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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN. UTAH inmarn Riinier ofAmerica's Past Roosevelt at Halfway Mark faithfulness. There Is good team work there. Things work so smoothly that no one tees the wheels go round or realizes the great pressure under which everyone is working at the White House. President in Good Health and Spirits; Works Hard and Plays Strenuously PUTS IN BUSY DAY The President gets into his big oval shaped office in the working end of the White House around 10:30, having disposed of muchbnsl-ness- , and there awaits the long stream of callers, officials, congressmen, cabinet officers and leaders of American business life. From then until 6:30 or 7:00 oclock in the evening he is constantly at work, even using his lunch hour to confer with some cabinet member or close associate. At these conferences most of the public policies are framed or discussed. The incoming White House mail is enormous; it is likely to weigh as much as a tou a day; sometimes a ton and a half, which means a maximum of 50,000 letters dolly to be received, read, sorted and attended to by the staff of a hundred or more assistants. Naturally Mr. Roosevelt can see only a limited part of this vast mall, but every letter receives courteous attention. Roosevelt Is a man with a huge following which likes to write to him. lie has done as much to make the people conscious of the federal government as any man since Lincolns time, when the countrys attention was centered on the Union. Recollect, now, that it occupies the whole time of at least a hundred men and women to and handle the Presidents dully paper work. Each one Is especially fitted for the task; and 1 am reminded of the old Bible saying: Seest thou a man diligent in his business, be In toshall stand before kings. day's language we would say that a man has to be a topnotcher to handle any part of the t hite House work. Roosevelt has been working very hard lately ; especially since congress convened. He is hammering hard on his progiam, making every minute count and keeping a finger on everything in the government He sees his cabinet once a week; also the heads of every one of the organizaemergency alphabetical tions, a group called the National Emergency council, which in effect is a second cabinet of equal importance to the official one. He has two conferences a week w Ith newspaper men ; and these are as Interesting and as productive of news today as they were when he started them shortly after he was Inaugurated. At the time this was written, Roosevelt had not left the White House but three or four times In several weeks, being closely confined day and night on the business of his job; and at the same time showing up every morning with a genuine smile. By EARL GODWIN Washington. On Lincolns birthday President Roosevelt had just passed the halfway murk in his term in which he took office March 4, 1933. People would ordinarily believe that two years would have to elapse to mark the y point in a four jear term, but since March 4, 1933, the Constitution of the United States has been changed by the socalled Norris lame duck" amendment which starts oft Presidential terms on January 2. Roosevelt, therefore, serves a term which Is just days shy of the traditional four years, the first President to experience this cut in service. A veteran Journalist, John Russell Young, brought out the fact last February H would mark the half-wa- forty-thre- mid-ter- e time. President Roosevelt did a characteristic thing on Lincoln's birthday by confining his calling list to one man none other than a Union army veteran named William Iienry Gilbert, ninety four years old, now of Craley, Pa, member of the fast dwindling G. A R. This old gentleman is a sprightly fellow with the distinction of having been one of the guard of six soldiers who stood guard over the body of the martyred President when the drab funeral cortege was In Philadelphia. The President received him In his upstairs study in the White House, showed him the room where Lincoln worked and the long bed in which Lincoln slept Mr. Gilbert talked to the President, sitting side by side with him in the Presidents study, and then attended the Lincoln memorial services which centered here In Washington. The President then delved into an enormous amount of correspondence which had been accumulated In the previous four days. He had not been able to touch his vast mail in those days because of a constant series of conferences of gieat importance. PHYSICALLY and their w Ide circulation made his work familiar to most Americans. But because he never signed his paintings, the name of the man himself is comparatively unknown. Thousands who visited the Missouri exhibit In the Hall of States at A Century of Progress exposition in Chicago in 1033 saw for the first time an original of one of his most famous paintings and for the first time connected with it the name of George Caleb Bingham. But a' wider recognition, tardy though it has been, has come at last to the Missouri artist. It started several years ago when a citizen of that state took an option on Binghams home at Arrow Rock and suggested its purchase by the United Daughters of the Confederacy as a shrine to the Southern cause. Three years ago another Missourian, scion of a family Intimately connected with the painters career, declared that Bingham might well be called Missouris forgotten artist," for all the honor which It had paid him, and announced his Intention of starting a movement to revive Interest In the man and his work. In 1933 there was a loan show of Bingham paintings in the Kansas Art institute and last year the director of the St. Louis Art museum gathered from various parts of the coun try a representative group of his pictures which were on exhibition there for several weeks. Another signal honor came last month when the Museum of Modern Art In New York city gave a show of Binghams work. Time Magazine, featuring the story of this exhibition in its department on art, declared : Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as a modern Delacroix, last of the Renaissance tradition,' rival of David and Ingres. Only cautious Rojai Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: There is no distinction of style about his work. He was a mildly competent, mildly interesting practitioner, whose local legend may well be revived as a matter of pious courtesy. Mildly competent his work may be, but the elaborate canvases of George Caleb Bingham de scribed early life on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers far more ably than the much touted Currier & Ives lithographs. Bingham was one of the few painters in the world who was a practicing politician all his life, and he remains today one of the few Missouri artists ever to gain national fame. The paradox of his being both an artist and a practicing politician, however, is only one of the many interesting facts in his career. Bingham was born on a plantation in Augusta county, Virginia, Murch 20, 1811. When the boy was eight years old Iienry lest Bingham, his Scotch father, lost all his money and moved his family of a wife, seten children and their grandfather to the little frontier town of Franklin in Howard county, Missouri From his earliest years the boy dabbled with pencil and paint brush. He made his own paints, using axle grease, vegetable djes, brick dust mixed with oii and even his own blood, obtained by cutting the ends of his fingers. A jear after the arrival of the Bingham family In Franklin a fortunate circumstance aided the boys artistic ambition. Across the Missouri river at Boonslick Daniel Boone had settled and up the river from St. Louis came the artist, bang-haire- Chester Harding, to paint Boones portrait. It is probable that the boy watched the painter at work, saw the likeness of the famous Kentucky pioneer grow on the canvas And view with envious wonder the finished product. It Is more certain that Harding saw some of the sketches with which the boy had adorned the fence, the pump and the walls of the chicken house on his fathers farm and gave him some encouragement When Bingham was twelve his father died and Mary Amend Bingham, the thrifty, resourceful German housewife, took her brood of children to a little farm in Saline county, the only thing left them after her husbands death. At the age of sixteen Bingham was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in Boonville, learned something about wood carving and made wood panels on which he painted pictures. He also began the study of law in his spare time and even took up theology with the idea of possibly becoming a Methodist minister. Fortunately for him and for American art, however, Chester Harding again came to Boonville, noted the progress the boy had made and strongly advised him to concentrate on a career as an artist More than that he gave young Bingham lessons and by the time he was nineteen he had definitely decided upon painting as his life work. Borrowing $100 from a friend he used it for more Instruction by teachers In St Louis. In 1838 he went East to study in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and there his career began to blossom into full flower. He met many artists and had the opportunity of seeing many paintings. Not only did he see the portraits by such masters as Gilbert Stuart but he also saw descriptive or story pictures, technically known as genre painting, which appealed to him strongly and in which he began experimenting. He also continued his painting and did pictures of all the celebrities he met Andrew Jackson. John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Calhoun, Buchanan and John Howard Iajue, composer of Home Sweet much-neede- d por-tia- Home." Returning to Missouri six years later Bingham started on his career as a genre painter. The fur trading era was drawing to a close, as were other phases of frontier life, and America owes a debt of gratitude to George Caleb Bingham for preserving on canvas so much of it before It was gone forever. About this time he painted his first version of The Jolly Flatboatmen (there were several later versions), one of his best known pictures. The next tiling to which the versatile Bingham turned his attention was politics. In a hotly contested election he won a seat in the Missouri legislature by three votes but his career as a law maker does not seem to have interfered seriHe continued to turn ously with his painting. out scenes of life on the river and it was these paintings which first became widely known through the lithographs of the American Art union. One result of ins political carter in Mis souri was to turn his attention to painting pictures of that phae of pioneer life, and in The Stump Speaker, "Canvassing for a ote, Coun ty Election and The Verdict of the Ieople we have an invaluable record of the stirring dajs when people took their politics more seriouslj than they seem to do now. By this time Bingham was making enough from his painting to enable him to go to Europe FIT It is interesting to take stock of Franklin Roosevelt as he passes the mid-ter- to study. After his return he painted some of his finest portraits. Later he made another trip abroad but this time his stay was a short one and In I860 he was living in Kansas City and again taking a prominent part in the politics of the state. Despite his Virginia nativity and the strong Southern sympathy in Missouri, the outbreak of the Civil war found Bingham a stanch Northern sympathizer and a captain in the United States Volunteer reserves. So there is a paradox too in the proposal to make the Arrow Rock home of this Unionist a Confederate shrine, But that proposal Is more understandable If there Is taken Into account the fact that one of his pictures, the famous "Order No. 11, was a fierce polemic against an Injustice suffered by the Confederates in Missouri at the hands of some of Bingham's In 1863, while Bingham w as state treasurer, Quantrill and his guerillas made their famous raid on Lawrence, Kan., and massacred many of Its defenseless citizens. In retaliation for this, Brig. Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr., who was In command of the military district of the border with headquarters In Kansas City, Issued his General Order No. 11 calling for the concentration of all residents of the border Into certain military centers and the delivery of their harvested crops there. Those who could prove their lojalty to the Union cause would be given permission to remain within the limits of the military stations but all rebels" were to be driven out of the district. All of this had to be accomplished within 15 dajs. It was one of the most drastic military orders ever issued during the Civil war. Bingham made a trip from Jefferson City to Kansas City and protested vehemently against Its Issuance. But Ewing was obdurate and the order was executed ruthlessly and in many cases with unnecessary brutality. Whereupon Bingham took a vow that he would make the author of that order Im famous to posterity with his pen and brush." At the close of the war, Bingham moved to Independence and there began painting Order No. 11. After it was finished he borrowed $5,000 from his friend, James S. Rollins, to have the painting engraved on steeL He had printed 5,000 copies which he sold and for many years after the Civil war these steel engravings hung in hundreds of Missouri homes to keep alive the hated memory of Thomas Ewing and his cruel Order No. 11. fellow-Unionist- Ewing had returned to his home in Ohio after the war and in 1877 he was a candidate for gov ernor. Whereupon Bingham went to Ohio, taking his painting with him and exhibiting it In ak the larger cities. He gave lectures on It and wrote articles for the newspapers addressed to the voters, denouncing Ewing and calling upon them to keep such a man from becoming the chief executive of their state The result was that Ewing was defeated. Bingham had kept his vow, although he did not live long to enjoj his triumph. He died In 1879 and is buried in the old Union cemetery in Kansas City. & by Western Newspaper Union marker. We find him in good health, a most auspicious asset, especially in a President. Roosevelts smile, that infectious laugh, his good humor, that flash of the eye which denotes mental strength and agility, are all a part of the thing that makes Roosevelt personality. To me, he seems more of a man than when I saw him for the first time in many years at the Chicago convention, having alrplaned there to talk direct to the Democratic party which had chosen him as a standard bearer. I think he has gained In the grueling months In which he has set up a New Deal. There Is a deep spiritual quality about Roosevelt which bids well for this country. Ive often wondered how he manages to keep his mind clear through all the noise and blim blaming of the blocs, the lobbyists, the politicians and the scare head boys, and 1 guess the answer Is he keeps the big things big and the small things small. He doesnt forget to be human; nor has he lost any of that great stock of Roosevelt good humor. In that respect he ranks with Lincoln, who nsed to shock his war time cabinet by putting aside the cares of state to read to his cabinet something out of the daily humor of Josh Billings, war time predecessor of our present day Will Rogers. Roosevelt has that same light touch which indicates tremendous power within, which can manipulate without strain. He can put tremendous force into a national policy, and at the same time side step with marvelous agility the nasty cracks of the opposition. He can hit an embarrassing question right on the nose and turn the laugh on the man who asLs It Wltlial he Is a serious worker who goes right to the spot. Prob ably he is as hard working a man He as there Is on the payroll. and when he works constantly; plays he plays with everything he These play periods, has in him. though, are few and far between and could be Increased with profit to the American people. Roosevelt starts his work day around nine oclock in the morning He reads half a dozen newspapers with care and retains a vast amount He of detnll of the days news. knows the men In Washington who write the national news and can talk Intelligently to any of them about their articles In the press lie never loses his temper over newspaper attacks; hut Is quite likely to be in Instant position to give Information that will set the thing straight in the eyes of the rending public. After the newspapers he takes up the Immediate days program with one or more of his three secretaries. Col Louis Howe, Marvin McIntyre and Steve Early, old friends who serve him with rare ability and THE VETERANS BONUS The rank and file of veteruns who are demanding immediate bonus payment have no choice about how the money shall be raised ; but here in Washington there is always a tug Inflaof war between the tionists and the sound money crowd; and because these two bills are divided between these factions, the bonus is forgotten while the money theorists fight It out Today you'll find Representative Patman engaged In frequent attacks upon his erstwhile friend of the Legion, Commander Frank Belgrano; he thinks Belgrano has sold himself to the bankers who as a body don't like the bonus anyhow. Patman believes that the bankers devised the Vinson bill with full knowledge that the ensuing wrangle would kill all chances of bonus legislation in this congress. There are some harsh words spoken In congress In the cloak rooms and committees these days; the strong bonus advocates believe they have been betrayed. One thing that has come out of this scrap Is the strong endorsement given to the original Patman bill by the Veterans of Foreign Wars who want the bonus paid now with greenbacks. Putman loves this; because this organization is composed exclusively of men who were overseas, most of them veterans of actual fighting. The Legion, of course, holds many veterans who did not get into battle. Patman now keeps prodding the opposition with this fact. The administration view is that the bonus is not legally due; that the governments first duty is toward the hungry and unemployed; and that this government is now treating disabled veterans, as a class, with more solicitude than any other class. The whole business is unfortunate and will result In bad feeling; but the bonus advocates are right now their own worst enemies. NO MORE HUGE AIRSHIPS There will be no more of these huge Zeppelin type airships built with government money for a long time When the U. S. Macon collapsed over the Pacific ocean the other day, drowning two of the crew and ruining the ship Itself, everybody In the official circles here, headed by the President, declared that the use of federal money in experimenting with these huge toys of the air Is now ended. The Macon was the third of these huge airliners of our naval fleet to crash; the Shenandoah and the Akron went down to destruction, proving to the experts here that these ships are not stable enough at the present time. Western Newspaper Unloa NURSERY BLOCKS CROCHETED RUG taining 10 to 20 per cent of carbon dioxide. If ships refrigerators can be made sufficiently gnstlght, this fact should enable Australia and New Zealand to ship beef to England "In chill. 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