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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
GADSDEN. G. H. Rich is ex
perimenting with manufacture of
brick from iron furnace slag.
I, U M B 1 A N A. —Miss Bert ie
Wood ard Raymond L. Blair, both
inmates of county jail, are marrried
by Judge Riddle and allowed to go.
County officials pay for marriage li
cense. They wall; to Harpersville
• on honeymoon.
♦' FORT DEPOSlT.—Figures show
; 100 per cent increase in use of fer-
• tilizer per acre, and 25 per cent in-
- crease in acreage planted to cotton
’ in county this year.
2 MOBILE. Schooner Markeeta,
• flying British flag, arrives here and
. ■ reports her cargo of 930 cases of
«. liquor was thrown overboard in gulf
*- during rough weather. Government
officers seize this vessel, charging
*7 registry is changed unlawfully.
t SHEFFIELD. —Dr. G. W. Brown,
»' co'unty game warden, organizes
’ DENIES INTERESTS
IN OIL COMPANIES
LEASING _U. S. LAND
•G (Continued fromJl
•C lean Petroleum company, the Pan-
J- American Petroleum company, or
y-pny of their dependent companies,
or, so far as I know, any company
£ that Mr. Doheny had any interest
•xJn or connection with.
“I know nothing about the con
«J"tract or leases between the govern-
Jktment and the Doheny companies.
JC “Again, in brief I have had no
with, interest in, or trans
*~actions with Mr. Edward L. Doheny
X'or any company or business of his
jrat any time in my life.
3: “Former Secretary of the Interior
B. Fall has for several years
ICbeen a personal friend of mine. My
with him have, however,
personal and never official,
fc “I have never at. any time, had
•Jiiny official transaction with the in
terior department of the United
’•"States government.
Knew Denby Slightly
“As regards the navy department
|£and Secretary Denby, I can say the
%'same as I have already said about
•. the interior department. My per
sonal acquaintance with Secretary
» Denby has been a very slight one.
•. I have had no business relations
•* whatever with the navy department
•’and have never been interested in or
»■ connected with any contracts of any
fkind made by or with that depart
ment.
» “Tile newspaper with which lam
C connected maj' have carried some
‘government advertising, but, of
course, it will be recognized that this
L tg a matter not handled by me per
sonally.
“Because there have been publish-
( ■ ed indefinite and unfounded rumors
« from which the inference might be
• drawn that I had participated in
’ the. purchase of;oil stocks, although
. any stock transactions I have ever
• had are my own personal affairs,
J and have no relation to the sub
> ject which your committee is all-
• thorized to investigate and to the
; end that the utter lack of founda-
• tion for many of the reports which
} have been sent out of this city may
be shown, I desire to tell you just
• what stock transactions I have had.
“Only twice in my life have I
bought New York Stock exchange
- stocks, and here are the facts about
those two transactions:
• “In November, 1922, I bought 2,000
- shares of Pure Oil stock through
- Hibbs-& Co., Washington, D. C. I
• sold this stock February, 1923,
■ through Hutton & Co., Palm Beach,
, Fla., at a profit of $5,500. This profit
was entirely mine. My understand
*.ing is that the Pure Oil company is a
. company that has never had any
connection with any government
-leases, and is no wise concerned in
this investigation.
Lost on One Deal
“In March, 1923, I bought 2,000
shares of Bethlehem Steel through
Hutton and company, Palm Beach,
Fla. I sold it throw-rh Hibbs &
Co., in December, 1923, at a loss of
approximately $30,000. This loss was
entirely mine.
. “This is the entire story of any
New York stock exchange stocks
t ever purchased or sold by me. I
have never traded in any of the so
called curb stocks nor have I
' bought or sold any stocks except
those above mentioned with the ex
ception of such local bank and
•trust company stocks as I am inter
ested in.
“I have never been interested in
Xjtbe purchase of any Sinclair or
’•.Doheny oil stocks, directly or Indi-
by which I mean that I have
•never made any such purchase, nor
• have I had any interest in any such
/“►purchases made by any one at any
time.
“The public press had repeatedly
■ carried reports that an important
' witness was negotiating for immun
. ity from prosecution in considera
tion of the disclosure by him of
sensational facts. The press reports
-.have too clearly indicated that I
•.was’ that important witness for me
’.mot to be sensible to that imputa
tion.
• “The facts arc:
“First, I have no knowledge of
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THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLY JOURNAL
hawk and crow extinguisher asso- |
l ciation.
NORTH CAROLINA
YADKINVILLE. Charged in
presentment by grand jury of mur
der of former Sheriff A. R. Lakey,
his two sons, Emory and Austin,
their mother, Mrs. A. R. Lakey, and
his grandson, Odell Lakey, are
lodged in jail to await trial. Arrest
of quartette follows investigation by
Sheriff Moxley of killing which 'pub
lic had come to regard as unsolvable
mystery. Lakey’s death, generally at
tributed to suicide, stirred entire
county.
RALEIGH. - Oscar F. Johnson,
former assistant federal district at
torney and former member of Ku
Klux Klan, disbarred from practice
of law until July 1 by Judge Henry
A. Grady, as result of Johnson’s al
leged activity in famous Barrington
case, announces he will appeal to
state supreme court. James H. Pou
and Albert L, Cox are named by
any such facts and therefore could
not disclose ( any to this committee
or to any senator or any other com
mittee or person whatever.
“Second, I have no need of any
immunity of any kind and I have
neither asked for it nor authorized
any person to do so,
“The only consideration I have
sought was that which would ex
cuse me from appearing on the wit
ness stand.
Ready for Questions
“You have examined with consid
erable fullness telegraphic cone
spondence between my employes,
my counsel, several of my friends
and myself. I believe that you will
agree that those telegrams may be
divided into three classes:
“First, those that brought me in
formation.
“Second, those that, showed my de
sire to avoid appearing as a wit
ness.
“Third, those that relate to my
personal and business affairs.
“Certainly none of them Indicate
that I had any connection with the
oil leases which you are investigat
ing, and none of them could so indi
cate.
“I am now ready, gentlemen, to
answer any relevant questions re
lating to tlie subject of this investiga
tion that you may have to ask upon _
the assurance and confidence, of
course, that I will not be called
upon to answer any questions which
the law's protect as privileged be
tween my counsel and myself.”
As he finished reading his state
ment, McLean tossed the typewrit
ten sheets to the official stenogra
pher and straightened up in his
chair.
"You haven’t adverted at all to
the testimony you gave at Palm
Beach,” commented Senator Walsh.
“Do you care to make any state
ment about that?”
“No, sir,” the witness said.
“You said there, you were unable
to find the stub checks on that
SIOO,OOO loan. Have you made any
search for those?”
The publisher said he had looked
for them in vain. He replied in the
affirmative when Senator Walsh
asked if tMe checks ever really had
existed.
Tells of Meeting Fall
The senator then turned to the
trip McLean made in December to
Atlantic City to talk with Fall. Mc-
Lean explained that he had received
a telegram from Fall .and later a
telephone message from Mrs. Fall.
“She told me that Senator Fall
wanted to see me, that he was sick,
and very nervous,” McLean said. “I
told her it would be very difficult, [
but that I would come if Albert |
wanted me.”
“Please tell us about your conver
sation with Fall at Atlantic City.”
McLean explained that he went in
his private car.
“I was met by Mrs. Fall. She told
me Albert was asleep,” he went on.
“After awhile he came out in a red. |
wrapper. He was in an awfully I
nervous condition. I could see [hat.
"He asked me, ‘Ned, do you re
member our check transaction of a
few years ago?’ I said I did, and he
said, ‘Will you say you loaned me
that in cash? I’m in a terrible situar
tion. It has nothing to do with
Harry Sinclair or Teapot Dome.’ He
said. ‘They are barking up the wrong
tree,’ and I said I would. I believed
my friend.”
“Going back to the creeks, you
told us they were drawn on a couple
of banks there,” Senator Walsh re
sumed.
“As to that, Senator, there was no
trouble about my checks, for SIOO,OOO
or $200,000.”
He added that he had collateral
to the amount of $148,000 or so in
deposit vaults. Fall, In taking the
checks, he said, “promised to call
me up before he presented them.’
“What did Senator Fall want?”
Senator Walsh asked. “Wasn’t this
an unusual thing? What was in his
mind?”
“I don’t know what was in his
mind. I had trouble enough telling
what was in my own mind.”
Transaction Was Mystery
The whole transaction, he said,
was something of a mystery to him.
The senator asked about a refer
ence in the McLean telegrams to
some papers from McLean s safe de
posit vault. The witness passed
over a long document.
“This described the ranch propo
sition in New Mexico in which Sen
ator Fall was endeavoring to inter
est you?” Senator Walsh com
mented.
"It’s a letter from him in the na
ture of a prospectus.”
McLean crouched over the witness
table and lit a cigarette.
“The better idea was never to get
mixed up.” he remarked. “I’d have
been further off than that ranch is
if I’d suspected.” I
The crowd chuckled and had,
another laugh when the witness I
said, in reply to a question why he ■
hired a safe deposit box:
"1 have hired six vaults in this (
matter.”
Senator Walsh asked when Mc-
Lean first made Fall's acquaintance. >
He said it was on a trip with Pres
ident-eleet Harding and others to,
Brownsville, Tex., in 1920.
“I got to like him very well," 1
McLean remarked. -
"When did you become a special
agent of the department of just
ice?” asked Senator Walsh.
“About a month after President ■
Harding tbok office.”
“What service did you render?”
“None. The main purpose and
advantage was to let me get
through police linos when traveling
wtih the president”
“You didn't need the code for
that?"
Got Code and Radge
“I got the code and a little badge
I when I took office.”
“We need a little help.” said Sen
ator Walsh, and he proceeded to
read the telegram which said a pri
vate wire would give McLean “easy
and quick access to the White
House.”
“Why did you want easy and quick
access to the White House?” asked
the senator.
"1 don’t." McLean retorted.
He went on to explain that Wil-
| Judge Grady to start and prosecute
proceedings for permanent disbar
ment of Johnson.
WILMIN G T O N. —M r s. Katherine
Potter, of Brunswick county, cele
brates 106th birthday at home of
son, G, F. Potter.
RALEIGH.—Gutzon Borglum, fa
mous sculptor, arrives to supervise
placing of statue of Governor Aycock
on Capitol square, where' it will be
unveiled March 14. Borglum, now
engaged in supervising cutting of
Confederate memorial on Stone
mountain, now registers at hotels as
j from Stone Mountain, Ga.
BEULAVILLE^WhiIe Miss Mary
Cavanaugh,, assistant cashier of
Bank of Beulaville, is counting mon
ey, gypsy woman enters and per
suades' her to have fortune told.
Package of bills totalling SSOO is left
near window, and. after fortune is
told, loss is discovered. Officers are
tracing gypsy band.
CHARLOTTE. Bishop Collins
liam F. Wiley, of the Cincinnati En
quirer, was ill and that he wanted
to take him to Palm Beach.
“We took up the wire matter in
November,” the publisher continued,
“and it had nothing to do with the
White House.”
Senator Walsh took up another
telegram—from McLean to Fall —
x hich mentioned “important bus!-,
ness” and suggested that the ex
secretary should see McLean’s sec
retary.
“It was about sending a carload
of mares to Fall’s New Mexico
ranch,” the witness said.
He insisted, in reply to repeated
questions, that the message did not I
refer to oil transactions or the com- ;
mittee inquiry. •
Couldn’t Read Messages
“I’ll be darned if I know, senator,” !
McLean returned when Walsh asked ,
for the meaning of another message: j
“I’ve read some of these telegrams j
until I’m dizzy, trying to figure out
what some of them mean.”
He suggested it might refer to the
horse shipment.
“Senator Fall was too perturbed
about oil for you to bother him about
horses, wasn’t he?”
“Not too perturbed to talk about
horses. I think if he was in his !
grave he’d jump right out if you '
mentioned race horses.”
Senator Walsh then read a mes- |
sage from McLean to John F. Major i
saying its sender “had a tip” he was :
to be called in the oil inquiry. “Who !
gave you that tip?” Senator Walsh I
demanded.
“Senator, I presume I got thou- I
sands,” McLean told him. “Tips I
about everything. Sometimes I be- I
gan believing I owned Teapot !
Dome.” j
Asked about another message, he !
said:
“Well, senator, so help me God, I
don’t know what it was.”
A message was read in -which Mc-
Lean directed Major to “find out in |
careful manner” whether a bank ,
would keep a record of indorsements i
on a check.
“I was thinking of buying a house |
in Cincinnati,” McLean said, “and j
wondered whether to buy it in my I
own name. I always thought the j
check would be the best receipt. !
| Maybe it’s only my ignorance.”
Senator Walsh remarked that the I
publisher was a man of many busi
ness transactions.
Gives Lambert Credit
“This man is,” Mr. McLean re
turned, pointing to Wilton J. Lam- j
bert, his attorney. “He does all the |
business for me.”
The publisher corroborated John
Major’s testimony that the word
‘ Willis” in his telegrams referred to
Lambert. He said he thought “the
champion” who signed some of the
messages was Chris Dunphy, his golf
Instructor.
“I never coded a telegram in my
life,” the witness said. “There’s
only one word there I can identify— i
the word ‘gob’—it means pericd.” I
One of his employes, W. O. Duck- j
stein, attended to coding and de- '
coding, he said, after having re- |
ceived permission from W. J. Burns, j
chief of the bureau of investigation, i
to use the department of justice
code.
“Harry,” in the message, he said,
meant Attorney General Daugherty,
ne added, and “eyed” meant E. S.
Rochester, the attorney general’s
confidential publicity assistant.
“Did you recommend Rochester’s j
appointment?” asked Senator Dill, j
Democrat, Washington.
“I think I did —I would have rec- I
ommended him to anybody.”
“Was there any duty of Rochester i
to keep you informed? ’
“None whatever.”
Senator Dill asked about the em- I
ployment of George Rothwell Brown, |
of the Washington Post, in a similar i
capacity by the attorney general ;
prior to Rochester.
”1 think I recommended him,” Me- i
Lean said.
When he was asked about the
famous “principal” telegram, Mc-
Lean said he did not know who the '
“principal was,” unless it was Sen- |
ator Curtis, of Kansas.
“Mr. Bennett (Ira E. Bennett, who ’
sent the message) has testified it i
was Senator Curtis,” the witness
said. “Senator Curtis has testified |
to the opposite and President Cool- j
idge has testified it was not him.”
“I didn’t understand the president
had made any statement,” Senator
Walsh remarked.
“The thing that struck me when j
I got that message,” continued Me- ;
Lean, “was that the ‘principal’ re- |
ferred to Harry Daugherty. “I know .
who you think it was, senator, but I
I have a different idea."
Senator Walsh said he. had “a i
very definite idea” who it was, and j
would be glad to have his mind dis- ,
I abused.
Grilled on “Principal”
The “principal” message in full
I said:
“Have seen principal. He appre
: ciates greatly. There will be no rock
; ing of the boat and no resignations.
;He expects reaction from unwar-;
ranted political attacks."
i Senator Walsh went after the!
witness’ idea as to each word of it.;
I “There never was any understand-'
j ing between you (and Bennett) that j
I the word principal was to mean'
i Curtis?" the senator asked.
“I wouldn’t say there was.”
Senator Walsh switched the exam
i ination and got the witness to de
-1 scribe the location of the McLean
■ town house.
Attorney General Daugherty, he i
said, early in the Harding adminis-:
tration, had apartments adjoining.
"This was apparently a sort of
rendezvous," Senator Walsh sug
gested.
Fall visited there often, the -wit- ■
ness said, but he said he never heard
;the oil leases discussed at these eon- 1
ferences.
“There is nothing to that tunnel |
story," he said when asked if there
was an underground connection be
tween McLean's town house and the :
house next door where Daugherty
I lived.
“Daugherty wouldn’t do anything*
wrong fop me." the witness said. |
"and I haven’t done anything to ask'
Denny, of Richmond, Va., is expect
ed to preach dedicatory sermon at
| Hawthorne Lane Methodist church
Easter Sunday morning. Church an
nounces plan to build Sunday school
, building at cost of about SIOO,OOO.
RALEIGH. —Deploring lack of
homes which measure up to old-sash
ioned ideals, Evangelist M. F. Ham
as parents are too busy “gadding
about.” He says boys and girls “can
go to hell and back before break
fast."
HEN PERSON.-Tobacco market
closes, season's sales total approxi
mating $2,000,000, quality poor,
prices averaging abo.ut 201-2 cents
per pound.
SOUTH CAROLINA
ST. MATTHEWS. - Tentative
plans for national conference of rep
resentatives of 168 farm
’ tions of country, for demanding leg
islation of congress to relieve agri
cultural conditions, are announced
H by J. Skottowe Wannamaker, presi-
him to do anything for me in that
connection.”
Asked who told him that A.
Mitchell Palmer was acting for Sin
clair and Fall, he replied: “I think
I heard that from Major.”
Senator Adams took up the At
lantic City conference.
“Fall said some of his enemies—
his political enemies—were deviling
him about where he got some
money,” McLean explained, but
that it had nothing to do with Sin
clair or oil.
Senator Adams asked why be had
given checks for SIOO,OOO to Fall.
“I don’t know” was the reply. “If
I I’d known what I was getting into,
■ I wouldn't have been connected with
I it even as remotely as I am. I didn’t'
j know later whether to throw a fit
i or jump in the ocean.”
“I gather you were trying to help
' out a friend,” Senator Adams put
I in.
Denies Any Dishonesty
“Senator, I was going down the
line for a friend as far as I could.
I’ve never done a dishonest thing
in my life and I never had anything
to do with this durned Teapot Dome
thing.”
“Well you realize you’ve made a
lot of trouble for yourself and this
I committee?”
“Yes, but, of course, I feel a whole
; lot sorrier for myself than the com
| mittee.”
“Did you invite Mr. Slemp to
! Palm Beach?”
“I did.”
“Do you know anything about the
■ slush fund that's been mentioned?”
“No more than you do. I never
1 got my fingers into such a mess as
: that, and don’t believe there was
i any.”
I Senator Adams cited a message
l from McLean to F. T. Homer, of
Baltimore, telling hi mto “think
over certain prominent people” in
connection with money matters. At
torney Lambert promptly said the
message was a matter of privilege
j between attorney and client and the
I question was dropped.
Senator Dill brought up the con-
I nection of W. B. McAdoo.
"He’s been dragged into this very
| unfairly, and there have been a lot
i of rotten newspaper articles," said
t McLean.
It was pointed out one of the Mc
i Lean telegrams mentioned Francis
M. J. McAdoo “or his father” as be
ing attorney for McLean for “seven
years.”
“I was mistaken about Mr. Mc-
Adoo’s length of employment,” said
i the witness. “It was five years. I
employed him because he was a
' strong man, when he began law
practice.”
“Did you ever receive money from
anybody for the purpose of making
a ioan to Senator Fall?” asked Sen
ator Eursum, Republican, New Mex
ico.
“Never, not a cent.”
Fall Got Other Money
McLean repeated his Palm Beach
testimony that he gave Fall checks
for SIOO~OOO some time in Novem
ber, 1921, and that Fall returned
them soon afterward saying he
had got the money from some other
source ”
“What did Fall tell you at At
lantic City had impelled him to
make such enormQus drafts on your
friendship?”
“He said his political enemies
were bedeviling him, but that they
were barking tip the wrdng tree,
and it had nothing to do with Tea
pot Dome or Harry Sinclari.
Senator Walsh suggested tha r
Fall’s request was for McLean to
tell a lie about this money.
“But it never appeared in ’that
light,” McLean said, “or I wouldn’t
have gotten into it.’’
At Palm Beach McLean said to
Fall, he testified:
“ ‘Albert, I’ve gone down the
line for you as far as I can go.’ ’
He said he added that “now I am
going to tell the truth.”
“Did Fall try to get you to do
' anything else but tell the truth
when he got down there?” asked
Senator Stanfield, Republican. Ore
gon.
"No, he told me to go ahead. But
I did not need any encouragement
then. Senator Walsh was sitting
downstairs waiting for me.”
At that time, McLean said, Fall
I was greatly disturbed.
1 “One minute he was going to go
I right down and appear before you.
(Senator Walsh) and the next min
ute he was afraid you were going
to drag him there,” said the pub
lisher.
The ex-secretary had wished to
confer with lawyers, and then kept
; changing his mind, McLean said.
Senator Walsh swit hed him back
ito the Atlantic- City conferenc?.
: There, too, the witness said, Fall
was “muddled, broken down.”
The witness then was excused
! and the committee adjourned until
10 a. m. tomorrow
( H. E. McKenna, chief doorkeeper
at the White House executive offices,
was questioned about a telegram he
, sent to Edward B. McLean in Florida
informing him of Secretary Slemp s
departure for the south.
Says Slemp Approved
He said McLean had asked him
| to send such a notification and that
' Slemp had said it would be all right
, to do so.
E. W. Starling, of the White
’ House secret service detail, who also
had communicated with the pub
i Usher by telegraph, followed Mc-
Kenna on the stand.
1 Starling testified that his message
related to the employment of E. P.
Wilkins, of Hopkinsville. Ky„ in the
McLean household. Wilkins, Star
ling said, was his life-long friend.
The committee then called E. W.
! Smithers, chief of communications
i at the White House, who operated
i the Washington end of McLean’s
private wire to Palm Beach.
The resignation of Senator Lenroot.
I Republican. Wisconsin, as chairman
! of the committee, is expected to have
’ no effect on the investiagtion, which
' is practically under the direction of
Senator Walsh. Democrat. Montana;
Senator Ladd, of North Dakota, a Re
publican member of the committee
| who is identified with the La Follette
group, is to be named formally to
succeed Senator Lenroot bv the Re
: publican committee on committee.-,
’ which ...Iso must fill the vacancy in
I the membership caused the chair
i man's retirement.
dent American Cotton association.
BENN ETTS VlLLE.—Farmers of
Marlboro ship carload of poultry to
northern markets, car being loaded
at Bennettsville, Brownsville and
Kollocks, Miss Edna Earle, home
demonstration agent, and G. H.
Stewart, farm demonstrator, leading
in plans for shipment.
COLUMBIA—SaIes tax bill, which
has during past week caused great
howl of protest front all parts of
state, is withdrawn front files of
house by authors, Representatives
Revell and Langston, this meaning
its death for session.
SPARTANBURG. —Extraordinary
record is made by Mildred Korndyke
Cornucopia, purebred Holstein cow
in herd of V. M. Montgomery, ac
cording to advanced registry of
Holstein-Friesian association. This
cow produced in seven days 439.3
pounds of milk, and 20.066 pounds of
butterfat, equal to 25.08 pounds of
butter.
HCE SAWED OFF,
GEORGIAN STILL
LIVES 10 TALKS
WAYCROSS, Ga., March 12.—His
face and the front part of his skull,
from his mouth up. completely sev
ered from his head by a circular
saw into which he fell in the course
of his duties at the Scott Kendricks
Lumber company, at Argyle, near
here, early Tuesday afternoon, Clyde
Bowen, twenty-three-year-old white
man, calmly gathered together his
unfaltering courage and placidly
sang, and later told his comrades
of the whereabouts of his relatives,
while they waited for his death,
which was expected to come within
a few moments.
At noon today, he was resting eas
ily under the influence of stimulants
and was said to be in a semi-con
' scious condition.
Immediately after the accident, a
call -was sent to Waycross for an
undertaker, it being the belief of
attending physicians that he could
not possibly live more than a few
moments. All during the waiting,
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WILSON DEVOTED TO FAMILY
AND FRIENDS HE INVITED
INTO HOSPITABLE HOME
Inflexible in Matters of
State, War President Was
Tender-Hearted as a Child
in Personal Dealings
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
CHAPTER VII
(Copyright, 1921, by the George H. Doran
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THE personal and impersonal in
Woodrow Wilson’s life were as
separate and distinct as if
they were derived from two differ
ent beings. Once as he stood on the
platform of a railroad station dur
ing the 1912 campaign and saw a
big cloth banner stretched across
the street with the words “For
President and Vice President, Wil
son and Marshall.” he said to the
newspaperman with him:
“Somehow I cannot bring myself
to believe that I am the fellow men
tioned on that banner. I never can
get used to it.”
And he never did. Yet therein lies
the key to an understanding of
Woodrow Wilson’s life-long friend
ships on the one hand and his series
of breaks on the other with persons
closely associated at times with him
in the business of regulating the af
fairs of Princeton university or ad
ministering the two public offices
he held—the governorship of New
Jersey and the presidency of th-a
United States.
'* As a husband and father, as a
chum of his college classmates, as
a host at family reunions, Woodrow
Wilson was full of human quali
ties. As a trustee of the public in
terest, as a crusader for large poli
cies of state, he knew neither
friendship nor compassion—he was
as stern as he was inflexible.
It is, therefore, in the home that
one glimpses a Woodrow Wilson lit
tle known to the public.
Home Ties Strong
The home life of the Wilson fam
ily was simple, modest, congenial
and refined. The Wilsons were close
ly knit by family ties, especially
during their life at Princeton and
the early days at the White House.
Cousins to the nth degree were
welcomed to the house, made much
of and revisited in turn. Special oc
casions were always dear to the
hearts of all in the family group.
Christmas, other holidays and birth
days were remembered and observed
by special gatherings. If a member
of the family had intended to be
away or to have guests, plans would
be changed so that on New Year’s
day or a birthday or on other spe
cial occasions the whole family
could be together. When any mem
ber of the household was to go
away for any length of time <ll the
others would make it a point to be
there the last few days and refrain
from inviting outsiders. The spirit
of the home life in the Wilson fam
ily was one of uniform happiness.
Mr. Wilson was mainly responsible
for this because his heart, was as
tender as a child's in affection for
the members of his family and in
consideration for them.
Once after Mr. Wilson became
president a week-end trip on the
yacht “Mayflower,” down the Chesa
peake bay, had been planned. His
eldest daughter. Miss Margaret, re
membered at the last minute that
she could not go because of an en
gagement to speak at a community
center meeting. Instantly the presi
dent abandoned the trip rather than
leave one member of his family in
the White House alone. She was
nervous about the address she had
to deliver, and he said he wanted
to be with her merely as a moral ,
support as she prepared for the
ordeal.
Atmosphere of Culture
An atmosphere of culture prevail
ed about the Wilson home. It was
neither stiff nor formal but reserved
and wholesome. Mrs. Ellen Axson
Wilson was a southern woman of
refinement who had been reared in
an environment of letters and art.
Her paintings were of no inferior
type. Mr. Wilson's father was a
clergyman. So was Mrs. Wilson’s
Their daughters grew up in the same
puritanical surroundings. Whole-!
some fun. wit, laughter and innocent’
gaiety were there, but not a bit of
the auto racing, cigarette smoking,
cocktail drinking tendencies of so
many homes of today.
Things read and discussed in the
home circle pertained as a rule to
literature, the arts, history and the
drama. There was plenty of humor,
simple games and recreation—never
any card-playing. Frequently the
family would operate a ouija board
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1921.
tenths of one per-cent in manufac
tures tax, additional tax on public
utilities, elimination #of fractions in
business license stamp tax are pro
posed for financing increased legis
lature appropriations.
COLUMBIA.—House of Represen
tatives passes Marey bill to require
men to have health certificates be
fore being granted marriage license.
COLUMBlA.—legislature passes
bill to provide for erection of power
plant on Congaree at state peniten
tiary for development of electricity
for state’s needs.
and jest with each other over what
it spelled. They often played games
by writing quotations and guessing
the authors of certain quotations.
Each one would write a quotation
and the next person would write an
other without, of course, reading the
first until a long sentence had been
evolved. Members of the family
wrote limericks about each other or
about anybody else who happened to
enter their thoughts. They were al
ways on the lookout for new lim
ericks <*nd when members of the
family heard a new verse it was
promptly brought home. One of the.
most famous of these limericks was
Mr. Wilson’s about himself:
“For beauty I am not a star,
, There are others more handsome by
far,
But my face—l don’t mind it,
You see I am behind it;
It is the fellow in front that I jar.”
Another favorite of Mr. Wilson's,
of which the authorship is unknown,
was the following:
“A wondrous bird is the pelican;
His mouth holds more than his
belllcan;
He takes in his beak,
Enough food for a week,
But I am darned if I see how the
hellican.”
Still another favorite was:
“There was a young man who was
benighted,
He didn’t know when he was slighted
But went to the party
And ate just as hearty,
As if he had been really invited.”
One of the dominant characteristics
of the Wilson family was its regular
ity and the methodical habits of the
man at the head of it. From his boy
hood on one could set his watch by
Woodrow Wilson’s comings and
gomgs. Meals were eaten at precise
ly the same time every day. He al
ways arose at the same time and
shaved himself with an old-fashioned
razor. He used the same strop for
years—a heavy well grained and oil
ed piece of leather upon which he was
able to predict the character of
the weather.
Razor Strop His Barometer ,
“I can sometimes tell 24 or 36
hours in advance when it is going
to storm,” he remarked to a friend.
“If it is going to be clear my strop
is smooth and the razor slips over it
easily and without noisy friction and
when it is going to storm the strop
gets heavy ana the razor sticks.”
On the 3rd of March, 1913, the day
before Mr. Wilson became president,
he laughingly told his friends that
judging by his razor strop it would
be a clear day for his inauguration. l
And it was.
Tn one sense the Wilson family
life was exclusive. Tom, Dick and
Harry were not invited into the
home, or to the table, or taken into
full friendship in the group. The
home was considered a sacred place
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where none but those worthy by
culture, character and breeding were
urged to stay. The family was not
the least bit snobbish. It was sim
ply selective of its companions. Once
a person was taken Into the home,
the bars were completely down. There
was neither reserve nor limit in the
welcome, the hospitality and the
friendship bestowed. Even when he
was president Mr. Wilson seemed to
give his complete confidence to any
one within the family circle. Prob
lems of state, his opinions of men
and affairs —everything—were dis
cussed w’th the utmost abandon and
without the slightest hint that it was
being said in confidence. Mr. Wilson
held in good fa’th to the old southern
idea that confidence given in the
home or at the table was inviolable.
Many of those who were guests at
his table often gasped with amaze
ment —■ almost with fear at the
frankness manifested by Mr. Wilson.
The reason, of course, that Wood
'row Wilson was so unreserved in
his conversation was that guests
were not invited indiscriminately to
the White House. Neither Mr. Wil
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he was a Virginia gentleman enter
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his hospitality and confidence were
given without restraint. \
No such attitude, of course, wis
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White House. Official dinners we«
rather formal. Receptions were mueJ(|
the same as under previous admin
istrations. Musicales and teas re
quired by official. custom were few
in number and simply polite affairs.
The Wilsons were always gracious
but they did not disclose the same in
timacy then as on less public occa
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