The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-12-04
FOUR MEN OF
L0WLY0RI
H0LD0UR FATE
Wilson of America, Orlando of
Italy, George of Britain
and Clemenceau
ALL SPRING FROM THE SOIL
Champions of Common People
Will Decide Basis for Uni
verSal Peace

" III DSNAuS AeAolo AOA ~ IA-
versal Peace
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
N. e. A. Washington Bureau
1128-1134 Munsey BIdo.,
WASHINGTON, o. c.
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON,
VICTOR EMANUEL ORLANDO,
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE,t
GEORGE CLEMENcEAU.
Out of dingy law office In Vir
GINA, out of a cobbler's shop in Wales
out of village doctors office il
of Sicily came the four men who, ir
the grand old palace at Versailles
will soon put the quietus on the
divine rights of kings.
The might of these four men has
grown as quietly as grew the northern
iceberg which, when its day came
sank the Titanic.
The storms Of fate brew silently
and this king-upsetting storm which
is whirling about the thrones OF earth
is the most silent that ever gathered
Lowry Start Of
Remarkable Quartet.
In 1856, three days after Chris tmas
boy named Thomas was born in the
plain home of Presbyterian parson
in Stanton, Va. When this boy was
four years old. there was born in
Palermo, on the Island Of Sicily, 1000
miles away, black-eyed Sicilian boy
Into the town of Palermo, on that
July day came Garibaldi, in triumph
and the farmer-folk parents of the boy
in honor of the occasion, named their
son Victor. after the new Italian king,
whom Garibaldi had helped to seat.
Three years later still when Thorn
as was playing the games of seven
year-old boys down in Virginia and
when Victor. at three, spent most OF
his time romping on the little farm IN
Sicily, there was born in the heart OF
the foggy, grimy town of Manchester
in England. a boy named David. His
home was the ugliest of the romes OF
all the three. 1t was of red brick,
two stories high, small windows, fac
ing busy stone sidewalk. Its rooms
were small and little adorned, and not
much hope Of greatness could ever
have sprung from that dingy place. :.
Three boys thousands Of miles a
part, each speaking a different langu
age. The pompous kings Of those
days couldn't have seen anything
very dangerous in them. But kings
DO have way Of not seeing things
There was one other boy to make
up the quartet. He was young med
ical student in Paris % years ago
when Davir was born in England. Nc
was set agains kings and emperors
because he had seen Napoleon the
Third overthrow the second attemp,
of France to establish republic. He
thought all governments ought to oe
republics, and, by the time he was 20
he came over to the United States tc
study the American republic. and. II
possible. TO make living over here as
a doctor He had been born in little
village in France. in a doctors house
hold
While George was in New York, al
host starving for lack Of patients anC
later.while he taught French in
gi:is' school in Stamford. Conn, little
Thomas down in Virginia, at the age
of ten wears, had buckled down to his
studies, with the hope OF being E
lawyer: Victor, at six, was studying
in a school in far-away Palermo, anc
David, at three. fatherless by thi:
time. was getting ready for life II
the home of his uncle. village shoe
maker, in a little town Of Wales. Thu
only city-born boy OF the faur. fate
when his father died took him to thu
simplicity of village life and savet
him, prehaps, from the sidewalks.
The years whirled on. George mar
ried an American girl and went bacl
to France, to write and teach ant
doctor. Thomas went to universlt.
to study law. David. seven year
younger, spent his evenings and spar
time in his uncles shop cd in the vii
LACE blacksmith shop listening to hi
elders talk over the affairs Of tn
world. Sundays he used to walk t.
Sunday school three times. And tn
Sunday school was two miles away
He could speak only the musica
Welsh tongue.
Victor, with law as his visior
crossed the famous old straits o
Messina from his island home an
went to Naples to study in the LAY
school there.
In the sos things began to happier
Down in Virginia. Thomas was &C
mitted to the bar. In old Vale:
David, who, by this time. had learne
to speak English. was admitted t
practice law in 1884. and. in 1885. tn
hot-blooded SiciIion Victor receive
the documents that entitled him t
practice at the Italian bar
George. in France, by this time ha
dropped medicine. Bolshevikism ha
arisen there in the form of the Con
mune. and he had fought it so de-
perately that he had been sentence
to death. He hated kings, and he ais
hated the autocracy of the mob. II
ned from Paris.
And so each of the four swun
along his own pathway, one in ltal
one in Britain. one in France and or