Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: Major Georges Thenault, air attache of the French Embassy, presented to his Excellency, President Coolidge, M. le Capitaine Rene Fonck, officially credited with hav-ing shot down 85 German airplanes during the War.

P: Messrs. Andrew W. Mellon, Frank B. Kellogg and Herbert C. Hoover called at the White House to discuss with the President the progress of the Debt Funding negotiations with the Italian Commission.

P: The President tendered a dinner to the Italian Debt Commission, which was attended by the entire Cabinet except the Postmaster General, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Labor, and likewise by Senators Smoot, Borah and Swanson, and Representative Theodore E. Burton.

P: President Coolidge wrote to Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia: "After having considered the request which you and Senator Pepper laid before me for further extension of the leave of Brigadier General Butler from his duties in the Marine Corps in order that he might continue to serve as head of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia, I have come to the conclusion that the request ought not to be granted.

"Nearly a year ago I gave you my views very fully. I supposed that you and the people of Philadelphia, in keeping General Butler, accepted the conditions which I then made.

"Of course, I have every wish to help you and to grant any request Senator Pepper might make, and I have every sympathy with your wish to take all reasonable precautions to secure the enforcement of the law, but I am convinced that there are no new elements which ought to cause me to recede from the position I took last year."

Said Brigadier General Butler in Philadelphia: "The President is the boss. . . ."

P: Callers on President Coolidge included: John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the now defunct U. S. Coal Commission, who said that the country would go through the winter without a serious coal shortage and that New England would learn to use cheaper substitutes for hard coal; J. Hamilton Lewis, former "dude" Senator from Illinois, who found the President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt (see CABINET) ; Commander John R. Mc-Quigg of the American Legion to tell the President what legislation the Legion desires; Miss Glenna Collett, woman golf champion, to pay her respects.

P: The President let it be known that he was trying to prevail upon his father to spend the winter at the White House to get out of the chilly drafts in the Vermont hills; furthermore that his father likes to have his name, John C. Coolidge, spelled with the middle "C", to distinguish him from the President's son John.

P: Speaker Nicholas Longworth called on Mr. Coolidge to discuss the President's forthcoming message to Congress. Afterwards the President let it be known that he would soon begin writing his message.

P: Two decisions were announced from the White House: 1) That the special Agricultural Commission, appointed by the President a year ago to determine what agriculture needs from the Government and whose report was largely ignored by Congress, on its own recommendation would not be reconvened; 2) That no disciplinary action would be taken against Immigration Commissioner H. H. Curran, who two months ago attacked the new system of examining immigrants abroad rather than at Ellis Island. (This system, tried out in England and Ireland, is apparently pleasing to foreign countries. Belgium, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark have asked to have it extended to them.)

P: Mrs. Coolidge as the guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington.

P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a luncheon given by the Girl Scouts at "Little House," scout headquarters in Washington. The piece de resistance was a Vermont turkey, raised, transported, cooked and served by Leona Baldwin, 13, scout of Montpelier, Vt., who afterwards wept in excitement.

P: For the week-end party aboard the Mayflower, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge took Count and Countess Asaka (Japanese nobility incognito), Ambassador and Mme. Tsuneo Matsu-daira, Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg, and Mr. Charles MacVeagh, down the Potomac to Mount Vernon

P: The President issued his annual call to all good people to enroll in and contribute to that movement which has "marched unflinchingly onward to succor humanity"--the American Red Cross.