Evening star., 1933-12-24
4ROOSEvELT TO TALK
'AT WILSON DINNER
Foundation Will COmmemO-
rate War Presidents Birth
day Thursday Evening.

President Roosevelt and Roland S.
Morris of Philadelphia, former Am
baSsador to Japan, will speak at the
dinner to be held Thursday at the May
flower Hotel by the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation to commemorate the birth
day of the World War President.
The speeches will be broadcast at
1890 pm. over Nationwide networks
OF both the National and Columbia
broadcasting systems.
This is the first national dinner of
the foundation. Mr.. Morris, who is on
the board Of trustees, will act as master
Of ceremonies.
Mrs, Roosevelt, wife Of the President,
the War President, will head the list of
feminine guests attending. The Vice
President and Mrs. Garner also will be
present, making their first public ap-
pearance of the season. Other ac-
ceptances include the members of the
Presidents cabinet and their wives
the members Of the United States
Supreme Court and their wives. and
hundreds OF prominent Washingtonians.
Wilson Portrait Loaned.
-, As special feature for the dinner,
the portrait of President Wilson by Ed
mund c. Tarbell, N. A, which hangs
IN the National Gallery of Art of the
Smithsonian Institution, is being loaned
70 the foundation. 1t will be hung in
the dining room, draped in flags and
brilliantly lighted.
simultaneously with the Washington
celebration there will be gatherings of
varied character from Maine to Cali
fornia as the 124 Woodrow Wilson Clubs
affiliated with the foundation meet TO
honor his memory and to hear the ma
tlonal dinner program broadcast from
the Capital.
President Roosevelt's address will be
listened to with keen interest, not only
as coming from the President of the
United States, but also because it will
be the speech of one who stands out
among the living survivors of the Will
sonlan era as profoundly comprehend
ing exponent of his former chiefs ideals
OF freedom and peace through justice
and the cooperation of the liberal
forces of mankind. His remarks will
have added value, too, because they
come from an active member of the
foundation since its infancy.
President Once Chairman.
Both the President and Mrs. Roose-
trustees. 1t was Franklin Roosevelt s
work as chairman of the National Com
mittee of the foundation that made
possible the endowment fund and the
awarding Of prizes which recognize the
Wilson ideal Of peace-the organiza-
tion's principal "raison detre"
Created in 1920, while Mr.. Wilson
still lived, in recognition of his national
and international services, the founda-
tion has for its avowed, purpose the
perpetuation and universal understand
ing of his ideals. That purpose is eX-
pressed actively through the award
of awards, given from time to time
from the income of the organization,
by nationally constituted committee Of
judges, to the individual or group rem
dering, within a specific period, meri-
torious service to democracy, public well
fare, liberal thought, or peace through
justice.
The first award was granted in
most widely heralded award, perhaps
was that made in 1928 to Col Charles
A. Iindbergh. Two years previous, in
1926, Elihu Root was the recipient and
in 1929 the prize went to the League
of Nations.
Honors Shared in 1888.
Six groups shared honors in 1888
the award going jointly 10 the Prince
Affairs, the Foreign Policy Association
the League Of Nations Association, the
Library of international Relations. the
American Friends Service Committee
and the Committee on Friendly Rela-
tionS Among Foreign Students.
The first meeting, at which the
woodrow Wilson Foundation was or
ganized, was held in New York City or
Christmas eve OF 1920, when a grour
of women gathered who wished to pay
tribute to Woodrow Wilson and while
h0n0ring q great American to raise q
substantial endowment fund to pro-
mote the Wilsonian idea of peace.
The Board of Trustees of the foun-
dation includes Mr.. Morris. president:
Frank L. Polk, vice president; Isiah
Bowman, vice president; Mrs Charles
E. Simonson, secretary; Hamilton Fish
Armstrong, Mrs. Emily Newell Blair
James M. Cox, Norman H Davis, Luther
P. EiSenhart, Raymond B. Fosdick
Cary T. Grayson, Thomas w. Lamont
Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach. Vance c.
Mccormick, Esther G. Ogden and Mrs.
Wilson, honorary member.