Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1915 — PRESIDENT'S MAIL IS SORTED WITH SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT'S MAIL IS SORTED WITH SYSTEM

Corps of Clerks Open Letters, Give First Reading and Attach Brief Notations. Washington, D. C. —The President's mall is of such proportions that he can not, like a business man, read all his letters as a part of the morning’s routine. By a carefully developed system, however, the contents of the White Houae mall are In substance laid before him each day. The work of doing this falls upon a corps of confidential clerks, who open the letters and give them a first reading. Then they are carefully sorted. Many of them, of course, need not go to the President at all, since they are simply recommendations for office, hese, after courteus acknowedgment, are referred to the proper departments and placed on file until they may be taken up for consideration. Many of the President’s letters are purely formal, or contain requests for something which can not be granted. These the clerks answer and the President's secretary signs. The requests for charity are so many that a special “form” has been drawn up for answering them. Such communications as the President ought to see are carefully briefed —that is a slip is pinned at the top of each letter, and on this Is a typewriten synopsis of its contents, telling who the writer is and what he has to present