The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-28
December 2Sth Should Be Celebrated
By All Americans

This Friday, December 2Sth, is tn,
9th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's
birth.
We celebrate Washington's and Lin
coins birthday and Democrats, al
time, celebrate Jeffersons birthday
April 18th. and Jackson day. on Janu-
airy Sth.
jefferson wrote the Declaration OF
independence and Washington, as
Commander-in-Chief Of the Continen-
tai Army, made If 2 living reality.
Washington, aS chairman OF the Con
stitutional convention and as first
President. made international consti-
tutional democracy between the thir
teen little colonies, nations, reality.
Washington is the symbols for these
acts which founded a nation of 3,000,
900 persons.
Lincoln, as President and Command
er-in-Chief of the Federal Army,
kept and confirmed what Jefferson and
Jackson advocated and stood for. By
his Emancipation Proclamation he
freed 100000 black persons.
Lincoln symbolized that national
era.
WOOuIOW ffllSOil, dS IGSldGllt anu
Commander-in-Ch of the Army and
Navy, by his speeches and pen, led
the World forces of Democracy in the
World War, against autocracy, which
fought "the very heart of everything
we believe in. The Central Powers
by their sinister and secret diplomacy
sought to take our very territory
away from US and disrupt the Union
of the States"
1t is evident that our army and
navy of four million men fought to
maintain what Washington fought to
establish and Lincoln to maintain as
an independent nation. Our nation
won the World War with the greatest
leader for Democracy the World had
ever had, Woodrow Wilson.
The Central nations were not in
yaded but the principles enunciated
by Woodrow Wilson by voice and pen
made the thrones of a half dozen kings
crumble, and in their stead arose ten
Republics.
While Lincoln freed four millions,
Woodrow Wilson freed four hundred
millions from civic and ecclesiastical
autocracy.
In formulating the League of Ma
tions Covenant, a code of principles
and procedure was established for the
government of International Democ-
racy, more after the plan of our Ar
ticles of Confederation, which grew
into our International Constitution for
the. government of thirteen States
which have grown to forty-eight.
OF course, Woodrow Wilson did not
do it himself any more than Wash
ington and Lincoln did. 1t was the
whole nation back of them. Wilson
stands as the symbol of World Dem
ocracy in this era.
Recently Secretary of the State
Hughes made a speech lauding Presi-
dent James Monroe for the proclama-
ton in which Spain should not be al
lowed to recover the five South
American Republics which won THEN
freedom under Simon Bolivar during
the Napoleonic War in Europe, and q
vast. audience of political scientists
appIauded him. That act was glori-
GUS but Congress did not approve it
for years. afterwards. 1t helped Great
Britain to pet out of a dilemma of q
beace treaty signed by her diplomats
~ But Secretary Hughes got no fur
Cher than Monroe. The Republican
.partisans and pulpit orators make
stddy effortsIto avoid speaking on the
'eauses. acts and results Of the WorlC
war, because 1t gives honor and pres
tige to Woodrow Wilson and tn
Democratic Party. s."fi 1.'ua
Thirteen year old. seventh grade
school boys get as far in their study
as Monroe's administration and ou
United States Senators have evidentl!
gotten no further. 1t is humiliatint
to have only 13-year-old minds TO
our best statesmen. There needs t.
be school established to teach then
recent World history. There shoul
be a civil service requirement TO
them. re1rII1st .fi.--f
Must we wait a hundred years TO
Woodrow Wilson to be lauded TO
creating ten Republics and freein
hundreds of millions? No! Ever
true. American who believes in Worl
, Democracy should laud Wilson on hi
birthday, December 28th, for standin
as a symbol for what Washington an
Lincoln did, only on world scale. II
not only caused the destruction o
Eng craft, but created ten Republic
and took the Monroe doctrine t
Europe TO protect them. ers