Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President signed the first appropriation bills to come to him from Congress. The first was the Emergency Deficiency bill carrying $159,000,000, of which $150,000,000 was for tax refunds and $3,500,000 for the completion of Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals. The second was the Treasury Post Office Appropriation bill carrying $760,000,00.

P: I From Hutchinson, Kans., started one Vada Watson, 19, blue-eyed, slender, beautiful, who won a beauty contest at the inaugural ball of Governor Ben S. Paulen. She took with her a sack of wheat-wheat harvested by Warren G. Harding on a Kansas farm less than two months before his death. She bore it to Calvin Coolidge.

P: The second State reception of the season opened the doors of the Judiciary. Two thousand guests, headed by the Supreme Court, the sub-judges and their ladies filed by, shaking the hand which rules the Nation.

P: On the usual week-end cruise on the Mayflower, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were accompanied by Hiram Bingham, new Senator from Connecticut, and James Williams, editor of The Boston Transcript.

P: Presidential Secretary Slemp, on the eve of retirement and a two weeks' vacation in the South, bade farewell to White House correspondents. Said he:

"I think the newspaper men could do a public service by relieving the thought that appears to be in the public mind that when a man is elected to the presidency it is some form of suicide. Mr. Coolidge weighs eight pounds more than when he came here, and I am in better health. We have gone through a nominating campaign, a general election and everything else, including investigations, so that the public ought to feel that when work goes on here it is not attended with the terrific physical strain that everybody seems to think necessarily goes with the office. "President Coolidge trains for the work of his office as a prize fighter trains for a fight. He has his breakfast at 7, his luncheon at 1 and his dinner at 7. He takes his exercise regularly in the morning and late in the afternoon, and he retires early. The drive is not 24 hours long.

"The real day's work is between 9 and 1 o'clock. After that, the President's time is his to do with as he pleases. He can study, he can pore over state papers, he can have me make some engagements for him for the afternoon or he can rest. That is the secret of our President's good health."

P: Mr. Coolidge unveiled a tablet in the Central Presbyterian Church oi" Washington commemorating the laying of the cornerstone of the present edifice by Woodrow Wilson, then an elder. Mrs. Wilson vvas present.