The White House Week

P: With a proud tan and a clear head, the President arose early on his first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio.

P: Next day, Mr. Coolidge called the Cabinet together for its first meeting since early

P: On Sept. 22, 1776, a 21-year-old captain in the Revolutionary Army waited to be hanged as a spy by the British. With the rope around his neck, he said quietly: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." The life was that of Nathan Hale, martyr, hero.

Last week in his birthplace in South Coventry, Conn., citizens assembled to honor the 150th anniversary of his death. A message from President Coolidge was read:

"There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools. . . ."

P: All through the summer the good yacht Mayflower had waited for the return of her master. Last week he came back--and with Mrs. Coolidge and a dozen guests, they sailed down the Potomac River. Among those on board were: Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; Richard V. Oulahan, distinguished chief of the New York Times staff in Washington, and Mrs. Oulahan; William Hard, free lance journalist, and Mrs. Hard; Mrs. Sheppard, wife of Senator Sheppard of Texas.

P: Accompanied by a group of Secret Service men, the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended an evening performance of the four Marx Brothers in The Cocoanuts.

P: Owing to a dearth of responsible white citizens in Alaska, the President is considering making appointments to Federal offices in that territory from among the citizens of the 48 United States. Enterprising statisticians announced that such action would boost the population of Alaska nine per cent.

P: Senator McNary of Oregon informed the President that, contrary to the opinions of Secretaries Hoover and Jardine, the West was hostile to the Administration's farm program. He said he intends to reintroduce the McNary-Haugen farm bill, which was defeated at the last session of Congress, and which the President opposed.

P: Huston Thompson, Democrat, who has served on the Federal Trade Commission since 1918, retired last week. President Coolidge is pondering a list of Democrats, from which he will select a successor.