Today
The Nation Will Honor
Woodrow Wilson.
The First to Go.
Now He Is Safe.
WhoWould Recall Him ?
, By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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' It is to be remembered that Mr.
Wilson’s public services were not
Wartime services only. Before the
war was thought of, he had been at
-work on public problems. The fed
eral reserve bank, that carried this
country through the financial
strain of the war, was part of his
work.
The land credits for farmers,
freeing the farmer from “respect
able” usury, in many directions,
had his intense care and devotion.
In many directions he worked for
the public welfare, efficiently, be
'fore the devastating war broke up
-on the world.
Strange is the destiny that se
lects him, first of all the great
• figures of that war, to leave this
jearthly tcene. Men much ,«lder
;than he, on both sides of the fight,
survive the man that was first to
.summon the nations to peace.
I Excepting one man, Lenin, anti
thesis of Woodrow Wilson, in ev
erything, Mr. Wilson is first of the
really conspicuous to go.
• His book of life is closed, al
though thousands of books yet to
be written will record his fame and
bis deeds. His last word on this
earth has been spoken, although
millions will speak of him for many
years to come.
• He is dead, and therefore he is
£afe. Let that thought comfort
♦hose left to mourn. He is forever
free from suffering, disapointment
fend sorrow. He had many dreams
not destined to be realized, for
ages, if ever. Now, he will never
know it. In his shattered body,
his mind worked with restless en
ergy, tormented by the knowledge
that his conceptions could not be
mauie realities for lack of physical
strength, all the futile, hopeless,
vain yearning ends forever. He
is beyond reach of disappointment,
freed forever from the troubles of
this world. Who would bring him
back?
Nohody knows what will happen
In politics now? Candidates that
have been practicing corporation
law of whom there are several—
will have to look over their books,
find what clients they had, and
what fees they got. Just or unjust,
it may make a difference in the
chances.
One wise man yesterday said:
“Ford talked just 60 days too
soon. If he had kept quiet, this oil
affair would have given him the
presidency.”
Perhaps he’d rather have Muscle
Shoals. His chances are good for
that now. Any plans that official
gentlemen may have had for turn
ing that over to insiders on a "Tea
pot basis,” will be kept quiet for
a while at least.
The labor government of the
British empire proposes to give up
using flying machines against wild
natives in the kingdom of Irak and
elsewhere. That would be foolish.
Individuals may be sentimental
if they choose, nations must not.
Savage natives have got to be sup
pressed. You can work through
their superstitions and dropping ex
plosives from the sky suppresses
and regulates them with the least
possible nuisance and trouble and
with the least killing of natives.
Superstition has over its victims
a power often useful. In New Jer
sey a man is locked up for killing
his daughter, 15 years old, when he
was drunk. There was not the
faintest hope of finding the crim
inal until the Ku Klux set up a
blazing cross at midnight in front
of the man's house. Then the aged,
bedridden father of the accused
man confessed. He couU not stand
that cross. He told h<ror he had
seen his son beat his grandchild to
death. Belief in hell fire and a
personal devil with hoofs and a
Jong tail is still necessary with
many of lower intellect.
The one thing disliked by the big
Corporations,, especially the sort
that hands out cash in large lumps
to government officials, is public
opinion.
You will hear the legal corpora
t ion jackals begin to talk about the
“hounding” and “public clamor”
and they will demand “orderly in
vestigation by the properly consti
tuted courts.”
“Orderly investigation hy the
properly constituted courts” Is ail
l ight except occasionally when you
discover that the gentlemen with
the satchel full of money happened
to appoint the judge. It’s a lucky
thing that there is such a thing as
“public opinion,” and “public
clamor;” a little public clamor is
apt to upset many Teapot Dome
. scandals and, what is more import
ant, it has power to frighten some
of the other rascals.
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$40,000 Land Payment.
Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 4.—Payment of
MO.000 of school bonds which worn
due nn May 1, was made by City
Treasurer lllgh, which reduced the
1110* Issue outstanding to $23,000. In
that year the city Issued $30,000 of
bonds for the high school building.
Aside from the now Issue of $400,000
fur the Junior high school building
and ward building Improvements, the
district has only $23,000 bonds out
standing.
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COAL
Hot! Lasting!
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Sunderland Bros. Co.
Tram Franchise
Is Challenged
Counsel Holds ^Grant Expires
in 1928—Company Al
leges Permanent.
The question of whether the Omaha
i and Council Bluff* Street Railway
company has a.franchise was brought
up by the city council Monday
in connection with a petition from the
Fontenelle Improvement club for an
extension of the Harney street line
from Thirty-third and Parker streets
to Fortieth street and Ames avenue.
The council recommended for
adoption on Tuesday mornftig ft reso
lution which recognizes the necessity
of such extension, and that any right
to order such extension r«sts with the
state railway commission. It is pro
propsed to bring this mutter before
the state commission when it meets
here next week.
City Corporation Counsel \V. C.
Lambert warned the council against
taking any action in street railway
extensions, lest the "rule of estoppal"
might be invoked against the city to
determine the franchise rigthts of the
street railway company. ,
It is the contention of Lambert that
the franchise rights of the traction
company will expire in 1928, this be
Ing the grant given to the Omaha
Cable Tramway company in 1888, and
that franchise rights to make exten
sions were terminated in 1908. The
Street Railway company claims to
have a perpetual franchise.
Commissioner Joseph Koutsky said
the council had no objection to the
Street Railway company making any
extension on any street and that his
engineering department would be
pleased to issue permits for such im
provements.
Nebraska Cattle
First in Beef
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Lincoln. Feb. 4.—Fat cattle dis
played by the University of Nebras
ka Agricultural college at the Na
tional Western Stoci 3how at Denver,
won all Important prizes In the beef
carcass contest, according to an
nouncement at the agricultural col
lege.
Willow Dell Mafle, a February 16,
1923, Hereford heifer calf, was de
clared grand champion carcass of
the show. The carcass weighed 440
peunds and yielded 64,2 per cent of
her live weight. Thig was the un
animous choice of the Judges for the
honor.
Second in this class was won by
the Nebraska college on the carcass
of Isadore, purebred Aberdeen Angus
steer, bred at the college. The steer
was second-prize eteer on foot in the
Angus class, and waa a brother to
the steer which produced the cham
pion carcass a year ago at the same
show. The third prize wee won by
the grand champion steer on foot,'
shown by a Denver stock raiser.
Keith County Leads in Corn.
Ogallala, Neb., Feb. 4.—It le a con
servative estimate that the yield of
corn, in Keith county this year Is
larger in eomparson to the area than
in any other county in Nebraska,
estimate that the yield of corn in
Keith county this year Is larger in
comparison to Jhe area than In any
other county in Nebraaka.
There were 61,200 acres planted in
corn in Keith county this year. The
lowest yield reported Is 46 bushels to
the acre and the highest, 78. This
would make a yield of approximately
2,560,000 bushels.
Elevators in Keith county have
been shipping better than 10,000 hush
els of corn per day for the laat 60
days.
Automobiles Collide.
V. A. Hoffman, rural route No. 1,
Council Bluffs, told police that his
car collided with another machine
driven by an unidentified motorist at
Twelfth street and Broadway. Dam
age was slight.
Car driven by D. A. Broadston,
2306 Sixth avenue. Council Bluffs,
collided with another machine owned
by O. C. Head, 1020 North Thlrty-eec
cnd street, parked at Twenty-eighyi
street and Broadway, he reported to
police.
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Wife Found Wilson Felled by
Paralysis in Middle of Night
By Associated Press.
Washington, Keb. 4.—The real ca use of Woodrow Wilson's death was a
stroke of paralysis which followed his collapse in the late summer of 1919.
Like Warren O. 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 Bright's disease which caused his physicians
to predict that he never would finish-his first term. Birt by careful de
votion to his doctor’s orders he fought off the malady.
He was practically blind in one eye from a retinal hemorrhage which
came Vhile he was still at Princeton university, but the country never
knew it.
Years before be bad suffered a thrombosis—a blood clot in his arteries
—but it was in one of his legs 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 president, might
lead to a atock market panic, and
possibly far-reaching consequences to
a world then passing through the
first stages of post-war reconstruc
tion. Some of the details came out
piecemeal and over a long period of
time. Others have not been hitherto
published. It Is appropriate there
fore to give them now that he is
dead.
Grayson Detected First Symptoms.
The Increasing strain on his physi
cal resources during his speaking
tour in 1919 had been growing ap
parent. hut none of his party sus
pected the breaking point was so
near. There was no truth in rumors
that the president had become In
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coherent during some of his last
speeches, although It was true that
he had displayed great emotion, which
was unusual for his manner of speak
ing.
When Mr. Wilson finished speak
ing at Pueblo he was exhausted snd
covered with clammy perspiration.
An examination by Dr. Grayson dis
closed nothing markedly wrong and
ho was put. to bed. Mrs. Wilson re
mained up with him ae he complain
ed of restlessness. Soon after mid
night he complained of feeling ill and
Dr. Grayson found him in a state of
nervous exhaustion, with the right
side of his face twitching, as It often
had done before when he was very
tired and worn out.
But the physician was alarmed and
shocked to note a drooling of saliva
from a corner of the president's
mouth and also a drooping of the
facial muscles on the left side. Rec
ognizing that a stroke of paralysis
was impending Dr. Grayson warned
Mr. Wilson of his grave condition;
strongly suggested that he cancel the
remainder of the tour, and Immedl
stely return to Washington; and In
conclusion, that he try and get some
sleep.
Ordered Back Home.
"I won't he able to sleep at all, doc
tor, If you esv I must cancel the
trip," Mr. Wilson responded. "Even,
If giving my life would accomplish
this object, I gladly would give It."
The physician quieted his patient
as best as he could and took steps to
cancel the remainder of the speaking
engagementa and bring the president
to Washington. ^Tr. Wilson, yielding
to the entreaties of Mrs. Wilson, ac
quiesced.
Back home In Washington. the
regimen of rest seemed to tie making
good progress and September 3d Hr.
Grayson announced that the president
had paased the beat day sine# the
beginning of his breakdown. He was
permitted to sign some bills and con
gressional resolutions, nominations
and dictate some brief letters.
About 4 o'clock In the morning of
October 5, Mrs. Wilson heard the
president In the bathroom calling
in a weak voice. Ilr. Grayson was
summoned and to his horror found
Mr. Wilson prostrated on the bath
room floor. In a semi-conscious
condition he had fallen as If wound
ed in the left leg, with the member
crumpled under him on the bath
mat.
The physician rolled the prostrate
form fully on the rug and then
grasping it by two rornera dragged
his burden across the haft into a
bod chamber and finding himself
unequal to the task of lifting the
president into bed alone railed Mrs.
Wilson and together they succeed
ed, During all this ordeal the
president's wife was cool and of
fered suggestions to the physician.
Once in bed the president seemed
to regain his senses and murmured
that he felt sleepy. Dr. Grayson
made a hurried examination of pulse
and heart and found them very low.
The tell tale drooling of saliva from
the presfdent’s mouth and the twitch
ing of the face were there again.
They wrote their own diagnosis.
Wished Condition Concealed.
Woodrow Wilson had been para
lyzed on his left side and lay In the
shadow of death. With the first
movement of his lips he extracted a
promise from the doctor and his wife
that his condition, If serious, must
not become known.
A two-hour consultation developed
the agreement that Mr. Wilson had
suffered what is medically known as
cerehreal thrombosis—a blood clot In
one of the blond vessels In the right
side of his brain. Its effect was to
Impair the motor nerves of the left
side as well ns the sensatory nerves.
The physicians concluded there had
been no lesion but there was danger
of one. If the clot were a hard one
and should be swept along In the
blood circulation to the heart end
jam a valve the result probably
would be death. If it were a soft
clot there was hope of absorbing It.
On that slender hope the battle for
life began. An official bulletin In
formed the Country of the serious
turn in the president's condition but
did not disclose the cause.
Did Not Heroine Unconscious.
For the next week Mr. Wilson hov
ered between life snd death. Every
thing that it was possible to do was
done. The country, finding for the
first time that the president was In
danger of dealh, fell into gloom. It
was reported that Mr. Wilson lay un
conscious for a week. Truth was that
he never was unconscious at any
time during the illness. It was
reported that he had become a
maniac. Truth was that hla mind
always was active and he constantly
gave directions to those about him.
In a few days there was some re
sponse 'to treatment. Mr. Wilson's
spirits rose. Always a lover of music,
he wanted some. Dr. Grayson order
ed In a talking machine which was
supplied with the latest records of
lively tunes. Mr. Wilson wanted to
read and could not do It In bed with
nose glasses so his oculist was or
dered down from Philadelphia and
fitted hint with spectacles.
Mr. Wilson had suffered the retinal
hemorrhage tn his right eye years
ago and Dr. Grayson wanted the oeu
list, Dr. George de Schwelnlts, to
examine It.
Joked With Doctor*.
"I want to look at your pupfls.’'
said the oculist. "You'll have a long
Job,” shot back the sick president.
"I've had many thousands of them.’’
He was thinking of college day*,
but the rematk was *n example of
how he always Joked wtlh his doctors
[even when he was desperately 111.
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But si«'k as he was, he chafed at
confinement to bed and wanted to
get up.
"Your temperature is exactly
normal this morning,” said Dr. Gray
son on on# occasion soon thereafter.
“My temper won’t be normal if you
keep mo in tills 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.
Ip to this time, Mr. Wilson, in
sisting that his condition be kept
secret, had excluded from his room
all hut members of the family, the
doctors and two trusted nurses
from the naval dispensary. The
valet who shaved him was barred
and Woodrow Wilson grew a beard
and moustache. He hadn't worn
whiskers for 30 years, not since he
was a student at Johns Hopkins,
when he wore "burtisides.” He
accounted it a rather good Joke and
used to carefully brush the adorn
ment every day.
Meanwhile the secrecy which sur
rounded the details of the president's
illness gave rise to some complica
tions. Congress wanted to know
whether he had suffered a constitu
tional disability to perform the func
tions of his office. Mr. Wilson and
his wife were determined that con
gress shouldn’t find out.
Cabinet Haired Out.
Members ef the cabinet found it
fruitless to ask for an audience in
the sick room. They sent inquiries
in writing and documents for signa
ture and Mrs. Wilson made the deci
sions as to whether the president
could see them. Some members of
the Wilson family suspected that
some of the inquiries transmitted
were designed to test whether the
president's mind was working on
public affaira, and sometimes these
were gone over in family council with
the object of defeating such a pur
pose—if a purpose It were—in return
ing the answers.
There were long days when even
Joseph P. Tumulty, the president's
secretary, was excluded from the sick
room, so close was the veil drawn to
conceal his real condition. Political
opponents in congress who wanted to
develop whether the president was in
mental condition to consider a state
document arranged to have sent up to
tfae White House some resolutions
which actually required a signature.
Mr. Wilson signed them with great
effort, but the pen strokes were the
wavering, wandering lines of a palsied
hand, quite unlike the positive bold
strokes with which he ususlly wrote
"Woodrow Wilson." It was reported
on seemingly good authority that
some of these opponents examined
these signature# with the aid of a
microscope, compared them with sig
natures on other papers signed In Mr.
Wilson's health and were undecided
whether they had been signed by Mr.
Wilson or Mr. Tumulty.
lainsing Grew Anxious.
There had been no meeting# of thj
cabinet during this period. Some of
the members who were not In • coord
with the policy of secrecy determined
to force things a little. Secretary
I-ansi jig, then at the head of the State
department, called a meeting* of the
cabinet and quizzed Hr. Grayson and
Secretary Tumulty about the prgsi
dents condition. Mr. Lansing, how
ever, was not supported by some other
cabinet members as he had probably
had reason to expect hg Would Ke and
the attempt failed. Thia incident w»a
undoubtedly the principal factor In
Mr. Wilson's abrupt dismissal of Mr.
Lansing later when he learned of It,
although it was not acknowledged In
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I,eft to right: El Hoy Watkins, Com It I,. A. Townsend (above); Howard
Hinton, I'a ul Keogh.
Lincoln, Feb. 4.—The stock judging
team of the Nebraska School of Agri
culture at Curtis won first place re
cently In the secondary Judging con
test at the National Western Stock
show at Denver, In which state high
school champlonslp teams of Kan
sas, Colorado, Wyoming. New Mex
ico and Utah, and the slate agricul
tural schools of Fort Collins and
Fort Lewis, Colo., also participated.
Out of a possible 1.500 points, the
any of the published correspondence
as contributing to the event.
Vice President Marshal! s attitude
all this time was commented on1
as being conspicuously correct. lie
held himself apart from it all as Vb •
President Arthur did during the pro- j
longed illness of Garfield but the
agitation in congress finally c-mie to
a head and it was determined to "fi i
out whether we have a president i-r
not.” as one [ajlitical leader itprifs
ed it.
Fall and llitchcixk in Sick lloimi.
The Mexican situation furnished th“
occasion for parking a res-dutiful
which the senate decided warranted a
conference of the foreign relations
committee with the president. Sen
ator ball of New Mexico. a*rrpubll n
and adqiinlfltration polity opponent,
who became secretary of the interior
under President Harding, was nam'd
as one member of a special • •muittcv
to go to the White House ind Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska a demo r.it, a
pnhtkal friend nd etc -f i ati-u.
yupporter, v - named as the other
Much to their surprise (lie sena
tors were ushered into the sick
room where the prt sideut shir k
hands uith his right hand, tumbled
with some documents witli his left
and discussed the Mexican situa
tion with marked mental agilitx.
That demonstration exploded the
rumors that Mr. Wilson was a
maniac, unconscious, a prisoner,
nr so disabled that lie was unable
to talk business. It demonstrated, ,
however, that he xxas still a sh k%
man showing a remarkable display
of sand.
Senator Fall said uubll !v after Ike
conference that Mr. Wilson whs
"mentHUy alert and mentally •<M“ t■ •
cope with any question with xvhi< b
be might haxe to deal.”
Mr. Fall observed, however, that he
couldn t tell whether Mr. Wilson
•tould move his legs, and some demo
crat countered with the uhaerv n
I'urtis Aggie team scored 1,332 — 04
more than the team winning second
place. The three Curtis men stood
second, third and fourth in individ
ual rating Its members are How
rd Hinton, Stock ville, sophomore;
Paul Keogh, Ftoekvllle, senior class
president; K1 Hoy Watkins, Venango,
junior and captain-elect of the foot
bal team. Arch I.eu, alternate, of
Wfllte, Is a junior and also a letter
man in football.
that ".Mr. Wilson didn't dea.1 with the
Mexican situation wtth his legs any
way.”
The inside of the matter was that
a remarkable will jyiw n-, careful nurs
nu and skillful medic;,! attention had
been showing their effei•**. All these
served to piolong the sick man's life:
they enabled him to walk again
with the aid of a cane which he
thereafter l.factitiously referred to as
his "third leg." and they enabled
him to use his left hand and arm to
some extent, although when he ap
Iioared n public Mr. Wilson generally
hooked his left thumb in a button
1 ole of his coat and supported his
disabled arm in that manner. His
disability In walking he later refer
red to as "his lameness.'
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From His Hour.
Fails to Attend School \lUr
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Arthur Poffenbarger. 14, vn • f
Fred Poffenbarger, now serving
term in the federal prison at 1
Leavenworth on a charge of roll
is missing from bis home.
The boy’s absence was discover'
when Juvenile court officials souk',
l,|m there to discover why he failed
to attend school, after a pair of shoes
had b'"*n purchased for him in ord"
that lie might do so.
Ills mother told the officials she
believes he went to the home of an
uncle In Illinois. Judge Frank Ca
pell said no effort will be made to
bring him back.
Employe Flee-.
Vincent Priborsky, 3620 nre?.'!
street, asked South Omaha police to
look for Joe Holecek. He declare)
Holecek, whom he employed 1*
Saturday, disappeared with $12.
Mrs. Harold L« Mar of Rapid CP
S. D., will go to St. Joseph hosph
tomorrow for a stlght operation.
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