THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 23, 1918.
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President Wilson's Visit to Omaha
For Nebraska's Semi-Centennial
:s on the
. Celebration and
the Personality
. v.of the Guests
v Review of President's Day in
. Omaha Written by Victor Rose-
water m The Bee October, 1916
- Well, the president and the first
lady of the land, with their official
- entourage, have come and gone, and
at the same time the first part of the
program for 4 the celebration of Ne-
-V braska'a semicentennial of statehood
the part that was assigned specially
to Omaha has been carried out as
planned and the approving plaudits
of success are universal.
It was the polite thing for the presi
dent to say that he was pleased with
his reception and entertainment, but
I can add, of personal knowledge,
that the distinguished guests really
and thoroughly enjoyed the visit and
appreciated the attentions paid them,
and that their expressions of satis
faction were hot merely out of polite
ness, but manifested by word and
act all the time from the arrival in
. Omaha to the departure on their re
turn trip.
; Repartee In the Reviewing Box.-
' ' All the papers have been full of
the (Incidents of the presidential visit
and minute descriptions of appear
ance'ahd doings, and whatever I
might add would be only repetition
'' from a possibly different viewpoint
I was one of a half dozen who, by
special invitation. of the president, sat
in the presidential box during the
hour-and-a-half review of the histori
: -cal pageant, and the conversation and
repartee that passed back and forth
almost continuously was decidedly
4 interesting.
When the float representing the
. Story oi
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' three years, finally being abandoned
because, of the fact that improved pro
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glacial period came up, with its huge
papier-mache mammoth protruding in
front, Senator Hitchcock remarked:
"Look! That must be the G. O. P.
elephant 1"
"Yes," exclaimed the president,
"see, he is all encased in ice and
frozen solid."
A moment later came the outrider
for Coronado, a strapping fellow
dressed as a priest astride a forlorn
looking diminutive donkey.
"Never mind, Mr. President," I
answered, "here comes the democratic
donkey." k
Mr. Wilson, laughed and retorted:
"At any rate, he's alive."
Harks Back to Johns Hopkins.
Talking to me, the president harked
back to the time when we were to
gether at Johns Hopkins university,
I as a student listening to him as a
lecturer discoursing on administrative
law. I told him that by peculiar coin
cidence I had afterward taken a
course in administrative law at Co
lumbus university under Prof. Good
now, who is now the new president
of Johns Hopkins, and that I had, a
year or so ago, been present at the
first Founders' day exercises persided
over by President Goodnow. Mr.
Wilson said:
"I have always maintained a deep
interest in Johns Hc'pkins and I hope
President Goodnow's administration
will prove successful. In the last few
years I have not been able to keep
up my university contacts as much as
I would like. When we were back
there at Hopkins none of us could
forsee what careers were in front of
us."
Both the president and Mrs. Wil
son were intensely impressed by the
Indians in their gorgeous native
regalia and in the incident which Mrs.
Rosewater related about the difficulty
of inducing them to come before it
was known that the president was to
be here. Those in charge of this fea
ture of the parade had met with all
sorts of obstacles in their efforts to
get enough Indians to come down
from the reservation to make the de
sired showing, but as soon as they
were able to tell them that the re
ward of their coming would be to
meet the "Great White Father," the
trouble then was to keep them away.
Despite their aboriginal dress, the
Indians showed their acquirement of
civilized manners. One handsome
fellow, as he strode past, realizing
that, if otherwise costumed, he would
take off his hat as he passed the na
tion's chief magistrate, lifted his beau
tiful feathered war bonnet as he
would tip his sombrero, but it brought
him a pleased smile.
Difficulties of the Dinner.
The dinner to the president and
Mrs. Wilson had to be a formal din
ner to accord with the proprieties.
but the requirements of habilment
were responsible for many of the re
grets. Far be it from me to betray
confidence, yet the humor of the situa
tion must not be overlooked. One
gentleman who occupies a high offi
cial position unbosomed himself in his
letter to me as follows:
"How on earth am I to appear in
full evening dress when I do nof have
any clothes of that sort, and there is
no time to make them? In much em
barrassment, etc."
Another esteemed friend, who hopes
fo occupy an official position soon
accompanied his regrets with this ex
planation: "My reason for nonacceDtance
while nameless to the world, must be
apparent to one, who like yourself,
has knowledge of a country editor's
wardrobe.
I want, however, to assure Brother
Mullen, who was so fearful lest hick
ory-shirted democrats alone would be
shut out of the privilege of eating
at the same table with the president,
that the proportion of the regrets
were about three republicans to one
democrat. V. R.
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