Monday, Oct. 22, 1923
Ada Presidentis
During the last week Mr. Coolidge took the opportunity
P: To accept the Honorary Presidency of the Camp Fire Girls. In this post he succeeds William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding.
P: To receive a visit from Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, former Chancellor of Germany and now head of the Hamburg-American Line, who was in Washington to confer with members of the Shipping Board.
P: To make his third informal address from the south portico of the White House, this time to 500 delegates attending the 23rd annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters. To them he said: " I wonder if you had a chance to stop and think of the real importance of the service you are performing. ... Civilization, I might say, rests on it to a very large extent."
P: To confer for an hour and a half with Secretary Hughes, after which the Secretary left " noticeably agitated " and refused to give the least intimation of what had passed.
P: To give Rabbi Stephen S. Wise a message to be delivered to the American Jewish Congress, convening in Manhattan. In it the President declared: " This Administration will continue to refuse sanction and tolerance to any anti-Jewish discrimination."
P: To hold a conference with General Enoch H. Crowder, Ambassador to Cuba.