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Show CX'STKK PA UK President Coolidtfe let it be known lust week that Custer Park, S. U., had been chosen for his summer vacation. At once observers began to drape his choice with political significances. They pointed out that the decision had followed visits from Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, self styled , Roosevelt Roose-velt Republican" and no intimate of the Old Guard. Politically speaking, indeed, President Presi-dent Coolidge will be traveling "Out Where the Blues Begin." Most South Dakotans are farmers, most farmers are disgruntled, most disgruntled dis-gruntled among farmers are the farmers of South Dakota. From neighboring Nebraska comes Insurgent In-surgent Republican Senator George W. Norris. It also , happens that South Dakota holds its presidential primaries earlier than any of its sister states. Thus observers saw political significance sig-nificance in the President's vacation. vaca-tion. They predicted that farmers and farm-paper editors would make pilgrimage to the State Lodge, return re-turn better disposed toward a President Presi-dent whose hand they had shaken, whose trout they had consumed. Some 30 hours train-ride west of Chicago, close to the South Dakota-Wyoming Dakota-Wyoming boundary line, stretches a mountain range known to the ! Indians as the Paha Sapa (Black j Hills). Once they formed part of i the Sioux ' Indian Reservation but when, in 1874, gold deposits were discovered, the red men were quick- ly served with notices to depart, j Later the hills gave sanctuary t-o horse thieves, cattle-rustlers and all j manner of "wanted" men with i blood on their hands and prices on ; their heads. .. Nov the hills are ' subdued and subdivided, and populous popu-lous with tourists.' The gasoline station has supplanted the wigwam : and the can-opener is more " potent than the Colt. I In the Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, 1 buffalo, trout, natural caves. bot-! tomless lake, needle-like rock-for-; mation, custer Park offered high I altitudes and. cool breezes to the presidential tourist. The State Game Lodge ( the park is owned by South Dakota) with; more than 30 rooms was last week : being prepared for the President's: occupancy. Past its porch-., elk, j sheep and deer are reputed toj stroll. Almost at its door is a stream j stocked with rainbow trout a fish i . far more sportive than " Adironack , pike. As a ' temperature, Senator '. Xorbeck assured the President that j he would "sleep under blankets." . The business headquarters of the j President will be at Rapid City,, some ' 32 miles away. Here newspapermen; will be located (not altogether to! their likim as Rapid City is less cool than Custer Park and scenically less impressive) and here the President will hold his. famed White House now Summer White House conferences. confer-ences. . . President Coolidge planned to leave Washington , on June 14, to remain in the West until about Sept. 15. |