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VOL. 35
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FR.ll FEBRUARY 8, 1924.
NO. 24
WOODROW WILSON
ENTERS LUST SLEEP
CLOSED HIS EYES AND SLIPPED
PEACEFULLY AWAY SUNDAY
AT 11.15 A. M.
GRAYSON MAKES STATEMENT
III Health Began More Than Four
Years Aga—Immediate Cause Di
gestive Disorder.
Washington. — Former President
Wilson died Sunday at 11:15.
Fatigue and worn by the battle with
death which began before he left the
White House in 1921 the war president
of the two terms—eight of the most
momentous years in the history of the
world—-closed his eyes and slipped
peacefully away.
The end came when vitality no long
er could retard the steady dissolution
which set in with the stroke of paraly
sis that laid Mr. Wilson low on his
return from the western speaking trip
in 1919 in which he declared he was
gald to give his life for the League of
Nations if that would make it a suc
cess.
The general sclerosis naci been pro
gressively hardening Mr. Wilson's
arteries since he was first stricken in
1919. The haemopligia which refers
to the paralytic condition of his left
side, manifested itself, principally in
his left arm and leg.
A digestive disorder which develop
ed last Monday hastened death by a
new and vicious attack on the waning
vitality of the former president. Ha
took a sudden turn for the worse Ehurs
•••>'• rent and his physicians found
that thereafter it was only a question
of how long they would be able to
prolong life.
The passing of the former president
was announced in the following state
ment issued by his physician and
friend, ear Admiral Cary T. Grayson.
“Mr. Wilson died at eleven fifteen
this morning.
“His heart’s action became feebler
and feebler, and the heart muscles
was so fatigued that it refused to act
any longer. The end came peace
fully.’’
“The remote causes of death lie in
his ill-health which began more than
four years ago, namely, artereo-scle
rosis with hemiptegia. The immediate
cause of death was exhaustion foil >w
ing a digestive disturbance which be
gan in the early part of last week* but
did not reach an acute state until the
early morning hours of February 1.”
Mrs. Wilson, his daughter Margar
et and Dr. Grayson only were in the
death chamber at the end. Dr. Gray
son, restraining tears with obvious
difficulty, gave the formal announce
ment to waiting newspapermen. Worn
with the strain, his voice was barely
audible when he said that the for
mer president’s last moments had
been peaceful.
Woodrow Wilson Joined Church in
Columbia, S. C.
Columbia, S. C—As a boy in his
teens, Woodrow Wilson united with
the historic First Presbyterian church
in Columbia, of which his father, the
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, was the pastor
at the time.
His parents lie buried in the church
yard and the body of his sister, Mrs.
George Howe, who died in 1916, also
lies in the same plot. The inscription
on his father’s tombstone was drafted
by W’oodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson’s father was one
of the southern Presbyterian church’s
most distinguished preachers. Ai er
serving as pastor of the First Presby
t^-ian church here, he became a pro
fessor in Columbia Theological semi
nary here.
An aunt, Mrs. Felie B. W’oodrow, and
several cousins live here now. “Aunt
Felie,” who always referred to her
distinguished nephew as “Tommy,” re
marked at one time that “Tommy com
menced calling himself ‘Woodrow’
after be took to writing books."
Baker Says Wilson Had Courage
Rarely Equalled.
Cleveland, Ohio —Newton D. Baker,
war time secretary of war under for
mer President Wilson, said:
“He had a mind richly stored and
disciplined to almost perfect precis
ion. He bad a prophetic vision of
the need of the world for peace and
order, based on understanding and up
right dealings and he had courage,
both physical and mental in a degree
rarely equalled, eveni n great men.
“He was a bit impatient of slow
heads and fiercely intolerant of bad
hearts, but he was a considerate, help
ful and loyal chief of those who saw
him literally carrying the weight ol
the world.
STUDENTS MEET
RALEIGH
baptists Students From Four States
Will Hold Convention February
20-March 2.
Raleigh.—Baptist Students of Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina, will meet in Raleigh
February 29-March 2 in their second
annual conference, as the guests of
Meredith College and the First Bap
tist church. The conference is pro
moted by the Interboard committee of
the Southern Baptist convention. The
first one was held last year in Greens
boro.
(During February there will be three
conferences for Southern Baptist stu
dents, one at Shawnee, Oklahoma, one
at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and one
at Raleigh.
Among the speakers who will be
on the program in Raleigh are Dr.
J. F. Love, of the Foreigh Mission
Board; Dr. W. R. Alenxander; Frank
Leavell, executive secretary of the
three conferences; Miss Jessie Bur
rail; Miss Louise Foreman, traveling
secretary; Dr. W. J. McGlouthlin,
president of Furman University.
Baptist students of practically
every college in the four states will
be represented, and the delegates will
be entertained in the Baptist homes of
the city.
Such problems will be taken up at
the conference as a world missionary
outlook, practical plans for organiza
tion among students, world student
sympathies, and definite campus pro
grams.
Jumps to Death From Building.
Tarboro.—Tarboro was shocked
when it was learned that young Ro
land Allsbrook had committed suicide
by jumping from the Masonic Tem
ple. A colored by, Van Raynor, who
works at Hotel Farrar was passing
and said he saw Allsbrook upon the
Are ascape of the Masonic Temple,
that the latter whistled to him to at
tract his attention and he thought he
said, -I tried to do it but couldn’t”
and also “I’m going to jump,” but be
i fore he was sure of the words he saw
his body hurling through the air and
it hit the pavement by Cook's drug
1 store on the corner of Pitt and Main
street. The boy saw Chief Lewis some
distance down the street and ran for
him. He and another colored boy ran
to help, but Mr. Allsbrook was beyond
help. •
—.
■ 2-Session Summer School.
Wake Forest.—Announcement of the
decision of the executive committee to
conduct two summer schools of six
weeks each at Wake Forest has been
made by Dean D .B. Bryan, director.
“The growth of the summer school dur
ing the past four years and the in
: creased interest which teachers of the
State are taking in raising their certi
ficates by summer study necessitated
the twelve weeks session,” declared
Dean Bryan.
The first term of the summer school.
Director Bray announced, would be
gin June 16 and continue .through July
25. The second term will begin July
26 and continue through August 30.
Expect Good Year For Business.
Wilmington.—The 14 fertilizer fac
; tories in the Wilmington territory are
counting on the biggest year’s business
they ever have done. The total sales
last year of manufactured and import
ed soil improvers are estimated to
have brought in $22,000,000 with $16,
000,000 representing local product.
Edwin B Josey of the N. B. Josey
Guano comptny at Hilton states that
his company has booked more con
tracts than it ever had at this season.
High Water Carry Away Bridge.
Scoland Neck—The high waters of
the past few days caused disaster to
the contractors who have the construc
tion of the bridge across Roanoke
River at Edward’s Ferry.
Trees, trash and rubbish brought
j down the river by the high waters
accumulated and backed against the
temporary wooden structure with such
force that it carried away about two
hundred feet of the bridge which was
used for traffic in building the cause
j way on the farther side of the river.
The disaster will no doubt cause
considerable delay in the completion
of the bridge, which has already been
delayed much longer than was ex
pected.
Wake Forest Plans Contest.
Wake Forest.—Letters have been
I sent to 300 North Carolina high
schools announcing the annual inter
scholastic declamation contest and
track meet to be held at Wake For
est April 4-5. This event will probably
be the eclipsing event of the spring
term, t commttee representing the
faculty- Prof. J. G. Carroll, chairman
.—is co-operating with a committee of
students representing the two societies
toward making the event a success.
Last year some 200 high school stu
dents were present for the events.
DEATH TAKES WDODHDIIVWILSON.
OUTSTHm FIGURE IF THE AGE
Remarkable Career of the Man Who, After Gaining Fame as an
Educator and Author, Became President, and During the
Great War Was the Most Powerful Individual in the
World—Originator of the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth
president of the United States of
America, was the most prominent
world-figure of the events growing out
of the World war, the most momentous
of all wars. His place, as history will
fix It, can only be conjectured. Hun^>
dreds of millions placed him at the
zenith, ns they placed the ex-kalser at
the nadir.
The great war brought to the front
many men whose nnmes will live In
honor. In the last analysis three men
stand out: Wilson, Lloyd George,
Clemenceau. Of these three It was
Wilson who held the world’s eye—Wil
son, the human phenomenon of the
times, until fifty-four no more than a
college president and political writer
and at sixty-three on a pinnacle of
fame and honor and power unsur
passed If ever attained by any man
In history.
It Is impossible now to differentiate
between Woodrow Wilson the man and
Woodrow Wilson the head of the most
powerful nation of earth In wealth?
material and fighting men. Certainly
he could not have reached the place
he held without great ability and ex
traordinary capacity for leadership.
By virtue of his place he became a
focus of world attention as soon as
the great war began. Before the1 armi
stice was signed he had become a
great moral leader with the ear of the
peoples of the world. Only as such
could he have forced upon the allied
world the unofficial acceptance of his
project of a. league of nations, with Its
MRS. AND MRS. WOODROW WILSON
fourteen points as set forth to con
gress January 18, 1918.
Abroad and at Home.
The enthusiasm evoked by President
Wilson’s visits to Paris, London and
Rome was proof of his unique place In
the regard of the people. It was evi
dent that he was to Europeans not so
much a man as a voice—a voice put
ting into words what they wanted and
had not been able to express; his Ideas
and Ideals were a sort of religion to
them.
But he showed himself a statesman
as well as a voice. He played the game
masterfully. He established sympathy
between himself and his man or his
crowd. He made few If any mistakes
In taste or judgment. He “matched
his mind,” to use his own expression,
with the best of Europe and he got his
league of nations before the peace
oonference and got It adopted.
President Wilson’s two months in
Europe may be divided into phases.
When he landed the attitude toward
the league of nations was this: The
government of France was antagonis
tic; Great Britain's was suspicious;
Italy’s was skeptical. The first phase,
his triumphant progress through
France, England and Italy opened the
eyes of these governments to his hold
on the people. The second phase, the
preliminary work of the peace con
ference, convinced these governments
that President Wilson had an Idea
rather than a set plan which he pur
posed to force upon them. This sim
plified the situation and the rush to
climb on the bandwagon began.
Contemporary estimates of President
Wilson at home were as wide apart as
To particularize would be largely to
review the political history of the last
six years. The railroad situation, how
ever, may be cited as an example.
Representative E. E. Denison (Rep.)
of Illinois said January 15, 1919,
"Government ownership of railroads
will be the dominant political is
sue In the next national campaign and
Mr. McAdoo will of course expect to
be the candidate of his party. He will
hope to capitalize what has been done
for the railroad men."
President Wilson was re-elected In
1916 upon a peace platform. October
25, 1918, Just before the congressional
elections, he Issued an appeal to the
voters of the United States asking
them, if they had approved of his
leadership and wished him to continue
to be their unemburrassed spokesman
in affairs at home and abroad, to ex
press themselves unmistakably to that
effect by returning a Democratic ma
jority to both houses. The result of
the elections was to change the po
litical complexion of both houses as
follows: 65th congress—Senate, 51
Democrats and 45 Republicans; house,
215 Republicans and 213 Democrats.
66th congress—Senate, 47 Democrats
and 49 Republicans; house, 239 Re
publicans and 193 Democrats.
President Wilson In attending the
peace conference made several new
departures. He left the country during
office. He took the office with him,
signing acts and making appointments
while In Purls. He Ignored the senate,
though he is empowered by the Con
stitution to make treaties "by and with
the advice and consent of the senate.”
He appointed as the American repre
the poles. Senator J. Thomas Heflin
(Dem., Ala.), when representative
spoke on the floor of “Woodrow Wil
son, the greutest apostle of world liber
ty and democracy since Jesus Christ.”
Senator Thomas W. Hardwick (Dem.)
of Georgia, said January 21 In the sen
ate: "I believe in a written constitu
tion. I believe In a strict interpretation
of It . . . and I believe that unless
we leave and abandon this mad satur
nalia of Imperialism here at home and
return to the ancient principles of our
fathers there will be no safety nor
hnpplness for the people of this re
public.”
Senator Albert B. Cummins (Rep.)
of Iowa expressed the half-way view
when he said In the senate January
23: “I think President Wilson Is the
most intensely practical statesman of
this or any other day. He began his
administration In the belief that the
executive office had not the power that
It ought to have. He has accomplished
imore in the direction In which he set
his face and his mind than any other
man, either in this generation or In
any former generation; and the only
crltlclsm, If It be a criticism, Is that
he has not marched In the right direc
tion and has done things that he ought
not to have done.”
In the process of wresting from con
gress all the powers he believed the
Constitution conferred upon the execu
tive, President Wilson made many po
litical enemies who questioned not his
ability, but his motives and methods.
oentatives himself, Secretary of State
Robert Lansing, Henry White, Edward
M. House and General Tasker H. Bliss.
He sailed December 4. 1918, and ar
rived at Paris December 14. The
French capital was en fete for the oc
casion. December 24 he went to
England and thence to Italy. He
returned to Paris January 8, after a
journey that resembled a “triumphal
procession.”
After tlie preliminary sessions of the
peace conference President Wilson re
turned to the United States in Febru
ary, returning to Paris March 15, 1919.
He signed the peace treaty June 28,
1919, and returned to the United States
July 8. His second term as president
expired March 3, 1920.
After his retirement from the presi
dency Mr. Wilson lived Quietly, making
a partly successful fight to regain his
health. He occasionally went to the
theater and rode much in his car about
the environs of Washington. He bought a
home in Washington and in 1921
formed u law partnership with Bain
bridge Colby, who had been his secre
tary of state, succeeding Robert Lan
sing. He took part in the funeral pro
cession of President Harding in Wash
ington and was the recipient of much
public attention.
Mr. Wilson’s last public utterance
was last fall. November 10, 1923, ttie
eve of Armistice day, he spoke by rudio
to the American people, defending his
peace policy and saying that the Amer
ican people had withdrawn Into a “sul
len and selfish isolation which Is deeply
ignoble because manifestly cowardly
and dishonorable."
Armistice day Mr. Wilson briefly ad
dressed thousands from the front steps
of ills home, concluding thus:
“I am not one of those that have the
least anxiety about the triumph of the
principles I have stood for. I have
seen fools resist Providence before and
I have seen their destruction, as will
come upon these again—utter destruc
tion and contempt. That we shall pre
vail is as sure as that God reigns.
Thank you.”
Chronology of Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was born Decem
ber 28, 1856, in Staunton, Va. He was
the son of Kev. Joseph K. Wilson,
a Presbyterian minister, and Jessie
(Woodrow) Wilson. In 1885 he mar
ried Ellen Louise Axsen. They had
three daughters—Jessie (Mrs. Francis
B. Sayre), Eleanor (Mrs. W-. G. Mc
Adoo) and Margaret. Mrs. Wilson
died August 1C, 1914, in the White
House. December 18, 1915, Mr. Wil
son married Edith (Bolling) Galt, a
descendant of Pocahontas. The firs!
29 years of Mr. Wilson's life covered
his boyhood and education. The next
25 were devoted to teaching and writ
ing. With his election to the gover
norship of New Jersey in 1910 began
ills active political career. Uis chro
nology follows:
1858—Family removed to Atlanta,
Ga. Student in private schools.
1875-9—Student at Princeton.
1879-82—Law student at University
of Virginia.
1882- 3—Practicing lawyer in Atlanta.
1883- 5—Post-graduate course at
Johns Hopkins university In history.
Jurisprudence and political science; re
ceived degree of Ph. D.
1886—Associate professor of history
at Bryn Mawr college.
1888—Professor of history and po
litical economy at Wesleyan.
1890—Professor of jurisprudence
and political economy at Princeton.
1902—I’resident of Princeton (first
nonclericai).
Political Career Begins.
1910—Elected governor of New Jer
sey.
1912—Nominated by Democratic na
tional convention in Baltimore in June
on forty-sixth ballot by vote of 990
out of 1,086 over Champ Clark of Mis
souri and Judson Harmon of Ohio.
Elected president over Taft and Roose
velt.
juio—lviimnaiea oy acclamation oy
Democratic national convention in St.
Louis in June. Elected president over
Charles E. Hughes.
Woodrow Wilson’s Ph. P. thesis was
“Congressional Government: A Study
in American Politics” (1885). His
later works Include:
‘‘The State: Elements of Historical
and Practical Politics” (1889; new edi
tion. 1911).
"An Old Master, and Other Political
Essays” (1893).
“Division and Reunion” (1893).
“Mere Literature, and Other Essays"
(1896; new editing, 1913).
“George Washington” (1896; new
edition, 1913).
“The Free Life” (1908; new edition,
1913).
“Constitutional Government In the
United States” (1908).
“Otic Problems” (1909).
“History of the American People”
(5 Vols., 1902; new edition, 1912).
“The New Freedom” (1913).
“When a Man Comes to Hlmaelf
(1915).
L'*tle Willis.
Little Will la tried to swing aboard
the caboose as the south-bound freleht
pulled out Saturday morning. The
doctor says he will be able to attend
school Monday.
MUSIC CONTEST
OF HIGH SCHOOLS
HUNDREDS OF YOUNG WOMEN
FROM ALL OVER STATE
EXPECTED TO ENTER.
TO BE HELD IN GREENSBORO
Contestants Will Be Guests of the
North Carolina College For
Women, May 1-2.
Greensboro.—Arrangements are al
ready being made for the fifth annual
music contest among the high schools
of North Carolina, to be held at the
North Carolina College for Women on
May 1 and 2.
Several hundred contestants are
expected. When the contest was es
tablished there were only 12 pupils
contesting, in one department—piano.
Last May there were 249, from schools
in every section of the state, taking
part in the piano, violin, soprano, con
tralto, tenor, baritone, bass, mixed
chorus, boys' glee clubs, girls’ glee
clube, boys’ quartets, girls’ quartets,
mixed quartets and orchestra con
tests. The aim of the contests is to
encourage musical activity in the
schools, offering an opportunity for
comparison and establish higher mu
sical standards. Dr. Wade R. Brown,
dean of music at the college, has su
pervision of the colonies.
Trophies are awarded in all the
events and the North Carolina music
championship goes to the school mak
ing the largest number of points. The
Roanoke Rapids school won the big
trophy last year.
While the contestants are here they
will be the guests of the college.
Thursday evening they will attend a
recital to be given in the Grand thea
ter by John Powell, celebrated pianist,
and the college will be hosts to tfie
young mueicians. Mr. Powell has
consented to act as judge in the piano
contests.
Bryson Orders Erection of New Jail.
Wentworth.—The grand jury com
pleted its work here after returning
man. true bills and investigating
county affairs submitted their final re
port to Judge Bryson before the ad
journment of court.
Among other things Wie jury recom
mended was a new jail for Leaksville
township, and the judge said if this
was not done by tinte of the next court
he would inquire ae to why it was not
done.
The condition of the Spray jail was
made known to the jury by several
persons. They were told that as
many as fourteen were locked up there
with only room for five or six. Men
and women, black and white, are of
ten locked up together.
Finds Yellow Holly Tree.
Asheville.—Yellow holly, rare form
of the tree, known to Botanists as
foema xanthocarpa rehder, has been
found a short distance from Blantyre,
near Brevard, by Charles F. Baldwin,
one of the owners of Woodlake Park
real estate development, in that sec
tion, It w'as announced by Maj. War
ren E. Hall, secretary-treasurer of
Western North Carolina, Inc.
Sample of the yellow along with
a quantity of red holly taken from
another tree in the same locality, has
been received in the headquarters of
Western North Carolina company and
Maj. Hall xpects to display both va
rieties in the window there at 6 Gov
ernment street.
Cotton Ginned in Iredell.
Statesville.—The amount of cotton
pinned in Iredell county during the
term ended January 16, 1924, is great
er by 3,408 bales than the amount gin
ned during the term ended January 16,
1923, according to figures issued by E.
E. Sherrill, federal cotton statistician.
In the term ended January 16, 1924.
there were ginned in Iredell 17,474
bales of cotton, while in the same pe
riod of 1923 there were ginned 14,086
bales, savs the report.
Convicts Captured in Tennessee.
Asheville.—With the arrest near
Morristown, Tenr., of two more es
caped convicts from a state prison
camp in Madison county, only six of
the 18 negroes attempting freedom in
a sensational jail delivery last week
are yet at liberty.
The negroes were in civilian cloth
es when taken into custody by Ham
lin county officers, it is reported from
Marshall.
George Pou, superintendent of the
state penitentiary at Raleigh, will
not come to Marshall to conduct an
Investigation of the jail delivery, It
was learned at the state camp.
t