The Coolidge Week

P: To the American Medical Association in convention assembled at Washington (see p. 18), the President said many a good word for the healing profession.

Outstanding observations of the President:

"America has so many elements of greatness that it is difficult to decide which is the most important. . . ."

"The human race is by no means young. ... It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth. . . ."

"Of all professions, with the possible exception of the ministry, our physicians give most unsparingly of their time and skill for the alleviation of human suffering . . . ."

P: The President may have arched surprised eyebrows last week, if he read a despatch from Argentina saying that famed news organ La Prensa, of Buenos Aires had carried an article by David Lloyd George in which occurred the sentence: "Mr. Baldwin [British Premier] has much in common with the malleable and garrulous Coolidge."

Soon onetime Premier Lloyd George declared, at London, that he originally wrote: "Mr. Baldwin is a malleable and talkative Coolidge." La Prensa had translated: "Mr. Baldwin se aremja al maleable y locuaz Coolidge."

P: His classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board.

P: It was dark on the Carquines bridge in California. It was dark on the Natural bridge in Virginia. Suddenly along both bridges flashed rows of lights. In the Navy Department at Washington a radio operator had touched a button. Before touching the button he had received from President Coolidge, aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower, a radio message saying that the button should be touched.

P: At one end of the tea table sat Miss Laura Harlan,* onetime social secretary to Mrs. Harding, to Mrs. Coolidge. At the other end sat Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Between them sat Washington newspaper women, guests of Mrs. Coolidge at No. 15 Dupont Circle. Descriptions of the reception said that Mrs. Coolidge saw before her a happy throng of friendly faces.

*Daughter of the late Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court; sister of John Maynard Harlan, able Chicago lawyer; aunt of Assistant U. S. District Attorney John Marshall Harlan of New York, successful prosecutor of Earl Carroll, perjurer.