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Show JA YWENTHE WHITE HOUSE! I Leaves Harding as Healthy as Before But President's Doctor Fears Future p. PRESIDENT HARDING ASH SOME OF THE VTEWB THE PHOTOCRA PH16 HAVE CAUGHT OF HIM I -vT WORK r AT PI. w in EUNGTHE PAST YEAR I ( By QO R. SACK iJ WASHINGTON Mai-. 4. Presl- fw . ilen' Harding concludes his first year KH4 ( In the White House Saturday in as B ' good health as when he took the oath P of M j Put such a satisfactory report win Sg not be made nex tyear unless the pres- Wf I idonl recalls thi old adage that each H IT day consists of eight hours for work. 9 U eight hours 101 play and eight hours W for sleep. Ha The loregoing Is on the authority gH r of Brigadier General Charles E Saw- Jjj yer. personal physician to th presl- rnj donl who came with him fiorn Mar- Kf "The president works too much and playa too little." Generu.1 Sawyer sad- ly confessed. l Ho has let his job keep him too ' close to his desk, taking time which in justice to himself should have been jf spent in the open air, either at golf. walking, riding or fishing. d s ELL IS i VER Here li how General Sawyer diag- nosed the condition of hi patient: f "Tli' president has gone through a I trying, strenuous year of many greal Vw i WL AU rentlj as well H ioda a- when he started a year rn-n I "Regardless of all privations of close confinement and lack of u6ua1 I outdoor exercises, in which he has al- ! wave engaged, he reports as near normal nor-mal today as any man could possibly do. In other words. I dare say that President Harding Is In prime physical physi-cal condition, equal to what he was a year ago. "No man could have improved much under the load that ho has carried. He has dono well to hold his place. "No man can come into his office with Its long hours and responslblllt lev and change of normal habits. Including Includ-ing official duties and official and exacting ex-acting social obligations, and have Stood if any better than has Warren G. , Harding. Mi T CONSERVE "But," his physician went on, "a bank which permits its resources to continually dwindle away soon facw failure. This also Is true of human ! beings, and the president is no fdc-I fdc-I ceptlon." President Harding pets great fun : out of his golf, aside from the physical benefits, and Dr. Sawyer thinks he should have gone south during the winter for a week or so of golf. Washington Wash-ington weather made golf impossible. "He should do It now." he declared. "Fact Is, he forgets himself entire ly and devotes himself to the duties of his offloe. Ho is unfair to himself." I General Sawyer has determined that 'from now on his "patient must do more I "to maintain himself to a high degreo I of physical fitness." He has advised the president that physically "he must be an example to the rest of the nation." ILL, SEVERAL TIMES Although the public was not Informed, Inform-ed, there were days during the past winter ono of the most severe In Washington hlstory-r-" hen the president presi-dent had a number of slight attacks which might have brought on acute I illness. There was a great deal of grippe and a mild form of lnflucnz.-i in Washington Wash-ington this winter, "and the president was subjected to tho same opportunities opportuni-ties of gettln? rick as any other man." But he escaped serious Illness and General Sawyer naturally feels happy because, as ho says, his job Is not to ours the president "but to keep him well." T.ie president avorages 20 conferences confer-ences a day with persons worth wnllo. Some of these conferences last from ono to two hours, altliourh the average aver-age Is about 15 minutes). Between these conferences he must study reports and recommendations, read and answer letters, and pften write speeches. There is hardly a night but that Mr, Harding does not carry with him from the executive oftices to his private study In the White House Important papers and reports which he must read. The night before he submitted the arms conference treaties to the senate, .Mr. Harding remained awake until 8 o'clock wilting his message. Even Aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower on trips down the Potomac, Poto-mac, he took papers to study and recommendations rec-ommendations to read. During tho year, ho went to New York twice, to New England once, to Birmingham and Atlanta once, and once to Yorktown, Y.i . and Valley Forge, Pa. But everything ho went i hero were speeches to deliver, recep-, recep-, Hon committees to meet Following his Plymouth speech al , Boston. he wont up to Secretary , Weeks' summer homo In New Hamp-, Hamp-, uhlre for what he thought would b ' a few days' rest. It turned out to b' i festive occasion for the New England) Eng-land) rs with itv president making fiVc speeches In one day and traveling 131 miles in an automobile from town u town to make them. i ( REST IN VI tBKA These are some of the reasons why General Sawyer J1-' looking forward tc ! the proposed Alaskan trip this summer. sum-mer. It will give his patient the opportu nlty to forget politics, to get out inti the open and to rest. Before he g.es to Alaska Sawyei will insist that Harding play moi coif, walk more, rld more, and takt time to go to baseball games. General Sawyer has one other pa tient Mr3. Harding. The official so clal duties of tho mistress of the Whlt House are exacting, but tho genera reports Mrs. Harding has stood th strain woll "She looks younger and she feeli better than at any time la rccen years" he said. |