TAKING THE OATH

Evening Star, Issue 18883, 6 March 1925, Page 9

TAKING THE OATH

PAGEANT AT WASHINGTON. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 4. In a brilliant, but unpretentious pageant President Coolidcge took the oath as the thirtieth President of the United States. Standing upon the Capitol tho President albrmed tho pledge of office, and then la.d clown a threefold- programme tor the Administration— namely, economy, fax reduction, and co operation with tho nations ot

the world. 1 Chief Justice Taft, himself a former ■ President, dressed in the. black rolies ot his new dike, stood beside -Mr Coohdgo and administered the oath. i ; The President then delivered his inj augural address, which was earned through 1 a microphone, :i-nd then bro a deflated to 1 millions through twenty-live radio stations, i Approximately 40,000 _ persons were

jammed in Capitol squaie, and thousands of others lined tho route from \Mnte House to the Capitol. Justices 0 f the -Supreme Court, Senators, Congressmen, members of Cabinet, Government officials, I and many women occupied places of honor on the rostrum. The Capitol ceremonies were preceded bv tho traditional ritual in tho .Senate Chamber, where Mr C. G. Dawes took the oath of office as Vice-President, and dci livened his inaugural address immediately 1 following the closing of tho sixty-eighth Congress. Mr Coolidgo’s father attended the cere-

monies, which were held in beautiful weather. The President- then reviewed a parade in front of White. House, and received tho visiting Governors and otheis. Ho spent ! the evening quietly at home. I A message from ban Iraucisco states I that five pictures of Mr Coolidge’s iu- ! anguration wero released to the newspapers | here less than two hours after they wore taken by means of the new telephonic process. Officials of the Pacific Telephone and i Telegraph Company announced that the transmission was perfect, tho two delicate instruments —tho transmitter at Washington and the. receiver at San Franciscoworking in perfect .synchronisation. A. and N.Z. Cable.