Mr. Coolidge's Week

P:In evening clothes, immaculately dressed, an elderly gentleman stepped over the White House threshold. Yes, it was the same place. It was some time since he had frequented its portals or had arrived there as a dinner guest. In those days, he had been welcomed by a different host-- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear--some said cold-- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge and presumably to discuss farm problems.

P:Addressing a National Conference on the Utilization of Forest Products (called by the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace), President Coolidge warned: "The era of free, wild timber is reaching its end, as the era of free, wild food ended so long ago. We can no longer depend on moving from one primeval forest to another, for already the sound of the axes has penetrated the last of them."

P:The President appointed John Van A. MacMurray, Assistant Secretary of State to succeed the late Alvey A. Adee (TIME, July 14), veteran retainer of the Department. Mr. MacMurray has been head of the Far Eastern Division since 1919, and has filled many diplomatic posts in the Near and the Far East.

P:The Woman's Christian Temperance Union held its 50th annual convention in Chicago, was overjoyed to receive a greeting from the President in response to a message of approval sent him. "The President asks me to express sincere thanks. ..." wired E. T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's personal secretary.

P:President Coolidge devoted a large part of his week's attention to preparing his message to Congress.

P:A supplementary report of the Tariff Commission, in regard to the question of whether the President should raise, lower or leave unchanged the tariff on sugar, came to the White House, where the President was formulating his decision.

P:One W. T. Peter of Chanute, Kan., who voted for President Coolidge a few weeks ago, celebrated his 100th birthday and received a telegram:

"My thanks and congratulations to you today. I hope you may be permitted to give many more years of service to your country.

"Calvin Coolidge."

P:To a delegation of churchmen, the President promised that he would continue his support of the entry of the U. S. into the World Court; to journalists, he said that he hoped Congress would repeal the publicity provision of the tax law. These two remarks were the basis of most advance predictions of the contents of the message to Congress.

P:President Coolidge accepted the Chairmanship of a committee appointed by the American Legion to raise an endowment fund of five million dollars for disabled veterans and orphans of soldiers killed in the War.

P:President Coolidge announced the appointment of Howard M. Gore to be Secretary of Agriculture (see Page 2).

P:Mr. Coolidge telegraphed to George B. Christian Jr., Secretary to the late President Harding, asking him to express the former's sorrow at Mrs. Harding's death to the members of her family.