Mr. Coolidge's Week

THE PRESIDENCY

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P:The President went to the Capitol at 6:00 p. m. on the day Congress closed. He waited in the President's room, attended by the entire Cabinet except Messrs. Hoover and Davis, ready to consider and sign any last-minute bills that were passed. The Senate chose to filibuster and his visit was largely in vain, although he signed 77 bills. Promptly at 7:00 p. m., the he of closing, maintaining a profound silence, he hastened away to his waiting automobile.

P: Attending Church for the first time in four weeks, Mr. Coolidge watched the Rev. Jason Noble Pierce baptize 20 infants. During the proceeding Mr. Coolidge grinned broadly.

P: The President vetoed the Postal Pay Increase Bill, carrying an annual cost of some $68,000,000 and a provision for publication of campaign expenditures. He regarded the former portion as undesirable, but declared that he would have approved the latter if it had stood alone. This was his third veto.

P:A number of additional radio amplifiers were installed throughout the "White House.

P:Mr. Coolidge presided at an oratorical contest in which five boys and two girls gave orations on the American Constitution. Four Justices of the Supreme Court were judges of the con-test--Van Devanter, Butler, Sutherland, Sanford. First prize ($3,500) was awarded to Don Tyler of Los Angeles. In his prolegomena, the President said: "Our constitutional system has justified itself not only in our own history, but in the fact that it has been accepted as the model upon which so many later experiments in democratic-republican institutions have been based."

P: Mr.Coolidge delivered the Commencement address at Howard University (Negro), saying: "The progress of the colored people on this continent its one of the marvels of modern history."

P:Among the bills signed by the President during the last week of Congress was one making every Indian born in the country a citizen of the U. S. and of the state in which he resides. Of about 325,000 Indians in the country, there were still some 125,000 who were not citizens.

P:At a White House garden party given for disabled veterans of the War, there was an interruption when the President was notified that a bill had arrived from Congress for his signature. It provided $6,850,000 for completion of Veterans' Bureau Hospitals. The President ordered a table brought out on the lawn, signed the bill before the wounded soldiers and gave one of them the pen with which he signed it.

P:Washington was made gay by 3,000 real estate men who assembled in convention and paraded the streets wearing white flannels and brilliant hat bands inscribed with the names of their home cities. All Washington was placarded with signs of "Welcome Realtors." Not to be outdone, the President welcomed them on the south lawn of the White House and in a short speech declared: "No other business group contributes more effort to establishing full appreciation of the great present and assured future of our country. You are purveyors of cheer, confidence and soundly based optimism.

"You are in a very literal sense the sellers of America. You have sold it so well that it is recognized everywhere as the best buy in the world."

P:Mrs. Coolidge, attended by Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, journeyed to Mercersburg, Pa., to see her elder son John, who will go to Amherst in the Fall, graduated from Mercersburg Academy. She attended the unveiling of a portrait of Lieut. Commander Joel T. Boone, a White House physician, as well as a graduate.of Mercersburg. She also laid the cornerstone of a new chapel; heard the class ode, the music of which was written by John; heard him receive the fourth prize in English theme writing; heard him give one of eight honorary orations on Perseverance; heard a concert by the Academy Mandolin and Glee Clubs, in the latter of which John sang first bass; heard him given honorable mention as one of the class (of 81) who had been the best influence in the School.