Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-28

Over the Sixty-ninth anniversary of
Woodrow Wilson's birth today the
spirit of triumph hovers. as far as his
admirers are concerned. They &C
count the imminent entry of America
into the World Court and participa-
riOn of the United States in the
Lea que of Nations disarmament
plans indisputable proof that the soul
Of the World War President goes
marching on" That will be the lett
motif OF nearly all the fulsome eulo-
gies at tonight'S anniversary dinners
throughout the country. Mr. Wilson
passed from the scene in February,
1924, embittered, but with hope unsub-
dued He had come to realize that
America was not yet ripe for world
cooperation on his lines. But his con
fldence that she would be some day
was unshatterable. Wilsonians recall
this week their idols last public utter
ance-on Armistice day. 1923-that
sooner or later the ideals he espoused
were bound to break through to vic
tory 1t is doubtful whether he ever
expected as early developments as
those now occurring.
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The Wilson "Old Guard" is not
throwing up it's hats over the chum-
miness of Col. House and Calvin Cool
idge When House broke with the
President, dyed-in-the-woo Wilsonians
lined up against the colonel. and he
remains anathema in their eyes.
Some of them go the unkindly length
Of suggesting that Houses recent
advice was proffered to, rather than
invited by, the President. But so in
vidious a thought perishes in the
presence Of the colonel's worldwide
reputation as a shrinking violet. One
thing is certain-if the Texas planter,
who now owns his own apartment on
Park avenue, New York, is the Cool
idge Democratic delegate" to the
armament conference. Senate Demo-
Gratis will raise howl and yoWl of
protest It viii be of the same kidney
the Republicans sent UP when Wilson
selected former Amba ssador Henry
White as the Republican member of
the Paris peace mission. Senator
JnderwOod's appointment to Geneva
would be much more popular. even
though detractors sometimes dub him
the best Republican in the Demo
cratic party"
Europe probably is indulging in an
irOnical smile over the news that Sec
rotary Kellogg and Chairman Madden,
congressional watchdog of the Treas
ury, are figuring out whether Uncle
Sam can afford $4,000 for the eX-
penseS of his disarmament delegation.
That is less than fifth of the $780,
600 odd that Great Britain has to pay
us every day for interest on her war
debt, Foreign delegations at interna-
tional conferences must spend money
almost as freely as prohibition agent
in quest of evidence. And in much
the same way, namely, on prandial
entertainment. World diplomacy since
time immemorial has been dinner
diplomacy. When international states
men foregather, heaps more is &C.
complished around the festive board
than across the green table Hos
pitality in Switzerland, the land of
hotelkeepers, is capable of playing
cruel havoc with Coolidge economy
programs for conference delegations.
Events in China will hasten the re-
Gently expressed intention of the de-
throned boy Emperor" of that I'M
happy realm to visit America next
Spring. Mr.. Henry Pu vi, as the last
of the Manchus is now known, lives
under Japanese protection at Ten
tsin, which has just capitulated to
Feng, the darling of the Moscow gods.
His former majesty just told an inter
viewer that he definitely plans to visit
both Japan and the United States
early in 1926. He asked whether air
plane travel is now in vogue in
America, what our Spring climate is
like, and what sort of a time a deposed
monarch of China might expect to
have over here. Pu vi, a tall boy with
short, black hair, who looks as if he
would be quite at home on a Yankee
college campus, is an ardent devotee
| Of prohibition. He longs most of all