Morning Oregonian., October 29, 1920, Page 4, Image 4

TITE MORNING - OITEG ONTAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1920
PLEA FOR WILSON
MADE BY TUMULTY
Secretary Paints. Chieftain
as He Knows Him.
DISTORTION IS PLAINT
Executive Said to Bo Most Violent
ly Misrepresented Man In
American Politics.
WASHINGTON, Oct 28. An Inti
mate picture "of the manner of man
this WoodTow Wilson really la," based
on ten years as his private secretary
and touched here and there with
hitherto unpubl'shed incidents In the
president's official life, was drawn
tonight by Joseph P. Tumulty, speak
ing at a democratic mass meeting,
just over the line in Maryland.
Mr. Tumulty described the presi
dent as "a man as strangely misun
derstood by some and as violently
misrepresented by others as any man
in the whole history of American
politics." He had Ions desired, he
aid, to tell the country what he knew
of Mr. Wilson's character, but had
refrained in the knowledge that the
president, who "shrinks from self
Axploltation, would resent exploita
tion by his friends."
Tumulty Telia of Last Act.
With the approach of Mr. Wilson's
tmtlrement to private life, however,"
Secretary Tumulty continued, "It
aeems to mo not Improper that Just
before the curtain rises on the last
auct I modestly step out from my ob
scurity In the wings and tell the audi
ence a few things about the leading
actor In this great drama of the last
Might years."
Recalling his ten years In the "in
timate relationship of private secre
ftary," the speaker said:
"I may be presumed to know at
Vast as much about him as the gen
tlemen who discourse volubly of him
in Pullman smokers, on the golf links
and In the clubs, who assure you
that all they say is fact, for they
had it on the word of a friend of a
triend who passed through Washing
ton once and heard a man say that
another man said, etc,"
Wilaon Stunned by Applause.
Among Incidents on which he drew
to Illustrate his subject, Mr. Tumulty
recalled the reaction of the president
to the applause which greeted de
livery of his war message to congress
on April 6, 1917.
"On that fateful day," Secretary Tu
multy said, "I rode with him back
from the capitol to the White House,
the echo of the applause still ringing
in my ears. For a while he sat silent
and pale in the cabinet room. At last
he said: 'Think what it was they were
applauding. It means death to our
young men. How strange It seems to
applaud that.'
"That simple remark." he continued.
"Is the key to an understanding of
Woodrow Wilson," who, he said,
hated and dreaded war with "all of
the fibers of his human soul."
As further evidence of tie presi
dent's sense of responsibility in the
blood thed by American soldiers. Mr.
Tumulty told of the day when news
came of American casualties at Vera
Cruz in 1914.
Vera Cnu Incident Xoted.
"When the news came," he said,
"the president was quiet all day. He
went about his business methodically,
with his usual clear judgment and
prompt decisions, but that night he
i.a.t silent for a long time. At last
he said: 'I cannot get it off my
heart. It had to be done. It was
right. Nothing else was possible, but
I cannot forget that it was I who
had to order those young men to their
deaths "
Karlier that year, when word came
that a German vessel, laden with
munitions, was on Its way to Mexico.
President Wilson talked over the tel
ephone with Secretaries Bryan and
Daniels, and Mr. Tumulty said he
was also on the telephone. When the
Situation had been stated to the pres
Ident, he said, "the voice came back,
clear and firm: 'Order Admiral Mayo
to cake vera Cruz at once
President Chokes Back Sob.
"J ust before I cut off the connec
tion." Secretary Tumulty continued,
"I said a word to the president about
the tragedy of It all. His voice re
sponded, no longer clear, but muffled,
aa when one chokes back a sob. What
do you think of it, Tumulty? It means
!eath. It breaks my heart, but it
must be done.
Secretary Tumulty recalled also
Ml. Wilson's determination to ride in
tne funeral procession of the marines
and su'lora killed at Vera Cruz when
the bodies were brought back to New
xork. Disquieting rumors that an
attack was planned on his life had
reached secret service men. Mr. Tu
multy said, and "one undertook to
arg-ue with him. saying: Tlou will
show all proper respect by appearing
In the reviewing stand. The country
cannot afford to lose its president.1
"His reply was: The country can-
sot afford to have a coward for pres
Ident.' This was his brief and final
answer. He rode In the procession."
Insistence on Article Explained.
The sternness of Woodrow Wilson,
his secretary declared, was "Just the
reverse side of his humane nature,
and made "nothing more natural'
than that-he should have become the
champion of small nations. The
president' Insistence upon article 10
of the league covenant was explained
as a wish to forestall the necessity of
the United States going to war by
making it a participant "In a plan to
prevent the beginning of such war.
He wished to stop the next war be
fore It should begin," Mr. Tumulty
said.
In contrast to Mr. Wilson's self
proclaimed "passion for peace," Sec
retary Tumulty declared that "when
the challenge came from Germany to
America, when the American mind
was ready for war . . . this same
W'oodrow Wilson became the most un
compromising advocate of the most
stringent measures for conducting
the war, thereby to hasten the end
of the war.
Speech la Recalled.
He recalled the president's speech
to officers of the Atlantic fleet In
1917, published long after. In which
he said, "I am willing to sacrifice half
the navy. Great Britain and we to
gether have to crush the submarine
pest."
"It was he." he continued, "who
Insisted on mining the North eea to
cut off the German hornets. Experts
said that it could not be done. The
civilian Wilson said it could be done,
must be done, and it was. It was the
civilian Wilson who broached the
plan for combining the allied powers
. in the west under the supreme com
mand of General Foch, In order that
all the allied forces could be concen
trated on the German forces to crush
them.
"In his mind tho supreme object of
this war was to end war."
The "grave fault," which Secretary
Tumulty asserted, he found with the
president, was his Ignorance of "how
to play the gallery."
"He does not know how to capi
talize his virtues for the front pages
of the newspapers," he said. "He is
dreadfully poor publicity material.
Human frdm his heart to his finger
tips, he does not know how to put
his humanity on exhibition.- '
"As his friend and admirer, I have
loved him better because he didn't.
There was something too fine in his
nature for the dramatic and postur
ings of the political game as it Is
usually played."
The secretary' told of "a Journalist
who wished to have the president "do
one of the stunts that the public
dearly loves to read about" and of the
comment of the president.
"He said to me: Tumulty, you must
realize that I am not built for these
things. I. do not want to be dis-4
played before the public If I tried to
do it, I would do it badly. I want
people to love me but they never will."
I have never forgotten the wistful
tones in which he spoke .those last
four words 'but they never wilL' "
Secretary Tumulty said. t
Ttto Pictures Drawn,
Two final pictures, Mr. Tumulty
said, he desired to draw, the first, that
of the president in 1917, "a straight,
vigorous, slender man, active and
alert."
'He Is 60 years old." he said, "but
looks not more than 45, so lithe of
limb, so alert of bearing, so virile.
That is Woodrow Wilson reading his
great war message.
'The other picture Is only three
and a half years later. There. Is a
parade of veterans of the great war.
They are to be reviewed by the presi
dent on the east terrace of the White
Hffuae. ' In a chair sits a ma'n, your
president, broken in health, but still
alert In mind; his hair is white, his
shoulders bowed, his figure bent. He
13 63 years old, but he looks older.
It Is Woodrow Wilson.
Tears In President's Eyes,
"Presently in the procession there
appears an ambulance laden with
wounded soldiers, the maimed and
blind. As they pass, they salute,
slowly, reverently.
The president's right hand goes
up in answering salute. I glance at
him, there were tears In his eyes.
The wounded is greeting the
wounded; those in the ambulance, he
in the chair, are alike casualties of
the great war.
-I don't believe in his heart Presi
dent Wilson regrets his wounds. I
fancy he realizes no man could die
In a greater cause, but I do some
times wonder if it ever seems to him
strange that, when a man. has -.een
seriously wounded In his cnimtrv's
service, he should be met with sneers
and calumnies from his countrymen "
ISLAND WANTS LUMBER
New Zealand Said' to Need Build
ing Materials From America.
New Zealand Is experiencing great
shortage of lumber and building ma
terials, according t8 George Fowldes.
ex-minister of education and public
health In New Zealand, who is in
Portland on a business visit.
'The people of New Zealand need
American lumber," he said yesterday.
i.ne shortage is so great that the
government will not allow any build
ing other than schoolhouses and
dwellings, and in the case of dwell
ings the size and value are quite lim
ited, so that in American money their
cost would not exceed $1800 to 12200."
Mr. Fowldes spoke yesterday after-
rhoon before the students of Reed col
lege on the need for stronger effort
in behalf of a constructive economic
programme. He will deliver an ad
dress at 4:45 P. M. Sunday In the
auditorium of the Y. M. C A. on
"Moral Uplift and the Public Health."
Mr. Fowldes, who spent six years
as minister of education and public
health in New Zealand, is now presi
dent of the Auckland college council.
He Is accompanied by his daughter.
The U. S. Government
has investigated moral conditions
, in 444 cities.
Portland is rated as best.
Keep it in first place
RE-ELECT MAYOR BAKER
CPald Adv. by Mayor Baker He-Election Committee, Barge Leonard,
Director.)
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HUSBAKDS ASK FREEDOM
MES COME TO FORE Ef SUITS
TO CAST OFF THEIR WIVES.
Failure to Make Good in Marital
Ventures Are Bases of Actions
for Divorce Decrees.
Failure to make good in the career
of husband Is one of the principal
plaints 4n divorce suits filed yester
day in the circuit court.
John W. Martin would shed the
bonds of matrimony because Julia
Martin told him she was wasting her
life on him and "could have married
a wealthy man." He says he gave
her all the money he earned, but still
she wanted more. He also alleges she
bought frivolous, useless and extrav
agant articles and had a bad temper,
which frequently evinced itself when
she berated the plaintiff for not earn
ing all she wished to spend. Sinee
April they have not lived together.
Martin asks custody of his child.
When Alexander S. Service brought
his wife candy. If she liked the sweets,
he says, she criticised the box or had
wished for something else. If he
brought her flowers, he continues,
they were never the right kind, and
when he brought the right kind she
wished for others. Service says he
has given up trying to please Maud
I. Service.
Others filing complaints yesterday
were: Walter G. Ballou against Jessie
May Ballou, desertion; David Rooch
against Gertrude Rooch, cruelty and
infidelity; J. H. Johnson against Syl
via B. Johnson, cruelty; H. O. Tenney
against Goldie M Tenney, cruelty;
Mary Seitz against Joe Seitz, deser
tion. AVIATION FIELD TO WAIT
Roseburg' Bond Issue Most Go to
Voters Aa in.
ROSEBTJRG, Or, Oct. 28. (Special.)
The issuance of $7000 In bonds by
the city of Roseburg to purchase ;
aviation field was effectively blocked
today when a referendum petition car
rying 85 names was filed with the
city recorder, and asking that the
matter he submitted to a vote of the
people at the general election in No
vember, 1921.
The bond issue had been authorized
at a recent special election, but con
siderable opposition has developed
among a number of councilman with
the result that they now ask that the
proposition be submitted again to a
vote of the people. . ,
BOY SCOUTS TO AID DRIVE
5 0 Recruited in Campaign of AI-
.. bertina Kerr Nursery.
Fifty recruits from the various Boy
Scout companies of Portland,
equipped for a day's service in the
field, will cover the cityi tomorrow
with leaflets of the Albertina Kerr
nursery home campaign, which is in
progress for the raising of 25,000 to
complete the new structure at East
Tv-enty-second street and Sandy bou
levard. Many more field solicitors are
needed, says Frank Hilton, campaign
manager, who asks that -volunteers
report without delay at headquarters,
402 Artisans' building. Subscription
solicitors and tag-day volunteers are
equally needed. The tag- sales, which
are to close the drive, will be con
ducted on November 6.
Yesterday the total receipts of the
drive were estimated at 3500, and
though the figure is behind the re
quired daily average, the entire cam
paign staff is confident of eventual
success.
EX-WIFE WIN'S DECISION
Judge Denies Divorced Man's Plea
for Drug- Store Receiver.
Application for receivership for a
drug store operated by Mrs. Hulda
Meyers, twice married and twice
divorced from Walter P. Meyers, was
denied yesterday by Circuit Judge
Gatens. Meyers, who was employed
by his wife as a pharmacist after
their first separation, made the ap
plication. The judge held It unjust for the
business to be burdened with the ad
ditional expense of the receivership.
Mrs. Meyers told the court her chief
objection to her ex-husband was that
he was too fond of liquor. When she
wedded him the second time she was
under the impression that he had re
formed, she said. . - - '-
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Month-End Sale
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Now for two days these fine fur garments are attractively
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Hudson Seal Coatee,
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Month-End Price
262.50
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Hudson Seal Cape Wrap,"
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Month-End Price
$101.25
$575
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Sale
$356.25
Month-End Price
$243.75
$550
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MonthrEnd Price
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Silk Petticoats $2.85
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.Important Sale .of
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