The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-25
By HAMILTON HOLT, Edif0I. of fhR IndRnende11f

! A group of men and women met kin a great hotel in New York one f1ate winter day this year to steal a unarch upon history. There were hamong them former members of the Limited States Cabinet, diplomats, sol kdiers, editors, publishers, women Ffairs, some citizens of other coun- Etries; and they had all come together f1o pay a. tribute to man while he s1ived and before history gave him hhe high place they believed would sbe his.
 A few days before, Woodrow Will son had left the White House to be- sscome a private citizen again. Seldom in history had a man been so exalted Eand so eXcoriated as he There was Ia time when all the world had looked Fto him to lead it out of the wilder mess of war and there was a time Eheaped upon his shoulders all the FsinS and all the errors that had been Fcommitted by all men in the name hof war, and in the name of peace. FOnly one other American had known ksuch hatred, and he had not to face rhe world.
 Even among those who had come sto the great hotel to discuss a plan Flor lasting recognition of his services sthere were some who had not always sfouowed him, had not always ap- eproved the tactics by which he pro fceeded to his ends. But in one thing fthey were all agreed, that he was a Fnan who had come upon the world sstage and at a critical time, for civ Eilization had interpreted the highest respiration of humanity.
 He had interpreted for one great Esection of the world the motive that kcaused it to war against Germany ENore than any other individual he Ehad destroyed the iniquitous doctrine Eof the divine rights of Kings and pagain he had interpreted the highest aspirations of humanity in the nego- Etia tions for peace. Much that he had kset out to do he had failed to accom- EpIish Some believed he had failed Eutterly. But those who came to the meeting believed that they had seen 1hrough the confusion of conflicting topiniors to the epic fight of an Amer lican for a great human ideal and so they gathered to devise way by which all America could join in per tpctuating the ideals of liberty and democracy he had striven to realize.
 Out of that meeting came the fWoodrow Wilson Foundation. It was sthe sense of the meeting that it could sbeSt honor, and the country could Fbest honor the man who had just left fthe White House, by perpetuating his ideals of democracy and human rights
 It was but a step from that feeling ito the plan for the Foundation. It was to be, in the words defining it's purpose. "created by public subscrip-- Ftion in recognition of the national land international services of Wood brow Wilson, twice President of the United States, who furthered the kacause for human freedom and was Einstrum enta1 in pointing out effective E1nethods for the cooperation of the Liberal forces of mankind throughout fthe world"
 The whole country was to be given kan opportunity to participate in this permanent tribute to MT. Wilson's etdeals- The Foundation was to be tendowed by a free-win offering, and Fthe income from the endowment was to be used according to the follow ling terms:
 The award or awards from the lincome of the Foundation will be Emade from time to time by a nation Ea1ly constituted committee to be in tw1thfn specified period. meritorious sServices to democracy, public welfare, Eiberal thought or peace through jus Etice.''
 It was to be Americas own Nobel saward, created in the name of one of the distinguished recipients of the Nobel peace prize, and made possi- kfble by Americans who chose not to Ewait for history to form their opin- Ehistory.
 It was to be Americas own Foun- edation, no less. Men of other coun- stries had been quick to appraise Will ison as the great idea1ist statesman. One of the speakers of the meeting which brought the Foundation into i being was John Drinkwater and the tEnglish author of Abraham Lin lccln'' was no less sure that MT. Will flew who have enriched the glory of