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WIISON GAVE LIFE TO
DUTY LIKE some
Grayson Relates Circumstances That Broke Late
President’s Health. Tells Medical Students
How Energy Was Conserved.
R'chmond, Va., June 3.—Rear Ad
miral Cary T. Grayson, Woodrow
Wilson’s physician and confidant for
the last eleven years of his life, drew
an intimate picture of the former
president tonight at. the commence
ment exercises of the Medical Cpllege
of Virginia.
Admiral Graysonjs theme in his ad
dress to the graduates was perventa-
tive medicine >nd as an example of
how a physician may practice the
axiom that “a stitch in time saves
nine,” he described how former Presi
dent Wilson, a frail man when he en-
teied the White House, was made
physically able to carry on the bur
dens of a war president.
“1 cannot think of a better or more
practical illustration of how a person
under medical advice can regulate his
daily life so as to permit him to give
full scope to all the powers conferred
on him by nature than that furnished
by the man with whom I had the
privilege of being in intimate rela
tionship for eleven years,” said Dr.
Grayson.
“During the eight years that Wood-
row Wilson occupied the White House
he worked as < few presidents have
worked and bore burdens such aa few
men are called upon to shoulder. The
remarkable thing in the case of Mr.
Wilson is not that he broke down fin
ally but that with a constitution fly
no means strong and bearing a bur
den fit to kill a physical giant, he
kept well by obedience to the simple
laws of health.
“Four features of his life and per
sonality kept him going under condi
tions that would have soon exhausted
the powers of younger and stronger
men. These four things were: sys
tem, exercise, a sense of humor, and
proper food.
“If President Wilson is to be held
up as a model of healthy living how
did he happen to lose his life? It is
a natural question and I will answer
it honestly. When President Wilson
took his seat at the Peace Conference
he was 62 years old. His whole pre
vious life had been moderate and well
regulated. Had he considered his
health, had he put prudence and cau
tion .first, he would never have em
barked for Europe December 4, 1918.
Then and there he‘deliberately neg
lected his health. Then and there he
deliberately refused to obey his phy
sician and the laws of health which
he himself so well understood.
“When President Wilson, in Au
gust, 1919, was planning his cam
paign throughout the country in sup
port of the League of Nations, I had
a plain talk with him as his medical
adviser and urged him on the grounds
of health not to undertake it. I had
been constantly at his side in Eng
land, France and Italy as well as in
this country. * I knew perfectly the
strain he had undergone. I remem
ber how, while abroad, he had to
modify his usual health habits, giv
ing up golf and walking for a short
daily driVe in an automobile and how
he devoted to plans and conferences
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and deep thought the hours usually
sacred to repose.
“I had seen him in the hospitals
where our wounded soldiers lay and
had sensed the exhausting effect of
the emotions on ~ his outwardly un
demonstrative but deeply sympathe
tic . nature. Never can I forget his
silence when he stood for the first
time—he the fluent speaker—not dar
ing to trust himself to |py a word-
before a soldier who had lost his eye
sight in battle. The president only
wrung the soldier’s hand and passed
on; but the man asked the nurse af
terwards why the president had held
his-hand so long, gripped it so hard
snd said nothing.
“In another ward I remember a
splendid speciment of physical devel
opment who stood on crutches at at
tention for his commander-in-chief.
The president had been struck by the
large number of patients he saw
everywhere bereft of arms and legs
and he asked the handsome fellow
how he accounted for it. “Those who
were shot higher up are not here,’
was the significant answer. I saw
the president’s lip quiver and he pass
ed on down the line.
“These things told on Mr. Wilson
and they worked his soul up to a pitch
of passionate resolution. When I
urged him to forego his canvass of
the country he told me that no per
sonal considerations could divert him.
I vividly remember our final talk on
the subject in his study in the White
House. I had made my final protest
against the trip across the continent.
He replied: ‘You must remember that
those soldiers whom I as commander-
in-chief sent to Europe did not turn
back when they met the crucial test
in the trenches; nor can I turn back
now. I cannot put my personal safe
ty, or my health, in the balance
against my duty—I must go.’ He
walked to the window looking out
toward the Washington monument
and stood silent for some seconds.
When he turned back to me his face
was gray and very grave, and I
thought I saw a film moisture in his
eyes. But I knew the decision had
been made. There was nothing more
for me to say.
’ “As a matter of health precaution,
of health insurance for himself, Presi
dent Wilson should not have gone to
Europe, and afterwards he should not
have traveled all over the United
States. He knew the price he was to
pay, but no man could stop him.
“If you choose deliberately between
health and sacrifice to duty as you
see it—as Woodrow Wilson saw it—I
cannot blame you. Perhaps it was S
sad choice, but it is a noble choice.
But if you choose between health and
mere self indulgence, or mere care
lessness I can only call *your choice
foolish. I have used the case of Mr.
Wilson as an illustration of the prob
lem of preventative medicine as ap
plied to the individual. I have want
ed to make the point concrete, and
so I have told you a little about a
most eminent individual who co-oper
ated with his individual until he felt
that he had a duty beyond the duty
to himself and his own life. My ex
perience with Mr. Wilson did much
to confirm me in my faith that co
operative action between a physician
and a patient can achieve great re
sults.« I know that Mr. Wilson could
not have lived out his first term as
president if he had not systematically
practiced the fundamental laws of
health as laid down^ by a physician-
I am not boasting of myself. I am
simply saying that somebody had to
do with Mr. Wilson what it was my
good fortune to have the opportunity
to do in order to maintain his strength
for the burden laid upon him.
“There are in this country large
numbers of men laboring under heavy
responsibility and continual strain
who must be advised or they will
break ultimately—railroad presidents,
great financiers, merchants, judges on
the bench, as well as men in high of
ficial political office—they need in
struction just as much as children
need instruction. They are so ab
sorbed in their purauits that even if
they knew they could not practice
what they know unless they were un
der the oversight of physicians v^ho
study their particular cases and hold
them strictly to a* health regimen.
Here is one field for the practice of
preventative medicine.”
THUKSDAY, JUNE 5,
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TO THE VOTERS OF CLINTON
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I am a candidate for Mayor in the
approaching election and am asking
your suffrage. I do not lodk upon
the office as a political possession
but rather as a business position that
carries with it great honor and re
sponsibility—that af managing direct
or of a big corporation, “The City of
Clinton.” And I do not ask your,
vote with a blanket platform or prom-!
shaking ability, nor have I asked your)
vote with a balnket platform or prom
ise to do everything that anybody
asks me tp do, or to bring everything
in Clinton to a state of general satis
faction within a fortnight after my
election.
I seek the votes of you stockholders
just as I would seek the votes of
stockholders in a big bank or cotton
mill or other corporation of which I
was seeking the presidency—on the
ground of my fitness for the place
and my record as a successful busi
ness man in the community where I
have lived practically all my life.
If elected Mayor of Clinton, I pro-;
pose to give jmy entire time to the
duties of the office, and I shall go
into office unhampered by any prom
ise to any living soul and under the
control of no boss or bosses. I pro
pose to stand for a progressive and
economical administration and to un
tiringly use my energy to see that the
city gets a dollar’s value for every
dollar spent and that the taxpayers
interests are properly protected. I j
stand for law, order and decency, for •
progress and improvement in all civic!
lines, for a safe and conservative
handling of the immense business in
terests of the city. t
I shall stand at all times for the
best interests of the city. I shall do
everything within reason for the edu
cational institutions and churches of
the community; I shall give attention
to the sanitary condition of the city;
I shall co-operate with and support!
the Board of Health to make It active!
and effective; I shall stand for a con- j
tinuation of all street work, giving
to each ward its proportionate share; j
I shall give my full co-operation to
the police department in the impartial j
enforcement of the laws and as far as \
possible, will endeavor to run the
blind-tigers, bootleggers and other,
parasites out of the city. I will show
special privileges to no man or set of
men. In short—I shall stand for j
everything that will add to Clinton’s '
progress and delevolpment and help
make of the city a. clean and desirable
place in which to live. -
In conclusion, let me say that I will
give the city a conservative, yet pro-;
gressive administration. The city
must progress—and if elected your
Mayor, I shall untiringly and honest
ly use my energy and ability to that
end.
Every vote cast for me-will be ap
preciated. ,
R. L. BAILEY
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advertising manager of The State, and
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