The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-30
WOODROW Wilson's DAY.


has be an established custom to honor the be-
gnnngs of great rather than their end Societies pre-
and people seek patriotic shrine that humble cot
stately mansion that the world great servant of
kind
The 18th day of December the nation remembered the
birthday of Woodrow Wilson 1t celebrated too the COM
peon of the endowment fund which commemorate the
e service OF Woodrow Wilson by helping others to knowl
edge and appreciation Of the privilege which
person to mankind 1t is fitting memorial to life
(which has so nearly literally been given to serve.
After eight years of stormy administration as ever
urged about President of these United States
row Wilson himself went to Paris to represent the country
(which he served its chief magistrate at the Versailles
conference Wisely unwisey, he carried to that
great and momentous international gathering by the force
of his Overpowerng obsessOn for service brother OF
Georges Cemenceau is reported have said that
nce Jesus filled the hopes Of European mankind and he
added after the excitement of Wilson's reception passed.
that history would award the President the highest place in
her pages since the time of the Galiean.
Such is the report Certainly represented the senti
Of many Europeans at time when they sick unto
death of and this of high ideals leader
who might lead this world out Of the of
aiee had promised would come to pass with peace on
earth
n Petty and unworthy political pickering here at home
as doing all in it's selfish to dscredt the great Pres
dent and to make his high effort futile He returned to
people not sufficiently Democratic nor sufficiently Christian
comprehend the mammoth task set before him grasp
he greatness of vision which he had Disappointed
put not discouraged he made his appeal to the people whom
lone he served in all his years as president of Princeton
University governor of the state of New Jersey Pres
ent of the United States Yet even when sick and broken
ie cried aloud What could have done? had to ne
otae at Paris with my back to the wall. Men thought
adj all power Would to God had had such power. The
great people at home and wired every day that they
against But shall come back, return to those
Ugh levels have abandoned No good cause is ever lost
thereanythng can do? | am still ready to serVe!"
Such history Jefferson thought to Danish with
is embargo of 1907 He thought his American part of
ind noble than those European Asatics 1t was
reat dream that might have come true II his noble Amer
had obeyed his Embargo law six months But those
mercans who two before had by his name now
rned upon him. the greatest poet OF the time winning MS
ay to by clever ampoon upon President who loved
ways of peace Jefferson the deast went out of office
ery man who could Selling stick and shard to hurl after
ne bent wayfarer."
Abraham Lincoln close to the end of the awful years Of
Oodshd which he hated all great souls hate war offered
cabinet plan of settlement for the broken South that
ould have spelled peace 1t was great ideal worthy OF
fea mind Not member of that cabinet could rise to such
height He put it away, hoping that some day men might
now his purpose.
Then Wilson, the Southerner He had known bit
ness and poverty in his youth becomes the youth of all
loughtfu men, No President had done so much in four
years. and yet he would assuredy have been defeated
second term by the very people he serving had it
t been for the German kaiser laying peoples PROSTATE be-
him. He talked constantly OF the shining sword of the
ans that he would fasten upon his victims for hundred
to of the divine right of the German rulers
And in the international turmoil Wilson tried to teach
en- that nothing is ever saved by He figure
world affairs His ideas of kndiness of Justice self
veent freedom of commerce and the seas the abandon
ent OF ornaments and that league of nations for which the
minds have abored for centuries moved the thoughts of
Americans. His words reached the in the trenches
poor peasants of warrdden countries heard them and
aged to realize his reasonable hope. His words lifted
erywher Then peace and the flesh pot seized upon
souls of ancient grudges perhaps justly held de-
red they would have nothing of his millennium" they
eringly called his scheme.
No man has been bitterly denounced who has given
his very life to mankind. And service so noby
ough perhaps at times faulty given, will go unrecorded
the lofest annals of history But today is hopeful to
the nation which turned against him in the of it's
nature returning to the ideals of noble service doing
Tor tohs great leadership Woodrow Wilson lived
glitter gall of defeahe lives to taste the sweet fruit of
eory in love, honor and respect Ia
ELASTIC DOLLARS