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COLONEL HOUSE, WILSON'S FRIEND NOT A MYSTERY Unofficial Counsellor of the Pres ident Is a Modest But Well Posted Man. STUDENT OF WORLD AFFAIRS ______ Now Gathering Data on Economic and Other Problems Which Mutt Be Solved at the Peace Table ? Hii Qualifications That Go to Make a Sound Diplomat. ATJTHOR'8 NOTK? Men have made a mystery of the life and the dolmen of Col. Bdward M. Houae, the friend and adviser of Wood row Wilson If there has been mystery, It Is none of the Colonel's mak in*. I venture the hope that whatever may have seemed to he hidden le dis closed In this article, the material for which was obtained In the only way In which such material can be obtained, by direct personal contact. Inquiry and atudy. By EDWARD B. CLARK. (Coprrlrht. 1M7. Writrrn N*cw?pnp?r T'nton. ) Washington. ? Who I* Col. Edward Mandell House who Is to gather wnr data for th<- United States government for service on 11 future day of pence? This Is a question that Is being asked by n very largo proportion of the peo ple of the United States and In fart of all fhe allied nations.. folonel ITou?e does not wear the record of his deeds on his sleeve. It Is probable that If this unofficial coun sellor to the president of the United Plates were to be elected to congress the autobiography which he would pre pare for the congressional directory would rH??l like this r I-M ward Mandril House, Democrat of Austin, Texas; born elected to the congress, November. In this brief, ultra-modest, If you will, way mould this Texan be prompted to ? write an autobiography, Justified doubtless from the viewpoint of other men In being extended Into many chapters. Who Is Col. Edward Mandril House, who, until the day when the linal order "Cease Firing" comes, Is to study In behalf of the government of the United States the economic, the geographic, the democratic and the humanitarian problems which the American counsel lors at the peace table must seek to solve after a manner which the people of a great democracy can approve? Consulted by President. In the Washington dispatch* ?? some thing like this Is read several times a year: "Colonel House lias been In the rlty for twenty-four hours as the guest of the president. Ho will leave for New York tomorrow morning." Beyond this the reader gets nothing from the dispatches except the word that 1he president and his visitor dis cussed Mexican matters, or European matters, or It may be, but In this lat ter ease rarely, political matters. The public lias known little mere aliout Colonel Uou.se than that he Is a man frequently consulted by Wood row Wilson nnd a man In whose Judg ment on political, economic and legis lative matters the president puts con fidence. There Is a sort of n glamour about men and things which are mys terious. It would seem that because bf the attraction which mystery has for the people, as shown If you will tn their gluttonous reading of detec tive stories nnd the like, that writers nf the news of the day In ;>nrt have chosen to treat the goings and com ings of the colonel und his conferences with men of affaltv as if they were n deliberate ? attempt to hedge them In and hide them from public knowl pape. It Is Just ns possible to pot nt the truth In tlio ease of Colonel House as it Is In the case of nny other man whoso doings nro of puMic Interest. It Is modesty not mystery which lins been the basic difficulty. Colonel House will not tell you that he Is n modest man, as I know from personal contact with blm. To claim modesty for one's self Is to be Immod est. He does go from bis present abode In New York city to Washington occa sionally or frequently as the requests may come, to give what be can of "the counsel of his views" to the president of the United States. Why should he any more than any other man send a truinpetlnp herald ahead or a band of cymbal dashers? He goes to the White House, stays bis while and leaves, and because no great noises fill the streets nt ap proach or departure, eicluslveness, se cluslveness and secrecy have been the order of the day's words concern! np each visit. Gives No Word of Work. It perhaps is not too much to say that If the full record of the results of the conferences which House of Texas has had with Wlls >n of the United States Is to be read It must be sought In Some of the accomplished deeds of the present admlnlst ration. That Woodrow Wilson has been moved to certain courses or strenpthened In his purpose to pursue them, by the counsel of Edward M. House is not to he doubted. The Impossible task would be to get from the latter n definite word concernlnp the public work In which his counsel has played a part. Those who have bulit up a wall of mystery r.bout the man who Is study Inp matters apainst the day of ponce apparently have not wished t?? pull down their handiwork. The wall can be demolished by anyone who tries to get Ht the foundation of the fiction. Edward M. House lives as open a life as that of any American whose profession or business does not call lilin daily Into the places where men throng. If one wants to know about him through motives other than those of the Idleness of curiosity he can see him and talk with him, and the chances are that lie will be told every thing concerning the subject of his in quiring curiosity that any man of modest mien and Inclination naturally would be willing to tell. Colonel House is a genial man who aeemlngly never has sought to define for persoual use the meaning of either of the words, coldness or austerity. He has a sense of humor well developed, and a tem peramental warmth. Secret of Hit Power. In Houston. Texas, in the year 18.r?8, Kdward M. House was born. He was educated at the Hopkins grammar school. New Haven, Conn., and at Cornell university. He l#-i been active all his adult life In Democratic politics, hut never has been a candidate for of fice. Add to these admittedly meager de tails one fact and unquestionably you will have the secret of this man's po\r? er to attract other men to him for the purpose of consultation on really high public matters. From the day that he was old enough to undertake serious study, Kdward M. House has been deep In the books of politics, economics and legislation. He has marshaled in his mind all the greater events which have happened in these three words. More over, he has the men, the things and the motives connected with each cn-e constantly In procession before him. He io quick to trace a cause to an ef fect, or to go the reverse route. Ho has been n student of human nature as It has shown Itself In many of the great problems of human life. This means that h ? li ? In him, or at any rate men believe that he has In him, the qualifications which go to make up n sound diplomat. Through successive administrations In Texas the governors of the state. one after another, consulted Colonel I ?? - Ing'.y time enough ha* gone by and things enough have been proved or disproved to give certainty to the word that Wood row Wilson has found Edward M. I lousv an advisory asset. There hardly can be much of real mystery about a man who twice since Ibis great war began has been went abroad as a special commissioner for he president ??f the I'nited Slates. Col onel House has been twice In llerlln, live times In Paris, and frequently in other of the great KuropPnn capitals. Some day It may be that Wood row Wilson will write wh#' may be called nn autobiographical re* tew of bis ad ministration. If be do -a It In. entirely likely that the part taken by Colonel House in the shaping or some of the policies of the president i 'ay be given the page place which many men be lieve that it deserves. No Mystery There. While living in New York Colonel House resides In an apartment not very far uptown. It is a homelike place where good books are found and where good friends may come. It is u genial place and no curtain of mystery bancs over the do<v of any one of its rooms. Men go there and are wel come. They go and they talk. Man learns as much from man as he learns from books and more perhaps If we believe the nti'hnt saying about* the proper study of mankind. I asked Colonel House what Ills rec reation.! are. lie said, "Friends, read ing and walking." Ills library shelves show the kind of books that he has mid, still Is reading and will continue to read, for those In the book cases are made the companions day by day ?if the others as they come from the hands of writers worth while. No man probably can read politics, legislation, economics and history con stantly without getting -onie of l>r. Dry-; Ptfsi's charncterl sties. So It is that Colonel House does not read flie four formidable* constantly. He turns to fiction and here one finds something ? >f jio> ibly more than passing human Interest. (leoiv: ? FiisM" II r of Mas- <chtis rtts was one of the cholars In politics. It was aald of ii i tint fce had read everything from Aristophanes' "Frogs" Col. Edward M. House. I House on public matters. How deep an Impression ho has made on Texas legislative liisNir.v never mify be known definlie'y, but there is enough salient to make Texans know that they are ri slit in attributing to him many of (heir public welfare nets. Though not accounted wealthy In these days of huge fortunes. Colonel House Is quite well fixed financially and Is not engaged In business of any kind. Has Studied Hard. I have talked to Colonel House and have learned things which make me feel that I shall not go wrong when I try to put nn Interpretation upon some of his methods of doing things. He Is free enough to say that he has studied hard at economic, political and legis lative subjects. He probably even would be willing to admit that he thinks the results of these studies con tinued and their results retained, have enabled him to be of some service when men were seeking Information concerning events In the past which have relation to events In the present or events expected In the future. Therefore, there Is here n man who has held what he has studied, who has collated and correlated the hap penings of history, who has drawn lessons from them, who takes an in terest as deep In the living present as he does In the dead past, and who men believe Is able to make his knowledge serviceable, for old as It Is let us say It, history repents Itself. Woodrow Wilson did not meet his friend Colonel House until tho days when he was holding office as gover nor of New Jersey. It Is said by friends of Mr. Wilson that : >?t In stantly he came to under> why the Texan had been of ser\i< along constructive lines to some of the gov | ernors of the stale In which he has lived most of his life. For six or seven years Mr. House has been the confi dant nnd "the counsellor of the presi dent of the United States, nnd seeiu I to Locke's "Humnrt Understanding" nnd from this latter book of "dismala ties" to the lighter minded reader, down to everything heavy and semi heavy which was published to the week of Ms death. Senator Hoar kept his mental condition balanced by turn ing not merely from the heavy to the light on occasion, but to the actual featherw- 'slits of fiction, lie read "Nick Carter," Wood row Wilson, it is said, turns away fro n the studies of states, past nnd present and in prospective to the reading of w hat the English call penny dreadfuls, nnd what the Americans in the old days called yellow backs. It Is said that the speaker of the house of repres utatlves. Champ Clark, stops frequentb* his mental digging into all kinds of history to take up for relief purposes books of the kind which make n b \v happy. Reads Good Fiction. In the library of Colonel House there is plenty of good fiction, lit? does not urn to Nick Carter, nor to "The Hidden Hand" of Mrs. K. D. K. N. Southworth, nor yet to "Owl Face, The Pawnee" of Ileadle dime novel fame, but he manages to keep the men tal balance even by an evening lamp hour or two with the writers of fic tion who can lay claim to what the book reviewers call literary merit. Today Colonel House i* entering up on the work of preparing material which one day. perhap*> far I the fu ture, will be serviceable to th Ameri can Conn K-i" -s : . t tin groat i>e:;c? conference. Another has written this concerning the choice by th.^ president of Colonel House for this work: "H? is pecullarlj inallfled for it by his dip lomatic experience of recent year^. bj his study of political problems which the war has raised and by his Integrity of mliul nnd character." "Sheiio k, will y i take on th< House Mystery Case?" "M i.i j? my ui r Wut -jo, then Isn't any." GREEK TO FILL "SHOES" OF TURK; Prof. Andreade, Athens, Says Countrymen Cover Region Down to Dardanelles. WOULD BE BAR TO GERMANS Hellenic Preponderance in Constant!* nople and Adrianople Basis for Claim ? Principle of National* ity Hitherto Ignored. Athens. ? If the Turk is to leave Eu rope, as the entente allies have re quired in their war terms, then there is u well defined belief in the Balkan* that two results will occur of high im portance to Greece and all Europe: 1. Tluit the Greek inevitably will succeed the Turk throughout Thrace and in tlie whole region down to tlu Dardanelles and the' Bosphorus. 2. That a new zone of territory friendly to the entente will thus he stretched horizontally straight aero*.* the Balkans as a barrier to the Ger man dream of making the Balkans a G? rman high road to the Orient. Professor Andreade of the Univer sity of Athena, one of the foremost authorities on international affairs iv luting to the Balkan*, holds this view, and in the course of a talk he ex plained how these two results would naturally come about in the final peace adjustment, by rens >n of the principle of nationalities now accepted by the entente allies as a basis for territorial readjust went. Points to Greek Predominar.ee. Professor Andreade, Mho is a spe cialist ou the extent of Greek citizen ship beyond the Greek frontiers ? in Macedonia and the other Balkans, in Tar y, Syria and Asia Minor ? polnt i out the great predominance of the Creeks in the regions to be evacuflted by the Turk ii' they art? to leave Eu ri'i The whole vllajet, or province o 1 A- 1 "pie, extending from the B:l 1 us down to Con iantfnople, j.oTle < is as i P'-li < 1 as it is Turk find with the Turks out it is practically ail Greek. "Even Constantinople," he id. "is a Greek city ? the lar^ st of <; -k citie ? with a population of ; .ii Greeks. That gives an Idea ol t! ? t vt< nt of Greek citizenship in nil ti 's lioii dowu to the straits, which will have to mshlered, on the basis of nationality and race, when the Turk leaves Europe. "That is why I say," added Profes sor A i ul read e, "that if the Turk is to withdraw, the principle of nationality, v ! eh recogni/. s the racial condition of a community, will lend to tli< recog nition of fireek paranio<*it Influence in that section. Thus far, the principle of nationality has been ignored and violated in all Balkan settlements, nnd force has prevailed. Austria and Bul garia have not occupied any of the territory annexed in recent years by reason that their race or nationality prevailed in these sections, but soHdy by reason of their military force. That lias been the cause of the endless wars iu the Balkans, for people are never satisfied when their race is ignored and they are attached to u foreign con queror by force." . Two Barriers to Germany. Professor Andi^ade, referring to the Balkan map, showed how the readjust ment of Balkan boundaries, based on nationalities, would Interpose two bar riers to Germanic expansion toward Asia Minor and the Orient ? one, the Greek zone across Thrace, and an other, the Serb-Roumanian link of ter ritory which lies as a dam between Hungary and Bulgaria. This Serb Roumanian link is only fifty miles across, lmt with Roumania getting the Banat region, to which Professor An dreade says she is entitled by the prin ciple of nationality, this entente link will lie l."0 miles across. "And thus entente Europe can Ac complish what it chiefly seeks in the Balkans," said Professor Andreade, "friendly entente zones intercepting the natu il route of Germanic expan sion toward the Orient, nnd this can be accomplished, not by force, but by the principle of nationality now ac e< pted by the entente powers." SOLDIERS PRINT OWN NEWS Pershing's Men Have Their Own Press Humming Away on the French Front. Paris. ? The rumble of tlie press is n dried to the various noises surrourtri in ; the American army headquarters in l*arls. Soldiers' rending matter is printed on the premises. Soldiers, who in civil liTe used to know the prlnt , shop, are printing pamphlets nnd oth<ir army literature for the fighters, a fully equipped printing office with a flat bed press Is doing the work. The first type "set up" told Pershing's men iu training how to throw bombs at.d li 'W to handle them without accident. Army orders nnd the "latest" Trout i home will follow, t ? ? ? ? Feeds Robin From His Hand. Milt on. Inri.? Levi Crull, who 1U ea . near Rushville, placed n box near the ? cave trough of his house and r. robin i built its i< st in the box. Mr. Crull r din bs n steplarider antl fe?Ml* liie moth, r bird, now taking care of her $ bienl of yourg birds. He gathers wo.mn r. .d thf robin cats them from i bis l.fiiri. S jio^s not appear to luiv any fei r of hlia. Like A Boy at 50 Bubbling Over With Vitality -- Taking Iron Did It Doctor says Nuxated Iron is greatest of all strength builders-Often increases the strength and endurance of delicate, nervous folks 100 per cent, in two weeks' time. NEW YORK, N. Y.? Not long ago a ! man came to me who was nearly half a Century old and ask-d me to give liim a preliminary examination for life Insur ance. I was astonished to ttnd him with the blood pressure of a boy of 20 and as full of vlfur. vim and vitality as a young nan; in fact a young man he really was notwithstanding his ag?\ The secret he said was taking Iron ? nuxated iron had filled him w ith renewed life. At 30 he was In had health; at 46 he was carewrn and nearly all in. Now at 60 after taking Nuxated Iron a miracle of vitality and his face hi-atning with the buoyancy 6f youth. As I have said a hundred times j over, iron is the greatest of all .strength j builders. If peopb- would only take Nux ated Iron when I hey feel weak or run down, instead of dosing themselves with habit forming drugs, simulants and alco holic beverages 1 am convinced that in this way they could ward off disease, preventing it becoming organic in thou sands of cases and thereby the lives of thousands might be saved who now die every year from pneumonia, grippe, kid ney, liver, heart trouble and other dan gerous maladies. The real and true cause which started their diseases was nothing more nor less than a weakened condition brought on by lack of Iron In the hlood. Iron is absolutely neces sary to enable your blood to change food Into living tissue. Without it. no matter how much or what you eat, your food merely ppsses^through you without doing you any good. You don't get the strength out of it and as a consequence you become weak, pale and sickly look ing Just like a plant trying to grow In a soil deficient In iron. If you are not strong or well you owe it to yourself to make the following test: See how long you can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next t iwo five- grain tablets nf nnlmary nu\4t*?i iron thr>e times per day after meal* for two weeks. Then tent your strength again and net for yourself how muck >"U have gained. I nave seen dozens or nervous run-down people who were ail iiik all the while, double their strength and endurance and entirely Bet rid of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles in from ten to fourteen days time simply by taking Iron in tha proper form. And this after they had in some cases been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit. Bui lon't take the old forms of reduced Iron, iron acetate or tincture of iron simply to save a few cents. You must take iron In a form that can be easily absorbed Snd as similated like nuxated Iron If yon want It to do you any good, otherwise it may prove worse than useless. Many an athlete or prizefighter has won the day simply because he knew the Beer.il of great strwngth and endurance and filled his blood with Iron before he went into the affray, while many another roiio down to Inglorious defeat simpl\ for tins lack of iron. ? E. Bauer. M. D. NOTK Numf'd Iron. recommended ?b by Dr. E Bauer is not \ patent medicine II r mnedy. hut one which ic w 11 known to drucs>*:? sn-i <?l. "?e Iron constituents arc widely pre* i .Dei \ir eminent physicians everywhere. TTnllke the oloer ln orcanie iron products It 1? easily aaalmilsted dues not injure the teeth, make them black, nor upset the stomach: on the contrary, it Is most potent rem edy In nearly all forms of Indigestion ?? II as for nervous, run-down condition*. 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