The Washington times., 1925-04-06

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battle. woodrow Wilson, the ad-
rninistrator, the head of the army
and navy, put into battle millions
Of men, and treasure beyond the
dream Of avarice. During the
nineteen months Of the war,
those men and that treasure,
hurting out OF the catapult OF
our physical fortress, crashed
into the German forces terrifically.
Probably no conqueror in the
world, not Philip Of Macedon, not
Caesar, not Genghis Khan, not
Napoleon, ever in so short a time
assembled so much death-dealing
force against any enemy. VIII
son, meeting force with force.
was an Ajac hurting thunder
bolts.
A More Abundant Life.
And yet, what he did with the
force will crumbIe. If only force
had conquered the Kaiser, he and
his kind could return again. But
the conflict in the upper zone,
the weapon Of the spirit, the
thunderbolts OF reason, the shafts
Of resistIess logic, Wilson's will
for q more abundant life on this
planet, his vision of a new order,
!. his call to a nobler civilization,
the Olympian debate which he be-
gan. April 2, 1917, and continued
for three years until he was
stricken-that is a part Of the
CONQUEST OF this war which leaves
him a world conqueror, the only
one whose Notifications will not
turn to dust.
From day to day, from week
to week, this great Celt, agile, un-
shaken, resourceful, even felici-
tous with q Titanic joy in his
Job, sat in the White House at
the head Of any army, accOutered
pen and ink and paper, books,
libraries. laboratories. typewriters,
telegraph machines, world-reach-
ing radios. He had commissioned
Colonel Edward M. House as a
sort of sub rosa generalissfmo
and under House, President VIII.
son had conscripted a thousand
brains, those brains which he
and Colonel House considered
the best brains. As commander
in-chief OF that army, Wilson was
gathering data from all over the
world. He knew his history. of
course, he knew something OF po-
litical science in theory. He sum-
moned men who knew more than
he.
The Power OF The Wizard.
He sent messengers all over
the globe scouting. reporting. in
kerpreting. Digested for him daily
were tons OF facts compressed
sva&n -
professors, reporters, editors,
in things of the mind brought
to Joseph Wilson's son their
treasure. While Janet Woodrow's
son. made war with powerful
right hand, Joseph Wilson's son
made peace under the benediction
OF John Calvin. In his heart he
knew. that God rules: that men
who are essentially noble are
working in some great mystery
toward some splendid hidden goal.
He felt with an almost mad pas
sion this truth about God and
man. So all the force OF the
spirit which he could command
from America. he set to work.
Every day, briefed before him,
he read the newspaper sopinion OF
the world, Of Germany, OF Aus.
tria, of the allies, of the Asiatic
and Scandinavian neutrals alike
all opinions.
It came to him predigested
through synthetic spiritual pro-
cesses until he had the essence.
Scores and scores Of men. trained
men. truth-loving men, with fact.
finding antennae, hurried over
the earth to gather its spiritual
harvest for Joseph Wilson's son.
He took it. absorbed it, gave it
out in many ways; in letters, in
speeches, in public documents, all
with one purpose, one terrific de-,
sire, to meet the will of the Prus-
SLAMS, "the will of conquer" and
to break that will in shame. What
Wilson said was winged across
the world as were the words of
no other man who ever trod this
planet. No accident was this
great voice. He set it up him
self. The cable, the wireless.
I every physical machine that
would spread his words, Wilson
erected and used. The magic Of
the Arabian Nights was primitive
compared with the work of this
Yankee genie.
Magic Worked Wonderfully.
The Presidents magic worked
most wonderfully in America.
Every night the American people
stepped from reality into the high
visions of his noble world. A
new psychology bound them; new
moralities held them. To give
was more blessed than to receive.
Millions worked for the common
good with no thought Of reward
except the joy of service. 1t was
as though America had been sud
denly shof forward a thousand
years into some Utopia. Those
who Jagged in the world of real
ity, who felt the sense of hysteria
about the new order. who failed
to give spontaneously Of their
money to the Liberty loan, Of
their food to the soldiers, of their
goods, time and chattels to the
Red Cross felt the sting OF public
opinion upon them.
This was the conjured world Of
the President. More or lessi his
fconjuring affected the human
race, but in America. during nearly
twenty months, the master wizard
never lost his power. He created
a world as it must be when his
major dream is realized. What
a transformation. it was in thought
and motive that caught the Ameri-
can people out of themselves snto
the new order! Germany heard