The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-31
NEW PRESIDENT
IS EARLY RISER
ABOUT 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.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

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Washington. President Harding
sees the sun about as early these
spring mornings as any other resident
Of Washington, unless 1t be the milk
man. OF course, the sun does not
rise as early just now as it will in
June, but ut that the White House
dweller gets an early start.
Newspaper men who call at the
White House offices at the regulation
hour of 10 a. m. find generally that
Mr.. Harding has been "at 1t" an hour
before their arrival. Nobody knows
how long this will keep up. 1t Is a
hard rule that never is broken, The
wonder Is how George b. Christian,
the amiable secretary to the Presi-
dent, likes the early hours. 1t is an
unwritten law that the secretary to st
President shall get down to the brass
tacks of work before his chief Mr..
Christian doubtless is grateful that
his Marion fellow tOwnsman does not
obey the eight o'clock whistle.
It was only a few days ago that an
invitation reached the President to
play an early morning game Of golf
out at a place called Grasslands. He
accepted and was on his way to the
links while the morning was still dim
~ light and misty with the morning
eyhaations Of the Potomac He
played 80 holes, and as there is TO
longer thirty-seventh hole in golf,
he was able to finish his play, take
the licking which we understand was
administered by one of his cabinet
members who Is a better golfer than
his chief. and return to the White
House nearly three hours before Mrs.
Harding called him to lunch.
How About cabinet7
A word of inquiry has been written
as to the manner in which Secretary
Christian regards the peep O. day
habits of his chief, but perhaps an
even more pertinent question is as to
how the cabinet members look on the
sun-up rising of their great and good
chieftain
It is said that Herbert Hoover likes
early hour procedure. Hoover is fair
ly young, and the lie-abed habit, there
fore. has not had time to grip him
VIII II. Hays, the Postmaster Gen
eral, is still younger, and as for Hays,
he never sleeps. These twain arrive
Mt the White House on the mornings
that they go there at an hour that is
nothing less than astounding for its
righteousness This is all very well
from the viewpoint of the welfare Of
the great American republic, for early
hours generally mean long hours in
this town, and if every hour is full
of work as the first hours of the day
seem to be, things ought to go ahead
flourishingly
The only plant in the case comes
from the newspaper men, who have
been accustomed to the somewhat lat
or hours of the administration which
just closed, and who were accustomed
to what might be called the lesurely
hours of the Taft administration.
Even Mr. Tafts friends admitted that
he was a eisurely gentleman.
SO far as the clerical force at the
White House is concerned, things are
rs they always were. The hours of
the government toilers are fixed with
out regard to the predictions for
the early or late risings unto their
tasks of Presidents Of the United
States, or of cabinet officers. SO nine
o'clock found the clerical force busy
In other years as it finds them busy
IN this year
Worries Correspondents
All that Is left for the newspaper
man to do is to take that bit Of adj
vice which was given way back in
the scripWral days, "GO to the ant,
thou sluggard, consider her ways and
be wise" II Is not exactly proper
to make it appear even distantly that
the President of the United States is
an ant, bur SO far MS work is con
ccrEed he seems to be much like one
President Harding has told the
newspaper men through his secretary
that he will see them once a week
that Is he viii see each batch Of
them once a week. The men repre-
senting the morning newspapers Will
be received by the President for the
quizzng process In the afternoon. The
hour at which the afternoon newspa-
per mcL are to be received has not
yet been set but the strong hope in
the breasts of the afternoon men is
that the President will not summon
them with the milk man.
There is no telling to what lengths
the early morning habits Of the White
House may 60 Even afternoon news
paper men have their seEsibilities and
some few of them need an hour or
two for sleep
Innovation Causes Gossip.
There are some men in Wash
ington, who perhaps know what they
would like to have happen, who
think that the lease Of life of
Vice President Coolidge as an outside
member Of the cabinet is likely to be
n short one In other words, there
are some officials in legislative life
who do not like the idea Of having
the vice president sit In at the caDi-