Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-03-25
Washington Post.J

C4AD ISONSA ~
q was just thinking of my sense of
confusion of identity, sometimes when
/ read articles about myself l have
rever read an article about myself i'll
which | recognized myself, and
have come to have the impression that
| must be some kind of fraud, be-
cause l think a great many of these
articles are written in absolute good
faith. l trembla 20 think of the va
riety and falseness in the impressions
l maRe-and it is being BONE IN on
ne so that it may change my very dis
position-that l am a cold and remov-
ed person who has a thinking ma
chine inside which he adjusts to the
circumstances, which he does not al
low to be moved by any winds of at
LeCIlOH VI SllOIlOu VI any hlllu, VII
turns like cold searchlight on any
thing that is presented to his atten-
ton and makes it work. l am not
aware of having any detachable ap-
Earatus inside of me.
Effort to Restrain Emotions
"On the contrary, if I were to in
terpret myself, l would say that my
constant embarrassment is to restrain
the emotions that are inside of me.
You may not believe it, but I some
times feel like a fire from far from
extinct volcano, and if the lava does
rot seem to spill over it is because you
are not high enough to see into the
/ basin and Sc the caldron boil Because,
truly, gentlemen, in the position which
| now occupy there is a sort of, l do
rot know how else to express it than
to say, passionate sense of being con-
cerned with my fellow men in a pecu-
liar relationship of responsibility. Not
merely the responsibility of office, bar
God knows there are enough things IL
this world that need to be corrected.
Il have mixed first and last with ali
sorts and conditions of men-there are
mighty few kinds of men that have to
be described to me, and there are
mighty few kinds of experiences that
have to be described to me-and when
l think of the number Of men who are
looking to me as the representative Cf
& party with hope, with the hope for
all varieties of salvation from the
things they are struggling in the midst
Of, it makes me tremble. 1t makes NE
tIemble, not only with a sense of my
own inadequacy and weakness. but as
il l were shaken by the very things
that are shaking them; and if 1 -eam
circumspect, it is because l am 50
diligently trying not to make any col
sosal blunders. If you just calculated
the number Of blunders a fellow can
1rake in "a hours, if he is not careful
and if he does not listen more than he
talks, YOU would see something of the
feeling that have.
BOrrOWs Other Mems Brains.
Il was amused the other day at re
mark that Senator Nawlands made.
had read him the trust m ssage thai
was to deliver to Congress some t.
Gays before l delivered it, and neve
stop doctoring' things of that kind u
I'll the day | have delivered tn r.
When he heard it read to Congress, NJ
said, I think it was better than it We
when you read it to me. I said: SCI
ator, there is one thing which |
net think you understand | not ONT
use all the brains l have, but all can
borrow, and I have borrowed a LOT
since I read it to you frse.' That, ]
dare say is what gives the impression
of circumspectness, and of the velvet
slipper l am listening; I am dill
gently trying to collect all the brains
that are borrowable, in order that !
may not make more blunders than il
is inevitable that a man should make
who has great limitations of knowi-
zdge and capacity And the emotion
of the thing is so great that l suppose