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Wilson’s Inability to Delegate
Tasks to Others Helped Wreck His
Health, Former Secretary Says
By CHARLES L. 8WEM, |
Confident 1*1 oeeretnJ-T and Monographer
to Woodrow Wilson during his right > ran.
In the White House.
(Copyright, IMS, Reproduction In nnj
form Piohlblted.)
CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Wilson felt greatly the added
duties devolving upon him during the
war. Although he was always calm,
decisive, and even abrupt in his con
tacts and decisions, there was an at
mosphere and anxiety surrounding
him in those days. There was too
much haste required in his actions,
too little time for the deliberation to
which he was accustomed.
He distrusted snap Judgments none
more than his own. One felt rather
than saw his reaction of uncertainly
to the extreme pressure.
In his anxiety to leave nothing un
done to win the war, he delegated a
great deal of authority that he would
never have allowed to leave his hands
during peace time, but for the most
part he held rigidly to his belief In
personal responsibility.
From the day of declaration of war
to the armistice terms, scarcely was
an action taken of any consequence
without his knowledge and explicit
approval. He required It, he insisted
upon it.
Wilson’s Physical Battle.
Such a responsibility of necessity
entailed an enormous volume of work,
not alone In supervision, but in the
mere routine task of keeping himself
advised. He was always a methodical
man, but as his job developed he
boiled down his routine to the very
. essence.
He arose a little earlier and retired,
later, crowding in an engagement here
and a conference there, spaces he had
usually before set aside for reading or
recreation. This program he religious
ly maintained during the progress of
the war. except only when an oc
casional breakdown would confine him
to bed. Then a halt would be called,
but only until such time as he had
strength enough to rise from his bed
and begin again.
My impression of the period is a
hectic one, considering that I was my
self "on tap" at all hours of the day
and night, but I have a picture of a
man hard-driven and pressed, pos
sessed of a grim determination to win
the war as quickly and as thoroughly
as possible, conserving by method and
foresight every ounce of physical
energy- so that he might successfully
carry the burdens that increased daily.
The volume of business that he
transacted at this time is almost be
yond belief, particularly to one aware
of his physical limitations. Most of
his letters of these days were brief
memoranda, giving a decision on a
pending question or asking Informa
tion. Long letters coming to his desk
would be digested sometimes by the
sender, but more frequently that duty
would fall to my lot. The digest would
be attached to the letter a*d placed
before him. He gained his knowledge
of the contents of the letter from the
digest usually; if he desired more in
formation. the letter was before him.
In that manner he was enabled to en
large his supervising activities. He
insisted upon a memorandum rather
than an interview on all possible oc
casions. People used so much time in
giving him atmosphere, he declared,
when all he wanted, all he had timo
for was facts.
Nothing was too trivial for hint
to note and give ear to that might
have a bearing upon the conduct of
the war. Communications seeking the
recognition of the government for all
sorts of inventions or criticizing
methods or officials of the adminis
tratlon, letters which ordinarily
would ha\e been handled as routine,
but which, somehow, reached him.
he insisted upon making the subject
of serious and unbiased investigation
It was an unprecedented war; he felt
he could afford to turn down no sug
gestion that was sincerely offered,
without giving it a trial. He Invited
the ideas of all who might by chance
possess one.
One Friday afternoon in August.
1917, I boarded the Mayflower with
him and Mrs. Wilson and sailed down
the Potomac to York river. The next
day, while newspapers carried an
item to the effect that the president
was enjoying a week-end rest, he
quitted the Mayflower and climbed
the gangplank Of the U. S. S. Penn
sylvania, the flagship of the Atlantic
fleet, then lying in harbor awaiting
orders to proceed abroad.
On the stern of the boat, under
flapping canvas, were assembled the
officers of the fleet. They were
dressed in spotless white and stood
at rigid attention as the commander
in chief silently approached. He had
asked for this conference in Wash
ington and had come expressly for it.
So closely was the secret of his visit
guarded that Washington learned of
it with surprise after the war had
ended.
There on the quarter-deck, stand
ing on a covered hatch, with a 14
inch gun barely grazing his uncov
ered head, he took the navy into his
confidence. Never before, I dare say,
has a fighting unit about to enter
battle, listened to such a thrilling and
inspiring message from its command
er-in-chief. With biting sarcasm he
attacked British complacency and told
with confidence what he expected of
the American fleet. He placed him
self, he said, at the disposal of any
officer of the navy who had an Idea
about running the war.
“Bees at the Hive.”
And in an •'amateur" way he took
a hand himself. He pressed the sug
gestion of a steel net across the nar
rowest portion of the North sea in
order to bottle up the CJerman sub
marines at their base. ± his appealed
to him strongly, and when it was
frowned upou by tils own naval ad
visers, with characteristic tenacity
he had it thoroughly threshed out by
the mechanical experts of the gov
ernment. When he was finally con
vinced that it was impracticable, he
turned his thoughts to an alternative
scheme. He got behind the Vmerlcan
plan to lay a mine harrage across the
North sea and forced it through. This
barrage proved to be the most effec
tive means devised during the war
of restricting the activities of the
submarine menace.
On more than one occasion, Im
pressed by the merit of an idea or a
scheme presented, he had an inves
tigation and trial made of his own
initiative, once or twice at his own
expense.
And at odd hours of the day or
night it was not surprising to see him
seated at his little typewriter in a
corner of his study before a huge
American flag, draped full length
from the celling, pounding out a ver
bal broadside directed against the
morale of the central empires.
Perhaps the most surprising thing
to Sir. Wilson's friends was not tha'
he broke down aner the pence con
ference, but that he did not succumb
long before, during the war period,
to the strain of the burdens that he
relentlessly insisted upon carrying
upon his own shoulders.
This inability of his to delegate
was undoubtedly at the same time a
virtue and a weakness. From the
typing of his own letters, to the for
mulation of a foreign policy, he found
it impossible to trust out of his owi
hands what he felt capable of doing
himweii. H was this tendency to
overburden himself that taxed his
physical powers always to the utmost,
and eventually broke down his health,
but ail who had any personal contact
with him could not help but be Im
pressed by this sense of personal re
sponsibility. Not that he could t i
trust others—as a matter of fact, he
was sometimes surprisingly credulous
in his faith—but he had ail his life
worked by himself, penning his own
letters, doing his own research work
and laboriously performing all his owr.
chores. It was both a habit and a
conviction of his that responsibility
could not be delegated.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
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