Washington, Dec. 24—The angels’ song at Bethlehem was carolled tonight from the White House to a nation at peace with the world and with good will toward men.
The chief executive of the nation and the first lady of the land joined with a white-vested choir and with thousands who thronged tho White House grounds in observance of another Christmas.
Previously the president and Mrs. Coolidge, following a custom they inaugurated at their first Christmas in the White House a year ago, had visited one of the public parks near the executive mansion and with another large group witnessed the lighting of a national community Christmas tree. Mr. Coolidge, himself, pressed the button that flooded a tree, a 40 foot spruce transplanted from the Adirondack mountains, lighted with hundreds of vari-colored globes.
Having thus taken the lend in the two ceremonies that marked the public celebration of Christmas Eve in Washington, the president and his wife returned to their own fireside to pass Christmas day with the simplicly that has always attended observance of the holiday by those living in the rural regions of their native state of Vermont.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, December 25, 1924