Evening star., 1925-05-23
VACATION TOMEAN
WORK FOR COOLIDGE
President to Adhere to Daily
Labors During 10 Weeks
at SWampscott.
By Consolidated Press.

by consolidated Press.
President Coolidge will actually
transfer the seat of executive power
from Washington to SWampscott,
Mass, in few weeks. 1t is going to
be a vacation" only with quotation
marks around the word.
Preparations indicate that Mr.. Cool
1dge will transact almost as much
public business, if not more, at the
Summer capital than he does here.
Work Is Sole Recreation"
The President has been in office not
quite two years. but the only recre
alton he has developed is work and
more work. He is at his desk searly
in the morning and late at night
not always continuously. of course,
but he is at the Executive offices in
an out of hours and sometimes on
Sundays, too
Mr.. Coolidge is a glutton for work
and for detail. Members of the exec
utive staff do not recall President
who kept in as close touch with de-
tail as does Calvin Coolidge, and yet
1t seems to agree with him physically,
for he admittedly looks better and
seems to feel better than when he
first came to the White House. 1t is
not unusual for Mr.. Coolidge to drop
into the clerical offices long after the
their desks, examining the files and
pending business and generally over
seeing the machinery of his office.
Even on Sunday mornings he has
dropped in and opened mail. Some
times on week days he has opened
letters before the regular mail could
be sorted.
Little Diversion Planned.
Mr.. Coolidge may economic on
words in his conferences with callers,
but he doesn't economic on time
given to public business. Under the
circumstances. therefore, if it be as
sumed that he is going to Swampscott
TO motor, play golf, fish or cruise, the
assumption must be declared errone-
Gus now. Mr.. Coolidge may take a
trip on the Mayflower now and then
at week ends as in the past, but the
general expectation now is that he
will keep regular hours at the Sum-
mer capital, and that he will beat the
mail man down to the office nearly
every week day.
Arrangements are being made to
carry the White House mail in spe-
Cial pouches on the overnight trains
and, of course, in a short time after
Mr.. Coolidge has been at Swampscott
the general mail will be going there
direct. While many of the cabinet
officers win be away for short vaca-
tions, the work Of the departments
will proceed as usual, and at the end
of the day, many important matters
will be sent to Swampscott for ap-
proval. Mr.. Coolidge is fully expected
to tire of the rest cure and tackle
his work at Swampscott with the same
zeal that he does here.
VIII Remain Ten Weeks.
Thus the Summer capital will be
important as a mecca for official. as
we'll as unofficial callers, who have
urgent business to transact, and from
time to time members of the cabinet
will come to confer with Mr.. Coolidge
at SwampScott. Altogether the Presi-
dent will be away about ten weeks
during which time the White House
will be repaired and necessary re-
decoration carried out as planned for
more than a year
Before Mr.. Coolidge returns in the
Autumn it is expected that he will
have conferred with Secretary Mellon
on program of tax reform to be
launched before Congress meets.
Also the delicate negotiations with
respect to war debts will be laid be-
fore the President almost daily for
his guidance. Back in Washington
the program is to be one of the busi-
ness-aS- usual with, however, added
sponsibilities of decision given to
the cabinet members remaining.
D. l..
Copyright. 1929