The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-16
WILSON'S PRESTIGE RETURNING.

That former President Wilson is not only showing signs of material improvement in health but his prestige is steadily increasing throughout the entire country is word that is being passed around all over the nation. Mir Wilson recently celebrated the sixty sixth anniversary his birth and received greetings rom friends from every state congratulatng him on his improved health At that time MT Wilson was also officially notified that the Woodrow Wilson Foundation of $1,000000. created by popular sub scription to promote the cause of world peace has been completed. One ef the birthday messages sent to MT Wilson was from Dr. Charles w. Elliott Presi- Gent emeritus of Harvard University It read
 To Woodrow Wilson, scholar statesman
 and patriot. Many thousands of your fellow
 countrymen have united to establish q per
 manent fund of endowment bearing your
 name, the income to be used from time to
 time to promote in future generations merit
 ollous service to public welfare democracy
 or peace through justice
 On December 2sth, your sixty-sixth birth
 oay' the contributors 10 this fund, with many
 other thousands of your countrymen desire
 To express to you their admiration and gratitude
 for services in the cause of freedom inter-
 national cooperation and good will among
 men May you live to sec the full frution
 of your strenuous and selfsacrifcing labors, AS to Wilsons restored popularity although there mas never been time in the past three years when ITS appearance has not been the signal for an ovation correspondent in Washington recently wrote:
 Washington has two shrines One over
 looks the Potomac and is eneased in col
 umnsi the other is merely the front door of
 local resident, and plain gravel path
 wilh lew evergreen bushes such as grow in
 the yards of plain citizens from Maine 10
 california. But to this shrine come thou
 sands of people whenever there is a preteyt
 ana the police of the District have learned
 now that on Wilson celebration days special
 arrangements must be made to cover traffic
 extending from Connecticut Avenue on one
 side across town to Massachusetts Avenue on
 the other, including the hill section of &
 street and the blocks in front and behind
 II secretary Hoover wants to home in
 the alternocn, he must travel a round-abou
 way 10 reach his home, which is only a few
 ooors up the hill from the Wilson house
 Just prior to MT Wilson's last birthday annver- gary Mark Sullivan wrote
 oh all sides it is agreed that Mir. Will
 soh s place Tn the world grows more elevated
 oaiiy In dramatically unique way of
 which II is difficult to think of any paral1el
 MT wilson's position is curiously and inn
 'eS oh the border line between potent
 o''i'y III present events and the thing that
 s commonly phrased his place in his
 tory. Not only locally in Washington but
 'nioughout the world there is a steadily
 ns 'aluatloh CT the part he has played
 Ill history already az well as the dignity Wieh whch he has carried himself since his n. retirement. ~ At no time since he made his ovit fro,, ,h s cai stage on March 4, 1921 has he sought by criticism or otherwse to embarrass hamper the present hationai Admihlstration in it's policies During the Arms Conference in Washington it is know, tbot ne hao put to 90 advise in order stir up partisan opposition among the Democratic Senators ua no, cnly reffained from doing but oonseed tbep, not 10 place any obstrucons in the way of the presida,, He has maintained similar attitude on inc Aami istratiGns foreign policy He credited with having toid his followers that if the Republican Adminstra ssss.ss-s-