Evening star., 1942-12-28
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS.

The 86th anniversary today of the
oirth of Woodrow Wilson finds
distraught world feverishly seeking
a way to secure and undergrad the
world peace which Wilson envisioned
and which the United States Senate
rejected. That generation demon
strated willingness to do and dare
and die in war, but put away the
peace that was within its grasp.
A score and three years later men
who were blind then, and millions
more, are looking back to glory" to
| Wilson's vision. In their hearts they
are now enshrining the one man
who never doubted that the fate of
the world was wrapped up in the
Covenant he brought to his people
from the Peace Conference.
At Paris there were those who
wished separate peace treaty which
would have made the Treaty OF
Versailles as unworthy and sordid
as that of Vienna. Wilson stood
immovably for the incorporation of
the Covenant in the terms of peace.
No deferred plan then or now would
insure permanent peace.
Leagues Defects Remediable.
The League of Nations was the
first and only plan of nearly all
nations ever devised by the hard of
man to fulfill the long cherished
hope of peace on earth It's i'm
/ projections were remediable. The
great body of people hailed it as the
| fulfillment of the ShibbOleth. "a war
/ against war which carried America
into the World War Wilson had
promised the youth he summoned
| into battle that their sacrifice would
insure warless world That goal
was in his heart when he said in
! his war message to Congress:
The right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the
i things which we have always carried
nearest our heartS-for democracy
for the right of those who submit to
authority to have a voice in their
own governments. fof the rights and
liberties of small nations, for a uni
versal dominion of right by such
0 SoiitNI u VI lINC pCOplSS do Slldll vi llle
peace and safety to all nations and
make the world itself at last free
During the long struggle that
pledge was Wilson's pillar of cloud
/ by day and pillar of fire by night.
! 10 him treaty of permanent peace
was his heavenly vision. He was not
( dlSobedlent to it. Woodrow Wilson
went to Paris with but one aspira-
| tion and alm-to garner the fruits
OF victory by world organized for
peace He returned crowned with
! success.
People Favored Covenant.
Returning home with the covenant
he found the great body of the
people in sympathy with the in
strument he submitted for ratifca-
ton. In advocacy of the League, at
st. Louis, September 25, 1919, Wilson
said that if the treaty were rejected
or impaired he felt he ought to stand
up before the youths whose devotion
had bought victory, and say:
Boys, l told you before you went
across the sea that this was a war
against wars, and 1 did my best to
fulfill the promise, but I am obliged
to come to you in modification and
shame and say l have not been
able to fulfill the promise. You are
betrayed. You fought for some
thing you did not get. And the
glory of the armies and the navies
of the United States is gone like a
dream of the night, and there ensues
upon it, in the suitable darkness of
the night, the nightmare of dread
which lay upon the nations before
this war came, and there will come
some time. in the vengeful provi-
dence of God, another struggle in
which not few hundred thousand
fine men from America will have to
die. but as many millions as are
necessary to accomplish the final
freedom of the peoples of the world "
There grimly spoke the true
prophet who saw further into the