| Show LEARE CALLED BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS AFTER VALIANT FIGHT FOL LOWING OPERATION death produces complicated situation in view of approaching presidential election berlin rr elderich ebert first president of the german republic died last week from peritonitis which chic it followed an operation for appendicitis the former saddle maker whose skill in guiding the infant republic through tile tho first turbulent years of its existence was waa acknowledged eye even n by ills his hitter bitter ene enemies rales made a gallant fight for life hut but ills his system had boon dundei undermined mined by an all attack of influenza before the operation and his heart was not equal to the burden tin posed poked by tho the poison which had aspre spread itil throughout his system around his bedside when the end came callie were lila his wife their daughter aballe and tier her husband dr wilhelm jaeneke and their sole son to survive the war Fr elderich jr state secretary fleissner was waa the only other person present aside from the doctors and nurses the political attacks upon tile the president which culminated in tho the mag deberg trial and the efforts to connect him with the barmat loans scandal added greatly to the burdens imposed upon him as chief executive ot 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 the had helped to undermine ills his once rugged constitution but the firmness with which lie ho managed the political crisis arising from the tangled party system and the simple dignity with which frau ebert met tier her duties as first lady of germany disarmed many of their sharpest critics there was probably not another leader in germany ills his enemies ad knitted who could have succeeded where lie he lid did and his bis death four months before the presidential election produces more confusion in a political situation already badly mud md died president ebert was the first of all the patriotic germans to forget party lines when it became necessary essaiy to check tho the extremists either in the radical or conservative camps lie ile frequently brought curses upon ills his head from the one side slola or the other by approving measures which they according to their viewpoints deemed either reactionary or 01 too radical ills ilia attitude won tho the ot of tho ambassadors and ministers accredited to berlin and lie he was a powerful factor in bringing about acceptance of tile dawes dacca plan which prom aises to calm calin tho the storm that lias has rago raged about the reparation problem for so many years ebert started life as a sad dle maker miker but years of experience its as a labor organizer and official of unions together with his wide training in practical politics developed him even as ills his admirers pointed out the lato late samuel gompers was developed in n america |
