The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
PLAN FUNERAL OF
LATE PRESIDENT
tentative Plans Provide for
Entombing of Remains
on Wednesday.
HE DIED ON SUNDAY
Passed Away at His Home in
Washington with Wife and
Daughter at Bedside.


son has found in eternity haven
troubled world.
In the prayerful quiet of a Sunday
morning death. folded him gently in
it's embrace and bore him to his max
err.
He passed from life while he slept,
with those he loved best close about
him. His broken body had weakened
little by little until the last spark of
his vitality went out, but his spirit
was supported to the last by the in
domnitable courage of the old fighting
days. In his last wakeful moments
he told his loved ones that he knew
the end had come and was ready.
Whether there will be state fu-
neral ceremony, or merely a private
gathering of those nearest to him to
pay their last need of devotion, is still
to be decided. 1t depends almost en-
tirely on the wishes ~of the widow
who has been his present help in
the long weary months of his illness,
and who was with him when he died.
Government in Tribute.
The federal government already has
offered to do whatever is fitting to ex-
press the nations reverence at the
passing of a great leader. President
Coolidge called yesterday at the house
of bereavement, expressed his regret
and his readiness to be helpful and
then issued a proclamation of thirty
days official mourning. Over the
White House and the government de-
partments on the nations fighting
ships at sea and over the outposts of
American diplomacy in foreign lands,
the Stars and Stripes were brought
to half-mast. Congress today re-
cessed in respect for his memory, and
the whole machinery of the govern
ment whose guiding genius he was for
eight momentous years will stand still
on the day of his funeral.
The place of entombment has not
been selected, but it is probable his
body will be placed for while in
Washington cemetery. There it will
await the erection of a memorial to
service as his last resting place and
now come upon us in the wisdom of
the overruling providence who guides
the destinies of mankind"
Tribute of Lodge.
The Republican leader said Repub-
lican senators had heard with pro-
found sorrow the announcement of Mr.
Wilson's death.
"In common with all the people of
this country he said, 1--WE have felt
a very deep sympathy for the suf-
ferings of President Wilson during
his long illness which he has borne
without complaint and with so much
fortitude.
"'Mr. Wilson was a man of remark
able ability and Of strong character.
Through laborious years of thought
and study he devoted himself to Sc
curing a master of the historical and
economic questions, the theory and
science of politics commanded his as
piring interests He rose to be Pres
ident of the Ancient and Honary Uni
versity of which he was graduate.
From this high place in the field Of
education he turned to public life. He
was elected to be a governor of New
Jersey, one of the thirteen original
states, eminent in our history and on
the soil of which so many of the bat
ties OF. the Revolution were fought. He
was then elected and reelected PreSi-
dent of the United States which is 20
us and which believe to be the great
est office among men.
During his period of service in the
Presidency came the war with Germany
the most terrible war from which man
kind has suffered during the period
of recent history. After the victory
of the Allied and Associated powers
it fell to Mr.. Wilson to play the lead
ing part in the unspeakably difficult
work of making peace. He stood there
| chief figure in this great transac-
ton and so he will stand in the pages
of history in the days that are to
come. There is no figure more con-
spicuous than his in the events of that
| time, which closed one period in the
history of mankind and opened an
| other. Here in the capitol of the
country, the scene of his many tri-
umphs, his remarkable career comes to
an end"
Robinson a Speaker.
Senator Robinson said the announce
ment that Former President Wood
row Wilson had passed away caused
grief drought the civilized world.
CHS departure" he said, marks
the end of a career glorified by many
notable achievements"
GAS the leader of our country in its
greatest crisis, he is passing into his
tory with opinion divided as to the
wisdom of some of his foreign poll
cies. When confusion was given place
to calm conviction, he must take high
| place among the renowned of all the
ages because of his exalted ideals.
Neither eulogy nor defamation mater
tally can influence the estimation in
which he will be held by future gen
erations. 1t is unavailable either to
unduly applaud or to jealousy de-
preciate that what he has done and
what he has tried to do Measured
both ways, he is easily recognized as
| the greatest man of his time.
Not Judged by Action.
| "Men are not always judged alone
/ by what they do; they are sometimes
| also judged by what they try 20 do.
i One thing is certain, in the years to
come, if war shall again desolate the
earth, and the mothers of this land
be compelled to yield their sons to
| bloody strife, all they who fought and
they who sorrow, will remember and
! bless Woodrow Wilson because he