Mr. Coolidge's Week

THE PRESIDENCY

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Army selected as his chief military aid (succeeding Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, resigned) Engineer Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, holder of the D. S. M. and the French Croix de Guerre with Palms, a Commander of the Legion of Honor, military attache at Peking since the War.

P:The President decided to leave Washington June 5, accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg, Mrs. Kellogg; to arrive in St. Paul, Minn., June 7; to be the guest of the Kelloggs; to address the Norse-American-- Centennial celebration June 8; to depart for Washington June 9. He will make no stopovers.

P:The President let it be known that he would begin to be a little less patient in the matter of European debts. The Debt Funding Commission (including Messrs. Hoover, Mellon, Smoot, Kellogg) was summoned to meet later this month.

P:London papers commended the President for sending his old hat to be re-blocked for Easter. They animadverted upon that glorious Duke of Devonshire who appeared at the smartest spring races year after year in the same hat. He kept his hat for comfort, not economy. Finally, 24 lady friends sent him 24 new hats on the same day. He accepted the gifts, never wore the hats.

P:The President and Mrs. Coolidge, after attending divine service, went aboard the Mayflower. Fellow passengers overnight: Senator Wadsworth of New York, Secretaries Jardine and Davis, Attorney General Sargent.

P:The President received Charles D. Hilles, onetime (1912-16) Republican National Committee Chairman, was advised to appoint Frederick C. Hicks, onetime (1915-23) Congressman from New York, to the post of Alien Property Custodian. Later, Mr. Hilles said that he himself would not accept a Cabinet post (TIME, Apr. 6). P:The President addressed the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, of which Morgan Butler, son of Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy: "We may well contrast this absolute freedom in our distribution [export] of raw ma- terials with discriminatory systems practiced by some other countries." (See BUSINESS: "Caoutchouc") He touched lightly on fickle female fashions. He gave no hope of higher tariff on cotton goods next December.

*In 1825, the sloop Restaurationen, loaded with Norwegian Quakers, landed in Manhattan. The immigrants first settled in Orleans County, N. Y., were joined by friends and relatives, moved west to Illinois, gradually spread throughout the Middle West and Northwest.