The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-21
WILSON UNbOSOMS | HIMSELF TOCAP|TAL | CITY PRESS CLUB President Tells Frankly Just How He Feels
 on Things NOT DISPASSIONATE
 THINKING MACHINE Intimate Picture of Woodrow Wilson, the Man, Given Newspaper Men of Washington at House
 Warming

| Washington. March 20.--Woodrow
 Of the National Press club of Wash
 ington today, telling them in frank,
 conversational way how he felt as | President of tho United States. how
 difficult t was for him to imagine himself as the chief executive with the
 formal amenities of the position and
 how he had struggled to be as free
 as the ordinary individual without the
 restraints of his office It was an in
 timate picture of Woodrow Wilson. the
 man. drawn by himself. on the occa-
 sion of the mouse warming at the
 Press clubs new quarters. The Pres ident did not intend to have his re-
 marks reported, but later. at the re- quest of the club, the unusual speech
 was made public II follows
 l q was just thinking of ms sense
 of confusion of identity, sometimes.
 when l read articles about myself.
 never have read an article about my self in which I recognized myself and
 I have come to have the impression | that l must he some kind of u fraud, l because ] think | great many of these articles ate written in absolutely good
 faith. tremble to think of the false
 ness in the impressions l make and it ! Is being borne on ne, so that 1t may
 change my very disposition-that am
 cold and removed person who has u
 thinking machine inside which he ad-
 iusts to The circumstances, which he oil lao winds of affection or emotion of any kind. but turns like a cold searehlight
 on anything that k presented to his
 attention and makes 1t work.
 Constantly Embarrassed CT am not aware of having any de- tachable apparatus inside of me. On 1 the contrary, if l were to interpret my self i would say that my constant em- ibarrassment Is to restrain the emotions ! that are inside of me. You may not ihelieve it but soiaetimes feel like a l far from extinct volcano, and if the lava does not seen to spill over 1t ! Is because you are not high enough to
 see into rhe basin and see the caldron
 boil. Because, truly gentlemen, in the
 position which l now occupy there is q sort. l do not know how else to express If than to say, passionate sense | of being connected with my felloWmen ! in peculiar relationship Of reSpOnsl- bility. Net merely the responsibility of
 office but God knows there are enough
 things in this world that need to be corrected.
 "I 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 Ee described to me---and when l think of the number of men who are looking .3 me as the representative of party with the hope for all vare- ties of salvation from the things they me trembe If maltes me trcmble not only witt a sense of my own made quacy and weakness but as if l were shaken by the very things that are shaking them: and if l seem circuff spect, it is because l am so diligently trying not to make any colossal blun-
 ders If you just calculated the num-
 Der of blunders d fellow can make In l24 hours if he Is not careful and if he does not listen more than he talks, you would see something of the feel ing that I have.
 Amused at Remark
 q was amused the other day at a remark that Senator Newlands made. l had read him the trust message l was to deliver to Congress some 10 days before I delivered it and l never stop ->~~-~--~~-~>~~~~-~~>~~~> tContInued on Page Two)