Problem Solved

One of his problems, Franklin Roosevelt has humorously avowed, is to separate the Presidency from the Presidential campaign. Last week he seemed to have found the formula. Six days a week will he labor and do all that he has to do as President; the seventh day he will campaign.

The formula was not unique. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson used it with telling result. While Charles Evans Hughes stormed around the country thwacking the Wilson Administration day in & out, Wilson kept quietly to his job in the White House. But on Saturday afternoons off he went to "Shadow Lawn," his summer mansion on the Jersey coast, and drew his snickersnee.

Last week, returning from Jasper, Ala., where he had gone to attend the funeral of Speaker William Bankhead of the House, the President swore in Jesse Jones, Texas multimillionaire, as Secretary of Commerce, signed a bill authorizing the building of Navy drydocks, and buckled down to other non-political matters, chiefly of national defense.

Next day he went by special train to Philadelphia, where he made a lightning inspection of the Navy Yard, gazed with approval at the 35,000-ton battleship Washington, nearing completion, the keel of the 45,000-ton New Jersey. That afternoon, guarded more jealously than ever by Secret Service men (they had had an anonymous tip that a time bomb had been sent to Philadelphia from Norfolk, Va.), he drove through cheering streets to the University of Pennsylvania's Bicentennial Conference (see p. 43). There, having been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, he drew from the folds of his academic gown--a Wilsonian snickersnee (see col. 2).

Last week the President also:

> Offered to pay passage to the U. S. of two Dutch child evacuees, a boy, 15, and a girl, 13. His interest in them had been aroused by a letter Mrs. Roosevelt received from the Cheyne Hospital for Children in London, to which the children had been sent.

> Dispatched to the 48 State Governors identical letters requesting them to set up and supervise the selective service system in each State and proclaim the date for registration: Oct. 16. Wrote the President: "The procurement and training of our man power ... is undoubtedly the most important single factor in our entire program of national defense."

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