Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-12

THE PASSING OF EN-PRESIDENT
WILSON

A FTER the illness which came in
~ 1919-20, it was evidenced that MI.
Wilson had experienced the begin
ming of the end. Whenever any part of
the mortal frame has been definitely par
alyzed the beginning of the end has to fol
low not in few days months, perhaps,
but the death watch has been set and is
coming to the close, without hope of re-
coVery, sooner or later. The UP out west
was a risk too great with the machinery
crippled and even risk for a well man in
political strain and mental struggle.
Perhaps the start down grade the
result of the sojOurn in Europe, and while
there is variety of opinion as to the neces-
sity for this trip, it can be safely said that
he might be a reasonably We'll man today ii
he had taken the course of MS safest party
advisers and remained at home, dispatching
his best qualified politicians to adventure
with the Versailles League of Nations re-
porting their success or asking for advice
1t is said that George Creel used up six
millions of American tax money with his
activities with cables and general publicity
reports at the same time Creel was a
"jim-dandy" for such blatant and expensive
and questionable publications-that proved
to be embarrassing affairs wnen closely re-
viewed by competent judges-befOre his
time expired.
AS American, loyal to the best prin-
cples of our government, I have always re-
no other president ever felt called upon to
make, and which no other chief executive
should attempt to make without calling the
vice president to the White House to attend
to it's constant demands and everyday re-
SpOnsibilities
The Armistce called the halt or might
say an Overriding Providence, stopped the
bloody destruction of human beings, forced
to the battle line without help or hope
until millions were destroyed in the Worlds
war. The draft issue will be discussed
nifty years from now, and unless our re-
publican form of government is proven a
confessed failure, life liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness will be guaranteed to
every citizen of our CONTRIBUTIONS con-
scrlptiOn of our soldier boys to fight the
battles OF royallsts and rulers on the east
ern continent-and without bankrupting our
own republic, to provide the cash to finance
such a war. AS [ see it, Mr.. Wilson would
nave made greater fame for himself if he
mad continued to keep us out of war.
Nothing is more convincing than his forcine
TINS country into a foreign war will be set
down as his browning mistake after he had
impressed the voters and taxpayers in 1916
that he would not force the United States
into war with Germany
II he has never realized this mistake
many people will ascribe his change of
methods and action to a weakening of his
mental faculties, which really followed in
MS uecIlnlnS health, after he came back to
our country, in the gloomy year of 1919.
AS chief executive of the nation, the cap
tain at the wheel and the pilot for our shin
OF state, his presence was demanded in the
White House, and although Mr.. TumuItv
was placed in charge, and doubtless did the
pest ne could, there is still irritation and
dissatisfaction concerning this abandonment
or the sphere of duty to visit Europe. and
also the vatican, when ninety hundredths OF