Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: An airplane soaring overhead writ silently in the sky over the Capital, "Keep Coolidge," and then, as i make the point doubly strong, writ again "Keep Coolidge." P: ThePresident wrote to Mr. and Mrs. James N. Cooke of Morrisville, N. Y.: "My good friend, John A. Stewart, has written to me of your long life together, telling me that you have within a few days celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of your marriage. This is a most interesting and impressive record, and I cannot refrain from writing to congratulate both of you, and to extend my earnest hope that you may be preserved to celebrate many more anniversaries.

"Most sincerely yours, (Signed) "CALVIN COOLIDGE."

P: The day after he had made his speech accepting the Republican nomination, the President, Mrs. Coolidge, their son, John, newspapermen, secret service men and concomitants set out for Vermont. The President traveled in the private car Ideal, the same car which, it happens, was used by Warren G. Harding, speech-making in 1920. At 3 a.m., the special train drew into Ludlow, Vt. The Coolidges breakfasted before disembarking at 7.00 a. m. before a silent crowd of meditative Vermonters. In automobiles the party drove the twelve miles to Plymouth. A stop was made at the grave of Calvin Jr., freshly covered with flowers, which Mrs. Coolidge has been sending at frequent intervals from Washington. At the Coolidge house, the secret service men had to keep away the crowd of tourists who flocked in increasing numbers. Colonel Coolidge has kept a guest book; when the President arrived, it already held 26,732 signatures. The only work which the President took with him was the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar. Nevertheless, temporary executive offices were prepared in a sort of dance-hall-lodge-meeting-room over the village store. It contains four desks, two telephones, four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born, at a time when his father kept the store. C. Bascom Slemp hurried around gathering human interest material. One of his finds was a picture taken of a Sunday school picnic which includes Calvin Coolidge at the age of ten, his sister, now dead, his father, several elders, other children and an organ.

Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors.

To the reporters who lolled about, the visitor said nothing.