The Forrest City times., 1913-03-14
HIS SALARY
MR.. WILSON FINDS THAT NEW
PRESIDENT is BUSIEST MAN
IN THE COUNTRY.
OFFICE SEEKERS BESET HIM
Civil Service Employees Fear Demo-
ton More Than DismissaI-Few
Changes Are Expected In the
White House Staff.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-More activities are
crowded into the first ten days OF an
administration than into any succeed
Ing ten weeks. The offices of the
White House resemble the ante-rooms
OF convention halls when the conven-
ton is about to assemble. II Presi-
dent Wilson is to get the nine hours
sleep which he has said that he needs
he probably will sleep heavily because
Of the WEAKNESS OF the crowded day.
Nine men out OF every ten who
surge In and out OF the executive
mansions office rooms. oyerfowing
occasionally by sheer force of the
surge behind them, are seeking pre-
ferment for themselves or for others.
There has not been in years, perhaps
never before. such a crowd of Office
seekers in the city OF Washington as
there is here today, and. in fact. as
has been here for two or three weeks
waiting for the incoming of the new
administration.
In addition TO listening to the pleas
OF the men who seek Office, the new
president has some hundreds of other
principal things to do, to say nothing
OF some thousands OF odds and ends
of work Moreover, he is compelled
to adjust himself to his new position
and to his new home and his new sur
roundings. He is the hardest worked
man In the country at all times il he
attempts to live up to all his duties,
and during the first few months Of his
administration he probably works
harder than any two other men in the
United States. II people think the
president does not earn his salary,
they must think again in order to get
the seat of knowledge we'll balanced.
DemotIne In Civil Service.
The civil service employees in the
city Of Washington, and doubtless
elsewhere through the country, very
likely need not shake in their shoes
for fear that under the direction of
the new president they are to be GUST
ed. Civil service is supposed to pro-
tect, and Mr.. Wilson has said that 1t
will protect while he has the direc-
ton of national affairs Most of the
shaking, therefore, which civil service
workers are doing is due to the fear
not that they will be discharged, but
that they may be denoted, or, in 9th
err words, be kept in the service, but
given inferior positions at smaller pay
1t is not likely that much of this
demoting will be done, although it is
possible, as Is true in some cases
where men have been given the high
est places in the civil service at a
late hour simply to provide them with
good places under the civil service
blanket. it may be that they will be
denoted and the places which they
have occupied briefly will be given tc
others recommended by Influential
Democrats and approved by the pres
ident None of the civil service posi-
tons pays more than $4,000 or $4,000
a year
White House Staff May Remain.
The White House staff of secre
taries and clerks is busy these days
How many changes there Will be M
one knows yet. but with the outgoing
of Private Secretary Charles D. lille!
and the incoming Of Private Secretar!
Joseph P. Tumulty the under secre
taries and the clerks naturally feal
that an earthquake may follow. Thu
White House force, however, has re
duced things 30 to a system that {
new force could not do the work unit
after months OF practice. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Wilson intends to keel
the White House force pretty nearl,
intact for the reason that business
must be expedited, and for the furthe
reason that there are about as man,
under secretaries and clerks who be
long to the dominent political part,
as to the outgoing political party, o
the other one which came into OK
istence at the Progressive convention
in Chicago last summer II is salt
that MI Taft did not know the pc
litical affiliations OF half a dozel
members Of the White House staff
and it is possible that Mr. Wilson
likewise will elect to remain in IL
norance OF the parties to which hi
unior workers belong
Much Sought For Jobs.
Every incoming cabinet officer with
in ten days Of his taking OF tn,
oath probably will have appointed
all the assistant secretaries which
have places In his office There
are one or two assistant secretaries
however. who are prattv sure to re
main in where they al They are
men who are accounted valuable II
their positions. having heId them Sc
long that every detail OF Office WORK
is known 10 them. and they have be
come 50 useful in courts Of last re
sort that they probably will not b,
disturbed. one such man Is Second
Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A
AGee, who has been in office so Ion.
that most people have forgotten tn,
date Of his entrance thereto, and i
Ia DTOhahle that Mr. Adaa Ia wfIliu,