Arizona republican., 1919-05-29
The Style of the President

President Wilson is one of the most scholarly of There is no other of his time that uses the English language so beautifully His addresses and messages call praise from continents and for days the newspapers vie with each other in ing upon him compliments and congratulations upon his English. And then when the intoxication pro- duced by beautifully periods and deligh full epigrams has away. there ensues general discussion as to what he meant Then the inter preters get busy and angry at one another and call another rough for trying to give to the presidents words meaning which they think he dld not intend
 The numerous utmatums to Germany each struck popular chord. So did the message of the fourteen points, and the four points message, and the Baltimore speech until attempted to find just what the president driving at; then each in turn struck discord which even J. Ham Lewis was unable to reduce to harmony.
 The president himself has never some to the aid of the disputants He has usually made another speech or delivered another message which however only furnished additional fuel for dispute, by it's vagueness and generates. It is wonder that the Germans have felt at liberty to interpret the points in their own favor.
 The original draft of the covenant of the League of Nations though supposed have been outlined by General Shuts and Lord Robert Cecil abounded in argument, definition and explanation supposed to have been interpolations by president They were generally eliminated from the second draft. They conferred greater obscurty on the document It was said by one of the participants in the White House conference after the return of the president from Paris, that in reply to an inquiry concerning the language of clause the president himself seemed to be in doubt it's meaning
 The proper use of language is said to be to con vey thought when the best use of it is made the conveyance is clear and distinct Taeyrand said language intended to conceal thought We do not think the president intends such sinister use of it. His of it is purely artistic and decorative
 Among the literary productions of the president is Effective Speaking to which Dr. George Harvey introducing another episode of "Alice In Wonderland makes reference:
 The Mad Halter brought a Sunday paper from the Wonderland hotel and real aloud the company.
 Where" asked Alice abruptly after rousing from her trance, lis book? Ah, here it is."-Effective Speaking, by Woodrow Wilson. And she read
 My father man of great intellectual ergy. My best training from him. He was intolerant of vagueness. and from the time began to write until his death in 1903, when he eghty-one years old I carried everything wrote to him. He would make aloud, which always painful to Every and then he would stop What do you by that?" would tell him, and. of course, in doing would express myself more simply than I had on paper. "Why didn't you say so?" he would go Don't shoot at your meaning with brdshot and hit the whole countryside; shoot with a rifle at the thing you have to say"
 What & pity quoth Alice medatively, and with suspicion of a sigh, what pity the old gentleman did not live to be hundred'
 That would have brought him to next year His censorship would have covered all the pre-war ulti- rnatrrns he war messa pes the peace messages and would have had clarifying effect upon the language of the peace treaty and the covenant. We would perhaps not have been told that too proud to fight and that there could be peace with victory.