At White Pine Camp

P: The President awaited, assumedly with no surplus of satisfaction, the arrival of Secretary of State Kellogg from Washington for a quiet talk about the Administration's foreign policy. The Secretary has not succeeded: 1) In persuading Great Britain and Japan to accept tentative invitations to a new Naval Disarmament Conference under U. S. auspices. Last week word came from Geneva that Britain had definitely refused. 2) In materially assisting Chile and Peru to compose their differences over Tacna-Arica, a dispute in which the U. S. assumed the thankless role of arbiter during the Harding Administration. 3) In moving the Mexican Government from its determination virtually to confiscate numerous U. S. owned oil equities, in defiance of the agreement of "mutual understanding" negotiated between Mexico and the U. S. as a condition of the recognition of Mexico by the Harding Administration.

P: Bigwigs liked the air at White Pine Camp. It made them talk. Most of them came away whooping for Mr. Coolidge as president in 1928. Among the visitors last week were: Edsel Ford, who told the President how he and his father Henry were going to speckle the air with new type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business is good." Ralph H. Cameron, senator from Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should decide to run." Frank W. Stearns, who knows the Boston department store business, who is perhaps Mr. Coolidge's closest friend, came to visit indefinitely, to cheer the President, to fish. P: Official Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark was away in Boston. The President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs of the Republic with the aid of his stenographer only. P: Rev. Charles R. Erdman of the Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. P: Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while one Ramon Cordero, Porto Rican native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio Cruzalso. Last week, following President Coolidge's approval of his sentence, Cordero was hanged by the neck until dead. P: Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this vast continent bearing in sombre state one lone coffin. President Harding was dead. Last week marked the end of the third year since that tragedy--likewise the beginning of the fourth year of Calvin Coolidge's Presidential regime.