The White House Week

¶ Staying in Washington as house guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge was Nicholas Murray Butler, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. (from 17 universities), Litt. D., Jur. D., D. C. L., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer of the same, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer (1st Class), Commander of Order of the Red Eagle, etc., etc., etc., President of Columbia University, Republican protagonist of Wets.

¶ The President sent a message to the House requesting more money for prohibition enforcement. (See PROHIBITION.) ¶ Banners—and thereon inscriptions: "Yes, we too want to eat; our mothers work nights, our fathers days, who cares for us?" "That 10% wage cut took our milk away," "The truth is on our side," "Come to Passaic and see how we live"—fluttered about the paths of the White House. Three men, two women, six little children from Passaic, N. J., strike scenes carried them. But Everett Sanders, Presidential secretary, gently waved them away, informing the picketers that the President had a slight attack of indigestion.

¶ But Secretary Sanders was mistaken. The President did not have indigestion. Shortly after four o'clock he strolled back to the executive offices. He canceled his engagements that morning, he said, because of a slight cold. Having napped, he felt much better.

¶ Then the President told about an owl that had flown into his bedroom the previous night. It was a common screech owl, and perched first on his bed post, then on the clothes press. The President regarded the owl steadily; the owl regarded him. The President made no utterance; the owl did not hoot. "He was not a noisy owl," said the President. "He came quietly, went quietly."

¶ Before that day's end, the President signed the war department appropriation bill.

¶ Six students, representing themselves as speak'ing for a mass meeting of 900 New York City students, called upon the President to protest against U. S. policy in China. Newspapermen learned that the President, in all kindness, advised them to increase their knowledge of oriental affairs by going to China,

¶The President called to the White House for a brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron and commanded during the War the anti-submarine patrol ship Parker,

Tiny tots who have received ice cream aboard the Mayflower from "Captain Dolph" (TIME, Aug. 31), had they seen a photo of the stern visage of Captain Brown, might have lisped: "Will he therve ithe queam?"

¶ The President wrote to President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central saying he had received an invitation through C. C. Paulding, railroad lawyer, and regretting that he could not attend "the 100th anniversary of the granting of the charter of the Mohawk-Hudson Railroad Company."