In lighter vein, "and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing." The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst. If they would only swell to the point where you might insert a pin and let the gases out, it would be a great benefit. But the men who grow, the men who think better a year after they are put in office than they thought when they were put in office, are the balance wheel of the whole thing."
"I have come through the fire since I talked to you last," added the President. "Whether the metal is purer than it was, and only knows, but the fire has been there, and the people have penetrated every part of it, and if I have believed my own thoughts, I have less partisan feeling, more impatience of party maneuver, more enthusiasm for the right thing, no matter whom it hurts, than I ever had before in my life."
Correspondents of papers that "have not yet heard of modern times," ought, he said, to send them as many intimations of modern movements as they are willing to print. To illustrate the need for progress if only to keep abreast of the times, Provident Wilson quoted an English writer, who said that if you want to keep a white post white you could not let it alone because it would get black. He riled the experience of "Alice in Wonderland," who,  With the (Continued on Second Page.)
WILLING TO HAVE AMERICAN TROOPS REMAIN IN MEXICO
Meanwhile Carranza Will Endeavor to Prove Ability to Control Situation. 