The White House Week

The White House Week

P:The President last week received invitations to spend the summer months in Lenox, Mass., in the Finger Lakes region of N. Y., in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Summer White Houses so far offered are located in 18 different states.

P:At his regular conference with reporters the President made it known that he did not favor Federal censorship of motion pictures* but thought that the states should do whatever is necessary of that kind. He indicated that he favors the Mills bill, which would provide returning German property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and paying American claims against Germany out of the proceeds of a U. S. bond issue, which would be retired out of the U. S. receipts under the Dawes Plan from Germany.

P:In the matter of economy the President last week first told the press that he was concerned about the special appropriations which are being demanded. He recommended a $300,000,000 reduction of taxes, but Congress reduced taxes nearly $70,000,000 beyond that figure and now all sorts of demands for special appropriations are being made: some $23,000,000 for Spanish War veterans' pensions, some $72,000,000 for Civil War veterans, some $50,000,000 for World War veterans, about $18,000,000 for Civil Service retirements. These bills, he intimated, would have to be trimmed so that Uncle Sam could make ends meet, or the President might have to use his veto power.

P:The next morning after this information was imparted to the press, at 7:30, a select gathering of Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg--the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress-- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before.

P:Captain Adolphus Andrews, Naval Aide to the President displaced by Captain Wilson Brown, called to bid the President farewell before taking up his duties as adviser to the American delegation to the preliminary disarmament conference at Geneva.

* Once upon a time Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts vetoed a cinema censorship bill on technical grounds.