Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: A family assemblage gathered at the White House for inauguration: John Coolidge, son (fresh-singing lad on a tour with the Amherst Glee Club), Colonel John Coolidge, father (bringing the family Bible on which Mr. Coolidge first took oath, in order that he might use it again), Mrs. A. I. Goodhue, mother-in-law (on her first visit to the White House). President Olds of Amherst and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns were also invited for the occasion. Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, found it necessary to decline.

P:Frank B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg flitted silently into Washington one eventide, were met by Secretary Hughes and assistants. After stopping at their hotel, they were spirited by an automobile, the world unknowing, to the White House. There they dined with the Coolidges, and Mr. Kellogg presented, informally, a hopeful view of European politics. Another motor car spirited them away. Not until the next day did the press discover that he had supped with the President.

P:"It is our privilege to greet you on behalf of the women of California on this day of the inauguration of your illustrious husband as President of the United States. These flowers are sent that the First Lady of the Land may know the warm esteem in which she is held by California women." Thus was inscribed a "thermos box" of roses, jonquils, carnations, Japanese flowering quince sent by refrigerator car from San Francisco to be worn by Mrs. Coolidge on the great day.

P:Mr. Coolidge considered and put his signature to the Postal Pay and Rate Increase Bill (see page 4) thereby making it a law.

P:E. T. Clark, acting personal secretary of the President, notified Representative Scott Leavitt of Montana that the President would be glad to accept a Montana turkey for his dinner next Thanksgiving and ten other turkeys, too, one for each member of the Cabinet.

P:Under the hand and seal of the President of the United States, to whomever it might concern, it was proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers.

P:President Coolidge sent through Chancellor Luther of Germany 1) "profound sympathy" to the Government and people of Germany from the Government and people of the U. S., 2) "sincere condolences" to the family of the late President Ebert from Mrs. Coolidge and himself.