The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-30
WILSON Sees
NO VISITORS
IL He Suffers No Set Back,
However, He May Be Able
to Perform Duties Soon
(By Georqe n. Mannins.)

president wilson suffers no SelDdCA
but continues to improve steadily,
though slowly, as he has for the past
six weeks, he will be able to resume
the most important part of his presi-
Dental duties within three months,
his physicians believe. 1t will not be
possible for him safely, however, to
take up any worth while part of MS
work before that time.
But the president, it is feared, will
not, before his term expires next
March be able to take up the full VOL
ume of work which now devolves
upon the chief executive, and he will
| never again enjoy the robust health
that was his before the breakdown of
| last September, nor will he ever be
able to assume the burdens and work
the long hours that he did before his
collapse of last fall.
Today, four months since he col
lapsed physice lly and mentally, the
| president is permitted to see only
three persons-Mrs. Wilson, DIR. Gray
son and Secretary Tumulty-and Off
ciaI and personal business of all kinds
are kept from him. He is not even
allowed to read newspapers.
This is part of the complete brain
rest cure prescribed for him by the
medical experts who hold that only by
complete inactivity of the brain can
the president expect to be restored to
any degree of his former mental alert
ness.
All the writings of DR.. F. X. Dercum,
of Philadelphia, the mental disease
specialist who makes weekly visits
to the White House to observe and
treat the president, prescribe abso-
lutte physical and mental rest for
treatment of mental prostration.
Nearly all the tasks that ordinarily
fall upon the president are being shift
ed upon the shoulders of the cabinet
members, or are receiving no atten-
ton whatever Even SUCH imparta Mt
matters as appointing successors to
Secretary Of the Treasury Glass and
Secretary of the Interior Lane are
being allowed to drift. Secretary Lane
made known three months ago his
desire to retire from the cabinet. Sec
rotary Glass was appointed to the Y.
s. Senate two months ago but has not
vet been released by the president
II was not until last Monday, two
months after his appointment to the
senate. that Secretary Glass was able
to see the president about his resig-
nation, it is said. The news of his
appointment to the senate and the
filing of his resignation as treasury
secretary, if known by the president
at all before Mr.. Glass conferred with
him last Monday. was carried to him
by Dr. Grayson, it is said.
The cabinet meets at the White
House on Tuesdays and Fridays each
week according to custom but the
president has not been present at any
Of the meetings since August, nor
have any of the cabinet members,
with the exception of Mr.. Glass, seen
him since then.
Secretary Lansing returned from
the Versailles peace conference three
months ago, where he performed some
important tasks. but he has never con-
suited with the president regarding
them. Assistant Secretary of State
Frank l.. Polk, succeeded Mr.. Lans-
ing in Paris, winding UP number of
important odds and ends of the peace
negotiations, but he too, has not met
the president since his return two
months ago.
The seriousness of the presidents
illness is given as the reason why
Colonel E. NJ. House. the presidents
former close friend who served on
the American peace commission with
him. has not been permitted to call
| at the White House since his return
! from France.
Secretary McAdoo the presidents
| son-in-law has not seen the president
| on any of the numerous visits he has
I -. - HVasbipptoO for the past four
! months. it is reliably stated.
Dr Crayson. who in addition to
being the presidents personal physi-
| clans also medium between the chle1
! executive and the outside world, in
sists that work Of all kinds. people
i of ali sorts and matters Of any kind
/ calculated to cause the president %
think are kept from the president IN
I order to give his brain complete
/ rest. rather than owing to any inca
| pacity TO deal with them.
! Physicians who have treated the
/ president and other persons haVlne
| an exact knowledge of his illness
I agree that the greatest care must De
| taken to prevent the president nav
I ing a relapse that would be disas-
/ trous, and that he viii never again
have his former capacity for work o.
| the vivid alertness of mind previ-
/ ously possessed.
The assumption OF major part OF
the task Of framing the peace treaty
at Paris and his herculean efforts tc
have the senate ratify it caused tbs
| undoing OF the president from which
/ he will never entirely recover, il Is
! generally agreed here.