Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President addressed a few well-chosen words to the President of the National Flag Day Association on the subject of the Stars and Stripes: "It pictures the vision of a people whose eyes were turned to the rising dawn. It represents the hope of a father for his posterity. It was never flaunted for the glory of a royalty, but to be born under it is to be a child of a king and to establish a home under it is to be a founder of a royal house.

P: The "first contributor" to a $5,000,000 endowment campaign of the American Legion was the first citizen of the Nation.

P: "I congratulate you and hope you will keep up the good work," said Mr. Coolidge to Walter Johnson, pitcher, handing from the Presidential box at the Washington baseball field a diploma certifying that the sport writers of the eight American League cities had chosen Johnson as the most valuable player in the American League last season.

P: One fine morning the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, put to sea without her master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster, executive clerk (on duty in Washington).

P: In the season of slack news, reporters snooped about the White House industriously searching for crumbs.

One discovered that a half-pound bottle of horehound drops that had for two weeks adorned the President's desk was steadily being denuded of its contents, noted the presence of a wooden bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work. A third ascertained that he did not like angling, swimming, riding, golf.

P: The President and Mrs. Coolidge departed for the Summer White House at Swampscott, Mass.

*During President Harding's regime, desk trinkets included: an ash tray on which stood a miniature Scotch golfer in knickers with two life-sized golf bal's at his feet, samples of shingles, little cowbells, a picture of his mother.