"My Fellow Vermonters. . . ."

For two days Calvin Coolidge and his wife traveled through Vermont, "up the east side, across and down the west side" of the Green Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo.

They laid White House roses on three graves-the President's parents' and Calvin Coolidge Jr.'s. They visited Uncle John and Aunt Gratia Wilder and drove over to Proctorville to see Aunt Sarah Pollard. Her son was there too, Park H. Pollard, famed as one of the Democrats who seconded the Smith nomination at Houston. There were kisses and conversation. Everyone said "Cal" and "Grace."

Bound back to Washington, the President was moved by a demonstration at the Bennington, Vt, railroad station, to make an extemporaneous speech. He said:

"My fellow Vermonters:

". . . Vermont is a state that I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Whittier and Mansfield without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day; here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for the love of others.

"If ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous store held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont."

P: Mrs. Coolidge went to Northampton, Mass., to stay, indefinitely, near her mother's sickbed.

P: The day he reached Washington, the President sent for Nominee Hoover, kept him for lunch.

P: Before the Vermont trip, President Coolidge discussed Florida hurricane relief with his Cabinet. Five Departments were co-operating--Treasury, War, Navy, Labor, Commerce.

P: With Secretary of State Kellogg, the President conferred about a note to France and England touching on their new, secret naval agreement. P:. William J. Donovan, assistant to Attorney General Sargent, went respectfully to the President to announce that he had persuaded Dutch, British and other monopolists of quinine not to restrain their U. S. trade (see p. 39). P: Rob Roy, seven, President Coolidge's white collie, and personal pet, died in Walter Reed hospital. Prudence Prim, Rob Roy's companion, died last summer in the Black Hills.