The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-11-12

base. Experts said that it could not
,e done. The civilian Wilson said ii
could be done, must be done and it was.
| TT brought the German submarine
| warfare to an end. 1t was the civilian
| Wilson who preached the plan for
combining the allied Powers in the
| West under the supreme command of
| General Foch. in order that all the
| allied forces could be concentrated on
the German forces to crush them.
| The merciful Wilson urged at ev-
cry point the most perfect means of
carrying on legitimate war in order to
end war. In his mind the supreme
| object Of this war wa to end war
| first by crushing the military powers
of Central Europe. and then by the
advancement of a plan to remove from
| diplomatic and international dealings
the perfectly well known causes of
general war, to put international rela-
| tons on an entirely new basis, in
| which a community of nations should
protect all and each from exploitation
| and aggression.
lie has insisted on Article X as the
| heart of the covenant because he knew
| that only by combined action could
| the territorial integrity and political
| inc rrendence of nations be preserved
| from aggressive attacks by ambitious
| ma IONS
I'm his insistence on Article X Pres
| ident Wilson wished to forestall the
necessity of the United States going
| to war by making the United States
a participant in plan to prevent the
| beginning of such war. He wished
| to stop the next war before it should
begin.
| In all the insincerties of American
politics there is nothing to match the
| insinCerily OF the Republican conten-
| ton thrt the League of Nations will
prOmp:r war.
Like all the worlds great liberators,
| he has kept the vision of the future
| and counted as nothing his own life
save as he could make it serve to in
sure better future.
Study the record and you will find
! that no other President has consulted
| 50 much with Congress, with Senators
and with Representatives singly and
| in groups in the White House and in
| the consultation room at the Capitol.
They know it. They find it con-
vcnient to deny it for partisan advan-
tage
There occurred little incident in
Western State that most Presidents
would have had teegraphed all over
the country. Exhausted by his pub
| lie engagements, raCked with pain, he
nevertheless slipped away quietly one
afternoon with Mrs. Wilson to pay
visit to some friends of his first wife,
| living in little cottage in side
street of the town.
ANY other man | ever knew would
have excused himself from making the
effort. but having made the effort
most men would have dropped hint
| to somebody to tip off the newspaper
boys Here was a human interest
| story Here was something that would
| look well in print. He does not know
how to turn a kind and self sacrificing
| act to political advantage.
And as his secretary and knowing
the value of publicity to a man seek
ing votes, | have often been vexed that
he did not play up better. but as his
friend and admirer l have loved him
| because he did not. There is some
thing too fine in his nature for the
dramatics and posturings of the politi-
|
| Il recall a little incident at Seagirt
A journalist had written him up and
| we wanted him to do one of the little
| stunts that the public dearly loves to
| read about. He said to me, 'Tumulty,
you must realize that | am not built
| for these things. | do not want to be
displayed before the public If ] tried
| to do 1t, | would do it badly. ! want
people to love me, but they never WILL
| Il have never forgotten the wistful
tones in which he spoke those last
| few words, but they never will This
lonely man is lonely not because he
disdains love. He Graves it with all his
soul. He is lonely because of his gem
| ius The greatest genius always walks
| communicates. We all love the stories
of Lincoln, the companionable, the
| easy going, the familiar old Abe. but
| any close student of Lincoln's life,
character and career. knows that he
| was the loneliest man of his age. DE
had not one single confidant, not one
single intimate companion. Sadness is
written in his face. ID 49,. ..... -.
$50 it is with Woodrow Wilson He
would love to feel the familiar touch
of the ordinary camaraderie of life,
but it cannot be so. The knowledge
that it cannot be saddened him from
the outset ...a. g.: ....
at is in this service that he enlisted
for life, as he himself states, and it is
in this service that he broke, and after
breaking kept on fighting. -
1.-TWO pictures are in my mind. First
the Hall of Representatives crowded
from floor to gallery with expectant
throngs Presently it is announced
that the President of the United States
will address Congress. There steps out
to the speakers desk a straight, Wig
orous, slender man, active and alert
He is 60 years of age, but he looks not
more than As, so 1.-THE of limb so alert
of bearing so Virile. 1t is Woodrow
Wilson reading his great war message
The other picture is only three and a
half years later. ~
| There is parade of veterans of the
Great War. They are to be reviewed
by the President on the east terrace
of the White House. In chair sits a
man, your President, broken in health
but still alert in mind. His hair is
white. his shoulders bowed, his figure
bent. He is sixty three years old but
he looks older 1t is Woodrow Wilson
Presently in the procession there APP
pears an ambulance laden with wound
ed soldiers the manned the halt and
the blind AS they pass they salute
| slowly reycrently