Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-01

for a rest Of three or four weeks
in. New England. With so many prob
lens pressing for solution, he has de-
clded to remain here. He was COM
PEELED to cancel plans for a vacation
last summer because OF the inability
of the congress to complete the work
he had laid out for it. He has had
IL months In the White House with
out a real break. This surpasses the
record of any President within the pc
riod Of the present generation.
Last spring the President made def
mite plans for visiting Alaska this sum
mer. He was to have spent the en-
tire month Of August in the territory
as the guest of Scott G. Bone, the
territorial governor. But as the sum-
mer came on the congress was still
on his hands and it became necessary
to abandon the Alaskan trip. Fol-
lowing the cancellation Of this plan,
the tentative arrangements for pro-
longed stay In New England were made.
Then the miners strike and the strike
of railroad shopmen demanded the
Presidents attention. and the general
industrial situation became so unsat-
isfactory that it was deemed advisable
to give up the plans for going to New
| England.
The United States has had good
many Woodworking Presidents, but not
one Of them put in more hours at his
desk than does President Harding. He
frequently gets over to the executive
! office before the clerical force reports
for duty, and it is a common thing for
him to be at his desk until ten o'clock
or eleven o'clock at night. This does
not mean that he works these long
hours without taking some time OH
during the day.
Plays Golf in Early Morning.
Unless the pressure of official duties
Is unusually heavy, Mr.. Harding goes
out for round at golf every day. Dur
ing the last few months he has been
going to. the golf game early in the
morning two or three days in the
week.
| The driver of milk wagon reported
the other morning that as he was pass
| ing the White House little before
a. M. he observed the President start
| ing out in his automobile headed in
the direction of one of the golf
courses, while four secret service men
were putting on their collars and neck
ties as they hurried away in a second
machine in pursuit Of the President.
| The sight that interested the driver
/ of a milk wagon is not an unusual one.
When the President makes up his
mind the evening before to get an
! early start on the golf course, ne
leaves a call for 5 q. m. The secret
service men, whose duty it is always
to keep him in sight, are called at the
same hour, but some of them live some
distance from the White House, and
it frequently happens that they are
compelled to hustle. On days when
the President does not go to the golf
course at 6 a. M, he goes out immedl-
ately after breakfast and is back at
his desk about 10 80 a. m. Recently
on account of the press of business
/ he has done but little golfing in the at
ternoon. No. person acquainted with
/ the hard tasks that confront the Pres
ident of the United States every day
would think of criticising him for TAX
ing a little time off each day for rec
reation. Mr.. Harding seldom goes out
in his automobile for the mere pleas
ure of riding.
Keens on Shakinu Hands.
Recently the Presidents cabinet has
been trying to persuade him to con-
serve his strength by declining to
shake hands with the folks from all
over the country who throng Wash
ington during the summer season. The
President has declined to turn the
tourists away empty handed. Three
times a week-on Monday, Wednesday
and F'riday-Iong lines of tourists
form in front Of the executive office,
and at one o'clock or whereabouts
these lines move forward. Not infre-
nuentIy the President shakes hands
with 500 or 600 persons nc one Of
these midday affairs To a consider
able extent the handshaking crowds
represent organizations OF various
kinds.
If the industrial situation should be
j straightened out within the next week
or two the President would still have
the dilatory congress on his hands and
would not feel like leaving the nation
al capital The determination of the
President to stick to his tasks-a de-
termination that has kept him in Wash
ington through two summers-has
made it difficult for members of his
cabinet to take vacations. Some of
them have not had weeks full rest
since March 4, 1921. In the old days
Washington used to practically shut
I'M shop during the summer season.
The Landlord Lied.