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Show BOUQUET WHILE WILSON LIVES Aims of Ogden Committee in Memorial Campaign Are Explained Editor. Standard-Examiner: It la greatly to be desired that the I orts of the local committee for the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Foundation Founda-tion be so successful as to exceed their anticipation. No worthier effort can be made by men than the effort to honor the Kreat and good, while they are still alive. Without any kind of I question Mr. Wilson deserves well by his countrymen. Posterity will nn-' nn-' doubtedly pay him high honors but most of us won't be here to watch posterity pos-terity do It. To strew the flowers, not on the grave,, but on the pathway, of the great man's remaining years is . ommendable fiuleed Not all will ugree to this, of course i arii pi;, be a use there Is . rro. Inst In. ' In the in..i oi us to acclaim the great I only when they are sufficiently and j long time dead. Thousands of voung I men who Wanted to go to war in 1914 1 hate Mr. Wilson because he would not send them; thousands more hate him because they did not want to go to war in 1917 and he sent theni. But many many thousands more who went gladly I believe him to have been the Incarnation Incarna-tion of the American Ideal and these, together with others or like mind, will make the foundation possible. There are many of them In j,'den. surely. Faithfully. GODFREY MATTHBWB, oo |