POLITICAL NOTES: In Again

Citizen Calvin Coolidge, in spite of himself, was back in the news last week. The New York Evening Post advertised and republished his article on national defense. The National Geographic Society elected him a director. And he went trout-fishing in Connecticut without a license.

The last was not as bad as it sounds. He caught 16 trout, weighing about 15 Ibs., but he caught them in the privately-stocked preserve of onetime (1911-29) Senator George Payne McLean near Simsbury. Fishing without a license on a private preserve breaks no Connecticut law. And, anyway, the Connecticut Legislature, so soon as it heard what was going on, passed a special act empowering Governor Trumbull to issue special complimentary licenses to his prospective son-in-law’s father or any other distinguished guest who may drop into the State. With Citizen Coolidge in the news appeared a new figure—John Brukowski, 22, dark of hair and eye, tight of lip. For several years John drove a car for Miss Ruth Cooper of Smith College’s English Department. Miss Cooper went to Europe. John was jobless when Citizen Coolidge returned to Northampton last month. Citizen Coolidge hired him as chauffeur and general handy man at $20 per week. Now John drives the dark Lincoln limousine, on the door of which can still be faintly discerned the outline of stars and an eagle which once composed the Presidential seal. At a proper discount, Citizen Coolidge bought his White House car from the U. S. and now stores it in a public garage at $15 per month.