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Show w . . .., 1 A BUSY PRESIDENT Anyone who thinks that all a President of the United States has to do is to sit around and watch a lot of hired men work has a false impression of the activities in which any President has to take part. According to the Associated Press, one recent week's work of President Roosevelt included the following matters : Sent warships to Cuba. Withdrew them, as the situation quieted down. Speeded up the recovery campaign, obtaining an agreement agree-ment on the steel code and smoothing out some of the obstacles ob-stacles in the way of oil and coal. Signed the lumber code. T)isclosed that he would personally administer the oil code. Approved several plans for aiding agriculture, including relief for hog and dairy industries and details of paying benefits to farmers for cotton crop reduction. Speeded up the public works-job providing program in which allocations of about $70,000,000 were made. Coordinated all recovery activities in confereence with his aides. Announced a decision to abandon a number of army posts to save money. Completed the reorganization of his Latin-American diplomatic corps. Received recommendations for inflation, without committing com-mitting himself, but studied price charts closely. Expressed pleasure at reports showing increased factory fac-tory employment and payrolls. Decided to extend the civilian conservation corp through the winter. Arranged to open negotiations with Latin-American countries on reciprocal tarifT agreements. Not every president has been as busy as that at any time and Mr. Roosevelt, w.r hope, won't have so many things to attend to every week. But S must be admittfd that he has put in longer hours and harder work in the six months he has been in the White House than anyone dreamed possible pos-sible before his inauguration. Our hope, like that of everybody else we know of, is that out of this amazing expenditure of Presidential energy and the energy which his example is inspiring others to expend, ex-pend, our economic recovery will come so speedily that before be-fore we get through wondering when Prosperity is going to turn the corner we shall find it right in our home block. |