The New York herald., 1921-12-23
NATION MOURNS MARSE HENRY, EDITOR AND PATROTr- tn

l. ON 1 Al VIZ
German people with the Hohenzollerns
and the Hapsburgs gone where they be-
long. to that very hot place with a
very short name"
During ten summers of his late life
Col. Watterson spent a short season at
Brighton Beach and supplied consid-
cradle copy to the New York newspapers
in the way of discussion of national
and international topics and Sunday aft
ernoon conversation on every subject
under the sun. His views--thoroughly
kentuckian views-on prohibition were
that to deprive a man OF his toddy
within reason was an invasion OF MS
personal rights. defiance of the United
States Constitution. and just short OF an
insult to the flag. He also felt that the
country could stagger. along without
woman suffrage. but that as it was
bound to come there was little use in
opposing it..
Eyes Always Troubled.
Except for his imperfect eyesight
which always troubled him, Col Waiter
son enjoyed sturdy health and made a
solid figure of man. He was short and
rather stout, had small feet and hands
and was active and restless I'm manner.
His thick chestnut hair, which turned to
silver as the years passed over 1t, shaded
a fine high forehead and small gray eyes.
which were generally merry and never
unkindly. He had strong nose ''in-
clining to the Roman" square chin
and a resolute jaw. A thick mustache
of the approved dropping pattern, with
out which no Kentucky Colonel is COM
plete, shaded his firm mouth and power
full teeth
Conversation was with him at once
recreation and a fine art. He was
brisk and nervous in manner. talked
best when walking back and forth across
room and in a friendly or unfriendly
discussion was impetuous, forcible and
convincing. He talked with whirlwind
rapidity and never without brilliancy.
His social qualities, as well as the
warmth Of his heart earned him count,
less friends all over the country and
he was almost as well known in Wash
ington and in New York as in Louis
vile.
In 1908 the sympathy of the country
went out to him when his son Harvey
died in this city as the result of fall
from the window of an Office building.
In 1915 he received thousands of con-
grgtulatory letters and kilograms on the
occasion of his golden wedding ami
versary. which he and Mrs. Watterson
celebrated in New Orleans.
Col Wattersons best biographer was
himself. His paper contained the long
and the short Of him in its issue OF Feb
ruary 16. 1918, his seventy-eighth birth
| day. when he wrote:
"Since / am giving every day and all
my days to the life work which has filed
the measure of my ambitions and desires
| II may be that 1 cannot put my seventy
| eighth birthday to better use than by
! jotting down in a familiar way certain
experiences which have led to certain re-
suits and opinions.
Born in the national capital and
growing to manhood in and out Of Wash
| ington, with occasional visits to Ten
essee, which my father represented in
Congress, my earliest impressions took
their color and direction from political
campfres and party battles. l have sat
upon the knee of Andrew Jackson and
recall John Quincy Adams as a little old
man who would put his arm around my
neck and trot me through the corridors
and across the rotunda to the Congress
sional Library. then in the Capitol
Building and get me books to read.
after a while l became a reporter
having a seat in the House and Senate
galleries and writ for the papers and
fit in and enduring the war Thence to
Kentucky. whence my immediate for
Lears had come to Tennessee. and where
their forbears the Morrisons and
Blacks. early pioneers from Virginia, lie
buried around Richmond, Columbia and
Lexington.
81 have passed many intervals of time
In foreign countries, not as a sightseeing
tourist but as student and worker
making living with his pen. and seek
ing to note. mark and understand the
contrarieties of life and affairs which he
who travels Is likely to find in every land
and among all peoples differing from his
own.
Democrat and Christian.
Thus it has been my opportunity to
meet all sorts and conditions of men, to
enjoy the good-but not too good-and
to reject the bad. / cannot remember
when / was not Democrat OF the
school of Thomas jefferson and fol-
lower Of Christ under the lead of Calvin
and Knox.
IL am not pragmatical. ! do not pro-
pose to knock down and drag out those
who have had the hardihood to question
my infallibility. Rather would reason
with them, and IL still unconvinced pray
for them.
"At least at my time of life / shall
scarcely be accused OF self seeking.
am just a plain matter of fact all
around news man who loves his country
and fain would write something or say
something to help out middllng bad
fix. albeit the futility OF individual eff
fort--even of printers ink--has long