The Coolidge Week

P: The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee loomed twice in the news last week--once when five Rockefeller millions were bestowed upon them to help make them a national park (see p. 12), and again when White House whispers said that President Coolidge might spend his summer vacation on a southern eminence with the Great Smokies for his western horizon. Philip S. Henry of Asheville, N. C., had offered President Coolidge the use of "Zealandia," the Henry mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain.

P: Apparently indifferent to the nationwide suspicion that had just attached itself to one of the guests, President Coolidge attended a dinner--last of its kind this season--given for him by Secretary of Labor James John Davis & Mrs. Davis. Among the guests were Senator Capper of Kansas, Mr. & Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hines (Evanston, Ill., lumber), Alexander Pollock Moore and Will H. Hays (see p. 11).

P: Peru having raised no objection, President Coolidge appointed Alexander Pollock Moore, hearty Pittsburgher, to succeed Miles Poindexter of Seattle as U. S. Ambassador at Lima (see p. 29).

P: Many a bill received President Coolidge's signature during the week--including the Alien Property Bill and the measures to allow Col. Lindbergh to receive foreign decorations, and to authorize the Postmaster-General in letting contracts for air mail to foreign countries.

P: Mrs. Coolidge returned to Washington from Northampton, Mass., where her mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, was stronger but not fully recovered from protracted influenza.

P: Whang! Crack! Crash! Crumple! At 4 o'clock one morning, an automobile driven by one Abe Schnider, Washington nighthawk, careened into and through the iron entrance gate at the southwest corner of the White House grounds. Abe Schnider's girl friends, terrified but unhurt, crept out to squeak and whisper over the damage. Rueful, Mr. Schnider rubbed his head. Watchmen soon haled the gatecrashers to court. Later in the morning Abe Schnider called at the White House. He was told that the White House's occupant and custodian would bring no charge against him if he would replace the bent gate. Grateful, fatigued, Mr. Schnider deposited $100 with the Director of Public Works, then retired.