Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-03-20

seeming room only Nearly all v,s.
leors 70 the White House. if thew o..
physically able to stand and r. that,
pislts are not to consume moro thu
HVe minutes, transact their husi,as.
WINE standing on their feet It is All
part and parcel of President vii
SON 5 CELEBRITY methods" and Is horn
u MS deslre to get through with nub.
nc business and not to clog its whaal.
Dy sprlnkling in the sand Of usaless
conversation. e1eSs
woodrow Wilson gets throuoh liz,
al enormous amount Of work in
comparatively short time. From ia
q. m. each day until lunch time har-
ring OF course, cabinet days, the sched.
ule OF the White House business 1ooLs
IKE the time table of a metronolitan
railroad which is serving some mil.
mons OF suburban passengers.
President Fixes the Time.
Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to
say that nine-tenths of the apnoint.
ments are made for fye-minute no.
RODS only. Appointments are made
Dy telephone or in person by those
VINO wish to see the president tha
next day or the day after. The list
OF applicants for audiences is submit
ted to Mr.. Wilson and he fixes the
nour and minute at which he will see
each caller, il at ALL OF course. SEN
ators and representatives and Others
who have public business rarely are
denied, but it is frequently true If
their business is not of pressing i'm
portance that they are compelled to
wait for two or three days until the
schedule lightens up a little.
Nine out of ten of the presidents
callers must be content with inter-
views lasting no longer than five min
utes. OF course If the business is one
requiring some time for consideration
the president frequently will direct
that the caller come Just after
luncheon, when he can give him half
al hours time to be taken out of the
afternoons outing, usually allotted
for health and recreation purposes.
AS for the morning hours, each one is
divided UP into twelve five-minute sec
lions and during the continuance of
each five minutes the president stands
and his caller stands. A man who is
standing up does not have the same
inclination to prolong an interview
and to seek excuses "for further ex-
plantations" that a man has who, COM
fortably installed in a stuffed-back,
cushion-seated chair, is loath to drop
the subject and change his angle Of
repose. Mr.. Wilson knows how to
welcome a caller and then to speed
his parting.
He Is Not inaccessible.
Members of congress have COM
planned that President Wilson is in
accessible. AS matter of fact he
is not as inaccessible as was his
predecessor in Office. Mr.. Taft wanted
to see every body. but he had a habit
of talking for thTee-quarters Of an
hour to every man who came in and
the result was that many who were
outside the door, although having ap-
pointments, would be compelled to go
away without seeing the president at
all.
BY splitting up his day as the presi-
dent does into f1ve-minute, and even at
times shorter sections, President Will
son manages to see pretty nearly
everybody who wants to come to see
him. During the course of the short
conversation the president generally
manages to find out if the subject in
hand is Of enough Importance to de-
mand more time. OF course he can
not give more than five minutes at the
first interview, because he has an ap-
pointment with someone else when
the five minutes are up, but he will
tell his caller to come again and ne
will fix a time of the day when the
interview can be more prolonged
Congressmen and other officials of
the government have learned one
thing since President Wilson came
into office-that they must be on time.
The man who is late loses his chance,
for if the president says 1890 he
means 1920 and invariably he is
ready to meet the caller who was
told he would be welcomed at tnat
hour. Mr.. Wilson may be charged
with a brevity which is near the verge
Of discourtesy, but while he Is brief
he means no discourtesy, and Repub-
licans. Democrats and Progressives
saw that he manages to accomplish
a great deal within very limited
time.
Canal Builders for Repeal.
Recently Col. George w. Goethals,
the chief engineer of the Panama
canal, said he was in favor OF the re-
peal Of the provision exempting
American coastwise vessels from the
payment of tolls. 1t is known to your
correspondent that the other great en-
gineers of the isthmus. the men VINO
have done the big individual pieces
Of work, feel in this matter as Colonei
Coettals does. BY the backing Of the
oh;of engineer and the division eng1-