South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-09


water from the wells herded The goats and was
schooled by the hazzan in the synagogue2"
The hazzan was a combination schoolmaster.
and janitor of the synagogue, to the Nazarenes.
and Nazareth full of boys. grown to men,
who had romped and played. and learned to re-
cite at Jesus elbow. The army of We knew
him when quite over-awed the young preacher,
and He turned to CaPernaum.
"A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country, was his comment, in much the
same spirit as that of the author of Absence
makes the heart grow fonder.
Distance lends enchantment" and Familiar
ity breeds contempt other ways of putting
it. Even the grabbed old Tom Carlyle took a
fling at it in his Heroes and Hero Worship.
when he declared, No man is hero to his valet.
Reading reports of the doings of the United
States senate of the speeches of United States
senators-nagging critical insulting, ignorant,
uncomPromising overlooking the principle to
Witty and detract from the rnan-it would not be
surprising if the Mohammedans had likened them
the Pharisees sadducees. high priests, lawyers,
and other Christ devilers. as another evidence of
Wilsonian ProPhethood.
4 Nd to think that in the main-due to the
a hypocrisy of the hypocrites, the humbug-
gerry of the humbugs. the demagOguery OF the
demagogues the pettfoggery OF the pettifoggers.
the nagging of the naggers and the PartisanshiP
of bigoted, ham-strung partisans,-lt IS merely
because the president made his triumphal entry
upon this opportunity astride party. the emblem
of which IS asst
The Mohammedans may also have caught that,
observing that it upon which Jesus OF
Nazareth made His triumpha entry into Jerusa-
lem; that the emblem of Pres't Wilson's party
photographs not only the beast of burden upon
which the Nazarene chose 10 make that journey,
but upon which as child He escaped the wrath
of the Herods.
For Jesus was. indeed great democrat
democrat with small ID Of course.-the first
social democrat in fact, to tread the mighty tide
of time; the first teach industrial democracy;
the first to commend industrial justice; came,
when you fathom His teachings TO the bottom, to
make the world safe for democracy; prince
of peace" sent to poise shaking world.
Petroleum " Nasty, when he cartooned the
donkey as illustrative of democracy back in the
Cos of the last century builded better than he
knew for the teens of the present century
which is neither here nor there by the way.
as it may have contributed to the Mohammedan
pronunciamento. employing the scale of comPar-
isons.
Indeed, it is as prince of the Prince of
Peace" and his modus operandi intent upon a
world made safe for democracy, and kept safe,
that Woodrow Wilson has become the great
leader of the Present-day world, though dehed
and dehled even to the point of at least linguistic
crucihxion by the opponents to his cause in his
own land.
Observation-Disclosures, who eschew principle
fo- the sake of anti-a Observation-Disclosures. seeking
cruelty the righteous and inevitable need to learn
the historic lesson that it the loud-mouthed
and ofttimes more vicious opposition OF their own
people, that much anything. immortalized the
Christ and Mohammed, and Savonarola, and on
down through the ages the witches of Boston,
and to Washington and Lincoln.
VI
EVIDENTLY that naturalization has already
Il spread even to the banks of the Nile. And
maybe the Egyptian Mosiems will prove them
selves prophets. though the American presi-
dent whom they honor with the greatest honor
within their power to confer be but president
ready and visioned to act a herald OF new
or rather. old but unaccepted-truths; just ex-
traordinary human. utilizing opportunity.
Mr.. Wilson has certainly foreshadowed repeat
eddy the moral trend of events. Even before
America entered the war. while we still
maintaining strict neutrality, he eschewed for
us any disposition take part In conflict OF such
sordid inception--sordid from all Substituting
the position that there is such righteous thing
as being too proud to fight in void of
promise Of permanent benehcent results.
That is what the president said regardless of
what his enemies-scribes pharisees. hypocrtes
--cribbing the single phrase too proud to fight
sought to make it appear that he said; and it
following this same line of thought that led to the
announcement, when we were finally forced to
enter the conflict, that the world must be made
safe for democracy.
1t electrified America with moral. positive. ag-
gressive purpose. and fitting across the seven
seas it electrified the allied world. and score or
more of neutrals, inspiring them to make common