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Show : ..v '...ice:;: elco.v - . . c.;r: a:, cf " '- " . . j c rf. - " - - - - -' L C -rr pare j " . - . : - I "tjr Lnl- . ' m ' . ' ' ': r i v ;j, J : . ' . :.i..i ).i '" I '..., I. i La:.i ' . ' :' .t 1.0 i . i.-.i e.j it. i , : u t 4 ..! t Lira to j .', i' :i ilM ii.i n- in I fr- I . :i , ''irt'T of j ' k-.si three 1 i ; 1 I : :!'-:. 's of the I I :.,:-.! .-iiuti-a :..(.....-...U. Taft 1 ' ' ' : : d ea tilU suhjoct he ' : r;te3 I.ainb.-rt St. I : I . . i j u. ,:;!.! n.!,., t hiiSI-ball, " .: I li.t:B l.ke that for ' it'.l holly consider ' i ' i e m h t. i;,ies he con- 1 : 11 i.:el il.iy. Of living ' ' ' iiii ; inn ho probably ;' s ie i; :,d Jaj vi ri than any ' ' 'i ' i 'in' ry. v- v. r tee president has been : r.. .; 1. 1.. : i' a oi oiliee in the last 11 : ' v " h it p'iiy, on land or sea. ' 1 : or !.er--!.r,.-k, Sloan generally '' ' 1 bv:i :,! h;s iliow. Yet few peo-'' peo-'' lu, ow ;iai by f-ii-ht, for his job is o 1 le ver nuijeeable and to keep his " ' op' n ii a, his mouth shut. In ''i a.iin.iUiii's olliciiil circles, where ho h' st known, he is "Jimniie" Sloan, hedied f:''nlloman. V hen I learned not from him 'hat he had received Mattering offers oi- h-ciiiics. I asked him why ha did a t accept. He grinned and Bald: "I'.'k riot or me; I'm a working-.:an." working-.:an." Thai explains why Sloan has made so good en his Job that three presl-'h'tits presl-'h'tits have retained him without ask-i'P ask-i'P his pnlitics. He knows his work liu he likes it. lie is a born protector. protect-or. His father before him was sheriff if Vermilion county, Illinois, and when te riled he was in the employ of a rail-' rail-' ncl as a special olhcer. A brother, Menry, was a deputy sheriff, and later, n the Illinois state fire marshal's of-ee, of-ee, he made an enviable record. The Irst time I ever saw Sloan was back :n 190, out in Danville, 111. He was a leputy 6heri:T, but wore only a small -iiar. Vlttiin threo years I began to read ji the newspapers that Sloan had - ached the White House, via the se- .vet sorvo, so I Just naturally had 0 brag round our town about seeing aim face to face. Something told me hen 'hat Sloan no longer was lacking n regalia. I pictured him as being iressed like a military aid with a -viord swinging around when he talked (Hid making his left leg all i'cl; an, I blue. Again, when I re-1-cred that he really was a high grade h teciive it occurred to me that possl-j'y possl-j'y he h-,,1 six or eight sets of false whiskers to help keep his identity se-errt se-errt so that he could slip into an-:'vli;s:s' an-:'vli;s:s' meetings and learn their Time cvne when I saw him on duty :n tv.e V.'l iie House, and I never was 1 oie fttrp-i- ed. I asked for Sloan and w rei'uel out right away. He -at just ruisi.le tile president's office, sr.d lie was dressed like a business :n:,n ratltcr il'.an a soldier or a Hawk-'nnv. Hawk-'nnv. I I-r wa the best tailored and -e.-t rrcc -., ',1 man in sight. If he wore ' st ir I (iid not see it. A pr j :,! ".it's rrotector does not o-'i v.! ton hours. When the presl-i".t presl-i".t K-v.m the White House it Is ;'" "''s ("- to go with him. 'i 'sei e r.re e'.iier secret service men i'M'V'i .- t'.e executive offices, but -''.ii: is i'.e eaicf staff and personal ' !"-'iar,i Many times he works ,-" w,-.;U i::y at the office and tiien " "s 1 .'.''t of th- night motor riding ' '. ""'lifi'l. or at a theater h I'roiirat AVI'.son attends fre-: fre-: a :, 1 again is on duty on Sun- ' iio y t.!o;a is more than a few : .t-:'.o:a th.e president in pub-irove pub-irove made by the execu-i' execu-i' e ! o.ese about him is noted by his bodyguard. ?' ' '.".'s r.rder President Wilson s :. r"are.i to what it was un-:e" un-:e" C. i ioosee'it. Because Sloan :- .':' :'.' a'iiietic type the colonel ;e. a::: j '..i"i greatly and they were ' evr. ee-.-e ir.ieas. It was nothing un-s":'! un-s":'! :e see tben trudging arouni V;--:-.!--:;'er. in :b? rain late at night r f-".:-.'.-'" g ever t '.:. bills in the day-lb:.:-"- Fresbien- Taft life fw t. " is :--;-s strenuous, though he v. v..'.'.:s across goif liuks. |