The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-08
WILSON
TOPRACTlCE 0,FLAW
WILL ENTER PARTNERSHIP
WITH BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Retiring President Will Establish
Law Offices in Washington
and New York

brief announcemenl that ne = Will re-
sumo the practice of law President
Wilson today gave the first indication
of what he intends to do after leav-
ing the White House. Wholly unex-
pected and quite unknown to the
presidents closest friends it was Of
fcially announced at the White House
Offices that Mr.. Wilson would enter
partnership with cambridge Colby,
the retiring secretary of state of New
York and that the new firm would es-
tablish Offices in New York and Wash
ington. No information of the char
aeter of practice Wilson and Colby
will undertake was made available
and all questions were met with the
reply that the official announcement
contained al there was to be said.
Secretary Colby refused to discuss
the subject at all.
The general assumption in Wash
ington is that Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
Colby will engage largely IN the prac-
tice of international law, a field to
which the world war and its after
math promises to contribute largely
during the next year. Some of the
presidents friends think in his activi-
ties of international law is a way to
continue his work for world peace
bnt they do not know just how he
would do so.
: Started as Lawyer
Mr.. Wilson's start in life, long be-
fore he thought of college professor
ships or politics was in the law.
Graduated from the University of
Virginia in his native state in 1881,
he opened a small Office and practiced
ID Atlanta for two years and then in
1883 practiced in Baltimore while
doing post graduate work at Johns
Hopkins university. It was during
that year that his writings first attract
ed attention and that he wrote his
volume on constitutional government.
He abandoned the law soon after,
however, and began the collegiate
work in which he continued until he
became governor ofsNeW Jersey.
With the. announcement that the
retiring president would take up law
and apply to the supreme court of
the United States Tor admission to
practice, all official Washington ask
ed: SIS he-physically able to do it,"
! Rear Admiral Graysop, Mr.. Will
sons personal physician, said his pa
tient could, and tthatahe would be able
to appear in, the supreme court occa-
ssonally. In the absence Of any def
initesannouncement, Of how active Mr..
Wilson proposes to be, those who
know, his condition think his princi-
pal activities viii be as a counsellor.
.aIhe announcement was made at the
-ue sq4 spsm uosEM auep!se1d,,
White aHouse in tue following state
Hent: =
nouncement today that at the conclu-
Aon Of his term of Office, he would
resume the practice of law, forming
d, partnership with the secretary of
state, Bainbridge Colby. e
"The firm will have offices in New
York and Washington. y -. :.
Surprise in Washington
Probably no announcement of any
nature has surprised Washington
more during recent months. Mr..
Wilson kept his own counsel concern
ing his plans up to the last moment,
ard the men who have been most
closely associated with him personal
~ and privately during the last eight
years said they knew nothing Of the
plan Until this morning,
Much business for international law
firms during the next So years un-
doubtedly will arise out of the world
war and it's aftermath. Robert Lam
sing, former secretary of state, is at
present practicing in the field with
one of his former subordinates; Frank
L. Polk, formerly under secretary of
state, also IS at, practice, and former
Secretary McAdoo also is practicing
law, although not wholly in the inter
national field. f
The wide extent of Mr.. Wilson's
knowledge Of inside international af-
fairs during the last eight years can
only be left to the Imagination. He
has personal store Of data on the
peace conference and its proceedings
which is possessed by certainly no
one else in the United States, and it