Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-24
HENRY WATTERSON.
NOTED EDITOR. DIES
At FLORIDA HOTEL
Death Came Suddenly TO
Dean of American Journal
ism-Body to Remain in
Jacksonville Until Spring

school of Journalism and to his
friends as "Marse Henry" died
early Thursday at hotel here.
Death came peacefully, the veneer
able editor retaining consciousness
almost to the end and conversing
during the last half hour with his
wife, son and daughter.
Colonel Watterson came to Jack
sonville six weeks ago, in accord
ance with his usual custom of
spending the winter in Florida, u.s.
ually at Fort Myers. He contract
ed a slight cold Tuesday and while
seated in a chair yesterday morn
ing soon after breakfast he suf-
fered an acute bronchial attack and
was ordered to his bed by his ply
stefan. His condition grew worse
during the day and night and the
end came at 6:15 o'clock this morn
Ing. The immediate cause of his
death, his physician said, was heart
failure, .superinduced by congestion
of the bronchial tubes.
Widow FraiI
Thus ''Marse Henry passed to
that beautiful, shore where he
last October wrote his comrades of
the Confederate army he was sure
''the bonnie blue flag will be flying
at the fore and the bands will be
playing Dixie on parade, and the
pretty girls will be distributing
The Chattanooga Rebel Ghe news
paper published by him during the
w between the states), to groups
of ragged, red-nosed angels who
have not forgotten the rebel yell"
The body of Colonel Watterson
will remain in Florida until some
ii in the spring, when it will be
taken to Louisville for burial in>the
family plot in Cave Hill cemetery,
where his father and mother rest.
his son, Henry Watterson, Jr.. an
nounced. Mr.. Watterson said his
mother was very frail md that be-
cause of her condition as a result
of the death of her husband he
deemed it inadvisable for her to
leave Florida during the winter.
MI. w dllGISUIl NctS h1lOWn DIS q
i fearless writer who, having arrived
at a decision on matters of public
policy, fought brilliantly and with
tenacity for the position he and the
Courier-Journai had taken. All
through the World war every edi-
torial he had written Invariably con-
tanned the slogan, ITO hell with the
Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns." La
= ter, after he had retired as editor.
he occasionally made contributions
to the Courier-Journal's editorial
page.
Opposed Suffrage
On the approach of his 18th birth.
day, under the title, "An Autobio.
graphic Foray," among the last of
his editorials; he wrote on a variety
of subjects, including woman suf-
frage and Woodrow Wilson. A foe
of woman suffrage, he said of those
who favored, it that they regarded it
as an entering wedge-openly to
turn loose and proclaim that the Bi.
BILE is a man-made lie out of the
whole cloth, designed for the sub
lection of woman" and that under
the Christian dispensation, the world
is a man-made world of wrong, injus.
tice and false pretense to woman"
He warned Mr.. Wilson, then pres.
ident, to "hoId himself to the consti
tuition and be held by it, not above
it,
I"Whoever wants to consider this
disloyal," he wrote, may accept in
advance my scorn as poor creature
whose good opinion, if uttered loud
enough, would kill dog. Whoever
regards it as the pessimism of an
old man, has my invitation to try
conclusions, Marquis of Queens
bury rules. But whoever believes
that the stream has passed me by
and that l can no longer keep UP
with the procession, ought to see
me swim
The conclusion of the editorial was
regarded as picturesquely Waiter
sonian.
. ION the limb of a tree" it said
"by the tuInbling ocean, sat lit
tie tomtit. Ne was musing over the
perversity of men and things Off
teiaf.~ Over the waves came sen
\ator's voice, exclaiming: oh, for ar
hour of Conkling and Lamar"-and
from a crag upon the mountainside
Great Godn said the woodcock, ant
away heA flew"
Died i'm Wife's Arms
COlOnSl anu MIS-. w dlleI sui SClS
brated their fifty-sixth wedding an
. niversary in their apartment Tues
day with only members of the fam
lily present and his son said he was
in unusually high spirits, recalling
many incidents of their wedding life
and laughing at those having hu
morous touch.
The colonel had enjoyed the three
weeks he had been here, his Sor
: said, and had spent a great deal OF
his time in the open air, walking
with the quick and vigorous stel
characteristic of him. He always
returned to his apartment at paper
time" however, to read the New
York and Louisville newspapers
which arrive shortly before noon
and devoted several hours daily tc
perusual of "bum novels" as the
colonel expressed it.
Mr.. Watterson said that his father
./realizing his condition, was ready
to go. His wife, daughter and sor
were at the bedside throughout the
night, but during his last period o.
consciousness only his wife was Will
him. What they discussed only
Mrs. Watterson knows, but Mr.. Wat
terson said it could have been only
few words, for his father coulc
talk but little.
Colonel Watterson passed away
peacefully and in the arms OF Mrs
Watterson.
Sketch of His Life
Colonel Watterson was one OF tht
last of the old-time personal journal
lists. More than half a century nj:
editorials, with their brilliant, orig
inal and phrase making composition
~, attracted wide attention. They were
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