Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President wrote to President Herbert Hoover of the American Child Hygiene Association: "I am confident that the people will be glad to make May Day the occasion of rededicating themselves to the happy task of safeguarding our most precious asset--our 35,000,000 children."

P: A Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment.

P: Upon Thomas W. Woodlock, of Manhattan, the President bestowed a recess appointment as Interstate Commerce Commissioner.

P: The President appointed a commission of five to study Muscle Shoals, to submit reports to him next autumn.

P: Mr. Coolidge, closeted with the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Nicholas Longworth) discussed legislation for December, including tax-reduction.

P: The President and Mrs. Coolidge drove to the Congressional Library, got several books, drove on to the Navy Yard, boarded the yacht Mayflower, cruised down the Potomac. Fellow passengers : John Coolidge, Mrs. A. T. Goodhue (the President's mother-in-law), Senator and Mrs. Gillett, Mrs. A. T. Hert (Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky). Two days were spent on the estuary.

P: President Coolidge received the resignations of U. S. Minister Albert H. Washburn at Vienna, of U. S. Minister Theodore Brentano at Budapest.