Brief Annals

Most of last week President Roosevelt spent:

P: Sitting in a deck chair aboard the cruiser Houston as it carried him toward Hawaii.

P: Seeing at a distance one coral atoll belonging to the Republic of Mexico.

P: Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away.

P: Receiving reports on the San Francisco strike and radioing Madam Secretary Perkins: "You may say that I have expressed to you and to the public my confidence that common sense and good order will prevail. ..."

P: Appointing three members of a new National Mediation Board to settle railway labor disputes: 1) William M. Leiserson, Estonian-born economist, who on the day of his appointment resigned as chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to return to his job as Professor of Sociology at Antioch College. 2) James W. Carmalt, longtime legal adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission and now adviser to Railway Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. 3) John Carmody, onetime mediator for the National Labor Board, now chief engineer for Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

P: Reviewing the complement of the Houston drawn up for inspection, making them a little speech that he approved of the Navy.

P: Looking all week at an empty sea, with not another ship upon it except the convoying cruiser New Orleans from which three newshawks vainly wigwagged for news.

In Washington last week was made public an executive order signed ten days earlier by the President while in Panama which, with a $15,000,000 expenditure, started a ten-year, $75,000,000 project to cure droughts on the Great Plains. The project: Planting 100 parallel strips of forest, each 115 ft. wide and spaced a mile apart, which would run 1,000 miles from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle.

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