The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-04
QUICK RETURN TO PROSPERITY URGED
 BY HARDING w INA UGURAL ADDRESS
MT. Wilson The Most Successful Man in the World d-Brid dgeport Times First Page Editorial.

is no absolutely independent thing. Everything that will be is taking it's shape from things that are. Yer it is a law of the mind that it must take inventory from some fixed point It is not possible to see the whole fabric of life
 The change of administration which takes place today in Wash ington marks one of these places at which men will stop to count up. President Wilson leaves of flee. an actor in the greatest drama or which men have any record.
 He is succeeded by MT. Harding. be sure is largely written. but the writing is in an invisible ink.
 Of ordinary morta1s enough is known when it is said that they were born, that they lived, mar talns position of power or a place of great distinction another ques- ton is asked about him.
 Will he be immortal?
 This is the question that most thoughtful men and women are asking about President Wilson They know what his work has been. sz They know what immedi- ate consequences will flow from and they wish to know.
 The most comprehensive inquiry about Wilson's place in the world has been made by General Jan ciated with MT. Wilson in the work of the Peace Conference. He was interested with him in the for mutation of the Covenant of the experience and character Shuts is as well equipped to estimate Will sons position as any living man.
 shuts says: ''It is a great saying, Of Mommsen I believe, in reference to the close of Hannibal's career in failure and eclipse, On those whom the gods love they lavish infinite joys and infinite sorrows.'
 Then he says of Wilson: -He failed, misunderstood and rejected by his own people, and his great career closes apparently In signal and tragic defeat.''
 Here 1t seems that the distin- guished general falls into an error which is quite a common one If a man is to be assessed in terms of ordinary mortality then it may be not unreasonable to say of the sor- rows which beset him. of his ill., ness, of his death, and of his defeat for office, OF of his loss of some lofty place, that This career closes apparently in signal and tragic de- feat" But the position is not well taken even here, because all men are born and all men become sick and all men die. and no man knows certainly whether death is a tragic failure or a wonderful birth into a loftier and better life.
 That which can properly be call ed success consists of what a, man does that is useful and good be- tween the time when he is born and the time when he dies.
 MT. Wilson drank deeply of the cup of life He was called early to important responsibilities. He finally participated as usefu1ly as he knew how in the greatest hap penings in the written history of men. It cannot be that tragedy has overtaken him, or failure, or defeat merely because in his de- clining years he shares that lot which no man escapes or ever eS- capped. It is not sound logic to say of a man who has been successful, who has wrought greatly and dealt largely, that he is a failure, or that he is defeated, because he cannot hold office forever
 Why should men desire immor- taIity? The word is now used not in the sense of immortality here after, but in the sense of memory kept green This passion is strong in the human heart, at least of those who have superior intelli- gence, and so the question of MT. Wilson's success in part might be left for the determination of other times. If he has gained a place in the pages of history, if millions will hereafter praise his name and his achievements and call him blessed he is successful. a thou sand-fold successful as men count achievement with the limited com prehension which God has given to them.
 At least they must do things which will be consid dered good and useful by some consid erable group of hu- man beings
 General Shuts says that MT. Will sons ambition was to end war, that MT. Wilson sought to realize that ambition through the Covenant of the League. which is a contract to end war. Looking out from one of the watchtowers of the world, Gen eral Shuts says that. the Covenant of the League is in being. that it, functioSs. that it is a success. that the world will flock to the shelter it affords that it will exist and that men will bless it long after the terms of the treaty of peace are ac- complished or forgotten.
 MT. Wilson has not suffered a tragic defeat He is the most sec- cessfu1 man of his tin1e-
 He is the beginning Of an era