New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-11-24

AuSly tAHle eHOuSH HAS gone ny ait
things enough have been proved o
| disprOved to give certainty to tn,
| word that Woodrow Wilson has fount
Edward M. House an advisory asset.
There hardly can be much of rea
mystery about man who twice since
this great war began las been sen
abroad as a special commissioner TO
the president of the United States. Col
Onel House has been twice in Berlin
five times In Paris, and frequently IL
other Of the great European capitals
Some day 1t may be that Woodrow
Wilson will write what may be called
an photographed review Of his ad
ministration. If he does 1t Is entirely
likely that the part taken by Colonel
House In the shaping Of some Of the
policies of the president may be given
the page place which many men be-
ueve that it deserves.
No Mystery There.
While living In New York Colonel
House resides In an apartment not
very far uptown. 1t Is a homelike
place where good books are found and
where good friends may come. 1t is a
genial place and no curtain of mystery
hangs over the door of any one Of its
rooms. Men 60 there and are well
come. They 60 and they talk. Man
learns as much from man as he learns
from books and more perhaps II we
kkA Mi nj
proper study Of mankind.
/ asked Colonel House what his rec
reations are. He said, "Friends, read
ing and walking" His library shelves
show the kind Of books that he has
read, still is reading and will continue
to read, for those In the book cases
are made the companions day by day
Of the others as they come from the
hands Of writer's worth while.
No man probably can read politics,
legislation, economics and history con.
stantly without getting some Of DR..
Dry-as-Dust's characteristics. So 1t is
that Colonel House does not read the
four formidables constantly. He turns
to fiction and here one finds something
Of possibly more than passing human
interest.
George Frisbie Hoar Of Massachus.
etts was one Of the scholars in politics.
II was said Of him that he had read
everything from Aristophanes' "FroRs'
10 Locke's Human Understanding"
and from this latter book Of "dissnala-
ties' to the lighter minded reader,
Town to everything heavy and semi
heavy which was published to the
week Of his death. Senator Hoar kept
his mental condition balanced by turn
ng not merely from the heavy to the
light on occasion, but to the actual |
'eatherweights Of fiction. He read
Mick Carter"
Woodrow Wilson. 1t is said, turns
way from the studies Of states, past !
ind present and in prospective to the
'eading Of what the English call penny |
lreadfuls, and what the Americans in
he old days called yellow backs. It
9 said that the speaker Of the house
Il representatives, Champ Clark. stops
his mental digging into all
,inds Of history to take up for relief
books Of the kind which |
make q boy happy.
Reads Good Fiction.
In the library Of Colonel House
here is plenty of good fiction. He
oes not turn to Nick Carter, nor to
The Hidden Hand" of Mrs. e. D. e.
I. Southworth. nor yet to "Owl Face,
he Pawnee" Of Beadle dime novel
anne, but he manages to keep the men,
al balance even by an evening lamp
our or two with the writers Of &c
lon who can lay claim to what the
ook reviewers call literary merit.
Today Colonel House is entering up
n the work Of preparing material
'hich one day. perhaps far In the fu-
IRE. will be serviceable to the Ameri-
an commissioners at the great peace
difference. Another has written this
Dncerning the choice by the president
I Colonel House for this work: HE
peculiarly qualified for 1t by his dip
,matic experience Of recent years. by
Is study of political problems which
he war has raised and by his integrity
mind and character"
sherlock. will you take on the
ouse Mystery Case7" Il
Mystery my dear Watson, there
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