Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1924, Page 2

pa PAGE TWO WAR PRESIDENT, he ine 18 tir B! FINDS REST IN FINAL PASSING ued from Page 1) t him in her tender care. the Grim Reaper had into the house after staircase and stood { the ticks of the great Saturday night he knocked on the chamber door. A Faithful physician and a loyal wife stood with their backs against it. At 9 o'clock he rattled the knob and called to the peaceful, prostrate figure on the bed—a great bed. long and wide, a replica of the bed in which Abraham Lincoln slept in the White House, with a golden Am- erican eagie and a tiny silk Amer- ican flag just over the head board. ‘The watchers knew the battle w: lost. At the portal of the door now open, the faithful negro ser- vant hovered. On the bed, sitting beside her husband, sustained with all the fortitude and composure of a woman facing @ crisis, was Mrs. wil ding between her hands the wan, withered right hand that had proved the pen mightier than the sword. Near the foot of the bed was his eldest daughter, Mar- garet, resigned to the inevitable. Clot by, eyes and cc tears welling from his rsing down his cheeks ayson, taking the mea- eof the fluttering pulses, weak- each effort. Death advanced and beckoned for the last time The tired, wornout a long breath, there was flutter of the eyelids, an al- reeptible twitch of the was Dr. ¢ a slight mést imp nostrils. We ed ov rur ow Wilson's soul had drift- on the great dark tide that 1 the world. Qut through the city stilled in a Sabbath morning's reverential calm, ‘his name was being spoken from a hundred pulpits, Over a great land that had ac- claimed him chie?, and in lands across the seas where he had been hailed as a god of peace, prayers were rising for the repose of his soul, In the street before the square brick house where he has lived with his memories, his hopes and his re- grets, was another scene. There was a gathering of people there. It was not a crusading throng come to a mecca in pilgrimage to attest their faith in the ideals he person- ited, It was a group of men and wo- men kneeling on the pavement in silent prayer. Small prayer slips bearing the inscription ‘Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men" Held in their hands, fluttered in the child wind that swirled up the de- bris and litter left there by the watchers engaged in the solemnity of the death watch that the world might know. Mr. Wilson is attaining the peace that passeth all understanding,” said thoir leader while the throng sank to its knees and remained in silence for.a minute. Almost at this moment Mr. Wil- s0n was passing on. Immediately the great govern- ment over whick he presided for n taking steps to of its respect. President Coolidge heard the word of Mr. Wil- son's death while in church with Mrs, Coolidge. Immediately at the conclusion of the services he drove to the Wilson home and left cards. Later he sent his secretary to offer any aid whatever. Flags on government bulldings and government property were low- ered to half-mast. The news went to army posts and to the ships at sea. A thirty-day period of official mourning was ordered as ‘he gov- ernment had done for Colonel Roose- velt and other former presidents. Congress arranged to adjourn, ex- ecutive departments were ordered closed on the day of the funeral; Social activities at the White House coming within the period of mourn- ing were ordered abandoned. Realizing fully that he could not hope to rally from the onslaught of the digestic disorder which sapped his strength, weakened his heart and accentuated the condition which followed his stroke of paraly- _—=S——: sis, he watched for a moment when all except Dr. Grayson were out of his bed chamber. Drawing his frienad and physician close, he murmured with some difficulty of erticulation: “The old machine has broken down. You've done your best for me. But it's better that I should go than to live on a helpless imvalid. Tell Mrs. Wilson I want her. I'm ready.” These words formed the last com- Plete sentence spoken by the former president. ILLNESS DATED BACK TO 1919 WASHINGTON, Feb, 4.—(By the Associated Press)—The real cause of Woodrow Wilson's death was a stroke his collapse in the late summer of 1919. Like Warren G, Harding, he was stricken while on a speaking trip in the -west Up to the time of his collapse the country thought him a normally healthy man, but he was far from it, He-entered the White House with a well developed start’ toward Brights disease which caused his physicians to predict that he never would finish his first term. But by careful devotion to his doctor's or- ders he fought off the malady. He was practically blind in one eye froma retinal hemorrhage which came while he was still at Princeton university, but the country never knew it. Years before he had suf. fered a thrombosis—a blood clot in his arterles—but it was in one of his logs and never developed any serious trouble. The same thing in his brain later on laid him low and led to his death. By his own personal directions, the exact nature of his fatal illness was concealed from the world for months because he feared public knowledge of it, while he was pres- ident ight lead to a stock market panic, and-possibly far reaching con- sequences to a world then passing through the first stages of post- war réconstruction Some of the details came out piecemeal and over a long period of time. Others have not been hitherto published. It ts appropriate therefore to give them now that he {s dead The first indication of serious !1l- ness came during the night of § tember 25, 1919, while the president’ special train between Pueblo, Colorado and Wichita, Kansas, com- ing eastward on the return part of his speechmaking trip. The increas- ing strain upon his physical re- sources had been growing apparent but none of his party suspected the breaking point was so near. There was no truth In rumors that the president had become incoherent during some of his last speeches, al- though it was true that he had dis- played great emotion, which was unusual for his manner of speak- ing. When Mr, Wilson finished speak- ing at Pueblo that afternoon he was exhausted and covered with clammy perspiration. An examination by Dr. Grayson disclosed nothing mark- edly wrong and he was put to bed. Mrs, Wilson remained up with him, as he complained of _ restlessness. Soom after midnight he complained of feeling ill and Dr. Grayson found him in a state of nervous exhaus- tion, with the right side: of his face twitching,.as it often had done be- foré when he was very tired and worn out. But the physician was alarmed and shocked to note saliva from a corner dent's mouth and also the facial muscles on the left side. Recognizing immediately that. a stroke of paralysis was impending, Dr. Grayson warned Mr. Wilson of his grave condition; strongly sug- gested that he cancel the remainder of the tour, and immediately return to Washington; and in conclusion, that he try and get some sleep. “I won't be able to sleep at all doctor if you say I must cancel the tri Mr, Wilson responded. “Even if giving my own life would accom- plish this object, I gladly would sive it.” The physician quieted his patient as. best he could and took steps to cancel the remainder of the speak- ing engagements and bring the pres- ident to Washington. Mr. Wilson, yielding to the entreaties of Mrs. Wilson, acquuesced and the facts were announced to the country in an official statement, which said: “President Wlison’s condition is due to overwork. The trouble dates back to an attack of influenza last April in Paris from which he never has fully recovered. The president's activities on this trip have over- taxed his strength and he is suffer- a drooling of of the presi- a drooping of paralysis which followed | November 4, 1912— United States. August’ 6, 1914—Wife died. ships and lives. December 20, 1916—Sent “; many April 6, 1917—United Sta December 4—Sailed from of American peace commission. Harding. ing from nervous exhaustion. His condition is not alarming but it will be necessary for his recovery that he have rest and quiet for a consid. erable time.” (it 1s a fact that up to this time Mr, Wilson had not suffered a stroke, but the danger of one was recognized.) With that announcement the country got its first information UAMOp UeX0Iq PLY ZUEepTseId ey FEY) and on Sepember 26 and 27 as his special train rolled along toward Washington the president rested and slept whi'e Mrs. Wilson and Dr Grayson took turns being with him. They arrived home Sunday morning, September 28, at 11 o'clock. For the first time in three days Mr. Wilson rose front his bed and walkéfi to: the White House motor car which awaited him. He looked pale and drawn, but he walked without assistance and returned the greetihgs of o small crowd of travel- ers which he passed in the railway station. Although there was no crowd to welcome him outside the railway termiaal, Mr. Wilson, as his car drove off, solemnly raised his hat and bowed as if returning greet- ings from a great throng, as he had done so many times in the past. ‘The incident was explained by Phystv- jans as being a case of abstraction heightened by his exhausted con- dition and suggested by habit. But it was magnified into a rumor that Mr. Wilson had lost his mind. Sub- sequent events disproved it conclus- ively but it lived long and was used freely by political enemies. That afternoon he was well en- ough to take a motor ride in Rock Creek park and for the next few days Dr. Grayson prescribed a routine of ‘no work and no worry. The comihg visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians to the White House was postponed and busiress of all forms was kept from him. The period of rest seemed to be making good progress and on Sep- tember 30, Dr. Grayson announced that the president had passed the best day since the beginning of his breakdown. He was. permitted to sign some bills and congressional re- solutions, nominations and dictate some brief letters, everything went encouragingly uatil October 1... On the afternoon that day Mr. Wil- son went for another motor ride with his wife and Dr. Grayson. Dut- ing the evening all assembled in one of the large rooms of the ex- ecutive mansion and enjoyed a family motion picture show. Later in'the evening the president and his doctor took a turn at billiards but they did not play long. About four o'clock on the morn- Ing ef,October 5, Mrs. Wilson heard the president in the bath calling in a weak voice. Dr. Grayson was summoned and to his horror found Mr. Wilson prostrate on the bath room floor. In a semi-conscious If this Signature 6.7 -Lerove is NOT on the BrROomMG Box, it is NOT QUININE “There is no other BROMO QUININE” Proven Safe for more than a Quarter of a Century as a quick and effective remedy for Colds, Grip end Influenza, and as a Preventive. Th e First and Original Cold and Grip Tab Price 30 Cents condition he had fallen as if wound- ed in the lefc leg, with the member crumpled’ under him on the bath mat. The physician rolled the prostrate form fully cnto the rug and then grasping it by two corners dragged his burden across the hall into a bed chamber, and finding himself unequal to the task of lifting the president into bed alone, called Mra, Wilson and together they succeeded. During all this ordeal the president's wife was cool and offered suggest- ions to the physician. Once in bed the president seemed to regain his senses and murmured that he felt sleepy. The tell tale drooling of saliva from the president's mouth and the twitching of the fate were there Again. They wrote their own dia- gnosis. Woodrow Wilson «had been par- alyzed on his left side and lay in the shadow of death. With the first movement of his lips he extracted ®@ promise from the doctor and his Wife that his condition, if serious, must not become known, Dr. Grayson summoned from Philadelphia Dr. Franvis. X.‘ Der- cum, a foremost specialist and one of the only two Americans ever received into the Societe de Neurol- gic of Paris, the membership of which {s confined to leas than fifty of the world's foremost scientists. He also called in Rear Admiral B, R, Stitt of the naval medical corps, ® distinguished diagnostician, and Dr, Sterling Ruffin of this elty, Mrs, Wilson's family physician, WOODROW WILSON’S CAREER December 28, 1856—Born Staunton, Va. 18745—Student at Davidson College, North Carolina. 1879—Student at Princeton. ui 1881—Graduate in law, University of Virginia. 1882—-Practiced law in Atlanta, Ga. 1883-5—Student at Johns Hopkins. June 24, 1885—Married Ellen Louise Axsen. 1885-S—Professor Bryn Mawr College. 1888-90—Professor Wesleyan University. 1890-1910—Professor Princeton. 911-1913—Governor New Jersey. Slected President United States. March 4, 1913—Inaugurated president. . Ss August 4, 1914—Proclaimed neutrality in World War of February 10, 1915—Sent note to Germany holding German government to a “strict accountability” for safety of American December 18, 1915—Married Edith Bolling Galt. November 7, 1916—Re-elected president . February 3, 1917—Severed diplomatic relations with Ger- dismissing Ambassador Bernstorff. March 4, 1917—Second inauguration. April 2, 1917—Asked congress to declare the existence of the state of war with Germany. * November 11, 1918—Read terms of German armistice to congress and announced end of war. November 29—Named American March 4, 1921—Turned over presidency to Warren G. SS ees \ Che Casper Daily Erisune ) DEATH OF WILSON CASTS SHADOW OVER ENTIRE NATION peace note” to belligerents. tes declared war on Germany. ce commission. New York for Europe as head A two hour consultation develop- ed the agreement that Mr. Wilson had suffered what is medically known as a cerebral thrombosis—a blood clot in one of thé bloodvessels in the right side of the brain, Its leffect was to impair the motor nerves of the left side as well as the sensitory nerves. For the next week Mr. “Wilson hovered between life and’ death. Bverything that it-was possible to do was done. In a few days there was some res- ponse to treatment. Mr. Wilson's spirits rose. Mr. Wilson wanted to read and could not do it in bed with nose glasses, so his oculist was summoned down from Philadelphia and fitted him with spectacles. Mr. Wilson had suffered the re- tinal hemorrhage in his right eye years ago and Dr. Grayson wanted the oculist, Dr. George De Sthwein- Its ‘to examine it. “I want to look at your pupils,” aid the oculist. You'll have a long job, back the sick president Sick as he was, he cnated finement to bed and wanted to get up. “Your temperature . is exactly normal this morning,” said Dr. Grayson’ on one occasion, soon thereafter. “My temper won't be normal if you keep me in this bed much longer,” returned Mr. Wilson. But anxious as he was to “try his legs,” his physician, knowing the true condition dissuaded him from risking it, Up to this time Mr. Wilson, insisting that his con- dition be kept secret, had excluded from his room all but members of the family, the doctors and two trusted nurses from the naval dis- | pensary. The valet who shaved him was barred and Woodrow Wil- son grew a beard and moustache. He n't worn whiskers for thirty years, not since he was a student at Johns Hopkins, when he wore “burnsides.”” He accounted it a rather good joke and used to. care- fully brush the adornment every day. Meanwhile the secrecy which sur- rounded the details of the _presi- dent's fllness gave rise to some compliications, Congress. wanted to know whether he had suffered a constitutional disability to per: form the functions of his” office. Mr, Wilson and his wife were de- termined that congress shouldn't find cut. Members of the cabinet found it fruitless to ask for an au- dience in the sick room. There were long days when even Joseph P. Tumulty, the president's secretary, was excluded from the sick room, s0 close was the veil drawn to conceal his real condition. Political opponents in congress who wanted to develop whether the pres- ident was in mental condition to consider a state documéut arranged to have sent up to the. White House some resolutions which ac- tually required a signature. Mr. ‘Wilson signed them, with great ef- fort, but the pen strokes were the wavering, wandering lines of a pal- sied hand, quite unlike the positive bold strokes with which he usually wrote “Woodrow Wilson, Thero had been no meeting of the cabinet during this period. Some of the members who were not in accord with the policy of secrecy determined to force things a little. Secretary Lansing, then at the head of the state department called a meeting of the cabinet and quizzed Dr. Grayson and Secretary Tumulty about the president's con- dition.. Mr. Lansing, however, was not supported by some other cabinet members as he probably had reason to expect to be, and the attempt to get some information failed. This Incident undoubtedly was the prin- ciple factor in Mr. Wilson’s abrupt dismissal of Mr. Lansing later when he learned of it, The agitation in congress finally came to a head and it was deter- mined to “find out whether we have ® president or not,” as one political leader expressed it, Tho Mexican situation furnished the occasion for passing ® resolution which the senate decided warranted a confer: ence of the foreign relations com. mittee with the president, Séna- tor Fall of New Mexieo, # reptbli- can and administration policy eppe- nent, whe became seeretary of the (Continued on Pas con-,| Beyen.) Wilson amply demonstrated The death of Woodrow Te. moves the dominant of the decade from 1910 to 1920. Wil- son and Theodore Roosevelt will probab'y go into history as the lead- tng actors on history's stage dur- ing the generation in which they Were the culmination. Only the mature judgment of his- tory can assign Wilson his certain Place. He lived and worked and ruled in the years that produced Kaiser Wilhelm, Lioyd George, Clemenceau, Kitchner and other men who occupied whole chapters in world history. He reached the world’s summit of applause during the Paris peace conference and his ebb, as broken in body and fame, ‘Dut not in spirit he rode down Penn- fylvania avenue through the sun- shino of March 4, 1921, away from the White House, forever. Born of stern, unbending Scotch Presbyterian stock, Wilson had much of the cold austerity of Scot- nd’s craigs. To him there were only two classes of men—those for him and those against him. He saw no iddle ground. Few outside of his immediate circle loved him, and he loved few. Mil- ions admired him for his admitted strength of vision, idealism and in- dorltable courage, Millions hated him for his intoleranée to views other than his own and for the ruthlessness with which he swept aside opposition, His was a lonely, self-contained personality, Yet, with body broken and o'd age creeping fast upon him, his closest friends say he mourned that he could not awaken love in the hearts of the people for whom he felt he had done so much; for Whom he had advanced his ideals and fur whom he felt he had suffer- ed something akin to martyrdom. Desired Love Wilson's political death softened the snimosities of ruthless politics and the passing of the ex-President is today mourned by a nation that always had the highest respect for his deep learning, diligent search after truth and unswerving devo- tion to what he believed were the world’s ‘deals and which he adopted as his own. In a* measure, Wilson was a self made man, ‘His parentage was sturdy, but poor. His father was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterfan minie- ter; his moth, Janet Wilson, the descendant of a family o!% Scotch Presbyterian ministers noted for thelr aggressiveness. Thomas ‘codrow Wilson was rm De 56 in unton, )Va., ‘here’ hi ir se a ‘oO years later the family moved to Au- Buta, ‘Ga., where Wilson spent most of his childhood. He was a normal boy, played baseball on the forner lot and refused to learn the alphabet until he was nine years ola. His early tutors were his father and mother. At seventeen Wilson began his scholastic career at Davidson Col- lege, and in 1875 he entered Prince- ton University. Here he seems t6 have moulded those pecu‘iar traits of personality that afterwards set him apart as an individual, as Presi- dent of Princeton University, Gov- erfior of New'Jersey and President of the United States. Wilson's urge to self-expression first took a literary bent. While a, student at Princeton and later while attending the University of Virginia law school, he wrote var- ious pamphlets and articles, mostly devoted to political and humanitari- an subjects. Vague idealism com- bined with an amazing grasp of his subject mark his early writings. Perhaps the best known of his more mature works is a “History of the American People,” and “The New Freedom,”. The latter book is regarded by critics as a masterly presentation of liberal theories of government and economics. Completing the law course at Vir- gina, Wilson hung cut his shingle in ‘Atlanta, Georgia, but clients did not flock to the young attorney, and m 1883 he abandoned the bar and took up a course of special studies at Johns Hopkins University. Here he met James Bryce, then Ambas- sador from Great Britain, and col- Iaborated with Bryce on his great work on the “American Common- wealth” Undoubtedly Wilson w: great!y influenced by the scholarly and Utopian Englishman. In 1885 he raarrled Helen Louise Axsen of Savanna's Ga., the moth- er of his three daughters, Margaret, Jessic and Eleanore, Wilson began his teaching career as professor of history and political economy at Bryn Mawr, which chair he filled for two years, going in 1888 to Wesleyan University for @ One-year stay as professor in the game subjects. Went to Princeton Back at Princeton in 1890, as pro- fessor of jurisprudence and politics, Wilson lectured to crowded class- rooms, and in 1892 he was e'ected President of Princeton University. Princeton at that time was the home of a large number of clubs composed entirely of the sons of rich men, creating a so-called aristocracy abhorrent to the new president's broad democratic views. After a stiff tilt with entrenched privilege as represented by the gilded stu- dent youths, Wilson gained a par- tial victory, but was never able to Uberalize Old Nassau to his liking. Partly as a result of this. fight, which developed into conflict be. tween Wilson and the board of trustees, Wilson resigned the presi- dency of Princeton, and accepted the democratic nomination for Gover. nor of Now Jersey, An executive of New Jersey from 1911 till he waa nominated for prest- dent by the Democratic national convention, Baltimore, July 8, 1912, the REVIEWING THE LIFE OF WILSON ASKETGH OF THE WAR PRESIDENT vigor and independence of his poll- tical asiprations, and in some meas- ure manifested the personal aloof- ness that characterized his later career. : ‘Woodrow ‘Wilson took the oath of office. as president on March 4, 1918, after one of the most sweep- ing triumphs ever known in prest- dential elections. Factional war in the Republican party gave him an overwhelming majority of electoral votes and his party had a majority of five in the senate and held more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower house. - The Mexican Affair. In March, 1915, Wilson authorized mobilization of troops on the border to deal with Villa, the Mexican first wife died In the fall of 1915 the engage ment of the president to Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt, of Washington, daugh- ter of William H. Bolling, a promi- nent Virginia lawyer, Was an- nounced. They were married in Washing- ton on December 18, 1915. This was the third Wilson wedding in the White House, two of the prest- dent's daughters having been mar- ried there, Miss Jessie Wilson became the bride of Francis Bowes Sayre on November 25, 1913. Miss Eleanor Wilson Was married to William G, McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, in May, 1914. In the meantime, Wilson's notes of warning were unheeded by Ger- many and Austria, and on February 3, shortly after he had first outlined in a memorable address to congress his plan for a league of nations, Wilson broke off diplomatic rela- tions with Germany. ‘This was in MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1924 reply to the Kaiser's submarine war- fare. On March 16, 1917, Wilson declared a state of “armed neutral- ity,” and a month later, April 2, he demanded that congress declare war on Germany. From that day until the armistice on November 11, 1918, Wilson bent Early in 1919, Wilson broke all precedents by going to Paris to participate in the peace conference, from which he returned with both victories and defeats. His fight was far from ended, and after present- ing the treaty to congress, he again ‘took the issue to the people, with another 8,000-mile stump-speaking trip-for the treaty and the League of Nations. After speaking once and some- times twice a day for twenty-three days, the president suffered 2 nerv- ous collapse on a train between Pueblo, Colo., and Wichita, Kans., and on orders of Admiral Grayson, his personal physician, he gave up his speaking trip. Cancelling his scheduled Wichita speech, the presi- dent was rushed to the White House, where for nearly four months he was kept abed most of the time. The date of Wilson's “return to power” after his illness probably will go down as February 13, when it was revealed by correspondence given out at the White House he had accused Robert Lansing, secre- tary of state, of attempting to usurp the president's guthority and had practically demarified the ‘sec- retary’s resignation. Lansing re- “Glad to advise you unhesitatingly they are more than satisfactory in every way. Thus would read the testimonial of every housewife who has used Van Duzer's Certified Fla- voring Extracts.—Advertisement. tired from the Wilson cabinet, but denied his intentions in calling in. formal cabinet meetings during the President's illness was for superced. ing the head of the government. Public comment on the incident as making a threat to withdraw his concern from European affairs unless a previous decision regari. disposition of Fiume and the mwas upheld. Owing to illness, Mr. Wilson was comparatively “inactive to the date of his retirement, when 51: ceeded by Warren G. Harding March 4, 1921. He retired to : newly purchased home in the 1 tional capital and busied hims: with his books until death can While he took Mttle active part polities or public business, his ters from time to time showed that his keen grip on public affairs had not weakened and his fighting hear: was still si! In the 1 of 1923, Mr. Wilson received several delegations and several statements by him were broadcasted. He also contributed to magazine: “A WOMAN OF PARIS” STARTS TOMORROW AMERICA Hi MM yc Afternoon if All This Week A WONDERFUL SALE OF NEW Spring Dresses and Coats ; 5 & A Very Special Purchaie Enables Us to Offer Them at Very Special Prices. New Styles, Fabrics and Colors New Satin Faced Cantons New Canton Crepes New Flat Crepe Dresses New Georgette Dresses New Wool Crepe Dresses Street Dresses Sports Dresses Business Dresses ONE HALF PRICE ON FUR TRIMMED SUITS altonal som ple oat ana Sui Novelty Coats Spsing Coats Dress Coats in Plaids Plain Twills : Checks Stripes ntei*