Show A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD in politics as in life generally things which loom large momentarily have a way ot of shrinking out of pos ter itys sight while events which at the moment nearly escaped remark grow in significance it is impossible as yet to know just what woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons place in history will be dependent as it is on many and varied conclusions of unfinished business that lie has grown in esteem in very recent months it would be idle to deny his great grief has made men know him tor for what they have sometimes forgotten him to be ba not professor only not statesman and partisan alone but a father a man with roans mans responsibilities and trials and now the president issues two important documents an invitation to all persons to pray on a certain day that chat peace may be restored to europe an announcement to his party managers that he will take no swing around the circle to mend the fences of his par tys representatives in congress this decision is not a surprise to anyone who knows wilson and his ways whatever his detects defects and angles and ani asperities asperi ties and time will soften them andee and we shall grow more conscious of his qualities ur mr wilson Is an ameri can patriot and a citizen not of ills his own only but of the world his presidency cyp opening with the enactment of promised legislation has been troubled by private bereavement by Blex mexican ican explosions by partisan abul lotions lit ions and by the greatest war in present memory what ever mis mistakes we have changed the president with we have never charged him with losing his head his attitude toward events in mexico exico Bl and in europe alike has been distinguished by a large mind kindness ness that we frankly envy him we congratulate this thia country of ours that he has been our white house ruler in these months of storm colliers |