The Penn's Grove record., 1923-11-16
WOODROW WILSON SPOKE
All The World Listened
He Is Still The Worlds Greatest
Leader For Peace

Last Saturday night former Presl-
dent Woodrow Wilson, at Washington
d. c., gave a radio message which
was heard for many miles. what ne
said was of greatest interest. he con
tinues feeble from the physical break
down four years ago, but his NINA IS
clear and his heart is set on the
League of Nations to bring peace 10
all the world, because it is information
al Democracy.
His message by radio was as 1ol-
lows: n
sThe anniversary of Armistic Day
should stir us to great eXaltlon OF
spirit because of the proud recoliect-
ion that it was our day, a day above
those early days of that never-to-pe-
forgotten November which lifted the
world to the high levels of vision ana
achievement upon which the great
war for democracy and right was
fought and won; although the stlm-
~uIating memories of that happy time
of triumph are forever marred anq
embittered for us by the shame1ui
fact that when the victory was Won
won, be it remembered-chletly py
the indomitable spirit and Vallant
sacrifices of our own in~conqueraole
soldiers-we turned our backs upon
associates and refused to bear any re-
sponsible part in the administrator
of peace, or the firm and permanent
establishment of the results OF war
o at so terrible a cost of lie ana
treasure-and withdrew into a sulleh
and selfish isolation which is deeply
ignoble because manifestly cowardly
and dishonorable.
"This must always be a source OF
deep modification to us and we shall
inevitably be forced by the moral obi
cations of freedom and honor TO re-
trieve that fatal error and assume
once more the role of courage, self
respect and ~helpfulness which every
true American must wish to regard
as our natural part in the affairs OF
the world.
"Fhat we should have thus done a
great wrong to civilization at one of
the most critical turning points of the
history of the world is the more to be
deplored because every anxious year
that has followed has made the eX-
ceeding need for such services as we
might have rendered more and more
evident and more and more pressing,
as demoralizing circumstances which
we might have controlled have gone
from bad to worse.
"And now, as if to furnish d sort OF
sinister climax, France and Italy be-
tween them have made waste paper OF
the Treaty of Versailles and the whole
field of international relationship Is
in perilous confusion.
''The affairs of the world a be set
straight only by the firmest and most
determined exhibition of the will to
lead and make the right prevail.
Happily, the present situation in
the world of affairs affords US the OPP
p~ortunity to retrieve the past and to
render mankind the inestimable ser
vice of proving that there is at least
n great and powerful nation which
can turn away from programs of self
interest and devote itself to practlS-
ing and establishing the highest ideals
of d~isinterested service and the con-
sistent maintenance of exalted stan
dards of conscience and of right.
"The only way in which we can
worthily give proof of u apprecla-
ton of the high significance of Ar
mistice Day is by resolving to put
self-interest away and once more
formulate and act upon the highest
ideals and purposes of international
policy.
"Thus, and only thus, car we re-
turn to the true traditions of
America"