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Show I OGDEN P ASTOR '; PRAISES WILSON Rev. W. L. Mellinger Indorses In-dorses Proposed Memorial Foundation Vigorous Indorsement of the proposed pro-posed Woodrow Wilson foundation is contained In ;i tetter which tho Rev. W L. ilelllnger, pastor of the First Christian church of Ofden, has sent to the ORdcn committee. The Rev. Mr. Mellinfrcr's communl I n cation : , , . In politics. the writer Is Indapei ent. nlways refrlfdcrlnR o such. H did not ote for Mr. Wilson, either time h- wns a candidate for the pro-" tdency Therefore, this Is written In a non-partisan spirit. Whatever Americans may think of him, Europeans consider Wilson n.s not only one Ol the greatest Htate-men Htate-men America has produced, hut oiif of the greatest of the age. He was not only an American but a world citizen. Even as the South learned to consider Lincoln their friend, so d:d ' the Europeans, both our allies snd BH-emlcs. BH-emlcs. recognize in Mr. Wilson a man who had their intercut at heart ad well as our own. For this reason they looked to him as leader and mediator. med-iator. His famous fourteen articled will ever stand as the basis of th-IN th-IN treaty ending the greatest war in history. his-tory. Shall his own country be tho last to honor him " W. I. MELLINGER. |