Evening star., 1925-07-27
PRESIDENT STUDIES
FARMING SITUATION
Conference With Pepper on
{ Coal Problem Set for
This Week.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
SWAMPSCOTT. Mass, July 27.-The
first long rainy day of the Presidents
vacation. a day that makes reading
by the wood fire seductive, came to-
day. A driving Eastern storm hit
Swampscott last night and had con-
tinued with no let-up until noon today
Instead OF reading the biographies
which he has brought here, Presi-
dent Coolidge devoted his morning to
posing for the oil portrait which f.
c. Tarbell is making for the Massa-
chusetts gallery of governors in the
state house This painting will be
finished before Mr.. Coolidge ends his
stay here and he may find time to
permit Mary Scott Mccormick of Chi
cago to mold his image in clay. He
has not set any time Yet for the
necessary sittings. They may be set
when he gets back TO Washington.
Studies Farm Problems.
The aspects of the farm problem as
affecting Indiana were today laid be-
fore the President by Representative
Fred S Purnell, ranking Republican
member of the House committee on
agriculture Representative Purnell
is in agreement with the administra-
TONS general agricultural policy that
legislation providing for cooperative
marketing would be most helpful to
the farmers. although he feels that
perhaps something more immediate
ought to be done if the coming crops
do not prove satisfactory. He will
support the administration program
and therefore is here TO learn the
measures that the President proposes
TO offer in the next Congress.
A greeting from the President in
cident to Navy day, which is shortly
70 be observed was requested today
when Marion Eppley and Walter B.
Howe, president and vice president,
respectively, of the Navy League,
called at White Court shortly after
noon.
Other enga gements made for the
President this afternoon are with
Harry Williams of BroCkton, Mass,
who was a member of the executive
council when Mr.. Coolidge was COVER
nor. and Mr.. and Mrs. Leon r. Eyges,
personal friends.
Pepper to Discuss Strike.
The principal engagement the Presi-
dent has for this week is with Senator
Pepper of Pennsylvania, who viii ar
rive at White Court next Saturday.
Mr.. Coolidge will attend a meeting of
the Essex County Republican Club
Wednesday,
Senator Pepper comes here to dis
cuss the imminent hard coal strike in
PENNSYLVANIA and the World Court
proposal. He is hopeful that the Fed
eral Government will intervene. if in
tervention seems necessary, in ad-
vance of any action Gov. Pinchot OF
PENNSYLVANIA might take. Pennsyl-
vania politicians are fearful that Gov.
PinChot might inject his personality
into the hard coal fight in successful
way and thereby strengthen his an
nounced candidacy for the United
States Senate next year in opposition
, TO Mr.. Pepper.
There have been no developments
here in connection with the negotia-
tions being held by the minors and op-
orators at Atlantic City. President
Coolidge is being informed daily of the
situation.
President Optimistic.
The President is still convinced that
there will be no strike, but if there
is one he intends to follow the sug-
gestions of John Hays Hammond.
who recently conferred with him, be-
lieving that public opinion and an
united Congress will support him to
the limit in any position the Federal
Government may be required to take
after September l to force an adequate
fuel supply. President Coolidge has
no radical proposal in mind. and I'M
der the law he can neither compel the
miners to work nor seize the mines
and operate them as a public neces-
sity. Therefore, he must rely upon
public opinion as exerted by himself
to solve the situation in the event of
a strike.
President and Mrs Coolidge and
their son John attended services at the
ongregational Tabernacle in Salem
yesterday, where they heard a sermon
preached by Rev. c. II. Beale of Mil
waukee.