When you write, address and mail a letter to President Herbert Hoover, The White House, Washington, D. C. it goes, not to him, but to Ira Smith. Mr. Smith has a mustache. He sits at a big desk in the outer Executive offices. His title is White House mail clerk. All day long he opens letters from sacks and sacks of mail, scans them through gold-rimmed glasses. If your letter looks very important, he routes it to Private Secretary Theodore Joslin who may put it before the President. If it looks political, it goes to Political Secretary Walter Newton....
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