Show LETTERS OF PRESIDENTS At AND D VICE PRESIDENTS or all our presidents none e ex- ex exI I c pt Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Thoma i lied had the gift of o I equal to that of Woodrow excelled all In human humai touch Wilson was the polished scholar one letter to Thomas R. R Marshall then vice vici I has bas been I published ed It 1 was written 2 1917 when the war was wac on OIl and Is worthy worth of reproduction as a model of oC ex exchange change of felicIties lie wrote My dear Mr ice Your messages always ring so truc and aud always have so a a lavor of their own that they mc m. I peculiar culiar pleasure but most oC 01 all because they express your our gen genelous elous CIOUS friendshIp and gIve me so sc much zouch encouragement and cheer for forthe forthe the days day's work and the work of all the days das 1 thank you OU from Crom a avery avery very full heart With best wishes for or the tho new n W year CordIally and I sincerely yours ours Woodrow Wilson Thomas n. n Marshall just before he death was completing his memo mem oil s and aud in a word of explanation wrote This book Is not Intended Intend d to turn lurn the tides or of hIs history tor nor to change the opinion of men as to the great things which took place when I 1 was In public life liCe It has been written In the hope that the tired business man the tut ful golfer and the lonely husband whose ife Is out reformIng tho th world ma may fild rd therein a halt half hours hous surcease from sorrow Marshall had a rich sense of hU 1 hu- hu humor mor which appears through aU all hIs writings In his preface he placed I I this paragraph To the tho two women who were were red In the fall or of my mother and my wire wife I 1 lovingly ded ded- dedIcate l te thIs book In hIs memoIrs Marshall Gives u us this clever dig at WashIngton Yee is a reat thing ft it It see sees seems s to ho bo an absolute household necessIty It softens the blows of fortune and makes many man abow a abow bow to bend under the pull of ad ad- which otherwise would i break The city or of Washington Is full of ancestry It Is a ghost town lown They have no titled deeds to lo house oil 01 lands Owners and occupants ot of earlier days das from graves ten stretch their dusty hands hand and hold haitI In mortmain still sUIl theIr old es es- tates When I went there these spirits of the illustrious dead lock lock- locking lug ing arms with the thc liv- liv In lag almost jostled one 0 off the pave pave- meats ments Since the days of John Adams there has been a dread and fear that some vIce president of the toiled States Slates would break loose and ral raise e hell and Maria Marla with the administration Every thin that can be done therefore Is dore doce to furnish h him with some InnocuoUS occupation They seek to put him hith where he can do no harm Among the other nameless unremembered red things gIven to do Is the mak making ing ot of him a regent of the SmIth ft I n if an where he has an opportunIty to compare his fossilized life the of o all ages The other re- re regents gents are usually distinguIshed men meno o of affairs I found among others when I attended the Ule first firs I meeting Chief Justice e White Alexander Graham Dell Bell Justice George Gray Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and ane others of like calibre The Th agenda was taken up and I 1 a modest silence until an appropriation tion of f money for an expedItion to was up for c tion I I Now ow the mere mention of money arouses my interest ul when It runs into thousands of o dollars I sin aID not used to corn com puling It In such large lions Hons So I 1 ventured to Inquire for what w h a t i It t was proposed prop O Se d th t a t lIe should spend these thou thousands sands of dollars I was Informed that It was as to excavate imong the ruIns of that country In n the hope or of SO C trace tr of men With the breezy manner or 01 ora to In Inquire a breezy state stale I ventured had dug lot In quIre whether helber they Was WashIngton yet A look of amaze amaze- amazement ment came over be countenances or of all these thes gentle men and somebody asked me what I meant The was that from of oC the specimens walking the streets I thought they would not than six feet down downto need ned to go more to discover the prehistoric man And then the utter uselessness and frivolity of the vice presIdency was disclosed for Cor not a man smIled It H was a year before I load had to open my mouth again |