Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-19
"UNACCUsToMED
AS I AM NOT
a Certain Candidate for n.
Presidency Takes OFF a Few -
Veils-Unlike Some, He
Knows the Job

IT'S fact that Woodrow wilsors
whiskers. He has said so tuv,.. @an'S
II the Press Club of Weshi,.t.s" ano|
chance to invite him around rsv. :, ss,a
or next May he'll probably saw !, s-'qa
Whiskers are a mania with e'h'
Wilson. II has been sugRested a.. s'oW
cause Is an undSing admiration for a' sne
tain Justice of the Supreme c.s's VT
Maybe. But when a man goes hant,.,sr
after whiskers for two years ava ns
months something ought to be dons '"0
Singular that whenever nv nm
takes off the wells he wants to pps ~ e1'n Y
beard. March 21, 1914, he saId n =,
members of the National Press c,l, as y
have sometimes thought of going ~ -.
costumer's-some theatrical Costumes.
and buying an assortment of bearas,,. =
May Is, few days ago. he told tbo -, W
body of men, Sometimes when ~.
most besat seriously think Of ran,,--
o set of whiskers." It's an obsesson s.,.s
him. He wants a disguise because ,h.sn
is dark secret in his life. Tho s..s..
is that he is President of the ,tn,,.,
States.
Well, ESe1erypody knows that, n,
course, III at is just why wocdro,-
Wilson wsifts'to forget It and hide n s,,,
repudiate it and dlaelaim 1t and do sy.r,.
thing else to the awful fact that ha s.s
He is a strange kind of President Hal,
the people in the United States do M,
know whether he prefers Jaeger to lIsh,
underwear, and out of the 1OOooo ma
people dependent in a measure upon b,,,
not more than 100000 know his favor,,.
breakfast food or make of golf bali. uo
is certainly not the sort of man who gets
books written about him. There Ar.
very few human interest" stories foat.
ing about. He makes q phrase once IN
while, as Mr.. Bryan probably remain.
hers when he looks at a cooked hat, but
the occasions are few. Even before ha
made the mistake of getting elected TO III.
Presidency he was known as a cold hard
calculating, cerebral machine.
Now no man. is intensely cerebral who
dotes on detective stories, and Woodrow
Wilson does. What's more he writes
limericks and eats few meals nearly
every day and wears clothes and PLAYS
golf and maybe, once in a while. he
whistles. He goes to moving pictures
and gets a funny sensation when Der.
son known as the President steps on the
screen. His pince-nez slips down his nose
when he gets excited and he doesn't
oil 1nnlE fha modal of
has share of curiosity and since hs
has been living in Washington he has
wanted very much to see the sights It
is a pity he couldn't have gone there
when he married last December and stare
about. If he goes now he is always
seized and guided and curated and chap.
eroned around, so he misses the sights
For relaxation he has to go motoring and
then he drives fast so no one knows
he is there.
When He Took a Walk
In the campaign which is coming On
woodrow Wilson, the candidate, will 10
both hampered and aided by Woodrow
Wilson, the President , Since becoming
President he has learned lot of practical
politics, and his enemies are not going to
forget it. They are going to let the world
know about every act of his; which y
probably the best thing about campaign
year. But in the turmoil of war and the
complexities arising from it, with tha IL
tie complications of Mexico and tariffs
and currency reforms, Mr.. Wilson has
40 in1fNiHnaI Yat fhara laVo
been moments when he was a striking
figure.
1t Is characteristic that the most i'm.
pressive of these times should have been
when the President was alone with Wood.
row Wilson. 1t may be remempeFed
that the day after the news OF the Ilsf
tania's destruction came the 'PreslaenI
"went for walk" He knew then ana
the world knew that on his decision ressea
the fate of the country and possibly lns
fate of many other countries lie HlgnS
have done a thousand things, He WehE
for a walk, with all the crushing responss
bilitles of his position on his head. 70
de not even know where he walked. hs
spoke to no one. He was then' as "
quently before and since. the lansHs''
man in Washington.
The reason is not that he is sIaaaphlsn'
but that he cleaves to so few or ~ ~s
men he meets. Here are some ot ms y
marks from the two speeches az lHs -
Club about humans;
1t is a pretty poor crowd Una. ND MA
not interest you l think they w.
have to be all members OF lhat Viss- -
that deyotes himself to expense ~
gardless of pleasure" in ordef 70 ash
tirely uninteresting. They look s9 IAata
alike-spend their time IN tryins :
look SO much alike, and so relieve IT,
selves of all responsibility OF thnnsnl
mat they are very mpnotpnops p'ssas
40 look at whereas. a crowd Pletsn u
off the street is just jolly lot, JOY ~
az real human beings, pulsauhs ~
life, with all kinds of passions nn1
sires.
That is one side, but 1t impllss +
other. which is from the later SUE
Notice the remark about those VIZ
Iieve themselves OF the respenslpuNs
thought. He won't have that ana 'n4'
why he has this -.
4 1 tell you this, gentlemen shs ,sisa
thing that saves the Worla y hs ars
handful OF .dlslnterested men sllsf sss