The Washington times., 1912-03-01
AF TERNOON PAPERS
ARE INDORSED BY
PRESIDENT TAFT
Executive Speaks In Their
Favor AS Being First
EA With News.

President Taft gave what was per-
haps an unintended Endorsement of the
news value of afternoon newspapers as
against morning newspapers in a speech
before the Press Club yesterday. Mr..
Taft said:
I'm glad to be here at time (5:30
p. m) when those who haye published
the solid facts of the day have laid
down their pens, and when those who
are. about to republish the solid facts
tomorrow morning, are just starting
their task"
The President informed the news
papermen that there is lot of hard
work connected with the job of Presi-
dent of the United States. At the same
time he confided that much can be ac-
oomplished If the President knows how
to distribute the work so that 1t will
fall on somebody else's shoulders, which,
he said, is the real secret of executive
ability.
Greets Mr.. Longworth.
The President arrived at the club
shortly after 5 o'clock accompanied by
Major Archibald Butt After making
brief address he shook hands with those
present, Major Butt making the intro
ductions.
The Taft smile was much in evidence,
and it broadened into a laugh when he
greetfd Congressman Nicholas Long
WORTH who Is member of the club.
"Hello Nick he said, giving the SON.
in-law of former President Roosevelt a
cordial handshake. GLAD to see you"
"Glad to see you Mr.. President" re-
piled Mr.. Longworth. and there fol-
lowed little chat -
The President, in his address to the
club, said:
II am very glad to come here and
zone thought that always comes to
my mind when / come into a press
club and look about, is why l see good
many men who are just as much sub
Ject to the press and pust as little part
Iof 1t as I am. l think there ought to
lbe some method of designating a real
press man from one 6G,ns who is taken tax LIN IN
going, while the press men are doing
the work.
! ''rt is very great pleasure to come
spirit of bohemianism and good fellow
ship that you have among You. and /
am glad to share it. There are some
times when ] do not feel a full infusion
of that spirit, some times when under
the burdens of-not necessarily official
business, but of what comes into the
White House, one would be glad to be
in a position where his mind can be di-
verted and not kept down to that regu-
lar routine that does not seem to cost
at the time, and yet after you go
through an hour of it you find has been
pretty burdensome.
Distributing the Burden.
"People say to me they don't see how
get through my work. I don't have
20 much work. Executive ability. il
you want to cultivate It, really is that
which enables you to put the work on
that somebody else's shoulders shall
heln YOU.
II do not claim to be an expert in
helps along in the distribution so thai
executive work really does not take ur
so much time as people suppose 1t does
OF course there is good deal Of
Information in individual cases. but
with that exception the work is rathel
one of trial of nerves in the deci
sion of issues which must be decided
promptly and which are decided finally
than in the sustained mental effor
that one has to put forth in the decision
of cases ard the writing of opinions OF
the bench. That IS the comparison
have to make. because l have had Sc
much experience in the other.
Wearing on the Nerves.
81 am bound to say that executive
work is a little more wearing on the
nerves, because of the responsibility
and the absence of aids to support tha
responsibility, because you don't have
counsel to, argue both sides. and yol
have tn be counsel for both sides your
self, and sometimes only counsel fol
lone, side, and the effect of the decision
is not quite so unanimously acquiesceC
in as 1 think judicial decisions ought
to be.
''Now, my friends, l did not com,
here to make a speech bur only to ex
press to you the comfort and pleasur,
/ have in feeling that in so far as yol
properly may, consistent with YOU
duty, in preparing and presenting tn,
facts to the public and that Lart o
the public that you serve, YOU have the
good will that makes me like to come
here and receive this evidence of it,"
The President was presented by
Frederick J. Haskin. president of thu
club.