The White House Week

P: Ten youths and girls from Berea College, in Kentucky, stood unabashedly in front of the camera with President and Mrs. Coolidge while photographers took their pictures. Miss Virgie Wynn had presented Mrs. Coolidge with a quilt, handsome product of the college.

P:The President plans to have the Federal Trade Commission immediately investigate the rising cost of gasoline. The President has been told that the law of supply and demand is responsible for the recent rise. While in his opinion an investigation is not likely to reduce prices to any great extent, he thinks that it may have the effect of stabilizing them.

P:To the University of Vermont, of which Mrs. Coolidge is an alumna, goes her latest portrait, by De Laszlo. The painting shows her in the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, causa honoris.

P:By a coincidence the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence is the centennial of the death of Thomas Jefferson, who drafted it. The President issued an appeal calling on the people to commemorate both.

P:Because prohibition officials objected, the President withdrew from the Senate his nominations for two Federal Judges and a U. S. District Attorney for the Territory of Alaska.

P:Under the existing law all revenues raised from Philippine tariffs are subject to disbursement by the Island Legislature. President Coolidge favors transferring the power to the Governor General.

P:President Coolidge was pleased to hear that a special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, directed by recent resolution of the Senate to investigate the legality of the President's order for the appointment of local officers as Federal prohibition agents (TIME, May 31), had voted 4 to 1 that the order was legal. Senators Borah, Walsh, Cummins, Goff will report its legality. Senator King will dissent.

P: The President made known that the Government has reached the end of its tax-reduction possibilities for the present, that all treasury surpluses should be used in the retirement of the public debt.

P:Seven Republican Senators, Messrs. Capper of Kansas, Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June.

P:The President gravely shook the gnarled hand of Henry B. Hallowell, venerable marine. He had presented 'letters from President Harding and Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler of the Marine Corps attesting that he is the oldest living "devil dog."