\\ 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
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Noted Military Man ? *
Will Speak in Omaha
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British Lord
Will Address jl
Ad-Sell League; J
Brigadier General Thomson jl
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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.
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