South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-26
MAKING GOOD.

II william HOWARD IdIl were pres
ident now the newspapers would be
carrying stories OF the presidents feats
on the golf courses OF Massachusetts,,
or feature articles on How the presi-
, dent spends his vacation"-an hour
10 correspondence and official bust
ness--two hours talking 20 Murray
Crane or Cabot Lodge or Boise Pen
rose. fve hours motoring and golhng.
two hours eating, ten hours sleeping
and the like.
Taft was the original exponent Of
that classic phrase Il should worry.
But there's another sort Of man in
the White House today, a keen, earn
est. untiring. able. conscientious. deep
~ interested human being who is alert
TO every impulse that stirs the repub-
lie. who is tremendously concerned in
his work at the biggest job that any
man on earth has today.
OF course II Taft were still president
there'd be no tariff nor currency bills
before congress. The railroad men
and their employees could fight out
their own grievances. the rebels and
the r. 1erals In Mexico could continue
their great national game undisturbed
with such assistance as Dollar Dip
iomacy". Knox and Huntington
Wilson, the pink tea assistant secre-
tary. could give them.
Taft. unless he was taking some
railroad trip, would be enjoying a we'll
earned rest.
Woodrow Wilson is making good.
That is a verdict that is coming to
gain larger and larger support out
side the party as we'll as in.
Wilson is bending every effort TO
solve the leftover problems of states
menship and 10 handle new ones with
discretion and vigor. His offices,
quickly lent. enabled the railroad men
and the managers TO get together on
a basis Of negotiation. He has sug-
gested an entirely new solution of the
burdensome Mexican problem, with
out showing in the least any signs of
vaccination or fear.
Mediation may not accomplish the
result sought in Mexico. Henry Lane
Wilson. fresh from Pres Huerta's
council chamber. doesn't think il will.
Allowance has TO be made for Henry's
recent environment. But even if il
doesn't fit the situation the world will
have been notified that the United
States is using every honorable meth
Cd TO secure peace. If these fail we
will be ready for sterner methods.
The mediation solution seems so
simple that IL seems strange that no
one had thought of it before.
But that's Wilson. He uses com
mon sense on his big problems instead
oe hunting for musty precedents. He
figures out what is the right thing
20 do and tries TO do II. He seeks
for the human side OF his problem
Men and measures are not pawns on
chess board TO him. They are liv-
ing things to be studied and treated
as such.
In the matters of the tariff and the
currency, Pres. Wilson has insisted
from the beginning that laws be
enacted that will tit in with the ex-
pectations OF the country. And he is
hewing straight to the mark
incidentally that democratic con
gress is upseNing some OF the pre-
dictions for party ructiOns and dis
sensions that were made by other
parties and when the windup comes
it will deserve lot OF credit for hold
ing together as a great animated ad-
hesive body working with one i'm
pulse for the best interest OF the re-
DpblfC and its peODla