Evening star., 1922-12-28
FOUNDATION BOARD
TO CALL ON WILSON
Official Word of Permanent
Establishment to Be 66th
Birthday Gift.
HE MAY MAKE ADDRESS
Senate Adopts Resolution Felici-
tating Ex-President on An
niversary.
HE MAY MAKE ADDRESS

Woodrow Wilson will receive today.
on the sixty-sixth anniversary Of his
birth. the formal announcement that
the $1.e00,000 foundation. bearing his
name and dedicated to the advance
ment Of world democracy and peace
through justice. was permanently estab-
lished yesterday. 1t probably will be
the former Presidents most treasured
birthday gift. for the foundation was
made possible through subscriptions
donated by persons all over the world
as expression of their continued faith
in the principles for which Mr.. Wilson
fought.
This promises to be the busiest BIRTH
day the former President has spent in
the two years since he left the White
House and went into retirement in his
5 street home with the announcement
that he would show the country how to
once since that day has he broken his
silence by making a public address and
that was on Armistice day, when he ad-
dressed an enthusiastic and insistent
crowd that gathered in front of his
home and called for word of greeting.
Second Address Expected.
Whether Mr.. Wilson will make the
announcement of the establishment Of
the foundation today the occasion of
second address is unknown. The Off
GERS Of the foundation, headed by Ham
ilton Holt of New York, will call on him
at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr.. Wilson
has Cancelled an engagement for an au-
tomobile tour this afternoon in order to
receive this committee and II 10 r,. ,..
sidered unlikely that he may have some
public announcement to offer.
Mrs. w. L. Trenholm Abrams. vice
chairman of the local committee of
the foundation, has been besieeed
with telephone messages from per-
sons in Washington asking what time
they might be in front of the Wilson
home, at 2340 S street. to hear Amer
ica's war President speak. In the alb
sence of any advice that Mr.. Wilson
might have something to say, Mrs.
Abrams has been unable to answer
her interrogators. and it is considered
unlikely that any members of the
Washington committee will be with
the officers of the foundation when
they make their formal call. Robert
w. Woolley. chairman of the local
committee. is i'll. and Mrs. Abrams
has not received sufficient information
as to the plans of the visitors to know
how she might get in touch with
them.
Health IL Excellent.
Mr.. Wilson's health is said by those
close to him to be splendid. They said
he informed them this morning that
he had quite a large calling list for
today. Heretofore callers at the Will
son home have been so few that 1t
got the name of "the lonely house on
S street" The names of the former
Presidents birthday guests. aside
from the foundation officers. could
not be ascertained. number of
those who might ordinarily have been
expected are confined to their homes
by i'll health, prominent among whom
is former Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Wilson home literally has been
flooded with kilograms and letters of
felicitation. They came from every
quarter Of the world and from men
Continued on Page 2. Column s.