A President's Life

The round of activities of all kinds forced on a President is unending.

P: Mr. and Mrs. Harding attended a "tribute of love" given by the children of Washington. A band of 8,000 youngsters broke through the marine guard and charged the Presidential stand, breaking up the proceedings. Those who could not get close enough to the President to press flowers into his hand, pelted him with bouquets over the heads of the crowd.

P: Between 200,000 and 500,000 Shriners decided to hold their convention in Washington. Special post-offices, eating places and sleeping quarters had to be made ready--and the President issued special orders to Federal and city agents for preserving the Volstead Act.

P: President Harding has the task of preparing two " set'' speeches and six others for use on his transcontinental trip toward the end of the month. This is a considerable reduction from the 20 speeches originally planned, and probably represents hia desire not to appear just yet before the people as a candidate for office in 1924.

P: A special car was made ready to carry the President west. It has an observation platform and a large radio set to broadcast Mr. Harding's rear platform speeches.

P: The President is undertaking the organization of his Alaskan " vaca-tion." He, with Secretary of the Interior Work, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, must in three weeks master the problems of the Territory enough to undertake a constructive program in the Fall. Alaska is now administered by 35 departments and bureaus of the Government. The problems to be mastered include centralization of the Government, colonization, mineral survey, railway building, road building, laws governing fishing, hunting and protection of the seals, removing dangers to navigation, building a territorial capitol.