The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-28
PRESIDENT HARDNG's TRIP

PRESIDENT HARDNG's TRIP
The New York Times, in forecast.
ing the presidents trip last week
published the following instructive
article telling many things about
how the president travels, and how
the arrangements are made and car
ried out:
When the President and Mrs
Harding leave the White House thii
week for their visit to the PACING
Coast and Alaska they will begin the
longest continuous trip ever under.
taken by the Chief Executive of the
United States.
It 10 true that when President VII
son attended the Paris Peace Cen.
ference he was absent from Wash
ington for . longer period, but even
with his round trip across the At
lantic and his visits to London,
Brussels, Milan and Rome he Gov.
cred less mileage than Is contem-
plated in President Hardings itin.
erary. Then. too. 1t must be re.
membered, the Wilson excursions to
Europe did not involve continuous
travelling; Mr.. Wilson spent long
weeks in Paris without leaving the
city, while Harding's schedule ~
constituted at present does not call
for more than three days stop In
any one locality In the two months
away from Washington.
If the President and Mrs. Hard
ing carry out their announced timer
airy Of crossing the continent, swing
ing north to Alaska, skirting the
Pacific Coast to San Diego and re-
turning to Washington by way of the
Panama Canal, with q short stoppevr
in Porto Rico, they will have COW
cred by rail, automobile, carriage
and ship between twenty and twenty
five thousand miles.
Whether or not these ambitious
plans will be fulfilled depends, Of
course, upon Mrs. Harding's health
an dthe amount of reserve strength
she has been able to store up since
her critical illness of last fall. This
consideration has stood first in the
for the trip, and Brig.
Gen. Sawyer, the Harding physician,
is confident that his patient will suf-
fer no i'll effects from the strain and
fatigue that cannot be avoided upon
a Presidential tour, no matter how
complete the plans or how careful
the arrangements to guard against
Those who have seen Mrs. Hard
ing recently have found her looking
White House. She has set her heart
upon this trip, which twice before
in preceding summers had to be
abandoned because Congress or in
dustrial troubles kept the President
tied down in Washington.
Probably II Mr.. Harding could
have his way upon this Alaskan trip
he would motor from the White
House to the Union Station, beckon
70 a red cap to carry his hand bag
gage to private car attached to a
regular train and leave with four
,r five congenial travelling compan-
ons for the Pacific Coast. At Chi
ago, while his car was being shunted
o another train, he would motor out
% Evanston for lunch with Brig.
ZEN. Charles G.. Dawes and a few
loles of golf with that peppery-
ongued person and possibly a dip
n Fred w. Upham's swimming pool.
arriving at Seattle he would take a
axi to the docks and board a passen-
,er liner for Alaska. But he can't.
les President of the United States
nd probably less than ten people
q a thousand ever have seen such
parsonage in the flesh.
So this is what must happen:
Fifteen or twenty minutes before
rain time the President and Mrs.
Harding will cross the White House
ortico to an automobile emblazoned
nth the Presidential coat of arms
pom it's door. In the driveway two ..
Their motors will be waiting AS :
BON as the chauffeur of the Presi- !,
ent's car releases his clutch five or ,
* alert, athletic young men will :
imp into the first car, which will /,
.ay close to the rear bumper of the .
ardings' limousine. They are Sc :
ret Service men, detailed to guard :
lie President. From them he will :
sldom be out of sight and never out .
sound SO long as he holds his =
flee. In the car behind them will !,
2 representatives Of four press as =
)ciations.
Seeing Them Off I,
At the pOrtico of the Union Sta t.
on there will be crowd OF people a
ehind police lines. They will ap- 6
aud and perhaps cheer-Washing- a
mans are VIGOROUSLY careful of u
eir lungs while Mr.. and Mrs. o
arding leave their motor for the a
Room in the station 81
obody knows what would happen if o
e Chief Executive should enter or Il
ave a train at the Washington c,
MON Station without passing thru v
e Presidents Room; it has never 81
zen done. Then into the trainshed, P
rough lane of people to the gates, b
it'll police holding back several c;
inbred travellers, porters and cur Il
sity seekers, and on board the plat 81