Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 3

ONE ‘OPPORTUNITY OUT OF 14 CLOSED Many Gifts to Needy Fami lies Made by Former Don- ors, Who Praise Work. With Opportunity No. 5 already fully subscribed and closed by the Wiwanis Club, the second day of the appeal for the Christmas Cvpor- tunity fund of the Associated Chari- ties opens with 13 families still to be provided for. The sponsors of the ppeal declare that they are not su- perstitious. They say they have no ason. to be, for Opportunity 13 has ver failed to be taken care of in history of this annual offering. According to custom, the visitors the Associated Charities have dur- SPECIAL NOTICES. WILLASY ONE WITNESSING ACCIDENT. Joucen ik street car uear Congressional Library, aut” 8 pon. Friduy, 12ti, bleas call Cofumib THE ANNUAL Tolders of Company at th ¢ northwes pom. will_be Mee of the rd TUESDAY, Januury JAY V. HALL. 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LOUL in and get on HARTIG HARDWARE (0. 1001 7ib St n.w THE ANNUAL_MEETING OF holders of the National Tribune Company will be held at the office of the company, street northeust, Washington, D. C. day. January 2,1 wfternoon for the ele nsuing yenr and for the transaction of su other business as may properly come before the meeting £ 1714 Pennsslvani THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- HOLD OF THE DEPARTMENTAL BAN il b d at its banking house in Washing. ton, D. 2 Tuexday, January 13, 1925, at 10 o'clock a.m.. for election of directors for The ensuing year and for such ofher business as may properly come before said meet 1. A. ROSAFY, 4 T. EXNICT ¥ ¥ President. On a Mattress | keap vours in good condition—it will interest on the iovestment every Bedell’s Factory X A Our Expert Roofers S e men have had years of experience IRONCLAD Zeotes, 12 s e TO THE STOCKHOLDE] OF THE AMERT. anuary 1, 1923. 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Tell us about your printing probleme, The National Capital Press 112101212 D 8t. N.W. Printing for 1925 Consult this modern printing plant. HIGH GRADE, BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS, EMNTER. 2h or vielnity AIR Rings bedimmed our or the | E | eight mouths to be fed; eight bodies | & _ [two little girls. jhavéa home and self-support is in ing the. past year sent out semi- annual reports to individual donors telling of the progress in the particu- lar family or families selected by contributors for their Christmas re- membrance. Such reports for the| past six months were sent out .early during the present month. While not intended In any sense as an appeel for funds, they have brought back In many instances not only expres- sions of gratification for what has been accomplished, but renewed contribu- tions for the coming year. Patrons Show Apprecia These gifts vary in amount from $2 to $100, showing apparently that the investors in the opportunities were well satisfied with their re- turns. Many persons evidently ltke to give in & way which enables them to follow their gifts and to note the development in the family in which they are interested, the improved health of the mother now relieved of uncertainty and anxiety by the as- surance that she and her children are to be provided for in a systematic fashion, without publicity of name and address. The 60 children in these 14 house- holds constitute a big family, dis- tributed on the “cottage” or individ- {ual plan, with thelr own mothers in { each instance acting as devoted care- | takers, which is beiieved to be much better than to break up these homes and separate the children, even if that were possible, in a big institu- tion, however well managed and run. Experts agree that the place for a child, wherever possible, Is in its own home, however poor that home may be, if there s at its head a good mother. g Ten of the fourteen opportunities already show credits to their account. Of the $13,388 needed for these. 60 children and 15 adults, $1.276 is here- with acknowledged, leaving a total| required of §12,112. Contributions may be sent to Johm Joy HBdson, treasurer Associated Charitles, 1022 | Sleventh sireet, or to the office of | The Star. i OPPORTUNITY HER CHILDRE With no hope of her husband's re-‘ turn from the hospital, a patient It- tle woman toils all day long to keep | an attractive home for her six chil- dren. Even when ill herself she will not give up. She is a proud lit- tle woman, too—proud of her chil- dren. The oldest child will soon finish her vocational training and be ready to add to the family income. The next one, a lad of school age, earns what he can after school hours. The handsome 10-year-old and the inde- pendent S-year-old bring home fine hool reports. And there is an af- | fectionate little fellow in the kinder- garten. and a dear 3-year-old, the pet and pride of the family. Fifteen dollars a week is required to hold | this family together for another | year, or $780 E. B, $2; M. E. $5; Miss H., §5: Miss C. H. N.. $5. Total, § Amount still needed, $763. OPPORTUNITY NO. 0 END OF | WORRY AND TROUBLE. This mother has had more than her | |share of worry and trouble. When | {her husband was sent to the peniten- | | tiary he left her and seven children, |the oldest under 15, penniless and | |owing six months’ rent. There are| i 0. 1.—LIVING FOR | | to be clothed and eight souls and bod- |ies to be sheltered, and no resources. The mother can be depended upon to | give her seven kiddies good care and training 1f only the means are pro- | |vided. A mintmum of $35 a week is| |needed to salvage this family, or | $1.820 for the year. H {OPPORTUNITY NO 32.—IF DADDY | HAD ONLY LIVED. | | Not long ago Blanche and Emma (had a good home and a father and i mother who loved them both. Daddy | worked hard and mother kept the' home spick and span. Then the father | | was taken sick and “went away. {Now began the mother's long. hard | struggle to keep the babies with {her, but she couldn’t make a go of it, | {and when this little family came to| |the Associated Charities, matters were pretty desperate. Now life's | much brighter for they have a real | ihome once more, just chuck full of | happiness. Can they keep it? Yes, | but only with help. $676 for the year w of happiness to t $13.00 a week or | ill mean®!2 months | s mother and her | They are waiting. | Miss K. A. F., $5: Miss A. F. B, $5; | Maj. C. C. E, $10. Total, $20. Amount | needed, $656. OPPORTUNITY NO. 4—THE SUN| BEGINS TO SHINE. | Last Christmas we called hitn | “Tiny Tim,” but he is nearly a man now, for he has a job. He has a clerical position and, although still crippled, is making good. Of course, we expected he would. A brother is also working, but their combined earnings are not enough to care for this family of a widowed mother and even children. When the father dled there scemed to the mother no " out but to put the children in institutions. The baby died. “Tiny Tim* became crippled through ill- ness, and the children all pined for “mother.” Now the sun seems to shine through the clouds, for they sight. Meantime $10 a week, total of $520, will give “Tiny and his brother a helping hand. E. 1. S, $3; Mrs. H. H. and Mrs. S. W. S. $5: Mrs. V. K, $10; Mrs. H. P., $5; Mrs C. G. M, $5; Mrs. C. C. E., $25 25. Total, $53. Amount still needed, $467. OPPORTUNITY NO. WIFE AND SEVEN OLDEST 12 YEARS. Nine hundred and sixty dollars. | Taken by Kiwanis Club and closed. $960. | OPPORTUNITY NO. 6—THREE GEN- | ERATIONS. A widow with four children and an aged mother is cheerfully trying to! meet the problems of her household, but unless she has financial assistance £he will have to leave her charges to their own devices in order to support them. The grandmother earns a little with her sewinz when her feeble strength permits. One child is now old enough to work and is meeting | her own expenses and helping with the family budget. But there are three others of school age, all hearty eaters, and inclined to outgrow their clothes. $21.00 a week or $1,092, for the year is needed. H M. J. $6; Miss J. T., $5; Mrs. R. McK., $10; W. H. M., $5; Mrs. S. T. M., 2; E. T. S, $10. Total, $37. Amount still needed, $1,055. OPPORTUNITY No. 7.—(COLORED) REFUSES TO GIVE AWAY HER CHILDREN. Mrs. Y didn’t apply for.help until she had to. She just couldn't work any longer. A husband, a drug addict, she struggled early and late to keep a roof over her three bables, but long hard hours of work exacted thelr price and she was taken {ll. She thought it would pass quickly, but it didn’t and =he had to undergo an operation to save her life. Someone offered to adopt the children, but this idea didn't suit Mrs. Y. for they were her children slie had struggled for them and wanted,them. Mrs. Y, Is better now but she can't swing the entire load. $10.00 a week or $520 will mean a year of happiness for her and the children. OPPORTUNITY MOTHER. Two lively little boys and a jolly little girl are enough to keep any one person busy, this little mother finds. Her husband has disappeared, and she takes her family responsibilities very serfously. The children are sel- dom out of sight except when in school. The mother is not very strong, but- is energetic, and ambitious and spends much time scrubbing her floors and her children as well. Relatives and church help, but if the Associated or a Tim" -DESERTED CHILDREN. NO. 8-—A BUSY | mother their eyes. { will leave school next term and take 181,114, | Amount still needed, $399. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924. Charities should withdraw its regular allowance it would #ean ghildren running wild or scattered In}nnllu- tions while the mothef worlfed out- side of the home. $15 a week or $780 for the year is needed. W. H. C, $2; D. B. W.; $10; 1, C,, §25. Total, $37. Amount still needad, $743. OPPORTUNITY. NO. 9.—ILLNEBS EX- ACTS HEAVY TOLL. Not many years age, mother and Katherine had a slight cough. They thought it would pass quickly, but the doctor who examined them shook his head gravely and ordered a rest. But a widow who Is trying to support three little girls can't rest. Especially when the rent is due and she and her children are about to be evicted. Then the Assoclated Charities was called in. Now they have a home which they call their own, and the doctor no Jonger shakes his head gravely, for mother and Katharine have a good chance to get well with constant watching and care, The oldest daugh- ter is taking a business course and looks forward to the time when she and another sister will be able to meet the family's responsibilities. Thrifty, cheerful and ambitious de- scribe the members of this house- hold. They are going to make good, but it will take time. A minimum of $30 a week, or $1,560, is required to meet the family budget for the next| year. Miss F. R. H., $100. Total, Amount still needed, $1,460. OPPORTUNITY NO. 10.—AMBITIOUS TO BE “SOMEBOD Margaret works all da nd does all she can to help her brother John to support this family of a widowed mother and five children. At night, when Margaret's friends seek recre- ation, she takes her books and goes off to night school, for she has vision and courage and wants to be “some- body. John is learning a trade, and by the time he is 21 he will be mak- ing real money. In spite of Mar- garet's and John's earnings, there lsn't money enough to go around. $18 a week, or a total of $936, will lighten the load of these two chil- dren fo'r an entire year. OPPORTUNITY NO. i1 —A LITTLE MOTHER. Four days a week Hattie, age 10, comes home from school and prepares dinner for the family of mother and four children. Since the death of her husband, a few years ago, the widow has struggled early and late doing any kind of work (generally hard work), in an effort to keep her little brood together. You know the story —not enough money, not enough rest, not enough food, and then collapse —acute undernourishment, the doc tors call it. With our help they have a home of their own, and inother works a littlg, but not much, for it} takes time to recover from the bad! eftect of overwork und underfeeding. $14 a week, or $i28 for the year, means that your money has been in- vested in health, happiness and hope. Real dividends are promised. OPPORTUNITY NO. 12—FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS. “Gee, ain’t this grand,” said Jim on the occasion of his first visit to the beach last Summer. We want to tell you a little about this trip—it was a real picnic. The three children went with one of the workers of the As: ciated Charities and spent the day Chesapeake Beach-—lunch, paddle the water, mud pies and the merry-go-round. Happy? We 50! Mother was left a widow three little children and since was too ill to do any work, she v in a panic for fear her hiltdre vould be taken away from her. No the world's a little brighter, for they are all together and mother's heaith is improving. Jim has tubersulesis but they say that with proper ecure and food, Le can be a strons, nealihy man. We know we may count on mother to give the proper care. $28 a week, or £1,456, means that she and Jim and the other children wiil get the proper food and other necessities of life for a vear. Truly a ‘zrand”| Christmas present, don't you think? Miss M. J, $5. Total, $5. Amount| still needed, $1,451. | OPPORTUNITY NO. 13—(COLORED) HANDICAPPED WITH NEAR! BLINDNESS. | A widow, nearly biindg, is trying to keep her five children together and provide the home influences that will develop good self-respecting men and women. The children are obed- fent with good manners, and lend The oldest girl $100. (COLORED.) - at yous think | with she s | an apprenticeship in a trade for which she seems to have an inherited aptitude. ~ The second child, a boy, is too young for anvthing but school, though he, too, will, soon begin a vo- cational course. Two little girls bring good reports from school and the baby boy thinks he is working hard at kindergarten. $22.00 a week or §$1,1#4 a year is needed. H. W. F. $20; Mrs. $10. needed, HAC, Total, $30. Amount still OPPORTUNITY NO. 14—ONLY ASK- ING A CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD. Deserted by her husband many years ago, this mother, although handicapped by ill health. has made a brave struggle to keep her home together and raise her two children She is making good at it, too. The! oldest, 16 years, has just secured a position after special training, but is not yet earning enough to bear the entire burden. In another year a younger boy, who is doing his share now after school, will, we hope, be able to materfally assist, and then the goal of independence will be reached. Until then we must stand by; $8 a week, or $416 for the year, is needed for this family. Miss H. C. B, $5: G. R. C., $5; Miss M.N. V., $2; R. W. H., $5. Total, $17. Summary. Total amount ask~d for. Total amount received. ..$13.388 1,276 Total amount still needed. PENSION FOR WIDOW. La Guardia Introduces Bill to Pay $5,000 to Mrs. Wilson. Coincident with the congressional memorial service today for Woodrow Wilson, Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York, introduced a resolution to authorize payment of a $5,000 annual pension to Edith Bolling Wilson, widow of the war- time President. This would follow custom. 312,112 FEAR FOR INJURED FLYER Lieut. Comdr. Johnston, Burned in Crash, in Serious 'Condition. Hope for the recovery of Lieut. Comdr. C. V. Johnston, former com- manding officer of the Naval air sta- tion here. who was seriously burned in an airplane crash at Hampton, Va., more than a week ago is not very en- couraging, according to word received at the Bureau of Aeronautics today from the Virginia- air station. Lieut. Comdr. Johnston's plane crashed into a tree as it was taking off and burst into flames as it struck the. ground. He and his mechanic were dragged®rom the flames. The latter Is making good progress, but word received here said Comdr. John- ston appears to have given up all fight for his life. His face was burned and his eyes have been swol- len shut. . The report. also.declares Comdr. Johnston's: hands were. 50 badly burned they were virtually de- stroyed. TEL OO S AL Belgrade's streets are to be paved. * Tipless -electric “lamps have ap- peatred. : 3 | generally WILSON SOUGHT TO GIVE FAITH TO CENTURY, DR. ALDERMAN SAYS Virginia University Head Reviews Ideals of Dead Leader. Duwells Upon the Heroic Vision That Inspired War President. Woodrow Wilson "sought to give the twentieth century a faith to in- spire it and to justify the sacrifice of millions of lives in the great war, and if there was fallure it was hu- manlity's failure, Dr. Edwin A. Alder- man, president of the University of Virginia, declared at joint congres- sional memorial services for the war President held today in the chamber of the House of Representatives. “To make him, the one undaunted advocate of those hopes, the scape- goat of a world collapse,” Dr. Alder- man said, “is to visit upon him in- Justice €0 cruel that it must perish of its own reason.” Speaking in the place where W son dellvered the address that car- rled his country into the world con- flict, the University of Virginla head sketched the life of the war Presi- dent from the time of his birth to his ‘entrance into the White House and then reviewed his administra- tion up to the time of the Paris conference. Text gt Address. Dr. Alderman then said When President Wilson first sailed Europe, in December, 1915, Amer- an sentiment, irrespective of party approved his declared pur- pose to incorporate in the treaty of peace some sort of league covenant The heart of the time was then tune with the age-old dream. The Presideat of the United States had a right to assume that the American people were behind him “A list of eminent Americans of all parties then in line with that pro- nouncement in 1918 would be an illuminating contribution to the high- er impulses of that era. “When he returned a different spec- tacle met his eyes. The great cause for which he had even then given his life had become confused with a group of political policies given by his ene- mies the generic name of Wilsonism, and about this raged the wrath, de- spair and hatred of the overstrained time. The tired warrior of the com- mon good. who had kept the faith, fought the fight, and won a victor instead of hearing the acclaim of his own people, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant,’ saw himself ringed about with foes of mind to rend and destroy him Where Blame Rests. “I can not give the time here to determining whether Wilson himselt was to blame, in tactical judgment alone, or how much he was to blame for the ange in American opi m: nor do I deny that honest men op- posed the league and. the® treaty; or do 1 undertake the task of apportioning with nice justice the re- sponsibility for the caldron of heat and swi er'd venom of deadlo and indeciston, of partizanship and pas- sion, in which for weary months this largest question of modern times boiled and bubbled Other ages will make that solemn appraisement. I may be permitted the reflection that | something less of malice in the hearts of his enemies, and something more of compromise in his own heart, and spmething more of political genius and firm purpose in the hearts of those who kept the faith, and there might have been another world! “I have lately been reading, and I wish all of his countrymen might one day quietly read. the-30 speeches made hy the President on that fate- ful Western tour which he undertook in September. 1919, in order to secure from the American people the stamp of approval wh work in Europe and which the Ameri- can Senate was unwilllng to give. There is no series of political spee s made under circumstances of such straig in our annals attaining a higher level of oratory and ex- position. He was forewarned, as he fared forth, that his life might be the forfeit of his enterprise. He re- plied, ‘I would forfeit my life to attain the end I seek,’ and he meant it or he was incapable of melo- dramatic pose, and the consecration of that statement runs like a thread of gold through the sustained appeal Undeterred by Pain. “Undeterred by the stabbing of ical pain and falling strength, Woodrow Wilson here reveals the scope and depth of his conviction that national isolation for America or any country is forever ended: that the outlawry of war is democra s next great task; that suicide hovers over civilization in the present system of the relation of states and the present potentialties of destructive warfare that the hour has struck for the crea- tion of 22 instrument to gather be- hind it the organized manhood of the world, bent upwn evolving a clearer international conscience, & firmer in- ternational law substituting reason for passion in human affairs, and that the covegant of the League of Nations is such an instrument, if mankind will but adapt it to its uses. But all this force and eloquence and marty: dom were to avail nothing. Woodrow Wilson fell, stricken as if in battle, at Pueblo, Colo., on September 25, 1919, and came home shorn of his un- matched strength to persuade and moeve the hearts of his countrymen “The American Senate, in the-plain discharge of its constitutional duty, discussed the treaty for a perlod of eight months, during five months of which period the President struggled against mortal fliness, rejected it on March 20 and elected to remain out- side the first organized scheme of international co-operation in modern history. Prophecy Will Come True. “The last words spoken to the people at Pueblo by the President were these: ‘Now that the mists of this great question have cleared away, I believe that men will see the truth, eye to eve and face to face. There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to, and that is the truth of justice, liberty and peace. We have accepted that truth, and it is going to lead us, and through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as this world never dreamed of before’ The prophecy of the stricken advocate of reason has not yet come true. There are those who hope and believe that it wil' never come true. It is not seemly that I should here attempt any con- troversial discussion; but I should lack the courage of the man I seek to interpret if I did not, as an Ameri- can citizen, cry out, even in this chamber, God grant that it may come true;, and gain new authority to pro- tect mankind against its imminent ngers. Ol commonly said that the.hi toric rank of Woodrow Wilson is wrapped up in the destiny of the covenant; that if it fails his rank will be merely that of one more radiant spirit whose reach exceeded his grasp, and if it succeeds, his apo- theosis in history is seoure. I find the formula too glib and automatic for the forces and idéas it présumes to envelop. Apotheosis and immor- tality are weighty words that ill fit our poor flesh, so Yoredoomed to the iniquity of earthly oblivion: but surely the fame of Woodrow Wilson does not rest upon an instrument the his enemies will shrivel into the insignificance of Horace Greeley's editorials against Lincoln’s policles, or the futllity of the early century pamphleteets against Thomas Jeffer- son as iconiclast and antichrist, and his mere detractors will themselves either attain a repellent fame as de- tractors of greatness or else they will pass out of memory and no one will in | h he desired for his | DR. EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN President, University of Virginia. orderly growth of which into flnnll usefulness may o change its struc- ture and modify its form as to cause it to become another and even better Instrument. It depenc upon an un- conquerable idea, so greatly con- ceived and set forth that it must ontinue to grow into new and finer form, and his fame must grow with | it into whatever bright remown it| may attair i Deeply Religious Man, | | “Posterity will be eager to have :knn\\‘lvdgr of the personality and the | salient qualities of a statesman set apart to play such a role in the world's affairs. 1 shall picture him as 1 knew him—not the Wilson whom mankind wHLrememher as the stern war leader of @ mighty nation; but another Wilson, known to me—a Wilson of sprightliness and humor and handsome courtesy, of Kindly { countenance and fascinating con- | versation, with power to ‘béguile you |into b informed beyond your | worth, and wise bevond your birth- right he sensitive shyness and re- | serve that clings to men who can not | capltalize their personal advantages | to win friends clung to him. Intima- | cies were sacred relations to his spirit, but these intimacies could not | overflow into inveterate amiability. | | He did not wear his heart on his sleeve for daws to peck at; but ! tenderness governed his demeanor | ! with those he trusted: and he wore about him a quiet grace of dignity. Woodrow Wilson was a deeply | religious m Men who do mnot understand the religious spirit need | | not even try to understand him. No | | nan in supreme power in any nation’s life, since Gladstone, was so pro- | foundly penetrated by the Christian | | taith as Woodrow Wilson. He was| sturdily and mystically Christian. He took God Admighty in earnest as the ! Supreme Recality, and he carried him into his home and His im- n ience and guidance in private and public life. He had the habit of| prayer, and he read and reread the| English Bibl Through all his speeches flamed the glory of an in- | sistent belief that morality and| | polities should march hand in hand. Many of- his tendencies, perhaps the | most of them that oecasioned debate | | and censure, sprang from his prag-| matic belief in God. There was! | actually such & thing as God’s will to | this man; and when he thought he had divined that will, he knew the right, the absolute right, and he was prepared to stand on that, if friends deserted him or he parted company with friends, if applause came or if, the blow fell. “Interest divides men; | what unites them is the common pur-| suit of right, was one of his great] utterances, and not unlike the stout-| hearted oid mediaeval bishops, he ! stood ready to wield sword or blud- geon if the foe showed hi face. “God save us from compromise,’ ‘Let's stop being merely practical, and find out what's right,” were phrases often on his lips. saw, Place of Executive. “As an Executive, he was not an incarnation of action like Napoleon | or Roosevelt. The lightning decision ! was not after his manner; but his industry was tireless, and his mind did its own thinking. and men could | 10t frighten or deceive or cajole him. | The possession of a teracious memor. enabled him to keep the whole before him, to dispense with threshing around, and to dread irrelevance and bombast. No dogmatism or abruptness controlled his relations to men whol approached his problem from the same | angle. He gave his entire trust to! those who worked with him, defended | them against injustice, and upheld them against slander or misrepre-) sentation. The world used to be full of people busy in discerning., imagining and| cataloguing the faults of Woodrow Wilson. Dogmatist and hermit, chetorician and pacifist, egocentric ind ingrate, dreamer and drifter were some of the milder coinages of his more ci and restrained enemies. Well, he had his faults. I am not Jere to portray or to defend his faults. jome of them were protective devices © conserve physical strength, and thers lay buried deep in the impulses n his blood; but inhibitions born of pride and courage and high ambition tare such as natlons learn to forget and to forgive, and even to love and cherish. Posterity is incurious about the minor faults of its heroes. Eng- land does not concern itself with the flaws of Nelson and William Pitt. Men do not remember Andrew Jack- Ison's stubbornness and prejudice. They recall only the fury and fire of his purpose to preserve the Federal Union. World Forgets Faults. “His countrymen will not forever remember the volubility and his- trionic arts of Theodore Roosevelt, but they will never lét die the memory of the valiant force of him penetrating the Natlon's spirit, in- creasing the sum of its energies, awakening youth to high adventure, and stridgntly proclaiming the glory of upright living. They do not tattle about Washington's blazing profanity at Monmouth, but see his stately figure riding into the storm of battle beneath the tattered flag of a new nation he would faln bring into the world. They do not whisper about Lincoln’s cholce of companions or his taste In anecdotes or his cunning in j fall into a mould of simplicity and { without distinction if we are not will- | ascent of man had joined those whom | ask: 5 Who or what they have been ke More than he asks what waves Of the midmost ocean have swelled, Foamea for a moment and gone. “The four closing years in the life of Woodrow Wilgon were harsh, unherolc, uninspiring years in public affairs, such as generalily follow the emotional climaxes of war, and it is'a common- place to describe them as years of personal tragedy to him. A vast dis- illusionment, a timorous distaste for bold action, a kind of shamefaced- ness and cyniclsm in the recollection of its dreams, and faith in the tri- umph of moral ideals. seemed to hold the Nation in its grasp. As far as Woodrow Wilson himself was con- cerned, it is well perhaps not to con- fuse the bodily pain, the palsied side and all the cold malignities of the time with the essential meaning of those years. Adversity had been wanting in his career, and now it was come upon him, and he was to have acquainthnice with its sublime refinement, and the country was to gain knowledge of its power to smite the hearts of just men with love for the baffled fighter who had known none too much of popular affection in his career of self-rellant conquest. “He carried his head high in the dying days of his public service, omitting no duty his strength could bear, meeting the gracious courtesy of his successor at the end with an equal courtesy, as they rode away from the White House, so deeply as- sociated In American history with memories of sorrow and pain, as well as pomp and power, while unseen of human eyes to each of them alike, ‘tragedy with sceptered pall comes sweeping by “In the days left to him as the first private citizen of the Republic, un- like Burke, he did not waste his strength in windy opposition or fac- tious controversy. * % % “The very depth of dignity of his stlence won through to the imagina- tion of men, and when he spoke, the world stood at attention heartened to have knowledge that his high hopes for mankind were undimmed, and that there was:no faltering in that firm faith of his that liberty guided by reason and not by force was the contribution of his century to human advancement.. I doubt not that regrets visited his mind for lost opportunities that might have been better used. hut a durable satisfac- *ion must needs have fortified his soul in those long sequestered days, that even the devil’'s advocate must bear witness that: He 4ad loved no darkness Sophisticated no truth, Allowed no fear. *A grace which his heart craved came in the exaltation and excitement of the vision of a valiant new generation on the march, Intent to light its| torches at the still burning fire of Lis purpose to substitute for the ar- bitrament of war and death the reign of law, to restore to the land of hiy love and his lovalty Its surrendered | ascendancy, and to guarantee to the principles he had fought for eternal validity. The puzzle and complex of his dual nature scemed at last to consistency. ‘We die but once. and we die ing to dle the death of sacrifice Honor and distinction come only as rewards for service to mankind.’ Thus Woodrow Wilson had spoken in the days of his strength to high hearted American youth, and now h could of right claim the supreme dis- tinction as his very own! And so even as death enfolded him in its shadows., men paused in their busy lives and came to comprehend that a man of great faith had lived in their era, revealing to them its beauty and dignity. that a prophet had gulded their country and stirred the heart of mankind im an hour of destiny, and that an incorruptible liberal, aflame with will to advance the slow men call that high immortal nd stood among | fellowship Constant as the Northern Star. Of whose true, fixed and lasting quality, There is o fellow in the firmament. - Gladstone was in Parliament at 22 and at 24 was lord of the treasury. |CJES===| ANSELL, BISHOP COOLIDGE ATTENDS .WILSON MEMORIAL ] 'RITES IN CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) the diplomatic corps, with. Ambassa- dor Riano of Spain, De Cartler of Belgium and those representing, the other governments which were #lies of the United States in_the World War. In all, more than 50 members of the diplomatic corps occupied seats on the left of the Speaker, while the diplomatic gallery was also well filled In testimony of the appreciation of the whole world for the services in the interest of mankind rendered by Woodrow Wilson. President Is Announced The President of the United States and his Cablnet were announced at 12:15. Presldent Coolidge was el corted by Lieut. Col. Clafence O. Sherrill, his military aid, and took his seat in front and to the left of the Speaker. He was followed by C. Bascom Slemp, his private secretary; members of the secret service and the Cabinet, lead by Charles E. Hughes and Andrew J. Mellon. The Cabinet occupled seats in the front row to the left of the Speakers desk. Governors of a number of States also occupled a reserved s-ction on the floor of the House to the right of the Speaker. Senator Cummins, as President pro tempore, occupied the Speaker’s chair while Speaker Gillette sat at his left. The secretary of the Senate, George A. Sanderson, and the clerk of the House, William Tyler Page, were seated next to the presiding officers | of their respective houses. Other officers of the Senate and the House occupied seats on the floor at the right and left of the Speaker's chair. The chairman of the joint commit- tee of arrangements, which Senator Claude A. Swanson ginia, Representatives Isaac of Vir- Bach- rach of New Jersey, Daniel R. Anthony | of Kansas, William R. Green of lowa, Frank Scott of Michigan, Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Edwin Pou of North Carolina and R. Walton Moore of Virginia, upied seats at the right and left“®f the orator. Tribute From Cummins. In opening the meeting Senator Cummins paid a brief tribute to Woodrow Wilson, saying: “We are met here today to honor the memory of a great man, a great statesman, & great President and a towering ngure in the history of mankind.” Prayer was offered by the Rev. James S. Montgomery, chaplain of the House of Representatives. Senator Cummins then introduced Dr. Alderman as the orator of the day, who spoke. At the close of Dr. Alderman’s address benediction was pronounced by the Rev. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the Senate. The Marine Band was stationed in the Speaker's lobby and furnished the program of Woodrow Wil on's fa- vorite muslic, both before and at the close of the exercises in the House chamber. Dr. Alderman as president of Wood- Lrow Wilson's old alma mater spoke with particular feeling from the ros- trum where the late President re- vived the Washingtonian custom of delivering in person his messages to the Congress, making eulogy in be- half of the Nation of the life and achievements of a “great educator, political leader, humanitarian and foremost figure in the effort to se- cure lasting peace throughout the world.” FLAT TIRE? .MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never Over $1.00 NO ONE YET Questions price in OURIETH At 36th and R Sts. N.W. Neither Will You Over 150 Homes Sold ISHANNON & LUCHS & TURNER, INC. Make a SAFE CHOICE!! Don’t wait until the last min- ute and buy a Radio Set any- where and from any one—ACT W [T ONCE! 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