THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Aug. 30, 1926

¶What ponderous luxury, weighing 46 pounds, having a diameter of 30 inches, a depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left for Plattsburg, N. Y., where he made a speech on disarmament, said that: 1) the U. S. is “working to make the Geneva meeting a success”; (2) “We will not accept supervision of any outside, body, or be subject to inspection or control by foreign agencies.” Mr. Kellogg returned to the Presidents’ Camp, conferred again. Then with Mrs. Kellogg, they drove to Long Lake,* where Mr. Kellogg recalled boyhood pranks, where cousin Judge Henry Kellogg enertained them. Next day Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg motored to Washington, D. C. ¶ The Democrats and such insurgent Republicans as Senator Borah continue to bait the President and his Administration with charges of undue leniency in the enforcement of the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws. “Not so,” quoth the President. Then last week he told the press that, in the last 13 months, the Department of Justice had successfully concluded more anti-trust cases than in any previous similar period. Proceedings against monopolies had often been started before they were actually formed, compelling them to dissolve or change their charters. The most important of these suits was the breaking of the “bread trust,” when the Ward Food Products Corporation and National Food Products Corporation were compelled to dissolve. ¶The president of the Mack Truck Co. and the president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution were overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge. Their names: Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brosseau. ¶Senator Capper of Kansas and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine visited the President. Both talked farming.

*Mr. Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N. Y., moved to Long Lake at the age of eight.