he e died tr trying ing to be beI beall ber r sill all ll that a boy oy might be He had ht but I turned his face toward life No solemn t t guard of ho honor or Six stalwart marines i l F c t i in th their spotless white uniforms s standing stand stand- ing lovingly by by- his coffin yes but only because out of or orall all allAthe the the pomp and bewildering bewildering bewildering be be- rank of or st state to into which destiny destiny des destiny des des- tiny h had d thrust him hUn he had picked out these men as as' as pals a boy troy might cherish Over a sorrowing land they bore him home to the hills he loved while N tio m There was one ona oneat oneat at least who gave a double measure measure of deep sympathy to the tIie parents of Calvin Coolidge ge Jr as they took him home for th the last time This This' was was President Cool- Cool lidge's Apolitical poli ai te teammate He He under under- stood RUFUS UFUS FEARING DAWES the idol idol of his fathers father's heart was drowned when he was Was twenty-one twenty years old at Lake Geneva Wisconsin It was his death which caused his father a man of spare words to bare his soul and pay a written written writ writ- written ten tribute to his boy that h has s gone into the annals of ot boyhood as a classic In the volume of tribute that rose from every one ono who had ever come in contact with young Calvin Coolidge General General Gen Gen- General eral Dawes could rea read tributes t to the soul of his own boy who had passed on S s a f. f x t r L Y t A R. R YV Y F r r. r f. f tu A a memorial to his his' mothers mother Charles Dawes for Vice President on the Republican ticket maintains the tf e Mary Dawes Hotel for Women h For coin coincidence i en f further r ier decreed th thai t although al al- although although though two these b boys ys v were e s separated d ir in irr years they were strangely alike aHke in w typo and character i Both idolized their fathers father's land and w would do anything for them In I In the the tribute t I Dawes paid to his son which was read ead at his funeral service he e told fold how in his twenty one years years he had never giyen him c cause ause for just reproach It is said that Calvin sublime faith in his father w was s th the miracle which kept him alive aUve when all hope of the physicians was gone Were it not for that faith and unquestioning confidence the attending specialists frankly admitted admitted ad ad- w would uld have died long before before before be be- fore he did General Dawes erected and operates the Rufus S. S Dawes Hotel for 4 t l Men l in Chicago in memory of his son son t T THESE HESE pathetic scenes in Washington recalled the death of little Willie Willi Lincoln Lin Lin- coIn coln who was possessed of of the the same great love and faith in his great and simple-hearted simple father Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was devoted to his three children children chil chil- children dren but Willie a sweet sweet g gentle boy was said to be his his' fathers father's favorite E Early in 1862 when he was vas thirteen his his' health began to fail It was was during the course of a reception that the President heard first of the illness that threatened to tobe tobe tobe be serious seriouS' He ran upstairs and did did not come back again to tho g gathering A few days lat later r Willie di died d held close in in his fathers father's arms I t i iThe The boy Calvin Calvin- Coolidge adored his father and made him his his' model for all aU his boyish perplexities It was since the Coolidge bo boys s 's c came canie e to l the Wh White t House that th the pro problem lein of d dancing in school i arose Mrs Coolidge thought the boys should take s some some me dancing lessons but the boys revolted at the idea with all the tho scorn of f sturdy Vermont boyhood Finally their mother thet exacted a a promise that they would Mould attend the dancing school for a afew afew afew few lessons and at the end of that time decide whether or not they would con icon continue On the appointed day John the older boy gave as his decision that it wasn't half b bad d and he thought he lie would con continue con con- But young Calvin who continued to grin and work in a tobacco field after his father was elected President had a question to ask t Copyright 1121 1913 by bi Public Leiger Compaq j i j r tt Did my father ever take dancing lessons he asked His mother had to admit the President I never Iver ver had Well if my father never did Aid I dont don't need heed to said his fathers father's namesake When Calvin was only cleven eleven years old i he dec decided ded to carve out out his own fortunes and induced his father then Governor of Massachusetts to get him a job on an onion ni n and tobacco farm somewhere in inthe the State He walked three miles each morning to save the carfare on this job keeping in his mind a bicycle he wanted to buy But as he grew older it was proved that this desire to do for himself himsel was not just lust a boyish boyish- fad Summer after summer with his grinning freckled boy face he plugged away at some job or or other T IS IS' interesting to note ote that Rufus I IT Fearing Dawes Was exactly of this same caliber He too took summer jobs during vacation vacation from school anstead of taking advantage of the long days of leisure he had earned and which would have so gladly been given him It was during the course of this boyish business career that he illustrated so well the brave unselfish stuff of which he was made When his father father wrote his beautiful tribute saying I II his father owe him one last solemn duty to project the high lesson of his life as far as lies within my power by using this last assemblage when their minds and grieving hearts will vill the more indelibly receive the final impression of his memory he referred t to tb his career first of all Rufus business career career read this tribute copies of which w were were re afterward distributed by the Y M M. C. C A. A covered his last four summers as dedicated dedicated dedicated dedi dedi- voluntarily by him to preparation for his lifes life's work Passionately fond of sports and of social recreation to which the college work of the balance of the year legitimately entitled him he gave gave them up and spent in the comparative comparative comparative tive solitude of a small engineering camp campin campin in Western South Dakota his summer vacation of four years ago Here he lived uncomplainingly alife a life of terrible hardship hardship hard hard- hardship ship without any kick until it was over Every Evory man in the corps went down with malaria or typhoid fever Rufus was the last man up and for days suffering with the fever himself he took charge and ministered red to th the entire camp finally succeeding in moving them to a place of comfort He then temporarily collapsed only to pull pun himself together again and sorely stricken set out on the long long- journey himself It is hard to speak of the mile fifty-mile wagon trip to the railroad station of his long wait walt there of the terrible railroad trip 40 home e when he was unable to eat or l f J t 6 9 r 1 4 Y t. Jc 1 i 1 V i y r f t t t 3 f t c 1 j sleep and of his final arrival which was j jour our first knowledge of his trouble For weeks without word of complaint he ha fought the fight of life and death and then when relief and apparent convalescence convalescence convalescence conva conva- came it was only to usher ina ina in ina a relapse for as long and severe severe a second attack j k kOW HOW OW like this brave selfless ss fight of the son of Dawes for his life was that 1 matchless yes sublime battle of the son of or President Coolidge to win out for those who grouped around his bedside and begged him with their eyes and loving minis ministering ering hands to live lire Physicians clans attested attested that although he was in terrific pain pan most of the time there ther never was such another nother perfect perfect- patient He Ha Hadid did everything he was told assisting the tha physicians and nurses in every way to check cheek the dread ravages of a disease that had come almost like a fearful dream from a tiny blister incurred while playing playing playing play play- ing a g game me of tennis And all the while Calvin was suffering he tried his best not notto notto notto to let his loved ones know it In the tha very shadow of the specter of death this thi boy smiled sweetly s and bade his mother good Brave humble loved and cherished by 1 his classmates and teachers remembered by families and friends with only beautiful beautiful ful memories happy warriors of the tha 1 Kingdom of Youth these two sons of two impeccable Americans have gone But f pass now to the more important important tant thing were the words of his father read over the silent sleeping figure of Rufus Fearing Dawes My boy was only in the beginning of his business career while the career of which I am m about to speak is complete The Lord gave him J Jample ample time to fully and wholly complete complete complete com com- i it My boy lived long enough to win out OU 1 I tI t I I IN TN N THAT little twin house in Northampton i iton ton where Calvin Jr grew from babyhood baby baby- hood but where now his mother and father his inseparable companion John his d dear ar old granc grandfather fathel and the others who had loved him gathered gather d to say a alast alast last good good-by the Rev Kenneth B B. B Welles D pastor of the the- church where Calvin at attended attended at at- tended begged those present not t to h grieve e There is something quite triumphant triumphant- about this life which has been been- taken I away ho told them It was young but then so was the Great Master young It was moved still by the first enthusiasms and it had its beautiful visions and nd its conse consecrations rations to duty and honor It W was wasa S Sa a straight honorable young oung lif life sweetly natural and still an inhabitant of two I j worlds the material t nd and the tha spiritual A high self-respect self kept him cl clean mind ed and a home of faith l led d him to an s allegiance to the church and to G God j I |
