Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-09-01
AN EFFICIENT
GOVERNMENT
New York Evening Post Pays
Tribute to Administration
of President Wilson
COOL CAPTAIN AT HELM
Changed Political Atmos-
phere at Washington Shows
Appreciation Of Efforts

Whatever of evil the war of ma
tions may have brought upon us
Americans, the country is indebted to
it for a clear revelation of the efficien'
cy of the administration of President
Woodrow Wilson. The great machin-
cry of government has functioned
quickly and well. If we have seen
in England fairly amazing subsiding
of popular passion, but yesterday
threatening civil war, we have wit
messed on this side of the water a
similar and a most praiseworthy read
mess to rise above partisanship and
stand by the President in his effort
to take in all possible sail and rem
der the ship of state as safe as may
be in the hurricane that has suddenly
burst upon it. Quietly and effective
ly every disposition has been made,
without the slightest blowing of trum-
pets or hurrahing about it.; if any
thing has been overlooked which
might have been foreseen. it has yet
to appear.
While the credit for all this belongs
to many men, the chief praise is, of
course, due to the captain, who, face
to face with most distressing per-
sonal bereavement, yet continued to
wreak himself upon his work precisely
as if his mind were completely at
east as to all private affairs. He has
met the national emergency with the
same poise and skill with which he
has held congress t. its work from
the very inception of his administra.
tion. The sneered-at.college profess
sor has shown again not only what
it means to have communed with the
worlds philosophers, but has demon
strated the supreme value of rigid
mental discipline as we'll. His hand
on he helm has never wavered; his
own GOODNESS and steadiness under
conditions which might have snapped
many a physically stronger man have
won him the unbounded admiration
of the corps of newspaper men who
have daily found him about the only
Outwardly unruffled man in the in
tense heat and fearful strain of Wash
ington. They will not soon forget the
eloquent words with which he out
lined to them the gravity of the war
crisis and the duty of the press
words spoken primarily for them, but
which they demanded for publication.
And the public will not forget that
his message rendering the good Of
fices of this government to the war
ring nations of Europe was written
at the bedside of his dying wife. In
every way in this grave emergency
he has given fresh proof of his mark
ed fitness for the headship of the ma
ton.
1t was Mr.. Wilson who seized the
opportunity to press for the confirma-
tion of the nomination of Mr.. War
burg, and quickly selected Mr.. Delano
to fill the vacancy created by the
withdrawal of Mr. Jones. Under his
direction the Aldrich-Vreeland act,
providing for an emergency bank note
in+0 tA
great relief of the financial world
The President himself moved to have
congress amend our shipping laws to
meet the emergency on the ocean; if
the result of this is not yet clear,
it is certainly a step in the right di-
rection, and will doubtless be follow
ed by others. And his administration
is entitled to special praise for CO.
operating vigorously in the organiza-
ton of strong committees to deal with
all phases of the business situation
as the emergencies may arise-a bit
of constructive craftsmanship deserv-
ing higher praise and greater atten-
ton than it has received To all of
this must be added the prompt meas
ures for the relief of the stranded
Americans abroad-all of which were
submitted for residential approval
and the constant keeping in touch
with our foreign ambassadors, who
have had to assume heavier burdens
than have ever fallen to the lot of
American diplomats. The administra.
ton has also acted vigorously and
most wisely in dealing with the en-
forcement of our own neutrality; the
President himself writing a letter
directing army and navy officers to
refrain from all comment on foreign
happenings, and particularly the mil
itary operations.
That all Of this has been appreciated