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COTTON
NEW YORK. May 8.— Relatively
flrm Liverpool cables were followed
by a steady opening in the cotton
market today. First prices were 3
to 13 points higher and after selling
off several points after the call un
der real'.rtug. the market steadied
upon renewed demand from July
shorts, Liverpool and commission
house buying. May contracts ad
vanced from 29.90 to 30.20, while
July sold up to 28.35 and October
to 24.55 or 15 points to 22 points
net higher.
Private cables said better crop ac
counts were reaching Liverpool but
that there was continental and trade
buying and a good demand for the
spot cotton arriving there.
Demand appeared to have been
supplied on the early advance and
the market turned easier on pros
pects for more favorable weather in
the south and realizing sales. South
ern and local selling was prompted
by the easier ruling of foreign ex
changes and reports from the south
west saying that spot demand was
limited, and that the basis in some
cases had eased during the past 1> n
days May declined to 29.95 and
October to 23.41, making the market
about unchanged to ten points low
er and prices were within a point
or two of these figures at midday
Trading remained very quiet but
the market was a shade steadier
at 2 o’clock on covering. May’ held
around 30.0a and October 24.51 or
net unchanged to 11 points higher.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling price* In
the exchange today: .
Tone, steady; middling, 30.-e<’;
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Clot®.
May . 30.15 30.20 29.90 30.12 30.17 3<>.O',
hiir "8 0.5 28.40 28.03 28.37 28.36 28.13-
Pet’. . 24,17 21.65 24.55 21.64 21.62 21. 10
Pec. . 23.85 24.04 23.75 21.03 21.00 23.81
Jan." . 23.55 23.71 23.18 23.71 23.71 23.52
10-15 a. m. bid« steady. May. 1 •
July. 28.12: October, 24.13; December.
23.85; January, 23.55.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, May B.—The
cotton market opened steady and
somewhat higher in sympathy with
better Liverpool cables than tlue
First trades showed gams of 18
points on May and 5 to 12 points
on later months. Immediately after
the opening call prices cased oft 1-
to 15 points on the issue of May no
tices in New York for 2,500 bales,
but soon rallied again on unfavor
able crop advices. J ul V traded up
to Q 7 86 and October to 23.81 oi Io
to 23 points above the previous close.
The market then ruled quite steady
awaiting the position of the weather
The market ruled fairly’ steady
during the morning-, although May
made a new low at 29.50 or two
points under the previous close ami
July eased off to 27.56 or seven
points net lower. The recession was
mainly due to the disturbed cond -
•ions in France and the sharp (hop
in francs. The market soon rallied
to about yesterday’s closing , lev e?’;
being sustained by the rains in the
eastern half of the belt shown by
•he weather map, the cold weathei
in the west and an official forecas
for continued cool weather.
The market lapsed into dullness
durin gthe second half of the ses
sion and price fluctuations were
verv narrow and within the eailier
range. Such trend as there was
seemed to be towards a recovery
from the low levels of the day and
during the afternoon July ruled
steady around 27.<4 and.O< tobei at
23 76 or 11 to 18 points above the
low of the morning and 4 to 11
points above the previous close. I he
market was supported mainly by
unfavorable .crop advices ami the
cool weather.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
» Tim following were the ruling prices in
Last 1 r ’-*
Open. High. I-"” S!lle Close. Close
Mar . 29.68 29.52 29.15 29.82 29.82 29. -
v -.7,75 27.93 27.56 27.90 27.87 -<.6.
.7 ’ 03 73 "3 93 23.65 23.90 23.90 23.72
Vee. : 0»:.<4 23.70 23.10 23.62 23.65 23.46
'Vi’ a. m.' blds, quiet; May. I:
•J 7-62 October, 23.69; December, -L4,.,
lamiary, 23.32.
SPOT COTTON
Atlanta, steady, 29.55e.
■ New York, steady. 30.50 c.
New Orleans, steady, 29.88 c.
Galveston, steady. 30.50 c.
Mobile, steady, 29.60 c.
Savannah, steady. 29.
Wilmington, steady, 29.50 c.
Norfolk, steady, 30.10 c.
Boston, nominal.
Dallas, steady, 29.25 c.
Montgomery, steady, 29.50 c.
Houston, steady, 30.15 c.
Memphis, steady, 2V.8..C.
Little Rock, steady, 29.85 c.
Augusta, steady. 29.55 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 2ft.80.:
Receipts
Shipments _'‘2°
’ Stocks • ■ t 0,4 <4
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, May B.—Cotton, spot, mod
erate business; prices steady. Good mid
dling, 18.07 d; fully middling, 17.62 d; mid
dling, 17.12 d: low middling, 16.27 d; good
ordinary, 15.27 d: ordinary. 14.77 d; sales,
7,000 bales, including 4.300 American; re
ceipts, 9,000 bales, including 6,200 Amer
ican.
Futures closed very steady, net unchanged
to 13 points up from previous close.
Tone, very steady; sales, 7,000; good mid
dling, 13.07 d. «
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
Mar 16.95 17.11 17.01
Jun 16.81 16 97 16.81
July 16.36 16.49 16.44
August .... 15.74
September ..... 15.03 15.01
October 11.29 13.37 14.35
November 14.03 14.01
December .... 13.92 13.93 13.93
January 13.79 13-83 13-N :
February 13.74 lo.«l
March 13.71 13.. 1
April 13-03 1- .<>••
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Open. Close.
Spot* 9.95@10.25
Mar 9.90@10.25 ».99@10.2 4
June 9.85(<i 10.15 9.90@10.00
July ... 10.08@10.0l) ]0.02@10.03
\Ug 10.15@10.20 10.10@10.12
Sept 10.25 @10.26 10. 17 @ 10. 18
(let. 9.70(3! 9.Ml 9. (V2@ 9.55
Noy. .’. 9.10@ 9.35 9.10@ 9.30
Dec 9.00@ 9.25 9.00@ 9.20
Tone, easy; sales. 5.100.
Sugar Market
NEW YORK, May 8.- Raw suger, un
changed; eales reported of 42,000 bags of
Porto Rteans to a local refiner for second
half of Mar shipment at 5.78 c, duty paid.
Tiitures opened 3 to 6 points lower under
scattered liquidation, hut firmed up on buy
ing believed to be for Cuban account. Ac
tive positions sold 4 to 5 points above the
previous dose, but met renewed selling, and
at midday were about net unchanged.
Refined unchanged *• 7.40 c to 7.50 c for
tine granulated; demand light.
RrfinM futures nominal.
NEW YORK RAVFSUGAR MARKET
Open. Close.
May ... 4.05 4.17
July ... 4.20 4.28
Sept 4.22 4.32@4."3
Dec 3.92 3.99
March 3.45 3.47
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
NEW YORK. May 8. -Cofee. Rio No.
7,15 c; Santos, No. 4. 19%e.
Onen. Close.
May 12.90 13.27
July ... ... 12.65 12.64
Sept 11.85 11 95
n< t 11.8.:
Dec. ... 11.15 11 5T
Maxell •<* as* kk aa* vs >.11.30 11.2,
THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLY JOURNAL
GRAIN I
BY GEORGE C. SCHNACKEL
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
CHICAGO (Thursday), Mar B.
Wheat at times today had period of
strength, but they were of short
duration. Commission houses were
selling at the start, and judging by
the sizeof the orders, it looked as
if outside longs had become fright
ened. There was buying on resting
orders on the break and shorts took
profits. Later the selling looked as
if it was against purchases in Minne
apolis, as that market showed
strength. Weather was cool in the
northwest and unfavorable in Can
ada for the completion of seeding.
Milling demand for wheat was quiet
and the decline in foreign exchange
made it more difficult to make ex
port sales. Primary receipts are
holding up well lor this time of the
year.
Wheat closed 3-8 to 5-8 lower. May
1.03 3-4; July, 1.05 5-8; September,
I. 5-8; December, 1.09 1-4 to 3-8.
Corn was under pressure from
discouraged longs and the undertone
was weak. Cash corn was not so
weak today, but lower grades were
still slow sale. No. 1 yellow and No.
2 white sold at two cents better pre
mium. A trader who took in No.
2 yellow corn on May delivery was
reported as offering it at five cents
over Chimako May c. i. f. Buffalo,
and finding difficulty in making
sales. Leading industry is reported
to have purchased 1,000,000 of Du
luth corn this week. Sales of 150,-
000 bushels of corn were made to
go to store.
Corn closed unchanged to 5-8 low
er. May. 75 7-8 to 76. July, 76 5-8
@3-4 to 5-8; September, 76 1-4 to 1-8.
Oats were fairly steady. Liquida
tion by outside longs in May caused
a break. Local elevators bought the
nearby month. Eastern houses sold
the deferred months. Sales of 50,-
000 bushels of May oats were made
to go store. Shipping demand slowed
up.
Oats were 1-8 to 1-4 lower. May,
47; July, 44; September, 39 7-8 to 40.
Provisions were easier under local
selling. Eastern houses bought on
the dip.
Lard closed 5 to 7 1-2 lower; ribs
2 1-2 lower, and bellies 2 1-2 to 7 1-2
lower.
Local cash sales were 15.000 bush
els of wheat, 46,000 bushels of corn
and 40,000 bushels of oats.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling price* i>
rhe exchange today:
Prev,
Open. High. Low. Close. Close
WHEAT—
May .... 1.04 1.04 1.03% 1.03% 1.01%
July .... 1.06 1.06 1.05% 1.05% 1.06%
Sept 1.07 1.07 1.06% 1.06% 1.07%
CORN—
Muy .... 75% 76% 75% 75% 76%
July .... 77% 77% 76% 76% 77%
Sept 76% 76% 75% 76% 76%
OATS—
May .... 47% 47% 46% 47 47%
July .... 44% 44% 43% 44 44%
Sept 40 40 39% 39% 40%
LARD—
May 10.60 1 10.55 19.55 10.60
July .... 10.80 10.80 10.75 10.75 10.82
Sept 11.05 11.05 10.95 11.00 11.05
RIBS—
May ..... 9.92 9.92 9.92
July .... 10.00 10.00 10.02
Sept 10.15 ....
BELLIES—
Julv .... 10,15 10.50 10.42 10.50 10.52
Sept 10. SO 10.80 111.75 10.75 10.82
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 11 cars
Corn 101 cars
Oats 91 cars
Hogs . 32.000 head
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, May B.—Wheat, No. 2 red,
$1.06; Noo. 2 hard. sl-.05%@1.14%.
Corti. No. 2 mixed, 76%@76%c; No. 2 yel
low, 77%@77%<-.
Oats, No. 2 white, 49@49%c; No. 3 white,
47%@48%c.
live. No- 2. 65%c.
Barley, G7@B2c.
Timothy seed. $5.00@7.50.
Clover seed. $13.50@21.00.
Lard, $10.55.
Bibs, $10.12.
Bellies, $10.37.
ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. May 8.-Wheat: Cash
No. 2 red. $1.09%@1.11: No. 2. $1.08@1.0i);
May. $1.03%; July. $1.04%.
Corn—No, 3 white. 76%@77%c: No. 2
yellow’, 78%c; May, 77%e; July. 77%c.
Oats No. 2 white, 49%@50c; No. 3 white,
46%@47c; May, 48%c: July, blank.
FLAX QUOTATIONS
IM’LCTH, May B.—Close: Flax. May,
$2.48; July, $2.39%; September, $2.20.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO. May B.—Butter: Receipts,
3.859 tubs; creamery, extras, 36c: creamery,
standards. 36', .%•; firsts, 33’<>@34 %c; sec
onds, 30(<r32%c.
Eggs—Receipts, 32,127 dozen; ordinaries.
20%@21c; firsts, 22%®(23e.
Cheese—Twins, 17e; Young Americas, 18c.
Live Poultry— Receipts, none; fowls, 24@
26c: ducks, 2Se; geese, 16c; roosters, 15c;
broilers, 45@52c.
Potatoes Receipts, 575 cars; Wisconsin
round whites, $1.10@1.35; Minnesota and
North Dakota lied River, $1.00@1.30; Idaho
Russets, $2.35@2.,’>0: Texas Triumphs. $5.00
@5.30: Florida Spaulding’s Rose, No. 1,
$8.00(7/8.25.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, May 8. —Flour, dull and un
changed.
Pork, steady; mess, $2t.75@25.25.
lard, quiet; rniddl* west spot, $11.15@
11.
Sugar, raw, easier; centrifugal, 96-test, i
5.75; refilled, easier, granulated, 7.40@-8.50.
Coffee, Bio No. 7. on spot, 14%@15%; No.
4 Santos, 18%@19%..
Tallow, quiet; specials, 7%@7%.
Hay, irregular; No. 1, $1.50@1.55; No.
2, $1.25@1.30.
Dressed poultry, steady; turkofs. 20c@
3S:: chickens. 30@4Sc; fowls, 20@34c; ca
pons, 34@52c; L. 1., 20@23c; ducks, 2O@
24c.
Live poultry, easy; geese, 10@14c; ducks.
13@28c; fowls, 30c; turkeys, 20@30e; roost
ers, 16c; capons, 40@45c; broilers, 30@
ose.
Cheese, quiet; state milk, common to spe
cials, 16@25c; skims, common to specials,
ll@l7c.
Butter, weaker; receipts. 5.453: creamery,
extra. 3Sc; do., special market. 35%@37%e;
Danish, 39@42c; Argentine, 33@35e.
Eggs, firm; receipts, 41.436: nearby white
fancy, 32@3c; nearby state white, 25@32e:
fresh firsts, 24'-_.@2B%e: western whites.
25@31c; nearby browns. 26@34e.
ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS
(Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Ex
change. )
Bid. Asked.
Crude oil, basis prime tank..s 8.35
C. S. meal, 7 per cent am-
monia, car lots 38.00 39.00
C. 8. meal, at common rate
points, car lots 36.00 37.00
C. S. hulls, loose, car 10t5..., 21.00 22.00
C. S. hulls, sacked, car lots.. 24.00 25.00
Linters, first cut, 10’.. @lle.
Linters, second cut (cottonseed hulls fiber or
| savings. 3%@4c.
Linters, clean, mill run, s@oc.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YOKE, Muy **. - Ini ted Stair*
rrnment bonds closing:
Liberty ? 99.26
First ts, bid .100.7
Second 4s. btd 100.2
First 100.00
Second 4’iS 1C0.3
Third
Fourth 100.0
Treasury 4 1 ,<s. 101.25
Naval Sxores
SAVANNAH. Ga.. May 8. —Turpentine,
firm. 82e; sales. 641; receipts. 765; ship-
ments. 28 stock. 7.168,
Rosin, firm; sales, 1,245; receipts, 2,147;
shipments. I: stock. 63.431.
Quote: B, s4.2<‘ o 4.3(1; E. $4 40ft 1.50: F.
I S t .’.1X.1 ctii H. $4.60; 1. Sttiiv,. 1,1.1 !
IK. st,!’.’ 1 '-.7' . M <1 67% 17«- N. Si .1
; aa ’i %w 70. wate r
■ white. X. $6.30@6.35.
BOOTLEGGERS PAID
HIM 118,000.5115
MOBILE WITNESS
MOBILE. Ala., May 7.—Harry
French, government informer, tes
tifying in the trial of 69 defendants
in federal court, charged with con
spiracy to violate the national pro
hibition act, today declared from the
witness stand that Mobile bootleg
gers had paid him a total of ap
proximately SIB,OOO, supposedly foi’
protection. Up until this morning
French, who was on the stand
throughout yesterday afternoon, had
steadfastly refused to give the
amount collected by him, but undei
cross-examination this morning, ha
answered the question when in
structed to do so by the court.
Attorney J ere Austill was cross
examining French at the time and
he asked the witness bow much he
had collected. He at first refused to
give tbeiamount, as on previous oc
casions when Hie question was
asked him, but this morning the
court instructed him to answer.
“I made an affidavit with A. R.
Butler, prohibition chief, that I had
collected about SIB,OOO from Mobile
bootleggers,” declared the witness.
This was the feature of the cross
examination of French at this morn
ing’s session of court. French was
testifying when court adjourned late
Tuesday and was called back again
when court opened at 10 o’clock this
morning.
In answering a question by G. T.
McCorvey, defense attorney, French
said “after a year’s investigation, I
was unable to connect Paul Cazalas,
in any way, with the rum ring con
spiracy."
French’s testimony yesterday
was marked by an outburst,
said to have emanated from Wil
liam H. Holcombe, Jr., former sher
iff and now deputy sheriff and
member of the legislature, who was
fined $250 for contempt for an al
leged vile epithet applied to French.
French testified that he volun
teered his service to Aubrey Boyles
as an informer and worked without
salary or commission as federal of
ficer, and that his instructions
from the department of justice
“were to get all the money he could
from the bootleggers and to keep
it.” He said he collected thousands
from bootleggers, including half the
persons now on trial, and spent
every cent he got.
Three-Way Split
French told of a proposed “three
way split” for the sheriff, police
and federal departments broached
at a conference of J. H. McEvoy,
Wobert L. Holcombe, P. J. O’Shaugh
nessey and Percy Kearns. Detective
William Moody, Deputy Sheriff
George L. Donaghue, one of the de
fendents, and himself for the fed
eral department were to receive the
“rum ring” payments, French testi
fied. Shortly after the conference
with O’Shaughnessey, Kearns, Mc-
Evoy and Holcombe, French said he
received the “list” from Donaghue
at the county jail. This list, includ
ing the names of 222, many of
them well-known persons, was in
troduced by the prosecution into the
evidence.
While French was testifying, he
suddenly yelled, “don’t you cuss me,
Willie Holcombe.” Judge Erving
halted the trial for an examination.
Attorney's Ambrecht, Hale and
Tompkins, defense, sitting near Hol
combe said they heard no such re
mark. Court Reporter Strain said
he heard some one make the re
mark as alleged by French, and the
judge announced the $250 fine would
stand.
Notes Indorsed
Before he became federal infor
mer, said French, he held commis
sions both from O’Shaughnessey and
William Holcombe, but Donaghue
resigned his commission after raids
by Federal Agents Premier and Has
senger. Bob Holcombe, Dan Jemi
son, Harry O’Connor, Ben Cody, and
Richard Chrisman paid him by in
dorsing his notes so there “would
be no come back,” said French. He
testified that J- J. Cummings, one
of the defendants, made a quart of
synthetic liquor in the Daves Tire
Shop and that Cummings labeled it
“real stuff.” and gave it to him.
The government now has it, he re
marked.
Holcombe once asked him if he
thought $25,000 would fix Aubrey
Boyles, French declared, and the
response, he continued, was that
“$25,000 would fix anybody,” The
subject was not mentioned again,
said French. Two payments from
McEvoy to French were testified to,
one of them S3OO with a list of Mc-
Evoy's customers; another was a
check for $2,050 for federal protec
tion which French said he showed
to Boyles, Judge J. I. Burgett, I'tilt
ed States commissioner, and Virgil
Griffin, clerk of the United States
court, before he had it cashed by
Tobe M. Medicus for “personal use.”
Boykin and Jemison both had him
.eave town on separate occasions.
French said, and Jemison once gave
him s3oi) to make a trip on.
Columbia Theological
Seminary Head Quits
COLUMBIA, S. C.. May 8.- -The
Rev. John M. Wells, D.D.. president
resigned, and bis resignation has
been accepted with regrets, accord
ing to an announcement made at the
commencement exercises of the insti
tution Wednesday by John T. ’Brant
ley. of Blackshear. Ga., president of
the board of directors.
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IN HISTORY, LAWRENCE
DECLARES IN CONCLUSION
Physical Breakdown Blamed
for Treatment of Old
Friends During tast Days
in White House
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1924. by the George H. Doran
companyi in the United States. Canada. Smith
America.' World publication rights reserved
by Current News Fea,tnres, Incorporated.)
CI [APTEIJ LXXXII
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleet
ing breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the
silent, dust,
Or flatt’ry soothe the dull cold
car of death?
THOMAS GRAY.
ON the plains of Kansas, the
appeal of Woodrow Wilson to
the American people to give
their support to the League of Na
tions stopped suddenly. The presi
dential train was turned homeward.
The symptoms of a breakdown of
the arteries —the inevitable collapse
of an overburdened physique—cast
their warning none too soon.
Nervously the president tossed in
his bed in the private car, torment
ed mostly by the thought that his
enemies would say he had quit the
fight, that he was shamming illness.
There were skeptics among the
newspaper men but they were a
minority’. Most of us knew the break,
long-expected, had come at last. The
train sped rapidly to Washington
with hardly a stop. Arriving on a
Sunday morning, the president
walked briskly through the Union
station, was photographed as usual
and. the skeptics increased in num
ber —for outwardly he snowed no
signs of change.
It was not until a few days later,
in the White House, that a blood
clot formed in the blood vessels of
Mr. Wilson’s brain, permanently
impairing the use of his left arm
and leg. After that he was never
the. same. To his physical condition
with the accompanying lapses of
memory, irritability, and excessive
emotion, must be attributed many
of the acts of Woodrow Wilson be
ginning in October, 1919, and con
tinuing until the day of his death,
more than four years later. Every
criticism, every coolness which old
friends experienced, every expres
sion on the part of Woodrow Wil
son with reference to the few prob
lems that he was permitted to con
sider or discuss cannot, be appraised
in retrospect without being mindful
of the tired brain that once swayed
the world and then feebly sought
to retain its hold on the presidency
and public opinion.
Seemed Mentally Capable
There were days when Woodrow
Wilson, seemed to be mentally as
keen as ever. Shutting one’s eyes
to the drooping figure and listening
only to his fiery logic, the illusion
of an unchanged personality would
not have been difficult to main
tain. Little by little, as gradual im
provement in bis condition was evi
dent, more executive work was un
dertaken, but always at his side
stood the devoted wife and the physi
cian, Admiral Ctery T. Grayson. To
gether they carried the secrets of
the sick room while Private Secre
tary Tumulty played the role of
everything-as-usua! in the executive
offices, a mark of loyalty to his
chief which alone should have earn
ed him something better than the
brusque treatment he later re
ceived.
But those were topsy-turvy days
and many an eld friend who had
served Mr. Wilson in the past was
turned away. The tragic events that
followed Mr. Wilson's breakdown
cannot be explained by any theory
of logic. Those who had it in their
power to persuade President Wilson
to permit advisers to reach him
failed to realize the immensity of
their responsibility in shutting him i
off so completely from the outside
world.
Whether America would have ben
efited by entrance into the League
of Nations it is not necessary to
discuss, but the United States would .
today be in the league officially if
the president had been able to get i
the advice he so much needed in his |
enfeebled condition. On his sick bed, ;
he almost agreed to accept the Lodge ■
reservations, but someone urged him '
to make of it an issue in the 1920 j
campaign and in January, 1920, he
asked that a solemn referendum be
taken. Was it the whispering voice
of amb’tion which put into his mind
the forlorn hope that he could re
cover and that a third term in the
White House was possible? For him
self, Mr. Wilson was not ambitious.
Those around him —not all —felt the
magic pell of power and inevitably
longed for its continuance.
Early in 1919, the author had
made a tour-of the United States
and had written for the London
Times a cable stating that while
sentiment for the league was pre
ponderant, the cause would be
strengthened if people were sure Mr.
Wilson did not mean to use it as a
vehicle for a third term. The presi
dent read that article and cabled to
his private secretary to discover, if
the sentiment reported were correct
and if he should issue a statement
saying he would not run for a third
term. He was advised that it was
unnecessary.
Platform Cast Aside
Nearly a year when the au
thor published a story about the
president's cable and his apparent
willingness to forego a third nomi
nation if it would help the cause of
the league, there was evidence of
displeasure that Mr. Wilson’s posi
tion had become public. Mrs. Wilson
demanded to know of Secretary
Tumulty if the author had accets
to the president’s cables from Paris.
The information to the author had
come not from Washington, how
ever, but 'from Paris, yet the signifi
cance of the action lay in the ap
parent disinclination to give up the
third term idea, especially at a time
when other candidates were seeking
the Democratic nomination.
The San Francisco convention was
a disappointment to Woodrow Wll
- in many ways. The conv’ention
failed to give Mr. Wilson even a
complimentary nomination. Nor did
his friends think it wise to announce
that he had sent a light-wines-and
beer plank to the convention for
adoption. He had vetoed the Volstead
act and felt that its modification
would not be a violation of the
eighteenth amendment. Mr. Wilson
bequeathed to his friends a com
plete platform for the 1924 cam
paign, but at this writing it has not
ijeen made public.
Mr. Wilson’s last days in the
White House were in seclusion. He
never came to his offices. He sat
in a wheel char on the south portico
or in the grounds and received few
callers. One of the unexplained in
cidents of the last year was his
failure to receive Lord Grey, Brit
ain’s distinguished statesman, who
had been secretary for foreign af
fairs in 1914 and who was in Wash
ington as a special ambassador in
the hope of reaching some under
standing with the United States
about her entry into the League of
Nations. Mr. Wilson never gave
him an audience. He resented the
fact that Lord Grey had received, at
the British embassy, several Re
publican members of the United
States genate including Mr. Wilson's
chief opponent, Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, and had discussed the
situation with them. Lord Grey was
of opinion that the Lodge reserva
tion would in the main satisfy the
allied powers. When he returned
to Great Britain, he wrote a letter,
made public in the London Times,
giving his views in detail, but the
president was not make any
friendlier to a compromise by that
action.
Passed Up Opportunity.
Some of those who had Mr. Wil
son’s ear during the seclusion insist
that they urged him to accept the
Lodge reservations. There is no
way to determine the strength of
their • persuasiveness. Mr. Wilson
accepted the 1920 defeat with stoi
cism. He could have revived the
Versailles treaty and released the
members of his party to accept the
Ladge reservations after the elec
tion but though a few newspapers
urged editorially for such a step the
advice went unheeded and the new
president, Mr. Harding, declared un
equivocally against the League of
Nations with or without reserva
tions.
Not a word of criticism came pub
licly from Mr. Wilson of the acts
of President Harding or President
Coolidge. It was Woodrow Wilson’s
pointed way of showing the world,
as he phrase dit, “how an ex-presi
dent could behave” for he did not
forget the shafts aimed at him by
Theodore Roosevelt in the trying
days of the war. Except for a few
implied references to American
foreign policy, Mr. Wilson was
singularly silent after leaving the
White House and not until Novem
ber 11. 1923, on the anniversary of
the armistice, just a few months be
fore he died, did he make any ex
tended criticism of' America’s fail
ure to join the League of Nations.
Here again he mentioned no in
dividuals but based his speech on a
broad principle of international co
operation.
The last few months were - ap
pier for Woodrow Wilson than the
preceding years of silence. lie
sensed a turn in public opinion in
his direction. He talked hopefully
with his chosen visitors on the pros
pects for the 1924 campaign. He
made no commitment as to candi
dates. He was eager to gossip with
the few who came to see him. Nor
man 11. Davis, undersecretary of
state during the last year of Mr.
Wilson’s administration, was a fre
quent visitor at the “S” street home
as was Bernard M Baruch, who,
perhaps, was as close if not closer
than anyone to Mr. Wilson in his
final nays, with the possible excep
tion of Admiral Grayson and mem
bers of the family. Both Mr. Baruch
and Mr. Davis wore experts on rep
arations and European problems
generally and brought authentic in
formation or expert analysis of the
trend of world affairs in which, of
course, Mr. Wilson retained an un
diminished interest to the end.
Occasional!j’ old Princeton friends
came to see the broken statesman.
Some of them, together with polit
ical associates, gave Mr. Wilson a
n'*w automobile on his last birthday
December 26, 1923. A group of
friends also had purchased for him
the mortgage on the “S” street
home as Mr. Wilson did not leave
the White House a rich man in the
usual sense of (he word.
On the few occasions when Mr.
Wilson was visible to the public he
showed he was failing in health.
When the members of the Demo
cratic national committee were re
ceived a month before he died, he
looked withered and exhausted. An
attack of indigestion contributed the
fatal impetus and he died on Feb
ruary 3. 1924.
Ranks as Great Man
Woodrow Wilson will stand in all
history as a great man. His na
poleonio struggle tor a triumph of ;
idealism over materialism and pro-1
vincialism met defeat on a field I
NATIONAL CHIIIVIDER
DISffIEB BAN
HGIINST JWE
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May B.—(By
the Associated Press.) —An unequivo
cal declaration against Japanese ex
clusion was unanimously approved
Wednesday by the foreign commerce
section of the annual convention of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
Adoption of a resolution by Ed
ward A. Filene, of Boston, seconded
by O. M. Clark, representing the
Portland, Ore., Chamber of Com
merce, and E. G. Griggs, of the Ta
coma Association of Commerce, open
ed the way for a declaration on the
issue by the entire chamber.
Subject to the approval of the
board of directors of the chamber,
which is considered certain, the dec
laration will go to the resolutions
committee for consideration, after
which a plenary session of the con
vention will vote on the question,
probably Thursday,
Cashier of Bank Robbed
Recently Is Arrested
NEW YORK, May 7.—Charles M.
Vanderoef, cashicf of the First Na
tional Bank of Bellmore, N. Y., which
was held up and robbed on April 14
by six bandits who shot and killed
Ernest ’/hitman, salesman, to
day was arrested, charged with mis
appropriating $4,900 of the bank’s
funds.
which- counted him in its casualty
list.
Petty intrigues constantly sur
rounded him and at limes misled
him. Selfish, jealous-minded and
often childish persons poured into
his ears the prejudices of scorn and
the insidious poison of hate. Above
it all, Woodrow Wilson’s own rec
ord stands untarnished —he fought
for vital principles. He led a vic
torious nation in the greatest war
of all history. He never intentional
ly hurt his fellow man though the
stern paths of duty ’ed him to part
with so many who failed to grasp
the impersonality of his battles.
Greater by far than those who
basked in his halo was Woodrow
Wilson —a paradox in personality, a
genius of lofty expression, an in
defatigable statesman. Years before
he was thought of for the presidency
by his party, the romantic soul with
in him seemed by prophetic instinct
to be lifted to a higher destiny. On
the seashore gazing wistfully into
the unknown deep. Woodrow Wilson
repeated aloud to a companion an
anonymous poem—the last in the
Oxford Book of English Verse —and,
concluding, he talked of the presi
dency of the United .States as the
office, which, if he ever attained,
would mean for him the. supreme
sacrifice. He spoke his own elegy:
In the hour of death, after this life’s
whim,
»When the heart beats low and the
eyes grow dim,
And pain has exhausted every limb—
The lover of the Lord shall trust
in Him.
When the will has forgotten the
lifelong aim.
And the mind can only disgrace its
fame,
And a man is uncertain of his own
name—
The power of the Lord shall fill this
frame.
When the Inst sigh is heaved, and
the last tear is shed,
And the coffin is waiting beside the
bed.
And the widow and child forsake the
dead—
The angel of the Lord shall lift this
head.
For even the purest delight may pall,
And power must fail and pride must
■ fall.
And the love of the dearest friends
grow small—■
But the glory of the Lord is all
in all.
The end.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
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(Copyright, 1324, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1921.
Hour of 2 Men’s Death
On Same Day to Fix
Division of Big Estate
NEW YORK, May B.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —Attorneys today
were working on a unique case in
which the disposition of a $500,000
estate depends upon which of two
men, who met death on opposite
sides of the globe at almost the same
hour, was thie first to die.
The estate is that of Captain Cole
man, of the San Francisco vigi
lantes, of Argonaut days. His heirs
are a son, Robert Louig Coleman,
San Francisco financier, and a
grandson, Williahi T. Coleman, of
Monrovia, Cal.
The son, with George B. DeLong,
New York broker, was slain by
highwaymen in Albania last April 6,
while on a tour of the world. On
that same date the grandson died
at his home in California. How the
$500,000 estate shall be divided and
whether descendants of the son or
grandson shall receive the major
share, depends upon which of the
two died first.
John F. Bowi . an attorney of this
city, has been requested to learn
the hour and minute when Robert
Louis Coleman ami his companion
were slain on the Tirana-Scutari
highway, in Albania. Cabled press
dispatches, which thus far have been
Mr. Bowie’s onlj’ source of informa
tion placed the hour at 10 a. m.,
April 6, Albanian time. William T.
Coleman was reported to have died
at 1 a. m., April 6, San Francisco
time.
As there are nine hours difference
between Albanian time and San
Francisco time it would appear from
the news dispatches that the son
and grandson died at the same hour,
and that disposition of the estates
hinge upon a determination of the
approximate minute of death. Mr.
Bowie, however, said that the of
ficial records showed that William
T. Coleman died at 3:30 a. m., which
would indicate he survived his uncle
in Albania by two and one-half
hours.
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