Show f 1 WASHINGTON TON 1 n nUT HUT COOLIDGE Gr n is S NATIVE TEn IO By nr Charles Charle P. P Stewart WArt NEt NEV Service o Writer WASHINGTON W July 1 Cool I. Cool Idge has forgotten Oklahoma This was getting gelling to 10 be Quito quite a 0 slogan among sooner stale Re Re- Republicans publicans pu Job after job had come up in Washington to bo be filled but no were ere picked to fill till any of them Again and an 1 again a they thought they th y had ad ft a dandy candidate Time after time It looked aa as n If their man was sure to win out Jut Just as regularly regular somebody el also o nosed In ahead of him him at the last minute This went ent on until Oklahoma Republicanism began to show of considerable fractious fractious- fractiousness ness nesa n 88 which ft was all as alarming Okla Okla- Oklahoma homa being ft II very doubtful state politically with a senator to elect next year not to mention eight congressmen But Cut Coolidge hadn't forgotten Ho lie simply limply wits wag waiting for tor a a. duly qualified Oklahoma candidates candidate's name to be he submitted to him for fora or a 11 nice federal appointment When hen finally such a II candidate did turn up the tho president prompt prompt- promptly ly Iy named 1 him assistant St tant attorney general In charge chargo of or government land litigation Hes He's Bert M. M Parmenter Ss S's The mysterious qualification Oh hes he's a native Vermonter Bethels Bethel's his hi old homo home town tow n nebout about IS 16 mlle miles from tho Coolidge place Also In Attorney General Gen neck o o. the he wood woods Par- Par Parmenter Parmenter Parmenter menter lived ld there until ha ho was wan 20 Por Hor all his New England origin and accent Parmenter's a 0 thor thor- thorough thorough ough Oklahoman now lie He landed on the site of ot Law Law- Lawton ton 24 years ears Ago The site alone was there at the time The Kiowa Comanche and Apache reservation he explains had Just been opened to settle settle- ment The go government eminent had cut cutI the land Into farms to be drawn I for In their midst the town of Law- Law Lawton Lawton Lawton ton had been decreed and ant staked out in city lots They were auctioned aucI auctioned off I That town certainly was made to order Parmenter reminisced At the beginning of or the tho week week week- virgin wilderness By Dy midweek a II thriving little tented city of about I r wasn't quick enough to get a number for tor the farm lottery lotter 0 e o othere othere there was 0 nothing for me to do but buy a II town lot pitch my tent tenton tenton tenton on It and settle down to practice If law There Thero was precious J fe lous little of oC It for the first few weeks weeks weeks-a a little federal authority but not much and no local organization at all Shootings the new attorney general continued were so 80 com corn common mon they thC went unnoticed A man was killed three tents tente from mine one night nl-ht and I 1 didn't think It worth while to get up or find out next day what the fight was about or who the killer and ami his victim were I 1 never nover learned Gambling was wall wide I open Let t or er roll Let Leter Leter t ter r er er roll rolt Let er ef roll foil Now she he rolls rolls' came clime day and night from the big o tent where they th y ran the wheel It may have been only a coin coln- coincidence coincidence nce Parmenter observed but Lawton ton started with Just lawyers and just ISO saloons The saloons are neither here nor there But you can under under- understand understand stand with so many lawyers lawyer wn WI had hod to have some law So w we or or- organized organized d a Il local government go In a Il month or six wei weeks ks We c established order V We b b. b be gan building wooden shacks hacks In place of or our tents lents In n six alx months I the railroad built In Then Oklahoma was admitted as ns a state Parmenter Is going to bo be popular popular popular lar with the press for for he ho doesn't bluff I celled on him a a. few hours after afler hed he'd assumed his new duties He lie wasn't fairly started and ami hadn't much to do That's the time the average a of of- officeholder officeholder pretends pretend to be up to ton tok his neck k In work ork But Dut no Par menter n I When I 1 promised to be bo brief I I Tako Take your time Im I'm not very ery busy he said n I |