A Time-Table

There are 86,400 seconds in a day for President as well as loiterer. Both need about 28,800 seconds of sleep. But in the remaining 57,600 seconds they have quite different amounts of labor to perform. A good loiterer can do his business in about 3,600 seconds. A conscientious President may find 57,600 seconds all too little for his purposes. This has been the case with Mr. Coolidge. His only recreations have been his early morning walks and Saturday afternoons on the Mayflower. This has caused a shaking of heads in Washington. As one irreverent person remarked: "All work and no play will make Cal a dead boy."

C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, took this problem in hand. As efficiency expert and doctor of preventive medicine, he drew up the following program, to which the President rigidly adheres:

8 :30 to 10:00 a. m., at the executive office, reads mail and newspapers and answers as many letters as possible.

10:00 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., receives callers on business for 10-or 15-minute interviews in accordance with a schedule arranged in advance for each day.

12:30 to 1:00 p. m., receives delegations who wish to shake his hand.

1:00 p. m., departs for lunch with his desk cleared.

2:00 p. m., returns to his office and devotes the afternoon until about 6:00 p. m. to studying reports, etc. The only conferences during the afternoon are such as may be desirable with members of the Cabinet.

Although this schedule would have been very irksome to President Harding's more leisurely nature, it seems to be highly suited to Mr. Coolidge's precise habits.