The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-05
Mrs. Coolidge Sees
Planting of
"OberIin Elm"
Nv LEAN Eliot,

AVA Memorial TINS morning
when DIR. Henry Churchill Cook,
president of Oberlin College, plant
ed a tree with an assemblage IF
Oberlin grads looking on. Oberlin
graduates throughout the world
are planting 'Oberlin elms Wher-
ever possible, registering them
with the American Tree AsSocia-
ton. and registrations have come
IN from as far away as Honolulu.
This is the first college to be rep
resented in the great avenue of
memorial trees which is to be a
feature of the Lincoln monument
The Rev. DR.. Jason Noble Pierce,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church. which President Coolidge
attends, took part in the cere-
monies. And yesterday DIR. King
spoke at the morning service at
the church, with President and
Mrs. Coolidge as interested lis
tenerS.
The president of Oberlin College
Is spending several days in Wash
ington. in the interest Of the ma
tional drive to raise a $4,000, 900
endowment for the college, which
is urgently needed in order that
work may be carried on success
fully and the life of an institution
which has been a pioneer in edu-
cation and in the development OF
good citizenship may be preserved.
The imperative need for funds is
due not only to the increase in the
cost of operation and the desire for
expansion, but to a shrinkage or
the capital of the present endoW-
fnent.
This afternoon DIR. King is to
be the guest of honor at recep-
ton at the University Club. Chief
Justice William Howard Taft,
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com
: merces who was recently given an
honorary degree by Oberlin, and
Congressman Theodore Burton, an
Oberlin graduate, will be in the
receiving line. Last night DR..
King spoke at the Church of the
Covenant.
VTTORD has reached the White
w House that President Coolidge
is to have a suit OF fine home
spun clothes, the cloth being
woven on a hand loom nearly 200
years old at the international Tex
tile Exposition in Boston. The
weaver is Mrs. J.. M. Jackson, of
Needham, Mass. She is expected
to have the required ten yards oe
cloth finished today, and after it
has been sponged it will be sent
as a gift to the Chief Executive.
Mr.. Coolidge is not the first
President that Mrs. jackson has
furnished with homespun cloth.
According to White House OFF,
Gals, she has an appreciative let
ter from the late President Hard
Ing acknowledging a similar gift
which she wove for him soon
after his Inauguration. in 1921
The cloth she is weaving for Pres
fdent Coolidge at the daily rate of
about one yard every hour is said
to resemble the familiar Irish
homespun.
The Minister of Ecuador and
Nine. Elizalde entertained infor.
mally at lunchee- Yesterday.
-
The minister - .fie Serbs, Greats,
and Sloyenes, Dr. Ante Pavichich,
viii start for the Pacific coast the
middle of next week. and will make
q series of addresses before return.
ing here about the middle of De-
cember.
The minister OF the Netherlands.
DR.. de Graef, went to Chicago yes
terday. and will visit Detroit before
returning here the end of the
week.
The minister OF Siam. Phya
Bur Nayarasth. viii go to Cincin-
natl the end of the week to spend
several days.
The Charge d'Affaires of Greece
and Nine. Tsamados entertained at
tea, followed by a dance, yesterday
afternoon at the legation
Capt. Jean +. j. Z. Rigal. naval
attache of the French embassy, will
leave Washington tomorrow for
New York, where he will attend a
meeting of naval architects, after
which, he will be the guest over the
weekend of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury
at Whitemarsh Hall, near Philadel.
phia.