The White House Week

P: The Marine Band played "Hail to the Chief"; President and Mrs. Coolidge descended the state stairway followed by Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, and the Cabinet members with their ladies. In the Blue Room doors were flung open and in marched the diplomats of 53 nations, wearing court uniforms, headed by Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambassador, dean of the diplomatic corps. It was the first state reception of the season at the White House.

P: For the second time in two years, Northampton, Mass., home town of President Coolidge, went Democratic. Last week William E. Welch, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor by a plurality of 891.

P:When comparatively small delegations arrive at the White House, President Coolidge scatters, with precision, more than a dozen forms of greeting among them. For example: to handshaker No. 1 he will say, "How do you do?"; to No. 2, "It is good to see you"; to No. 3, "I hope you will like Washington" . . . to No. 13, "How do you do?" etc. Last week he received 600 women, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (see p. 11) ; but declined to receive a group from the North Carolina College for Women, "because of the exceptional pressure of official duties."