Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-12-15
Wilson Awarded Nobel Prize.

Christiania, Dec. 10.-The distri-
button of the Nobel prizes was made
here this afternoon. The principal
awards the peace prizes for 1919
and 1920-were given respectively
to Leon Bourgeois of France and
Woodrow Wilson, president of the
United States
The peace prizes were presented
in the storthing during the after
noon at ceremony which was shorn
of all ostentation. The literature
and other prizes were delivered this
evening in the Academy of the Muses.
in the presence of the royal family.
The document presenting the
peace prize to President Wilson and
the Nobel medal were received by
Albert G. Schmedemann, the Ameri-
can minister to Norway, who read a
message of thanks from President
Wilson.
President Wilson in his letter ac-
cepting the Nobel peace prize, said
that if this were the last peace prize
to, be offered he could not accept
"for mankind has not yet been rid of
the unspeakable horrors of war"
In the years to come, the president
added, there will be abundant op-
portunity for others to distinguish
themselves in the crusade against
hate and fear and war;"
SIN accepting the honor of your
award" said the presidents letter,
81 am moved not only by pro-
found gratitude for the recognition
of my earnest efforts in the cause of
peace, but also by a very poignant
humility before the vastness of the
work still called for by this cause.
'May I not take this occasion to
express my respect for the farsight-
ed wisdom of the founder in arrang-
ing for continuing system of
awards? If there were but one prize
or if this were to be the last / could
not, of course, accept it,. for man
kind has not yet been rid of the un-
speakable horror of war, / am con-
vinced that our generation has, de-
spite its wounds made notable pro-
gress. But it is the better part of
wisdom to consider our work as only
begun. 1t will be continuing labor.
In the indefinite course of years be-
fore us there will be abundant op-
portunity for others to distinguish
themselves in the crusade against
hate and fear and war.
"There is, indeed, peculiar fitness
in the grouping of these Nobel
awards. The cause of peace and the
cause of truth are of one family.
Even as those who love science and
devote their lives to physics or chem
istry, even as those who would create
new and higher ideals for mankind
in literature, even so with those who
love peace, there is no limit set.
Whatever has been accomplished in
the past is petty compared to the
glory and promise of the future"
Minister Schmedemann said in his
address:
"The honor bestowed on President
Wilson is of significance and o%the
utmost satisfaction to me. To have
the privilege of accepting on behalf
of the president the evidence of his
appreciation of his effort to replace
discord with harmony by appealing
to the highest moral forces of EACH
nation is an event to be cherished
He, perhaps as much as any public
man, is conscious of the fact that
the time is past when each nation
can live only unto itself. His labors
have been inspired with the idea and
the hope of making peace universal.
".It is impossible to make proper
estimate of President Wilson and of
his great work for international
peace until time has revealed much
of that which for the present must
be a sealed book. {. No more fit
ting word of appreciation could be
voiced than that contained in the
presidents message which. acknowl-
edges the great honor conferred upon
him."