Evening star., 1923-12-23
Real Workers i'm the National Capital

waste on more or less futile hand
| shaking. gossip and story telling.
Yet his callers must be seen,
thanked, jollied, sometimes mollified
| reused, interested, enthused. For
Calvin Coolidge is not only President
of the United States. He is also a
, candidate for nomination and cleo
tion.
Slemp's father likely taught him
how to play politics. The old gem
tleman was a spade bearded, cordial.
astute person, part way between a
covenanter and a cavalier. who was
| in politics for the love of it. He was
a republican, and republicans in Of
f1ce in Virginia come under the head
OF mammoth caves and other natural
| wonders. He held his seat in Con-
gress until he died and then his son
inherited 1t. The only reason why
c. Bascom Slemp ceased to be a con-
gresham, after eight years. was that
his health was bad. He continued to
be in politics. as the committe eman
good again. People say he has had
lain:
| the outer office of tho Presidents
suite at the White House.
Director OF Interviews.
He says that he is glad to meet
Mr.. Google. He looks glad. He
! really seems to be glad. He finds
| out who Mr.. Google is. In the un-
! likely event that he does not know
| already, what he wants, what he
| knows. Mr.. Google has come on to
| report the state of affairs In Goose
Valley township to the President
Also to shake hand and have a little
chat and go back home to tell the
! folks that he had q fine talk with
Cal. II that interview were permitted
| to run free and loose it would be
| painful both to the President and Mr..
| Google. The visitor would fire of
| what he had to say and Mr.. Cool
| idge would have replied:
That is true
| Then there would be no more at
all. This sort Of thing seems not to
worry Mr.. Coolidge. He is. pre-
sumably. used to it. but it gives
strangers the hump. After vainly
lucid that might fifty be said to the
| President Of the United States they
would permit their Adams apple to
| flicker for time and then retire in
| confusion. 1t might leave the wrong
| sort Of an impression on the right
| sort Of q man. So Mr.. Slemp deftly
] directs affairs the way they should
go.
| "I am enormously interested in
| what you have to say about Goose
| Valley" says he. won't you let me
1 take you in here where you can
| dictate this to q stenographer?"
Saving Presidents Time.
| Mr.. Google does, of course. When
he comes out with his copy Mr.. Slemp
| runs it though.
'T shall have this placed on file,"
he says. There is no reason to doubt
his sincerity when he declares that
this information is Of value. IT have
told the President what you have
| done, and he has asked me to bring
you in to meet him."
Mark you, Mr.. Google has not
I asked to meet the President. He
might, conceibably, be a modest man
\ who would doubt his right to ask
this. But he Is fattered at the
| thought that the President has asked
to meet him. Any one Of us would
be-. He goes in, with Mr. Slemp at
his elbow, few sentences are rapid
fred, and he goes out, pleased. None
| Of the precious presidential time has
been lost Mr.. Coolidge gets back
/ to his study of conditions, examina-
tion Of documents, inquiry into this
or that state Of affairs. An unend-
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