Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-24
Job Hunters Seek Sc
Personal Interview.

personal interview. c.rna urging
their appointment to federal jobs, there
are still a great number of job seekers
writing for interviews with the President
for >the purpose of furthering their CAN
didates.
Office seekers generally are prolific let
ter writer's They write for Endorsements
from the President or for intrOductiOns
to the departmental officials from whom
appointments are sought, little knowing
that they might just as well have sent
these applications directly to the officials
concerned. The letters are not acknowl
edged at the White House. but are sent
on to the departments for attention.
The requests which come to the Presi-
dent for little favors are so numerous
that he must usually decline. Organiza-
tions in various parts of the country
write for little messages of greetings for
anniversary celebrations: country news
papers want brief articles to print on
their front pages; arrangements of fairs
want the President to press buttons to
set their celebrations to going, photog-
| raphers ask for the privilege of photo
graphing him at his desk. and many
other requests are made which cannot
| be complied with without the sacrifice of
/ much of the Presidents time. When
! the President announced that he would
| so to Mobile October %, to address the
| opening meeting of the Southern Com
mercial Congress- convention there. he
/ had so many requests to stop off at vari-
| ions places along the route that had he
| granted them all the journey to and from
| NJ obile would have consumed a longer
! time than if he had undertaken it on
| horseback.
The announcement of Miss Jessie Will
| sons engagement to Francis Bowes
i Sayre drew more than thousand letters
| to the White House. People told of lit
tie gifts they planned to send gave adj
vice as to whether the White House we'd
ding should be simple or ceremonious
| and in various ways concerned them
| selves with the engagement.
| Early in his administration President
| Wilson laid down the rule that he would
accept no gifts of value from people he
did not know This has resulted in the
return of many offerings by White House
| officials.
Some of the Presidents gifts come with
string tied to them. That is to say
from people who
Strings Are Tied hope to pave the
to Many Gifts. i mss 90, Of 'ae s fsxor
These are invariably returned to their
senders. One such gift was sent by q
former government engraver of Milwau-
kee who desired to regain his position
He had engraved elaborate pattern
on an egg shell evidence of his skill
and sent this to the President with the
suggestion that Mr. Wilson issue an ex-
ecutive order reinstating him.
Strange to say. the gifts to the Presi-
dent have never included any smoking
material Mr.. Wilson. like his predeces-
sors President Taft and President Roose-
welt, does not smoke, and his abstinence
in this respect appears to be we'll known
This was not the case with Mr.. Roose-
Welt and Mr.. Taft. however. for they fire.
uuently received boxes of cigars or sam
pies of fine smoking mixtures.
i A President of the United States must
obtain the consent of Congress before
accepting a gift from foreign govern.
ment The strictest Interpretation has no,
always been put upon this constitutional
requirement in cases where the gifts were
rendered by foreign rulers as persona
tokens. President Roosevelt accepted two
lions from the Emperor of Abyssinia anG
turned them over to the Washington Zoe
without consulting Congress. Mr. Wilson
put an unnecessarily clese observance OF
the reSsr'ction .uron himself. however. =