In Salem

In Salem, Mass., where they used to immerse witches, sorcerers and other creatures of the evil one, local Republicans last week cried "Aroint! ye rump-fed chair-thieves", announcing that those Republicans who carried off the chair wherein President Coolidge rested his limbs last summer when he attended their outing at Lake Attitash would be disciplined by not being invited to a coming celebration.

Later George P. Kelley, local policeman, confessed to abducting the sedium presidentis.