New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

claimed passion for peace" Secretary
iumulty declared that when the cnal-
lenge came from Germany to America.
when the American mind was ready for
war; = this same Woodrow Will.
son became the most uncomuromisinp
advocate of the most stringent meas
ures for conducting the war, thereby
to hasten the end of the war" The
speaker recalled the Presidents speech
TO othcers of the Atlantic feet in 1917,
published long after, in which he said:
II am willing to sacrifice half the navy.
Great Britain and we together have to
crush the submarine nest"
1T was he," Secretary Tumultv con-
tlnued, "who insisted on mining the
North Sea to cut off the German hor-
nets. Experts said that it could
not be done. The civilian Wilson said
it could be done, must be done. and it
was. 1t was the civilian Wilson who
broached the plan for combining the
Allied powers in the west under the
supreme command Of General Foch in
order that all the Allied forces could
be concentrated on the German forces
to crush them.
"ln his mind the supreme object of
this war was to end war"
The grave fault" which Secretary
Tumulty asserted he found with the
President, was his ignorance of chow
to play to the gallery
Poor Publicity Material
"He does not know how to capitalize
his virtues for the front pages of the
newspapers" he said "He is dread
fully poor publicity. material. Human
from his heart to his finger tips, he
Goes not know how to put his human
ity on exhibition.
CAS- his friend and admirer, | have
loved him better because he didn't.
There was something too fine in his
nature for the dramatics and postur-
ings of the political game as it is
usually played"
The Secretary told of a journalist
who wished to have the President "do
one of the stunts that the public dearly
loves to read about" and of the com
ment of the President.
he said to me Tumulty, you must
realize that | am not built for these
things. | do not want to be displayed
before the public If | tried to do it
| would do it badly. I want people to
love me, but they never will
II have never forgotten tho visit
ful tones in which he spoke those
last four words: but they never will ;"
Secretary Tumulty said
Two final pictures Mr.. Tumulty said
he desired to draw The first, 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 forty-five,
so 1.-the Of limb, SO alert of bearing, so
vlrile. 1t is Woodrow Wilson reading
his great war message
The other picture is only three and
a half years later. There is a parade
of veterans of the great war. They
ere to be reviewed by the President
on the east terrace of the White House.
IN chair sits 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. 1t is Woodrow
Wilson,
"Prescntly in the procession there
appears an ambulance laden with
wounded soldiers, the manned and the
halt and blind. AS they pass they
salute slowly, revcrently
The Presidents right hand goes up
IN answering salute.
81 glanced at him. There were tears
in his eyes. The wounded is greeting
the wounded Those in the ambulance,
of the great war
81 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 IS
wonder if it ever seems to him strange
that when man has been seriously
wounded in his country's service
he should be met with sneers and
calumnieS from his cOuntrvmen"