The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-12
PANORAMA OF WAR
SEEN AS WILSON
HONORS UNKNOWN.
Start Together From the
Capitol as They Did
In 1917. y 4
By ROBERT ). BENDER.

| The war moved IN retrospect uoWn
Pennsyivania avenue with the un-
known American hero and woodrow
Wilson
As the caisson carrying the SOL
der started on its march toward
his last resting place one looked al
the gray faced figure, swathed In q
heavy robe. seated in an open horse
drawn carriage, taking his place in
the rear OF the line
And. gazing at this figure, there
came the picture Of the House OF
Congress at twilight, April 2, 1917.
Before the justices of the Supreme
| Court, members of the House and
Senate, diplomatic and governmental
dignitaries and crowded galleries
stood a proud, grim. erect man,
reading from a pad OF printed notes
There was stilinoss throughout the
chamber.
1T Is q fearful thing to lead this
| great peaceful people into war"
| Wilson said, 'into the most terrible
and disastrous Of all wars: civiliza-
ton itself seeming to be in the bal
|
Gus than peace, and we shall fight
for the things we have always car
ried nearest our hearts"
March of Peace Re-enacted.
Even as that day Woodrow Will
son and the soldier started on their
march toward peace, so It seemed
re-enacted a. they left the Capitol
together yesterday.
Each in his turn moved down past
the beautiful Peace Monument.
Once again one saw the drawn face
OF the huddled figure here trans
formed into President Wilson, erect
In the prime OF his health, stand
ing before q Joint session OF Con-
! gres1 -..,.
This time he was telling those
men who had crossed the seas the
fourteen principles of peace for
which they were fighting.
1t was midday of January 8, 1918.
The pressure OF American hordes,
already being felt by the Germans,
had brought another peace proffer
from the central powers. Wilson on
that day laid down the basis Of that
peace which later was to bring an
end OF the European cataclysm
And, as cheers greeted his ap-
pearance at the Peace Monument,
they seemed the cheers that rocked
the House chamber as Wilson de-
| clared:
Eve stand Together U.tn the Ends
In regard TO these essential rec
tincations Of wrongs and assertions
Of right we feel ourselves To be
Intimate partners of all the govern
ments and peoples associated to-
gether against the imperiaIists. We
stand together until the end"
Slowly the caisson and the car
rage bearing Wilson moved on
down the Avenue. The unknown
soldier was moving farther toward
his peace. In retrospect one looked
back at the figure of Wilson in
Baltimore. April 6, 1s1S-the nrst
anniversary Of Americas formal en-
trance into the war.
Militant, the American Preside nj
was driving verbal shafts at the
German morale, backing up the
allied lines, in which the I'm
known" was but one OF millions.
There Is but one response pos
sible from u.s." Wilson declared.
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world
and cast every selfish dominion down
into the dust"
The two objects which com
manded the gaze of the thousands
along Pennsylvania avenue rounded
the corner at the Treasury. Shout
iGg, handclapping and cheering
smote Wilson's ears. He seemed
again at that great turn in the war
when, standing before the tomb ci
George Washington at Mount Yer
non, he sounded the death knell o.
the ruling Hohenzollerns, July =
1918.
The settlement must be FINAL
declared Wilson. mo halfway deci-
sion would be tolerable." First OF
the concessions, he declared. would
have to be made by Germany was
the destruction of every arbitrar!
power anywhere that can sepa'
rately, secretly and of its singl,
choice disturb the peace Of thu
world"
His Peace Day Realised.
In a few hours the unknown sol
der on his caisson was to reach his
|, peace. "lJTIn lie" months IIOH
that day at Mount Vernon. Wilson
too. was to achieve a victory fol
the allies on the basis he advocated
But before the peace of thu
doughboy yesterday. or the peace Of
Wilson in November 1918. was e
be realized. there was to be part
ing OF the ways.
At the White House. Wilson
, turned his carriage away from thu
line of march and a war President
, returned to his retirement on
street. A new President-ther recon
struction President-went on will
the soldier to bring peace and un'
derstanding into the world.
(Copyrieht, 1917