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LS . The True Story of Woodrow Wilson By DAVID LAWRENCE. CHAPTER 1V. Wilson Thought of His ries—Taft and Roowse- Velt—Their Methods of Dealing With Congress nnd His Own. Woodrow Wilson was probably the Only President of the United States who spent twenty years or more studying the power and duties of the Chief Executive long before he entered public life. The theory of government was his hobby. As a professor in Princeton University on constitutional government, his lec- tures were voted by the students year in and year out the most popular in the curriculum. Little did I dream as I took notes with my classmates in the spring of 1909 that exactly four years later the professor before us would be actually applying his doctrines of government in the White House and that I would be reporting them for the Associated Press, What was said in the lecture room in those days was by common con- sent a private affair. Reporters were never present. And for that reason Dr. Wilson was as free with his com- ments on current news as if he were in the seclusion of his own home. Views of the Presidency. Tt was April, 1909, and President Taft had just been Inaugurated after a record-breaking vote. The new + President was beginning to struggle with the tariff. Aldrich was in com- mand of the United States Senate and Cannon was enthroned in the House of Representatives. Dr. Wil- #on would read to us a paragraph or two from the daily newspapers giving the gist of Washington dispatches on tho legislative situation and would make his comments thereon. “Nobody in Congress” he used to say again and again, “represents the national will. Every member of the House and Senate represents his dis- trict or his state—his section, The ¥ sum total of thelr destres is not the natlonal will. Only one man, the Chief Executive, is responsible to all the people. He must assunte leader- ship and determine what Is best for all and not for one section or group or class, If President Taft appreci- ates that he will make headway. 1f he does not, he will fail.” Presently the dispatches from Washington announced that Presi- dent Taft had summoned Messrs. Aldrich and Cannon and other re- publican leaders in Congress to the White House, urging them to frame a tarfif law that would be in the national interest. This particular development elicited from Dr. Wilson warm expressions of approval and prompted a comment on the Roose- veltian attitude toward Congress. “Whatever else we may think or say of Theodore Roosevelt,” remarked Dr. Wilson, “we must admit that he was an aggressive leader. He led Congress—he was not driven by Con- gress. We may not approve of his methods, but we must concede that he made Congress follow him. Chance to Try Out Theories. Two years later when Woodrow Wilson had been inaugurated Gov- ernor of New Jersey after a campalgn hat was full of cynlclsm about the ‘schoolmaster in politigs,” the pro- fessor tried out his theory on the members of the state leglslature. The democrats had called a caucus to adopt a legislative program. No one ever had thought of having the gov- crnor present at such a meeting. But Mr. Wilson attended. It precipitated a debate as to the propriety of his presence there. One of the speakers insisted that the executive of the state had no business in a conference of members of the legislature. Some GREENE STILL GAINS. Senator Suffering Bullet Wound Not Out of Danger. Senator Greene of Vermont has made . another slow, painful step toward recovery in the last twenty- four hours. His attendants, however, said he was not yet out of danger from the bullet wound he received nearly two weeks ago while passing the scene of a prohibition enforcement squad’ encounter with suspected bootleggers. MRS. W. GOODWIN DIES. ‘Widow of Naval Officer Succumbs at Newport, R. I Walton Goodwin, ‘Walton_Goody ast’ night, accord- ing to dispatche ived here today. For many years Mrs. Goodwin was a resident of Washington. Funeral services will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 16th and H streets, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mrs. Goodwin is survived by a son, Maj. Walton Goodwin, U. S. A., Sta- tloned here, and three daughters, Mrs. Roscoe Dillon, Miss Alice Goodwin and Miss Katherine Goodwin. SPECIAL NOTICES. one proposed that the governor he! fofmally invited by resolution. Mr. Wilson did not share the opinfon that a conference of his party colleagues was such a formal affair that the | leader of the party could not drop in | if he cared to do so. Finally he roso entlemen,” he said, “I have been | ted Governor of New Jersey by ' the people of New Jersey, selected party and I thereby have become the | responsible leader of the democratic | varty in the state. responsible by the people at the polls [ will be held responsible for the administration of the affairs of the state of New Jersey. ch of youi gentlemen will be held responsible in the districts where you were elected. | 1 am held responsible, as well as you, by the same people. I am the only rerson in the whole state, however, to express approval or disapproval on behalf of all the people, and I will | express that approval or disapproval | for the people by determining Wh“i we should do.” Had Program in Pocket. The governor took from his inside pocket a comprehensive program he ' had personally typewritten. It was a very far-reaching program, providing with other things for the passage of a corrupt practice act governing . elections, a law to authorize cities to adopt the commission form of government, and a series of proposals | to reform the corporation laws of | New Jersey. The governor was on! his feet arguing or answering ques- tions for nearly three hours, with the result that the conference unanimous- 1y adopted his program and within a few months thereafter the sugges- tlons were enacted into law. In those days the state legislature elected United s senator: The primary system had been introduced as a means of expressing party de- sires, but was not yet binding upon the party organization. James E. Martine had entered the primaries for the senatorfal nombnation, but the leaders were inclined to regard the primary as purely advisory and not mandatory. Woodrow Wilson could not have been nominated by the state convention for governor in 1910 but for the support of former United States Senator James Smith and his henchmen. Indeed, while Woodrow Wilson, as candidate, had made no promises, the politicians accused him of base ingratitude when he later turned on Smith, the very man who had made his entry into public life possible. But Gov. Wilson. stood by the primary and persuaded the state legislature to do likewise. He felt that the wishes of the people ex- | pressed in a specific way at an elec- . tion could not be disregarded. It cost him a friendship and won him in later years not even the uninterrupt- *ed support of the man whom he had helped into the United States Senate, for Mr. Martine frequently departed from the leadership of President Wilson. The Martine affair, however, was but an incident. It emphasized merely that Woodrow Wilson felt the welght of his responsibility as party leader. On becoming a state executive, he practiced in office what he had preached in college. It caught the imagination of democrats throughout the United States and helped im- measurably in bringing him to the front as a candidate for the presi- dency of the United States. (Copyright, 1924, by the George H. Doran Company, in the United States, Canada, South America.’ World_publication Tights reserved by Current News Features, Incorporated.) { s Tomorrow’s chapter tells how Wilson's theory of lendership led him to contemplate resigning the presidency of the United States when hix policies were threatened with defs Leak at Library Causes Wetting Of 10,000 Volumes Some 10,000 books, including bound volumes of newspapers, were dam- aged by water last week, when a sudden thaw in the middle of the night caused a leak into the south- east and south stacks at the Library of Congress. Officials of the Library today stated |{ that the damage in no case was ir- | reparable and said that the books wetted were not among the rare volumes in the great collection. This leak was said to be the first of its kind in the history of the Library and every step is being taken by David Lynn, architect of the Cap- itol buildings, to prevent its recur- rence. Boyeott Berlin Hat Check. BERLIN, February 28.—A mild boy- cott has been inaugurated against the “Check your hat and coat” girls and boys in Berlin, who legally charge one gold mark or 25 cents. SPECIAL NOTICES. Leaky Roofs From SNOW AND ICE Cost money, worry and trouble, but you can end it all 1n a hurry by simply calling up the old reliable roofing experts for 35 years. Call Main 760, Wash. Loan & 8. Grafton & Son, Inc., 7' "yflllnl and Roofing Experts for 35 Years,' We Always Make Good ~—when called on_to put roofs in perfect condition. Can we serve you? IRONCLADERRE,. Hadthinie: Let Us Paint Your Automobile lass process. 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The show will be held again tomorrow and Saturday nights. There will be no charge for ad- mission, and the committee in charge announces favors and samples will be distributed. Music will be a fea- ture. FIRE NEXT TO FIRE HOUSE. Blaze Does $3,000 Damage Ad- joining No. 22 Company. Although adjoining the headquar- ters of No. 22 engine company, the home of Howard Hixson, 5708 Geor- gia avenue northwest, was badly damaged by fire vesterday afternoon. When they were informed of the blaze by a colored girl firemen found much headw had been made, and they were forced to sound an alarm for dditional companles. Twenty ry birds in the basement of the house were saved. The fire was con- fined to the upper floors. was estimated at $3,000. 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