The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-13
Woodrow Wnson at 66.
(New York Evening Post ]


 Tomorrow is Woodrow Wilson's sixty-sixth birth day It is to be signalized by the announcement that the success of the Foundation which bears his name is assured The million dollars which those organiz- ing the Foundation set to raise had been so nearly reached days ago that the books are to be closed tomorrow. We trust that the letter which we print in adjoining column will lead many of our readers to add their gifts
 Mir Wilson's birthday is being signazed in an other way 1t is made the occasion for anticpations of his return to political activity, coupled specu- laton to the direction such activity may take These antcipations are the result of Mir Wilson's Improving health; they testify strong hold he retains upon the imagination of the country Ipon both of these facts the Evening Post joint most heartily in extending congratulations Mir Wilson
 The question of what form Woodrow Wilson s possible resumption of political activity will take is of peculiar interest While the problem of what to dc with our ex-Presidents disposed of long ago os the eX-Fresidents themselves, every ex-Presdent solves the problem in his own way Most of them have chosen to stay out of politics and to assume the unique position which we accord ex-Presidents Who are content with the pacethe position of hay lg the ear of the nation for whatever they desire say without the slightest official responsibility
 One cannot be an ex-President of this kind how eYer and also engage in the rough and tumble of pohtlcs Roosevcs experience is fresh in the public mlnd It was constitutionally impossible for the colonel to be an "ex' anything; he quit ting job, but aways beginng one Even Cleve- land sacrificed hs immunity from partisan animos- ties the moment he attempted to guide the party of
 
 woodrow Wilson is intimately associated with an ldeal and policy the ideal of international concord and the policy of international cooperation ihis IS not the ideal or the policy of party How ever the fact may be obscured by passions of the moment, this ideal and this policy are the common possession or Democrats and Republicans and inde- pendents alike. They ideal and a policy which have been exemplifed in countless instances-frono the unfortihed frontier and the undefended waters that separate us from Canada to the open door in ohlna Wilson is but the latest of American states men who saw in the union of the States the future of the world The question for him he feels the glow oI reVVlng strength is how he best further this deai and this policy Can he do best by throwing himself into the melee of party struggle; by making international concord and inernationa cooperation the football of politics?
 me alternative is one to which any ey President Ill our history might aspire-to seize occasions for mpfessing his countrymen irrespective of party with the great and solemn opportunity that beckons the siSht of the Western Hemisphere; to rekindIe in .nelr hearts the old faith in the mission of America 'o carry the ideas of and freedom across the sea. MT Wilson need not be concerned with the form that our mission shall take. While President be iousht TOT a specihc program, a statesman must simpler and loftier-to in us the will to nlav ph the world stage part suited to our capacities once We recognize our opportunities and duties we snail not be long in finding an appropriate method of procedure.