The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-01
PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER THINKS
OF. JOINING. RED CROSS
WHEN INTERVIEWED.
by Gordon Gillespie


sidering the bigness of President Will
son, especially as the clouds Of wal
hover over US, but here it goes:
I interviewed Miss Margaret Wood
row Wilson yesterday and enjoyed it
far more than when l once had the
honor of using a pencil and pad in the
presence of the chief executive.
Miss Wilson reached Memphis yes
terday morning, accompanied by her
accompanist, Mrs. Ross David, and
Immediately went to their suite at the
Hotel Chisca upon their arrival from
Louisville.
An attempt to reach Miss Wilson
over the phone for an appointment
proved futile, but a note that a report
er who was a member Of the Phi
Kappa Psi, President Wilson's frat,
was outside brought me into Miss Will
sons suite just as she and Mrs. David
were rising from their lunch.
Miss Wilson is nothing short Of q
feminine edition of President Wilson,
only an improved one. She is just
that sort Of a wonderful woma who
by distinctive cleverness, inimitable
in~dividualism and u~nmistakable charm
completely captures and holds your
admiration.
While she was telling Of her Red
Cross work l interrupted her to ask
if she was a member of the Red Cross
auxiliary.
"Well, now, what do you know about
that?" she hesitated. "No, ] am
not"
Suppose you join here" was sug-
gested.
"No, l am going to wait until l get
back to New London. But you can de-
pend upon it that l am not going to
overlook this any longer. l don't
know how this escaped my attention"
So Miss Wilson soon will be a mem
Der Of the Red Cross.
Another hobby with Miss Wilson is
her interest in the utilization of public
schools as public meeting places. She
has warmly commended that the schools
belong to the people and it should not
be left to the boards Of education to
say whether the people may use them.
She says that, Notwithstanding the
measure was recently "flibustered,"
she is not going to give up the fight
until it is passed by Congress.
Miss Wilson expressed much inter-
est in the hope that the women Of
America would do their part in, the
conservation of food supplies.
Attempts to get Miss Wilson to
talk politics" were to no avail. She
enjoyed telling she was born in Mar
ietta, Ca, that she loved certain
sports, but her country and her work
for it most of all.
Miss Wilson sings tonight at the
Lyric. That she will be rendered a
great ovation goes without saying.
She had just heard the news that
Capt. Emory Rice had sunk a German
U-boat, and her blue eyes expressed
her delight more than her meaning
phrases. And she talks as ~interestly
as her dad.
"Well, Miss Wilson, the country sees
and appreciates the example you are
setting in the part that women should
play in the present crisis. Tell me
about it," l ventured.
"Oh, I just love my work." she said.
Singing is the keenest enjoyment in
life, and l feel that l am better equipp-
ed to help my country in this way"
With such a musical voice, no won-
der she has sung herself into the
hearts of Americans in her labors for
the Red Cross. Miss Wilson need not
have been a presidents daughter, for
she convinces you that she is more
than that.
Her activities have. been n Of the
most productive sources for the ad-
! vancement of the Red Cross move
ment. On her first tour she sang at
| Canton, Columbus, Dayton and Padu-
cab. She has just completed engage
ments at Nashville, Marietta and
Chattanooga. From Memphis she
goes to Birmingham, Joplin, Shreve-
port, and may return to Louisville and,
Lexington, Ky.
From her Panama records she real
lied for the Red Cross almost $1,000
alone. Besides this activity, Miss Will
son has been Of invaluable aid TO the
community center work in Washington
and has contributed handsomely to the
blind hospital work at the capital
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