Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-11
Woodrow Wilson
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

! more then sham, and form it is
necessary TO consider at least some
of the details of the treaty as sub
ject to recommendation and that,
| therefore, it would be a tactical
blunder to publish the details as
first drafted, Notwithstanding the
fact that there is no likelihood that
they will be departed from in al
substantial way
On May rs, apropos bf a criticism
made by an eminent Republican and
transmitted to him by me, he CO
bled, 'I am quite willing to be re-
sponsible for any sympathetic reply
l make to appeals on behalf of starV-
ing women and children"
On June 16, he cabled, "The whole
matter (of the covenanD will have
to be argued from top to bottom
depend upon the reaction of public
opinion at that time"
AS my duty held me in Washing.
ton, 1 am dependent upon others,
especially Mr.. Creel and Mr.. Ray
presidents official family, for
connected narrative of events in
Europe.
| Speaking Of his attitude in the
| trials that confronted the president
OH the other side, Mr.. Baker said:
mo one who really saw the presi-
! dent in action in Paris, saw what he
did in those grilling months of strug-
gle, fired at in front, sniped at from
behind-and no one who saw what
he had to do after he came home
from Europe in meeting the great
new problems which grew out of the
War-Will for a moment belittle the
! immensely Of his task, or underrate
| his extraordinary endurance, energy
and courage. More than once, there
| in Paris, going up in the evening to
| see the president, l found him ut
! terly worn out, exhausted, often one
side of his face twitching with nerv-
BUSINESS. No soldier ever went into
battle with more enthusiasm, more
aspiration, more devotion to a sa-
cred cause than the president had
| when he came to Paris; but day
after day in those months we saw
him growing grayer and grayer,
grimmer and grimmer, with the
fighting lines deepening in his face.
"Here was a man SO years old
man always delicate in health.
When he came to the White House
! IN 1918, he was far from being well.
His digestion was poor and he had
serious and painful case Of neuritis
in his shoulder. 1t was even the
opinion Of so great physician as
DIR. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia,
that he could probably not complete
his term and retain his health. And
yet such was the iron self-discipline
of the man and such was the daily
Watchful work of DR.. Grayson, that
instead of gradually going down un.
der the tremendous tasks of the
presidency in the most crowded
moments of our national history, he
| steadily gained strength and work
ing capacity, until in those months
in Paris he literally worked every
body 1T the peace conference to a
standstil!.
cit is so easy and cheap to judge
! people, even presidents, without
knowing the problems they have to
face. So much Of the president at
Paris, so much Of his unwillingness
to eXpend energy upon unnecessary
| business, unnecessary conferences,
unnecessary visiting-especiall the
visitors-was due directly to the de-
termination to husband and expend
his too limited energies upon tasks
that seemed to him essential
"As I say, he worked everybody
at the peace conference to stand.
still. He worked not only the
| American delegates, but the way he
drove the leisurely diplomats OF Eu-
rope was often shameful to see.
Sometimes he would actually have
two meetings going on at the same
time. Once I found a meeting OF
the council of the big four going on
in his study, and meeting or the
financial and economic experts
twenty Of them-ip full session up
stairs in The drawing roonl-and the
president oscillating between the
| two.
ut was he who was always the
driver the initiate, at Paris; he
worked longer hours, had more ap-
pointments, granted himself less rec
reation than any other man, high or
low, at the peace conference. For he
was, the central figure there. Every.
thing headed up in him.
practically all of the meetings of
| the council of four were held in his
the Place DIES Etate Unis. This was
the true capital of the peace confer
ence; here all the important ques-
lions were decided. Everyone who
came to Paris upon any mission
aimed first of all at seeing the presi-
dent. Representatives of the little,
down-trodden nationalities Of the
earth-from western Europe, Asia
and Africa-though that if they
could get at the president, explain
their pathetic ambitions, confess
their troubles to him, all would be
WELL"
(To BE Continually --a.s