Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: To the White House, whither he had come before as politician, as Congressman, as Cabinet officer, came William J. Bryan as a Presbyterian. With him was his brother Charles W. and a delegation from the General Council of the Presbyterian Church to pass the time of day with Calvin Coolidge.

P: The President, in the closing hours of the special session of the Senate, nominated James Garabaldi Sargent to be Attorney General, Peter Augustus Jay to be Ambassador to Argentina, Jacob Gould Schurman to be Ambassador to Germany, Ulysses Grant-Smith to be Minister to Uruguay, George L. Kreeck to be Minister to Paraguay, four additional members to the Board of Tax Appeals and Thomas F. Woodlock to the Interstate Commerce Commission. All except Mr. Woodlock were immediately confirmed.

P: Tsuneo Matsudaira presented the President with a pleasing speech and letters of credence as Ambassador from Japan. In reply, the President referred to "your predecessor, Mr. Masanao Hanihara, who so congenially and helpfully represented your Government among us"--a remark perilously near a lie or an opinion by Stephen Leacock.

P: Charles Beecher Warren, after a sojourn of several days at the White House, packed up his bags and went home to Detroit.

P: By executive order, the President decreed the abolition of 28 local land offices as of Apr. 30.

P: Calvin Coolidge, Honorary President of the American Red Cross, telegraphed to John Barton Payne, Chairman of the organization, saying: "Information has reached me of the disaster [see SCIENCE] that has overtaken a portion of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

"It is said that many people are homeless and many are injured. I suggest that you put in operation all the facilities of the Red Cross to assist in the required relief. I am sending a telegram to the Governor of Illinois that you will do so."

P:The President, and also Attorney General Sargent, Postmaster General New, Speaker Longworth, Everett Sanders, John Hays Hammond, and Edward T. Clark, Rudolph Forster, Judson C. Welliver (White House men) were guests of 115 newspaper correspondents who "cover" the White House. The correspondents gave a good dinner at the new Hotel Mayflower and Mr. Sargent made a good speech.