At White Pine Camp

P: The President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy was on the reviewing stand, flanked by Col. John H. Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple words, the President asked Dr. Coupal to stop at Saranac Lake and get him a new pair of fishing boots.

P: Next day, Mr. Coolidge pulled on his hip-boots, waded deep in the waters of Osgood River with rustic guides, Oscar Otis and Ormon Doty. The party returned after two hours with a dozen brook trout.

P: Spokesman Coolidge called the gentlemen of the press together last week, informed them that he had reason to be vexed. First, he emphatically denied rumors which said that the U. S. would make tariff concessions to Europe in order to be admitted to the World Court. Then, he urged all news papers to refrain from the dissemination of rumors and confine themselves to . facts in relating foreign news. Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper to try to influence public opinion is on its editorial page. It may be its duty to express the hope that the rumor it prints on its front page will prove to be false, but it is equally its duty to print the rumor."

P:President Coolidge has approved of an economy program in the form of a new expense schedule for Government employes. Forthwith, able Comptroller General J. R. McCarl* issued the rules of the game, some of which are:

Tips to waiters not to exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into effect on Oct. 1.

P: In Atlantic City, N. J., one Hugh Buckhart was arraigned for speeding. Said he to the Justice of the Peace: "You remember reading in the papers not long ago of the man who gave the President a cherry pie? . . . Well, I'm that man." Speeder Buckhart gave his address as Traverse City, Mich., was fined $10 and costs.

P: The 49 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Long Lake, N. Y. held a fair. A summer guest came along, bought a photograph of the White House for $100. It had been autographed-- and presented by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.

P: Among the "pilgrims who popped up" (in the words of Democratic Publicity) at White Pine Camp last week, were: William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who eloquently informed Mr. Coolidge that: "Generally speaking, the industrial situation is good. Here and there are bad spots, however. There is depression in bituminous coal mining and in the textile industry. . . . The overproduction of shoes and change of styles have put that industry in bad shape. . . . Wherever there has been overproduction mills are closed and there is much unemployment. . . . The logical remedy is reduction of working hours." Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who arrived with a reticule containing a night shirt, a tooth brush, and many square yards of figures concerning U. S. income and expense. He suggested that the $150,000,000 annual interest payments on foreign loans be used to reduce taxes instead of to cancel the national debt. In Washington, Acting Secretary of the Treasury Winston, in behalf of his absent chief, discouraged Mr. Madden's suggestion.

* At the rate of 25 m.p.h., his accustomed motoring speed. --That "watchdog of the Treasury" who last week put a ban on the employment of teatasters by the U. S. Navy, said that the regular Government tests were adequate. --The President often pays hia respects to the brides of friends and of Washington officialdom by presenting them with an autographed photograph of himself.