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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1925)
\\ oodrow ^ ilson’s Career After War r-. Told by Secretary Pathetic Picture of Ex-Prcsi dent, Broken in Body, Alert in Mind, Is Drawn. (font 111 UimI f,nm I'nxe One). voice sank bark Into his throat as I h.ui known it to do many times since Ills illness when an emotion con trolled him. He could only whisper ids message of good will. I saw him again—the last time— in his private home in Washington, where I called ore afternoon to pay my respects to him and Mrs. Wilson, lie came into the room followed by a servant, who took his cane while Mr. Wilson greeted me with a handshake and was then helped to ease his crip pled body Into a chair. I was grieved to find him little improved in body, but he was much revived in spirits and facial appearance. lie talked of domestic conditions and. thinking to put a sick man in humor. I commented .upon the grow ing change in sentiment for the' things which he snd his party had been but recently defeated, now that the country had a basis of compari son. He was as quick as ever with the rebuke—"but the distress of the country Is nothing to crow over," he said. The conversation turned upon the general corrupting influences of partisan politics and the lack of prin ciple of some large newspapers, upon o latter of which he was forcefully ^wloquont; after which 1 took my de parture. "It lias been a pleasure to see you again, my dear fellow," he said. “And. iSwem.” he railed as T crossed to the door, "present my compliments to all 1 lie crooks you meet and tell them my opinion of them!" Not Thinking Marlline. Mr. Wilson was never given credit for tlie genuine humanity of him. I have always found it hard to im press an observer who saw him only in public of the humanness of thq man. With those about him, to whose society he had accustomed himself, he always mingled freely and absolutely without restraint, but in public he seemed the professor or the president. Undoubtedly there was a dignity about him that was suggesMve more of erudition than of personality. He gave the Impression continually of trying to break through this natu ral reserve. He was a bit resentful of the popular opinion of him as a cold, logical, thinking machine. "I am not a thinking machine,” be once exclaimed to me. "I wish I were; life would not he so complex. ] am just an ordinary chap trying to do my best with human equip ment." The intellectual side of him was perhaps most dominant, and I think lie consciously repressed the warm, human instincts of his Irish strain, hut they were always present and frequently could not he downed. 1 have known him to hold court-martial gses on his desk, delaying action on inns, for no other reason that that h« hesitated to pass judgment until he could, regardless of the recom mendations of the officers suhmittb g the cases to him, go over them detan by detail himself before signing away the freedom of a fellow man. Commutes Woman's Hanging, •lust before the end of his term of office a case arose that gave him a great deal of anxious consideration. A young woman had been convicted of a capital crime in the District of Co lumbia and Was sentenced to hang. Never had a woman been hanged ill the District, and a great deal of sen timent wns aroused looking toward i lie commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment. There were no good grounds for commuting the sen tence except those of natural reluc tance to see the woman hanged. Those who were interested in the <ase made the mistake of bringing the matter to the president not so much for the exercise of executive I."_) " -'g'.-r- - , . Noted Military Man ? * Will Speak in Omaha I • I | | I i I 1 British Lord Will Address jl Ad-Sell League; J Brigadier General Thomson jl ... i 1 Has Distinguished Record 'i in British Empire. Advertising-Selling league members n Monday night in the Brandeis Ijl restaurants will hear Brig. Gen. Bon! j Thomson of England, former secre- jl I ary of state for air service In the :| Ramsey MacDonald cabinet, and one j of the world's leading authorities on || aviation. |i Dol’d Thomson liegan his military j! career in 1894 and was commissioned III a brigadier general during the World jjl war. lie served in the Boer war. the | British staff college, 1909-10. and the |l| British war office from 1911 to 1914. Ijl During the World war he served I two years in France and was then I transferred to the Balkans as the || British military representative. He ij also served during the British cam- jjl palgn In Palestine. Due to his knowledge of European j! conditions, he was sent to represent j || the British empire as the military j j : representative at the supreme war j I 'council at Versailles. In 1920 he was ||| made a member of the labor commls- | sion to Ireland, and in 1923 military |[| adviser to the Ruhr commission. clemency as to have him overrule the r verdict of the court. The argument j In was that the ease had not been han- Ijl died properly when it was in co'urt, Ijl and Mr. Wilson Was requested to act jj as a reviewing court. The woman was |l| admittedly guilty, but lie was ! asked to assume an authority that he Ijl felt he did not possess. He stood stiffly upon the limitation jl of his authority in the case, and ; |j| wrote an order refusing to commute || the sentence—but after signing it he i II laid it aside. Along with others inter- j ||| ested, I thought the woman was ill doomed to hang, for he had taken his ||| stand on good grounds. But on the II day before the execution he handed ' me the order and said: “Destroy it, and write another com muting tiie sentence to life Imprison- II nient." Tomorrow Mr. Sweat will tell of Mr. Wilson's ancestry and the effect | III of his racial inheritance upon his per- I || sonallty. He will describe many of I I Mr. Wilson's characteristics, likes and Ij dislikes. jl Band Concert Planned. f’olumbus, Neb., Feb. 7.—The [ Columbus High hfKil band of 20 I pieces will make its first formal pub lic appearance In a concert at the I Swan theater February 18. Monogram !; | iijijj ' | Stationery 11 ^ This offer includes a full quire of il, finest-paper monogramed, en- y PM velopes to match and steel die. \** 11 ■ jl You may choose from such papers as TJ" \jl Dawn Gray Ripple Grain, Frivole, I Marie Antoinette, C'bar-Ming, Old Eng- i|; j ^ j lish and Crushed Bond, in white, gray, | ! dawn, tan, canary, etc. These papers V | * have the popular two-color French bor- * “ • III I /t dera or deckle edgps and envelopes Alik have the fashionable colored tissue lin- unii | fl ? r . f 11 • three initials from fifty of the latest ' *-» designs. 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