The Coolidge Week

P: Comparisons between the con-gratulatory-message styles of President Coolidge and of Governor Alfred E. Smith were last week available when President and Governor sent greeting to the convention of the Boys' Club Federation in Syracuse, N. Y.

Said the President: "Please give my greeting to the Boys' Club Federation and my sincere good wishes for increased success in the work of training our boys for the responsibilities that will be theirs."

Said the Governor: "Greetings and best wishes for a successful convention of the Boys' Club movement. I believe that the utilization of the spare time of our youth under trained leadership is one of the great needs of our day and generation."

Commentators observed that the Governor had used some 25% more words than the President.

P: This summer while President Coolidge is catching trout, climbing mountains, viewing big horn sheep in the Black Hills (see below) his son John may be learning that the Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains. and a couplet or that Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was the first English novel.

For John Coolidge will spend six weeks of his summer vacation taking English courses at the summer school of the University of Vermont (the institution from which his mother was graduated in 1902). Last year, also, he pursued summer studies, having been conditioned in sociology, but this year no such necessity is said to influence him. He is reported to con-sider summer-schooling a pleasant way of spending a vacation.

P: "I wouldn't miss them," said Mrs. Coolidge. She referred to circuses, one of which she last week attended. After the main show ended, Mrs. Coolidge remained for an added attraction: "daring performances of the world's most famous cowgirls and cowboys." Among her party were Cabinet Wives Mrs. Harry S. New, Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs. James J. Davis; also Mrs. Frank W. Stearns.