The Coolidge Week

P: Waving aside fears of European entanglements, the President, on the invitation of the League of Nations, appointed five delegates to the World Economic Conference at Geneva. The five, experts all, are Henry M. Robinson, onetime Dawes Commissioner; Norman H. Davis, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, agricultural economist from Stanford University; John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. The President let it be known that he regarded Dr. Klein as the best informed man in the Government Service on this Government's relation to the economic situation.

P: Col. Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to President Coolidge for two years, requested a change to more active service. The President announced Col. Blanton Winship, World War veteran, sole unmarried survivor of the famed "Bachelors' Club" as his successor.

P: The President conferred with Michael Gallagher, coal manager for the vast Van Sweringen interests, meditated on the soft coal strike (see p. 10); did nothing.

P: To the President, Col. A. A. Anderson, who says he has shaken hands with every President since Lincoln, offered his 150,000-acre Wyoming ranch for the Summer White House lawn.

P: Back to the Navy Department the President gave the naval oil reserves, revoking the Executive order issued by President Harding under which Secretary of the Interior Fall negotiated the illegal leases with Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair. Only the Teapot Dome reserve remains to be returned.

P: President Coolidge dined and conferred with William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Chairman Butler prepared for a tour of the ever-intriguing West.

P: At No. 15 Dupont Circle, Sergei Rachmaninov, famed pianist and composer, played for Mrs. Coolidge and lady guests; tea was served.

P: "It would be difficult to support them [the foundations of government and society] if faith in Bible teachings should cease to be practically universal in our country. ... It seems as though a popular familiarity with the Scriptures is not so great at the present time as it has been in the past in American life." So wrote President Coolidge to one Eugene E. Thompson, organizer of Bible classes at the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C.