The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-04

very ground on which he
 The first story is written in Mrs. Wilson's autobiography; the sec- ond is being told only to a few intimate friends of MT. Humility.
 Probably the complete truth about President Wilson will not be told until the book by his personal physician, the late Admiral Cary Grayson is published. This book was written before Grayson died, and is being held by Mrs. Gray son until its publication is ap- propriate. It tells how Wilson first met Edith Boiling Galt, his second wife, and of her influence over him.
 Mrs. Wilson's own memoir is an extremely important contribution to American history. Many of her friends wish that she either had not written 1t, or else had had a sagacious friend do her ghost writing.
 For the book frankly con- firms what many of Wilson's associates felt during his late ter days, that he was loved, monopolized, dominated by one person, and that had it not been for that person, the fate of the League of Nations, the Versailles Treaty, the entire world, might have been different.
 The late Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who led Wilson's fight for ratification of the peace treaty used to tell how he came in to see Wilson during the League of Nations fight bringing the reser- vations proposed by Senator Lodge, which would not have al- tered materially the effectiveness of the League and yet would have permitted its speedy adoption by the Senate.
 "You haven't come to talk compromise, have you?" asked Mrs. Wilson. And in the opinion of senators who fought for Will son at that time, her unyield- ing position was chiefly respon- sibIe for the defeat of the League of Nations.
 SECRETARY VS WIFE
 The two people who loved Will son most, his second wife and his secretary, have lived in Washing ton not far apart during the years since his death. And yet they have scarcely met. Naturally there was jealousy between them. and that jealousy is written between the lines in the pages of Mrs. Wilson's book.
 Humility, whose only love was Wilson, wanted him to wait until after the presidential campaign of 1916 to marry Mrs. Gait. When Wilson finally decided otherwise, Tumuity said: 'I'm sorry you're going to do that, Governor. I was very fond of Mrs. Wilson"
 "I told Edith you'd say that" replied the President.
 "WelI, that's a nice way to get me started with her," shot back Tumulty. And from that day the second Mrs. Wilson was i'm open conflict with her husbands secretary.
 HADING's ANCESTORS
 Mrs. wilson may not have known it, but Tumulty visited all the newspaper offices in advance of her marriage, distributing an announcement in which he adroit- ly mentioned the affection and approval of the Wilson girls for their step-mother, the new Mrs. wilson. From the public view point, this got the marriage off to an excellent start.
 But master and servant gradu- ally drifted apart after the wed- ding, and the bitterness Mrs. Wil- son felt toward Tumulty is ap- parent all through her book.
 In one chapter she even lays on Tumulty's shoulders a move to prove Negro blood in the veins of President Harding, charging that Joe was enthusiastically in favor of it. The real fact, as told by Tumulty, is that two biackmailers presented docu- ments regarding Harding's genealogy, and that Tumulty, presenting their papers to Will son, pointed out the unreliability of the two men and the un- fairness of using their material.
 Wilson, according to Humility, instructed him to show the docu- ments to Harding's Republican campaign managers, which he im- mediately did. Mrs. wilson, how-