Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-05
ALL TRAFFIC TIED UP BY STORM
Wilson Will Rest in Crypt of National Cathedra
Our Dead Chieftain

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great man in fallen
Broken by pains pcrils of great
though he had been manned bullets shell Bele
Wood Woodrow Wilson has joined that silent and mighty rong
whose lives have been sacrificed the altar OF liberty.
During years the conflict ended
president Washington upon
the body
often respenden he presented ptu
same time appealing Thousands upon
that shrine mutey presence
of their appreciation of his intellectual brance
Others have had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing
INN emerge from the portal that figure
yet capable of showing genras
mat etraed world for brief superb triumpha placed
INN Il" the pinnacle of human
war and strobe like god sadly desparng wildly ap
pandng people of Europe In him the
had monent1rY view, feeng hope o a savior.
Now that he has history will to
partial verdict Of his History calm and calculating and
eventually it is exact Not while though
the shadow of his former self lust appraisal of Wood
ro" wilson So long as he had physical
be ejudces his scroll is written nm
paraity is possible, always probable
Woodrow Wilson great thirst for know
ledge his aspirations for intellectual lifted him nm
among the educated of the world As college high
position He leader those educators
AS president of Princeton he attained distinction quite
give M" AN enVable place In this station he developed qualities
ta according to certain standards fitted him eadeship- lead
'rshp in the ideal sense though failing practical
HoNoRs THRUST UPON HIM
His activities but
for those tricks of fate that have with the desines
He was about to surrender his and for theeoed
ana he became governor OF New Jersey His college life
marked CLIMAX. Indeed, mindedne self conscious
imposed difficulties quality was
his handicap IN the larger place president of the United
HIS knowledge of books ledge
Books could with him both
After restraining to the last the national will
preservation of democracy opportunity become
democracy idol and hope He formulated Ponts
which highest expression of ideals concern
ing liberty brilliant promulea
tion that thrilled the world sublime
IN concept as the principles that were given to the the tablets
of But the world failed the
latter so it f"ned to accept his dietm in time of Peace
without vitoy' desired, Impractical and
impossible smashing, victory the hour
kill the lust of that trouble
is due to premature amice There end
though bitter end During those epocha Page re-
veaed in his tteS to Col House the situation to
take into the fates the human
heart Page living Utopia. not formulating
maxims thinking terms of the Millennium He was noetin
the days crisis in terms of of shot were
clearer, practical But unquosonaby Wilson high
ideals Will reverberate through ages
+.s., MULTITUDEs DID HONOR
Not Xerxes Alexander Hannibal nor Caesar
ever evoked such adulation
went with crusader heart Paris help plans
upon which the world to be radjusted restored was
hailed god Under this somewhat eped pacfrst
nation had shown itself mghtes the earth he was
symbolic of its majesty
the gods From Naples to Northampton
The climax of human worship was
ideazed peace and tre neono now stricken oa -
with the horrors of dozd him. his
prejuee at home to thwar his Having formulated
roi'eeh ohs ne struggled alone them
mehts Conscious of his superiority his own
good Intentions he failed with might have
done and the result of disappointment FASTENED the break
ing of his body But principles that are immortal
The better way he advocated be his tomb
Upon glad albeit ardsan and he will be dulv o
camed
a nation with tear dmmed reverent
His legacy to mankind is o
priceless value Upon of death of ULYSSES
s. Grant President Benjamin Harrison paying tribute to him said n
Mount McGegor, 1T has been went bae
but great lives never go out-they
And so with the passing of Woodrow Wilson