The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
TELLS REINSTATEMENT WHAT HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS
 NATIONS EXECUTIVE.
TREMBLES AT RESPONSIBILITY
Says Word Pictures of Himself in the Press Seem to Make Him Out Fraud and He is Confused About His Own Identity.

| Washington, March 20.-Woodroy Wilson unbosomed himself to mem. bers of the National Press club of Washington today, telling them in a frank conversational way how he l felt as president of the United States. How difficult it was for him to imag- inc himself as the chief executive with the formal amenities of the pos 1 ition and how he had struggled to be as free as the ordinary individual without the restraints of his office
 It was an intimate picture of Wood row Wilson, the man drawn by him self on the occasion of the house warming" at the press clubs new l quarters. The president did not in tend to have his remarks reported but later, at the request of the club, his annual speech was made public 1t follows:
 q twas just thinking of my sense of confusion of identity some times when I read articles about myself. 1 l never have read an article about myself in which l recognized myself and have come to have the impress sion that I must be some kind of a | fraud, because l think a great many ] of these articles are written Tn ab- rsolutely good faith.
 1 q tremble to think of the variety and falseness in the impressions l make--and it is being borne in on me so that it may change my very dis position-that l am cold and re- moved person who has thinking machine inside which he adjusts to the circumstances 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. l am not aware of having any detachable apparatus inside of me. On the con
 trary, if 1 were to interpret myself, I would say that my constant embar-
 rassment is to strain the emotions
 that are inside of me.
 You may not believe it, but
 sometimes feel like far from ex- tinct volcano and if the lava does not seem to spill over, it is because you are not high enough to see into the basin and see the cauldron boil.
 Because truly, gentlemen, in the posi-
 tion which l now occupy there is a
 sort, do not know how else to ex- pres sit than to say passionate sense | of being connected with my fel-~ men in a peculiar relationship Of rel sponsibiity. Not merely the respon5 sibility 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 or ex' periences that have to be described to me-and when l think of the mum Der of men who are looking to me, as the representative of 6 partyy with the hope for all varities of salvation from the things they are struggling l in the midst of, 1t makes me tremDle' "It makes me trembie not only | with a sense of my own inadequacy and weakness, but if I were shaken by the very things that are shaking them: and if l seem circumspect IL is because I am so diligently try ing not to makek any colossal blund- CTS. If you just calculated the num- her of blunders a fellow can make in 24 hours if he is not careful and' | if he does not listen more than ne talks vou would see something of the feeling that l have.
 1 CT was amused the other day at a remark that Senator Newiands made. had read to him the trust message I was 10 deliver to congress some ten days before l delivered 1t and I never stop doctoring things or that kind until the day I have to de- liver them. When he heard It reau to congress he said I think 1t was better than when you read it to me- said Senator, there is one thing I do not think you understand. not only use all the brains l have, but all can borrow and I have borrow cd A lot since I read it to you first
 "That. dare say, is what gives the impression of circumspectness..- anu listening. I am trying diligently to collect all the brains that are bor-