Show CAL I 1 CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS AFTER VALIANT FIGHT FOLLOWING OPERATION death produces complicated situation in view of approaching presidential election berlin Fr elderich ebert first president of the german republic died last week from peritonitis which followed an operation for appendicitis the former saddle maker whose skill in guiding the infant republic through the first turbulent years of its existence was acknowledged even by his bitter enemies made a gallant fight tor for life but his system had been undermined by an attack of influenza before the operation and his heart was not equal to the burden imposed by the poison which had spread throughout his system around his bedside when the end came were his wife their daughter amalie and her husband dr wilhelm jaeneke and their sole son to survive tile the war Fr elderich jr state secretary belssner Melas Mels nei was the only oth er person present aside from the he doctors and nurses the political attacks upon the president which culminated in the mag deberg trial and the efforts to connect him with the barmat loans scandal added greatly to the burdens imposed upon hint him as chief executive of a new republic putsches Put and threats of putsches put and the jibes of the monarchists who could not bear the idea of a working man succeeding tile the had helped to undermine his once rugged constitution but the fi firmness with which lie he managed the political crisis arising from the tangled party fuitem and the simple dignity with which frail aiau ebert met her duties as aa list first lady of germany Ser many disarmed many jf f their sharpest critics there was probably not another leader in germany his hia enemies ad bitted who could have succeeded ft where here he did and his death four months before the presidential dec clec tion lion produces more moie confusion in a political situation already badly mu mud JIM president Pies ident ebert was the first of fill all the patriotic germans to forget foie party pait lues ines when it became necess arv to heck the extremists either in tho the radical or conservative camps ile HP frequently brought curves curses upon lna his ledd lead from the one side or the other by approving measures which they the ic cording to their viewpoints lew points deemed reactionary or 01 too radical ills his attitude won tile confidence 0 of the ambassadors and minister mini ackre cited to berlin and lie he was a power u ul f actor in bringing brins liiK about ac accept ept ince of the dawes plan which prom uses ses to calm the storm that lias has raged about the reparation problem for so irany years 1 I herr ebert started life as a sad lle maker but years of experience az as a labor organizer and official of inions together with his wide train ng in practical politics developed developed him even ns as his admirers pointed out the late samuel Gorri gompers pera was developed in america |