The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 9

' { } MONDAY, JAN. 28, 1918 eT he New Wilson of War Time Studious Recluse in the White House, Withdrawn More Than| Ever From: Contact With the World—Reading, Writing and Thinking in His Sanctum—Steale Away for a Game of Golf Before Addressing Congress. By Samuel M. Williams Copyright, AVE on those momentous days when he goes to the Capitol to ad- dress the Houses of Congress, President Wilson ts seldom seen either by official or unofficial Washington. As the world war @0es on and the strain of nations comes nearer the breaking point, the intellectual commander of the Allies withdrawe more deeply into the weclusion of his study, The White House of today fs @ vastly different place from what it was during our last war, in 1898, with Spuln, when McKinley dwelt there, or, going further back, to Civil War days, when Lincoln often baced its floors in sleepless nights Presidents have changed, Limes have changed, but greater than all other changes are the daily life and official routine of the Hxeoutive Mansion prescribed and followed by Woodrow Wilson. It le no longer the open doored headquarters of American Government, the popular throne of democracy, the first visiting place of travellers and tourists. Higher and higher have grown the intangible barriers to free and easy access. More and more has the President withdrawn himself from bereonal contact with the political and business world. Less and less does the public see and know of his daily life, Fierce light te sup- posed to beat upon thrones, but it fa dimmed and non-penetrating on tho White House. In the first two years of Mr. Wilaon's Administration he aaw more callers in a week than he does now in a year, and he discusséd affairs of state comparatively freely with them. He kept regular business hours {n that annex to the Mansion known as the Executive Offices. There he had a desk at which he worked In a semt-ctroular room, deco- rated pale green, with windows looking out on beautiful gardens, In this room he received twice a week a group of newspaper corre spondents whom he sometimes crmeked jokes and familiarly called them hia unofficial Cabinet. From 10 to 1 o'clock he saw also a stream of callers by appointment—Senators, Representatives, delega tions from all pirts of the country, and friendly visitore. Adjoining is a larger room tn whiob the Cabinet waa wont to meet with unfatling regularity on Tusadays and Fridays. When Wilson Rubbed Elbows. Sometimes Mr, Wileon went over to the Preas Club and to Grid. fron dinners and visited unexpectedly the homes of friends. With easy freedom he walked the streets of Washington and went to different golf clubs to play over thelr links, In those days be gave the impression of an intellectual individual rather awkwardly trying to touch elbows with the world and making commendable progress. A vastly different atmosphere envelops the White House to-day, produced partly by the dangers and necessities of war and partly by a change in the President's own habits and inclinations, The desk in the pale green room of the Executive Offices is seldom occupied. The dis- cussions of public affairs with the newspaper correspondents have long since been discontinued. The posted lst of callers by appointment seldom appears. Cabinet meetings are frequently omitted. Senators and Representatives complain that they cannot get to the President. How, then, does the Prosttent spend his days, what {a his routine, and in what manner dooa he order bis affairs? The shortest possible answer would be the three words, “Reading, writing, thinking.’ Most of his waking houre are spent within the White House, On the second floor, looking out over the gardens w the rear, he has a favorite room, fitted up as a combination library and office, where most of his work is done, There, writing for himself on « little typawriter, waa composed the message that launched America {nto the war and all the subsequent messages which the world has eagerly read. Only Glosest intimates are admitted to this sanctum. The com. paratively few callers who get to see Mr. Wilson these days are, as a rule, invited to the residential part of the White House, not to the office annex, and are recelyed in one of the main floor parlors. The President fa not an early riser, like some of his predecessors who had the daybreak habit. He prefers late night hours to the eun- rise, but frequently he will surprise his staff by turning over to them an immense amount of work accomplished by 9 o’clook {n the morning. Little Leteure for Exercise. Under the insistence of Rear Admiral Grayson, the President has Jearned the necessity of exercise and outdoor air. But how to get it between the watchful restrictions of Secret Service guards and the tn- stent demands of official work is his hardest problem. Dr. Grayson {s probably the President's closest companion, his physician, his friond and his golf opponent. Many a Morning they steal away together to @ secluded course across the Potomac tn Vir- Ginis for # few bourse on the Mnke, unrecognized aud undisturbed. A notable instance of this ocourred on the recent day Mr. Wilson went suddenly before Congress to state America's war aima and terms of From 9.80 until noon he wes missing, playing a round of golf with Dr. Grayson to clear his taxed brain and ateady his hand for appear. ance in the House of Reprosentatives at 12.80 o’clook. He was there on the minute. In Lincoin’s Civil War days and in McKinley's brief Spanish War period, the President's offves were in the main part of the White House, second floor. Throngs of people entered through the front door and tramped up the stairs with the freedom of an unrestrained democ- racy. Not so today, The fron gates at the etrect entrances aro closed and guarded, Only the little side gate leading to the Executive Offices stands open during the day, watched by intelligent policemen, who pass business callers. All around the White House grounds aro sentries, trying to make themselves inconspicuous. No spectioular military display ts permitted Within, the Preatdent has aeciuded Limcelf. Probably he spends on an average twenty hours out of escd twenty-four Inside ite doors From the flagstaff on ihe roof the flag files by day, and under the porte- cochere of the main entrance a great brillant chandelier of electric Nght burne by night, These are almost the only signs of White House life to reach the public, But in the seclusion of his second floor sanctum Mr. Wilson works and studies to sce through the darkness of world war the way to pain 8 days ahead, 1918, by the Hress Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), ESTHER tees | Wesco: Patriotic Women at a a ; Dollar Less 1 Than $1-a- Year Men 5 MRS VINCENT ASTOR sc ieae | > Time Americans Are as Full of “Buts” to Do Your Bit, as a Bevy of Angora Goats Not Your ‘‘But’’ But—Now That We Know Why Garfield and Hoover issued Their Orders ‘‘ We Have Elimi- nated the Buts, Abolished the Squawks and Are Doing Our Bit.” BY ARTHUR Copyright, 4, by the Press Publishing Go (The New York ening World), STATESMAN !5 u patriot who offers your s ces to his coun. A try. Ané Amorica as full of statesmen as the Russian lan guage ts of consonan Not that we are slackers, but a lot of us are siickers, We are anxious to do our bit, but first we want to do When Hoover setd that meals were joing to blossom as aaa tu Pp t ever 1 hed a compl edit of squawks and did gieir Lut tnste: thetr } But now that et the proper angle they are doing ir bit hen Ga 1 1 coal wasn't going to be stylish this season, we all bounced arc a ke ants on a hot rock and wanted to know why. Wo were doing Our but, But now that we understand why, we aro doing our bit. Which seems to be the way with Americans, We are as full of buts as a bevy of Angora goats, We don't mind going without our eggs a long as we are allowed to have omelettes. that Is harder to break than a habit cane have been used to having their Henry established his one-way ult imagines that he can see further tian ar Which ts the the why, and at This ts the tt. The only is another habit own way ever Bvt oug thing And Amert- since Patric atum over to the war have found that over to us reason why we tghed the squawk @ to do your bit and not your but have cancelled the but, eliminated {POOR RICHARD JR. | in the hood Friend, never stare @ gi Joth not neces ever tosse y mean a s qu # at anyt ne: akest bis soup with a elpest his guest with @ fork ‘Tie better to have two broken arches in ¢ in thy fedora. sandals than one ‘The patriotic slacker who desireth a non-shootadle 1 Mateth in the Rocky Mountain Coast Defense, the Swivel Ch. and t the Home Guard. {form ene r Cavalry ‘Noted Writers. MV CARDELL Who “Contribute to (“BUGS”) BAER, The flapper who marricth in haste also repenteth In hasta 4 The Bolsheviki discovereth that the Kalser’s mushrooms are toad- stools, The citizen who oppose parteth hiy hatr tn sth compulsory education hath a son who tho middie and who thinketh below hin aukles a Westerner may be both chivalrous and honest New York, Aftor he gets here and takes two cruises in the subway, he maila hia chivairy back home, par- cel-posts hig honesty to Terra Del Fuego and spends the reat of hie life swindling old dowagers out of subway aeate, short-changing orphans out of elbow room and embezzling cripplea out of subway straps, A Southerner or before steering his bunions into | New ration cards will have holes purc*ed in ‘em for each meal, You eat the part they punch out. x is oppaned to th f the frankfurter w The Frankfurter Zoltu Rut there isn’t a char Kaiser's pol ng the d y of war. Indian War Paint Colors Pus Butter to pi * out genuine butter color, | th [ half a dozen persons wore asked| other countries of tropical America, hey would probably acleot differ. | je dye with which butter pultivation of “annatto,” the ves~ | | MONDAY, JAN. 28, 1918 Plenty of Stories of “$1 a Year’? Men Serving the Govern ment, but Little Is Said of the Thousands of Patriotic Women Who Are Serving Without Even*an Hono- rarium—The ‘'400"’ Has Become the 4,000,000. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1918. by the Press Publishing Co. HERE fs one sense in which the war for democracy is already won, one form of autocracy that has perished from the earth forever. For it has become apparent that the social castes created and maintained by women have broken down brought together in works of patriotism women of every degree of rank and fortune, In New York Clty the group of pleasant and un- pleasant men and women which Ward MoAllieter christened the Four Hundred have been melted by the Ores of patriotism into the Four Million, Rudyard Kipling once summarized American distinctions by saying that “in America the milifonatre’s daughter looks down upon tho grocer’s daughter, but the grocer’s daughter does not look up to the millionatre’s daughter.” Personally, this has always seemed to be an unreal distinction, since the grocer’s daughtor and the millionatre'’s danghter are so often one and the samo person and nearly every great American fortune bas its foundations in one trade or another, But whether Kipling was right or not, ft is certain that to-day there is neither looking up nor down among the many million women who are helping America and ber allies to win the war, Beauties who before the war were merely walking sandwich-women of their husbands’ wealth are now putting tin @ ten-hour day in war work. They have found out that work is more stimulating than any and al) the ways of idling which they know in 1914. And since they have shown that they possess willingness and capacity for work, the work- ers themselves have acquired @ new respect for them, The war bas abolished the leisure class in all the Allied countries, where every woman works {n one way or another, War Makes Equals of All. Some years ago Miss Anne Morgan, who is now engaged tm re construction work in France, said to me; “I detest the expression ‘working girl.’ All women work, Only some of us work for money and some for other things. Why not call all of us working womea or none?” I did not agree with Miss Morgan at the time she mad iclsm, but I do to-day. Wo have heard a great deal about the dollar-a-year men who are serving the Government at Washington, Not nearly #0 mach about the nothing-a-year women who are working for Uncle Sam and the Allies all over the United States and in the hospitals and munition social ir crit ehades of yellow, becuuse tew off] colored, It ts obtained from @ small he farm know its real tint as tt] shrub or troe, the # ft whioh are mes from the churn—a ilght|covered with a wasy pulp, Thesc eamy yellow, Butter should be at| re dolled, the accds strained and id hotels, annot fold, ¥ f the receptacle " r n its natural state, The popular ne aa dye iy not new, When} hade varies in different parts of the!” came to Ameri a he tound | t mete 4 y war-like Carib Indiana co souinley) ae buyers demanding a Tea Aee Arne a nna Lene, Og vivid yellow paint, employing for thie This peculartty has built wp an! purpose our modern butter ogloring, mportant industry In Mextoo and “annatto." vorks In Mngland and France. Who are these women? There is Mra, Vincent Astor, now in France doing war work. For a time young Mrs. Astor helped to operate a Y. M. C, A. restaurant at a French port. Vincent Astor ts in the Government service tn France, and Ferncliffe, the Astor home on the Hudson, was offered te * and accepted by the Government as a war hospital. Miss Esther Cleveland, daughter of the late President, Grover Cleveland, volunteored as a nurse at the outbreak of the war. Bhe te taking care of blinded French soldiers at the “Phare de France,” the French branch of “The Light House,” founded by Miss Winifred Holt. Her engagement to Capt. Alfred Bosanquet of the British Army was announced recently. Miss Anne Morgan bas done everything Including washing dishes and making beds to make the lives of the people of France more com- fortable. She has distributed clothing, bedding and food to aged peasants sleeping on the floors of broken-down huts, has assisted in putting up portable houses. She ts among the few American women who entered Verdun during the siege. Miss Morgan has always given her energies to one good work or another, but she has put forth her greatest efforts among the desolate civilians of French territory wrenched from the German grip. Prominent Women Lend Aid. From the outbreak of the war Mrs, Willlam Vanderbilt has dedi- cated all her energies to the American Ambulance tn France, The gold medal of the Foreign OMce, a French decoration bestowed for acta of great devotion, was given to Mrs. Vanderbilt and also to Mre Harry Payne Whitney, who founded a hospital for the wounded at Jullly. Kona American woman who has performed diatinguishe® war service ts Maxine Hiliott, who carried food to starving Belgium on « barge which she chartered herself and took through the canals of France and Flanders into the fighting zone. Mins Elilott scrubbed the deck of the barge herself and with two women friends who ac- companied her did all the cooking on the boat. When distinguished guests visited the barge they ate on an ollcloth table and were served with paper napkins. American women have had service, hor ever. In England two militon w mobillzed for war work and women of title and great fortuno toil {n munition factories, Prom- inent among them was Lady Colebrook, a member of the famous Paget family, who made shells until her health broke down from overwork. Another titled woman—this time of Amertcan birth—who ts nurse in France, !s the Countess de Perlgny, by marriage a member ot one of the oldest families in France. Ida Rubinstein, a Parisian danc tion of having cast off Gabriele ¢ no monop: f patrtotte men t bys the unique distine- » man who drove the tan ambulance of reat Duse tnto broken hearted retiver bed fed Britiah sold the early days of the war used to motor out to the battlefelds and bring in wounded soldiers in her own car, Mme. Rubinstein, who is very rich, gave four motor ambulances to the American Hospital at Neuilly. ‘These women and millions of others of all classes are working as women have never worked before for the success of the Alllfed cause. And as woman's labor {s alwayo less rewarded than man’s, they serve for suet a dollar lesa than the dollare-yeur men. . fitted thirty for wou The fair Rubinstein ta he Evening World’s ’ ALMA WOODWARD © SOPHIE IRENE LOEB. ALBERT PAYSON IERHUNE. ELEANOR SCHORER MARTIN GREEN MARGE HITE My) MARSHALL The‘ Noting a Year Women before the forces of human fellowship which have * (The New York Evening World), (ty aeas Daily Magazine —————— PAULING FURLONG MILORES LODEWICH se