Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: President Coolidge issued an executive order waiving the civil service examination necessary to give a position in the post office at St. Louis to one Michael B. Ellis. The reason: Ellis--formerly Sergeant Ellis--had received, after the War, a Congressional Medal of Honor with this citation:

". . . for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near Exermont, France, Oct. 5, 1918, while serving with Company C, 28th Infantry, First Division.

"During the entire day's engagement, he operated far in advance of the first wave of his Company, voluntarily undertaking most dangerous missions and, singlehanded, attacking and reducing machine-gun nests. Flanking one emplacement, he killed two of the enemy with rifle fire and captured 17 others. Later, he, singlehanded, advanced under heavy fire and captured 27 prisoners including two officers and six machine guns, which had been holding up the advance of the Company."

P: The President wrote to a convention of the American Electric Railway Association in Atlantic City: "It is gratifying to know that the executives of the urban and interurban transportation companies are grappling so vigorously with the entire set of problems . . . "; declared to the delegates of the Third National Radio conference: "It [radio] should bring to the fireside large contributions toward entertainment and education"; asserted to delegates attending a joint conference of the American Civic Association, Ameican Institute of Park Executives, American Park Society: "The movement which you represent demonstrates again that our Government belongs to the people and functions for the people"; wrote to the Republican Voters' League (ex-service men) in Los Angeles: "I feel perfectly confident that now, when the Constitution is in danger, . . . the service men will resist all such proposals"; spoke by radio to 10,000 employes who were dining in 77 cities, celebrating the 55th anniversary of the H. J. Heinz (pickle) Co.; was quoted by the Hampton-Tuske-gee Institute's Endowment Fund as saying, in a statement issued to it: ;'The principle represented by the two schools [for Negroes] is in its essence the American philosophy ... 'as a man works, so he is'."

P: Air. Coolidge received Prof. Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. of the Irish Free State, who exclaimed: "To my country, this occasion is of deep and historic interest"; Louis J. Taber, Master of the National Grange, who advised him not to appoint "a Dawes commission of agriculture" (TIME, Sept. 8), until after election, for fear it might become involved in political brawls; Ezra Meeker, 93, pioneer, who went out on the Oregon trail in 1851 in an ox-wagon and came back in 1924 in an airplane; Senator Sheppard of Texas, introducing the Fort Worth baseball team, champions of the Texas League; A. G. Carter, Texas publisher, bringing the key of Fort Worth; Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of baseball, paying his respects; John Hays Hammond, of Manhattan; Silas Strawn, of Chicago, and other travelers bringing sanguine impressions fresh from Europe.

P: Numerous letters and telegrams came to the White House, urging the President to invite the Washington baseball team to a banquet deserved and furthermore would be one of the finest political strokes in history."

P: The President and Mrs. Coolidge saw the sixth and seventh games of the World's Series (baseball) with the final triumph of the Senators. Afterwards the President, tinctured by the ecstasy of the Capital, issued a statement: "Of course, I am not speaking as an expert or as a historian of baseball, but I do not recollect a more exciting World's Series than that which was finished this afternoon. The championship was not won until the twelfth inning of the last game. This shows how evenly the teams were matched. I have only the heartiest of praise to bestow upon the individual players of both teams. "Naturally, in Washington, we were pleased to see Walter Johnson finish the game pitching for our home team and make a hit* in the last inning that helped win the series . . . ."

* The President's description was inexact. Mr. Johnson made no "hit." It is true that he reached first base in the last inning after striking the ball with his bat. But Shortstop Jackson fumbled the ball; and the play was scored as an "error" for Shortstop Jackson-- not as a "hit" for Mr. Johnson. Baseball enthusiasts the country over had reason to agree with Mr. Coolidge that he is no student of the game.