The Inaugural

On Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President of the U. S.

Before performing that act and uttering the pledge that precedes it, Mr. Hoover will undoubtedly repair to the Friends Meeting House and silently dedicate himself in Quaker fashion.

Monday morning he will arise in his S Street home as usual, put on his cutaway, have breakfast, scan his speech once more. Fidgety, he may peek out the window to see who is coming up the street. Finally, up will drive Senator Moses and Representative Tilson, the Congressional Committee, in a hired car. At 10:30 Mr. Hoover will put on his silk hat and drive off with them down Connecticut Avenue. Thereafter the schedule will be as follows:

10:40--Arrival under the White House porte-cochere. Mr. Hoover enters.

10:50--President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover emerge from the White House, step into an open White House motor, roll down the driveway, turning east on Pennsylvania Avenue.

11--Arrival at the Capitol (Senate wing). President Coolidge goes to the President's Room to sign final bills. Mr. Hoover follows.

Noon--President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover enter the Senate chamber. The new Senate assembles. Charles Curtis takes the oath as Vice President, speaks briefly. All march out to the east steps.

12:30--Mr. Hoover hands his hat to his official Hat-Holder. Lifting his right hand, he repeats after Chief Justice Taft the affirmation to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Now President, he reads his inaugural address.

1:15--President Hoover motors quickly back to White House. Buffet lunch. Calvin Coolidge, citizen, prepares to take the 2 p. m. train to Northampton, Mass.

1:30--A parade starts down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol--troops, State Governors, bands, flags, patriots.

1:45--As the parade approaches. President Hoover issues from the White House, climbs through the back of a grandstand built over the fence, tulip-bed and sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. He takes his post in a glassed-in pulpit, to receive and return the salutes of the U. S. People.

*If the weather is inclement, the Senate chamber will be used. Bad weather has marred 20 of the 35 Inaugurals.