The White House Week

P: From the Speaker's platform of the House of Representatives, President Coolidge delivered a birthday eulogy of George Washington. He did not flay the modern biographers. Efficiency, said he, was the watchword of Washington's greatness. An inconspicuous radio microphone started President Coolidge's methodical voice on its way throughout the U. S. and to Europe.

P: The President signed the White-Dill radio control bill and the McFadden-Pepper branch banking bill.

P: On pig iron and iron kentledge, the President raised the tariff from 75c to $1.12 1/2 a ton; on gold leaf, from 55c to 82 1/2c per 100 leaves. Meanwhile, last week the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals upheld the flexible Tariff Act of 1922 which authorizes the President to raise or lower the tariff within limits of 50%.

P: "COOLIDGE COOLS HIS HAND" said a whimsical headline writer. The news was that the President has temporarily given up his custom of shaking hands with callers at the noon hour. Cause: press of business as Congress neared its end.

P: Fred L. Wham was nominated by the President to be Federal Judge of the Eastern District of Illinois--the successor of George Washington English, who resigned while impeachment proceedings against him were being prepared in Congress.

P: France and Italy having rejected,Great Britain and Japan having accepted President Coolidge's invitation to a naval disarmament conference, the President canvassed the possibility of a three-power meeting.

P: White House Luncheon Guest Evangeline Booth, National Commander of the Salvation Army, who last week attracted many a Washington fashionable to her meetings, urged the President and Mrs. Coolidge to disregard cynics who say that the U. S. is losing its idealism.

P: The President vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Telegrams swarmed into the White House--most of them congratulated the President; no one threatened to assassinate him. Meanwhile, on a horse in San Marcos Desert Camp, Ariz., sat Frank O. Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent, had expected the veto and cheered it. After three days, the vociferation calmed. Its re-echo will probably not be heard in Washington until the 70th Congress meets in December.