The Ocala evening star., 1921-03-05
WILSON'S PLANS
FOR THE FUTURE

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 recreation. At
his new home recently acquired here
he will walk in the spacious garden,
and sit in the sunshine. He will motor
over the rolling Virginia hills where
he used to play golf, and occasionally
visit the theater.
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 a history of the peace confer
ence although he has in his private
napers 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 idoliZed and
cordially hated. Profound peace, the
most terrible of wars. death of wife
and heIpmate. courtship and marriage.
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 impaired his
physical vigor, but did not rust his
mind.
Characterized by his friends as
much wounded veteran of the world
war as if he had been shot in battle,
he goes back to private life today re-
garded by his partisans as a. living
sacrifice to his ideals.
Woodrow Wilson was not a well
man when he took up the presidency
He was decidedly sick man. He was
threatened with Bright's disease
which physicians diagnosed as having
been brought about by particular
treatment for frequent head colds to
which he and the first Mrs. Wilson
were subject. The wife died soon
after, but his case yielded to care.
Some years before that, Mr.. Wilson
had suffered thrombosis, in one. OF
his legs. 1t was the lodging of a
blood clot in an artery, but because
of it's location not serious. 1t was
however, complaint of the same ma.
ture which caused his breakdown il
1919, when the clot formed on the
right side of his brain impairing the
control of his left arm and leg.
4 Little known also, is the fact thai
Mr.. Wilson, like Mr.. Roosevelt wa:
practically sightless in one of hi.
, eyes. Bursting blood vessels in tn,
2 ,retina practically made it useless, al
= though the impairment was in par
: overcome by the use of eye glasses
He suffered also from nervous indi
t gestion. With a predisposition to takt
E cold easily added to this list of trou
D bles, Woodrow Wilson took up tn,
t arduous duties of the presidency will
/ far less physical equipment than tn,
: public generally gave him credit for.
D Once in office the round of complex
= tiles which brought Mr.. Wilson prais'
= on one side and damnation on th
other was not long in starting, ant
ike a SNOWFALL rolling down hill con
tinued to take on volume until the da.
of his departure from the Whit
Y House.
Once, in the midst of his siege O
G prostratIon which accompanied tn
G first stages of his present illness, h
debated with himself whether h
ought not to relinquish his Office an
give way to a successor. Later whel
: health had improved and the demo
cratic convention at San Francisc
was balloting night and day to agre
on presidential nominee. Mr.. Wilso
s debated with himself whether h
Y should be candidate for a thir
s term. 1t could not be said that eithe
e subject reached the stage of ''bein
considered" But it is known that Nj
Wilson gave the subjects som
- thought.
These with many other things forl
=. the highly interesting, unwritte
chapters of Woodrow Wilson's lif'
They would make a volume of fla
more engrossing reading than any
thing that ever had been write
!. about him.
Such a volume might include til
t'inside" story of the break with Co
- onel House, his former confidenti;
> adviser; it might tell how Mr.. Wilso
a rousing NJ. Clemenceau, the Frenc
:, premier, from bed at o'clock or
morning, practically charged Il
French delegates with tampering wit
the records of the peace conferen,
proceedings.
1t might tell how Mr.. Wilson maG
H. tup his mind to Sire" some other ca
~ met officers, soon after the resignatic
in lof Secretary Lansing, but desist'
because, he said, it would only add
the popular impression that
Y Couldn't get along with anybody" :"
1t might also tell what Mr.. Wills
IT, said with smile" TO Lloyd Geor,