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The True Story Of Woodrou) Wilson II j- DAVID LAWRKXCE (C???ri#M 1924 by the Grorte H. Dtriii Cawaany la lh? Urltr* Stat.*, CiaUi. South America. Wcrld publication ri?ht? r a?arv*4 by Currant Ntwi Feature*. Inc.) Chapter XVI Wilton and Colonel House Selection of the Cabinet of Presl dent Wilson wan a unique process probably without parallel In Amer ican history. It Is doubtful -whether any one played a greater part in the making of the Cabinet than Colonel House. The development of the friend ship between the quiet man from Texas and Woodrow Wilson was as remarkable as their subsequent separation under circumstances all the more amazing to relate when the full story of their association Is told. Colonel House was first of all a man of independent means, a lib eral In politics and of influential personality. His tact and diplo macy, bis progresslveness and un selfishness. captured Mr. Wilson s Imagination. "What I like about Colonel House." explained Governor Wilson one day to a group of newspaper men who displayed curiosity about the growing friendship, "is that he holds things at arm's length ? ob jectively. He seems able to "pene trate a proposition and *et to its very essence quickly. He wants nothing for himself. He will not hold office and is a truly disinter ested friend ? the most valuable posesHion a man could have." In those weeks preceding the in aguratlonDT- Mr. Wllftdn," Colonel House did an extraordinary thing which from that day to this has not been disclosed in print, but it shows the remarkable influence he pos sessed. As will be remembered by those who follow the stock market, the uncertainty over wliat the new Democratic Administration might do had an unsettling effect in the finan cial district ? at least so claimed the leading financiers, somo of whom kept hinting that, unices the uncer tainly was allayed, a panic might even follow the inauguration of the President. Wall Street professed to be alarmed crver the radicalism of the newly elected Chief Executive and whnt he might do to business generally. Some of the bankers ask ed Colonel House to attend a dinner and explain what was likely to- hap pen under the new administration. He did not consent until he had Mr. Wilson's sanction. According to some of-those w4h> were present, the amount of money represented at that gathering was at least five billions of dollars In actual wealth and many billions mcrre In potential credit. All the important financiers in America were there or sent representatives. The Colonel erased the notion that Woodrow Wilson was a "wild radi cal" who would turn things upside down, and Instead gave a general sketch of what Mr. Wilson toped to accomplish by way of currency re form. What the bankers wanted was something straight from head quarters about the Wilson intentions ? not the details but his general at titude toward business and finance. Whether the talk Colonel House gave that, nlxht to nil the Important financiers of the country had any se quel in the confidence thereafter displayed by the markets is too in tangible to prove, but there was a noticeable let-up in the predictions* of disaster and calamity which had been spread about the metropolitan district. Again and again Governor Wilson went to 4he apartments of Colonel House In New York, seeing many im portant visitors there. Later on, af ter Mr. Wilson was inaugurated, the home of Colonel House was a sort of New York branch of the White House. There were frequent conversa tions over the long distance tele phone and a regular series of let ters day by day. These communl-: cations were private in every sense and were not opened by any inter vening officials. Naturally there was often a disposition on the part of other advisors of the President to wonder what subjects were being discussed or taken up between Col onel House and Mr. Wilson. The Colonel was reticent ? he earned a deputation of "silent partner" and he kept Mr. Wilson's confidence faithfully. Many of the matters with which Colonel House dealt related to ap pointments to office. If the Presi dent wished to conduct an Investiga tion as to the fitness of an Indivi dual for an important place, he would ask Colonel House to make ?uch an Investigation tactfully. It was Colonel House who suggested the name of Walter Hlnes Page to be American Ambassador to Great Britain. I rode from New York to Washington with him on the day be fore he took the matter up with Mr. Wilson and he told me of the pro spective appointment feeling abso lutely sure he could persuade Mr. Wilson to make it. And he did. It was with considerable amuse ment. therefore, that the Colonel read later on of reports that friction had developed between Ambassador Page and President Wilson because Colonel House had been sent to Ru | rope as an unofficial enroy. In the weeks immediately preced , ing the inauguration, Colcmel House 1 was especially valuable to 'Mr. Wil son in deciding political questions relating to tho personnel of the Cabinet. After the inauguration the Colonel kept on dealiug with patronage matters for Mr. Wilson and keeping the latter informed on the impressions the Administra tion was making in the large centers of the East. But what the Colonel brought mostly to Mr. Wilson later was an intimate knowledge of for eign affairs and a personal ac quaintance with many of the most important figures In world diplo macy. Mr. Wilson *s readiness to entrust Colonel House with his con fidence on missione relating to for eign policy was due to his belief that the Colonel was tactful and di ' plomatlc and would not be restrict ed by the same forms and conven tions that surrounded a full fledged ambasador. Many people never could understand why President Wilson made use of unofficial en voys. The truth of the matter is thajLJJr. Wilson felt more could be accomplished by an unattached en voy than by one who was officially accredited to a government and therefore unable to reach into the heart of a problem and make per sonal investigation, or say things as bluntly as could., a casual envoy who had no official status. | Mr. Wilson used to refer to Col onel House as his "eyes and ears." He was more than that. He was Mr. Wilson's personal representa tive in making a first hand investi gation of the facts and opinions con veyed to the White House by am bassadors and ministers in long winded official reports. * Colonel House was really analogous to the star reporter who is occasionally sent by his newspaper to make a general survey of a situation. Local correspondents are maintained in nearly every Important center but large newspapers, every now and then, send a man to visit a certain section of tho country and follow a particular line of Investigation. He is^ often able to pry into matters which the local correspondent for one reason or another is embar rassed to untangle. Colonel House, moreover, had tho -faculty of dtge?t-< ing situations and putting them in to brief reports. He was adroit in his conversations ? ho never com mitted the Government of the Uni ted States to any policy. He work ed in close harmony with the am bassadors and ministers, and he did take a large burden off Mr. Wilson's mind. Hut before the Inauguration Col onel House can be said to have been responsible for the selection of at least half of Mr. Wilson's cabinet. He knew David F. Houston, who be came Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Houston had been president of the University of Texas. The friend ship of Mr. Wilson and Secretary Houston was the admiration of one Intellectual for another. Indeed when It became apparent to Mr. Wilson in 1920 that, on account of his ill health, he could not expect the Democratic Convention at San Francisco to nominate him, he wished that the Convention might turn to a man like Houston. He never made public announcement of that fact, but among President Wil son's Intimate friends this was an open pecret. Charles R. Crane, who became Minister to China and who exerted a great deal of influence on Mr. Wilson in connection with the Russian affairs, was one of the in ner circle who favored Mr. Hous ton's candidacy in 1920. An Index of how Mr. Wilson felt toward Sec retary Houston was given when Sec retary Glass resigned as head of the Theasury Department to become United Stntes Senator from Virginia. Mr. Houston had always shown a practical knowledge of economics. At that time Mr. Wilson leaned hea vily in the Cabinet on Mr. Houston's advice ? ho was one of the strong men of the administration. Many of the communications to Congress particularly on fiscal matters signed by President Wilson during his 111 n*?ss were word for word written by ^Secretary Houston. (Tomorrow's chapter tells how Woodrow Wilson picked his Cabinet ? one member he never met till In auguration day.) WWn Time In Precious Give Us A Ring. The Apothecary Shop Phone 400 I THK MTTI.K GIFT By I>r. Jkiiick Henry Thayer f th^Tue ofthnTh^*ed "> Judah's father J?dah. tlaUing in the lake (,nn I .T * by '"*? Judah, with hi. 1 morn ">e beach " "< on ? beautiful day and ih? 11 was ?>>?'* the waters* o", o.u","" ""b<d boy and his mother s?. - ,..a8 ,he eether. i)ut Judah working to never am able ? * or to see anything" h an>t?<ng A" I en do ia to 1" ,grumhl d' come down here on th? k? #cho?1 mend nets. I do w?sh?hiT\Ch and get away from Bethslwl C,ould -meth.n d J^'and do ?T. ^ not ^wa"'^ b" "other. >'fe tha, ccntnU for th^ tbin? "? After all it uth H? mos*. ?on. *hlng |8 done and "th? f1! 1*1,,ch a w't?? which it |8 *rf fa,th'ulnesa count. Performed that I That 8 all very well f?? say. mother. "arrnJIi ? ? you to "ere J am fourt?n ..JUdah' "but f " lho further I've e^* h?ld- and been up to Canefnf.T^ een has never been ^.pern.um-why , ve and ?> a$ Jerusalem put In h^mo'ther"6 'bu.' iUdah'" perts U8 to do our work wh G?d cx" Places us. and tn hJ J t J herever he small things which h. w Ul in lhe our hands." " he has P'?eed In ??^'VCrt n?" d? me"dln(t thousand ?? BethJ?,dT ch?ne<L ' L*ncter Andrew Whv h at ,r'P down the Jordan a 1,'? 8 and met ? while hack John the Baptist*" And'?' . prophet. him to Je.u. of Va ???- he and Uncle P?.II h- And tJnlllee with J pr t!s ,f? 6r 80 al> over velous thing, whU,'ch h."^ the mar hear Ilin, aTHe tearh.! doe8- an'< ?,a>' in old Bethsalda !l her8 1 "ever even seen ,h! ' .and have lilee." Judah ? ProPhet of Ca flh cord nf the ^?et HSly at Ih" His mother went nn . ,frCTWned. Ing her net aaS ,21 ?B'?Iy mend How ImpMfent he wa? 8t bo'r anxious to do sm?ot>w a how ?o wish he could l"'"K ? I a while." s|] i . . wa* 'or "Maybe a little trli! herself, "light help him And m? tbe lake Je-us of PC^eth V Z "7- ,hat naum and ? at Caper the" beach8 came""? fai;,her D"?n ! Judnh'K age *. 'lnn,nS a boy of "f breath, he r.,?lf*m^?Dp ??' trot dah. they say that Je. ?'udah. Ju this morning from r* cro8"lnK the other side of ?h? ^ S""8""1 to AH of the people are .6 by boat- ' the head of the "L B aro"nd eannot meet hi? " they side hlm ?n the other ?Uiokh9 gr?' n? |arther "P Judnh's mother rae .. "P?l<e hoy by name. ?Ther? T'"f three boats miii?_ ko two or Pernaum to Ca-j theWm??e'" ? VWS^".T twiubo%h, w.?,pkpedddh0^ n:La!"\'he edge and looked at th , water ? ?euddl?g alonK ,he water erb?at"| UnclenreOter,"Oj?dabh0at" belongs to! his mother. "I kno. ..'\d back of the sail." He na used 7 the cut and looked again Pau?'d ? moment behind It belongs to iwi lihe "nel I'm certain. I 5ui? ??Cle Andrew.! bnf'OhttVoht;ebr^ -i see Jesus of Nazareth. Uncle Andrew and Uncle Peter are both there, and I'll find them and they'll! look after me." Hut his mother shook her head. "Why Judah it would be night long before you could possibly get there) ,on foot ? and i couldn't think of 'doing^such a thing." "but why couldn't he take one of! his father's boats ? it would only) I take him a Uttle while to sail across! | the lake and back." It was Benj i Israel who now spoke up. and thej hope of going along lit his eyes. "That's Just it, mother," pleaded Judah. "I can easily sail that Miiiall boat of Daddy's ? I've often! done it. And with Ben Israel to ! handle the sail it will not be a bit of trouble?" While the boys waited impatient-! , ly Judah's mother looked out over the lake. She remembered the terrible storms that often swept down the ravens from the opposite side. She recalled one awful nlghtj when Judah's father had been caught out in a gale on the lake, and how he had just escaped with his 1 life. Then she looked at the calm bosom of the lake and the bright sunshine glancing from it. "I suppose," she said at last, ' "that it will be all right for you and Ben Israel to go, if his mother will allow " ' "Oh," broke in Ben Israel, ! "Mother said that I might go. if Judah would go along with me in his father's boat. That's what I came up here to ask him about, he added naively. "That's fine," exclaimed Judah, as he gave his mother a grateful lock. "Ben Israel, "you run up to the house and get- a pair of oars. 1 and I'll get the boat ready. Good l bye, mother," he called as he ran i toward a fisher boat pulled high up i on the shore. "What a big boy he's getting to I be." whispered his mother to her self, "I do ho*pe that he won't miss fhe Teacher from Galilee ? and who knows, perhaps the teacher may say something that will show him that h?* can help by doing the little things." In a few moments Ben Israel came back to the beach carrying with him a pair of oars, and after much tugging and pushing the boys managed to get the small boat into the water. They were Just about ready to push off when Judah's mother called "Wait a minute son, I've got something for you." Judah. with an oar dug into the sandy beach waited until his mother came up. "What is it. mother" he said, rathAF-impatiently. ? j "Only a little lunch, she smiled. "This trip of yours and the water will make you hungry ? but be sure you get back before sunset." 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