Show HIS TRANSPARENCY Title Which Would Not Do the Least Unfitting to President Roosevelt In Bermuda last winter I met a Catholic priest writes John Burroughs Bur-roughs In Atlantic who had sat on tho platform at some place In New England very near the president while ho was speaking and who said Tho man had not spoken three minutes min-utes before I loved him and had anyone any-one tried to molest him I could bAvo torn him to pieces It Is the qmllty in tho man that instantly Inspires such a liking as this In strangers that will I am sure safeguard him In all public places I once head him say that he did not like to bo addressed as His Excellency Ex-cellency he added laughingly They might just as well call me Ills Transparency Trans-parency for all I care It Is this transparency this direct outandout unequivocal character of him that Is ono source of his popularity Tho people do love transparency all of them Jut tho politicians A friend of his ono day took him to task for some mistake he had mado In one of his appointments My dear sir replied the president whore you know of ono mistake I havo made I know of ten How such candor must make tho politicians I shiver |