Last week President Roosevelt spent seven more sunny days aboard the Nourmahal in Bahaman waters. All the U. S. heard of him was the tick-tick of wireless bulletins received and distributed to the Press at Miami. While the President played, the professional poor made the most of his absence from Washington. Rain-bedraggled radicals trudged back & forth in front of the White House bearing placards: "Nero Fiddled While Rome BurnedRoosevelt Fishes While the Unemployed Starve."
The President, however, dropped his fishing tackle and started home the instant his services were really needed...