Show I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER i iJ J Declares Wilson Left Great Ideal Editor The Telegram tum Has the world forgotten Woodrow Wilson FIve years ears after aCter his death saW only one memorial wreath and two mourners at the rave grave or of the wartime wartime war war- time president v This might mean almost It might mean that the defeat that came upon Wilson after the war ended was a lasting lasting- del delat at and that he is steadily sinking Into the shadows shad shad- never to emerge emers-e. It mIght mean his country has taken iris his measure and found It small and so decided to forget him It might mean In short that he was an utter pitiable failure deserving oblivion But actually it does not The thunder ot of the guns has died away and the cool depths ot of the Argonne forest are quiet and peaceful once more Tire armies are cre disbanded and the tho great fleet lies at anchor But it happened that Wilson let loose into the world during those terrible years something that may yet et prove worth all ot of the tho sacrifice all ot of the pain all ot of the horror Into a wOrld Ib by war Wilson dropped a vision a vision of a new order of thIngs In which j justice and fr freedom dom should be something something- more than pretty words in which the common man should at last get tet a chance to prove his divinity for fOl himself in which war could be done away with as truman sacrifices and medieval torture chambers have been done away with Many men have dreamed that dream nut But It remained for Woodrow Wood Wood- row Wilson on to mal make e It take on color and life and enter the hearts of ordinary men And a vision of that kind once raised is immortal It goes on and on until in the long course of years It compels men to translate It Into reality reamy And there is Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's real memorial What after all is isa isa a wreath more or less PEACE LOVER |