Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-02
TEACHER TRAINING
BENEFITED WILSON
Noted Swiss Publicist Gives HE
Impressions of President
From America.
SAYS "SENTENCES CH!SELED'
Declares Chief Executive Of.
United States Is Cham
pion of People.
SAYS "SENTENCES CHlSELED'
RN IL. Iitii'TlIiN M.
Swiss i'ui,iicisl,D

Moss frequently Mr. Wilson is corn
rared 70 the n,ertNr resident win (
his Lire. IN SUCH comparisons .I.incolis
- pignred the ideli victor and tn Z.
hirih % freedom In The Civil War ~:
REPRESENTED as his gt; to The Ameri \
can nation wilson, on the other hand
dreams of. new. Svaater freedom
which IS TO comprise all the peoples o.
lie ctvilizcd world. Thoush the fore y
% his conviction ana his weight
the first personality on the face q II
tno gic'c. hc alreeny has paved tn
path Ia such - freedom.
lie WAS born reremae~ IS. 1856. a.
: 'hut"n. w; thnt is. in the state o.
with whose name he VIII one day
down in history. Early in his carea 4
he made name FOR himself as
teacher. assayist and orator Then liz +
ever his friends took MIN away II
lead linn into tho political arena. Herr
n" became first known as the Governed :
e New Jersey.
SURPRISE FOR SkTi"rICS IN
NAMING NiLsO, president
When a newspaper publisher frs
mentioned him as Il poSS .5lo Presiden 1t
iial candidate there were plenty o
politicians who poked fun at the YER.
suggestion. Nevertheless, from thu
election of November, 1912. he emerged
President. and in the following MARCEL
he Was inausurated.
Tall and stately OF figure. Presideny
Wilson bears upon his Square shouldn't 4
characteristics, sharply cut. expressive
head. Ills calm, serious face. which
cans low with lively FIRE. is Otter
frightened ana beautitied h. a winnintl
smile. especially when he speaks. Likt
The treat Je'ieTI w. h" has sunni
wears Mr.. Wilson Us still vigorous AMI
looks we'll preserved
Tn" whole appearance OF the man
grave aud simple. II is as j II here, too
the tradition y! his fathers house made
Itself fcli, Nothing he SAYS or does Il 4
aimed ~ effect and ii is therefore
easy 10 approach him.
Many have tried 10 hurl the hated
''schoolmast"r" at him as a rcproach
Particularly in his speeches, which mos
people JUDGED as too-,Ine odicnl Rnsi-
acad"mic, they recognized the pedH
been used as a weapon against hin
has with time become his creates
power.
Ills SENTENCES CHIsELED."
DECLARES SWISS ruDLICIs1
His sentences are as If chiseicd out
81 s mS preduEF h Gf snG a yGaFT 81
an extraordinarily fortunat> seiectioi
OF words He speaks freely, easily
Lut Without that Vocal pathos which
through its very outwardneSs. like th,
tone OF 4 huge bell. makes everything
l;ut il il precisely his methodica,e
effectiveness which in the course, ri
time has become the medium Cor maxi
ing understood among his own people
his ideas with great clarity and trans.
Darcncy.
All The broad masses of The WORLD
who have to-day the opportunity J.e
listen u his feet. as it were, ~ thi.
teacher Of greatest and big -heartet
hhumanitnrian sentiment can grasp him
THANKS /" that very, quality of clear
ness OF speech. and become hS en-.
thrSiaStic aGherents.
This thorough going metamorphosi:
OF he sentiments toward and opinions:
OF Wilson is at present under way
t:Ri;nNEot SLY PICTURED AS
REPRESENTATIVES, or DOLLAR
D" we Swiss know wilson? How
often has he been pictVrel to US err.
roneously and unjustiy as the repre
sentative of the almighty dollar. How
many OF US are forced. in such VIA
issues, to see through foreign spec.
SO little has been done o facilitate
indrpendent Judgment.
Md SO ii came that we Swiss have
had 10 suffer il that one of the greatest
and most Important men OF this age
p!utocracy, despite the fact that this
nowhere more bitterly mated. more SIM
S ,,E, ie1re t} :snd more violently fonsh'
."ncc OF gold holds sway.
STOOD CLEARLY ~ OPEN
AND BOUGHT OWN WARS
Even before his election the Presi.
dent made his attitude on that score
Thoroughly known. lie broke or OLD
career he might stand under the
shadow of So me sinister influence Of
money power And in, his earnes,
by those quarters as bitterly as he
himself
or is il; . fact as has been charged
"a ff,.r- Ia ala In,
during the war. made special conces-
Sions 10 the proverpiai money instinct
Of the American@ VAS it no. he who
Tended the war tax. a tax which even
the man in the street did not escape
md md which l, Is Gapahle Of hitting tbs
an assessment OF 50 per cent?
Inc whole national American life
fectcd by this tax. especially with re-
gard TO transportation. Scarcely al
ticket is bought in America thar Is
not doubiy taxed. Not even the the
hits the club life, the automobile spor.
ana ine comforts of luxury on long
railway journeys,
or has he omitted to denouncc and
damn the entiching OF few by the
war? This shadow-side OF Americans
ire he brilliantly Illuminated in his.
; pccch to representatives of the Red
Cross in New York
POPULARITY INCREASED EVEN
AMONG BIG INTERESTS
liut AL these measures have no.
made wilson unpopular on The con-
tiary. they have brought him even
nearer 10 his -conntryInen Iia &
one-time epcmies in Wall Street nave
become his strongest partisaus. though
THIS Is hardly TO be attributed to theftE y
io"a l!Stic tend OF thought Those WHO
had formerly east thoir votes for W.T.
aon were friends OF peace and hated :
WI. But AFTER war had bcen declared g
!o3'cal cpinge az mept ality went with
hyins colois over 10 thc camp OF ssas
VIII 10 war and win RS IS
~ Wilson Were In the presont cir
he wond undpubtct..yg obtain thretssf
ionrths Of the votes 81 his GoDptrys6