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Show President Coolidge, Son of Farmer, Knows Prohlemsl N - And Arduous Duties Imposed on Nation's Soil Tillers " - i I-"' T'i j . rs- ;-). V " r DPI SERVING A FAVOP'TE ' Oto Tee at Plymouth Perennially, aspirants to pu'61ic office, mindful of the farmer vote, become converts to the cause of agriculture and the farmer and demand justice for the tillers of the soil. To them there Is no significance In the fact that they have been little concerned with this great division div-ision of the citizenry during the off-campaign season. The vote's the thing, and one may look from now until November for a veritable deluge of oratory and pictorial evidence that all candidates are for "Justice for the farmer." More often than not it is an artificial sponsorship calculated to mislead the Man With the Hoe. An exception to the rule Is refreshing. 'V A j I -v " A K " Y' 1 - A i-itri vfi : W " V" " i l - - f - Jn - CAIVIN .XSM V5JV"'. D'O A iittlE fgSS tVAr3 MILKING Calvin Coolidge early took his place upon the farm. Born in Plymouth, Vermont, twelve miles 'from the nearest railroad depot, he ! is the son of a dirt farmer and has experienced all the hardships, re-1 verses and arduous labors that fall j to the lot of the farmer boy. One j biographer has said of him: I "While many of the boys of to- day are f everishing putting on the golf green, Cal was happy in pursu-: pursu-: ing to its nativ lair the sportive potato. He early and always has j been an artist in mowing and i he early became an adept in i divorcing the lowing herd which ! winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for I butter and cheese." He took the oath of office in the Coolidge farm house. And, as the biographer h&s pointed out, the bovinea of Ply-1 mouth, Vermont, have enjoyed a ! rare distinction. It la not every cow that can be milked by a Pre-ident Pre-ident of the United States, any more than it it every President Of the United States that can milk a cow. President Coolidge not only is "at home" on a farm. A farm is home to the Chief Magistrate of the land. Ergo, his must be a natural understanding un-derstanding of the farmer and his problems, and a consequent deep sympathy with him that la not prompted by campaign expediency or vote seeking. President Coolidge did not have to pose for the above photographs, either. They were taken years ago, when he was Vice-President and before there was any Intimation that he was destined to hold tae U - T i , j it , " 3 - ..." ' X , x , vj , if 1 i r " - . - ' - '- -' i HAYING ON HIS FATH E F2 S f XsR M 1 ln highest office in the land. It wa during a vacation on his father's farm that the photographer snapped snap-ped him as he raked the new-mown new-mown hay, started for the cow pen at milking time and essayed a bit ol surgery on one of his favorite old shade trees. The same farm smock and boots he wore when the pictures were taken still repose in the hall closet of the old family home and await his pleasure. He knows how to wear thtm, and, what is of more Interest to his fellow farmers, what to do after he puts them on. "He has always adorned a hay rake with as much facility as a reviewing stand," the afore-quoted biographer declares. That would appear to make him eligible, at least, for consideration by the farmer. ' |