The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19

lily to the free medical attendance and
free medicines guaranteed to every
officer in either branch of the SER
vice. A surgeon will be detailed to
reside near the executive household,
wherever it may happen to be, and
protect its health. When the sue
cessful candidate travels he will be
entitled to the services of this physi-
clan to treat his throat after an or
deal of speechmaking or to take his
pulse and temperature upon occasions
OF exposure or overstrain. If, by
any i'll fate, the victor of this years
contest should die in the presidential
Office the government will for his
state funeral, and, besides granting
his widow a pension of $4,000 year,
will carry her letters in the mail free
of charge.
Wherever he goes he will be en-
titled to the services of an army or
naval officer detailed as his personal
aid" such as is always attached to
the admiral of the navy or command
ing general of the army.
This officer is at the presidents
right hand day and evening. He is
the guardian of the chief executives
memory string, the keeper of his
privy purse and the custodian of his
engagement calendar. The presiden-
tial householder is entitled also to the
services, upon state occasions, of
detail of young officers, who act in
the capacity of ushers at the official
levees. In command of this "social
staff" is master of ceremonies, the
same colonel of engineers who exer-
cises a mechanical supervision over
the house equipment and appoint
ments.
Whenever next November's victor
and his family desire to go out for
spin they will find two big automo-
biles ready and waiting for them in
the executive garage. The head
chauffeur who will drive them about
receives 500 a month, and he has
an assistant also upon the govern
ment payroll.
Nation Does Housekeeping.
She who assumes or resumes her
station as FIRST lady of the land"
next spring will be relieved of all
petty details of housekeeping. The
government will give her her choice
of bonded steward or housekeep-
er to take command of the domestic
force and supervise the marketing.
The cards of her guests will be
brought to her by ushers and buffers
paid out of the United States treas
ury. She will have to return no calls
whatever unless some foreign ruler
brings his wife to Washington, and
all of the details of her social cores
pondence will be attended to by her
own private secretary.
When she goes upstairs she will be
carried by an electric elevator. In
moments of leisure she can sit at
golden piano-a gift to the nation
which cost $4,000.
AS she steps from room to room
she will inhale the perfume of the
rarest of flowers, daily renewed in
the vases, and her eye will fall upon
articles of virtue presented to the
government by several generations
of the proud rulers of the world.
At her entertainment the Marine
Band will discourse whatever music
she selects. And many of the great
musical beniuses of the world will
vie with one another to entertain her
guests without cost. When she wishes
box at the theatre one will usually
be provided for hep and her guests
without cost. In fact, one of the
Washington theatres employs a so
cial attache" whose function it is
to invite the families of such high
functionaries as the president, vice
president and foreign ambassadors to
fill its boxes.