The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-27
VIII Wilson, s RecuberuHve
P0zgers Again SaUe Him.?

greatest burden of all has bee = e
eAtemporaneous speeches. Inst $ OF
stretching his tiip out to eight : ks
and covering 10000 miles as ler
presidents have done, Mr. : son
sought to accomplish his puf In
four weeks. He spoke npo-
raneously everywhere-forty = IS In
twenty-one days. He prep : notes
on the train. On Thursday ; ht he
planned to deliver in Wie Little
Rock. Oklahoma iCty. N ras and
Louisville, but ever sinceE appear
ance in San Francisco hes been Ill
and has coughed heavily @s.,d spent
sleeplcss nighN Mrs. Wilson, who is a
trained nurse, has constantly attended
him and the effects of her vigils or the
last ten days have seemed to tell on
her, too. Dr. Grayson was summoned
twice after midnight Thursday. On the
second occasion. about 4 o'clock Friday
morning, he sent a messenger to
arouse Secretary Tumulty, who was
asleep in the next car
Pleaded to Continue Trip.
He told the secretary the trip would
have to be Cancelled, that the
president had gone too far and would
have to dotach himself completely from
his work. The president insisted
that he would be we'll enough in a dav
or so and pleaded for the opportunlty
to fulhll his engagements, but AIRS.
Wilson and DR.. Grayson and Secretary
Iumulty over-ruled him and the trip
was summary Cancelled Consultation
aboard the train on Friday led to n
decision not to step off en- route. but
70 get the president to the White
rouse IS soon s possible, and decide
then whether he should go to some
qulet spot on the seashore or noun
tain. 1t may be that other physicians
VIII be called by DR.. Grayson as a
M t'asure .S OF precaution, and the extent
Oh the presidents exhaustion fully de-
tcfmlned, but that the president must
EIVe up all work for the present is the
command of his physician.
Nervous Exhaustion.
The, presidents trouble is described
Nchnlcally as nervous exhaustion hut
mere are several things that contriblte
70 it, First. there is cough which is
me aftter-effcct of influenza. and this
las m@s ,antcleo somewhat the presidents
respiration. His digestive organs have
been hurt by the constant strain of his
work. a together, it has slowly taken
away a large part of the presidents S
rtltailty: and when the doctor observed
the twitching and hating in speech
correspondents, too, in the last few
8neeches-it was apparent that Mr.. VIII
Ton was physically near the end OF his
rope. "
intense Feeling over Treaty.
1t is difficult to describe the intensity
IT the presidents feeIino about The
mage treaty He thinks and talks of
nothing else He has said he would
GLADLY lay down his life in the cause
for which he has been touring the coun-
try whenever anyone in the crowd
ms suggested that Mr.. Wilson miof1t
run for third term, he has alven the
Impression that he never would run.
HIs TdVIsers have cautioned him against
making defiHite statement acanst a
MIRO term until after the pc ace treaty
Is disposed Of but in his Pueblo speech
re went far towards rcpudiatlno the
dea that his tour had anything to do
with the next prnsldenti7l c7mpaicn,
vance Of an actual statement by the
preH'deTt his desire not to continue In
PUBLIC office when once his term ex
pres, 1t Is the condition of his health
since rrtur"i1g from abroad. The feet
IS II woodrow Wilson Is to ti1sh his
term at al he must have r1uch crra,
ruIct ard rest "for a ccn7ide"able
lenqth Of time" which are the words
OF his own physician.
Suffered From Neurtis,
Mr.. Wilson suffered from neuritis in
ms arms and hands, due very largely
TO the years spent in writing books.
1t was the alment which compelled him
to take up the typewriter as means
OF expression. something he has used
almost constantly Since. When Mr.
Wilson resigned from Princeton to be-
come candidate for governor of New
rSey, he entered vigorously into
Eht against the election of James
'mith as senator. and this began n
cries entailing mental strain, such as
he struggle with a republican legisa-
jure to get reform program through.
md then speech making tours in the
presidential primary contest. This
ovetaiied into the presidential cam
7&isn of 1912 itself, and when Mr.. Will
on was elected he did not rclinquish
he governorship of New Jersey until
the day before he was inaugurated
resident, With the exception of a few
weeks in Bermuda with his family he
'ad been continuously at work for two
nars when the cares OF the White
.ouse began to accumulate. He had
ard fight on tariff and currency legis-
gtion, and then came the seizure of
Vera Cruz, followed soon by the out
break of the European war in 1914,
which made the first eighteen months
of his term exacting. Through the first
two years of the war the Lusitania
controversy and neutral problems
weighed heavily on the presidents
mind, and then came the preparedness
tour and later the presidential campaign
Of 1916. Americas entrance into the war
a few months later piled high duties
and tasks imposed by congress on the
executive. While war opera tions were
at their height, decision affecting the
placing of American troops in battle and
national questions of moment We're re-
ferred to the president from abroad.