Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-26
resident Wilson
Sizes Up Himself {

OAAGO AMlllOCM
President Wilson was a guest Of the
Press Club at Washington the other
evening. IT was an intimate picture
{ of Woodrow Wilson, the man drawn
by himself, on the occasion OF the
house warming at the Press clubs
new quarters, The presid lent did not
Intend to have his remarks reported,
but later, at the request Of the club,
the unusual speech was made public.
1t follows:
Some Kind Of Fraud"
was thinking Of my sense OF com
fusion OF identity sometimes when /
read articles about myself. never
have read an article about myself in
which recognized myself, and / have
come to have the impression that /
must be some kind OF d fraud, because
! think great many OF these articles
are written in good faith.
A Cold Person.
Il tremble to think of the variety
and falseness in the impressions I
make and 1t is being borne In on me
so that 1t may change my very dispo-
sitionthat / am a cold and removed
person, who has a thinking machine
inside which he adjusts to the circum-
stances, which he does not allow to be
moved by any winds Of affection or
emotion Of any kind, but turns like a
!, cold searchlight on anything that Is
presented to his attention and makes
| it work.
| Like Active Volcano.
Il am not aware of having any de
tachable apparatus inside Of me. On
the contrary, il were to interpret
myself. would say that my constant
embarrassment lie to restrain the emo
tions that are inside of me. You may
lnot believe II, but sqmetimes fee
like a fire from a farsfroa1-e extinct vol
cano and If the lava does not seem tc
lspill over it is because YOU are mol
thigh enough to see into the basin and
see the cauldron boil.
Trying to Avoid Blunders.
! 1T makes me tremble not only with
i "a sense Of my own inadequacy and
/ weakness, but as If were shaken by
4 the very things that are shaking then
and If seem circumspect, it Is be
J cause am trying SO diligently not te
make any colossal blunders. II yo,
1 Just calculated the number OF blum
4 ders a fellow can make in twenty-foul
hours, IL he Is not careful and II he
does not listen more than he talks
you would see something of the feel
| ing that have. e
Borrowed Lot Of Brains.
II Il was amused the other day at ;
\ remark that Senator Newlands made
4 had read him the trust message tina
:. was to deliver to congress some tel
| days before / delivered it, and j neve
stop 'doctoring' things of that kin,
until the day have to deliver them
When he heard it read to congress h
said, i thing it was better than
was when you read it to me. saif
Il Senator, there is one thing which
4 think you do not understand. / nc
only use all the brains ] have, but a
. can borrow, and / have borrowed
lot since read 1t to you first
That, dare say, is what gives TIL
! impression of circumspectnesa. ! ar
listening; ] am diligently trying I
collect all the brains that are borrow
able in order that ! may not max
more blunders than it is inevitabl
that a man should make who ha
Il great limitations Of knowledge an
capacity. And the emotion of th
I thing is so great that ] suppose i mus
be some kind of mask to conceal II
II really feel sometimes as If wer
masquerading when catch a pictur
Of myself in some printed description
4 "'t's Only Me-
I, The machine is so much create
than himself; the office is 50 mucl
! igreater than himself; the office is s,
much greater than he can ever be, ant
the most he can do is to look gray'
i enough and self-possesed enough Il
seem to fill It. can hardly refrain
every now and again from tipping til,
I public the wink, as much as to say, I
is only me that is inside this thing
/ know perfectly well that / will hav'
/ to get out presently. know tha
{ then will look just my proper size
Il and that for the time being the pro