A White House Gathering

The White House would be an ideal place to live, if it were not for the fact that attached to it on the east are the Presidential offices where an unconscionable amount of work must be done. Any President may well be tempted to escape from the White House on account of its unpleasant eastern appendage. President Harding expects to escape it on June 20, when he plans to start foi Alaska.

Before departing, however, he contemplates the unpleasant task of conferring with state governors on prohibition. This will be his second conference of that nature. The first, held six months ago, was attended by only a few governors. Since neither they nor the President had much to suggest, the governors departed with nothing accomplished.

This time the President will have a definite program to present, definite kinds of cooperation to ask. It is understood that Prohibition Commissioner Haynes is drawing up the program.