Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
Woodrow Wilson
BY CONDO
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

formation 1 will have no way of
checking it up, and must, act upon
it unquestionably. We will be del
uged with claims plausibly and con-
vincingly presented. 1t will be your
task to establish the truth or falsity
Of these claims out of your special
lied knowledges, so that my posi-
tons may be taken fairly and intelli-
gently"
1t was this expert advice that he
depended upon and it was we'll or
information that never failed him.
At the head of the financierS and
economists were such men as Ber-
nard Baruch, Herbert Hoover, Nor
man Davis and Vance Mccormick.
AS head of the war industries board,
in many respects the most powerful
of all civil organizations called into
being by the war, Mr.. Baruch had
won the respect and confidence of
American business by his courage,
honesty and rare ability. At his
side were such men as Frank w.
! Taussig, chairman of the tariff COM
mission; Alex Legg, general manager
of the International Harvester COM
pany, and Charles Mcdowell, man
ager of the fertilizer and chemical
departments of Armour & Co.-both
men familiar with business condl'
tions and customs in every country
in the world; Leland Summers, an
international mechanical engineer
and an expert in manufacturing,
chemicals and steel; James c. Pen
ME, the international patent lawyer;
Frederick Nelson and Chandler An
derson, authorities on international
law, and various others of equal
caliber.
Face Difficult Job
Mr., Hoover was aided and advised
by the men who were his represen-
tatives in Europe throughout the
war, and Mr.. Mccormick, head of
the war trade board, gathered about
him in Paris all of the men who
had handled trade matters for him
in the various countries Of the world.
Mr.. Davis, representing the treas
ury department, had as his assoc1a-
tions, Mr.. Thomas w. Lamont, Mr..
Albert Strauss, and jeremiah Smith,
of Boston.
DR.. Sidney E. Mezes, president Of
the college of the city of New York,
went with the president at the head
of a brilliant group of specialists,
all of whom had been working for
year and more on the problems
that would be presented at the
peace conference. Among the more
important may be mentioned: Prof.
Charles H. Haskins, dean of the
Graduate School of Harvard uni
versity, specialist on Alsace-Lor-
raine and Belgium; DR.. Isaiah Bow
man, director of the American Geo
graphical Society, general territorial
specialist; Prof. Allyn A. Young,
head of the department Of economics
at Cornell; George Louis Baer, form
erly of Columbia, and an authority
on colonial possessions; Prof. w. l..
Waterman, head of the history de-
partment at the University of Wis
consin and specialist on Turkey; r.
H. Lord, professor of history at
Harvard, specialist on Russia and
Poland; Roland 3. Dixon, professor
of ethnography at Harvard; Prof.
Give Day, head of department of
| economics at Yale, specialist on the
Balkans; w. E. Lunt, professor of
history at Maverford college, special
list on northern Italy; Charles Sey-
specialist on Austria-Hungary; Mark
jefferson, professor of geography at
Michigan State Normal, and Profess
sor James t. Shotwell, professor of
history at Columbia. These groups
We're the presidents real COUNSEL
lors and advisers and there was not
a day throughout the peace confer
ence that he did not call upon them
| and depend uDon them.
No man ever faced more diff
cult or trying job than the presi-
dent, when he embarked upon the
George Washington on his voyage
to the other side. The adverse yer.
dict rendered against the president
in the congressional elections was
mighty dispiriting. The growing
bitterness and hostility Of the Re
publican leaders, and the hatred of
the Germans throughout the coun
try, added more difficulties to an
already trying situation.
(To Be Continued.)