THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 24, 1927

¶Two thousand guests, led by Chief Justice and Mrs. William Howard Taft, stood in linin the Blue Room of the White House, at the second State reception, in honor of the judiciary.

¶"Regulation and promotion of radio in the public interest, together with scientific research, should remain in the Department of Commerce," said President Coolidge last week, at the same time urging Congress to come to some immediate compromise on the White and Dill radio bills.

¶From the White House came news that the President's physicians had prescribed ham and eggs for breakfast instead of New England sausages. Sausages are fattening. Two days later, Senator Watson of Indiana told his friend how, at a White House breakfast, Rob Roy, Presidential white collie, had stolen half a sausage from his plate.

¶"It's surprising," said members of Congress when they heard that President Coolidge had appointed one Mrs. Anna G. M. Tillinghast as Commissioner of Immigration at Boston. She had been opposing the reelection) of Frank W. Stearns' son-in-law to the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Committee.

¶"Unless someone encourages the people and stimulates their interest they do not function in the way in which they ought to do," said President Coolidge as he added praise to the good work of Republican national and state committee women, who called at the White House.

¶Premier roses, sweet peas and mignonettes were delivered to the White House with speed, when enterprising British florists sought to test the transatlantic radio-phone service.

¶The President proclaimed the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7 as War Risk Week—a time when all good citizens should tell World War veterans that they have only until July 2, 1927, to reinstate lapsed war risk insurance.

¶At the house of Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis there were dinner guests: the President and Mrs. Coolidge, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale and more than a dozen others.

¶Archbishop Polycarpos, Metropolitan of Xanthi, Greece, in his formal robes, thanked President Coolidge for U. S. aid in the Near East.

¶Delegates of the National Negro Development Union and the National Centre Political Party called on President Coolidge. Later, their spokesman told the press that the President had been "most cordial and sympathetic" and had "deplored" lynching.