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TRIUMPH OF PROVINCIAL
Typical Traits in College Days
Sent Him to Cornell
Instead of Yale
By CLINTON W. GILBERT
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Faris. June !). (By mail.) Colonel
House gave n little luncheon the other I
day at he Hotel Urillon here in I'aris,
to the American newspaper correspond
ents, the men who have been seeing
him every evening at 5:45 during the
Peace Conference and whom he wishes
to take to London with him, where,
as he says, he will "go on the road"
with 'the league of nations. In the
course of the luncheon the colonel said :
. "I should like to have it made a law
'that when a nation goes to war its
governors should be compelled to serve
in the posts of danger."
Some one asked, "And when you say
that do you mean not only the rulers,
but the men behind the rulers?" The
Colonel laughed.
This Is the unreal Colonel House No.
1. The colonel is not "the mau behind
i the' President." but the man before the
.President. Mr. Wilson is too bic to
4 J be made to owe much to any other man.
Colonel House is not the President's
Creator, bat the President's buffer. He
is the man who makes relations possible
between Mr. Wilson and humanity. It
fJ;'jTlft hardly too much to say that the
'jV. -Peace Conference would have ended in
wt' "nothing more than gestures of with-
ge drawal If Colonel nouse had not been
SMiBere to sympathize with the men who
pfound the President hard, unreasoning,
. Impracticable, a gospel saint or an mitn.
xcrat. He is the complement of Mr.
tyuson, tne Human side of an austere
ftinteHect, the man before the President.
4 ,Co,0el House, "Real" and "Unreal"
&V df-ADooK nas been written entitled "The
sJ "Heal Colonel House." T h ,n.t
Ki'i 4' !nt J 8uPect from what I have been
!j T.fJS: tt l',eron Ju will find in it
fe "The Unreal Colonel House." About
the -real Colonel House no book could
be written. He is too simple. It is
precisely because he is so simple that
people make a mystery of him. The
world refuses to believe in simple tilings
lit demands other explanations. It gets
Uiem in the shape of long volumes.
The French thought they had another
explanation and intended to give the
c colonel a! dinner, nrnhnhiv u.
li1 ,& friend and on'r friend of France in
Ins i v ij -bwuu. in me coi-
iX-fi nel shuW accept these best-frlrn.i ,.
IS vittion8 he would have one from every
'TrV A e J .cc Uowercnce and die
Mfe"0" 'he 'Wrtem give
W& "7CZx u,uucr us. lne oest friend of
IH eiAniCrlca.nJpress in Parl8-) The col
K (Ofiel rnnvprto.) the. r-. v. Ji. . .'
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fc .one for the American delegation on
j ptheii absented himself from it Th
A ite u3e is a mystery.
jot vuionei aim tne King
fe'.V Unreal Col?nel HoU8e is actuated
rr, -- ""'uu uiuuve oi rn.
&S' j;cmemb distinguished and
envious Democrat saying to me in
Washington apropos to one of Colonel
.. . m ic. wasnington as the
representative of the President- "Oh
those British are clever! They pt
?tn-',eiVetl '? BuIRnm Palace.
- They let him stick his feet under the
B' ?u as he falIs for that e'ort of thine
III 'Qh, those British!" B'
ohluq auiC will! n irinc A -.-
f -"" j . 4J1U1BU nm that- ..
thing. But after seeing Colonel House
g .w. , ju rans i can not
aunagine any one to whom f .. . .
fe.Vetick his feet under l.":".'ffs
fe" . and sleep in a king's bed thnn ,- j.!
Psst w colonel House.
Vfr "" r""JJifJh.e ""?I Colonel
4 - ". " "om wash ng-
t,..Atou asked me "Has Hon.. i . ,
IV-Hj,7 ?hey !ajr 80' and "at biography
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jCAt Paris House has been ,. -
P- U5 rt?? rank wh0.?as had mem-
fefc--.? oI th? big four rushing constanM.
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ahlsda. perhars not Llovd r., t...i
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ij r JTi imporiani men as Bal-
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,,.ia me BDiest man at the Peace Confer-
fjjmnj, muta (another of the great)
k'rt'S&jU a critical press is right House
jmt Merer lorgotten mat he was merely
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Bt.BOt the man behind the President:
LMU who sits in the outer office of
fMftteeea.
tVhy ne Went to CorneU
the biography of Colonel House a
is told of how he came to go to
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Colonel House's personality as ilc eloped In his course at Taris showed
his colleagues in the conference and other friends hitherto unsuspected
attributes not unlike those of a well-known figure In fiction, with real
estate as the specialty to which ho applied his talents for diplomacy
Instead of horse trading, which made that redoubted character famous
and a favorite of a myriad readers
Cornell University instead of to Yale,
for which he had prepared. It appears
from the book it was the colonel's pro-
found democracy that led him to the
jounger am comparatively fresh water
institution. This story seems to raise a
question in comparative democracy. The
colonel told the story himself at the
luncheon of how lie went to Ithaca.
He told it not as a correction. He
seems quite unconcerned about the
real" Colonel House.
"Morton, a son of Oliver Morton,
and I were chums in prcn school. It
was through him I got my first contact
with politics in the Hnves-Tilden elec
tion fight. Morton couldn't quite pass
the Yale entrance examination, but did
squeeze through nt Cornell. I w anted
to go to the same college with him and
went to Cornell too."
The colonel is, doubtless, a genuine
Democrat, but not a prig about his
democracy. Our well-known friend the
unreal Colonel House is a prig.
The unreal Colonel House is the man
behind the President, a mystery, vain
and a moral prig. He is also a great
statesman. The man I have seen at
Paris is not a great statesman. He
does not believe in statesmen. He says
with a rather religious accent:
I would rather have the opinion of
the masses of the people on one of these
big questions than that of all the states
men in Kurope. At any rate, it is not
affected with any selfish interest."
No Use Talking !
Our June Offer of Silk Lined
Suits Has Caught the Town
npHE call for them is in-
sistent and the young
men of Philadelphia (their
fathers, too) are agreed
that the William H. Wana
maker Store sets the fash
ion for these very beauti
fully trimmed and tailored
summer suits.
Not only have we set the
fashion for silk-lined qual
ity clothing, we have also
established the fact that
ours bears the lowest
prices in town for equal
quality.
Silk-lined Suits of $28 & $30 value, $24.50
Silk-lined Suits of $35 & $40 value, $29.50
Silk-lined Suits of $40 & $45 value, $34.50
Good deal of attention
is being directed to the iri
descent cloth suits also ih
the offering.
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I That reads n bit priggist, I must admit,
.but I think the colonel believes it or at
any rate thinks that he doc, and what
i the colonel thinks he thinks is unusually
free from coloring matter,
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A ""l-lnformed Man
' I once askec a Democratic senator in
Wahineton nbout Colonel Houe. At
the time I had never met him. The
senator responded after hesitation. "He
is an exceedingly well-informed man."
Certainly not the description of n great
statesman. Great statesmanship con
sists in having opinions and little in
formation. Wasn't it one of our great
est statesmen here who asked a news
paper correspondent, "What was it,
Lower Silesia or Upper Silesia that we
have just given to the Poles?"
The colonel doubtless is a. exceed
ingly well-informed man. He hns had
opportunities since Mr. Wilson became
President of acquiring information such
as no other man in the world has en
joyed. The colonel has had something
more than opportunities. He is inter
ested. He absorbs facts. He is curi
ous. Some one described him as a
blotting paper personality who absorbs
facts and holds himself up before the
mirror o Mr. Wilson's mind.
Probably the capacity to absorb facts
is inconsistent with the capacity for
great statesmanship. People look at
our President and say so. Colonel
House takes up information and re-
mains unchanged. Ho has stuck his
feet under the table, of kings and ho
remains a llttlo Texan real estate
trader. He has as much background as
blotting paper. He reduces European
statesmanship to the terms of Texas
real estate trading. He interprets Flume
and Orlando and the .Tugo-Slavs In the
terms of the men who has a corner lot
in Punkvillo and is fighting to get his
prico for it from the great railway com
pany that is going to start n now line
and convert Punkvillo into the capital
of the league of nations. He hns seen
ci cry thing, been everywhere, dealt in
timately with the greatest problems of
the ace and remains delightfully nrovin
cial. Some ono is going to write somo
dny a thesis upon tho great virtues of
provincialism. He will take as his illus
tration Colonel House.
Triumph of Provincialism
Provincialism is coming into Its own.
Thnt It what the league of nntions
means. That is what the American in
nslon of the world means. If Colonel
House is great it is because in spite of
all he has seen and done he is a simple,
unspoiled provincial and can translate
the world into terms of common experi
ence; can say sympathetically of
France :
"Why. it's exactly like the time
when Bill Houston wanted SS0.000 for
his property to come into the combina
tion in Punkvillc. Let us see what
did we do? Wo elected Bill secretary
of the company or something on the side
and he came in for S7t",000."
lou can't help feclins that the world
is safe in such hands, if you were born
somewhere west of the Mississippi.
Younger Brother of David Harum
If I were compelled to describe this
Colonel House I had seen here in Paris,
I should say that he was the younger
brother of David Harum born when the
inmny nail Decome comfortable and quit
horses to go in for real estate ; educated
in that environ of profound democracy,
tho most exclusive college fraternity at
Cornell; getting through college with n
gentlcmnnly closeness to the thinking
line; to follow for n time the family
line of real estate in Punkvillc; possess
ing an extraordinary interest in poli
tics, and n perfect faith in his mirror
which told him every morning, "Edward
you will never be President," (only a
great man believes in his mirror) ;
thrown Into improving contact with n
remarkable mind from Princeton, and in
the profound upheaval of provincialism
tossed to n high place where kings ran
into see him, when not too busy, in his
little office at the Crillon.
Most Tjpical American
In other words Colonel House is the
most nearly tjpical American among
tne Americans at the Peace Conference;
a middle western American, one of the
kind who could not see Kuropc iq 1014;
Who voted in 191(1 "to keep us out of
the war," nnd ono of the kAd who
in spite of the fact that there arc now,
officially, twenty-two wars in Europe,
believes that a recipe has been found
to end ail war. He has the American
optimism. From time to time he moved
up the date for getting ready the
treaty of peace, but it was always just
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about finished, next wetk would always
sco It done. ' Final? President Wilson
could settle It in ten" minutes. Kalou
Chou was a question of dotal!. An
agreement upon it was easy. Never a
doubt in the cheerful mlad of Colonel
House. And thcro is not one there now.
In spite of all that men have seen of
internationalism hero In Paris tho Col
onel believes, really believes, in the
league of nations.
He is young is the colonel, as every
American Is young. His mind is still
in the age of faith,
"Tho politicians nnd the so-called
statesmen fear the league of nations,"
he will say, "but they don't fear It
enough. They don't half know what It
will do to them."
And his voice In truly American
fashion will run a bit to the reverent as
he discusses his ideal, whether it be
the new-born league or his belief that
the voice of the masses is worth more
than tho wisdom of all the great men of
Europe. Tho colonel does not Lovo the
great men; ho only loves one great man.
He distrusts them. He aligns himself
definitely with the common men of the
world, whoso voice somehow it does
not appear low to any one hero In
Paris he expects to make Itself heard
here In Paris.
No Lave Lost Here
The feeling between the colonel and
the politicians is mutual. The politicians
don't like the colonel. The colonel docs
not like tho politicians.
Houso got his first view of the poli
ticians back in tho days of the Hayes
Tildcn controversy, when tho issuo
whether he should go to the democratic
Cornell or the not so democratic Yale
wns being decided for him by tho ab
sences from school of his friend Morton.
Ho decided during his many visiting to
Washington that he did not like their
politicians or their wnys. Ho folt that
in public life' only two or three men
counted nnd that it was very difficult to
be one of thoso two or three nnd not
worth while to bo one of tho others.
It is the politicians who have made
a mystery of Colonel House. For sev
eral jcars he has been tho greatest of
them nil and ho succeeded in ways past
their finding out. His method has not
been their method. His motives have
not been their motives. Therefore there
must be some explanation that did not
appear on the surface. The least dis
interested persons in the world cannot
explain the most disinterested except in
towns of somo hidden interest.
Ambition Hits Him at Last
A great period of exploration is com
ing. The colonel is about to fall from
his high ideal of never decking public
office. Ambition is at last making him
her own. The colonel wants to sit in
the league, of nations for America.
For America, mind you, not as the
personal representative of Mr. Wilson.
To represent America means to gobe
fore the American Senate for confirma
tion, to have your qualifications can
rassed in the press; to be investigated,
catechised, pawed over by the poli
ticians who resent the success of the
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man who has played tho game in an
other way than their own.
It is going to bo a great moment for
democracy. There Is first of alL tho
great democracy of the politicians, who
resent what might be called tho aristo
crat of politics. Then there is the wider
democracy of tho people, who may, per
haps, wonder why this man who love's
them so much should have never sought
them more nearly, should never have
submitted himself to their suffrages or
at least gono before their representatives
for the npproval of his qualifications for
'office; why he should always, bo acting
outsluo ot instead of wltnin popular
institutions ; why he should have always
been a "personal representative" rather
autocratic In his origin.
Slate Department Not Friendly
Then, too, there Is the StatcDcpart
ment. In the confusion of our insti
tutions tho Stato Department has suf
fered. Secretary Lansing was the nom
inal head of 'the American delegation
here. House was Its real head. All
other governments brought their State
Departments here to help frnnme the
treaty; tho American Government
brought a House organization, parallel
ing the Stato Department, but outside
It, unofficial, personal, representing the
peoplo in some way not clear to the
people themselves.
Tho State Department docs not love
House. The State Department has close
connections with tho foreign relations
committee of tho Senate before which
House's name must go. Lansing has
an old score to settle. A man whose
trousers were not so carefullypressed
as Lansing's would resign from the
Cabinet and throw himself into tho fight
to prevent the' choice of House to rep
resent theAmericnn nation in the league
of nations. But the creases in those
trousers suggest doubt.
The Republicans, who will control
tho fcrelgn relations committee of tho
Senate, will want to ask Colonel House
some questions. The pleasure of having
Colonel House before them will only
fall a little short of tho pleasure that
might be derived from having President
Wilson before them. Thcro is u novel
lying around second-hand book shops of
which Colonel House is said to havo
been tho author. He will be asked
about that. Several other distinguished
works of fiction, such as early drafts
of the league of nations covenant, made
before General Smuts entered the lists
ns author, are ascribed to the pen of
Colonel House. The Republican sena
tors will ask tho colonel about these,
too. Th.e Houso state department,
paralleling tho American State Depart
ment, will be a subject of Inquiry. The
jealous here say that the House organi
zation made a complete failure and
that British foreign office men did all
the real work on the treaty.
Democracy vs. Autocracy
At any rate, the aristocratic principle,
as practiced by perhaps the most genu
ine democrat in public life, is going to
come into violent conflict with the
democratic principle as professed by
some of our leading aristocrats in senti
ment. The conflict will be Interesting. .
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emerge. If ho does, ho wilt appca a
rather typical American, provincial in
tho best American , sense, uncritical,
playing the game for the game's sake;
great oply so far ns simplicity makes
ono great; believing one thing, nnd, like
most ot us, practicing the opposite, be
cause, that is tho easiest way ; n mystery
because to on American tho most diffi
cult thing to explain is an American;
but perfectly understandable to Europe,
which reads Cooper, Lincoln, Whitman
nnd Mark Twain.
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(Vteneln. who have nuked permission to
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