Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-29
DREAM OF WILSON
/ LIVES, SAYS WHITE
Kansas Editor and Repre-
sentative Moore Speak at
Foundations Program.

tHbortng under a vast spiritual blight,
which holds that justice is merely a
by.prohIct of prosperity" William AL
len White, the Kansas editor. declared
last night in an address before the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation at the
Mayfiower Hotel.
Followers of the late war President,
who had assembled to honor the
peace maker" in connection with the
nationwide observance of his seven
tieth birthday anniversary. were as
gured by Mr.. White and Representa-
tive r. Walton Moore of Virginia,
speakers at the dinner, that Wilson'S
!. dream of world peace still lives and
shall survive the sleep of civilization.
$50 far as the creation of material
things go, civilization is a going con-
Germ with something like 100 per cent
production" said Mr.. White. But
spiritually we are at a dead stand
still. We lack faith to move forward.
No Contribution to Life.
eve Americans are making a thou
sand and one devices to aid in living,
but not one contribution to life. What
is our prosperity that we should brag
about it. that we should go about in
q cramped and ill-conditioned world
rafting our little tin banks in one
hand and our big steel saber in the
other? If we have nothing to give the
world but credit and nothing to save
the world but guns, we are poor in
deed"
Practical men, Mr.. White said, will
lift dubious eyes at this theory of
Americas position in the world, but
the impotency of practical men, he
added, was shown in the fate of Ma
poleon, George III and the former
Kaiser
Woodrow Wilson trumpeting the
world to righteous peace" he as
serted, remains today Americas
greatest payment to civilization. I'm
til we organize to curb and control
our international jealousieS and
greeds as we have built organized
societies, governments and public
opinion to shame private outbursts,
wars will come again and again to
devastate the earth and sap our
faith
Moore Defends League.
Representative Moore confined
his address in the main to a de-
tense of the League of Nations, of
which he declared Woodrow Wilson
will be known to posterity as the
architect, just as George Washing
wi 40 hAOWA DIS lIlG OI Tie
republic
Picturing the League when found
ed as "a sort of voice crying out in
the wilderness of chaos and night, of
intense longing and almost of de-
epair," Mr.. Moore told the followers
of Wilson that declaration by the
President and the Congress making it
plain that America intends to work
with and for the League" would
warm to us "the hearts of more than
half hundred nations, some of them
our neighbors in this hemisphere"
Americas position in the world
today, as the result of the failure of
woodrow Wilson's dream of world
peace. and its duty to civilization,
constituted in main the major portion
of Mr.. Whites address.
Until America realizes that she
10 the worlds debtor, until she begins
20 pay out of her spiritual heritage
her obligation to humanity, America
Will not have fulfilled her mission"
Afr. White asserted. America has
some higher vision than to be the
worlds creditor. We owe to Europe
in ages past every great impulse of
democracy that has made our civiliz-
alton different from the jungle that
is Africa or to the dreamless sleep
that is Asia.
Sense of Obligation.
1.-THE United States at this moment
IN history rs economically free point
In the channel. But whatever pride
America may have should be tenn
pered by lively sense Of obligation.
manifest is delusion il it is not
founded upon manifest duty. Even
economically, America could not iso-
late herself and live. And certainly
spiritually an isolated America
would invent herself into a vast inter.
playing steel machine in one century
which in another century would be-
come Jammed and deadlocked in hope
less paralysis"
Mr.. White lauded Wilson as the
first liberal President" and the first
world leader who was able to cham
pion the cause of democracy in the
midst of war"
He denied the right OF conquest"
he said. HE put aside revenge. He
stood for the rights of the vanquished.
he proclaimed the cause Of an op-
pressed minority and ended the war
not SO much by force of arms as by
breaking down the fears and hates
which had made the war. For the
first time in history, the war gods
stacked arms and were powerless be-
fore the trumpet voice of democracy"
Humanity" he declared, "has in it's
heart now an ideal of world peace.
Inc sower has gone forth; the seed is
soWn. The world never will be the
same old world ii was before the
sower went forth to sow
Laugh at War.
DIR. White cautioned those who be.
lieve that war can be abolished by
legislation. ''Outlawing war will not
stop war" he said. war still will not
cease until man is wise enough to
laugh at war, as he smiles at brawl.
ing"
Taking up the League Of Nations
from the viewpoint of what 1t already
has achieved, Mr.. Moore declared: I'm
view of what has been accomplished
IN so brief an interval, it seems that
only very blind and ignorant enemy
or the League can deny that it's exist
ence is absolutely and wholly justi-
fed" He laid particular stress on the
founding of a permanent court al
ways functioning, to which. member
nations can submit their differences
for impartial treatment" and stated
that had there been such an organi-
cation in the early part of 1914. the
war, with all its incaIculable horrors
and losses, would have been averted. >"
THE present attitude of our Gov
eminent and people toward the
League is an acknowledgment of list
usefulness, which contains something
like promise that 1t will endure"
Mr.. Moore said. What conceivable
ground can there be for refusing il
active and general backing? It's ideal
of international peace is the Amer.
3can ideal. Its labors for interna-
tional welfare represent the purposes
and aspirations of the nations com