THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Oct. 1, 1923

The usual multiplicity of duties greeted President Coolidge. Some of his acts were:

¶To proclaim Oct. 9 as official Fire Prevention Day throughout the country.

¶To receive a new White House dog, Peter Pan, a wire-haired fox terrier from Boston, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Rabbie.

¶To be told that he should call a special session of Congress to consider the coal situation or the farm situation.

¶To ask newspaper men not to give undue publicity to his sons John and Calvin, now students at Mercersburg Academy.

¶To announce that he will call a conference of State Governors in Washington during October for the purpose of discussing not only prohibition enforcement, but other matters affecting both the federal and the state governments.

¶To announce that he will not " waste time " by denying statements attributed to him by callers to the White House.

¶To address the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington saying: "The idea of charity is very old. It is included in the teachings of the earliest philosophers. It is one of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible. . . . Our country could secure no higher commendation, no greater place in history, than to have it correctly said that the Red Cross is truly American."