Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-29
TRIALS Barred
m INTIMATE STORY OF LIFE
Joseph Tumulty, His Secretary, Reveals
His Hopes and Disappointment in
Two Terms In White House.

dents speech to OfncerS or the ATTAIN
tic feet in 1917. published long after.
sacrifice half the navy Great Britain
and we together have. to crush the
submarine nest.
TT was he," Secretary Tumulty con-
tinued, who insisted on mining the
North sea to cut of the German hor-
nets. Experts said that It
could not be done. The civilian Will
son said it could be done. must be
done. and it was. 1t was the civilian
Wilson who preached the plan for
combining the allied powers in the
west under the supreme command OF
Gen. Foch. in order that all the allied
forces could be concentrated on the
German forces 20 crush them: In
his mind the supreme object OF this
war was to end war"
Doesn't Play to Gallery.
The grave fault" which Secretary
Tumulty asserted. he found. with the
President was his ignorance of how
to play to the gallery.
He does not know how to capital
ize his virtues for the front pages
of the newspapers" he said. He
Human from his heart to his finger
tips. he does not know how to put
his humanity on exhibition.
las his friend and admirer. I have
loved him better because he didn't.
There was something too fine in his
of the political game as it is usually
played"
The Secretary told of journalist
who wished to have the President
do one Of the stunts that the pub
lie dearly loves to read about" and
the comment of the President.
He said to me: Tumulty, you must
realize that 1 am not built for these
things. do not want to be dis
played before the public. If tried
to do it I would do it badly. want
people to love me, but they never
will
Il have never forgotten the wistful
tones in which he spoke those last
four words: But they never WILL
Secretary Tumulty said.
Let one suffice, a privileged case
that got a lot of notoriety in the
newspapers, the case of the American
sentries condemned to death by mill
their posts. The offense was serious;
the law definite and clearly applicable
that when a sentry falls asleep at his
post, facing a dangerous enemy, the
penalty is death. The President knew
the gravity of the offense. but he also
lay behind the offense and that these
lads, because of military emergency.
had not slept for days. Military law
may be too rigid to take cognizance
of these simple, human considerations,
but the President can. This President
asserted itself. that the exhausted
lads, under it's spell, were helpless. He
committed their sentences"
Tells Of His Decline.
Two final pictures. Mr.. Tumulty
said, he desired to draw, the hrst,
that of the President in 1917, "a
straight, vigorous. slender man. active
and alert. He is sixty years of age"
he said. but he looks not more than
of bearing, SO virile. 1t is Woodrow
Wilson reading his great war mes
sage.
"The other picture is only three
and a half years later. There is a
parade of veterans of the great war.
dent on the east terrace of the White
House. In chair sits a man, your
President, broken in health, but still
alert in mind. His hair is white. his
shoulders bowed. his figure bent. He
is sixty-three years old. but he looks
older. It is Woodrow Wilson.
Presently in the procession there
appears an ambulance laden with
wounded soldiers, the MANNED and the
halt and blind. AS they pass, they
salute. slowly. reverently.
THE Presidents right hand goes up
in answering salute. l glanced at
him. There were tears in his eyes.
The wounded are greeting the wound
ed: those in the ambulance. he in the
chair. are alike casualties of the
great war.
Wounds Not Registered.
II don't believe in his heart Presi-
dent Wilson regrets his wounds.
fancy he realizes no man could die in
a greater cause, but / do sometimes
wonder il it ever seems to him
strange that when a man has been
seriously wounded in his country's
service that he should be met with
sneers and calumnies from his coun-
trymen."
Sometimes when ride around the
Speedway and look at the tall, grace
full obelisk and Grecian temple that
stand as monuments to Washington
and Lincoln. I catch myself wonder
ing If they. from their spirit world,
ever look down upon these commence
rations In everlasting stone and smile
through wistful spirit eyes and think
that it would have been happier for
them personally If their countrymen
had given them more of their hearts
during their lifetime and less Of stone
after death. They asked for bread,
the bread of humanity, sympathy and
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