The Coolidge Week

P: It was a quiet, routine, rather lonely week for President Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge was recovering from a cold--nothing serious, but the lumbago that went with it made her feel like not going anywhere. The President went to a dinner given by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work in the Pan-American Union building--the first dinner "out" (except for stag affairs) that he had attended without his wife since going to Washington as Vice President in 1921. Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. were there, among several dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment there were cinema scenes of Alaska. . . . Two nights later, the President, still alone, received some 2,000 Army, Navy and Marine officers and their wives, at the White House. It was the last state function of the year. Marching into the drawing room, President Coolidge gave his arm to Mrs. Dawes, while Mrs. Kellogg stepped up to accompany the Vice President, and on down the line. . . . Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull and Miss Florence Trumbull, of Connecticut, spent a night at the White House. Old friends, they were cheering, easily entertained.

P: The President signed the bill appropriating $89,820,000 to run the Departments of State, Labor and Justice. The Administration's Navy-building program appeared blocked, so the President agreed to cut down on it if Congress would at least authorize building 25 cruisers (see p. 9). Fresh warnings emanated from the White House on tax-cutting, tariff-tampering, flood control, shipping policy, etc., etc. Congress had sat long and done little. Should it become extravagant to make up for lost time, vetoes might ensue.

P: Seven Negroes and two Negresses called at the White House, talked and were photographed with President Coolidge. They told him of strides made by Negro banking and education. The men, members of the National Negro Bankers' Association, revealed that their organization includes 60 banks with 320,000 depositors, $22,000,000 in deposits.

P: The President continued his almost alphabetical breakfasts at 8 a.m. for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senatorial list, already down to the S's--Shortridge, Swanson, etc.--preceded down among the W's--Wagner, Walsh, Waterman, Wheeler. At one breakfast last week, for the first time, were three women -- staid Mrs. Mary Theresa Norton of New Jersey, sprightly

Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, matriarchal Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California--all of the House. The fourth lady of the House--Mrs.

Katherine Langley of Kentucky--breakfasted with President Coolidge and 13 Congressmen another morning.-

* Besides the four names above, 126 other women help make laws in the U. S., as members of state legislatures. One is a Negress, Mrs. E. Howard Harper of West Virginia. The party affiliations of the 126 are as follows: Republicans, 86; Democrats, 34 nonpartisan, 5; independent, 1.

Last week it was announced that Speaker Longworth of the House had appointed Mrs. Kahn to be the first woman member of the Board of Visitors of the U. S. Naval Academy.