The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-04-14
NEW PRESIDENT
IS EARLY RISER
AaouT THE ONLY MAN THAT
GETS TO WORK AHEAD OF Mr..
HARDING is MILK MAN.
EARLY BIRDS IN CABINET
Hoover and Hays Like the Early Hour
procedure-About Only Plant IN
Case Comes From the Newspaper
Men, Who Are Used to Later Hours
gv EDWARD B. CLARK.


By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington. - President Harding
sees the sun about as early these
spring mornings as any other resident
of Washington, unless it be the MIX
man. Of course, the sun does not
rise as early just now as 1t Will IN
June, but at that the Whlte HOUSE
dweIler gets an early start.
Newspaper men who call at the
White House offices at the regulation
hour of 10 a. IN. find generally that
Mr.. Harding has been "at it" an hour
before their arrival. Nobody KNOWS
how long this will keep up II Is d
hard rule that never IS broken. 10
wonder is how George B. Christian
the amiable secretary to the Presl'
dent likes the early hours 1t IS al
unwritten law that the secretary 10
President shall get down to the orass
Jacks Of work before his CHER. MI.
Christian doubtless IS grateful ti'at
his Marion fellow townsman does ho'
obey the eight o'clock whistle.
# was only few days ago that an
invitation reached the President 10
play an early morning game or soll
out at a place called Grasslands' tie
accepted and was on his way TO I'll, .'le
links while the morning was still dlm'
" light and misty with the morning
exhalations of the Potomac. tie
nloved SO holes, and as there Is &c
longer thirty-seventh hole IN Foll
he was able to finish his play, take
the licking which we understand "a'
, administered by, one of MS caoihe
: members, who is a better golfer thar
his chief, and return to the Whlt'
:. House nearly three hours before Mrs
Harding called him to lunch.
i, How About Cabinet?
| A word of inquiry has been writer
as 70 the manner in which Secretar
9 Christian regards the peep o a.
9 habits of his chief, but perhaps a
r even more pertinent question is as
Q how the cabinet members look on III
sun-up rising of their great anu goo
q chieftain.
g # is said that Herbert Hoover ike
e early hour procedure. Hoover Is fal
q " Young, and the lie-abed habit, ther'
1. fore, has not had time to grip mn
# viii H. Hays, the Postmaster Ge
r. eral, is still younger, and as for hay
te he never sleeps. These twain arrl\
ar ot the White House on the morning
that they go there at an hour that
nothing less than astounding tor
~ "previousness." This is all very We
ID from the viewpoint of the welfare
~, ~ the great American republic, for ear
ri, hours generally mean long hours
10 this town, and if every hour is u
~ Of work as the first hours of the d'
-; seem to be, things ought to go ahe'
Ia. hourishingly.
The only plant in the case com
n from the newspaper men, VINO ia
% been accustomed to the somewhat II
49, or hours of the administration viii
lust closed, and who were accustom
-, TO what might be called the leisure
~ hours of the Taft adminstratl'
~ Even Mr.. Taft's friends admitted tt
10 he was a Ieisurely gentleman.
al, So far as the clerical force at
hi. White House is concerned, things
,at as they always were. The hours
ar. the government toilers are fixed wi
q out regard to the predictions
#" the early or late risings unto tn
~ tasks of Presidents of the UNI
States, or of cabinet officers. 80 n
IDS o'clock found the clerical force b
u. .he in other years as it finds them b
' in this year.
o Worries Correspondents.
inc All that is left for the newspa
tod man to do is to take that bit OF
i, vice which was given way back
the scriptural days, go to the
trio thou sluggarl; consider her ways
at be WISE" 1t is not exactly pre-
to make it appear even distantly
. the President Of the United State
. w an ant, but so far as work Is
e cerred he seems to be much like
President Harding has told
ers newspaper men through his secre
~ that he will see them once W
for that Is he will see each batch
,bod them once q week. The men re
,,res senting the morning newspapers
,ben be received by the President for
, Of. quizzing process in the afternoon.
c;tv hour at which the afternoon new
nor men are to be received has
vet been set, but the strong hop
Tally the breasts Of the afternoon me
bling that the President will not sun
anti them with the milk man.
since There Is no telling to what Ter
gain. the early morning habits Of the v
House may CO. Even afternoon I
'a1lic paper men have their seLsibilities
bu' some few of them need an hot
lpnis two for sleep.
oom innovation Causes Gossip.
.''"~ There are some men in '
y NO ington, who perhaps know what
e on 20, M. =. horo ho,n,,
.ouis, ' "ou,u .a. w. ,o.so ~ 10
N0' Vice President Coolidge as an OF
I'd, a member of the cabinet is likely
n an. short one. In other words,
Board are some officials In Legislative
eraor who do not like the idea of h
the vice president sit in at the
6 to
IS fell VERY OLD GAME.