The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Miss Eva
B. Uhl is no clock worker, that is, she
doesn't work or quit work by the
clock. Her hour for going to lunch
varies greatly. Occasionally she has
a hasty bite round ! o'clock. Some
times she has her salad and tea at
1850 On other days it may be close
to 2 O'Clock, and now and then it is
several minutes after that hour before
she may satisfy her midday appetite.
She never works with her eye on
the clock That would be useless.
Rather than on the clock she keeps
her eye on crack in a door that
stands aiar 1t is not until she sees
through that crack the figure OF GER
tain distinguished gentleman depart
ing from his office for his lunch that
she casts aside her note book and re-
treats from her typewriter to grab her
own snack.
The distinguished gentleman whose
activities have such an important bear
ing on the hour when Miss Uhl be-
gins or quits her work or slips away
to her lunch is the president OF the
United States.
Dictates Fifty Letters Day.
AS the presidents personal stenog
rapher Miss Uhl, browneyed West
Virginia girl, must be on the job at
exactly the same hours as her distin-
guished boss. The president dictates
his letters, as many as fifty in a day, /
whenever he can spare a moment from |
conferences and study, so Miss Uhl |
must be ever ready to respond to his |
call. While most OF the white house !
mail is handled by others, the presi- /
dent himself must personally dictate /
a certain number OF letters.
The president goes to his desk at 9
a. m. sometimes an hour earlier, and ,
he sticks to his task, with scarcely
more than twenty minutes for lunch, |
until I o'clock in the evening. His !
hour for lunch varies, depending on
appointments and on the cabinet ses-
sions falling on two days OF the week.
Miss Uhl's office is across the hall |
from the executive Office. Her door
stands ajar so she may get a glimpse !
OF the president when he starts on his |
100-yard walk to the white house din
ing room. His departure is a signal !
for her departure; but since the presi-
dent does not take much time for
lunch her lunch hour is likewise linn
tied. /
Two Brothers in Indiana
Miss Uhl, who takes all OF the pres
ident's personal letters and typewrites
his speeches. which he usually writes |
in long hand rather than dictates, is
a sister Of Benjamin Uhl, farmer
near Bridgeport, Ind, and Calvin Uhl,
who lives in Indianapolis.
No president can escapeafrom hard |
work. for his job is never completed.
One task may be accomplished but |
always there are innumerable others |
pressing for solution. President Hard !
ing once remarked that as a news |
paper editor he had the satisfaction |
at the end OF each day OF seeing the |
completed product as the paper went |
it is different, because national prob |
to press, but with the presidential job |
lens can not be settled within a day. /
and for every problem ended two new
ones are sure to bob up.
President Harding sticks to his |
tasks so constantly that day after day |
passes without his even leaving the |
white house grounds Since he sleeps, |
eats and works within the confines OF |
the white house grounds many days !
pass with his physical exercise limit
ed to calisthenics in his own room on |
arising and to walking few' yards
from the house in which he lives to |
the office in which he works. Within |
the week President Harding has been |
outside OF the white house grounds |
only once, and that was TO go to
church
Goes to Links.
With his Office a real workshop, adj !
Joining the house in which he lives, |
he is compelled now and then to go !
to the golf links for couple of hours !
Of vigorous walking and driving and
putting to get the necessary exercise
to keep him physically Nit. But the
presidents opportunity to play golf
does not come often. When he plays
golf in the summer time perhaps once
a week, he either goes to the links
very early in the morning or late in
the afternoon. When he plays OF a
morning he is on the links long before