Show nations farmers turn to coolidge real son of soil for sympathetic I 1 understanding of their problems 6 k ma AKING RAY J 4 Z 4 1 X A or a 01 V 0 3 rn e 0 w t vve a N al V no history of the farming folk of vermont would be complete without reference to the coolidge family N not only was the presidents boyhood spent on the farm at plymouth his birthplace but since and before that time his father has been a tiller of the soll soil a practical dirt farmer the early environment of calvin coolidge cooling e has asserted itself annually ever since his rise to high places in the public service each year he has visited the old home donned the smock and cowhide boots of the calling and sons gone about doing the hundred and one chores that fall to the lot of the farmer there is no job on a farni farm biath which ho he Is not thoroughly familiar or which he hesitates about carrying out As one biographer has aptly said gaida I 1 ile he always ado adorned arned a hayr alce with th as much facility as a review rv lew ing stand 9 the upper photograph I 1 would appear ab to bear out this statement there have been few dirt larmer presidents so that in ebent years the tha photographs of X it R NG TWE THE COOLIDGE cpr f MOW MOWER E P ife V ir 1 v AMA A MA colidge 0 showing him in tile lie smock a and ad boots handed down to him by a worthy grandsire who served in ili the vermont legislature have aroused more or less comment the more inore sordid have been quick to suspect and have looked upon this raiment as aa a costume affected for its effect on the voters vo these suspicious ones do not know cal this same biographer says for hla his essence is simplicity simplic and sincerity ile iio is as much himself in at work in a gin smock ocl frock a and d boots as the sometimes effete emi t children of beacon S street t arc when 6 they wl loll in dinner orde or ra de collete and a 4 javis aks ot i M MI marts i fah in his boy hood young coolidge was not in the vernacular a mixer ra ixer he was overly shy and diC ident but when he did form an attachment for a man woman or child jt it was an affection as lasting lastine as the years he has never forgotten the devoted aunt who nursed him as a baby each time he ifsits plymouth no matter what the press of off official iclal business busl he 1 finds nd s ample aple time lime to sit with her bee and d cb chat at 0 of his boyhood r mi T the e lower 0 we r p photograph ho 0 graph shows atrat preparing r arn for r a s session e slon on the bust bm seat of a mowina machine an n art rt with abich he be to la just as ular us a ho Is ia with jila dist lai |