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¶ Two decisions were announced from the White House: 1) That the special Agricultural Commission, appointed by the President a year ago to determine what agriculture needs from the Government and whose report was largely ignored by Congress, on its own recommendation would not be reconvened; 2) That no disciplinary action would be taken against Immigration Commissioner H. H. Curran, who two months ago attacked the new system of examining immigrants abroad rather than at Ellis Island. (This system, tried out in England and Ireland, is apparently pleasing to foreign countries. Belgium, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark have asked to have it extended to them.)
¶ Mrs. Coolidge as the guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington.
¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a luncheon given by the Girl Scouts at "Little House," scout headquarters in Washington. The pièce de resistance was a Vermont turkey, raised, transported, cooked and served by Leona Baldwin, 13, scout of Montpelier, Vt., who afterwards wept in excitement.
¶ For the week-end party aboard the Mayflower, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge took Count and Countess Asaka (Japanese nobility incognito), Ambassador and Mme. Tsuneo Matsu-daira, Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg, and Mr. Charles MacVeagh, down the Potomac to Mount Vernon
¶ The President issued his annual call to all good people to enroll in and contribute to that movement which has "marched unflinchingly onward to succor humanity"—the American Red Cross.