New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Creel
By Ralph Block

are STRANGE tast". .eihaps both Of th.a
" d., s0oa zeal IN common. There a,s 0. have
VINO WI nave no other way Of ;ntss IN are men M
themselves to themselves except bv saS.:n sp,esns
Some men get all excited when th.. sA'ns
suddenly find their inward n,,u.ay .aey work
mated by the reactions they rst 'es =. aluni
Joo 'ney are doing and gain no,n ,'o,n the
ton Tor themselves in doing i, ~" Sanlfs.
Other men 60 through the same, oro....
when they fight. And they have ta ."s osesses
hght'ng IN order to keep fresh tho nesp O.
OF that admiration. If there bann.am0 ",em0f1
iuii IN lighting or everybody bas bas 70 !" N
ncKed and no one wants to have ' ~ Oeea
the game the lighting man her;n. Try
der little bit. to suspect himso,s ~ Wsa
throws himself furiously into ,ba 's;.' s;' lie
minute new lighting cause shows i. ',s III
think Crecl is that kind of s.'s Isaa
man. A lot of nonsense has been rsauas w'i,.
about Creel. lie may even arree w;ta written !,
himself. 1t is the kind of nonsense aia sast
has been and still is written ahou. "aNA
man who suddenly appears above Livery every
lows. The principle which actuat.a !, ,e''
KIND OF writing arses out CT the mv,h ,aS. a's.
public characters cease to be hum.n " y. ."ae
when. they assume their new ro)e n, rse''ss
suit IS that we never know what any Of az. NJ.
pubic characters are really like finn. tu' ~
things We read about them. Common s.sa s's
says they are human and the ms.'". s'.se
writers deny it, and between the tsa ss-'ael =.
public has to withhold decision rr,;, ~ .ae|
subject of it all does something that sh.u. wv
HIM out louder than words could do Ita
newspaper reports of what he has don. W. VI
pen to be honest The public begins to u,s.p aap
stand what the man is like. '"ue'
Passionate in All THINGS
Creel is passionate man in ;oh =.
probably could get along very we'll witt"
passion. Apparently he has ALWAYS hoss
passionate man. In Kansas City. wbo,.
lived some ten years running wal,
magazine, the general impression was tb.,
he was passionate man.
Sometimes he seemed to be mora a.r...
to the idea OF fighting than to the i'd. '.a w.
which he was fighting. He juaped ~.
anything that promised fight, usually as
the side that promised the hardest Gohs,.
and developed an ability TO fight in ssy,,'
directions at once. The result was M. i
ways happy, SO far as the cause itself VT
concerned, because in his ardor for feb,h,
Creel sometimes managed to fight the v,,.
people.
He carried the same idea to DEM.
and waded into the fighting where Il VI,
thlckest. If there wasn't any fighting C,s,
made some. And he fought with fne o.
ioyment until all his co-fghters. under d,
impression that they were fighting for
idea, were beaten down about him and OH
Creel. fighting mostly for the enioymentt
fighting, stood welding the broadsvm
and the shillelah. When he left Denver
was with the forces he had been fshss
with all his might more securely in ii
saddle than before Even then he vs,g
have gone on fighting if they had left i, |
a place to fight On.
Partial to the Under Dog
Creel is small we'll proportional n
good looking. He has black hair and Il
straight, rather full, nose But the ls /
part of his jaw looks like the Jaw Of al
who has a chip on his shoulder It III
vigilant, always ont the lookout, ready-test
lower jaw. In a recent article about Os i
somewhere he was quoted as saying hss
always for the under dog. 1t is the kind
pronouncement you'd expect of Creelk
cause it has nothing to do with judgss
and everything to do with sympathiesm
emotions.
Washington believes Creel is "closs'
the President. What Washington nz
when it says that is that Creel cors
often with the President and suppliet
the illumination that Creel personally
Creel officially can give. The pic!un
affords of the personal channels int VII
government is running in Washington il
interesting as any picture Washington
supply at the present moment. The Pn
dents emotions are generous, but eoot
titled and rarefed. They serve as an
mosphere in which to float ideas tn
never predominant. Creel has emota1
first, and ideas seem to be derived out
them afterward. Isl
In some ways, possibly in ways The PHs
dent did not ;ntend when he created
Bureau of Public Information, Creel h
good deal of power. 1t is power Of sn'
the world is only beginning to lndsFs's
Whether Creel knows how to use It Hsp
only those who can see the spresdngFs
of it in America and Europe and ASH
be able to tell. Perhaps the P'saa
knows. 1t is rather an important naI
for conjecture. For with all his en'a' /
earnestness,
Creel is still a playboy Of the sss
world IA