| Show COLONEL HOUSE WILSONS FRIEND NOT A MYSTERY y unofficial counsellor of the president Is a modest but well posted man STUDENT OF WORLD AFFAIRS now bell gathering e ring data on an economic and other ot pr problems Pro a bims blema which mo must be solved at the peace table H haa qualifications that go to M make a sound diplomat AUTH AUTHOR st Is NOT men le b have made mad co e 1 of oc the pie life cold and the dag doings ot of col CI edwd at house chef the friend ad and aall of 1 woodrow winoa aileon I 1 if in there has he boon been ats it I 1 is none of the colonel CInal a mail ing ine I 1 venture tore the hope blue that sil whatever oteo my may have a ored t to be ludd hidden 1 la 11 hi clofed I ed in III this article the material inot for which aim sti ab nb occurred obtained 1 in the only way in ilov ba which oh bach material cas can iob toe obtained 1 by dt direct personal contact tact from inquiry and ad baudy dy by EDWARD B CLARK copyright A a carl ca r union l 11 hlastan who Is cut col edward mand Mt indell ell house ubo 1 Is to gotha w data for far fit atio united state gerre government marlit for far service fee on an a future day of ream peace this J is a question that I 1 is being asked br be a very large proportion pm of the peo pan pie of the united states and in fact of all 1 the billed allied it colonel house does not wear or the to record cord of his due deeds ds on hla his it ls Is probable that if this thia unofficial one coun net to the president of the united states state were run to be elected to congress con age gresa the autobiography which tie be would pro pre per for or the congressional directory woold rould rod read III like fill this ed edward word mandril bonse democrat of A austin texas here born 1858 elected to thustin the a coneless con fourr eress N november analou in this brief ultra modest t if you allf ir way would old this to be prompted to bep write on an autobiography justified doubtless from the of a ther other in men 0 in being extended into nany many ch chapters older r 11 atho ho Is col co edward ma mandeli house who he until if the day when alica ti the final order e firing a ponies 1 Is to study dy in hida thu arn b behalf of 1 the government goern ment at of tile the united states tile eco economic oraid the geographic M the d democratic amenth and ad the humanitarian problems preble which the american counsel in lors lit at the peace table re ret must t c sit t to I 1 sope bohe off after n manner which the people I 1 of a great democracy can approve consulted by president 1 in tile lie washington dispatches some thing the like this athla 1 Is rend read several times a war cut colonel I 1 has been in the city tor far twenty tour four hunts hours as the guest of the president he will leave tor for new york civan tomorrow me morning beyond this the reader gets nothing from the except the word the that t tile the president and his visitor dis cussed it mexican matters tr true or european E penn matters or it mav be lot hut in this lot lat tor ter use case roly r oly political matters the public has known little more about colonel ol moal ilese H luse than that he a Is a a man frequently consid consulted ted by wood row N talson ile and a man I 1 in whose h judg ment out on an political cuto economic I 1 jand and legis dative matters the th president puts con fiden there Is 11 a sort of a glamour about men and things thing ore are anns 11 ter a it tto lit seem in that beli because call of tile attraction chich to tery his h for the me people as shown if vou van will in 1 their bell t bitt mile reiding of dete tie apie stories and the ilk like that of the news of the dav in part ii have e chosen to treat the goings and corn core laud ings of lie file colonel and his big kunfi conferences en with men of aff ladris as if they were a deliberate attempt to hedge them in and hide them from public knowl edge iti it Is jut just as p possible to get at the truth in the he case caa of colonel house 1 as 1 it Is i la in tile the cose at 0 say any at other annu aluse doupis dolinka tire are of public interest it Is modest not net mytch which vilich has been the ile hall basic difficulty 1 I I 1 bases hingre will out not tell yoa in that he la is n u modest man a as I 1 know knew fill aiom personal erl at compact ort with fill him T to 0 claim mod modesty cry f ones self 1 Is to be immar est he boes g go a from his present abode bad in bi noo nev york elev city to washington occa 1 I or fe frequently n alv a 1 the renu pita my may in come to gl gle uh what t he can of the amra counsel of his views alas to the president dent of the united states hy should it ha an anny more ills thau any I 1 other man send a 19 herald hand ahead or 1 a head band of cimbal cla ere he a boea to the while brava his ha philp hit sed leaves leave and bemuse because no a g greot t 1 ace flit fill the streeta erects at up bp pesach or departure curchill chill eness te al and secrecy inne been the order of f tb tile duy words 1 1 ing each amt ili t a gives ives no word of work it perhaps Is not lt too much to feay Y that W the full all record rd of the me media of the conf conferences eirsa erencen ires which house lotof texts text be has had alth wilson of alle alie united states it if to he be read od it list he so bouth 1 U in same gome of the accomplished med oi eila of tile the present that woodrow wits allson has bc apen I 1 moved oil to uthen courses or in his ha to pa pursue 1 th them by the counsel of III ITA IT boube A Is N not at to in be doubted tile the impossible tusk task would be to get front nm the loutt r a definite debate word clicc la 1 tile the public work ark 1 in eld walh it life hla councel all im has played a part thoa those who alm hao hac built up a 1111 of r about the man oil who I 1 is fully ins matteis against the of puce place apio apparently city hana bue not to pull achs flown ca that lit hindi edlu at it the wall 11 an be by ancone e aho lh arlea to att lit tile the fiu of the th e fiction adt it U M house liv lives 0 Us na open it a ife to na as filar of any A alm lim hia pi p or tr butt bus luesa doa aois not call him dolly dally let into tile the places where at nien a the throne ir it if one wants at to know knew about him fit through caugh con motives tilts other her the than head ot of tile the idleness of curiosity he be can see bee him and talk with him suit and tho the chances are that he will be told every ilg if ing the subject a of h hla 11 ID 11 i 4 t deturi curiosity illy that way any man e ot or modest modes mien ind and inclination naturally would be willing to tell colonel house holes is s a genial man mail nho isho seemingly never no has sought to dethe toe for Per personal a tile the meaning of either of tile the words coldness or austerity bi 1 no 11 ha be a sense ot of humor well noll du developed 1 opeal and ad is a tur pe see secret t of his hi power in D no houston st to texa 1 in the icar aar 1858 fd ld M house H bouce uns born bern he was educated at the hopkins g grammar am school new haco haven conn and at cornell university ile he has been active nil 11 his adult life 1 tn democratic politics but neer else has be been a candidate for of fice add to film these oded admittedly edly meaner greeng fie due P toils it one ere feet net and unquestionably you will ll 11 h have a the uret secret of ill this man as to pow w er to attract alt other men to him for tile the purpose of consultation on cal really high public matters prose from the do day that but b he we was old enough to un undertake dute cl serious erful tuda td edward M H house be haa be been deep in the books ot of politics economics and legislation he ere I Is hag s mai khaled in his camish led mind loll 1011 all 11 the greater events which dib have happened in these theas three words more over he has tile the con men ft the 7 than and the motives coutho co connected r led with each case constantly ln in procession before hil him he la quick ick to trace a cause to an 11 et ef qu feet fact or to go the r reverse cre route he he has ill been a student of human nature as it has shoe chovin itself in many of the great problems of human life the me that he lai has 1 in him or at any rate men believe that ile he has in him the qualifications which go to malte make up a sound diplomat through so successive ia trat lons lii bi TO texas t the be g governors go vernora r ot of the saito one after another cons consulted 1 led C colonel all bingly time eu enough has gone by bj ami an things enough eating h have been dr proved ed of disproved 1 to give certainty ily t to tio word that woodrow wilson has found edward eduard M he house no n advisory basel at there hardly can he be much ot of real mastery about a ninn man who twice since mines this great war rim to ras hole been bent at abroad ni as ft spells commissioner emaid hurior for of the united states cut col call house lias ills been twice in berlin five times tills in part and frequently in other of the tie great european E pose capitals capital some day it may be th that a woodrow IN allson aln a will il 1 write what may be called alard an arido autobiographical review of lit his nd ad if lie due does it la entirely I 1 tb likely that fit the par part t taken take by colonel hone in the shaping ot at wine soine of the tha policies of the president may be given give tile the page place piece which many men believe abel that it deserves no mystery there while mail living in new york colonel H house resides to in nn pertinent apartment not at par dixy far uptown it it IS a homelike bomell kt place where good book blohs are found and whore allore good friend only 1 come tan it la a n R cental chice and ad no curtain cartel of oe uye mystery t cry hangs brings cai ner at the dour door of nuy any one a of its ita rooms mount at min go there and aia vel el loll come they go and ad they talk man mae letter learns as much fr from man a a as he irs leai ns from books boaks and were more perhaps I 1 it w be if believe the ancient feet sav saving I 1 at about abou th the proper study of mankind I 1 asked colonel hiate what let hia re rec re 1161 atie I 1 tie he said friends rend read ing 19 and ad walking his file efin aly shelves sho ahoi the kind of books that he ill has rend lit still I 1 11 1 la 1 reading ending and ad will aill continue cord t to r rend ad for far those thoe in the book cases are made the compact companions day by day ot at the others as they mine come hons the heads hands of writers U worth uth th whale no man probably pro babiy me can read politics aig art economics and bastin Y con ddn without getting rome iome of dr r dry as D buffs duffs ests characteristics so it 1 la that colonel house do doea not read th the four constantly he turns to ilona fiction and here one finds something of possibly more tile than passing human interest george frame ties hoar of Missac hns elta was oneff f tile evI mint to in politics hf h it was ne said dof of him blin that he tied had read c affine affing fr from Aristo adum phanes fruits froit I 1 cl s I 1 I 1 4 cut edward M house bouc on public matters how ne deap ti rude ars an Impie aaion he has made on texus deec or may he definitely but thre there Is a salient camji cullet to al make ke to texans x fill know w that th they y are to light int lu in attributing to him many vt of clr V public bli welfare acts T though hugh h ugh not accounted wealthy in these day I 1 of 0 huge fact fortunes ties colloun house does Is quite well fixed financially and ad Is not engaged tn in bind business of any kind bindes es has studied hard I 1 have talked to col colonel net house and M have learned things which malle me fact that I 1 hall not go wrong arong when clien I 1 try to put on nil interpretation upon come eno of hl his rooth emethida ch of do doing thi bilings 9 he 18 ag free enough to say tl tant I 1 he h haa a studied t herd filled at economic political aud and 1 liy pl ind lathe tie he probably pro bibly era eln would cold be willing rifling to draft admit that he thinks the results of these theae studies con can tinned unit mar results retained be have enabled lilia him to he be of some aenice ben ice when I 1 m men vic were seeking in formation mg weats events la I 1 the past isaich hoe have to events ame in the locce present ent or c events cup up exposed tu in tile buttle litre Is sicre u a who 1110 0 onca ton tia held nhut hot he haa as studied it who he has collated and correlated the happenings of statute hlat orv cho w ho has drawn brawn 1 une from the them uh who fin 1 in P t act a nt drep deep in the living being fir sent as ai h he does in ili tile he and past and ad Is falio it facto bellile beleve la Is old utile to and anile ad ills k knowledge bedge serviceable for old us as 1 it t 1 Is let be any it history iteld itself woodrow tt IN if allton it did d out not meet out ill hla friend colonel him until it the d bivs when bou ho be wag vice held holding as gertr n nor r 0 new ew jersey it Is ht f friends code of t mr me IN alon that elmost in stands he be came to u why by the 11 lexan an had bad been of service along construct e lines to some of tile guv gov ernora crimin of the rate I 1 in will uld 11 ile ill has lived mott most of his life for six or 3 enra re bit bir house has been the coull chat and the counsellor of tile pali dent debt of tile lie united stat brotea to lee locke a S human ua understanding and it from out this thib latter book of aimala tile ties to tile th light lighter minded ended reader it donn a in to everything heavy and semi heavy which was published to the week of his death senator hoar hear kept to his 9 condition balanced bi lanced it by turn ing ills not at merely from the hemy belly to the light on an occasion but to the cluid ciuchta ot of art fiction he read nick cartel R woodlow twilson it is said old tuina ala abay auay AM ay from the studies of states past and ad pies present sent and la in prospective to the leading of what tile the Unc english lill 11 call 1111 11 penna dreadful dread fuls and what ht the Amerl caus in ID th the old do dua called led vellon of u backs aris it fa a said that the speaker of at the house of represent nm if 0 es champ clark tops slops frequently frequent iv big olund mental digging into all kinds hinds of history Y to who up for far relief limp limpness books book of the kind which com make ke a 1 boy oy happy reads good fiction in the library of colonel house 1 there is plenty of good fiction I 1 lie 1 e due out not in turn to nick carter cartel nor a to tile the hard of mra L D L N southworth South Sout north horth nor Y yet or t to on 1 lace am tile the pownee of beadle be it I 1 d dimi I 1 ewel tame to but he lun nases a to keep the men tal balance ev even n icy by an lump it mi hour or two to eulth tile the virl cre of fiction 1 it wim wiio can lo 10 ins chloo to what but the book back UrR call lit eirv aeilt nelin colonel H he liuo e 1 la entering up P on fit ilia orli rk of at aiato makeila which ono no day perhaps fir h in the in in tnie rill bo be art ill to the A amerl cai commissioner at the great I 1 penca alor conference enre another hoe vi written ritte this the choice hole b bv the president preil dent ot t louinel house tor for tills this work 11 he la pe peculiarly all turly qualified fur for it by bt his diplomatic experience of csellot you by ilia studa of political problems which the um ur he nas ved raised mol and ti by 11 his integrity of 0 ant mind 1 I an and it chat c te r sherlock w iiii you anle anke on ma the tha howo mystery cle C le misterio Mi steril my dy dea deac bataan there its t nay |
