The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
NATIONAL GRIEF
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 caused that admiration and respect which now accentuates our sorrow. He expended his strength and vitality in the service of his country, and leaves as a heritage an example of public service which should ever inspire his countrymen."
 Dr. Grayson's Tribute Dr. Grayson: Tt was my privilege to be Woodrow Wilson's friend as well as his physician, and it would be diffi- cult for me to put in words the affec- ton for him which grew during nearly 12 years of close personal association and confidence.
 estimate of his ideals and character and leadership, not for me to write his cpl taph. But in sick days and well, have never known otherwise such sin gle minded devotion to duty as he saw it against all odds, such patience and forbearance with diversity, and finally such resignatino to the inevitable.
 II once read an inscription in a southern country churchyard. It said ' He was uninfluenced by flattery, un- awed by opinion. undismayed by disas- ter. He faced life with antique cour- age. and death with Christian hope
 Those words, better than any words of mine, describe Woodrow Wilson" only human, but he was great. Now that he is dead, we shall get a new and clearer glimpse into that big heart, and then perhaps we shall see how full it was of love for honor and justice and humanity
 Sacrifice Of War
 Y Senator Robinson. democratic leader of the Senate When confusion has given place to calm conviction, he must take high place among the renowned of all ages. If war again shall desolate the earth, all they who fight and they who sorrow will remember and bless Woodrow Wilson, because he gave him. self in an earnest effort to deliver them from the heritage of war;"
 Speaker Gillett: MT. Wilson was man of extraordinary intellect, of brilliant power of expression, of inflex- ible will and fixed ideals who occupied place of unsurpassed power at one of the worlds great crises. He there fore will always be historic figure"
 Representative Garrett, democratic leader of the House: We may have to wait half century or even longer to know just what this place will be, but it is certain that his name will be for all time in every roll call of the immor. tals."
 John T. Adams, republican national chairman The passing of a former President goes deep into the heart of an entire nation. Not long ago all of us, with partisanship swept utterly aside, mourned together at the passing of chief executive. And so it is today, as death comes to another one who was once chief executive of all the American people during one of the most trying periods in our history. All heads are bowed as Woodrow Wilson joins the nations lasting memories"
 Mark In History
 Cordel Hull. democratic national chairman: Woodrow Wilson was one of the very few greatest Presidents and statesmen in American history The nation and the world will look in vain for his equal as statesman, philoso- pher and humanitarian. His great services will forever stand out in his tory"
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor: At last Woodrow Wilson is at rest, laid low by the blow which made him the most cruelty wounded soldier of the World war. He was the true repre- sentative of the idealism upon which our republic was founded. We are all just coming to understand his life and the services, and the future will accord Ia xsOhf al rl h ington and Lincoln
 Death Inspires Prayer
 Ames Farland: His death in spires prayers for his eternal life from tens of thousands whose heads are bloody but unbowed in their struggle to overcome their honorable handicaps, encouraged by the example of his tenacious battle aganist the disability with which he was stricken as a result of his heroic war leadership"
 Robert Lansing Secretary of State in the Wilson cabinet: No man of this generation has been inspired by higher ideals or labored constantly or more earnestly for the welfare of mankind. One may have differed with him as to the practicubiity of his ideals. but no one could refuse tribute to the loftiness of his thought and purpose. He is en- titled to be remembered as great war President who served faithfully. who achieved much. and who gave his life for a cause which he conceived to be for the good of his fellow men,"
 T. w. Gregory. Attorney General in the Wilson cabinet: He was as much victim of the great war as the Un- known Soldier who sleeps at Arlington. Mir. Wilson was undoubtedly the out standing figure of the World war. to whom must be given chief credit for it's sudden end. He has fought good fight, he has kept the faith
 C. r. J. Mooney. president and edi- tor of The Commercial Appeal. said:
 Woodrow Wilson stood for the noblest idea coming from the brain of man since Christ preached the mes sage of peacee He passes. but the cause he stood for will triumph. Then our ..i-iliza ton will be saved and the world will acclaim Wilson as greatest among unselfisR men,"
 Meyer Rowlett Paine;
 "Weodror Wilson eavt ail mankind an impersihah}c faith ip q lasting peace founded on .'nstiee. He will live as long as men .ook upward, have faith