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| Saturday, March 1, 1924^-Page 10 WHY WOODROW WILSON "BELONGS TO THE AGES'— NEWSPAPER COMMENTS ON FORMER PRESIDENT'S LIFE THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON. MARYLAND No Other President Entered So Deeply Into World Affairs Or Wielded Such An Influence On Cabinets And Thrones Says Chicago Tribune, A Republican Publication. "Yahai Doctor Wilson! Yahai Doctor Wilson!" Egyptian mobs, shouting by the hour this cry, "Long live - "*M— " are cited by a trav- extent to tribute voiced by the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which calls the League of Nations "the greatest charter for human liberty that was ever written," and then declares that "Wood-row Wilson's place in history is beyond and higher than that of any other man, be he king, general or diplomat, since the beginning of the era marked by the coming of Christ." "Truly the world has lost its most outstanding figure," says the Atlanta, UOB,^________Constitution. "We mourn one of by natives of the Holy Land, and un-i whom it is not enough to say that he changing peasants of Russia. And I was the greatest American. He nowhere did he find the influence of l stood head and shoulders above the the Wilson ideas more amazing than (great men of the world," rifip.in.r«& Doctor Wilson, eler as evidence of the which the Wilson deals and principles have taken root in the hearts of the common people in the farthest corners of the world. These same ideals which helped to make Egypt a nation have been invoked by the new Turkey, by the Bedouins of the desert, by villagers in the Balkans, ""'•• T nnA and un- in Japan and China, says Dr. Wm. T. Ellis. Dr. Ellis' personal observations, reinforced by those of other travelers, convince him that the Wilson name and the Wilson creed have found lodgment in a greater number of human minds throughout all the world today than any other name or platform except those of Jesus and Mohammed. In still further development of this startling claim, Dr. Ellis, as quoted by a correspondent of the New York Times, continues: "Apparently none of us who have been writing during the past seven years from the remote regions of the Old World has *been able to make clear to stay-at-home America the unique and marvelous place the name and central ideas of President Wilson have come to hold in the minds of the masses of Asia and Africa, as well as of Europe. On the same occasion dor John W. Davis declared that fate broke Woodrow Wilson's swoiM and left him on the battle-field, but "his spirt she could never break"; and Rabbi Wise paid this impassioned tribute : "Men say he failed. He failed not. We failed. America failed, the America which, if it had stood by him as he stood for America, might have made him the immediate victor over every European conspiracy and American cabal. "We failed, and we failed because we, his fellow Americans, were unequal to his vision, because we did not rise together to those mountain heights to which he summoned, to which he challenged. History will not forget his imperishable name. God give it that history will compassionately embalm in oblivion the names and deeds of those who, to punish your and my leader, the hope bringer of human—kind, struck him down and broke the heart of the world. God forgive them. "And as for Wilson, he became , not the builder of the new world, declares i but ne is its architect." Enthusiastic are the tributes of those who admired Woodrow Wilson, they are matched in feeling by the utterances of those who had distrusted his policies. Some recall the Philadelphia Record. "The impress he left upon American thinking will never be wiped out," predicts the Savannah News. The Pittsburgh Post sees "tremendous sig-_________ ______ nificance" in the "world-wide dem-_ the^sharpness'"of" the late Theodore onstration o ^^^^^^^^^^^^¦^i..^.. son, because regard" for Mr. Wil „»,„,_______ it shows that, after all it is the things of idealism that grip the heart of humanity." 'If Woodrow Wilson was a failure," ivmirks Financial America, an indepe ldent New York daily, "then the world would be thanktul if th^re were much such failures." Another independent paper, the Rochester Herald, sees in Wilson "the greatest friend of all mankind since Lincoln." Above all his influence was a "moral influence," declares *h3 lev ark News (Ind.), in which we read further: "Nothing he did was greater than his elevation of th3 war into a moral ^_____ C usade for the deliverance of the "It mav sound like an exaggeration J oppressed peopl »a and for the debut I thnk it is true thatUtruction of an outworn social order. Roosevelt's criticisms of the Wilson Admnistration for continuing in a state of unpreparednesss even when it seemed inevitable that one day we should be drawn into the vortex of the World War. For instance the Philadelphia North American, formerly a supporter of Theodore Another | Roosevelt, echoes that deceased President's animadversions on Mr. Wilson's tendency toward unprepar-edness, when it says: "For two years and a half, with the involvement of the United States growing steadily from probability to certainty, he discountenanced every project for strengthening its defen- to say so, uu^^^_ no other mortal man has ever attained so nearly absolutely universal fame as President Wilson. Often I have pondered the subjpct while in lands far outside the currents of civilized life—for the illiterate millions of Asia and the other backward continents must be consdered in any summing up of really universal fame. They knew nothing of the men or dinarily called famous in civilized ex-Ambassa-1 craft, accumulated in centuries, sharpened by natonal instincts and animosities, in aP Ian Is, and he failed by act to correct any of them or the preserve the rigli's of »!ie United St-iif-s anywhere "He could not, and no man could come down from the mountain-top to giv'e laws to all the peoples, but a nationalistic Preside \t could have served the righteous interests of the United States aai have preserved American rights. "Internationalism prevented Mr. Wilson from conducting satisfactorily the foreign affairs of the United States, and human limitations prevented him from managing successfully the affairs of other lands/' Dr. Henry Van Dyke, United States Minister to the Netherlands under the Wilson Alministration, tells us that five achievements of Woodrow Wilson "will stand to his everlasting credit." They "put him among the great American Presidents," and "must be recognized by all fair and reasonable men," according to this commentator who, as quoted in a Princeton dispatch to the New York American, lists these achievements, as follows: "First, the wise program of national legislation which he carried through on his entrance into his high office, including especially the Federal Reserve bill, which kept us from panic and financial disaster during emergencies of the war. "Second, the patience and firmness with which he handled the question of American entrance into the war, refusing to go in until it was unavoidable and until he had a united country behind him. "Third, the vigor and efficiency with which he carried on the war after we were in, including the way in which he handled the great question of a selective draft. "Fourth, the splendid way in which he made it clear that America's purpose in the war was to promote the cause of liberty and peace in the, world, as well as to protect her own interests. "Fifth, the fine courage with which he advocated what seemed to him the best, if not the only way, of securing a lasting peace among the nations of the earth, and the absolute devotion with which he practically laid down his life for that cause." ----------o---------- A. G. DECKER INDISPOSED. Mr. A. G. Decker, of the Black & Decker Mfg. Co., at Towson Heights, was confined to his home the fore part of this week with a severe cold. ----------o---------- L. H. A. KLEIN UNDERGOES OPERATION. ******$*,s***$«$****«****** TOWSON MAN ILL. •Louis H. A. Klein, of Towson, is quite ill at a city hopsital where he underwent an operation. Tires and Tubes Repaired. Retreading a Specialty. ALL WORK GUARANTEED HARRY A. RANDALL York Road Garage TOWSON, MD. Phone, Towson 525 Mr. H. J. 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Eutaw PI. & Madison Ave. I BALTIMORE, MARYLAND & Phone, Madison 9312, Dealers for Maxwell and Chalmers I_________ %************************* This was the idealissm for which he was so bitterly assailed. His eneniies railed at him for trying to be the friend, the savior, of humanity. They mocked hin. \o a visionary, aspiring too-millennial a peace. "It is his vision that is most remembered and cherished now. His generation ventures to estimate his scholarship and his constructive political accomplishments. It weighs i JX At best fame is little more his intellectual and his political at-^nds-,_„i „S,Htv. Shakespeare's mosnhere. But it holds in abeyance than local celebi'ity. Shakespeare name and Caesar's and Alexander's are unknown to two-thirds of the human race. Even contemporary military figures, like Foch and the relatively limited Kaiser, had only a fame. ^^^^^^^^^^^^_ "But because of his magic appeal to the deepest sensibilities of all human life, which were given the wings of the morning by the unprecedented propaganda of the Allies, the Wilson principles quckly spread to the uttermost parts of the earth. There the inate vitality of the ideals caused them to take root and to As no other wholly human grow, .co_______ man had ever done before, Woodrow Wilson voiced the basic instincts and desires of the race." Peculiarly impressive are the tributes from men and papers which were numbered among his political opponents. Thus Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who led the Republican fight in the Senate against the Wilson League of Nations program, declares that "there is no figure more conspicuous than his in the events of that time which closed one period in the history of mankind and opened another." Mr. Hearst's papers, which bitterly fought Mr. Wilson's foreign policy, admit that 'a great spirit has left us," and state that "friend and foe alike recognized the essential greatness of the man, a Christian gentleman, ah American of unassailable ideals and motives." "No other American President entered so deeply into world affairs or wielded such an influence on cabinets and thrones," avers the Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper that shared Mr. Hearst's distrust of the Wilson foreign policy, and in Washington Post, an independent paper that was in close sympathy with the Harding Administration, we read: "In a great era, when the deeps of humanty were stirred, Woodrow Wilson personified America. He filled the world's eye, and was literally the foremost man on the planet. "He gave utterance to the aspiration, of humanity with an eloquence which held the attention of all the earth and made America a new and enlarged influence in the destiny of mankind," says President Coolidge in an official proclamation. And Chief Justice Taft, a Republican ex-President, who shared to a considerable extent Mr. Wilson's faith in the League of Nations, declares that "he will live in the ideals he preached and sought." Turning to the Democratic papers that supported Mr. Wilson in his fight for the League, we find a superlative * f mosphere. its judgment of the atmosphere of aspiration he created and won..->.s how far this will waft, not his own country alone, but all the world, toward peace and friendship and helpfulness and a better common life. "Not a scholar's grave, not a warrior's grave, not a statesman's grave is to be his, but the grave of a friend of peace and righteousness and humanity." He laid down his life for his ideals, declares Raymond B. 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