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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912..
THE PRESIDENT'S
RIGHT HAND MAN
Forster, Executive Clerk, Most
Valuable Aide.
VAST KNOWLEDGE OF POLICIES
Most Important Post In the Whito
House, For Which Woodrow Wilson
Will Select Another Active and Re
sourceful Man Nobody Is More Con.
tinuously "on the Job."
On the DiVHUIriit'M desk In the White
House nre six push buttons. The one
most worn from pressing of his heavy
foroilnger sounds n buzzer at the desk
of ltnlph Forster, his executive clerk.
As Mr. Forster Is the solution of
many a White House problem, when
the president lu the course of his morn
ing's work desires to know why n cer
tain appointment was innde. who rec
ommended It. what will happen If an
incumbent Is not reappointed, his hand
Instinctively mores toward the well
worn pu?li button, sir. Forster Is at
his side in live seconds. Usually ho
supplies the information without leav
ing the room; If not. he knows where
to get It.
The public knows about the secretary
to the president. Dndcr Mr. Lamont.
Mr. Cortolyou. Mr. Loeb and Mr. Utiles
this otllce has come to be as Important
as n cabinet portfolio. But outside of
Washington littlo is known of the other
members of the White House staff,
headed by Mr. Forster. Yet upon the
shoulders of Mr. Forster devolves a
great part of the business of tho presi
dential olllce.
He Bears the Shocks.
He is the buffer between the presi
dent and hundreds of thousands of
American citizens who have corre
spondence with the White House. Ob
viously the president cannot give de
tailed attention to the many questions
on which he must act He requires
that the salient facts of a given ques
tion be presented to him so that he
may act wisely.
The inlluencc of Mr. Forster In pub
lic affairs Is great, but exercised al
ways with unswerving loyalty to the
chief executive, whoever he may be.
His is the responsibility for the prep
aration of the White House mail. All
the letters that are received pass
through his hands on the way to the
secretary and the president. Every
nomination that goes to the senate, ev
ery commission the president issues to
his appointees, every bill which con
gress passes and sends to the president
for approval or dUnpproval, he care
fully notes.
Servico at the White nouso since tho
first day of the MelCInley administra
tion In 1S07 has left In his capacious
mind a vast knowledge of tho policies
and politics of three presidents. The
widely divergent characteristics and
temperaments of thene men would
seem to have given Mr. Forster a
glimpse of every side of administrative
duty.
Sometimes Advises the Cabinet,
This explains why he Is frequently
culled Into the cabinet meetings to an
swer questions about various situations
perplexing to the administration, tho
president often calling him to confer
ences with public men.
His telephone Is constantly ringing,
as senators and representatives call on
him for all sorts of Information. Some
times senators and representatives,
finding the president busy, are glad to
take the matter up with Mr. Forster.
who. In turn, brings it beforo the presi
dent. The White nouse is a busy place, but
nobody la more constantly "on the Job"
than Mr. Forster. He works quietly,
but swiftly, tils remarkable memory
enables him to answer an Inquiry or
dispose of n problem without having to
stop to search for facts and figures.
Never milled, never rattled, bis clli
clency Is oil to the cojrs and bearings of
the executive machine, nis appoint
ment us a clerk at the White House In
1807 was due to Mr. Cortelyou's desire
to reform the business methods of the
White House office.
Knows Much About Affairs.
His selection was nonpolltlcal, as was
(its promotion to the post of assistant
secretary to the president In 1007 and
his further advancement to tho nowly
created oiiice of executive clerk under
Mr Taft From three presidents he
has absorbed a large view of national
affairs.
And the question In Washington Is,
Who will succeed hlra? There are
several newspaper men who have been
discussed for the onerous place, but of
ronrsn no onn hut President Elect Wll-
nnn knows nnnti whom tho Eolfkrtlorw
will fall that Is. if he has already
picked the man.
German Collie to Stalk Deer.
That a German colllo can mnko n
good deer stalker Is the opinion of Ar
Uiur IC. Klmlck, wo recently brought
from Europe Flora, a cross between
I'bo German collie and police dog, with
Ihe Intention of taking tho animal
south with hltn in a endeavor to provo
his theory while shooting deer.
Flora Is one of a breod that, accord
ing to Mr, Nlmler, Is rapidly dying
out. She Is a Mr. harjry animal, gray
and black In color. Her owner says
that tho German collies are gradually
changing in color and taking on a red
dish tinge, the original breed becoming
ilta mra
BALKAN RACE TANGLE.
Divisions In Six Vilayets Involved In
the Peace Terms.
Here Is a recent 'Cngllsh estimate of
tho division of races In the six Turkish
valleys of Kossovo, Scutari, .lanlna,
Monastir, Salonlkl and Adrlanople,
whose fate Is Involved In the peace
terms.
reels church Uutgarlans. l.nfiT.OOo:
numerous In all the vilayets except
Scutari and .lanlna.
I'omaks or Mohammedan Bulgari
ans, chiefly south of Adrlanople,
255.000.
Greek church Serbs. 200,000. This Is
undoubtedly an underestimate. There
may be two or three times as many.
Arnauts or Mohammedan Serbs, 40,
000; acnln probably a decided under
estimate. Mohammedan Turks, 800,000; less
than one-third in every vilayet.
Greek church Turks, 3,000.
Orthodox Greeks, 651,000.
Greek church Wallnchians, mostly
the widely scattered "Kutzo-Vlaehs,"
270,000.
Moslem Albanians, 000,000.
Catholic Albanians, chiefly of tho
seven highland clans of the Mallssorl,
near Scutari. 170,000.
Greek church Albanians, 110.000.
Gypsies, mainly nominal Mohammed
an, 50,000.
.lews, (111.000.
Besides those, there nre an unknown
number of Montenegrins Just over the
line in the hills, 80,000 Armenians,
speaking and writing Greek, Armeni
an or Turkish, but mostly Greek church
In religion, and others.
To divide these races is Impossible
They are all mixed together. The Rou
manlans are mostly numerous farthest
away from Itoumanla. The Turks are
a thin layer everywhere. The Greeks
aro more numerous In Adrlanople, to
which they have no claim, than In
Salonlkl and .lanlna, part of which
they expect to get.
An Independent Albania would solve
the worst single tangle, as only in the
Albanian territory In the west are the
Mohammedans clearly In a great ma
jority. But there arc more than 200.
000 Christian Albanians; they are chief
ly In tho north. They "prove their
doctrine orthodox by apostolic blows
and knocks" at the 000,000 Mohammed
an Albanians.
BEATS MARK TWAIN'S FROG.
Started to Jump After Being Petrified
a Thousand Years.
Workmen clearing and blasting rock
on tho L. D. Loomls property In Santa
Monica canyon, California, found a
frog Imbedded in solid limestone, three
feet beneath tho surface. It had been
Incased In rock for probably several
thousand years.
Apparently petrified, the amphibian
was taken by the astonished workmen
and laid In the sun. In a fow seconds.
It Is solemnly averred by those who
stubbornly hold to the truth of the
story. It suddenly showed signs of life.
After several minutes it blinked con
fusedly, drew a long breath and in
long leaps traveled 100 feet before tho
workmen could recapture It Just
think of that! It certainly beats Marie
Twain's historical frog.
WALKED NINE MILES ASLEEP.
Eleven-year-old Girl, Barefooted, Went
Over Unfamiliar Road.
Mary Ruth Smith, eleven-year-old
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Smith
of Urich. Mo., recently walked nine
miles while asleep.
She retired at the usual hour. The
next morning her uncle. Walter Waugh.
north of Maurlne, found her on his
front porch clad only in her night
gown and an old coat of her father's.
Her uncle asked her how she came
there, but sho only remembered hav
ing dreamed some.
Sho made the trip barefooted and
over muddy roads. It Is very doubtful
If she would have been able to stand
the trip If she had been awake. Also
sho was not well acquainted with the
road.
QUANTRELL SURVIVORS.
The Famous Band Passes Into History
as an Organization.
The famous Quantrcll band passed
Into history as an organization when a
littlo group of wblto haired, stoop
shouldered old men. Quantrell surviv
ors, met recently In Kansas City, Mo.,
and organized as the survivors of the
Second Missouri cavalry, commanded
by Colonel Upton nays, of which the
Quantrell band was a part.
The new organization will have a
membership of about fifty. Colo Young
er, former bandit chief, was choien as
one of the officers, no said a new or
ganization was necessary because there
wore so few survivors of the old guer
rilla band.
His Father 140 Years Old.
James Berry, seventy years old, of
Bond, Miss., declares ho Is the young
est of twenty-six children, all of whom
aro living. His father, he says. Is HO
vears old, and his mother died at the
co of 120. Berry has papers from
itromlncnt men from his native county
In North Carolina to verify bis state
ments. Mine Laying Ship For Atlantic.
Tho navy department is considering
the construction of a mine laying ship
for the Atlantic coast or tho conver
sion of some appropriate vessel. The
San Francisco at present is the only
mine laying ship in the navy, but has
tvn to service on the Pacific roast.
WOMAN UPLIFTS
PINK SKIRT MAN
She Is Amarica's Hnpg cnr Ret
ter Orcss, Says NoMsman,
STUDYING WORLD'S MANNERS.
Count Seymoro Declares Our Men Do
Not Know How to Harmonise Colors,
and Some of the Results Ape Awful.
His Book Is Likely to Outdo Dickens
and Kipling.
The ears of ninety odd million Amer
icans should have tingled recrnHj If
Uic old superstition Ik? true that un
complimentary remarks cause the
blood to rush to those organs. The
plain remarks reflecting on the inhab
itants of the greatest of nations mine
from August Schaefelysky de Muliki'
del de Casteliane Seymore of liiis.
This ParisiHii of proud name also bears
the title of count, but he does not use
It, because his mother once told him
to go forth and "do something first
and claim the title later."
He Is now following that advice,
and among the things which he Is do
ing is making a study of the manners,
dress and customs of the peoples of
the world.
With this object in view Count de
Casteliane Seymore, who Is a member
of the same family rb that fastidious
former htislmnd of Anna Gould, who
was also an authority on dreas. came
to the United States about twelve
mouths ago and has traveled through
practically all sections of the country
with both eyes open for American pe
culiarities. And the count has gathered some
data which, if he makes literary uo
of them, as ho says he proposes doing,
will make the American appear to n
great a disadvantage an did the por
trayals of either Dickens or Kipling.
Criticism of Europeans.
Recently an American newspaper,
the count says, had the audacity to
publish an article suggesting that Eu
ropeans needed a "little brushing up
on dress."
"Why," remarked the count, "you
Americans do not know how to dis
tinguish between the proper dress for
a wedding breakfast, a noon wedding
or nn evening wedding. I have travel
ed throughout your country, and 1
have seen the guests coming to wed
ding breakfasts In swallowtails and
tuxedos. It Is nothing uncommon tu
see an American appear at an even
ing function In a swallowtail coat, a
broad expanse of white shirt front, set
with gold buttons, and a black tie.
"Out on tho coast I was struck with"
the custom of clubmen, who would ar
ray themselves in evening dress and
parado the streets with topcoats
thrown over their arms, displaying
their dress, as much as to say, 'Look
who I am.'
"No; the American knows nothing of
dress. And tho reason Is that he does
not know how to harmonize colors.
Why, darn It, an American will pass
n show window and be attracted by
tho very color scheme which the mer
chant's clerks hav worked out, and
then he will walk in and purchase a
pink shirt and a green tie. It is awful.
"But the American Is being lifted up
by the American women. In England
John Bull always goes first, while bis
wife follows. In America things are
turned around. The woman goes first,
and she is lifting up her husband. She
says, 'Brush up there; shine up n bit.
and the man has to do it But you
can't blame tho American. He has
been too busy with his machine shops
and meals to give consideration to
dress.
"When I mako these comments I am
not taking the highest or lowest strati
of society, but that great middle class
which is the great average in all na
tions." His Ideas on Marriage.
Tho count also has some well defined
ideas on marriage. He is a widower
and says that he expects that he will
remain one. since It does not seem
probable that bo will discover a "part
ner" whoso views accord with his own.
"Woman has gradually been raised
through several stage until now she
stands on a parity with man," he add
ed. "Way back in the dark ages she
was chattel property, then man spoke
of her as tho female, later as tho wife,
and new he Is coming to regurd her as
tho partner. In th'oee former stages
we had marriages of the eye. We aro
now coming to the era of marriages of
reason. In tills ora man will seek his
wife for n pnrtnor and not be guided
by his physical appetites.
"Personally I believe that men and
women should weigh experience and
wealth against each other In making
their cholces-that is. If a man has had
experleuco iu tho ways of tho business
world and finds a woman with capital
and no oxporlonce, thoy are well
matched. I do not think that the man
should ask, or. if he were the proper
sort, would wish, that the woman
should convey to him her property, but
ho should allow her to retain it Intact.
"If I remarry I shall be guided by
these ideas, but probably I shall uot
find a porson with similar Ideas und
consequently expect to remain unmar
ried." Just Like the Bulgarians.
At a dance given by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Browne Keeeh of Naw York tho
ruents all wore Balkan costumes. For
mpper they had turkav.
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