The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-04
WOODROW WILSON
PRIVATE CITIZEN
BRIEF SKETCH OF THIS REMARK
ABLE MAN WHO NOW RETIRES
TO PRIVATE LIFE

ABLE MAN NHO NVN I'VE llOEo
TO PRIVATE LIFE
Washington-(B A. P)-Woodrow
Wilson leaves the White House today
to seek health and rest in a life of
practical retirement for few months
and then pursue his work for world
peace.
Although it has been disclaimed for
him that he would cut himself Off
from public men and affairs, it is
known that for several months at
least he will do little but take recre-
alton. AT his new home recently ac-
quired here he will walk in the spac-
ious garden, and sit in the sunshine.
He will motor over the rolling Vir-
ginia hills where he used to play golf
and occasionally visit the theatre.
After a few months of rest, the for
mer president probably will take up
the business of literature where he
left off when he became governor of
New Jersey. He does not expect TO
write history of the peace confer
ence although he has in his private
papers the greatest fund of material
in the world on the subject He does
expect to pursue his ideals of world
peace, just in what manner probably
no one else knows.
The second democratic president
since Andrew Jackson to fill two sue
cessive terms, Mr.. Wilson's eight
years in the White House carried him
through the range of human emotions.
He was almost blindly ido1iZed and
cordially hated. Profound peace, the
most terrible of wars, death of wife
and help mate, courtship and marri-
age, and finally lingering illness all
came in turn to brighten or darken
his days Eight years of it whitened
his hair, racked his frame and i'm
paired his physical vigor, but did not
rust his mind.
Characterized by his friends as
much wounded veteran of the World
War as II he had been shot In battle,
he goes back te private life today re-
garded by his partisans as a living
sacrifice to his ideals. r
Woodrow Wilson was not we'll man
when he took up the presidency. He
was decidedly a sick man. He was
with Bright's disease,
which physicians diagnosed as having
been brought about by a peculiar
treatment for frequent head colds to
which he and the first Mrs Wilson
were subject. The wife died soon af-
ter. but mis- case yielded to care.
Some years before that, Mr.. Wilson
had suffered thrombosis, in one of
his legs 1t was the lodging of
blood clot in an artery, but because of
it's location not serious. 1t was, how
ever, a complaint of the same nature
which caused his breakdown in 1918,
when the clot formed on The right
side of his brain impairing the con
,rol of his left arm and leg
Little known also, is the fact that
Mr. Wilson, like Mr.. Roosevelt was
sightless in one of his
eyes. Bursting blood vessels in the
'etina practically made it useless, al
hough the impairment was in part
overcome by the use of eye glasses.
He suffered also from nervous indi-
sestiOn. With a pre-disposition to
AXE cold easily added to this list Of
roubles, Woodrow Wilson took up
he arduous duties of the presidency
With far less physical equipment than
he public generally gave him credit
or
Once in office the round of complex
ties which brought Mr.. Wilson
,raiSe on one side and damnation on
he other was not long in starting,
md like a snow ball rolling down
ill continued to take no volume until
he day of his departure from the
White House.
Once, in the midst of his seige of
rostration which accompanied the
irst stages of his present illness, he
ebated with himself whether he
ught not to relinquish his office and
i've way to a successor Later when
ealth had improved and the Demo-
ratio convention at San Francisco
ras balloting night and day to agree
n presidential nominee, Mr. Wilson
ebated with himself whether he
hould be candidate for
bird term. 1t could not be said that
ither subject reached the stage of
being considered" But it is known
lat Mr.. Wilson gave the subjects
ome thought.
These with many other things form
lie highly interesting upwritten chap
srs of Woodrow Wilson's life. They
ould make a volume of far more en-
rossing reading than anything that
YER had been written about him