Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1924 — Page 8

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CALVIN COOLIDGE Born on July 4, 1872, He Was Early Given Nickname of 'the Silent’—First Touch of Sadness Came Into i Life When His Sister Died, —THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRESIDENT

aT IS relatively unimportant, bat curiously interesting, to know toat the most taciturn President this country ever has had was born on the noisiest day of our national life.. On July 4, 1872, when flre-crack-ers were zipping and booming throughout the land, Calvin Coolidge lirst opened his eyes in the hill-town of Plymouth, Vermont. Some biographers are loath to respect the privacy of even his first few hours on earth. They tell a story, which never has been verified, but which has gained no little circulation. They say his nickname of “Silent Cal” dates back to those first moments on earth. 1 It seems the very young Cal had been -crying lustily. The more he I cried the more difficult it became for j his father to sleep. The family physician was of no help and neither was a solicitous mother. Finally they noted that the baby's eyes had become riveted on the only decoration on the walls, a portrait of William the Silent, the great Dutch statesman. They brought the picture closer. Then, as R. M. Washburn, a biog- , rapher notes, “peace came to that household and to its mother. The child studied the face and the features of the portrait and then, placing the end of one of his small forefingers upon the mouth of that great prince anil the other upon one of his ears, he, too, was content and happy, and he, too, slept, and peace overwhelmed that small house and that small family. “Caiin the Silent” “From that hour he then became and has since continued, “Calvin the Silent." And Calvin Coolidge the Silent he has remained. To those who have studied his uncanny successful carver from 1899, when he was elected to the city council of Northampton, Massachusetts, until he assumed the presidency of the United States, it is this grim economy of words that fascinates. But there is no doubt in the mind of any one that the President's granite-like exterior is but the outgrowth of Jus early environment. He is the typical New Englander. The house in which he was born and brought up is in the Green Mountains. It overlooks a wide sweep of valley and is just across the street from the house now occupied by his father. When Coolidge was 12. his mother died, and the boy went to live on “Grandfather Coolidge's” farm a short distance away. There is nothing pretentious about Plymouth. People there live by the sweat of their brows. The winters In that section are long and cold and severe. In a way they are isolated, but this Isolation only serves to harden them, to make them more independent, more dour and self-reliant. When Coolidge was 6 he went to the district school at Plymouth Notch. Here he learned the three ■ fr ß’s.” Even then he was different l from the rest. He did not mingle. I When school was out he would I hurry home to work. He was always on time and his lessons always were complete. In that way his fellow students came to rely upon him; he had their confidence; he was the star scholar among them. His teacher in those days will tell you Calvin wasn’t an inquisititve boy. He rarely asked questions. He always seemed to know. From the district school at the “Notch,” young Coolidge was sent to a preparatory school at Black River Academy, In Ludiow. Each week he would return home to Plymouth and give an account of his , school life. This was. socially, no ft different from the earlier days. He ■was the same thoughtful, quiet, serial ua-mlnded boy. K _ Averse to Killing New England boys know how ■ #hunt, and young Calvin was no ■Ksqeption. But he rarely, if ever, ■ t( iok his rifle. He had an aversion I to Killing. l[ a* deep religious feeling and conI viel lon is strong In New Englanders. I a n i the entire life of Calvin Coolidge Ijs t ased around that. It is apparent ■in ■very speech he has made since . cfraing a national figure. Tie President was christened John Cafcrfn Coolidge. but it wasn’t long before he dropped the first name, some say so as not to cause confusion between the names of his father and his own. Since Coolidge became nationally prominent —particularly since his election as Vice President —persons of the same family name have been busy tracing their genealogy. The

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CALVIN COOLIDGE. IN HIS EARLIEST EXTANT PHOTO. family originally came from England. In that country one finds the name mentioned from time to time since 1495. , It seems one John Coolidge, bom in Oxford, England, in i604, came m, America with his wife and small son about the year 1630. He settled in Watertown, Mass. The Watertown records show him as first mentioned in 1636. The town granted him land and he w-as admitted as a freeman. Not satisfied, he bought more property. His name appears rather frequently after that and shows he was elected a selectman or councilman many times. His descendents appear frequently. One was a farmer. Another tried his hand at carpentsy. Others were soldiers. one serving, it is believed, in King Philip's War. At least one donned the vestments of his church. The grandfather of the President was named Calvin Galusha Coolidge. There is also mention of a Carlos Coolidge, who was Governor of Vermont in 1849. S' The President's immediate forbears were decidedly inconspicuous, as measured In present day terms. They were a quiet lot. They were for the most part storekeepers or farmers. In fact, there appears to be a distinct gap socially between several groups of the family. One branch became rather wealthy and some say “looked down” on the other branch. It is probable, too. that the less wealthy group, from which the President came, w r as Just as independent as the other. Grandfather Was Farmer

Galusha, the grandfather, was a farmer. He lived literally from crop to crop. His son, the President's father. became a storekeeper, but at various times served as deputy sheriff, constable and State assessor. He also served in the Legislature, both branches, and takes his title of “Colonel” by virtue of being on the staff of Governor W. W. Stickney. Coolidge's mother, who died when he was a boy of 12, wras Victoria Joseph Moor. His father married again, the second time to Carrie G. Brown, who died in 1920. In his boyhood, Coolidge was always girl-shy. He never danced. It is related and seldom talked. They tell a story about his son John. His mother wanted him to go to dancing school. “Did father go to dancing school when he was young?” asked the lad. “No,” replied his mother, “but that is no reason w'hy you shouldn't.” “Well,” John sajd, “father seemed to do pretty well Without learning to dance, so I guess I won’t learn, either.” The first touch of sadness, so often associated with his serious face with drooping mouth, crept into the life of the Presideht just after his graduation from the academy. He had delivered the class oration and wras homeward bound with happy thoughts. He was met with the news that his beautiful sister, Abigail, had died. The father had been devoted to the girl, who gave much premise. She taught school when but 12 years of age. _ Now that she had been taken away, Colonel Coolidge seemed to draw closer to Calvin. He had dedicated his life to the boy, for In him rested all the hopes of the Coolidge family. (More in Next Issue)

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY Robert Foran. newspaper Porrespondent. accompanies the Theodore Roosevelt expedition into Africa in 1909. They arrive at Mombassa, the ‘'rateway to British East Africa." and then make the railroad journey to their first camp on the gamecrowded Kapiti Plains. With Colonel Roosevelt are his son. Kermlt, and three scientific v embers of his staff —Major Edgar A. Mearns, Edmund Heljer and J. Allen Lorlng. After a wonderfully successful shooting trip in the Sotik country, the expedition camps for continued hunting at a farm called Saigai-Sai. After several other trips they invade the Guaso Nyerp elephant country and meet with n ore good sport. They leave Nairobi for Londiani. on the Uganda Railway. After a trip through "fine open grass plains.” edged with forests. they arrive at Londiani. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I T 2 o'clock in the afternoon I Kermit, Tarlton, Heller and L. the huge safari started off to the Uasin Guisho country. They were to camp the first night at Five Miles Camp and then make Eldama Ravine in one march on the following morning. They made a fine show as they started off in single file, singing loudly and with native horns and drums adding to the noise. At their head was carried the American flag. Colonel Roosevelt remained at Londiani with Cunningham© and myself, intending to wait for the coming of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Akeley of the Ffeld Museum of Natural History in Chicago and John T. McCutcheon, the famous cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune, who had hoped to see him before his start for the Uasin Guisho. An hour after the main ‘‘safari’’ had started, a telegram arrived for Colonel Roosevelt to say that Akeley’s party could not reach Londiani In time to see him. Colonel Roosevelt delayed his departure no longer, but mounted his favorite horse, Tranquillity, and rode after the safari. He was accompanied by his favorite native gunbearer, Bakhari. The day following his departure from Londiani was Theodore Roosevelt’s fifty-first birthday. Kermit had spent his twentieth birthday hunting near Lake Hannington, and had then already killed all the major and most dangerous kinds of African big game.

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CHAPTER XIX Preparations for the Nile Journey Cunninghame was not going to accompany Roosevelt on this trip into the Uasin Guisho country, things had not been working out -smoothly in connection with the Nile section of the great journey through Africa, and there was still a very great deal to be ararnged. So it had been decided that Cunninghame should return to Nairobi, after the expedition's departure from Londiani and take with him the Colonel's horse, “Zebra-shape," which had gone very sick and cquld scarcely walk. He was then to proceed to Entebbe and Kampala in Uganda to complete the plans for the trip into the Congo and down the Nile. Roosevelt was due back in Londiani in about five weeks’ time from the Uasin Guisho, and would then make a few special hunting trips to complete his East African collection, and start for Uganda at the end of December. Meanwhile I had written to my employers in New York to explain the details of the plans for Roosevelt’s hunting trip down the Nile, and to ask if they desired me to follow him. In reply they had written me that—- “ When the question of following Mr. Roosevelt from Uganda on the long trek northward to Khartoum came up for consideration, it was realized that while the trip probably would be made in safety by the members of the Roosevelt party, still there was always the danger of a grave accident or ah encounter with some wild beast, the result of which might be fatal to the hunter instead of to the hunted. "Consequently, it has been decided to ’cover’ the Roosevelt party for something like 1,200 miles through the African wilderness. This is probably the first time such an expedition ever has been undertaken for the purpose of what might be called 'news insurance.’ ” “The great distance to be traveled, the rough condition of much of the route, the extreme difficulty of telegraphic communication, and the

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hardship of travel, as w'ell as Mr. Roosevelt’s personal feeling about being followed by a newspaper man." were fully understood and appreciated. But—“after due consideration of the extraordinary conditions —a President of the United States leaving the White House to enter the wilds of ‘Darkest Africa’ —it has been decided to order you to complete your preparations, get together your caravan of porters and follow’ him on the long journey.”

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In view of these instructions, I had decided to accompany “R. J.’ to Uganda and complete my own arrangements for the Nile journey and also to assist him in smoothing ,out his difficulties in connection with the Roosevelt expedition. On Oct. 30, Cunninghame and I took train for Kisumu, the railroad terminus on the Victoria Nyanza, en route to Entebbe. On the train with us traveled Mr. and Mrs. Carl Akeley, John McCutcheon and an American named Stevenson. They were on their way to Mount Elgon via Londiani and the Uasin Guisho to shoot elephants for the Field Museum in Chicago.

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They were to Join the Roosevelt party in the Uasin Guisho country tor a few days’ hunting. We said goodby to them at Londiani In the early hours of the next morning. Shortly afterward we were travelin gacross the flat plains below the rugged Nandi Escarpment, through a land peopled by the tall and naked Kavirondo people. None of these people wear any clothes at all, yet they have the strictest code of morale of almost any race In the whole world. When the Duke of Connaught, the Duchess and Princess Patricia had visited Kisumu in 1905, the then governor, Sir James Hayes-Sadler, had ordered that one yard of American! cloth should be Issued to each Kavirondo who came in to greet the royal party. When they arrived in Kisumu from their villages, these quaint people had used the cloth for every purpose but that intended. Some of them had wound the cloth round their heads like a turban, others had tide it in a bow round their legs or arms. The governor was horrified, but the royal party seemed to be intensely amused. Soon our arrangements were completed, and every difficulty that had beset our paths had been removed.^ There was nothing left for us to do but return f.o Nairobi and rejoin the Roosevelt expedition. CHAPTER XX Good Luck in the Uasin Guisho At Nairobi I found a letter from Theodore Roosevelt which gave me news of great success while hunting in the Uasin Guisho county and along the banks of the ’Nzoi River. The letter follows: On Safari, Nov. 18, ’O9. Dear Foran: On this trip so far we have bagged four elephants, a leopard, a five-

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horned giraffe and various antelopes including 'roan, bushbuck, Jackson's hartebeeste, oribi, singsing, topi, bohor, kobus, kob and reedbuck. We shot the elephants, in company with Akeley, for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and I shall now give one of the elephants, we have already killed and preserved, to the museum of the University of California at San Francisco. •' Will you give this also to Ward, and to Reuter’s Agency (Smith, Mackenzie & Cos.)? I look forward to seeing you on the 30th. Faithfully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The general health of the expedition had been wonderfully *£food all through the hunting, although Kermit had had a touch of sun once and also a slight attack of tick fever on first arriving in the country. Colonel Roosevelt felt a slight return of his Cuban campaign fever at Lake Naivasha, and Heller underwent a bad go of malaria fever near Kenya. They were now concluding their last big safari in British East Africa, although there were still to be two or three small ones made by Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit individually, and so it was fitting that they should end it so well. In ail they had made four long safaris into the outlying districts of British East Africa, having used Nairobi as their main base camp. Cunninghame aftd I went up by special train from Nairobi on Nov. 29 in order to meet them on their arrival at Londiani on the following day. They were expected to march into Londiani about 11 o’clock. About 10:30 whe saw Kermit and Leslie Tarlton riding across the plains toward the railroad depot, unattended by natives but carrying their rifles across their saddles. Both were delighted to see Cunninghame, and were soon busily engaged in relating their adventures and inquir-

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