The Coolidge Week

P: The President announced that the unofficial report of the Sherwood Eddy Commission advocating recognition of Russia had not changed his views expressed in 1923.*

P: The President received thousands of protests from prize fight haters against the coming Dempsey-Tunney "Battle of the Century,"/- promptly forwarded them all to Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover.

P: The honor of being one of the last scheduled visitors to White Pine Camp fell to Herbert J. Tily of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Dry Goods Association, and Lew Hahn, of Manhattan, its managing director. These two reported that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity.

P: The President heard that his secretary, Everett Sanders, was on duty at the White House, "feeling fine" after an extended cruise in the West Indies.

P: From the various mistresses-about-the-house, Mrs. Coolidge received gifts of pillows heavily pine-scented.

P: The President announced his pleasure over the past summer's vacation, likewise announced that he would go West next year.

P: The last Adirondacks visitors were the Bruce Bartons.*

P: At 5:45 a.m. the President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee.

The Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine.

Down through the Mohawk and Hudson valleys the train swept and paused. At Utica, Herkimer, Ravenna, Kingston, Newburgh, West Point there were crowds, cheers, songs, handshakes, little girls, gladioli, more movies by Mrs. Coolidge. At Weehawken, Manhattan Transfer, Pennsylvania Junction only a few trainmen gazed on the special and its precious cargo. At midnight the President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived at a spick and span White House, tired, happy.

* The views expressed in 1923 in a press conference: "There is no change in the American policy, which, as I understand it, is awaiting evidence of the existence of a government there that, in accordance with our standards, would warrant recognition ; one that has such a form and has adopted such policies that we should be warranted in saying to the American people this is a government, that meets these standards and these requirements, and you will be justified in making commitments accordingly, and expecting, when these commitments are made, the usual support of your own government."

/- Other battles of the century:

1) Jeffries-Fitzsimmons, July 25, 1902

2) Jeffries-Corbett, Aug. 14, 1903

3) Johnson-Jeffries, July 4, 1910

4) Willard-Johnson, April 5, 1915

5) Dempsey-Willard, July 4, 1919

6) Dempsey-Carpentier, July 2, 1921

7) Dempsey-Firpo, Sept. 14, 1923

* Bruce Barton, magazine writer and famed head of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, (Manhattan advertising agency) is author of The Book Nobody Knows and The Man Nobody Knows, two attempts to make the Bible and Jesus intelligible to everybody.