The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-13
WILSON'S HEALTH
STEADILY IMPROVES
People About White House
Think He May Ultimately
III. Recover
MAY APPEAR
n> IN CONGRESS
Thought He Can Deliver Farewell Ad,
dress Before that Body - Probably
VIII Devote Himself to Writing After
Close of Administration.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer.
Copyright 1920.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-President
Wilson continues to improve in health.
The statement of Ambassador Davis on
his arrival in London, that the President
was a much sicker man than the public
knew is not considered here to be in CON
f1ict with the optimistic assurance given
by Secretary Colby after seeing the Pres
ident a week ago Mr.. Davis is believed
to have been referring to an earlier pc
Rod in Mr.. Wilson's illness and not to
recent weeks.
Everybody about the White House
seems to have become more hopeful now
about the Presidents ultimate recovery
/ His improvement has been so much more
than was expected and 50 much better
than is ordinarily true of cases of the
| kind that Mr.. Wilson's extraordinary
vitality is now expected to win the long
| struggle for life which he has been wag-
| ing for more than year.
| Instead of proving a shock to him, the
election passed by without untOward eff
| feet upon Mr. Wilson's health. Those
who know the President best say this
! is due to a sublime confidence in the
Righteousness of the cause he fought tol
and that his habit of mind is not tC
| think of the incidents of two or three
years, but of the political movements
and tides of an era, or epoch. The Pres
| ident is represented as confident that be
| fore many years he will be indicated
! On the other hand, the passing of re
| sponsibility from his hands has had th'
| effect of relieving his mind of the many
L. H. TfrE
years have beset him. As the fourth o
| March approaches his friends expec
that be will get stronger and feel bet
ter There is some hope that he may
be well enough to surprise everybody mex
month by appearing in congress Tor hl'
farewell address.
/ II would make a dramatic picture
the president of the United States beinf
! wheeled in an invalid's chair through
the corridors of the capital where II
earlier days he walked so briskly. Their
was a time when discussion was goint
on as to Mr. Wilson'S mental fitness q
continue in Office. Indeed, none OF tn
folks around the White House will adml
that at any time during his illness hay
the Presidents mental faculties been i'm
paired by his weakened physical eondI
ton.
4 curious sidelight on the popular i'm
/ preston of Mr.. Wilson's condition L
the number OF COMMUNICATIONS p WHICH
have poured into the White House con
stantly asking the President to writ
for magazines. weekly periodicals, news
papers or syndicates. All seem to b
predicated upon the idea that Mr.. VII
sons mental vigor is unchanged ant
that he will devote himself to writini
when he leaves the White House. TIL
general hope is that Mr.. Wilson vii
write about the peace conference. or a
least tell some of the unpublished Incl
dents of his own administration of eigh
years. But, there again, the pull
may be surprised for while Mr.. Wilson
may occasionally have something to sa,
on current affairs, he is represented a
being unwilling to write about himsel
or the incidents of his own administra
ton He is believed to be ready to writ
on governmental subjects in an impeT
sonal sense. 1t is suggested for instanc
that he will write books and essay
about constitutional government outlin
ing still further the theories and cOncep
tions of popular government.
The President has theories of his owl
concerning the changes that ought to b
made in order to make the executive an
legislative branches of the government