The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
MR.. WILSON RESTS
IN MIDST OF WORK
PRESIDENT PLAYS GOLF EVERY
WEEK DAY MORNING BEFORE
HE HAS BREAKFAST.
WHITE HOUSE BUSY PLACE
Visitors, Aside From Cabinet Officers,
Are Few But Their Missions. Are
Mighty lmportant-Chief Executive
Often Visits the Departments.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.


trying to rest in the midst of work. 1t
Is said that he knows how to do 1t.
The president gets his recreation be
fore a great many people have had
their breakfasts. 1t does not follow
that because congress has adjourned
this city Is in any way restful place.
War Is on and everybody connected
with the government from president
down TO office boy has to work.
Early every day, in fact at times be-
fore the sun gets its first daily peep
nt the Potomac, the president of the
United States Is Off for the golf links.
lie plays no favorites so far as the
various country clubs are concerned.
He goes first to one and then TO an
other, and completes the round In
about weeks time. BY half past
eight O'Clock. or by nine at the latest
he is back at the White House to take
up the multitudinous affairs which In
time like this beset the head of gov
crnment
The White House today outwardly
does not look like workshop but In
wardly II Is whirl. All the gates
but one have been closed and this one
Is In a semi-sequestered place so that
the goings and comings through II are
not noted by the ordinary passerby.
The path Is being worn deeply. how
ever, by the feet OF officials and others
who come and go daily.
often Visits the Departments.
Every day or two the president fol-
lows the old time presidential habit,
particularly marked habit In Lincoln's
day of visiting the different depart
ments of government In order to con-
fer with the chieftains and 10 learn
at first hand just how the work Is pro
crossing Some of the interior hall
ways of the department buildings are
dark, or twilight lighted" at the best.
and so II is that the president fire.
quently walks through the corridors
unrecognized by the messengers oc-
cupying chairs outside the various
rooms. and not infrequentiy by army
and navy officers who go by him In the
cleaning taking him to be only one of
the thousand civilians who daily go
to the departments on business bent.
Every morning In the Office of 10
seph r. Tumuity. secretary to the
president. there is prepared list of
pontments with the president. The
list always Is short one. and IL can
be taken for granted that on II ap-
pears the name of no visitor who has
not business of high Importance with
the chief executive.
presidents study and stay there for
several hours. Frequently the public
Is not allowed to know anything at all
concerning the nature of the business
which brings about the conference. IL
Is known. however. that within the
quiet OF the White House during the
last few months scores of matters vital
to the welfare of the American people
have been discussed. formulated into
policies and carried into effect.
The short list of visitors names
never contains those of the cabinet Of
ficers or Of other high officials of gov
ernment who have business with the
president. The secretary of state. or
any of his colleagues who may find
II necessary to confer quickly with the
chief executive. calls up the White
House by telephone and makes ar
rangements for the conference. Any
thing which the president has In hand
tc nf 81 np1v m
portant nature, Is put aside at once
In order to give time and place to a
conference with members Of the off,
cial family.
Not So Strenuous as r. r.
1t Is said that President Wilson
rests while getting his recreation. This
was the way with one of his predeces-
sors In office. but Mr.. Wilson. unlike
Colonel Roosevelt, takes to rather
quiet form of exercise. When the col
onel was president he got his rest by
boxing. playing tennis, or by putting a
horse over five-barred gate, and then
making a forced march horseback into
the country, or, as was more frequent
ly the case, taking ten-mile tramp In
the course of which he would scale the
cliffs Of Rock Creek Park and fire.
Quently wade or swim Rock Greek no
matter what the temperature of the
water.
II Is true though that Woodrow VIII
son rests In one way just as Theodore
Roosevelt did. When he gets the op-
portunities, even though they are only
Of few minutes duration, he takes
up . book and today almost always
one which bears upon matters of mo.
mentous issue. Reading. It Is said, IL
restful to the president even II he
must concentrate while he reads.
On Sunday Woodrow Wilson does
not play golf. He goes to church with
his wife like other good American hus
bands, or on some occasions his wife
goes with him, the order of this pro
cedure depending upon whether thu
church attended Is an Episcopalian OF
q Presbyterian church. The presiden
II proahvterian while his wife r. ar