Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-12-06
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
President Wilson to Sail Tuesday
for Peace Conference
in Paris.
WHOLE WORLD IN TURMOIL
Greatest Armed Struggle of History
Has Shaken Whole Structure of
civiIization-Change Disorder
and Fighting, Features
of European Situation.
BY EDWARD w. PICkARD.

Unless the unexpected happens
which seems to be the rule rather than
the exception nowaGays-President
Wilson will sail for the peace confer
ence in Paris Tuesday, on the George
Washington. Immediately after deliv-
ering his message TO congress. which
reassembles Monday, Friday night Pres
ydent Wilson announced the appoint
inent of the peace commission. He
;lames himself as member and will
i.ct as chairman during his stay of six
weeks or more in Paris. Returning, he
will be replaced by Secretary of War
t,aker; Secretary of State Lansing will
hucceed him as chairman. Other men,
ers of the commission are: Col. Ed
ward NJ. House, the presidents chief
ronfidant; Henry White, formerly am
Dassador to Italy and France; Gen.
Tasker Fl. Bliss, American military ad-
wiser of the supreme war council.
Those who criticize the president for
going must admit that his temptation
Is great. Setting aside the fact that
he may feel it his duty to attend, it
Is lAc lllOld lllul SuCI d 4SSl-
ing of sovereigns, presidents, premiers,
chancellors and high dignitaries of the
nations of the earth the worlr has nev-
er seen. 1t is likely to be preceded by a
grand review of designated units Of
the victorious armies and fleets. 1t
will certainly be preceded by consul
tations of the heads of many nations.
AS to the conference itself, it has no
parallel in history. And among these
great ones of the earth, who will be
more prominent than Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States of
America, both by reason of his own
activities in the world struggle and of
the unique position of his country?
Moreover, Mr.. Wilson will have an
opportunity to be modern Solomon
to the many applicants for his per-
sonal aid. These appeals have come
to him from victor and vanquished,
from new nations and old, from the in
dependent and from those seeking in
Experimentation Turkey, Luxem.
burg, Austria, Germany, Russia, Ire.
land, Poland, Roumania; from the
| Jugo-Slavs and the Czecho-Slovaks
| Turkey asks for United States admin
istration of finances. etc. Luxemburg
for protection as a small Independent
state; Austria for occupation by
| American troops to prevent civil wal
among newly formed nations, and sc
on. Each request presents a different
| problem.
On the other hand, the peace con
| ference faces the tremendous problem
| of reconstructing world. Thrown
without warning into the creates
armed struggle of all time, the nation:
| emerge from the bloody conflict tt
find that it is not only the lands tha
have been trampled under foot tina
| must be reconstructed, but that th'
whole structure of modern civilization
has been shaken. Ancient institution!
and time-honored traditions are over
thrown. Mankind finds itself anon:
civic and economic ruins. 1t will b.
too much to expect of human natur
to count on this peace conference be
ing entirely peaceful. 1t is more like
ly to be q rough-and-tumble affair.
There are many possibilities of trou
BILE. Suppose our allies point out tha
americas traditional policy has beel
one of detachment from European al
fairs and that for two years and hal
she observed neutrality and then sue
gest that she return to her detachmen
and allow the nations most intimatel
concerned to arrange q settlement
Suppose the fundamental principles O
justice and right, given world-wid
publicity as the things for whic
America was lighting and unofficial