Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-23
MAJOR RHOADFS NEW MILITARY AIDE President Taft Names Hand some Medical Corps Sur geon to Succeed Archie
 Butt.
A FAMILY FAVORITE
Roosevelt Started the Aide Business Colonel Spencer CaSby Head oi
 Corps Ol Aiders.
(By Jordan Winficld1

the fatal news that tnc Titanic had gone down, carrying among her frst class passenger Major A chibold w. Butt, U. S. A., military aide to the President and all-round good fel- low members of the official set in Washington thought 10 themselves, "Where will President Tatt find him self another aide as competent and as able as "Archie?''
 For, be it known, military aides are like poets-born, not made
 Then the President, after waiting for the dread news of the sinking of the ocean leviathan to be thoroughly confirmed, appointed, in Major Butts place, Major Thomas l.. Rhoads, of whom he had seen a good deal while governor of the Philippines and Washington officialdom admitted that he had the best possible choice out of vast field of eligibles.
 Major Rhoads is a surgeon in the Medical Corps of the army--a fine looking man, clean shaven and forty two years of age. For more than a year past he has been the official physician of the Taft family and i'll this capacity has come into very close relation with the President and his family. Whenever, during that period the President has gone travelling, Ma ior Rhoads has been member of the party in the double capacity of doctor and military aide
 The relations of the President s aide to the Executive household are far more intimate than those enjoyed by any other person in Washington life. For one thing, Maj. Rhoads is called ! upon to act as the special factotum and business confident of Mrs. Taft, directing under her orders the social ! and other affairs of the White House Up to the commencement of the | Roosevelt regime, less than dozen years ago, there was no such assem- l blaze of aides, military, naval and social" in the White House as at present. All the ceremonial business of the Presidents House Gas it is called in the laws) was managed by one army officer and a junior assist ant.
 Bat the rough riding Colonel promptly altered this arrangement as he did number of others-by appointing his brother-in-law, Captain Cowles, as naval aide'' and, in ad- dition, selecting half a dozen other young men from the army, navy and marine corps to help at receptions and in the business of entertaining. Upon the latter the title of social aides was unofficially bestowed
 Mr. Roosevelt set new social pace and during his administration the Ex" esutive Mansion kept "open house. for the first time since the rule of Andrew Jackson. President Arthur was fond of giving little dinners 70 few 'Doon companions; Hayes offer- ed refreshments to all corners at the social reception, but did very little else in the way of entertaining; Cleveland and Harrison made small attempt at entertaining and ii was impossible for President Mckinley 10 do much in that line because of his invalid wife. The Roosevelts. how ever, undertook to lead soc 'ety in Washington--something which had never been attempted from the White House since the days of the bonny Dolly Madison.
 To certain extent, though not on such an extensive scale, the Taft; have pursued the same social policy and the Colonel's staff of aides, has remained undiminished in numbers under the present administration. The titular head of the corps of aides is Col. Spencer Cosby-hand- some, debonnair and forty-four years of age, though in appearance he is decidedly younger. In addition to his personal charms he is possessed of a wife over whose beauty the officers