The White House Week

THE PRESIDENCY

The White House Week

P:_ On the steps of the Senate, Dr. J. E. Middour, assistant headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, received from Joseph M. Speer, director of industrial education in Pittsburgh, 20 prize birdhouses made by 20 schoolboys in a contest conducted by the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. They will be placed in trees on the Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student--Calvin Coolidge Jr. P: In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. P: James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word went forth that the President loves handshaking, that he would like to shake all the millions of hands in the U. S. But the fact remained that he quit--at least temporarily. It was estimated that by avoiding this uneconomical--and, according to Dr. Coupal, health-endangering --performance during the weeks before and after Easter, the President was saved 30,000 shakes. P: In a talk to a luncheon club Dr. Coupal advanced the theory that everyone should exercise three times a day to the point of being breathless. This advice, however, Mr. Coolidge is not believed to follow. P: The President indicated to pressmen that the U. S. will not accept the invitation received last week to send a U. S. representative to Geneva, Sept. 1, to discuss under the auspices of the League the Senate's World Court reservations with the nations concerned (see THE LEAGUE, p. 10). P: The President published abroad his desire for coal legislation during the present session of Congress. He wants a law enabling the President to appoint mediation boards and authorizing Federal coal administration in case of shortage. P: Dressed entirely in white and wearing a corsage bouquet of violets and orchids, Mrs. Coolidge accompanied the President to 11 o'clock Easter service at the First Congregational Church. With them were John Coolidge and Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Curious throngs almost blocked their way at the church door.