The White House Week

P:Attorney General Sargent, having lived alone in state at the White House* for several days, welcomed back his host and hostess from their trip to Minnesota.

P:Having witnessed (on the train returning to Washington) motion pictures of himself at the Norse-American Centennial at the State Fair grounds betwixt St. Paul and Minneapolis, the President was ready to resume work. At Evansville, Wis., while he was eating his breakfast in the dining car, an infant in its mother's arms extended to him a nibbled cracker. The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake. He made a number of rear platform appearances, but no speeches. At Willard, Ohio, on such an occasion, someone in the crowd shouted: "Mr. President, you ruined a perfectly good baseball game." Mrs. Coolidge spoke up, smiling: "You ruined a perfectly good dinner."

P:A letter from the President to the Shipping Board was made public. He advised the Board to place negotiations for the sale of ships to private parties in the hands of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and keep its hands off except for a final O. K. or veto. His reason was that too many cooks spoil the broth. The Board was expected to agree--unwillingly--to this curtailment of its functions.

P:Senator Smoot, as well as Frank W. Mondell of the War Finance Corporation, called at the White House. Topic of discussions : "Plans for next year's tax reduction."

P:On what was scheduled to be the last week-end cruise of the Mayflower before that yacht departs for the Summer White House at Swampscott, Mass., the guests aboard numbered General Pershing, General and Mrs. John A. Lejeune, Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg and Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor).

P:Indians of the Taholah Reservation (Washington) finished an 80-foot totem pole, handsomely embellished with birds, reptiles and animals, carved and painted in barbaric colors. It is to be shipped to Washington via the Panama Canal, as a tribute to the administration of President Coolidge, will be erected on the White House grounds. It is done in gratitude for recent payments to Northwestern Indians for forest lands.

P:President Coolidge, having considered for eleven months the reports of the Tariff Commission recommending reductions in the tariff on sugar, declined to use his power under the elastic provisions of the tariff law to reduce the tariff (see TARIFF).

P:John Coolidge, son of the President, Amherst '28, visited Governor and Mrs. John H. Trumbull and their daughter Florence at Plainville, near Hartford, capital of Connecticut. A party, a dinner, a dance, a visit to Yale University at New Haven were on the schedule of amusements. Mrs. Trumbull bulletined: "Just a visit between exams and commencement; President Coolidge's son returns to Amherst tomorrow.

"They met on the train going down to the inauguration, last March. Florence, being at Mount Holyoke College* at South Hadley, and John nearby at Amherst, he has called on Florence several times at Mount Holyoke. We invited him down for a few days after his exams and he will return tomorrow."

The New York American (Hearst) printed a picture: "PRESIDENT'S SON AND GIRL FRIEND."

P:Disillusioned by their want of reciprocal feeling, President Coolidge last week parted with some of his pets. Blackie, Presidential Thomas cat, took to night prowling. Squirrels, rabbits, birds grew timid in the White House grounds. He was given to a White House attache (Tige, the President's other Thomas cat, who several times strayed, got the wanderlust for the last time almost a year ago and has never been heard of since). Paul Pry, Presidential Airedale, became vicious, was muzzled and offered to a Secret Service man.

* Mr. and Mrs. Sargent were invited to the White House a month ago. Mrs. Sargent has returned to Vermont, but Mr. Sargent stayed on. * An educational institution for young women. Its pupils are said by malicious college boys to be noted 1) for wearing watches pinned to the front of their shirt waists, 2) for having a "mission" in life.