New Britain herald., 1924-02-04
WOODROW WILSON HAD
 UNIQUE PERSONALITY
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won to a state where MT. Nilooi
 called him Ed" or Edward" Keith
 CT did Mir. Wilson call him colonel
 the complimentary title by which Mir
 House was most commonly known
 Through all their intimacy up to the
 moment of the celebrated breaking
 of point MT. Wilson always called
 him simply. House
 Friendship With Physician
 The one enduring friendship which Mir. Wilson made in the White House was with his personal physician. Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, who re- stored him to health when he came into the presidency sick man: watched over him as he would new born baby, and finally snatched him from a deathbed at the time of his breakdown and prolonged his live several years after he left the White House. They never quarreled, al though their friendship was a most intimate one.
 Woodrow Wilson has a way of thinking things out for himself and making his own decisions. When he was working through a crucial mo- ment, he invariably shut himself up In his study and worked the thing out on his own typewriter He called for information when hy was working to- ward a decision. bnt he preferred to have it in written form. He wanted the facts cold. and untinged by the personality of the purveyor. When he got mad--and he did get mad once in a while just as any other man--it was his favorite trick to jam on his hat and walk around the block to ''cool off" He did that when he heard the Germans had torpedoed the Lusitania. Then he came back to his study, full master Of his emotions, and penned the historic note to Ger many which forecast war. He read it to the cabinet and the secretary of state after it was well on its way over the cables toward Berlin. It was typical of Wilson's way. Having de- cided on a course of action he wanted TO advice. Cabinet meetings during the Wilson administration were de- scribed by those who chafed under the restraints, as morning in the school room with the school master" at the head of the table.
 Reason Tor Seclusion
 II was said of MT. Wilson that his scclusion in the White House result cd. partially, at least from some mis- information he got about Washing ton and its atmosphere before he took office. Somebody so tho story went, iurneyed to Princeton and told him that thero was a local ring of social .1s.. profited most from tho prestige of as- soclation at tho White House, Mir. Wilson, it was said, made up his mind 10 have none of their company, He further determined not to have on his visiting lists. committees of bankers. and railroad unions and manufac- turers when he was considering public questions in which they were inter- osted.
 The result was that when MT. Will son moved his family--a wife and three daughters--to the White House, he summed the formal state parlors on the lower floor. leaving them 10 the tourists, and installed himself with his own family effects including the sewing machine, on the second floor. where the Wilson's recreated their old home at Princeton. Family life on that scale continued until the death of the first Mrs. Wilson and the mar rlage of two of her daughters.
 Mir. Wilson paid his first respects 10 the local sristocracy by declining an invitation to join the Chevy Chase club, the most exclusive golf, dinntr and dancing organization in the city, and going across the Potomac to golf at an obscure poor mans club" On one of his first rounds over the links, he failed 10 hear fore" of local merchant, who paid his respects in language not usually addressed to the president of tfye. United States. Mir. Wilson threw down his clubs and walked of the links. He did not re- turn when a committee of the club offered an apology.
 Outbreak of War
 It was said that Mir. Wilson's atti- tide softened a little as time wore on, but there was little opportunity 10 test the accuracy of that because the country soon was engrossed in the world war, later took an active part. l and he soon thereafter was stricken l helpless. All social functions were 1 discontinued during that time. and ] the president saw practically nobody. 1 Cabinet meetings were postponed for | weeks at time, there were days and !, days when no cabinet officer nor even { his secretary saw him. Personal asso- ] ciates during that time he had none. | except members Of the second Mrs. 1 Wilson's family and his physician, pr. | Grayson.
 With all his seclusion and lack Of 1 seeking advice. he was not slow in 1 making decisions, and having made I them, attempts to reverse them gem 4 orally were futile. It was a common | saying that he became impatient with those who disagreed with him, but if | became apparent that those who \ made it a point to agree with him felt his displeasure when events turned out wrong. He dubbed one prominent adviser, the champion of the world" and later dis missed him from his official family while the man was supposed to be en- toying the highest favor.
 Personal Likings
 There was a good deal of public eH- agTerztion about NIT. Wilson's pen- chant for reading detective stories. ai- though he did do some light read ing. He took to golf as a health measure at his doctors orders and learned to like it: he liked light music and the thester when the en- tertainment was diverting. He con- ' rcssss he had 10 digestion for grand opera and the heavier drama ...E U. ..a. lIcE n-a.--