Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — A Hard-Worked Man. [ARTICLE]

A Hard-Worked Man.

Perhaps we do not realize It, but the president of the United States is one of the hardest worked men in the republic. The head of a big corporation, E. H. Gary, for instance, can slip away to Europe and the organization will run Itself until he returns, but the president, surrounded as he is by a corps of capable assistants and advisers, must be on the job practically every day in the year. Today William H. Taft Is the busiest official who holds a high elective, position. A governor can get away from official cares —although his pay may be docked If be stays away too long—but the president must get his vacation in driblets. His vacations consist of fifteen-minute intervals in which nobody actually is waiting to see him.