The White House Week

The clock struck 6:00. The President stood in the Blue Room with Secretary Kellogg by his side. The doors flew open. Flanked on the one side by J. Butler Wright, second Assistant Secretary of State, and on the other side by Woolmar F. Bostrom, M. E. & P. from Sweden, a tall figure in a frock coat advanced toward the two little men waiting. The stooping little man with white hair, turned to the little man with the wry face and exclaimed: "Your Excellency, may I present His Royal Highness Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane, Crown Prince of Sweden?" P: Animated conversation ensued. Five minutes later Mrs. Coolidge in similar fashion received Her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Animated conversation ensued. Twenty minutes later the royal callers retired to the Swedish Legation. They had hardly arrived there when Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to the President, followed them, to return the Crown Prince's call.

Next evening there was a state dinner at the White House. At the President's right sat the Crown Princess; Mrs. Coolidge was squired by Gustaf Adolf. Others present around the board of crystal and gold were the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the entire Cabinet with their ladies, the Swedish Minister and Mrs. Bostrom, Senators Borah and Swanson (Senior Republican and Senior Democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee) and their wives, Congressman and Mrs. Chindblom of Chicago.

P:Sir Esme Howard dropped in at the Executive Offices to introduce to the President Sir Auckland Geddes, onetime British Ambassador to the U. S., with the Earl of Stradbroke and Lord Dunwich.

The President was greatly pleased last week to receive a letter which said:

"The violent attacks which have been launched against you because of your endeavor to range every available force on the side of prohibition are, in my opinion, wide of the mark, and are based either on hostility to law enforcement, or on ignorance of the precedents which support your action." It was signed by Gifford Pinchot. It referred to the President's executive order permitting state constables to be sworn in as Federal prohibition enforcement agents.

One afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar--not just the usual lady-like dab--and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington, D. C.

Questioned by reporters the President declared that he had no plans for stabilizing foreign exchange, and in fact had no suggestions to offer.

At Arlington Cemetery the President delivered a Memorial Day speech, trenchantly outlined a novel theory concerning world peace: "If we can make the circumstances of the people easy, if we can relieve them of the burden of heavy taxation, we shall have contributed to that contentment and peace of mind which will go far to render them immune from any envious inclination toward other countries." Further, he sagely encouraged Europe toward disarmament.

News emanated from the region of Ogdensburg, N. Y., that prohibition agents had been given strict orders to dispose of all bootleggers and rum-runners before the President goes to his summer camp on Lake Osgood.

At the dedication in Washington of a memorial to John Ericsson, inventor of the screw propeller and designer of the Monitor, the President said:

"His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, and Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Louise, have most graciously come from Sweden to be present on this occasion to join with us in paying tribute to a patriot who belongs to two countries. It is significant that, as Ericsson when he was a young soldier had the friendship and favor of the Crown Prince of that day, so his memory has the marked honor of the Crown Prince of today."

Among other famed Swedes whom the President mentioned were John Morton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross (claimed as Swedish), General Stolbrand, Admiral Dahlgren. Further he said:

"I shall name but one of the public officials of the Swedish race who have served our country so faithfully as representative of the great legion whose names spring to our thoughts, a learned lawyer, blessed with great ability, possessed of high character, a seasoned parliamentarian with a record of prominent leadership in the legislature of his own State and in the Congress of the United States, a man endowed with the old Norse spirit, a true American, the senior Senator from Wisconsin, Irvine L. Lenroot."

(Senator Lenroot is engaged in mortal combat with the LaFollette forces for renomination.)

P:The President came out on the White House lawn where 5,750 Baptists were waiting to have their picture taken around him. It was the largest crowd ever so photographed on the White House grounds.