Arizona republican., 1921-05-19
Death Of Former Cabinet Member
 Shocks Capital
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 WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Word of the death of Franklin K. Lane came as a peculiar shock today to the na- tion's capital, for so many years. ev- en more his home than California. There were manifestations of grief from the president down to the mes sengers in the interior department. who had known so long the kindly, humorous but efficient public serv- ant.
 Messages of sympathy went to Mrs. Lane from the president and Mrs. Harding, former president Wilson and scores of others.
 President Harding sent the follow ing message of condolence to Mrs Franklin K. Lane at Rochester, Minn.
 T have just learned of the death of your distinguished husband and am wiring to express my very great shock and exceedingly deep sorrow | over his untimely passing. He was an outstanding American who rem | dered most distinguished service to | his country. and found an abiding | place in the affections of all who knew him well. Mrs. Harding joins me in an expression of most sym pathetic condolence."
 MT. Wilson did not make public what he had said to Mrs. Lane of 1 the man who stood by him in his cab
 inet for seven years.
 The blow fell most sharply at the i home of Mrs Phillip c. Kaufman, 1 his ony daughter.
 To some of the former secretary s most intimate friends, there had i come before his death remarkable message dictated by him in the nos pital at Rochester. Minn., after the ] operation. The message showed that 1 he had undergon the operation with 1 full consciousness and acceptance of
 the fact that he might not survive. The message follows in part: 1 Tt is Wednesday afternoon and 1 am now sitting up in bed talking l to my good friend Cotter. Until yes l terday I did not clearly vizualize any one thing in this room and did not
 know that it had a window except
 that there was a place that noise
 came through, but I did know that Il
 had yellow oak door that stared
 at me with it's great big square eye
 all day and all night. Last Friday
 you see, about 10 in the morning,
 took the step that I should have talk
 en months. yes years, ago. Today
 most tentatively, I crawled onto 2
 chair and ate my first mouthful oi
 solid food. But four days ago. I man aged to shave my~elf and I am re :, 1
 T have seen death come to men in various ways. some rather move and western. I once saw mar hanged. And I have seen severa z men shot and came very near going .. out that way myself two or three times but always the other fellow aimed poorly. I was being shot al
 because was a newspaper man ano I I should have been shot at. There must be public concern in what is v printed. as well as its truth to JustlfS : it. That is something newspapers : should get to know. After the earth 1 quake in San Francisco I saw wall:
 topple out upon a man. And l have
 had more intimate glimpses still O
 the picturesque and of the prosal' ways by which men come to thel taking off
 "But never before have l beer called upon to deliberately walk int : the valley of the shadow and, Sd, / what you will, it is a great act.
 have said during the past months e endless examination that man witt e little curiosity and little humor an f a little money, who was not in to a great pain, could enjoy himself study |, ing the ways of doctors and nurse e as he journeyed the invalids path. e has, indeed made a flowery path fo h me. as much as any path could be i = which a man suffered more humilia Q tion and distress and thwarting an
 illustration. on the whole then he df il pain.
 - But here was path to the end IT. which I could not see. I was nc l. compelled to take it. My very lates
 doctor advised me against taking et I could live some time without takln l. it. It was a bet on the high car d with a chance to win and l took it
 At this point occurs details regard J. ing the preparations for the opera of tion, with a note of the fact that l. general anaesthetic not be applied to account of the patients heart whic l. had been cutting up some didoes -v The statement continues:
 a. For two days I had knowleds
 that this operation was to take pla' to at this time and my nerves had n m been just as good as they should ha' ne been Those men who sleep 12 hou ne perfectly before being electrocut' he have evidently led more tranquil liv
 than I have, or have less concern
 to the future. An, now I was to kno
 the great secret! For 40 years I h;
 been wondering, wondering. Often af had said to myself that I shou
 summon to my mind when this m
 ment came, some words that Wou - be somewhat a synthesis of my ph d. osophv. Socrates said to those w OH stood by after he had drunk the her IL lock. no evid can befau good ma whether he be alive or dead I dol
 know how far from that we ha b,, gone in these 2400 years. The ap a thegm. however. was not opposite ,e- me because it involved declarat s" (Contmued on Page Two>