At White Pine Camp

P: The President greeted cordially Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the first , overnight guest at White Pine Camp. (Senator Fess was the second). Mr. Davis and his host strolled about the grounds, then ambled down to Lake Osgood to inspect rods and lines and to practice casting. They discussed the possibility of moving the Curtis Bay (near Baltimore) and Raritan, N. J., arsenals to some relatively detached point (see Army and Navy, p. 6).

Mr. Davis, no sleepyhead, was out fishing with Native Oscar Otis at 5 the following morning. He caught three bass and a pike-- better than any one of the President's previous catches.

The President arose later, breakfasted amply, telephoned to Loon Lake (30 miles from White Pine Camp), invited Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to come over and spend the night. Senator Fess (whose farm relief bill was recently overwhelmingly defeated in Congress) predicted that Senator Willis, Republican Ohio Senatorial nominee, would defeat Atlee Pomerene, Democratic aspirant to the Senate. Next morning Mrs. Coolidge drove with Senator Fess back to Loon Lake.

Meantime the President arrived at the summer executive offices overlooking St. Regis Lake at 9 o'clock, and read the unusually bulky Washington mail. Reporters ascertained that:

1) The Administration catnip crop near Arlington, had failed. Since catnip oil is essential to the successful trapping activities of Biological Survey felinophobes, the Federal crop would be nursed more carefully this year at Saratoga, N. Y., about 100 miles from White Pine Camp.

2) Fifteen hundred members of the Women's Foreign Missionary Conference had conferred busily at East Northfield, Mass., passed a resolution requesting President Coolidge to comment upon the possibility of enforcing the 18th Amendment. The President made no comment.

P: Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came up for the weekend. He outlined the tentative program of the Navy Department for the expansion of its air arm under the recently authorized five-year program. Undeterred by bogey-visions of the Shenandoah, the Roma, and other lighter-than-air disasters, Mr. Wilbur requested the President's approval for an airship "three times the size of the Shenandoah."

P: The President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos.

P: Over at Paul Smith's hotel the natives (but not the President) were elated to discover Mr. and Mrs. Edward Browning registered. Mr. and Mrs. Browning are the famed "Peaches" and "Bunny," aged 15 and 51 respectively. They met Al Smith on the way up and their green limousine gave him the road. The Brownings intended to fish and see the President.

Their first adventure in the Adirondacks obscured the President's mosquito battle considerably for they no sooner launched their motor boat than they had a wreck. That discouraged the Brownings and they returned to the hotel to make ready for a night of dancing in the grill, where the musicians are back in their green suits, the tuxedos having been laid in moth balls with the departure of Al.