The Coolidge Week

P:Over No. 15 Dupont Circle, late one afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully from the White House. Here he may work when he wishes to stay at home; on most days he will continue to use the executive offices in the right wing of the White House.

Earlier in the day Mrs. Coolidge had arrived with cherished personal belongings to see that the 30-room house was in order, the corps of White House servants deployed. In her third-story bedroom clothes were hung in wide closets, her dressing table put in homelike shape.

In the evening the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down in Adam* chairs to an Adam table in the five-windowed dining-room decorated in rose tapestry paper, ate their first meal in the temporary White House. Fifty-eight guests could easily have dined there with them. For a more festive night they left the pink and white Louis XIV ballroom across the hall, with its balcony, fireplace and paintings by many masters.

P: The President ordered the Mayflower from her dock for the first time since last fall, sailed down the Potomac with Mrs. Coolidge for a week-end cruise. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and Mrs. Davis, Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Mrs. Davison were among the guests.

P: On the next to the last day of the last session of the 69th Congress, from 8:30 a. m. until late at night, President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a filibuster far into its second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them of wide importance. Among them were:

A bill for the erection of a monument at Kitty Hawk, N. C., commemorating the first successful flight in a power-driven plane by pioneer airman Orville Wright.

A bill creating a division of foreign commerce in the Department of Commerce to supply information on foreign markets to U. S. manufacturers.

A bill fixing the qualifications for voters in Alaska. (They shall be able to write in English and read the Constitution in English.)

A bill creating separate bureaus for Prohibition enforcement and customs in the Treasury Department and putting Prohibition agents under civil service.

Bills creating a new Federal District in North Carolina, additional Federal District Judges in the Connecticut, Maryland, Western New York, Northern California, Eastern Michigan and Eastern Pennsylvania districts. To the Pennsylvania post the President appointed W. S. Kirkpatrick of Easton, Pa.

The Naval Appropriation Bill which gives the Navy $316,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1928. Of this sum $19,808,000 will be used for naval aviation, $450,000 is allotted to begin the construction of three new cruisers. The last item has been steadfastly opposed by the President; he made no comment.

A bill appropriating $2,341,000 for the rebuilding of the Picatinny Army Arsenal at Lake Denmark, N. J., blown up last year at a cost of 22 lives, $84,000,000 worth of Government property (TIME, July 19, Aug. 2).

P:Harold Orville Mackenzie was nominated by the President as Minister to Siam.

P:In 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm II reigned, the World War broke out, cables between Germany and the U. S. were cut by the Allies. Last week President von Hindenburg, second President of the German people, exchanged greetings with President Coolidge, formally opening the newly laid Emden-Azores cable.

P:Sturdy Secretary of Labor James J. Davis is proud of Pennsylvania. Born in South Wales, he moved to the little town of Sharon, Pa., finished his schooling at the age of eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state.

P: Ira C. Marshall, industrious son of Adam, grew more bushels of corn to an acre than any other man, was hailed corn monarch of the world.* Last week he was summoned from his farm near Ada, Ohio, to tell President Coolidge how he makes corn grow. Farmer Marshall's formula: good seed, fertilizer heavily applied, and a careful rate of planting.

*Brothers Robert and James Adam, famed 18th Century British furniture makers.

*By Ohio State University with the approval of the Department of Agriculture. In 1926 Mr. Marshall won the award with a yield of 168.66 bushels to the acre on a ten-acre plot; in 1925 with a yield of 160.1 bushels to the acre.