The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-18
Woodrow Wilson.
Born Dec. 2s, 1856.
(New York World, Zee. 2S, 1928

(New York World, Zee. 2S, 192S)
 Year by year the Wilson of history emerges more clearly from the smoke and dust of con- troversy. It has now become evident that he is bound to triumph over his enemies over his personal limitations and his mistakes. The certainty of that triumph is part of the logic of events. For it was the destiny of Woodow Wilson to associate the name indisput- ably with an ideal of international behavior which in the long run must and will prevail.
 Woodrow Wilson established the idea that the peace of the world throughout the world is the concern not merely of those governments which assert a vital interest in portion of the earth's surface but of all governments and of all men. Upon the foundation of that idea an international morality is possible and the con- struction of an international society which shall mitigate the anarchy of wiful, private and un- bridled national sovereignties. Of that in- ternationa order Wilson is the prophet, and though it will take generations to establish the institutions. the habits and he traditions under which nations will accept it, whole-heartedly, it's ultimate triumph is now assued When Wood row Wilson said to mankind that a breach of the peace was the concern of all and that peace was to be ad only by h e mobilization of the consciences and force of all the nations, he uttered truth plain and unacceptable that every government finds itself compelled to recognize it.
 z Events of the last year are striking testimony to the Irresistible logic of the truth that Wood row Wilson spoke. The Senate of the United States, with the ablest of the irreconcilable Senators leading it. is about to ratify world wide treaty which is embarrassed, halting and somewhat pathetic attempt to acknowledge that even the government which most sullenly re- jected the new order would like to be counted among it's friends. The Pact of Paris is for mua of pious words which depends for it's vitality upon the institutions and the traditions which Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Isolate that treaty from the great fact that it comes into force in a world where international society already exists, and it would be as futile and perhaps as sincere the noble professions of countless other forgotten treaties and resolutions It is because the Pact of Paris is fortified by the covenants and practices at Geneva that the world at large has any faith in its promises
 For the truth which Wilson expressed for the world is that peace lies not in promises but in habits of cooperation. That is the vital truth fer which he lived. That is the deep wisdom distilled out of the trials and errors of his mortal career. The proof of that wisdom is being dis covered and rediscovered, not by argument and propaganda but by experience. war has been averted only this month by the extemporized ap- Ipllcatlon of the ideal which Wilson taught The schoomaster and visionary had foreseen and de- lneated the kind of action which twenty nations were compelled to adopt in order to preserve the peace. The processes which the n-Ameri- can Conference adopted to preserve the peace of south America are identically those processes for which Woodrow Wilson staked all that he was. That victory violence in the iunges Tor South America is monument to which the friends of Woodrow Wilson can point and say. That is what he lived for