Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 7

DREAM OF WILSON . LIVES, SAYS WHITE Kansas Editor and Repre- sentative Moore Speak at | Foundation’s Program. %The ourse of America is that it is Maboring under a vast spiritual blight, Wwhich_holds that justice is merely a by-prodict of prosperity,” William Al- len te, the"Kansas editor, declared fast night”fn an address before the ‘Woodrow Wilson Foundation at the Mayfiower Hotel, Followers of the late war President, who had assembled to honor the e maker” in connection with the pation-wide observance of his seven- tleth birthday anniversary, were as- sured by Mr. White and Representa- tive R. Walton Moore of Virginia, &peakers at the, dinner, that Wilson's dream of world peace still lives and shall survive the sleep of civilization. “So far as the creation of material | things go, civilization is a going con- cern with something like 100 per cent production,” sald Mr. White. “But spiritually we are at a dead stand- still. We lack faith to move forward. No Contribution to Life. *We Americans are making a thou- band and one devices to aid in living, but not one contribution to life. What 18 our prosperity that.we should brag about it, that w ould go about in a cramped and ill-conditioned world rattling our little tin banks in one hand and our big steel saber in the other? If we have nothing to give the world but credit and nothing to save the world but guns, we are poor in- deed.” men, White sald, will eyes at this theory of ’s position .in the world, but the impotency of practical men, he added, was shown in the fate of Na- poleon, George III and the former Kaiser. “Woodrow Wilson trumpeting the world to righteous peace,” he as- sérted, oday America's greatest payment to civilization. Un- til we organize to curb and control our international jealousies and greeds as we have built organized societies, governments and _public opinion to shame private outbursts, wars will come again and again to devastate the earth and sap our faith.” Moore Defends League. Representative Moore confined his address in the main to a de- fense of the League of Nations, of which he declared Woodrow Wiison will be known to posterity as the architect, just as George Washing- ton is known as the architect of the republic. Picturing the League when found- ed as “a sort of voice crying out in the wilderness of chaos and night, of intense longing and almost of de- spair,” Mr. Moore told the followers of Wilson that a declaration by the President and the Congress making it plain that America “intends to work with and for the League,” would warm to us “the hearts of more than half a hundred nations, some of them our neighbors in this hemisphere.” America’s position in the world today, as the result of the failure of ‘Woodrow Wilson's dream of world peace, and its duty to civilization, constituted in main the major portion of Mr. White's address. - “Until America realizes that she 18 the world's debtor, until she begins %0 pay out of her spiritual heritage her obligation to humanity, America will not have fulfilled her mission,” Mr. White asserted. “America has some higher vision than to be the world's creditor. We owe to Europe in ages past every great impulse of @emocracy that has made our civiliz- ation different from the jungle that is Africa or to the dreamless sleep that is Asia. Sense of Obligation. *The United States at this moment in history is economically a free point in the channel. But whatever pride America may have should be tem- pered by a lively sense of obligation. Manifest is a delusion if it is not founded upon manifest duty. Even ‘economically, America could not iso- FORMER VIRGINIAN DIES. Louis Lewis Planned First Rich- mond Electric Line. PHILADELPHIA, December 29 (#). —Louis Lewis, formerly of Richmond, Va., died yesterday in the Jefferson Hospital. He was 78 years old and was the father of Judge Edwin O. Lewis of the Court of Common Pleas, this city. Mr. Lewis planned and supervised the installation of the first electric street railway of the Virginia Light and Power Co. in Richmond. For sev- eral vears he had been president of the Central Automatic Sprinkler Co. of this city. The body will be cre- mated, and the ashes taken to Rich- mond. WILSON ENEMIES SCORED AT DINNER President Williams of Virginia Bar Lauds “Dramatic Figure” of War. By the Associated Press, STAUNTON, Va., December 29.— Woodrow Wilson was the most dra- matlc_figure among our Presidents, late herself and live. And certainly spirituadly an isoiated America would invent herself into a vast inter- playing steel machine in one century Which in another century would be- come jammed and deadlocked in hope- less paralysis.” Mr. White lauded Wilson as the *first liberal President,” and “the first world leader who was able to cham- plon the cause of democracy in the midst of war.” “He denied the right of conquest,” he said. “He put aside revenge. He stood for the rights of the vanquished. He proclaimed the cause of an op- pressed minority and ended the war not so much by force of arms as by breaking down the fears and hates which had made the war. For the first time in history, the war gods stacked arms and were powerless be- fore the trumpet voice of democracy.” “Humanity,” he declared, “has in its heart now an ideal of world peace. The sower has gone forth; the seed is sown, The world never will be the same old world it was before the sower went forth to sow.” Laugh at War, Dr. White cautioned those who be- lieve that war can be abolished by legislation. “Outlawing war will not #top war,” he said. “War still will not cease until man is wise enough to Jaugh at war, as he smiles at brawl. ing» Taking up the League of Natio! from the viewpoint of what it alrea has achieved, Mr. Moore declared: “In view of what has been accomplished in so brief an interval, it seems that only a very blind and ignorant enemy of the League can deny that its exist- ence s absolutely and wholly justi fled.” He laid particular stress on the “founding of a permanent court al- ways functioning, to whicl. member mations can submit their differences for fmpartial treatment,” and stated *“that had there been such an organi- zation in the early part of 1914, the war, with all its incalculable horrors &nd losses, would have been averted.” “The present attitude of our Gov- ernment and people toward- the Yeague is an acknowledgment of ist usefulness, which contains something Jike a promise that it will endure,” Mr. Moore said. “What conceivable ground can there be for refusing it notive and general backing? Its ideal of international peace is the Amer- fcan ideal. Its labors for interna- tional welfare represent the purposes and aspirations of the natlons com- posing it, to none of whom are we unfriendly, and to those of this con- tinent to the north and south of us rticularly friendly. eant o our own profes- glons and our own inte - should we v ges| of sympathy that is possible fuse to co-operate in any leag ect which by common consent #result in benefit to humanity. In pralse Mr. Wilson, the Repre- rentative declured: “One may read this Inscription on a plaque set in the wall the League's palace at Geneva: ‘To the memory of Woodrow proj may said R. Gray Willlams, president of the Virginla State Bar Association, last night at the anniversary celebra- tion here marking the seventieth birthday of the wartime leader. Mr. Williams was the principal speaker at a banquet in a local hotel to which about 200 persons came. “Wilson,” sald Mr. Willlams, “did not, in a moment of victory, like Lin- coln, have the processes of his own fmmortality accelerated by an assas- sin’s bullet; but he played boldly, on a broader stage, before a larger audi- ence, to the climax of the last act, when he gave his own life in the brave effort to save the lives of others. “Had fate been kinder, he should have died when he uttered that last moving appeal for the covenant at Pueblo. But he lingered on, wounded in body and epirit, to suffer most of all the knowlege that it was more hatred of his power and prestige than sincere opposition to the League and the treaty, that animated men like Lodge in the fight to ruln his work. Clouded by Animosity. “Woodrow Wilson was hated by many men in high places during his life, and the poison gas, spread on the wings of the animosity, has clouded his shining face from the eyes of the people he served. Charges conceived in malice or envy, or wounded pride were circulated against him. ¢ ¢ ¢ Even yet the hostile gas hovers over the tomb of Wilson. But a majestic wind of eloquence dispelled these vile vapors on at least one day, when Ed- win Anderson Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, stood be- fore the President and Congress of the United States and spoke brave and brilllant words of affection and loyal- ty of this old student of our univer- sity.” Mr. Williams said that the fact re- mains that majority public opinion in America feels that Woodrow Wil- son both “failed himself and increased the difficulties of his country at a time of peril.” “The most disturbing factors of a weakness in Mr. Wilson were his suc- cessive breaks with close friends,” sald Mr. Willlams. “I have been at some pains to gather information about his breaks with Col. George Harvey, with Col. House and with Secretary Lansing. Enemies Are Scored. “In the case of Col. Harvey, Mr. Wilson was brutally frank in admit- ting that Harvey’s support was doing him more harm than good; but at | best an intimacy between Harvey and Wilson was utterly unnatural. Wil son was an idealist; Harvey a realist. There was always a cynical quality in Harvey that revealed itself when he said in London that America had fought only to save her own skin. “Harvey had his reward, one that doubtless consoled his wounded pride, for he was one of the most effective sappers and miners that blew up the league and the treaty in the Senate. “Lansing was distinctly second-rate and illustrated Wilson's weakness in the selection of men for large places. His own book reveals that he was hopelessly at variance with Mr. Wil- son’s views and that he should have resigned both as a matter of self- reepect and loyalty to his chief. “No one can doubt the loyalty and love that Col. House felt for Wood- row Wilson, yet Wilson had elevated House to his high estate and it was not in the stern nature of this Scotch- Presbyterian. convenanter to dissem- ble his feelings where Col. House con- ceded so much for which Wilson in- tended to stand firm, between the time Wilson left Paris with the draft of the league in his pocket and the time when he returned to find the covenant separat@ from the treaty itself.” “I think that much of the misunder- standing of Mr. Wilson,” said the speaker, “was due to the fixed incli- nation of men of affairs to assume that candidates for office mean only a little of what they say. “Woodrew Wilson was the best pre- pared President in our history to ac- complish a great program of liberal economic reform. He did accomplish such a program and he might well have had a second term equally as successful, had the greatest of wars not broken clamorsly in upon his studious calm.” Celebrated at Winchester. WINCHESTER, Va., December 29 (#)—Friends and admirers of Wood- row Wilson from lower Shenandoah Valley counties celebrated the birth- day of the War President at a dinner here last night. The principal address was made by Dr. John H. Latane of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Latane was introduced by Rev. Dr. F. T. Mc- Fadden, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. mendous fact, manifesting an undy- ing sense of gratitude.” Mr. Moore declared that the plan which Wilson devised and promoted, while not extended as he had hoped, w survive and that “it would seem also-that near the founder of the re- public will be ranked the American who_was the founder of the League of Nations.” Frederick A. Delano, chairman of the Washington committee of the Wilson Foundation, presided at the dinner, which was attended by 125 persons, including a number of pres- ent and former Government officials, Other members of the committee ar Mrs. Kate T. Abrams, vice chairma: Mrs. Blair Banister, Mrs. Robert 8. Brookings, Mrs. H. E. C. Mrs. Carter Glass, Admiral : Grayson, Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, Judge Edwin B. Parker, Mrs. Huston Thompson, Mrs, Joseph P. Tumuity and Charles Warren. Services were held in the afternoon at the tomb of Wilson in the National Cathedr On Mr. Wilson's tomb floral wreaths were placed from the following cities: Atlanta, Ga.; Demo- cratic Women’s Luncheon Club of \Vilson, President of the United ftates, founder of the League of Na- tioms’ What a spectacle! Most ¢f the nations of the earth 3 #ingle nama, Philadelphia; Staunton, Va.; Wichita, Kans.; Hartford, Conl Lewiston, Pa.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Norfolk, Va.i 3 “m-c the | | | | THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. WILSON ADMIRERS PAY HONOR TO ROOT Medal and $25,000 Present- ed Former Secretary on War President’s Birthday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 29.—Prom- inent admirers of Woodrow Wilson were newly on record today in praise of the Democratic war President, with only one voice raised in dis- sent against the award of the second ‘Wilson prize to a former Republican Sgcretary of State. A bronze medal and $25,000 were presented to Elihu Root by the Wood- row Wilson ¥Foundation here at a din- ner last night commemorating Wils son’s seventieth birthday. The award was in recognition of Mr. Root's share in the creation of the World Court. Praises Former President. The presentation was made in the presence of Mrs. Wilson. In accepting the award, Mr. Root praised Mr. Wilson's work in founding the League, and said: “The repercussions of our domestic strife seem to have prevented the ef- fectiveness of our noblest impulses. The League was formed, not against the United States, but out of friend- ship for this nation.” In Spartanburg, S. C., the award to Mr. Root was criticized by John Gary Evans, former governor and head of the pro-Wilson South Carolina delegation that helped nominate Wil- son in 1912, “They gave Root the Foundation medal when they knew he had signed the paper saying it was for the best interests of the League for the voters to support Harding,” Mr. Evans said at a Wilson birthday dinner. Urges Return to Wilson Tdeals. In Chicago Harry Morgenthau, for- mer Ambassador to Turkev, made a ‘Wilson dinner the occasion to plead for the country to return to the ideals of Wilson. James Hamilton Lewis, dedicating a Wilson memorial in Danville, Ill, called the war President “the earth’s modern crusader for peace. In Loulsville Senator Walsh of Mon- tana sald the isolation palicy of the United States is forcing it into a sub- ordinate role in every movement for world betterment. GLANCE INTO FUTURE. Daniels Classes Wilson and Jefferson “Only Outstanding Presidents.” DURHAM, N. C., December 29 (P), —Five hundred years hence Woodrow ‘Wilson and Thomas Jefferson will be remembered as the only outstanding presiflents thus far in the Nation's history, Josephus Danlels, Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's cabinet, said here last night in an address before University of North Carolina alumni. Mr. Daniels sald Washington, Jeffer- son, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson ere the six great Presidents whose names will live, but those of ‘Wilson and Jefferson will live longest because they contributed new ideas of government and “new visions of equality fit for every age and every people. “Jefferson contributed the Declara- tion of Independence and Wilson th covenant of the League of Nations.” MRS. COOLIDGE AIDS CONFEDERATE FUND Check for $250 Sent to Richmond as Proceeds of Sale of Counter- pane Article, Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 20.— Mrs. Calvin Coolidge presented a check for $250 to tre fund being raised here for a new home for needy Con- federate women. Announcement was made this morn- ing by Mrs. A. J. Montague, wife of United States Representative Mon- tague from this city. The money, Mrs. Coolidge explained, was from a maga. zine article written by her, descriptive of a counterpane of which she had made a copy. Sometime ago Mrs, Montague showed Mis. Coolidge @ counterpane in possession of the Con- federate home, which was of such un- usual design that Mrs. Coolidge made one from it. The fund i$ to build a new home on part of the Confederate Soldiers’ ground. About $50,000 will be raised. TAX TITLES TO BE SOLD. 28,500 Parcels of Property Are In- cluded in January 11 List. Tax titles to approximately 23,600 parcels of property on which 1925.26 taxes have not been paid will be dis- posed of by the District at a public sale January 11, it was announced to- day by C. H. Towers, collector of taxes. Although Mr. Towers was unable to estimate the value of the properties slated for public auction, he pointed out that the 10,740 parcels sold this year yielded $492,846.97. Open a Xmas Club Account For Happiness in 1927 at the FEDERAL-AMERICAN PIVPLES ON Itched and Caused Eruyj tions, Cuticura Healed. “ My trouble began witha break- ing out of pimples on my hl.::k‘i healed.” (Signed) Mrs. Sarah'Blair, Sadler, Ky. Cuticurs Soap, Olntmentand Tal- cum are ideal for daily toilet uses. Boap By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., December 29— Vith the disappearance of that ‘‘ves- sel” from the face of the sea, Gov- ernment officials here have come to the conclusion that the report last week that the American schooner Leader was in distress off Diamond Shoals was a cleverly executed trick to draw Coast Guard vessels away from the entrance to the Virginia 0., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. Mysterious Ship Call for Help oy Seen as Ruse by Rum Runners capes. They believe now that the supposed Leader was in reality the Honduran auxiliary schooner Julito, seized a few days ago in Pouquoson with approximately $300,000 worth of liquor aboard, and that while the mes- sage from the British steamer Rowan Park, reporting the Leader in dis tress was bona fide, the steamer was vietimized. The radio message from the Rowan Announcing the Winners in the A Park-—which was . confirmed later when the steamer arrived in port here—sald she sighted the Leader displaying distress signals. The ves- sel reported she had lost her rudder, but when an offer {o take off the crew was made by the Rowan Park the schooner skipper said he would attempt to steer a course by manipu- lating his sails until a Coast Guard cutter could reach him, and refused the offer. He asked that a message be sent, asking for Coast Guard aid. The cutter Manning, on duty off the Virginia capes, was ordered to the rescue and spent five days search- ing for the Leader. Other vessels also were asked to kegp a lookout for her, but no trace of the disabled craft could be found. A few days later. the Julito, which was well known to Coast Guard ships as a reputed rum runner, was seized by a patrol hoat i the Pouquoson River. mnear Yi town. Governmeat officlals believe Ilhet the Julito, after victimizing llm} Rowan Park, being of shallow draft, slipped close Inshore and made her way into the Virginia capes, while the Manning proceeded to the posi- tion given to search for the supposed disabled Leader. An ambition to own a skyscraper is a lofty ideal. SERVANT DIES IN FIRE. BALTIMOR December 20 (®). i in a fire which @ home of T. Nelson banker and broker, at Rux ton, a suburb, early today. Valuable paintings _and art treasures were burned. The cook, a negress, who had been In the employ of the family 35 years, was trapped on the third floor and perished. 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