Show 1 I GE OF PRESIDENT I MESSED A A PRESSED r I David bad id La La Describes I Incidents inclusive o of V Salt St Lal Lake e Speech tor to toa r a 1 s P His Irritability I I u J By David Lawrence l Copyright oP rl hf by Salt Inie JI Hr ild Washington Feb Feh 17 Grover Gro Grover Cleveland Cleve land and Woodrow Wilson never got ot along well together and once In a tiff I over academic matters at Princeton university the former said ald of or the latter l that ho he was a man o of violent prejudices prejudices I dices and ungovernable temper Probably Probably Mr lr ably In moments of self analysis Wilson lIson has admitted an Inclination to get get furiously angry over O things that rubbed r him the wron wrong WH way There have hav been limes times especially In the days when ur pe was Vas t taunting Mr lr Wilson with t ith Hh that to to proud to CI fight ht phrase when wIlen the President would have welcomed the tic opportunity to take on a scrap with an anybody bodY The rhe public doesn't l now Mr tr Wilson on onas as S a a. man than of hot temper Ho lie ha has disciplined himself to lo conceal It and shrewd men about him have ha managed manag-cd to prevent him from giving vent to angry r passion on un public questions Left to lo himself the President would most I I fiur surely ly have havo exhibited his temper lon long before the the- Tensing Lansing episode e. e That's That I why h I r regard It HH as not nn an unnatural I or or abnormal manifestation of Mr Tr Wll- Wll s 's s mind but hut a. a perfectly normal all and l I nat natural ral outburst I S Part Wai u Maddening ln I He lie used to get ct angry at Paris On Onono one ono occasion he came away awa from a si meeting with Prime Primo Minister Lloyd George Premier Clemenceau and the thc re ret rest t of tho the peace conf conference rence and he ho never said Raid a n word for hours afterward to anyone in his household lIe He was mad clear through In the fourteen years rears that I have ha studied the Wilson personality first In his lecture row at Princeton then as asa asa asa a corr correspondent when ho he was governor of or New Jersey Jerse and candidate for tor pre President dent and later In a writing about his i-I i doing at the White 1 House or 01 his travels across tho the countr country It has seemed to tome tome me that from time to time Mr Wilson Nilson VIl I introduced a sen sense o of humor into its Ins I system and checked bl his temper Things I that should have provoked him were brushed aside and it was tas only rarely that he seemed to get out of sorts I In HIM lIiN Car Ctr CareN eN H Weigh Ih Heavily I But little b by little little- as the cares an and burdens of or the White Hou House o began to lo weigh heavily upon him Mr Wilson I allowed his life passions to get g-ct the better heLter of oC him Frequently ho showed to the correspondents assembled before him hint a I certain impatience and at r real anger JHc Hc didn't like to be questioned closely or catechised about matters that were agitating the countr country Particularly Particular Particular- ly Iy did he ho SC seem scorn m to allow a fierce gleam to enter his face I If anybody suggested ted I that perhaps there thero might have been ome on the part of hIm him- sell Eel or a member of or his administration Ho lie would permit no criticism in the queries of or correspondents and his cabinet cab CAb- inet t officers found the same thin think thing true The They didn't care to cross him He didn't t like it IL Secretary Garrison tried to to- to toA A do it lt and scon found himself out I of the cabinet I Wilson I Idea Ia of or Go Government GO Xo Now Mr r. r Wilsons Wilson's f Idea ea of or government go I Iby by cabinet is that a cabinet officer Is 18 merely a general counsel or adviser I subject to the thc authority and instruction tion of or the President and as such necessarily sub subservient nt to presidential command When hen Bryan Bran resigned the President nl who had harl been writing notes to Germany German and handling l foreign affairs af af- fairs made no secret of or the fact that he wanted a counsellor and not a a. secretary secretary sec sec- cc of or state stale and Mr Ir Lansing Lansing- had no doubts about th the position In which he hc would be placed it by taking akin the of or- or fice I 1 t The fhe 1 President rP a ideal tins linn from time to time Lw shown a disposition to re regard ard cabinet meetings as superfluous Time and anda a again aln however whenever newspapers newspaper would print stories saying he didn didn't t think cabinet meetings s were c necessary he would Issue vehement denials through ugh administration officials but there is no question in my mind that Mr Ir Wilsons Wilson's conception of ot cabinet government government gov gov- ov is decidedly decided different from that had by some sonic of or his predecessors Ho lie feels that cabinet officers are aro advisers ad ad- i and nd subordinates who arc are to give advice when asked for foa it and to take tako orders and carry them then out according to lo the wishes of their chiefs Provoked ro h hy by Little The war has unquestionably had a depressing depressing- effect on Mr r. r Wilsons Wilson's spir spir- its Little things thinS's provoke him For Instance on the boat going o over or r to France he took toole considerable offense because the George Washington ton led carried a a. number of minor officials of the tho state department staff stare He lie held field Secretary Lansing responsible for this and fretted fretted fretted fret fret- ted the first two cla days out at sea and would not receive tho do secretary of I state simply because his Instructions about keeping the number on the boat down to a minimum had not evidently I been carried out lust Just why Mr Tr Wilson wanted th the wl whole boat to himself people couldn't I understand nor was It comprehensible Vh why the President allowed only a handful handful hand hand- I ful of oC people to accompany him on the return Journey journe and left lots of oC space in tho the vessel which it had been en thought hL would bo occupied b by y returning returning- troops Tho The boat was only half haIr filled when It It started from Brest Brest and the only explanation explanation I nation on which anybody could deduce from tho the strange demeanor of or the I President was that ho wanted to be bo all alone alonG and didn't want to bo be annoyed Ue Developed HI IIi Ills Irritability Instances trivial indeed could be bo cited to show that the President was weighed down b by official burdens to toan toan toan an extent that the public has bas little known and that gradually ho he has de dc developed eloped an irritability which had not been kno known n except to tho the inner circle Twice on the western trip which he took immediately after his return from Europe Europ the President showed his tem tem- per In St. St Louis Just as he was about to begin his speech h at night a photographer photographer took a a. flashlight Now Mr Ir Wilson Vilson h has had that happen to him himman man many times before but on this occasion occa occa- sion ston ho to blurted out an angrily Wo We ought not to taro care how we look but how we act and the crowd which had been amused as 8 always l h bv y a sudden n flash- flash r L LlIght light ht picture stopped Its ils laughter ab abruptly abruptly abruptly ab- ab and wondered Salt SnIt Jal Laker c Remember er A Again aln at Salt Lake a fortnight ht later tho the President was talking about article X and asked a rhetorical question the question the 1 kind that the crowd isn't supposed to answer but Mr Wilsons Wilson's delivery was wasso waso wasso so o forceful and had been getting such enthusiastic applause at tho the end of almost al almost almost al- al most e ct every sentence that somebody applauded applauded ap ap- apI I in iq tho the wrong place I am sure ure It was unintentional tho the President stopped short and issued an angry ro- ro I buko In the direction from which the applause came came Better Better wait walt till tin you oU hoar hear it all aU before you applaud was his reprimand and tho the crowd cr wondered won won- dered TIme was when Mr Ir IrV V Wilson lson schooled himself to repress his temper Once or twice when delegations visited him at tho White While House he got gol his dander up but usually the tho stenographic record of what was said never was issued and the public was none nono the wiser Burden In On Ili II Xer Nerves Nerves' e It It has been noticed however howe that In tho the last two years tho the President ha has been given hen every Cn now and anel then to intemperate in- in temperate expression In a nutshell his in-I in duties and his burdens got on his nerves and are arc still on his nerves Woodrow Wilson Haon three threes cars e years ars a ago o would I never have done what Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- I son is doing toda today Cabinet c members have led lcd him astra astray and gotten g him liim Into worse difficulties difficulties ties and uncomfortable moods than did hl Secretary Lansing's adventure adventures in protecting protecting protecting pro pro- tho the President t from adverse criticism when he was unable to discharge discharge dis dis- dis charge chargo the duties of his office The man who has long stood for tor the Inefficiency of or the postoffice department department department depart depart- ment and the public criticism m of or Secretary Sec Sec- Secretary Baker Baiter Secretary Daniels and oth others rs In the Senate and House whom ho he has been accustomed to support without regard to public opinion Is not tho the same who dismissed Robert Lansing as secretary of or state Ho He Is a man upon whom the burdens of the war and peace Jobs have left a residue of nervousness nor nerv irritability and intolerance that will be repressed with difficulty as ns Woodrow Wilson Ilson serves the remainIng remaining remain remain- Ing twelve months month of ot his term Tomorrow article article tb the last Jut of or th the erl hill cries will heal with Mab Secretary Sc s J p policies and the probable significance of or tho the cpI epi o t Je from on an International In t as well us U national point of or view ice |