The Coolidge Week

P: Visitor after visitor to Custer Park has given assurance that farmers are not anti-Administration, are not set upon the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent. Last week came a minority report. Mayor Fred H. Hunter of Des Moines, Iowa, member of a group of State Lodge visitors assured newspapermen that farmers are more McNary-Haugenish than ever and would give the President a "grudging" vote should he be renominated.

P: The President held in his hand a solid gold paper knife, the handle of which was made in the form of a sheaf of wheat. The knife was presented to him by a delegation of Canadians headed by Mayor Ralph H. Webb of Winnipeg.

P: For unto every one that hath shall be given--and President Coolidge last week received an additional Presidency, though of the honorary variety. He accepted the position of Honorary President of the South Dakota division of the Izaak Walton League of America. Onetime Judge J. M. Dickinson, national president of the League, approved the South Dakota action, despite the regrettable worm-bait tendency of President Coolidge. He said that the League was more concerned with having fishermen throw small fish back into the water than with the type of bait they used.

P: President Coolidge last week made a tariff reduction--50% of the duty on refined cresylic acid.

P: The President complimented Hugh S. Gibson and other U. S. delegates to the Geneva Arms Conference (see p. 10) for the manner in which they have presented the U. S. position and protected U. S. interests.

P: Among presidential callers last week were: Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, who said that the McNary-Haugen bill was a "delusion and a snare"; Mrs. Fred P. Mann, Republican National Committeewoman from Devils Lake, N. Dak., who said that the radical element in North Dakota was losing its hold and political turmoil was subsiding; a caravan of some 500 visitors from Iowa and Canada, who were photographed with the President in their midst; Colonel Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, who arrived in an airplane; some 200 Methodists from 20 South Dakota towns; also Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover (see below).

P: "I received the letter you wrote to me. I appreciate it very much. I am old and passing slowly to the life that nobody knows about. Your notice of me, an old chief, proves that you are really a great man. This has made my heart sing with gladness. . . ." So, to President Coolidge, wrote Chief Plenty Coups, of the Absarokees (Crow Indians).

P: A successor to Prudence Prim, deceased White House Pet (TIME, July 25) was offered to Mrs. Coolidge and accepted by her. The new arrival is one Diana of Wildwood, a four-month old white Scotch collie. Diana was donated by W. E. Scripps of Wildwood Farms, Orion, Mich., in the names of his son Robert Warren, 7, and daughter Ann, 5. To him Mrs. Coolidge wired: "Would be delighted to have your dog."

P: Pensions for Filipino mothers were urged upon the President by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, vice president of the Child Welfare League of America, and Edward Fisher Brown, League executive secretary, both of whom visited the State Lodge. Mrs. Harriman said that in the Islands were 16,000 neglected children of white fathers and native mothers, that these children were in a lamentable plight.

P: Persons telephoning the State Lodge are not always successful in establishing personal communication with the President or Mrs. Coolidge. But Miss Angie Conrad of Rapid City never has trouble in securing the attention of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping.

P: Up a steep mountain trail slowly moved a wagon drawn by two horses, each adorned with American flags. In the wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added the strength of their arms to the progress of the caravan.

P: At the McKelvie camp (named Tippi Winnie Kaska [House Beau-tiful]) the President permitted photographers to make pictures of him fishing. It was the first time the President had permitted picturization of his piscatorial accomplishments. A previous storm had disturbed the waters; the President caught no fish.

P: The McKelvie trip also found the President photographed in a new role--that of gold-miner. "Panning" gold in Slate Creek, after the fashion of the early prospectors, the President secured a few particles of the shining precious metal. Thus cinema patrons were assured of seeing Miner Coolidge and Fisherman Coolidge as well as Cowboy Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge also panned gold and .succeeded in "getting color."