The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-04
WILSON TO ENTER
PRACTICE OF LAW
Forms Partnership With
Colby, Retiring Secre-
tary of State
AFTER FORTY YEARS
President Gave Up Career Be-
fore Bar in 1883 to Be-
come an Educator

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Presi-
don't wilson will take up the prac-
,.so of law after leaving office, he
announced at the white house to-
day
The president announced that he
will form a partnership with Seq
rotary of state Colby and that the
rirm will have offices in New York
and Washington. The firm Will
sprrlalzo in international law.
The presidents announcement.
whIry unexpected, will recall to the
puhtc mind one Of his least knowh
sua.nments, that OF being lawyer.
IIs was graduated In law from the
T'nI,crslty of Virginia in 1881 and
nractIced in Atlanta In 1882 and
lSN3. In the latter year he went TO
baltimore to take up postgraduate
work at Johns Hopkins university
and practiced some in the local
courts OF that city.
Mr.. wilson did not remain long at
the practice uf law, however, for in
1855 he began his career as col
lego professor, taking up the chair
OF history and political economy at
Bryn Mawr. From that time on
ward until he left the field Of col
leglate work and became governor
Of New Jersey, Mr., Wilson did not
figure iu the practice OF law.
To BE International Specialists.
No announcement was made OF
the character OF practice the new
nI will take up, the presumption
IL that il viii engage principally In
} international law and collateral
work. Tho announcement that Of
ficcs would be maintained In New
York and Washington was generally
taken 10 mean that Mr.. Colby would
probably take charge OF affairs at
New York and that Mr.. Wilson, who
will maintain his home here, would
look after affairs in Washington.
How actively the retiring presi-
dent might take part in the firms
practice within the limitations OF
his present IAhysical condition, is
open 70 wide speculation. When he
said goodbye to his cabinet men,
bers earlier in the week he was
obliged to use his cane to get about
from the white house to the eXecu-
tive offices and when the newspaper
men attached to the white house
asked for a farewell audience the
president declined on the ground
that his voice was too weak.
Friends Were in Dark.
The presidents friends apparently
were as much in the dark as to, his
plans, as was the public up to the
moment OF the announcement. but
they generally supposed that Mr.
Wilson's connection with the new
firm would be very largely that OF
counsellor Whether Mr.. Wilson in
tended 10 appear in court was not
made clear. although 1t was stated
az the white house that he would
apply for admission TO practice be-
fore the supreme court Of the Unit
ed States
\, Probably no announcement of any
Mature has surprised Washington
Phore during recent months. Mr.. Will
son kept his own council concerning
his plans up to the last moment and
the men who have been most closely
associated with him personally and
privately during the last eight years
said they knew nothing of the presi-
dents plan until this morning,
Much business for international
law firms during the next so years
undoubtedly will arise out of the
world war and its aftermath. Robs
ert Lansing, former secretary of
state, is at practice in the field with
one OF his former subordinat IS