Dawes Vacation

Southwest from Washington traveled Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. He departed for Cimarron, N. Mex., where Waite Phillips, Tulsa, (Okla.) oilman has a 150,000-acre ranch. Vacationing later than the President, the Vice President had opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators--a powerful presentation of New Mexican advantages:

WHEREAS, The tonic atmosphere of New Mexico is tired nature's sweet restorer and its civilization as old as yesterday and as young as tomorrow and its history crammed with antiquity and artistic interest as well as with grandeur of natural scenery, of mountain, and plain, and,

WHEREAS, Its capital city of Santa Fe is the aesthetic capital of America, therefore,

Be and it is hereby Resolved, That President Coolidge be and he is hereby invited to visit New Mexico for such vacation and to establish the federal summer capital in this ancient city.

Yet in choosing New Mexico, the Vice President may have regretted that he could not visit South Dakota also, whose merits are thus set forth in the South Dakotan resolution which actually won the Presidential presence:

Their summer climate is ideal, healthful, and invigorating; the temperature moderate in the daytime and invariably cool at night.

These mountains are sublime in lofty peaks, sheer precipices, towering spires, domes, crags, and formations not elsewhere found.

They abound in beautiful flora of an infinite variety.

Fine streams of purest water run through the defiles.

Fishing is excellent. Black brook, lochlavan, and rainbow trout are abundant.

The population in and about these mountains is intelligent and moral; with whom neighborly relations are safe and pleasurable.