The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
TRIBUTE TO
WILSON
PAID
Coolidge and Highest Officials
Hear Addresses at Joint
Congress Session
By GEORGE r. HOLMES,
r. International News Service.

In the same solemn chamber
where his spoken word so often
affected the destiny Of the nation
and the history of the world, the
friends and foes of Woodrow
Wilson gathered today in an Of
ficial ceremony and paid tribute
to his greatness.
It was a private ceremony from
which the general public was
excluded. But seated in front of
the dais from which, in life, he
uttered the words that sent the
nation into the worlc war, were
the President of the United
States, an ex-President, Justices
of the Supreme Court. Senators,
Congressman, diplomats, the great
and the near-great of the nation
today. old friends and fellow
counsellors-and lastly the little
group of relatives who surrounded
him in the last days of his tragic
life in the S street residence.
EuIOgy by Alderman.
They heard from Doctor Edwin
A. Alderman, president of the Uni
versity Of Virginia, scholarly pre-
sentation of Woodrow Wilson, the
student, the man, the teacher, the
executive, and the crusader.
1t was an address that went be-
yond the usual eulogy of the de-
parted great, and sought to explain,
for posterity's benefit, some Of the
mental and moral processes that
combined in Woodrow Wilson to
send him to world heights never
scaled by any other American exc.
cutive.
Woodrow Wilson," said Doctor
Alderman. in one Of his many H.
Eliminating descriptive phrases,
was not a master Of manipulating
men or Of dramatizing himself, but
"a master, and in some sense a slave,
OF ideas and ideals"
Derided Notes "Great.p
Step by step, the Virginia educa,
tor traced the career Of the War
President from the refinement of
his early surroundings as the son
of a minister, up through his long
years of teaching and study, his
entrance into politics in 1910 as
governor OF New Jersey, this zeal
for domestic reform that character
lied his pre.war administration, his
labors 10 keep America out of ii,
the inevitable logic that drew the
nation in, his conduct of the war,
and his tragic and futile efforts
after to obtain the kind of a peace
that he had laid down in his IA
nous fourteen points.
His much derided notes." Doctor
Alderman said, deserve to be ranked
among the greatest state papers of
all time.
His war message and the compli-
mentary addresses that followed it
aimed at nothing less than to endow
the broken and weary nations with
new order and new life
/. desperate peoples for an hour
looked into the shining face of hope
and had sight of an old heaven and
new earth arising out of horror,
but ennobled with the sacrifice of
millions.
Nations Followed Words.
Ills speeches had the strength
of battalions along the front of
battle, his voice was the voice of
free peoples; and all over the earth,
lin the great capitals. among tho
tribes of the desert. in the islands
of the sea--men felt the molding o
his thought and sensed the gran.
deur of his aims.
1.-THE log OF events, to which
Wilson'S matchless skill in exhorta.
ton and argument had contributed
so much. now decreed that in ten
months ancient dynasties would
abdicate and flee, ana that under
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