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Show I - I b 11 -iii WASHINGTON, D. C May 4. .President Wilson is not able to do more than half hour of intensive work a day. Tho result is that executive matters are largely at a standstill. The president has the service of four nurses including one who sits up all-night all-night and makes certain that the president pres-ident does not lack for attention during dur-ing the sleeping hours. Ho has given up his automobile rides In the country Dr. Grayaon thought the effort was toox-mnch. , The recent attempt at cabinet meetings meet-ings will not be made a regular or-! der. They were the result of tho emergency due to the railroad strike. Members of the cabinet found that the president had to be handled as a sick man and could not bo burdened with the detail of routine business. Practically the only access to the president is through Secretary Tumul- I ty. Dr. Grayson and Mrs. Wilson. The president does not see visitors. He does not communicate, directly with I individual members of his cabinet. Tho departments are merely marking time. President Wilson Is not able to see pcoplo and therefore cannot get facts at first hand by verbal report. He is unable to study any reports and go over executivo documents. He is not permitted by his doctors to read any large extent foreign and domestic newspapers and weeklios. This accounts ac-counts for Mr. Wilson's evident lack of touch with current events and current cur-rent opinion. It Is quite futile to discuss Mr. Wilson Wil-son as a candidate for ronomination. .He is. hot and could not possibly be a candidate. He naturally refrains from announcing to the world that he is out of the political game. Such an announcement might be interpreted in-terpreted by some as an admission of failing physical powers, but it would be taken by the big politicians as. tho end of Mr Wilson's political power and the president has certain influences influ-ences nnd naturally wishes to maintain main-tain his prestige and power to the end of his term. j Since the Lansing Incident, there has been less talk of having Vice President Pres-ident Marshall assume , the duties of1 the. office. Politicians are afraid of I the interpretation, any such steps might receive from the public. They are afraid they might "get themselves in bad" and that the public pub-lic might rise up in sympathy with the presidenL The latter would resent re-sent any such stept and the resul would noly be trouble spelt In capital letters. It is the general sentiment among politicians that the situation will have to be permitted to drift. |