Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President reviewed the Marines stationed at Quantico as they marched into the White House grounds headed by Major General John Archer Lejeune, following maneuvers on the battlefield of Antietam.

P:At Amherst, John Coolidge, son of the President, took a pledge to Phi Gamma Delta, fraternity to which Coolidge senior belongs. P:In honor of Mexican Independence Day, President Coolidge sent a telegram to President Obregon expressing "cordial felicitations and fervent wishes for the continued prosperity of your great and friendly republic." P: Following a cruise aboard the Mayflower, the President telegraphed Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to hasten back from a vacation in California. When the Secretary arrived, the President intrusted him with the job of forming a commission to evaluate the Navy's needs in regard to aircraft, submarine, surface craft, in order that the Navy budget for 1925-26 may be intelligently cut. P: The President addressed the Holy Name Society, at the foot of the Washington Monument, after 100,000 of its members had marched for four hours in the rain. Said he:

"The importance of the lesson which this society was formed to teach would be hard to overestimate. Its main purpose is to impress upon the people the necessity for reverence. This is the beginning of a proper conception of ourselves, of our relationship to each other and our relationship to our Creator."