The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-30
VIM. Allen Whites Woodrow Wilson

nent which he had intended 70
force home upon the suDInaTlnS
murderers of Germany. ne nau
DECLARED a few weeks before tnat
his interest neutrality was not
pretty desire to keep out Oh lioU
Bile, and that: ncb
sThere il something so mucn
rraafer TO do than to fight
There is a distinction WaltlnS ioh
This nation that no other .natlOn
ever has got, that is, the oisIIiIc
ton of absolute self-controi anu
self-mastery.
Philosophy Of Jesus.
There is the philosophy OF Jesus
nuahed TO its ultimate in the prac-
teal affairs of a weak Worlo wal
Iowin0 in the slough or materiaI'
lam Brave words were they Pc
fore q cowardly deed. ProDaDly
~ .,,ch high dramatization OF the
nhiiosophy of Jesus had been SET
before the world since ne ieLt IL.
Vet so wroth was America at
the s;nIing of the Lusitan1a that
Coz time. while the clamor rose
"a naasions burned, the strength.
1ha audacity, and the beauty or
Wilson'S heroism passed almost
n Is hard to realize. in a time
~ neace. far removed from the
Thread of war, how the sinking Of
fha Iusitania aroused America.
Every agency Of wrath let out its
rage.
for thirty years hand-in-hand with
Ellen Arson, who from his father
and his mothers fathers had re-
ceiyed the heritage Of an abiding
faith which his LIES companion
ship welded into the motive power
Of q noble soul, rose in those days
70 the stature OF e. world figure
which shall epitomize the best
aspirations of his times. Later,
he was armored for action by the
devotion OF Edith Boiling, his
wife. She kept him bodily strong
him gay companionship in ter
rible hour. She furnished him
with every pleasant relaxation
that q troubled mind could take.
Fates Kind To Him.
No thought of her suffering,
no burden OF her grief at the
0NlOW0EA eAAAAOSs AeAAN q 4-3.9CA
weight upon the President. With
all her light and love Ellen Ak
nOn. with her serious mind and
heart that bled 50 easily, so free
". could not have stood beside
her mate In those days Of the
war as helpfully as strongly, as
Edith Boiling stood.
IL the fates were president,
they were kind to him. He was
going into q battle the like Of
which few warriors ever entered.
Six years Of It stretched before
him; six years OF turmoil, terror,
strife, jealousy, strain, detection.
intrigue; apparent failure like
pack OF hounds lay waiting on
his path and leaped upon his
faith, yet did not drag it down
even at the last.
It probably was months, pos
ably years, after the Lusitania
went down, that the nation began
the war had developed az their
leader. Certainly his partisan
Democrats did not understand
him. The man who wrote the
slogan, HE kept US out Of war"
understood him least Of all. In
Wilson's correspondence with the
Imperial German government
which followed the sinking of the
Lusitania, it is evident today,
reading these notes IN the light
Of all that Wilson tried to do
during the closing months Of the
Covenent Of the League of Ma
of
was the least of his endeayors.
righteous attitude, in time Df
war, the spirit of the Christian
philosophy as it was exemplificd
Calvin.
Fading Hopes Revived.
The presence of Wilson in Eu-
rope revived the fading hopes OF
Its people. How they rallied
about him! What vast crowd
gathered under his banner! Their
own statesmen had dashed their
hopes and crushed them with the
old political bludgeons and cudgals
Of day which they hoped had
been forgotten, but which un-
fortunately the people themselves
had not quite the viii to forget.
Like children the masses of Eu-
rope nocked around Wilson. Prob
ably never. since the days of
Peter the Hermit, had Europe 80
blindly, so affectionately, so
eagerly followed one leader.
At Milan one Sunday night
WILSON appeared at the opera
and a Presbyterian elder, too
and threw kisses and kisses at
the crowd that threw kisses back
at him; threw them back at him
over the heads Of the rulers of
Europe, threw them back at him
as the hermit crusader who
should rescue the Holy Sepulchre
and restore the Holy Grail.
In the meantime, Colonel House
Europe, a serene Yankee man.
DARN. soft-voiced, sweet faced.
and gentle, yet never fooled by
the tall prattle Of stupid or
selfish men, Colonel House knew
that the day had passed when
Wilson could salvage much of his
dream out of the European
eatacIysm Yet the colonel's
courage was not broken. and he
set to work to serve his friend
with a will. Probably he had
his vanity.
Had Done Unusual Things.
He had done unusual things; un.
usual things were possible still
for him. He knew the personnel
Of the great figures in Europe
as no other American knew them.
Moreover, he still was gen.
eralissimo Of his army OF trained
genii. Facts came to his hand
azhan ha ,.IIhIaad his xuishinn, ring