The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-04-01

What is more sublime in nature
than to stand upon the hill top and
watch the setting Sun? 1t is picture
that stirs the soul and makes man
wonder and wonder again about the
-erandeur of creation. In practical
life. man Worships rising sun. He
looks for rising sun to mount the
sky. as it We're. and perhaps send
upon him some Of its rays that per-
chance may bring him copious crops
Of Whatever his mind most yeaIns
for
The United States has just wit
messed the retirement from office of
one of its greatest characters. With
out question his sun is setting. But
the unbeclouded vision. the clear eye.
cannot fail to see from the hill top
that while his sun is sinking behind
is western hills, there is splendor
about him which comes of duty wise
" and ably performed. There is al
WAYS some degree of sadness about
the retirement of any man who has
been long in the pl bic eve, but in
the case of Woodrow Wilson this is
intensified by his physical condition
and by the fact that he has apparent
ly failed to accomplish in the last
two wears of his administration that
which he set his heart on ard about
which all sorts of anather1as have
been breathed against him. The
iavelins have flown thick and fast
around his head, but in spite of it
all. he has stood as one born to
rule as one of proud and heroic
blood"
On Friday. March 4. Woodrow Will
son surrendered the Warren Gamaliel
Harding the reins of the United
States government and once more
became a private citizen. Twenty
two other Presidents had in like man
ner handed over TO their predeces-
sors their presidential prerogatives,
exclusive of the ones to die in office.
Eight years ago, President Taft
stepped down and Wilson stepped in.
Taft was defeated as the head of the
Republican party with the electoral
votes Of only two states to his credit.
At that time, the signs looked bad
for the return of the Republican
party to power.
In 1920 conditions beyond human
control growing out of the after-the-
conditions caused the peo-
pie of the United States to turn from
the party in power Had the Repub-
licans been in AUTHORITY the Demo
Gratis would have been the beneficiar
les of the turn.
Sometimes it is stated now that
Woodrow Wilson is in disfavor with
the American people. That is not a
Somehow he has failed to make him
self understood in regard to one of
the biggest and most far-reaching
questions that was ever considered by
the American people, and unfOrtu
nately he has failed to see the great
question from the angle or viewpoint
Of the great body of people. To him
the matter was of such moment, so
close to the hearts of the fathers and
the mothers of the Nation and in
such perfect harmony with the Ser
mon on the Mount, that he failed to |
see that such a large body of his
were not keeping step |
With him. His bitterest enemies
nave never charged him with selfish
less or with sordid aims He hap
,ened to be the leader and the head
If a great party when an avalanche
anne; he happened to be the captain
N a boat midway perilous stream
vhen a leak was sprung and when
reigned.
Woodrow Wilson came of parent
ge who believed and practiced the
bible doctrine to "tfain up a child
n the way he should go and when
e is old he will not depart from it."
lis life these three score and a half
ears shows that he has not departed
rom his training.
He is the greatest scholar that ev-
r occupied the Presidency. His
hind has a sweep of men, countries
nd conditions that no President be-
ore him ever had. His writings, his
cts as private citizen and as a col
sge professor and as a public official
how that he believes in the common
eople and that it was his aim and !
mbition to level conditions for his ]
ountrymen by bringing up higher I
hose in the low grounds and valleys. ,
When he became President in !
913, he at once addressed himself {
, putting into force measures de- {
igned for the general welfare and I
rhich had been promised by his par j
Y when seeking power at the hands ,
( the people. Il
Among the more prominent things