Pot-Pourri

P:Miss Katherine Shea, of the Treasury Department, called at the White House and presented the Chief Executive with a warrant for $5,833.33, his salary check as President of the U. S. It was in payment of services from Aug. 3, the date on which he took office. Said Mr. Coolidge:"Call often."

The first official statement of President Coolidge's attitude toward Russia came in an announcement from the White House. Sovietland will not receive diplomatic recognition until it has established " standard government and rules of international relationship satisfactory to the American people." In other words, there will be no change of policy on the part of the Administration.

P:Walter F. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, pointed out that the first six Presidents to die averaged 79.6 years of age; the next ten 68.5 years; the last ten 61.8 years. He recommended that the President should have a staff of assistants to lighten his work:

1) A Secretary to the President (as at present) acting as private secretary.

2) An Executive Secretary, a man of affairs, the President's alter ego. He would in turn have charge of the following four assistants:

3) An assistant in charge of personnel, to deal with office-seekers and requests for patronage from Senators, Representatives and others. This man, Mr. Brown believes, could take nine-tenths of such work off the President's shoulders.

4) An assistant in charge of legislation, to follow legislation in both Houses of Congress, to keep the President informed of Congressional action and Congress informed of the President's desires, to inform the President on the merits of bills passed.

5) An assistant in charge of publicity, to inform the President on the progress of public opinion, to present the President with pertinent clippings, to gather materials for speeches.

6) An assistant in charge of applications for clemency, to inspect the records of all such applications, to place before the President all facts on which action should be based.