The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-01-23
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.

u"ece peisohdi contact, inquiry ana |
study
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.
copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union.) |
misunderstanding is Col. Edward !
Mandell House who is to gather war
data for the United States government
for service on future day of peace?
This Is question that is being asked
by very large proportion Of the peo-
pie Of the United States and in fact
Of all the allied nations.
Colonel House does not wear the
record of his deeds on his sleeve. 1t
Is probable that If this unofficial coun-
sellOr to the president of the United
States were to be elected to congress
the autobiography which he would pre-
pare for the congressional directory
would read like this
Edward Mandell House. Democrat of
Austin, Texas; born 1858; elected to
| the -- congress, November. -
In this brief, ultra-modest, If you will.
way would this Texan be prompted to
WIItc an JuS1iASN
doubtless from the viewpoint of other
men in being extended into many
chapters.
Who is Col. Edward Mandell House,
who, until the day when the final order
"Cease Firing" comes, Is to study IN
behalf of the government OF the United
States the economic, the geographic,
the democratic and the humanitarian
problems which the American COUNSEL
lors at the peace table must seek to
solve after a manner which the people
of a great democracy can approve!
Consulted by President.
In the Washington dispatches some
thing like this is read several times a
wear: Colonel House has been In the
I city for twenty-four hours as the guest
Of the president. He will leave Tor
New York tomorrow morning"
Beyond this the reader gets nothing
from the dispatches except the word
that the president and his visitor dis
cussed Mexican matters, or European
matters, or 1t may be, but In this lat
ter case rarely, political matters.
The public has known little more
about Colonel House than that ne IS
man frequently consulted by Wood
row Wilson and a man in whose 1udg-
ment on political, economic and legls-
lative matters the president puts con-
fdence. There is q sort of glamour
ahout men and things which are h!s-
tartous It would seem that because
~ the attraction which mystery mas
for the people rs shown II you VIII
~ ,boir gluttonous reading of detec'
five stories and the like, that writer's
| ~ rho news of the day in part nave
chosen TO treat the goings and COM
, ;nos Of the colonel and his conferences
with men of affairs as II they were
a deliberate attempt to hedge them
IN and hide them from public known
edge. =. N.
: :, ,s inst as possible to get at I'M
.u,t, IN the case of Colonel House u
:. &c in the case Of any other MAJ
h whose doings are Of public interest.
,s modesty not mystery which has peel
the basic dlfnculty.
q Co,one, House will not tell you tina
~ 10 n modest man, as l know froi
= norsonal contact with him. 10 ciaii
= r.odostv for ones self is to be immot
act he does go from his present aooo
- Nov, York city to Washington occs
s,onally or frequently as the requ ..,
r,or come to give what he can OF IN
aomnse, Of his views" to the presiaeI
o. no United States. Why should
INV more than any other man seno
trumpeting herald aheao OF ~
II cymbal clashers1 u .to,
II uo goes to the White House. stu!
81. wh,le and leaves, and because
III" ro,ses All the streets AT
each or departure exclusiveness' !
ploa.n a,oss and secrecy have been u
HI ..u sar ~ the days words concerni'
each visit - =. uv..k
IL It perhaps is not too ma asn . 20 =
e the full record of the resu
II 'n'. .ho conferences which House
u a hos had with Wilson OF
iii | Jrpited States Is W oo Ditch
u nmaht IN some of the accomplish
s soo1s Of the present ad'ninis'rau,
wsat woodrow Wilson has been NOV ~,
- certain courses or strengthened .
s " nnrpose to pursue them, oS
us n,,nsel Of Edward NJ. House Is no o,
so doubted. The Impossible 'asA so "U
~ 70 get from the latter u. n,'
D. concerning the pubic worn y.
w" ",o, his counsel has played a par
"n Tnose who have built up wan a.m
,,,stcry about the man VINO Is !. STU ~,
mS my matters against the DAY 0. p.'
.n nnorently have not wished 10
s sp their hrndiwork. me wa" .r,ss
w. demolished by anyone VINO s. o
oe e. Of the foundation OF the hc ana,
&c, EDWARD a., NJ. House lives as :, o iSh
.a as that Of any American ~ ""
il nle "s or business does no'