Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-02-12
WRITES
LETTER To PURP
FOR LAOD|E BOY
No Cat to Play With at White
House, But President Says
His Dog Doesn't Mind

| BOSTON, Feb. ia dogs view Of
life in the White House is given in a
letter ostensibly written by "Laddie
Boy" President Harding's Airedale
| terrier, to Tiger" stage dog, which
will appear in the current issue of the
National Magazine, to be published
tomorrow. The president sent the
letter, which was in reply to one from
Tiger" to Joe Mitchell Chapple, edi
tor of the magazine.
'Laddie Boy has made reply" Pres
ident Harding wrote, land l am send
ing you copy herewith for your in
formation, since you were the bearer
of Tigers message"
After telling of "a thrill that wag-
ged my tail violently when l read of
the part you are playing, giving to the
public demonstration of the fidelity
which characterizes our lives" Lad.
die Boys" letter says:
"Laddie Boys" Letter
Every dog plays his part well when
he is merely his natural self, but I'M
happily many dog is more or less
spoiled by his environment and asso-
Citations. l imagine am spoiled some
myself So many people express a
desire to see me and l shake hands
with so many callers at the Executive
Mansion that l fear there are some
people who will suspect me of politi-
cal inclinations-from what l see of
politics l am sure l have no such as
pirations.
"Of course it is exceedingly inter-
esting and worth while to be in the
center of so many interesting activi-
ties of great Importance, but there is
an heir of earnestness and RESPONSE
bility about it which l can see in my
Chief that I often long for the good
old days back home.
Sometimes the Chief acts as
though he would like to sit down
when he and / can be alone, and can
look at him with sympathetic eyes and
he fixes his gaze on me in grateful
sort of way, as much as to say, Well.
,-Laddie Boy, you and are real friends,
and we will never cheat each other
when the Chief looks at me this
way, | know that he feels that l will
never find fault with him. no matter
what he does, and that I will never be
ungrateful nor unfaithful.
A Wonderful Life
81 realize that dogs life is linn
tied in years, but it is, after all, a
wonderful life to live. l can believe
we leave our impress on our human
associates. | suppose, because of my
temporary assignment to the White
House, you attribute to me greater
knowledge than can really claim to
possess. 1 am only Is months old and
T do not know many other dogs.
have heard the Chief talk about some
of his dog friends, and / know that he
chooses to be known az the friend of
good dogs.
"Say. Talk about fellowship-me
for the company of small boy who
has been taught never to be cruel to
animals. That's the association for
play that strengthens the heart and
brightens the spirits. Still there are
a lot of grown-ups whom it is most
agreeable to associate with.
when |. came to the White House
the Mistress gave me a rather cold
shoulder l found out afterward it
was because she did not want to be-
come attached to me and excessively
grieved in case our association had to
be severed. Since then she has 'fal-
len for me to beat the band. She
lets me come to the private dining
room now and then, and | can coax
morsels from the table n whole lot
more effectively than a lot of office
seekers cas appeal for jobs. But 1
mustn't talk about these things, for
fear will be giving away some of
the White House secrets.
No Cat At White House
81 have no doubt you will do a lot
of good. If you can only have the
realization that you are helping to es-
tablish a more kindly consideration of
the animal life OF which we are a part
and you can impress your audiences
with the beauty of the friendship of
dogs for human associates who treat
them becomingly, and instill in hui
man lives some of the honesty and
fidelity which characterizes the lives
we dogs live. you will find compen-
sation in the good you have done
which will surpass any other expert
ence in your life"
The letter says there is no cat to
play with at the White House and
adds:
Il do not think I am sorry thereat
There isn't must fun in pursuing and
making war on some other quadruped
as some of our forbears seem to-
think. 1t is really fine to dwell in
tranquility"
"Laddie Boy signs himself. yours
with a cordial wag, friendly sniff
and a joyous greeting"