The White House Week

P: The President signed the Purnell bill appropriating $10,000,000 to battle the corn borer, famed farmers' pest (TIME, Jan. 17); asked for an additional $10,000,000. On the same day he signed another bill excluding from the U. S. mails: revolvers, pistols and all weapons capable of being concealed on one's person.

P:President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a state dinner in honor of Speaker and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.

P: Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, used to practice medicine in Colorado. No one ever accused him of being ostentatious. He, a widower, has lived quietly in Washington. Last week it became his turn to give a Cabinet dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. His daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell of Evanston, Ill., acted as his hostess. Who were the guests? It may safely be said that seldom have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George Eastman, kodaks; Harvey S. Firestone, tires; Will H. Hays, cinemastar; John W. O'Leary, banker and president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, owner of the Saturday Evening Post and many another publication; Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times; Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor-- and other men and many a lady of fashion.

P: President Coolidge has decided to resume his daily walks--three times around the ellipse on the south grounds of the White House, a total of two miles. This is his daily minimum.