Show 1 0 COOLIDGE IS ARTFUL DODGER o 0 o By CHARLES p P. P STEWART NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON May 26 Calvin Calvin Coolidge has about exploded the theory that its it's f fatal tal to be elected president To be sure hell he'll die some time but even i ii if he dies In of office ot- ot lice fice he wont won't lie dk of ot being president of ot the United States Instead of ot wa away under his pres present nt jo job his health Is sounder today than when he moved Into the White House probably House probably because he has taken especially good care of it since ince then Its It's his idea that worry n not t work killed his predecessors who succumbed succumbed suc sue to tho the car cars s s of office One thing he may die from is be beIng being being be- be ing hit by an automobile Anybody Anybody Anybody Any Any- body ma may He missed It by a rather narrow margin a few tew days ago That is he missed being hit not necessarily being l killed It would be a great honor to an any motorist to run over the president of the United States President CoolIdge Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- idge however to confer It Iton Iton iton on anybody That cold New England England England En En- gland tempera temperament e t of f his He was taking one of or his al almost almost almost al- al most dally daily afternoon walks with his usual plain clothes guard Hiking down Connecticut avenue avenue ave ave- nue the they came cameto I to the tle point where it intersects Rhode Island avenue and M 1 street street- streeta a mean place The cop had the east and west traffic held up to let it pass up and down Connecticut It It looked like a 0 good time The president and retinue stepped oJ oft off the curb and got nearly half halt way across the road At that Juncture the cop of ot course entirely indifferent to the fate tate of pedestrians though perhaps hed he'd have made an exception if hed he'd known It was he turned the traffic The plain clothes men are big husky chaps who'd fight a lion Inthe in inthe inthe the presidents president's defense but they knew there was no hope of stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping that herd of charging automobiles auto auto- mobiles The whole party simply turned Ignominiously and streaked It for the curb they'd they just lenVell left len Well Vell they got there somebody's mudguard grazing one of ot the plain plainclothes plainclothes plainclothes clothes mens men's leg The president didn't go In for tor athletics In his college days and spectators of this incident say its it's too bad They feel eel sure he would have beaten all records records records rec rec- for an any known variety of ot Jump It is becoming very clear that Vice President Da Dawes ves Is not going to succeed in getting the senate rules changed when congress meets next The thing is developing into a party fight tight and on that basis the administration administration administration adminis adminis- hasn't enough votes It can and probably will have the house rules changed It has a clear majority there It probably will change them back hack in the direction of Uncle Joe making a czar out of Speaker r Longworth and taking away from the minority even those rights which it hath hath It if any |