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WOODROW WILSON DIES WITHOUT PAIN FLAGS TO FLY HALF-MAST IN HONOR OF AMERICA’S NOTED WAR PRESIDENT PHYSICIAN AND MRS. WILSON AT HIS SIDE Died On Seventh Anniversary Of Day He Ordered Severance Of Diplomatic Relations With Germany Washington, February 3. —Death tiptoed softly to the bedside of Wood row Wilson Sunday morning and car ried him away without a struggle. The end came peacefully at 11:15 Sunday morning. “Ho died Just like a tired man going to sleep,” Admiral Grayson said- Ijong before Mr. Wilson had known that his end was corning soon, and with calm resignation he lay wailing for It. He dropped into a coma Satur day night and then a few hours later passed, without knowing it, into the sleep that never ends. A few minutes before, two of his physicians, Rear Admiral Grayson and l)r. Sterling Ruffin, examined him and found him barely alive. His heart, weary with the long struggle, w T as just fluttering perceptibly in the last stages of fatigue. It was certain that the end was very near. Dr. Ruffin left the house, but Ad miral Grayson stayed at the bedside to he there ut the end. Mrs. Wilson and the former presi dent’s daughter, Margaret, rearranged the pillows on the bed to make Mr. Wilson more comfortable. Then Mrs. Wilson sat down at the bedside and watched About fifteen minutes before Mr. Wilson died, he came out of his long sleep and opened his eyes, without apparently regaining consciousness. Mrs. Wilson and his -daughter, Mar garet. who were sitting on opposite sides of the great four-poster bed, spoke to him, but he showed no recog nition. Mrs. Wilson could scarcely note her husband’s breathing and* it was only from the reassuring nods from Ad miral Grayson from time to time that she know her husband was still with her. At times she leaned lightly over the bed and stroked the feeble arm. Hut already life was flickering too faintly (o respond to these last touches of affection. Anxiously her eyes followed Admiral Grayson as he leaned time to listen to Mr. Wilson's heart, and then, with the nod of assurance, she would settle back with a weary sigh. Hut once when Hr. Grayson leaned over his face tightened as Mrs. Wil son watched. There was a moment of agonized suspense—a flicker of doubt. Then a sad shake of the doc tor's head. The weary heart, which had car ried Us body along so courageously, had at last yielded up the ghost, and this great world figure, who had stir red even the lowly peasants iu the heart of Europe to anew glimpse of what civilization might be, became common dust before his Maker. “His eyes remained open for about 10 minutes,” Di\ Grayson said, describ ing the detfth scene, “and then he closed them and passed away short I v afterward just like a tired man going to sleep.” There was a gasp from Mrs. Wilson ami a moan of grief from Margaret. Five minutes later the anxious crowd of watchers in front of the house saw the door open. Admiral Grayson came out- The visible grief written on his weary face foretold had news. Newspaper reporters rush ed up while the police held the crowd on the opposite side of the curb. In a low breaking voice. Dr. Grayson read the statement announcing the death, as follows: “Mr. Wilson died at 11:15 o'clock this morning. “His heart action became feebler and feebler and the heart muscle was so fatigued that it refused to act any longer. The end came peacefully. The remote causes of death lie in his ill health which began more than four years ago; namely, arteriosclerosis with hemipelgia. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion follow ing a digestive disturbance which be gan in the early part of iast week but did not reach an acute stage until the early hours of February l. (Signed) “OAKY T. GRAYSON. ’ Thus closed the book of the man who threw the sword of America into WOODROW WILSON the balance at the crisis of the world’s greatest war. That voice, which car ried the message of the Wilson soul into the darkest recesses of the world, had become stilled forever. Woodrow Wilson was a precedent smasher from beginning to end. He began by reviving the practice of Washington and Jefferson In deliver ing his messages to congress in per son; he finished by actually leaving American soil and going to Europe- His was the responsibility of deciding when a country, with a people torn by conflicting sympathies, was ready to throw itself into the great World war, and when the responsibility of throwing in the men and millions, which turned the scale to victory. Whatever an army of Boswells may write, that will be the part in which he will be best remembered by com ing generations. Born in Staunton, Va„ December 28, 1866, of Scotch-lrish parentage, he was christened Thomas Woodrow Wil son, and he was known in early life as "Tommy.” After he was graduated from ITinceton in 1879 he was known only us Woodrow Wilson. His father was the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian clergyman, and his mother was Jessie Woodrow. When he was two years old the fortunes of his father took the fam ily to Augusta, Ga., and later to Co lumbia, S. 0., where *at the age of seventeen Thomas Woodrow Wilson entered Davidson college, but left there soon to go to Princeton. After graduation at Princeton he studied law at the University of Virginia, and, In 1882, hung out his shingle in At lanta, Ga. Meantime he coutred Ellen Louise Axson, the daughter of a Savannah Presbyterian clergyman. They were married In 1885, and had three daugh ters, Gargaret, the eldest, w'ho did not marry; Jessie, who became the wife of Francis Bowes Sayre, and Eleanor, who became the wife of Wil liam G McAdoo, secretary of the treasury during her father’s adminis tration. Mr. Wilson once said that, as a young lawyer, he wore out the rug in his office walking around the desk waiting for clients, so he abandoned a legal career and went to Johns Hop kins university, of Baltimore, for a post-graduate course in letters. WILSON S CAREER December 28, ISS6 —Born, Staunton, Va ’ " ■ 1874-5 —Student at Davidson college, North Carolina. 1879 —Student at Princeton. ISBl—Graduate in law. University of Virginia. 1882—Practiced law in Atlanta. Ga. ISB3-s—Student at Johns Hopkins. June 24. 1886 —Married Ellen Louise Axson. ISBS-S—Professor Bryn Mawr col lege. 1888-90 —Professor Wesleyan Univer sity. IS9O-1902 —Professor Princeton THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. WORDS OF WOODROW WI L S.O N WHICH INSPIRED THE WORLD “The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foun dations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquests, no dominion. We seek no indem nities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifice we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when these rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.” —From President Wilson’s message of April 2, 1917, In which he called on con gress to declare war on Ger many. 1902-1910—President Princeton. 1911-13 —Governor New Jersey. November 4, 1912 —Elected presi dent United States. March 4, 1913—Inaugurated presi dent. August 4, 1914 —Proclaimed neutral ity in world war of United States. August 6, 1914 —Wife died. February 10, 1915 —Sent note to Ger many holding German government to a “strict accountability” for safety of American ships and lives. December 18, 1915 —Married Edith Bolling Galt. November 7, 1916 —Re-elected presi dent. December 20, 1916 —Sent “peace note” to belligerents. February 3, 1917 —Severed diplo matic relations with Germany, dis missing Ambassador Bernstorff. March 4, 1917 —Second inauguration. April 2, 1917 —Asked congress to de clare the existence fo the state of war with Germany. April 6, 1917 —United States declar ed war on Germany. November 11, 1918—Read terms of German armistice to congress and an nounced end of war. November 29, 1918 —Named Ameri can peace commission. December 4—Sailed from New York for Europe as head of American peace commission. March 4, 1921—Turned over presi dency to Warren G. Harding. November 11, 1923—Delivered his first public address since retirement to private life. PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT Washington, February 3. —President Coolidge’s proclamation on the death of Woodrow Wilson follows: By The President of the United States of America. A proclamation. To the people of the United States: The death of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from March 4, 1913, to March 4, 1921, which occurred at 11:15 o’clock today at his home at Washington, District of Co lumbia, deprives the country of a most distinguished fcitizen, and is an event which causes universal and gen uine sorrow. To many of us it brings the sense of a profound personal be reavement. His early profession as a lawyer was abandoned to enter academic life. In this chosen field he attained the highest rank as an educator, and has left his impress upon the intellectual thought of the country. From the presidency of Princeton university he was called by his fellow citizens to be the chief executive of the state of New Jersey. The duties of this high office he so conducted as to win the confidence of the people of the United States, who twice elected him to the chief magistracy of the republic. As president of the United States he was moved by an earnest desire to pro mote the best interests of the coun try as he conceived them. His acts were prompted by high motives and his sincerity of purpose cannot be questioned. He led the nation through the terrific struggle of the world w r ar with a lofty idealism which never failed him. He gave utterance to the aspirations of humanity with an elo quence which held the attention of all the earth and made America anew and enlarged influence in the destiny of mankind. In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags of the white house and of the several depart mental buildings be displayed at half staff for a period of 30 days, and that suitable military and naval honors un der orders of the secretary of war and of the secretary of the navy may be rendered on the day of the funeral. Done at the city of Washington this ! third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and of the independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-eighth. CALVIN COOLIDGE. By the President: CHARLES EVANS HUGHES. Secretary of State. THIRD GAS HIKE CALLED OUTRAGE CRUDE OIL PRICES DO NOT WAR RANT INCREASES, SAYS AT TORNEY GENERAL NAPIER STATE NEWSJF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Atlanta.—“ According to all informa tion and indications, there is no prop er reason for the latest increases in the price of gasoline,” said Attorney General George M. Napier, when in formed that announcement had been made by the Standard Oil company that another increase of 2 cents per gallon would go into effect at local stations. “It appears to me to be an unwar ranted outrage,” continued Mr. Napier. “Increases in the price of crude oil are not sufficient to warrant such jumps in price and every indication is that it is entirely arbitrary action on the part of the refiners.” Mr. Napier has been active in a committee of members of the National Association of Attorneys General, which investigated prices of gasoline last summer and, following increases of the past few weeks, this commit tee is planning to meet again and deive thoroughly into market condi tions and circumstances which permit these “apparently arbitrary” fluctua tions in price Mr. Napier pointed out that price advances were by no means uniform all over the country, some states hav ing been jumped six cents per gallon in three weeks, as in Georgia, while in other the increase had been small er and in some there had been no advance at all. ‘‘While there has been a slight in crease in crude oil prices it is cer tainly not even approximately suffi cient to warrant a six cents a gal lon advance, such as Atlanta has seen In the past three weeks,” said Mr. Napier. “Every indication is that these prices are made at the will of refiners and, in addition, the way in which all companies follow in the steps of the initial mover for increases would indicate a very close associa tion in conduct of the business, at least.” Mr. Napier state ! he had received many letters from all parts of the state commending the move to get to the bottom of causes for fluctuating gasoline prices, as well as many val uable suggestions. One man wrote suggesting that prices for by-products of crude oil be investigating, saying crude oil cost more when gasoline sold for 10 cents per gallon 12 years ago than it did last April when gaso line sold for 26 cents per gallon. The latest price increase of two cents per gallon was announced in At lanta by J. H. Cook, assistant district manager of the Standard Oil com pany, making the third two-cent ad vance in Atlanta in the past three weeks. The price is now 24 cents per gallon. £ Mr. Cook stated the advance will affect all Standard Oil stations in Georgia and assigned as a reason an advance in price at the refineries. New prices have gone into effect. Power Co’s Earnings Show Increase Atlanta.—The Georgia Railway and Power company had net earnings for 1923 of $5,373,171.27, as compared to $4,661,107.55 in 1922, according to its annual report recently filed with the Georgia public service commission. The percentage of increase in net earnings for the year is given as 15.28 in the report. After deducting $1,903,- 986.59 for leased properties, and sl,- 032,946.34 for owned properties, the company shows a net income for 1923 of $2,436,238.34. The Atlanta street railway department had a total income for the year of $1,409,629.51, in ex cess of its operating expenses, the re port shows. Revenues for electric ser vice within the Atlanta seven-mile zone were in excess of operating ex penses by $1,325, 102.26, while electric service outside the seven mile zone exceeded expenses by $2,295,851.67. Total revenues from the gas depart ment exceed operating expenses by $791.428.55, the report shows. Manslaughter Laid To Two Brothers Ludowici. —D. P. and C. A. Sallette. brothers, charged with killing Mar shal McDaniel, have been bound over to the superior court charged with voluntary manslaughter under SIO,OOO bond each, in the commitment trial held here. Boston Man Kills Self In Augusta Augusta.—Frank W. Kirke, Boston, Mass., shot and killed himself at a lo cal hotel, it became known, wiien his body was found in his room by a chambermaid- Resents Charges By Revenue Head Atlanta—Declaring that it is a par ty plaintiff to the court action nan ed by a group of tobacco dealers t 0 test the constitutionality of the new state tax on cigars and cigarettes the Capital City Tobacco company, of lanta, in a letter just made public charges that various portions of a statement given to the press recently by John M. Vandiver, state revenue commissioner, are erroneous. The company charges that Commissioner Vandiver’s statement was wrong when it declared that the Capital City To bacco company is not affected by the Georgia law. Instead of this being true, says the company, files in the revenue commissioner’s office will show the company is one of the con cerns in the suit now in the courts; that it has made bond as reguired under supersedeas order of Judge Bell, and, under this bond, has received its supply of tax stamps without payment of cash and has given its receipt for same. Heavy Fire Loss In Block Building Atlanta. A fire of unknown origin threatened the entire Frank E. Block building, corner North Pryor and Ala bama streets, and damaged stores and offices located in the building to the extent of $15,000. Prompt arrival of tlie fire department materially lessen ed the damage by flames, it was point ed out., and most of the damage was the result of smoke and water. The fire burst out in the Beall-Jeffries company printing offices, on the sec ond floor, firemen stated, and threat ened to spread to the whole structure. The department had been unable to determine the source of the conflagra tion when last heard from. Besides the Beal-Jeffries offices, losses were suffered by the National Market, the Carlos Soda company, Clown Candy company and the J. E. Hanger com pany. Losses were partially covered by insurance. Mutilated Body Of Man Is Found Brunswick. —The body of Man. Bunkley, 58, a white man, was found badly mutilated in the woods a short distance from a trestle on which he was last seen with a negro. Bunkley left the place where he was working, six miles from this city, the day be fore Christmas, bound for his home, carrying with him Christmas fruits and candies for his family; he also had what was left of his weekly payroll. Nothing further w r as heard of the man until recently, when his body was dis covered in the woods a short distance from where he was last seen with ev ery evidence that he had been mur dered and robbed. He was shot through the head and had evidently been beaten and dragged from the railroad track, on which he was walk ing. The man’s head was found some four or five feet from his body. Experts Weigh Forestry Problems Savannah. —Gregory Hall was again crowded with more than 200 delegates, many of whom are accompanied by their wives and a considerable num ber of Savannah citizens, as the sec ond day’s session of the sixth South ern Forestry congress got under way here. The second session was taken up largely by the reading and discus sion of a paper read by O. H. L. Wer nicke, president of the Pensacola Tar and Turpentine company. The use o cut-over lands was urged and sheep raising was suggested as a profitable venture, A statement made bv r * Wernicke was that 30,000,000 people ought to be inhabitaing the Southern states * from lands now non-produc tive. Move To Change Name Of Phemx City Columbus.—At the monthly meeting of the Civic Improvement League or Phenix City, Ala., a suggestion to change the name of the town to t name of Columbus, Ala., was made, and action toward this end wi i pushed, it was announced. A. • Jackson, member of the league, su gested the new name and empnasize the logic of such a move. The P vailing difference in opinion reld J to the deciding on a name would solved by this step, he d ® well as assist materially to J* e t building of the community, rhe ter will be taken up in the next® ing of the Civic Improvement uat -53,300,000 Deal Closed In Gr ff n Griffin. —Sale of the uafeturing company to the Cotton Mills, a deal involving: three and one-half million dct.u- • been reported here. The repon the deal has been closed, tb meeting of the stockholder .^g. companies is necessary for 1 - • tion. The new corporation w known as the Georgia-kmcaid - - facturing company. The ,e . m j S ton Mills, of which J. H. che “ v _: y/. president and treasurer, an Norman is secretary, consis s 000 spindles and 900 loomS - buC * ploys 600 people. Tern / roano towels and dobby wea -- = factured