Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
Woodrow Wilson
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AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

giving up of my life, 1 will gladly
make the sacrifice to save the
I treaty."
He spoke like a soldier who was
ready to make the supreme sacrifice
to save the cause that lay closest
to his heart.
AS I looked at the president While
he was talking, in my imagination 1
made a comparison between the
man, Woodrow Wilson, who now
stood before me, and the man I had
met many years before in New Jer-
sey. In those days he was a Vigor-
Gus, agile, slender man, active and
alert, his hair but slightly streaked
with gray. Now, as he stood before
me discussing the necessity for the
western trip, he was an old man,
grown grayer and grayer, but grim
mer and grimmer in his determ1na-
ton, like an old warrior, to fight
to the end.
There was another whose heroism
was no less than his, Mrs. Wilson.
She has since referred to the west
ern trip as zone long nightmare,
though in the smiling face, which
she turned upon the crowds from
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Pueblo, none could have detected a
trace of the anxiety that was haunt
ing her She met the shouting
| throngs with the same reposeful
dignity and radiant, friendly smile
with which she had captivated the
peoples of England, France, Italy
and Belgium.
At home and abroad she has al
ways had a peculiar power to at
tract the populace, though she her
self has never craved the spotlight.
Like her husband, she finds home
more congenial, and, like him, she
prefers not to be written about.
In her husbands career she has
played a notable role, the more no.
BILE because self-effacing. She has
consistently disavowed intention to
participate actively in public af-
fairs, and yet in many crisis she,
out. of her strong intelligence and
sagacity, has been able to offer
timely, wise suggestion. No public
man ever had a more devoted help
mate, and no wife a husband more
dependent upon her sympathetic I'M
derstanding of his problems. The
devotion between these two has not
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impossible, but deepened by the
presidents long illness. Mrs. Will
sons strong physical constitution,
combined with strength of char
acter and purpose, have sustained
her under a strain which must have
wrecked most women. When the
strong man broke, she nursed him
as tenderly as a mother nurses a
child.
Owes Much to Mrs. Wilson
Mrs. Wilson must have left the
White House for that ill-omened
journey with a sinking heart, for
she knew, none better, that her
husband was suffering from accu-
INFLATED fatigue, and that he should
be starting on a long vacation in
stead of a fighting tour that would
tax the strength Of an athlete in
pink of condition. For seven prac-
tically vacationless years he had
borne burdens too great for any con-
stitution; he had conducted his coun'
try through the greatest of all wars;
he had contented, at times single
handed, in Paris with the worlds
most adroit politicians; he had there
been Frustrated with influenza, that
treacherous disease which usually
mains for a time those whom 1t
does not kill, and he had not given
himself a chance to recuperate; he
had returned to America to engage
in the most desperate conflict of
his career with the leaders Of the
opposition party; and now, when it
was clear even to his men friends,
and much clearer to the intuition
of a devoted wife, that nature was
crying out for rest, he was setting
out on one of the most arduous pro-
grams of public speaking known
even in our country, which is IA
miliar with these strenuous under
takings.