INAUGURAL

Slowly the crowds trickle towards the nations capital, greeted by an unexpected termination of the warm spell that makes it very easy to "Keep Cool With Coolidge." The Washington shops have retaliated for the program of "simplicity" and "economy" by breaking precedent to the extent of keeping open on Inauguration Day Colonel Coolidge has decided that there are enough bibles in Washington to make it unnecessary to bring one from Vermont, Governor Pinchot will ride in the procession with a sombrero from Texas, Governor Nellie Ross will be received with all due acclamation, as the first lady governor, and the President has deviated from his program of economy to the extent of having his reviewing stand glassed in. Such are the news reports from the nation's capital relative to the second installation of Calvin Coolidge as the nation's chief executive.

The local phases of interest are expressed in the special White House reception for Bay Staters, and the extreme difficulty of procuring tickets.

Thus the Press insists on flooding the public with news about the inauguration, which is a decadent and dying institution, as is shown by its history and deserves a much less pompous and ceremonial place than it now holds.

At the same time, the New England town meetings have taken place without exciting more than a ripple of interest from the Press. These traditional institutions from which many of the most important principles of the Constitution have been drawn, functioning regularly, efficiently, on schedule, and with the usual encouraging and even inspiring results, attracted only the merest mention in the daily papers.