Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P:"We have been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful people.

"Wherefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, do hereby fix and designate Thursday, the 29th day of November, as Thanksgiving Day. ... In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the United States."-- Proclamation made at Washington, D.C.

P: The President let it be known that he believed Congress would have to authorize measures for relieving food stringency in Germany before the Winter was out.

P: On the 100th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, next month, either the President or Secretary Hughes will make formal and public reaffirmation of those principles which then will reach the century mark. This was " intimated" at the White House.

P: The budget for the next fiscal year, as completed by Budget Bureau and submitted to the President, called for an expenditure of $1,700,000,000 exclusive of payments on the public debt and postal expenditures. This, according to announcement, is the figure to which President Harding had hoped to limit expenditures. In addition there is $1,300,000,000, for interest and amortization of the public debt, making the grand total $3,000,000,000. (As postal revenues ap- proximately offset the allowance of the Post Office Department, this amount is not an " expense " in the same way as other expenditures.)

P: The President officially designated the days from Nov. 11 to Nov. 29 as the period of the annual Red Cross membership roll-call, saying: " It is a privilege to our people to hold membership in and have a part in the work of this truly American organization. I therefore urge a renewal of all present memberships and enlistment in the American Red Cross by all not now members."

P: It was reported that the President had begun preparation of his ad- dress to Congress, to be delivered on Dec. 3. The conjecture is that his chief topics will be the farm situation, tax relief and the railway problem.

P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, and the Secretary to the President, C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, attended a performance of John Drinkwater's play, Robert E. Lee. This is the first time Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge have been at the theatre since President Harding's death.

P: King Victor Emmanuel of Italy received the following cablegram, over the signature "Calvin Coolidge":

"On this auspicious occasion I am happy to extend to your majesty in the name of the people of the United-States and in my own sincere birthday felicitations and best wishes for your continued good health and prosperity."