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THE U.S. PRESIDENCY. SINGLE TERM OR SUCCESSIVE TERMS

Mr. Joseph P. Tumulty, who was Secretary to Former President Woodrow Wilson, has written on this subject as follows:-

The untimely death of President Hard. ing has brought on a discussion of the duties and burdens of the Presidential office Distinguished public men are debating legislative ways and means of relieving the President.

Far removed from the oxigencies of politics and the needs of constituencies of Representatives and Senators, the President would be free to consider eamly dispassionately the needs of the whole country. His selections to high effect they might have upon the political office would be made regardless of the future of statesmen and politicians.

I recall a story of President Lincoln." It appears that in the early days of the Civil War, when the Northern armies were screly pressed and bad news was rushing the White House, the President, when sen by na intimate friend, was walking up and down his study, care The most definite proposal thus far and greatly disturbed. The friend advanced is that an official be designated

·maid: An act as assistant to the President, upon burdens, Mr. Presiden

"I wish I could relieve you of your whom will devolve the ministerial, duties.

The news we in contradiction to the administrativo are getting from the Northern armies is datios which are inseparable from the discouraging."

The President turned and sau to bis inquiring friend : Northern Armies, I am wondering whom I am not now thinking of the shall appoint av Portmanter at Shelby ville, Ky

office.

From my own experiences in the White House, covering a period of eight years (three of which encompassed the mo mentous events of the World War), my opinion is that if the plan of naming an assistant is carries out it would be arere expedienta quack" remedy-and would not go to the heart of the thing seek to correct.

We cannot really lift the burdens which beset the President at every turn until we find a way to free him from those things which worry and harass a sident; those things which take his thoughts away from a proper consider tion of the real questions of importans affecting the country's welfare and which daily press upon him for solution.

AT THE HELM. DAY AND NIGHT. The trial of the Presidency about which we complain are inherent in the tenure of the office itself. It is only an unfortunate happening like the death of a President that brings us faer to face with stern fact that within a decade the duties of the Presidential office have increased alarmingly.

demands made upana President of the In this story there is illustrated the

alities and the success of this or that in- United States at a time when person- dividual in the political feld should be sabervient to the welfare of all

During my term in the White House the mics critical stages of the World War striking incident occurred at one of when a bitter controversy arcs over the master of a small city in Northern Ohio. question of who should be appointed Post- It was at a time when David Lloyd George was "erying but that the World War was a struggle between von Hinden- burg and Wilson. Various factions of the Democratic Party were interested in the selection of a particular man for the Northern Ohio post.

Many conferences were held. The Post- master-General had refused to recommend for the place the man chosen by the Congressman from that district. The More and more our people have de Senators from the State were at odda manded Presidential leadership of an and thus the controversy, in its finality, individual and special nature so that with all the soreness and bitterness that with the tremendous growth of the had been engendered, had to be passed. country the varied negls of forty-eight on to the President for a decision. Feel- prosperous and growing States, the ad-ings must not be hurt in this matter. . ministration of the Philippines, Porto And thus we found the President at Rico and cur widely separated insular the time when critical war matters pross- possessions, the trials, and cares of the ed upon him, compelled to give his time President have broadened, in their sweep and energy and his vitality to this matter antil, with uncomplaining patience and of secondary importance, fortitude, the Captain of the great Ship of State must be at the helm both day and night, guiding the destinies ofsident, through Congressional action, by 110,000,000 people through dangerous making it unnecessary for him to sign waters.

The war itself and its aftermath, which brought new and additional burdens in the way of grate world problems, have drawn greatly upon the energy--physical and mentalef, the President. Only a robust and vigorous man can hope to withstand the resultant strain, worry and anxiety.

It is reported in the daily press that fforts will be made to relieve the Pre-

various commissions, grants of public lands, etc. In my opinion, this attempt to relieve the President would be, per- forming but a minor, operation where a major one is necessary.

My plea, therefore, is to amend the Constitution so as to provide for single term of either four or six ara This would leave the President free to carry out his responsibilities to the Nation an a whole and would relieve him of all

While in the White House I was fortunately in a position to witness from the "inside" the constant demands apen | worries and, anxietica incident to a cam,

An earrgy. Time and again I saw & sorely burdened President with the weight of perplexing cares and respon sibilities upon him, indulgently batering

to

the partisan claims of ** specia! pleaders from Capitol Hill, even at a time when solemn decisions affecting the destiny of the Nations and the world had to be made.

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MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ALL In the face of all these known hardships and cares, it was a fine, noble, commend- able thing, an nct characteristic of thei geniality and goodness of President Harding to announce an open door. policy at the White House shortly after hi inauguration; but I am express- ing the opinion

that I then pressed to his friends and advisers, that this benevolent, democratic policy could not be satisfactorily carried out without a severe charge upon the energy and time of the President. Such a policy can only result in physical and nervous exhaustion.

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Do we realize that while the President is thought to live in lowly isolation at

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But the fact is (and when I say this it without disparagement of the dis tinguished occupants of that high office) too much of the President's time is given. to a consideration of problems that in the last analys are purely political and law to do with that side of his Adminis tration which should be subordinated.

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da cther words, the President is no sooner comfortably seated in the White House than the art of friends is thick upon him to sell himself and his A Large Assortment of Artificial Wreaths, administration to the country," He is, of course, always averse to propagandis ing and resorting to "swings around the dircle:" But us intimate friends and advisers impress upon him the wisdom ui appealing to us people, explaining that the success of his administration de- ads, upon his gring before the country, und to the strategy of campaigning is urged upon hem

The only solution of the problem is to

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