PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANGER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 4

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANGER

JOKES AT'HIS POLICIES AT .' OFFICERS' DINNER, President Wilson's severity was visited on the highest officers of tho Army and Navy on, December 15, when he' directed that an investigation should' be mad'ij into the reosent iiJintial dinner of tho Military Order of Carabao, composed of Army and' Navy officers who served in tho Philippines at the time of the insurrection. • The dinner is usually nttendo'd by the President, and, always'by tho Navy and War Secretaries. During tho recent dinner there were, "vaudeville acts" satirising public men,. President Wilson ■is enraged at the ridicule directed oil his policy of ultimate independence for the Philippines and at the jokes at Mr. Bryan's (tho Secretary of State's.) ■'peace plan" and his grape-Juice dinners. President Wilson was, particularly incensed at a song, "DamuJ damn, damn the insurrectosf' •though exPresklcii.t Taft used to join merrily, in the. chojus. ' ' . ; . Mr,. Garrison, the Secretary .for War.) and sfr.-.D'aiiiels, the Navy Secretary, share President. Wilson's feeling that criticism ■ of Government fiofioies by nfficersc(iij J)iid;,tnßte.,{; President .Wilson has suggested a; eourtrraartia! or roprirmaml of the..hundreds., of officers, wlio attended the dinner, while Mr. Doiiiels is disposed fo require that AdmiralHoward should decline the presidency of the order .which was voted to Mm. .. Slcinwhilo espjajiatious are de.maiHl.od.' fron) Admiral JJowai'd and Quarter-master-.GMeml Aloshire, tho highest Naval and .Ariny officers present at the dinner.'' President Wilson mainly resented the' ridicule east on ■Cabinet members. ' ■. Air, Bryan's niartto, "The Navy should emisist of two ships. ?nniiicly, '.FricjiuV shipand'Fellowship," was,illustrated at the dinner bv tiny craft, respectively labelled "TJ.S.S, Frieiutship, Folloivship, niul Piffle;" Tiie Philippine policy was lampooned- by a kinematograph picture of a ileting rebel colonel who, when caugMj-promptly becomes, tho provincial Governor-