Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-05-07 | Page 16 | Training a President

I t TRAINING A PRESIDENT I- I t I i JOST American Presidents climbed to power only I IVI MOST through a u long course of preliminary training I There were but few of them that tha t had not been l equipped for their positions by sonico in cither either tho tito thoI I 0 legislative or judicial departments of the thc government I or as important subordinates in tho clIO executive branch The vocations they thoy had previously followed had given I them knowledge kno of our social political and economic problems our vast resources our desires desired and our r needs The They found it unnecessary to devote oto their time in the White Whito House Rouse to the tho study of topics t with which a President is iB supposed to bo be already If i iV famil familiar ar if he be bo qualified for the great greut responsibilities ho be assumes Mr Wilson is not however so equipped Delegations Delot Dele Delo- t calling upon him bim in tho the interest of some somo imI important im im- 1 social or industrial movement ent find him I lary noncommittal and unresponsive e The only ray of sunshine that seems to penetrate the tho sombre gloom f that enshrouds themselves and the occupant of the I I 1 little round zoom room in the tho e executive o offices is the Presidents President's Pres Pres- i r I ident's cheerful frankness s in confessing that he knows know r nothing about t it Such charming and honest conI confession confession con con- I made without diffidence or visible evidence I of confusion is entertaining but not encouraging The present executive o will have o nearly four enrin in tho the Vl White te House perhaps more if ho can jostle Mr Bryan into the background His ills years ears of incumbency in in- ought to be devoted to the transaction of e 0 public business in tho light of ono one that knows A r President should largely have done with ith student days when wIlen he ho takes tho oath of office ho he may take tako the time to prepare remedies for conditions but the basic I knowledge ge should already be bo his Expert service ice is required of ot him the tho people object to his acquisition of administrative knowledge and experience at their t I expense This of oi the President was the chief enie objection to him when a candidate his few weeks in iu office have ba demonstrated that these apprehensions apprehensions I were well 1 I Tile The President has a keen precise retentive br brain ill he DC will learn readily His ills analytical faculties endow I I him with rath the le ability to separate the tho wheat of logic I from the chaff of sophistry and his honesty Ionest will win earn I respect for his conclusions But we wo are aro not supposed to be operating a training school for Presidents at att t least if we arc the pupil is supposed to graduate U before and not after his inception to tho the chief magI mag mag- I We rc are arc prepared to bo ho amazed Bronzed at the rapidity rapid V i 1 ity with ith which he lC learns but lUt we prefer the finished i 1 graduate in statecraft to the freshman neophyte honI however however how hon I ever promising he appears