The Coolidge Week

P: Some people pack their suitcases and clutch their tickets days before leaving for the train. President Coolidge, off for Cuba, knew that train time would come without his waiting for it. He passed the week with no outward sign of excitement.

P: U. S. Shipping was current in the Senate. President Coolidge reiterated his desire to see the U. S. sell its aging merchant ships and subsidize private operators.

P: A new, firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded men.

P: Paul Henderson, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce came and told the President that airmail rates should be lowered, that a Caribbean airmail network was being surveyed. Before starting Caribbeanwards, President Coolidge found time to write Congress a note suggesting that $475,000 be added to the Department of Commerce appropriations for lighting U. S. airways, improving radio signal facilities.

P: President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing 25 millions to buy the Washington "Triangle" below Capitol Hill, on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Botanical Gardens and the Treasury. Besides many unsightly small buildings, the "Triangle" contains Harvey's Restaurant, the Southern Railroad's headquarters, Poli's Theatre and the President Theatre, all of which may now be razed to make way for Federal structures.