National Affairs: Pot-Pourri

¶Miss Katherine Shea, of the Treasury Department, called at the White House and presented the Chief Executive with a warrant for $5,833.33, his salary check as President of the U. S. It was in payment of services from Aug. 3, the date on which he took office. Said Mr. Coolidge:"Call often."

The first official statement of President Coolidge's attitude toward Russia came in an announcement from the White House. Sovietland will not receive diplomatic recognition until it has established " standard government and rules of international relationship satisfactory to the American people." In...

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