Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-21
TELLS. OF HIS
STRUGGLES WITH SELF
IN BEING NATION 8 CHIEF

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Tell-
ing just how it feels to be President
of the United States, revealing in
personal, conversational way the diff
Iculties he has to meet and the emo
lions Of his own nature with which
he has to struggle for control, Wood
row Wilson. President, confided a re-
markable statement to the members
of the National Press Club, of Wash
ington of which he long has been a
member
He said:
Never Recognizes Self in Print.
Il was just thinking of my sense of
confusion Of identity, sometimes, when
/ read articles about myself | never
have read an article bout myself in
which | recognized myself, and | have
come to have the impression that /
must be some kind OF fraud, because
] think great many of these articles
are written in absolute good faith.
] tremblc to think of the variety and
falseness J. the impressions ] make
and it is being borne in on me so that
1t may change my very disposition
That 1 all Il Nolu anu ItIllONtu pei SUI,
who has d 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
cold searchlight on anything that is
presented 10 his attention and makes
it work
81 am not aware of having any de-
tachable apparatus inside of me. on
the contrary if | were to interpret
myself, | would say that my constant
embarrassment is to restrain the emo
lions that are inside of me. You may
not believe it, but | sometimes feel
like far from extinct volcano, and II
the lava does not EN- to spill over It
is because you are not high enough to
see into the basin and see the Caldron
boil Because. truly, gentlemen, IN
the position which ! now occupy there
is a sort do not know how else 10
express il than to say passionate
sense of icing connected with my fell
low-men in a peculiar relationship OF
respo 'bility, Not merely the re-
sponsirility of Office, but Cod knows
there are enough things in this world
that need to be corrected.
Knows all Sorts of Men.
Il have mixed, first and last, with
all 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-aud
when ! think of the number of men
who are looking to me as the repr2-
sentative of party with the nope tor
all varieties of salvation rom the
things they are struggling in the
midst Of, it makes me tremble 1t
makes me tremble OF only with a
sense of my own inadequacy and
Weakness, but as if | were shaken ~
the very things that are shaking
them. Ard if ! seem circumspect, 1t S
because | am so diligently trying not
TO make any colossal hlundGrs, If Sgu
lust calculated the number Of bluh-
flers a fellow can make in "a hours, II
he is not careful and il he does not
listen more than he. talk > Ne4l would
see some' hing of the feeling that l
have.
Il was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Newlands made:
] had read him the trust message l
was TO deliver to Congress some ten
DAYS before I delivered it. and | never
stop doctoring things of that kind
until the day | have to deliver them.
When he heard it read to Congress he
said L think it was better than when
Won read il to me- | said, Senator,
there is one thing which | do not
think you understand. ! not only use
all the brains have but all can
borrow, and | have borrowed lot
since | read it to you first. That |
dare say. is what gives the impression
of circumspeCtness. / am hstenlng l
am trying diligently to collect all the
brains that are borrowable that may
l. dor iC