Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President summoned a conference to meet in Washington on May 22. The purpose of the meeting is to lay out a "national outdoor recreation policy." Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is Chairman of the Committee in charge. Messrs. Weeks, Work, Wallace and Hoover are Honorary Chairmen to lend prestige to the movement to lure the public to arcadian pleasures and rustic delights.

P: Speaking to a delegation from the American Chemical Society, President Coolidge declared: "Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute."

P: Visitors at the rate of 1,000 or more a day came to the White House to see the President. Taking precaution of his strength, he gave up trying to shake hands with all of them and allowed several hundreds just to tramp through his office and see him work.

P: One James Martin Miller telegraphed The Dearborn Independent and the telegram was read into the record of the Senate Agriculture Committee, that in an interview the President had said: "It is my hope that Mr. Ford will not do or say anything that will make it difficult for me to deliver Muscle shoals to him, which I am trying to do." Mr. Coolidge denied categorically that he had ever made such a statement and asserted that his only desire was that Mr. Ford's and other bids should be fairly considered. He pointed out that his Muscle Shoals policy had been formulated before he had discussed the matter with Mr. Ford.

P: President Coolidge dedicated the new building of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, predicting "a new day in scientific research." (See page 20.)

P: The President signed a bill appropriating $1,500,000 to fight the foot-and-mouth disease in California where the Federal Government has instituted a rigorous quarantine in the affected regions.

P: Evangeline Booth called at the White House and while waiting to see Mr. Coolidge was cheered by several hundred visitors who under the new rule were not to shake hands with the President. The Commander of the Salvation Army obliged them by shaking the hand of each one.