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...He has free use of the White House, which costs the government around $200.000 a year for upkeep, with its corps of 60 servants...

...Where it is most moving lies in its inherent quality of the goodness of life...

...The President, however, gets more than his bare salary...

...Always everything that happens to him is judged and effected in that relation...

...And Warwick Deeping has had the courage not to soil any moment in the lives of the father and son...

...an understanding which is sometimes merely silence and other times a sacrifice that finds its reward in the mere doing...

...others may be uncomfortable because of its very ideality...

...His wife having deserted him, the entire care of the boy and the responsibility for his future devolved upon that was his "job...

...The rub of strict social cast, the appeal of a mother who comes back into life at a tempting moment when Kit could easily choose the lower road, a tragic love affair and all the complications of readjustment, are merely milestones along the way...

...Per-hapsit lies only in a "well spent life...

...that a job well done is about all one may ask to do in life...

...The book is the story of his success...

...It is the story of two successful lives, in each of which the human values are different...

...I can not recommend too highly this book to all those who love a good story which leaves you feeling human nature is a pretty good thing, after all...

...Reading such a story makes us pause and question what success really is...

...Here is a story, simple in its plot outline, which somehow carries the reader along to the very last page on the surge of its emotion...

...For it is an emotional novel in its mood as well as in its interpretation of the feelings of a father and son for each other...

...and his entire life is dedicated to that purpose...

...Sorrel, the father, is ever ready with his understanding...

...under Harding, $424,913...

...Sorrell is one of the failures which the war so ruthlessly cast back upon society when all the excitement and the glory had ebbed away and the medals had been pinned...

...Certainly when our brains are filled each day by the tabloids, lurid with crime and picturing the baseness of life, it is well to dedicate some hours to a novel which is almost religious in its steady glow of human goodness...

...It is in this valuation of life that the book is more than important...

...SALARY OF THE PRESIDENT The salary of the President of the United States caused much discussion in the first Congress, in view of the fact that the Constitution declared that the President should receive compensation for his services...

...All the Prseidents up to Grant received that sum...

...under Coolidge, $613,139.—From Labor...

...March 3, 1878, it was fixed at $50,000...

...I confess this English novel caught my emotions, as I find it has many of my friends, and so I write not too critically to bring to my readers a joy I should like them to share with * me...

...For throughout the book nothing happens that doesn't turn into an enriching experience...

...He has only one job: to bring his son up, to give him an education, to help him fight his battles, and to afford him the opportunity to achieve...

...The following letter was received recently by a company which manufactures corn sirup: "Dear Sirs Though I have taken six cans of your corn sirup my feet are no better now than when I started-- The Open Road...

...President Washington had declared that he desired no salary...

...but it remains a vivid, interesting story full of absorbing episodes in the growth and development into manhood of Kit Sorrel...

...but that is its very charm...

...nor for the father who becomes a porter in a hotel to earn the wherewithal to support him...

...You can not pick up this book without sensing that the fine feelings which people can have for each other are among the most precious of human possessions...

...The Congress, however, finally decided that $26,000 a year should be fixed as the President's salary...

...the many fathers, in fact, who have viewed with bitterness the widening breach between them and their offspring, will find inspiration in the close, understanding intimacy here revealed and to the sons who have felt they could not turn to the father for guidance, without criticism and condemnation, this book will also bespeak an ideal relationship, over the hard road of youth, adolescence and the reaches beyond...

...Cynical parents will find in it much that is idealized...

...When Kit does this, Sorrel is ready to lay down his tired body...

...Though he had served his country with distinction he soon became faced with the necessity of making a living for himself and his young son...

...The Sixtieth Congress, 1909, fixed the salary at $75,000 and also continued the $25,000 traveling allowance...

...Every father who reads will wish that the son he may have would bear the same trust and confidence as does Kit for Sorrel...

...The greatest single year's expenses under President Wilson were $227,110...

...Dark shadows come and complications of sex, that could easily be turned to shameful things, are ennobled by the way they are reacted from, thus proving once more the truth of the old adage that by their reactions from experience are men judged...

...It is the picture of what "might be," in the realization of father and son, which gives the book its wide appeal...

...His office expenses amount to about $40,000 a year, and the 35 police guards cost the government $60,000 a year...

...Some may feel it sentimental...

...March 4, 1907, traveling expenses of $25,000 in addition were allowed...

...It is no easy road that life has marked out for him...

...And he goes on, leaving a memory that one feels is ever to be a further help to Kit in whatever the future may hold, It is a noble, beautiful book, with endless repercussions to anyone who feels life keenly...