Show Coolidge Apparently 7 Does Not Choose to do Reenter Public Role Former President Appear r L R Resolved t to o Lead Quiet Life k Editors Editor's Note Since he retired three years rears the presidency rico fron ram today Calvin Coolidge Coolidge's s 's tu- tu ago has bas been th the subject o of at increasing Increasing in- in L lure ture creasing speculation He Hc has not to divulge his plans butLa but La facts chosen assembled b by t the e United combine to indicate his hisA A line mind Press is made up These facts and the conclusion t they ey point to 1 presented herewith arc N By HENRY ENRY MINOTT Press Staff Correspondent batted l copyright 1932 b by the United Press NORTHAMPTON Mass March 4 Coolidge seems resolved to tc alvin lvin r C Cs id d the rest of at h his years cars in the ls s t walks of oC life liCe Today quit on ul on the third anniversary of retirement from the White House bas s increasingly evident he Tt jt becomes not choose to lo return to the whirl d does 01 world affairs public affairs public or private lof His ws name has been linked with t r vacant posts in recent months to co 50 much so that one newspaper has called him Americas handy man E jt It was rumored he might succeed Dr Arthur Stanley Pease as president preside dent de t of ot Amherst college Coolidge's Coolidge s salma alma aIma mater James A A. Farrell as president of the United States Steel corporation or Oliver Wendell Holmes as associate justice of the Us U.'s U. U s 's S supreme court He was mentioned t too In connection with the presidencies ct cies of ot a New York insurance compan company com com- pany pan and of ofa a poj projected New England dairy organization MAINTAINS S SILENCE Meantime the nations nation's only living ez president has maintained characteristic characteristic charac charac- silence Nothing has developed developed devel devel- however to indicate that any position interest him and the open pen following circumstances tend to support support sup sup- port the belief belie that his retirement is permanent k f i i Soon I-Soon Soon after retiring as president he bought a room room 11 manion manton man- man ton ion The Thc Beeches Beeches an an an unlikely step tep if he contemplated only a temporary tem tern stay in Northampton 2 He 2 He has made extensive improvements improvements improve improve- ments cents on his ancestral homestead in Plymouth Vt VL and will continue them in the spring indicating he plans to spend considerable lc time there i He 3 3 He spent nearly 30 y years rears ars in exacting public capacities and seems happy happ in his comparatively comparative comparative- ly carefree life of today v o 4 4 Only Only once since he left the White House has he taken any part partIn In politics That was when he made one cee radio speech in behalf behal of his lose dose friend William WilHam Morgan Butler In inthe the 1930 Massachusetts senatorial contest f 5 He S-He He Is understood to possess a tidy fortune ample for his future needs r He 6 will be GO CO next Fourth o of July Here In what has long been his r 1 home cit city Coolidge leads almost as simple a life lICe as when he was holding his first public of office office city ce city councilman council council- man man man-in in 1899 Though in the city directory just above the name of Assistant Postmaster Iter ter Austin B. B Cooney of Hadley one sees listed Coolidge Calvin Lawyer Lawyer Lawyer Law Law- yer there is nothing to indicate he be heis heIs beis is practicing this profession Nevertheless Coolidge still walks or motors daily the mile between The Beeches and md his office oUke There he spends much time answering his voluminous correspondence and dictating dictating dictating dic dic- tating occasional magazine mag zine articles While strolling to and from his of office office of- of fice The Master of the Beeches as ashe ashe ashe he has been called exchanges exchange typically typically call cally brief pleasantries with many an acquaintance Mrs Coolidge charming popular former first lady has reentered Northampton's community life me with characteristic enthusiasm She enjoys shopping and often is seen downtown with her close friend Mrs R. R C. C Hills HilIs It Is not uncommon uncommon uncommon mon to see her silting sitting at a drug store fountain sipping a soda or buying in the 5 and cent 10 store |