The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-06
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FATE OF WORLD
~ WILLIAM q. SHEPHERD.

THOMAS WOODROW WILSON.
VICTOR EMANUEL ORLANDO.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE.
GEORGE CIEMENCEAU.
Out Of q dIngy law office in Virginia,
out of cobblers shop in Wales. out
OF village doctors office in France
and from q farm on the island OF
Sicily came the four men who, in the
grand old palace at Versailles, will
soon put the quietus on the divine
right Of kings.
The might OF these four men has
grown as quietly as crew the Northern
iceberg which. when it's 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.
LoWIy Start of Remarkable Quartette
In 1856, three days after Christmas,
a boy named Thomas was born in the
plain home Of a Presbyterian parson
in Staunton, Va When this boy was
four years old, there was born in Pal
erno, on the island OF Sicily. 1000
miles away. black-eyes 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 .teW Italian king.
whom Garibaldi had helped to seat.
Three years later still, when Thomas
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 boy named David. His
home was the ugliest of the homes OF
all the three. It was or red brick, Lwo
stories high, small windows, facing a
busy stone sidewalk. It's rooms were
small and little adorned, and not |
much hope OF greatness could ever !
have sprung from that di1gy place
Three boys, thousands Of miles |
apart, each speaking different lam |
guage The pompous kings OF those
days couldn't have seen anything |
very dangerous in them. But kings
do have a way of not seeing things.
There was one other boy to make I
up the quartet His name was George |
He was a young medical student IN
Paris 20 years ago, when David was
born in England. He was set against
kings and emperors, because he had
seen Napoleon the Third overthrow
the second attempt OF France to es-
tablish. republic. He thought all
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and, by the time he was 90, he came
over to the United States to study
the American republic, and, IL pos
sible to make q living over here. as a
doctor. He had been born in a little
village in France, in doctors house
hold
While George was in New York al
most starving for lack of patients and
later, while he taught French in .
go Ill
Thomas, down in Virginia at the age
of ten years had buckled down to his
studies, with the hope of being law
year; Victor, at six. was studying in
school in far away Palermo. and David
at three fatherless by this time, was
getting ready for life in the home OF
his uncle, village shoemaker. in a
little town of Wales. The only city
born boy Of the four. fate. when his
father died, took him to the simp1ic-
ity OF village life and saved him, per
haps. from the sidewalks.
The years whirled on. George
married an American girl and went
back to France. to write and teach
and doctor. Thomas went to uni
verSity to study law. David, seven
years younger, spent his evenings and
spare time in his uncle'S shoe shop
or in the village blacksmith sf1op us +
tening to his elders talk over the az
fairs of the world. Sundays he used
to walk to Sunday school three times.
And the Sunday school was two miles
away. He could soak only in the
musical Welsh tongue.
Victor, with law as his vision, Cross
ed the famous old straits Of Messifla
from his island home and went to
Naples to study in the law school
there.
In the sos things began to happen.
Down in Virginia, Thomas was adj
mitted to the bar. In old Wales.
David, who, by this time had learned
to speak English. was admitted to
practice law in 1884 and in 1885, the
black-eyed, hot -blooded Sicilian Vic
tor received the documents that en-
titled him to practice at the Italian
bar.
George, in France by this time had
dropped medicine. BolShevikism had
arisen there in the form of the Com
mune, and he had fought 1t so des-
perately that he had been sentenced
to death. He hated kings and he also :
hated the autocracy OF the mob. He
fled from Paris.
And so each OF the four swung
along his own pathway, one in Italy
one in Britain, one in France and one .
in the United States of the New
World and they have all come at last
to gray hairs and mighty powers.
Soon they will sit at peace table
together. the first peace table in all
human history from which divine
right kings are barred. The future !.
and welfare Of the world lie In their
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