THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: May 4, 1925

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Mr. Coolidge's Week

¶Senator Borah's public and private arguments for recognition of Russia have not prevailed. The President admitted that the Secretary of State has written U. S. dip lomats to expect no change in the U. S. policy towards the Soviet regime.

¶Manager Harris of the Senators (Washington, D. C., American League baseball team) handed a ball to the President, who pegged it, short and sure, to Walter Johnson. Thirty-two thousand fans applauded. The Washington season opened. Score: Washington 10, New York 1. ¶The President appeared and spoke through the DeForest Phono-film (see "SCIENCE). ¶Accompanied by Editor Col. George Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went to a musical review at Poli's.

¶Down the weekend estuary sailed President and Mrs. Coolidge with Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Publisher Frank E. Noyes (President of the Associated Press), Democrat Arthur P. Dennis (new member of the Tariff.Commission). Their ship went a little out to sea in preparation for a possible June cruise to the summer White House at Swampscott, Mass. ¶Mrs. Ethel Barrymore Colt paid an hour's call on Mrs. Coolidge, then chatted a bit with the President. ¶Mrs. Coolidge set to work on the $50,000 repairing of the White House. The Green Room has faded, must be done over. The elevator, plumbing, vacuum-cleaning system must be modernized. Floors must be painted, rugs replaced. From the storehouse Mrs. Coolidge brought forth a table inset with brass; also, a chair of President Jackson's, which she placed in Mr. Coolidge's study. ¶The President, with a company of the great, attended the 40th spring dinner of the Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins, Bill and Charlie,'" "Walsh, the wild man, who goes wild on oil and sugar." The LaFollette crowd, it was announced, had crawled under the tent and set up a three-shell game. Finally the new club President, J. Frederick Essary of the Baltimore Sun, was made to a ride on a hobby horse.