MEDFORD MATL TRTRUXE, MftDFOTiT), OKKCOK, MONDAY. OCTOF:F,tt 2."., 101(1
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LOVE OF FAMILY NO HOI ONE
OF THE STRONGEST TRAITS OF
Brother of Mr. Wilson's First Wife,1
Tells of the Beauty of Their Rela
tionship.
Tho followlHK artlilo Ih composed
of extracts from an article recently
liublishml In the New York TitiH'H
. niaRazlne. The author of the TimoB'
articlo is Prof. Stockton Axson, whose
sister, Ellon Louise Axson,1 was Presi
dent Wilson's first wire. Pror. Ax
roii ir.ade his homo with the Wilsons
for many years, and is probably more
competent than any other person to
write about tho personal and domestic
side of President Wilson's character.
Editor.)
It is hard for me to speak in mod
erate terms of the beauty of the Wil
sons' married life that married life
which I saw so intimately for more
than 25 years. They Hay "tho brav
est aro the tendorest," and this
strongest man in all the world today
lias always been so gcntlo in his home
life that ho has appeared to some too
domestic. In the days of the unfort
unate collegiate quarrels in Princeton
one charge that used to be made
against him was that he was so shut
up In his homo life that he did not
know men and tho ways of men.'
Tells of Home Ufo
Of course, a man of Woodrow Wil
sou's genius for rapid perception
learns more about men in the flash
of an eyo than slower men learn of
each othor in wholo long afternoons
of clubroom gossip over their high
balls. But in the charge thero Is this
much truth, that Mr. Wilson's own
fireside has always been dearer to
him than the thronged marts of cas
ual contracts, if I were asked to
name the leading and governing char
acteristic of this man,-1 should reply:
"That is not easy, for he Is a man of
commanding genius, and gonlus is
necessarily complex; but certainly
one of his leading traits is deep affec
tion. Sometimes in his public deal
ings he is forced to harden his heart
deliberately in order that he may do
ustice, but so soon as he can follow
his own instinct there omcrges, above
nil his Intellectuality and all hig lron
firmness of will, his affection."
In (lie family circle ho calf give this
affection free reign, and lionco he
probably never feels so completely
himself as when ho,Kathoi-s witli wife
and daughters and a few chosen
friends around the fireside, and al
lows his spirit to move him whither it
listoth. He simply cannot live with
out affection, for this, our American
great man, is no superman, but hu
man to the core of him.
FORE!
E
In the long years of his and my
sister's life together, they were more
completely one than any two people
with whom I have been thrown Into
Intimate contact. They look color
from each other, as, water and sky
reflect each other's moods. Their
tastes in books, pictures, statues and
architecture coalesced. Ho taught
hor to love his prose favorites, Durkc
and riagehot and Hirrell (the first
llirrell book I ever saw wus au In
scribed gift book from him to her),
she taught him to love her poetic fa
vorites, especially Browning and
Wordsworth; he had a deep and true
instinct for architecture, which he
imparted to her, and she in turn
quickened his discrimination for color
in landscape painting and in nature,
for she had a skill In color that would
have made her painting secondary to
her greater career as wife and
mother.
Never Had Dispute.
Wo often hear It said of a married
pair so often that it lias bncomo a
sort of "bromide" "A cross word
never passed between that couple." I
have been honestly trying to think if
I ever heard anything approaching
an' altercation passing between Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson and I cannot recall
even a shadow of such. And yet
those were no weaklings; but two
spirited people, each with a power
of conviction possiblo only to very
strong characters. Thoy would some
times differ in their opinionsi but
their relationship was so rooted in
iuutunl love and loyalty that their dif
ferences were casual and superficial,
never fundamental.
We who love him feel that God
himself must have directed tho cir
cumstances which brought Mrs. Gait
Into the white house circle. Hut for
her we can only surmise what might
strongest man in the world could
have happened, for not even the
bear up Indefinitely under tho dumb
grief that followed my sister's death.
Sunlight and grace radiate from Mrs.
Gait. Her nature is big and generous
and health-giving, and In that pres
ence tho president found now life,
found that love that without which
he cannot live. Their love for each
other is perfect, and we all love hor,
both for what she has done for him
and for herself, for to know her is to
love her;
She has entered this great career
as simply, as unaffectedly, as unself
ishly as Ellen Axson entered into the
obscure career of the young lawyer
who was abandoning law for a new
and untried Ufo of scholarship and
teaching. To neither woman has
condition, high or low, meant any
thing; to both Woodrow Wilson has
'meant ail.
Ih MILTON HliONXKIi
NTOW YOlik", Hit. j:s. "lYoiiilrii-.v
Wilson wns riit'it in tuivorutuu Hit
t'ifjht-lituir luw and the rnpuUlciiiis
nro. MTons in seeking to make ciipitnl
out'oi' it. Seventy iVMillifans in llic
house voted for il, and not one lv
puhlionn senator look steps really o
oppose it. The republicans were
more than willing to put the blame on
the dcmocrals, but at heart they
knew that ei'ht-lnair legislation in
most industries must prevail. As a
matter of I'net, just such u law was
bound to come. It is simply n matter
of social justice."
The speaker was Weldiatr King,
twice president of the New York Pro
duce exchange and twice president of
the Kxporters' and Importers' asso
ciation. He is senior member of the
firm of llailler & Quereau, which
exports steel and other products to
all ports in Australia, New Zealand
and South Afrieu.
Kinjr is noted in New York as one
of the greatest Authorities on all mat
ter of foreiirn shipping. His views ou
the eight -hour law show that not nil
men in big business are without vision
beyond tho immediate dollar.
"Wilson's defeat would be a nation
al calamity," he said, "la the dcli-
ate stage of international affairs it
DENIES REVIEW OF
COAL FUND CASES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. The su
preme court today refused to review
conviction of .lames D. Smith, vice
president; F. C. Mills, dock superin
tendent, and E. H. Muycr, checker,
respectively of the Western Fuel com
pany of San Francisco, of cousplriug
to defraud thn government by false
weighing of dutiable, coal and tho
punishment prescribed in the Califor
nia federal court will stand.
HUGHES THROWN OVERBOARD
(Continued From Page One).
for Wilson, berauso "he kept tho
country out of war." This tremend
ous vote plus the commercially con
lent, plus tho disgruntled progres
sives, plus Hie railroad employes,
plus the organized labor vote, plus tho
social worker vole, plus the anti
hyphenate vote, plus the Jewish voW,
plus the semi-radical vote, plus the
anti-machine vole, plus the anti-Wall
street vote, and so-forth andso-fortli
made It quite evident that Wilson
would get the electoral vole of Illi
nois. T.'CaderH ,iiakeii,
Tim normal republican majority in
Illinois Is very large. The combined
vole of Taft and Itoosevelt four years
ago was 2:15. 023 more than the vote
east for Wilson. In lit 11 Raymond
Robins, as progressive candidate for
Tnlted States senator, polled 203,027
voles, while Roger Sullivan, demo
crat, polled 573,40.1 and L. Y. Sher
man was elected with 5!0.l. All of
which until the republicans woke
Ui led them to believe that Illinois
with Its 29 votes In the electoral col
lege, was perfectly safe for any re
publican candidate who might be
named.
Hut that was before they woke up.
See the stock labels carried by the
Medford Printing Co., If you are In
a hurry.
W.C.I.U.
MISS ANNA JEFFERY
The W. C. T. U. ut their regular
meeting last Thursday indorsed Miss
Anna M. Jeffrey, candidate for comi
ty school superintendent on the inde
pendent ticket. Miss Jeffrey is
well known liy (lie temperance peo
ple of Jackson county, has always
been found on their side and she
stands for all thai is pure and right.
Having taught in Hie county for twenty-two
years, and most of that time
ii the rural schools, she will under
stand the needs of the younjr girl
teucher better than a man. And they
will feel more free in talking over
their problems wilh her. The Y. C.
T. t. believes that the voters can
place nil confidence and trust in Miss
Jeffrey, and the school standard will
be raised to the highest point of efficiency.
I would be an exceedingly dangerous
jlhiu;r to swap horses in .midstream,
I In exchange n man whow lifts and
plans we know for one about whom
I we knew nothing and who tells as
nothing definite as to wliut lie would
d..
"Wilson has dona Ihins and done
; Iheiu well. I don't approve of all the
j laws w hich bis administration has
juut on the statute books, hut in the
: large, he merits approval liy the vot
j ers. I urn for him because he is one
of the few iai;n for whom 1 voted who
i lived u)i to his pledges. He put into
llaw all the progressive things his plat
j form promised, and more too.
"I am not u partisan. I voted for
iUoosevell in 111114, and for Taft in
1HIIK. I am supporting Wilson as a
president who has represented all the
people instead of just some of the
people.'
It was suggested to Ring that as he
,had been in the exporting business
! for !() years it would be interesting to
I have an expression from him as to
what the administration had done lor
business men.
"I mil (.'lad you asked that," he re-pli-1.
'Woodrow Wilson and his admin
istration have done more to develope
American foreign trade thnn any oth-
csident we ever had. And I say
. that speaking from an c.)ericuce that
goes back lor 40 years.
"The department of eommereo has
sent its representatives to all parts
of the world to gather information,
which is distributed by the govern
ment to nil persons interested in for
eign trade. Tho data thus given us
without eost is of immense, iiniwrt
nncu and has enabled men engaged
m legitimate busuicss to extend their
FIX VALUATION
operations profitably."
WASIUNUTON, Oct. 'St. The first
official report of the physical valua
tion of interstate railroads was made
public today when figures were an
nounced for the Texas, Midland und
Atlanta, lliriaiughaut and Atlantic
railroads. The report on the Midland
says the capitalization is $'J,H'J,00U,
the total book investment in road
equipment $:),47 1,1111, ami the cost of
reproductions $:i,382,00d. Deprecia
tion is fixed at $854"iH7.
The Atlanta road's capitalization is
fX,OIIO,000, hut the report says lhat
the cost of reproduction would he
$22,?llj,K8li, and that with leases to
and from other lines the present value
of the total common carrier property
is $ 1,1.-) I.IMI8.
The road's proiierty is mainly in
Ocotgia, more thnn $12,000,000 of it,
hut almost $7,000,000 of it is in Ala
bama, the balance in not geographic
ally located in the report.
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It. Griffin was a Medford vlBltor
ovor tho woek-eud from Gold Hill.
CAPTURE 30,000 GERMANS
(Continued From Page One).
means the spirit and team play an
army puts into Its work. Tho British,
after nearly two years of stalling,
havo been fighting week after week
on soil taken from the font thus the
British morale has become the
morale of attack. This offensive has
been the school of war with death as
tutor. By fighting, tho British new
army learned to fight as Grant's
army learned to fight at Shltoah and
McClellan's on the Peninsula.
Actual battle conditions have re
vealed as no theoretical tests could
which officers aro fit to lead. The
rote to promotion has become suc
cess in action. Generals In the
thirties and forties now direct the
fighting In the field and battalion
commanders, who are not yet thirty,
have ceased to be uncommon.
Mrs. Marion Lance left Sunday
night for Rogue River, where she will
spend the week visiting her mother.
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WESTERN UNION
Day letters and Night Letters
bring prosperity to the men who
employ them as a selling impetus.
lhe effectiveness of these five sales
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.
The European War n
Illustrated with 200 Original Colored Slides. ;
A Great Pmsentation by '. i
JOHN LEWTAS J
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Official War Correspondent, who has recently spcnt
some months in Belgium and the trenches. - '
Methodist Church-Monday Eve-8 o'clock
Offering at the Door Adults 25c, Children 15c
Pendleton Normal School
Proven Necessity
(Copied from Portland Oregonlan.)
MONMOUTH. Ore, June 26. Tho Oregon Normal
nchool opened this week . . . uttidents enrolled 785.
taiRpst on record for Mate Normal in Oregon ....
how to cbtp for larRC (Undent body a problem ....
K'0 beins crowded into auditorium with neatlng ca
pacity of 50. (jallerleH filled with extra chairs in
aislpp.- More thnn 1&0 uliirlenta seated on platform.
New hoarding hmiHftR completed, additions to room
inn houses built and tents used. Oue hundred girls
plfep on upper flnor of nchonl.
The nffn iul school report Rives 150 grade pupils
in Monmouth, for teacher practice.
Rear what those you have elected to handle the
affairs of your Htafe and who are thoroughly informed
regarding school conditions in Oregon have to Bay
concerning measure 308 on the ballot at the coming
election:
By James Withycombe, Governor of Oregon:
'nu'ii in iniifi1ionnbly In rtfA of ninro norm!
firh'i-il work find IvmiIIMoii In I tic logical plum fur a
S''tmi fif thin fltioM in KHMtern Oron."
By J. A. Churchill, State Superintendent of Pubtio
Instruction:
"I (riixl Unit thf voters of tlift Stat will Mttnlat In
raising ihr xt.i rxln i d of mir Mch'iolB by r.ilubll8hlns a
Hl.itf Nfiiiti.il K-hw)l at Pendleton.'
By P. L. Campbell, President of the University of -
Oregon:
"At 1 ii xt nn additional Normal fictio! Is urgently
rfwli'il in i iri-non "
By W. J. Kerr, President of the Oregon Agricultural
College: 1
'Kin, the ppopl of Pundlftnn sre Initiating a measure
for th s'ahliHhmnl of a Normal School ut that place,
il will iih- (iKiimir to support this miiiir."
Dy J. H. Acker man, President Oregon Normal School,
at Monmouth:
"A rarrfnl imihIvaIk of the situation will convince any
one thHl otcif.m rn-cdn a Normal Hchool In Kantrn Ore
gon fini.1 I'tTKlMnii fills all the government requirements."
By the County 8chool Superintendents of Oregon:
'UHxIvfl. that ll la the aense of the County Hrhd
8uprlriieridntH of the StHte of Oregon, In convention
fiBfu'inlilt'd. (hut the heat Intereata of the aohooia of the
Mate demand Increased facilities for th I ruining of
temhers. und thHt we, therefore, endorse the Initiative
irietinoie. In I'MMbllnh a Normal Hchool at Pendleton."
By Mrs. Charles H. Castner, President of the Oregon
Federation of Women's Clubs:
"f most heartily endorse the location of is Id Normal
flrhool hi 1'endlotori.'
Prof. Robert C. French, Former President of the
Normal School Located at Weston:
"An Immediate entabllshment of mirh a school at some
cnt!fll point mich hi Pendleton would prove a great asset
to the State of Oregon "
B. F. MutMey, En President Southern Oregon Normal
School:
"I Hhail support the I oration of an Kmslern Oregoo
Notrnal Hchool ut Pendleton.-
State Bonrfl of Hegpnls oF Oregon Normal School
declares that "lhe necessity for additional Normal
school facilities in Oregon is apparent
Portland Chaniher of Commerce endorses measure
,508 and say Pendleton most logfcul location for Nor
mal school in Kaslcru Oregon.
308 X YES IS A VOTE FOR YOUR CHILDREN
K51ern Or(ton Bute Normal Srho I CommlttM.
(Paid Adv ) By J. H. Gwlnn. Sei:y.. f'ndl.on. Or..
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