Today The Nation Will Honor Woodrow Wilson. The First to Go. Now He Is Safe. WhoWould Recall Him ? , By ARTHUR BRISBANE V _ j * ' 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 hlds Pains | sd aches SurbnsA thefamily tonight SERVE will Surfmse YOU with it's QUALITY 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 tTurn to I'nae Two, Column Two.) 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. lAe \ I sunnyside of I winter is in \nw Take the family— Excellent schools for your children. If you prefer, rent a bun galow and enjoy your own rose garden. Santa Fe superior service and scenery—plus Fred Harvey meals—your assur ance of adelightful trip there. Four Daily Trains Pullmana via Grand Canyon Na tional Park—open oil the year— WiU nadir art as* dataUa C A Mnora. flap Aal . Taaa I'apt . A. T A S T lip. Oil Flynn nl«l* , D«a Moines, Iowa Phone: Market 1041 all thrwav 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 * Winners in Judging Contest _ '7 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 •