New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-01
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

- ~ ~ SSNo ~ SohSi fObto
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington. - President Harding
sees the sun about as early these
spring mornings aS any other resident
of Washington, unless it be the milk
man, OF course, the sun does not
rise as early just now as it will in
June, but at that the White House
dweller gets nm early start.
Newspaper men who call at the
White House offices at the regulation
hour of 10 n. m. find generally that
Mr.. Harding has been "ut it" an hour
before their arrival. Nobody knows
how long this will keep up. II is "A
hard rule that never is broken. The
wonder is how George Il. Christian,
the amiable secretary to the Prcsi-
dent, likes the early hours. II is an
unwritten law that the secretary To a
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.
II was only a few days ago that an
invitation reached the President to
play an early morning game of golf
out ut n place called Grasslands. lie
accepted and was on his way To the
links while the morning was still dim
ly light and misty with the morning
eNhalations of the Potomac. lie
played 30 holes, and ms there is TO
longer n 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 retur 10 the White
House nearly three hours before Mrs.
Harding called him To lunch.
How About Cabinet2
A word of inquiry has been written
as To the manner in which Secretary
Christian regards the peep q day
habits Of his chief, but perhaps an
Y e more pertinent question is ms to
how the cabinet members look on the
sun-up rising of their great and good
chieftain.
II Is said that Herbert Hoover likes
early hour procedure. Hoover Is fair
ly young, and the liP-abed habit, there
fore, has not had time To grip him.
VIII II. Hays, the Postmaster Gen
eral, is still younger, and ms for Hays,
he never sleeps. These twain arrive
ut the White House N the mornings
that they 20 there nj nm hour that Is
nothing less than astounding for its
"previousneSs." 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 II every hour is full
Of work as the first hours of the day
seem TO he, things ought to go ahead
fiourishingly.
The only plant in the case comes
from the newspaper men, who have
been accustomed TO the somewhat lat
Just closed. and who were accustomed
I 0 what might be called the ~lelsurely
hours of the Taft administration.
Even Mr.. Taft's friends admitted that
he was n leisurely gentleman.
So far as the clerical force at the
White House is concerned, things are
ms they always were. The hours of
the government toilers are fixed with
regard 10 the predictions for
the early or late rlsingS unto their
tasks Of Presidents Of the United
or of cabinet officers. So nine
found the clerical force busy
In other years as II finds them busy
this year.
Worries Correspondents.
All that is left for the newspaper
man 10 do is to take that bit of ad-
vice which was given way back in
scripturnl days, go to the ant, ,
.hou sluggard consider her ways and
De wise" II is not exactly proper
o make IL appear even diStantly that /,
he President of the United States is I
IN ant, but so far MS work Is CON ,
he seems to be much like one. I
President Harding has told the :
newspaper men through his secretary 4
hat he will see them once a week. :
hat is he will see each batch of +,
hem once a week. The men repre- A.,
the morning newspapers will 81
70 received by the President for the
.~uiZZing process in the afternoon. The \
lour at which the afternoon newspa- u
'er mel. are 10 be received has not n
ct been set, hut the strong hope In a
breasts of the afternoon men is z
hat the President will not summon
hem with the milk man. u
There IL no telling to what lengths n
he early morning habits Of the White q
louise may go. Even afternoon news p
aper men have their ser sibilities and 8
ONE few of them need an hour or II
for sleep.
Innovation Causes Gossip. II
There are some men In Wash b
lgton. who perhaps know what they L
like to have happen, who e,
link that the lease of life Of Il
ice President Coolidge as an outside W
Of the cabinet is likely to be 81
short one. In other words. there Il
re some officials in legislative life III
no do not like the idea of having Il
he vice president sit In at the cabi- it
VERY OLD GAME.