Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: "I take sincere pleasure in extending to Your Majesty hearty felicitations and greetings of friendship on this birthday anniversary and the assurance of my high regard." So wrote Calvin Coolidge to Vittorio Emanuele. Next day the President took pleasure in o.k.ing an agreement for the payment of Italy's debt to the U. S. (see CABINET).

P: On the same day that the President approved the Italian debt-funding agreement, he entertained at luncheon in the state dining room of the White House (amid a profusion of Ophelia roses) M. Titulesco, Rumanian Minister to London; Prince Bibesco, Rumanian Minister at Washington; and other members of the Rumanian Mission come to make a debt-funding agreement on behalf of their country.

P: Mrs. Coolidge occupied a box at a concert of the New York Symphony Orchestra in Washington, having as her guests Mrs. Morrow and Miss Betty Morrow, wife and daughter of Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co., Chairman of the President's Aircraft Inquiry Board.

P: Mr. Coolidge named John H. Walsh of New Orleans to the Shipping Board to succeed Commissioner Frederic I. Thompson, who recently resigned to fight the Administration's shipping policies (see SHIPPING).

P: Not only not invited to stay at the White House but also refused an audience by the President in spite of the fact that her affectionate disposition was attested by all acquaintances on her arrival at the Capital, a rufous-bellied wallaby, sent to Mr. Coolidge by a Tasmanian admirer, was shipped direct to the Washington zoo with the President's request that she be taken care of. She was given temporary quarters in the antelope house, although not related to them.

P: A party motored over the roads on the Virginia side of the Potomac. It consisted of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Major General Fox Conner, Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose on the tomb. So was celebrated the hour of the Armistice seven years ago.

P: Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, called on the President to say that his committee would probably draft a public buildings bill carrying appropriations of $165,000,000 to be expended over the next six years, $50,000,000 of it for housing Government activities in the Capital.

P: The Child Culture Club of Ogden, Utah, asked, not Mr. Coollidge, President of the U. S., but Mrs. John D. Sherman, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the following question: Is it disrespectful to refer to the President of the United States as 'Cal'?

Mrs. Sherman declared judicially: "Calling Mr. Coolidge 'Cal' does not indicate rudeness. It suggests a hurry to get acquainted, and is an affectionate term applied in approval to a leader who is himself seemingly a little austere in his forcefulness."

The Child Culture Club of Ogden, Utah, passed a resolution in protest against calling Mr. Coolidge by a nickname.