Mr. Coolidge's Week

P:President and Mrs. Coolidge held their first garden party of the season. Members of the Cabinet, officers of the Army and Navy, members of the Diplomatic Corps were on hand to receive 800 disabled War veterans. P:President Coolidge left the White House one morning to call at the home of Secretary of War Weeks, who has been ill for the last two months. Shortly afterward, Mr. Weeks departed for his native Massachusetts. The President reported 1) that Mr. Weeks appeared to be doing well, 2) that he had not resigned, 3) that he expected to return to active duty in September. P:Mr. Coolidge consented, last week, to the establishment of a "President's Cup" for the winner of the annual swimming contest of the Washington Canoe Club on the Potomac. (The Club will pay the cup maker.) He described the sport as one "which requires not only skill and stamina, but which in itself constitutes a most useful accomplishment." P:Summar Biakemore, head of the junior department of the Rye, N. Y., Country Day School, classmate of Calvin Coolidge at Amherst, died, last week, at Port Chester, N. Y. P:On one of the first hot mornings in Washington this year, the President took his usual morning walk, had breakfast at 8:00 o'clock--eating his first canteloupe of the year--at 9:00, went to his office, where the hot sun poured in at the bay window at his back. He felt ill, returned to the White House where his two physicians attended him. Soon he felt better. By 2:30 he had recovered, went on his week-end cruise on the Mayflower with Mr. and Mrs. Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator and Mrs. Butler, H. L. Stoddard. P:At Lynn, Mass., four prohibition agents halted and searched a suspicious lorry. It was found to contain wire fencing being sent to "White Court" at Swampscott, Mass., 26-room cottage just being completely redecorated for the President's summer home. P:The President wrote to Peter J. Brady, President of the Federation Bank of New York,* on the occasion of its second anniversary: "I notice that you put some emphasis on the amount of your deposits. ... It may seem easy to borrow money, for that is what your deposits represent, but all experience shows that it is very far from easy to invest money in such a way that you will be prepared at all times to meet the necessary requirements of those who have put their money in your keeping."

*The largest Labor bank owned by any union of the American Federation of Labor and the only one now paying dividends. Resources: $11,000,000.