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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921.
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[{.president Wilson Appraised
• critics of reading into his public
•“f nres almost everything except
lie actually said. He himself
a insistedou giving his own interpre
ts n of "peace without victory,” and
'f interpretation was instantly re-
S 1 ®. bv ' the super-patriots, who re-
3 eCt r themselves as the sole custodi-
?ar of all the issues of the war.
aD Wben the armistice was signed one
f the most eminent of living British
of tV iHcn gave it as his opinion that
hV\vir had lasted two years too long,
l that the task of salvaging an en-
f 11 . ,'peace from the wreck had be-
*me well-nigh insuperable. It will al-
|,o one of the fascinating riddles
'f historv to guess what the result
mild have been if Mr. Wilson’s, final
for mediation had been ac-
1 ,,tMl The United States would not
mvp entered tlie war, and a less vio-
nt readjustment of the internal af-
L r < of Europe would probably have
rp?ulted. There would have been no
Inisbevist revolution in Russia and no
pconomic collapse in Europe. Nor is
h certain that most of the really en_
t rhi- benefits of the treaty of Ver-
“ j]] es could not have been as well op-
ttined ;>v negotiations as they were
finally obtained through a military vic-
m which cost a price that still stag
ers humanity.
‘ pp that as it may. the German gov
ernment- now fighting to maintain the
dynasty and the Junker domination,
pick the issue out of Mr. Wilson’s
hands. Ten days after his “peace with
out victory” address the German autoc
racy put into effect its cherished pro-
rraiu of ruthless submarine warfare.
The only possible answer on the part
of the United States was the dismissal
of Count von Rernstorff. the German
ambassador, and from that time war
between the United States and Ger
many was only a matter of days. But
jjr. Wilson had achieved the great pur
pose that he had formulated two years
before. Tie had been balked in his ef
forts at mediation, hut he had united
the American people on the issues of
the conflict. He had demonstrated to
them that their government had exert-
,.,1 eTe ry honorable means to avoid war
and that his hands were clean. There
vas no uncertainty in their own minds
that the responsibility of the great war
rested solely on Germany, and Mr. Wil_
son now purposed to write the terms
of peace with the sword.
A Call to a Crusade.
Mr. Wilson’s war address on the
nisrlit of April 2. 1917, was the most
dramatic event that the national capi
tal had ever known. In the presence of
both branches of congress, of the su
preme court, of the cabinet and of the
diplomatic corps, Mr. Wilson summoned
the people not to a war but to a cru
sade in words that instantaneously cap
tivated the imagination of the nation:
“But the right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the things
that wo have always carried nearest
onr hearts—for democracy, for the
right of those who submit to authority
to have a voice in their own govern
ment. for the rights and liberties of
small nations, for a universal domin
ion of right by such a concert of free
peoples as shall bring peace and safety
to all nations and make the world at
last free. To such a task we can ded
icate our lives and our fortunes, every
thing that we have, with the pride of
those who know that the day has come
when America is privileged to spend
her blood and her might for the prin
ciples that gave her birth and happi
ness and the peace which she has treas
ured. Cod helping her. she can do no
other.”
This was not Woodrow Wilson, the
intellectual aristocrat, who was speak
ing. but Woodrow Wilson, the fervent
democrat, proclaiming a new declara.
lion of independence to the embattled
peoples.
Xo sooner had congress declared war
than Air. AVilson proceeded to mobilize
all the resources of the nation and
throw them into the conflict. This
was different from any other war in
which tlio United States had ever en
raged. not only by reason of its mag
nitude but by reasons of the necessity
for co-ordinating American military
plans with the military plans of the
allies. The allies were not quite agreed
as to what they desired of the United
States, aside from unlimited financial
assistance, and the solution of the gen
eral problem depended more or less on
the trend of events.
Tlie test of any war policy is its
success, and it is a waste of time to
enter into a vindication of the manner
in which the Wilson administration
made war. or to trouble about the ac-
eusatinns of waste and extravagance,
as if war were an economic process
which could he carried on prudently
and frugally. The historian is not like
ly to devote serious attention to the
partizmi accusations relating to Mr.
Wilson’s conduct of the war, but he
will find it interesting to record the
manner in which the President brought
the historical knowledge to hear in
shaping the war policies of the country.
The voluntary system and the draft
svstiun had both been discredited in the
Uvil war. so Air. Wilson demanded a
selective service act under which the
country could raise 10.000.0tl0 troops,
if 1o.0tlfi.ooo troops were needed, with-
"Ui deranging the essential industries.
It hap taken Arr. Lincoln three years
to find a general whom he could intrust
wmni . an d of the Union armies.
_^ 1 ? on lacked his commander in
chief before he went to war, and then
gave to General Pershing the same kind
of ungrudging support that Mr. Lin-
coin gave to General Grant The Civil
war had been financed by greenbacks
issues peddled by bankers.
Mr. Wilson called on the American peo
ple to finance their own war, and they
unhesitatingly responded. In the war
with bpain the commissary system had
broken down completely owing to the
antiquated methods that were employ
ed. A>o other army in time of war was
ever so well fed or so well cared for as
that of the United States in the con-
flict with Germany.
Wilson as a War President.
Mistakes there were in plenty, both
m methods and in the choice of men.
and errors of judgment and the short
comings that always result from a lack
of experience hut the importial verdict
of history must be that when every-
thing is set forth on the debit side of
the balance sheet which can he set
forth Air. Wilson remains the most vig
orous of all the war Presidents. Yet
•I 1S 5A* so ^ rue that history will concern
itself far less with Air. Wilson as a
war President than with Mr. Wilson as
a peace-making President. It is around
him as a peace-making President that
all the passions and prejudices and
disappointments of the world still rage.
Air. AVilson in his “peace without vic
tory address to the senate previous to
the entrance of the United States into
the war had sketched a general plan of
a co-operative peace. “I am proposing,
as it were.” he said, “that the nations
with one accord should adopt the doc
trine of President Alonroe as the doc
trine of the world.” He returned to the
subject again in his war address, in
which he defined the principles for
which the United States was to fight
and the principles on which an enduring
peace could be made. The time came
when it was-necessary’to be still more
specific.
In the winter of 191S the morale of
the Allies was at, its lowest ehh. Rus
sia had passed into the hands of the
bolsheviki and was preparing to m >i-
a separate peace with Germanv. There
■was widespread discontent in Italy,
and everywhere in Europe soldiers and
civilians were asking one another what
they were really fighting for. On Jan
uary S, Air. AVilson went before con
gress and delivered the address which
contained the Fourteen Points of peace,
a message which was greeted both in
the United States and in Europe as a
veritable Alagna Charta of the nations.
Air. AVilson had again become the
spokesman of the aspirations of man
kind. and from the moment that this
address was delivered the thrones of
the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs
ceased to be stable.
Ten months later they were to crum
ble and collapse. Before the armis
tice was signed on November 11, 191S,
Air. AVilson had overthrown the doc
trine of Divine right in Europe. The
Hapsburgs ran away. The kaiser was
compelled to abdicate and take refuge
in exile, justifying his flight by the ex
planation that AVilson would not make
peace with Germany while a Ilolieii-
zollern was on the throne. This was
the climax of Air. AYilson’s power and
influence and strangely enough, it was
the dawn of his own day of disaster.
For nearly six years Air. AVilson had
manipulated the government of the
United States with a skill that was al_
most uncanny. He had turned himself
from a minority President into a ma
jority President. He had so deftly out-
maneuvered all his opponents in con
gress and out of congress that they had
nothing with which to console them
selves except their intense hatred of the
man and all that pertained to him.
Then at the very summit of his career
he made his first fatal blunder.
Every President in the off-year elec
tion urges the election of a congress of
his own party. That is part of the
routine of politics, and during the cam
paign of 191S Air. AVilson’s advisers
urged him to follow the precedent.
What, they forgot and he forgot was
that it was no time for partizan prece
dents, and he allowed his distrust of
the republican leaders in congress to
sweep him into an inexcusable error
that he of all meu, should have avoid
ed. The sixty-fourth congress was any
thing but popular. The Western fann
ers were aggrieved because the price
of wheat had been regulated and the
price of cotton had not. The East was
greatly dissatisfied with the war taxes,
which it regarded as an unfair dis
crimination, hut it remembered Mr.
Kitchin’s boast that the North wanted
the war and the North would have to
pay for it. There was general complaint
from business interests against the
•Southern democratic control of the leg
islative departments, and all this senti
ment instantly crystallized when the
President asked for another democratic
congress. Republicans who were loy
ally supporting the administration in
all its war activities were justly in
censed that a party issue had been rais
ed. A republican congress was elected
and by inference the President sustain
ed a personal defeat.
Alisfortunes did not come singly in
Air. AVilson’s case. Following the mis
take of appealing for the election of a
democratic congress lie made an equal
ly serious mistake in the selection of
liis peace commission.
To anybody who knows Air. Wilson,
who knows Air. Lloyd George, who
knows Air. Clemeneeau, nothing could
bo sillier than the chapters of Keynes
and DiUon in which they undertake to | war,” and Mr. Wilson went to war in
picture the President’s unfitness to cope I behalf of the democratic theory of gov-
with-the European masters of diploma-1 eminent extended to all the affairs of
cy. Mr. Wilson for years has been
playing with European masters of di
plomacy as a cat plays with a mouse.
To assume that Mr. Wilson was ever
deceived by the transparent tactics of
Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Clemeneeau
is to assume the impossible. It would
be as easy to conceive of his being
tricked and bamboozled by the United
States senate.
The Peace Commissioner.
Air. Wilson needed strong republican
representation on the peace commission,
not to reinforce him in his struggles
with his adversaries at Paris, but to
divide with him the responsibility for
a treaty of peace that was doomed in
advance to be a disappointment. Al_
though the popular sentiment of Eu
rope was almost passionate in its advo
cacy of President Wilson’s peace pro
gram. all the special interests that were
seeking to capitalize the peace for their
own advantage or profit were actively
at work and were beginning to swing
all the influence that they could com
mand on their various governments. It
was inevitable from the outset that Air.
Wilson could never get the peace that
he had expected. The treaty was bound
to he a series of compromises that
would satisfy nobody, and when Air.
Wilson assumed all the responsibility
for it in advance he assumed a respon
sibility that no statesman who had ever
lived could carry alone. Had he taken
Air. Root or Air. Taft, or both of them,
with him the terms of the treaty of
A r ersailles might have been no different,
but the senate would have been robbed
of the partizan grievance on which it
organized the defeat of ratification.
Day after day during the conference
Air. Wilson fought the fight for a peace
that represented the liberal thought of
the world. Day after day the odds
against him lengthened. The contest
finally resolved itself into a question
of whether he should take what he
could get or whether he should with
draw from the conference and throw
the doors open to chaos. The President
made the only decision that he had a
moral right to make. He took what he
could get. nor are the statesmen with
whom he was associated altogether to
Marne because he did not get more.
They, too, had to contend against forces
over which they had no control. They
were not, free agents either, and Air.
Smuts has summed up the case in two
sentences:
“It was not the statesmen who failed
so much as the spirit of the peoples
behind them. The hope, the aspiration,
for a new world order of peace and
right and justice, however deeply and
universally felt, was still only feeble
and ineffective in comparison with the
dominant national passions which
found their expression in the peace
treaty.”
All the passions and hatred bred of
four, years of merciless warfare, all the
insatiable fury for revenge, all the ra
cial ambitions that had been twisted
and perverted by centuries of devious
diplomacy—these were all gathered
around the council table, clamoring in
their demand to dictate the terms.
Air. Wilson surrendered more than he
dreamed he was surrendering, hut it is
not difficult to follow his line of reason
ing. The League of Nations was to he
a continuing court of equity, sitting in
judgment on the peace itself, revising
its terms when revision became nec
essary and possible, slowly readjusting
tile provisions of the treaty to a calmer
and saner state of public mind. Get
peace first. Establish the league, and
the league would rectify the inevitable
mistakes of the treaty.
It is a curious commentary on hu
man nature that when the treaty was
completed and the storm of wrath
broke, all the rage, all the resentment,
all the odium-should have fallen on the
one man who had struggled week in
and week out against the forces of
reaction and revenue and had written
into the treaty all that it contains
which makes for the international ad
vancement of the race.
AVhy the Treaty Was Beaten.
Into that record must also go the
impressive fact that the Treaty of Ver-
saiiles was rejected by the United
States senate, under the leadership of
Henry Cabot Lodge, not because of its
acknowledged defects nor shortcomings,
not because it breathed the spirit of a
Carthaginian peace in its punitive
clauses, hut because of its most enlight
ened provision, the covenant of the-
League of Nations, which is the one
hope of a war-racked world.
When people speak of the tragedy of
Air. Wilson’s career they have in mind
only the temporary aspects of it—the
universal dissatisfaction with the trea
ty of peace, his physical collapse, his
defeat in the senate and the verdict at
the polls in November. They forget
that the end of the chapter is not yet
written. The League of Nations is a
fact, whatever the attitude of the Unit
ed States may be toward it. and it will
live unless the peoples of the earth
prove their political incapacity to use
it for the promotion of their own wel
fare. The principle of self-determina
tion will remain as long as men believe
in the right of self_government. and
are willing to die for it. It was Wood-
row Wilson who wrote that principle
into the law of nations, even though he
failed to obtain a universal application
of it. Tacitus said of the Catti tribes
the nations. That war is not yet won,
the commander-in-chief is crippled by
the wounds that he received on the
field of action. But the responsibility
for the future does not rest with him.
It rests with the self-governing peoples
for whom he has blazed the trail. All
the complicated issues of this titanic
struggle finally reduce themselves to
these prophetic words of Maximillian
Harden: “Only one conqueror’s work
will endure—Wilson’s thought.”
Woodrow Wilson on this morning of
the fourth of March can say. in the
words of Paul the Apostle to Timothy:
“For I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at
hand.
“I have fought a good fight. I have
finished my course. I have kept the
faith.”
SERGT. WARD INSTRUCTOR
AT S. C. UNIVERSITY
Former Resident of Dalton Gets Ex
cellent Position
Sergt. M. M. Ward, who resided
in Dalton for about a year and who
is married here to Aliss Miller,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mil
ler, has been made an instructor at
South Carolina University. The fol
lowing clipping from a South Caro
lina newspaper will be of interest
to his Dalton friends:
Sergt. Marshall M. Ward, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., reported for duty as
instructor on January 26th. Sergt.
Ward reinlisted in the army espec
ially for R. O. T. C. duty in re
sponse to a call by the government
for capable and experienced men in
this department. He served in the
late war as second lieutenant in the
Forty-Second Division, and went
across with that outfit. After reach
ing France he was transferred to
the Ninth Infantry of the Second
Division. It was while connected
with this organization that he took
part in some of the heaviest fight
ing in France, especially in the bat
tle of the Argonne. In this memor
able fray his entire company march
ed in column of fours through the
ranks of the Germans during the
night and flanked the enemy, much
to their surprise. On the signing
of the armistice, Lieut.- Ward was
detailed to Coblens with the Army
of Occupation, and there remained
for some time before being sent
home to be discharged.
Since his discharge Sergt. Ward
went into business, but decided
later to reenlist in order to take ad
vantage of a splendid proposition
made him by the government in re
gard to R. O. T. C. instruction.
Since coming to the University
Sergt. Ward has demonstrated his
ability to lead men and his success
with the local unit will no doubt
be signal.
Uncertainty Lurks at the Fireside
CJ[ The specter of uncertainty lurks at the fireside of every un
protected home—that uncertainty which eats at the vitals of life
and takes away the joy of existence—
€|I We owe it to our homes and those dependent upon us to re
move this nightmare of the future—
if Material things cannot take away the sting and sorrow in the
tragedies of life, but the dread of poverty and of drudgery and of
dependency can be removed by providing for those depending
upon us the physical things upon which life subsists—
We believe that the best way to guard against this lurking un
certainty is to accumulate property and the surest way to accum
ulate property is to begin saving apart of our income and the best
way to save is to systematically place our accumulations in a
good bank—
CJ Let us discuss the question of savings with you—
W. C. Martin, Pres.
E. P. Davis, Vice Pres.
OFFICERS:
James J. Copeland, Cashier
W. A. Broadrick, Ass’t. “
The Bank of Dalton
and I will pass upon said applica
tion on the first Monday in April,
1921.
J. H. WOOD, Ordinary.
LETTERS OF DISMISSION.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
A. E. Loughridge, administrator es
tate of Mary B. Loughridge, de-
seased, has applied for Letters of
Dismission and I will pass upon
said application on the first Monday
in April, 1921.
J. H. WOOD, Ordinary.
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the stomach is corrected so you can
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case costs only few cents at drug
store. Millions helped annually.—Adv.
Legal Notices
LETTERS OF DISMISSION.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
J. A. McClure, administrator of the
estate of Mrs. Altha Tipton, deceas
ed, has applied for letters of dismis
sion and I will pass upon said ap
plication on the first Monday in
April, 1921.
J. H. WOOD, Ordinary.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
M. L. Pinson has applied for per
manent Letters of Administration on
men, “Others go to battle; these go to the estate of V. W. Bishop, deceased,
GUARDIAN’S SALE.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
heretofore granted, will be sold at
public outcry before the court house
door in said county between the
legal hours of sale on the first Tues
day in April, 1921, 40 acres of land
off the north side of lot No. 3 in the
8th District and 3rd Section of said
coumty, bounded by the lands of
Gaines on the south, on the west by
lands of Holland, on the east by
lands of Lasater and on the north by
lands of A. B. Hill. Also 15 acres,
more or less, of land lot No. 323 in
the ninth District and 3rd Section of
said county .being as follows: Be
ginning at the road known as the
Brown Bridge road at a point near
the southwest corner of said land;
thence north along said lot to pas
ture fence; thence east to corner of
said pasture fence; thence north 17
yards; thence east to lands of A. B.
Hill; thence south to original line;
thence west along said line to start
ing point.
Said lands sold as the property of
McKinley Patrick, Cornelia Patrick,
Mattie Patrick, Thomas Patrick,
Bracket Patrick, Ira McCoy Patrick
and Elizabeth Patrick, minor chil
dren of Airs. Alartha Patrick Cartee,
and for the support and education of
said minors.
Terms cash.
W. R. BARNETT,
Guardian, property of said minors.
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REPORT OF APPRAISERS.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
The appraisers appointed to set
apart a year’s support for the widow
of H. J. Edwards, deceased, have
filed their report with me and I will
pass upon said report on the first
Alonday in April, 1921.
J. H. WOOD, Ordinary.
REPORT OF APPRAISERS.
Georgia, Whitfield County.
The appraisers appointed to sel
apart a third year’s support for the
widow and minor children of W. H.
Hill, deceased, have filed their re
port with me and I will pass upon
said report on the first Alonday in
April, 1921.
H. J. WOOD, Ordinary,
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
Lillie Bryson vs. Charlie Bryson.
No. 39, Whitfield Superior Court,
April Term, 1921.
To the Defendant, Charlie Bryson:
Greeting:
You are hereby notified that the
plaintiff in the above cited cause
has filed suit for a total divorce
against you returnable to the April
term, 1921 which meets on the 4th
day of April, 1921. And you are
notified to appear and make defense
if any you have, as in default there
of the court will proceed as to jus
tice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable AI. C. Tar
ver, Judge of said Court. This the
Nth day of Alarch, 1921.
C. L. ISBILL,
Clerk Superior Court.
GEO. G. GLENN, Plaintiff’s Att’y.
Notice
I am no longer con
nected with Carter. I
have a complete line of
coffins and caskets,
robes, dresses and shoes.
For undertaker, call'J.
L. Buchanan, phones,
day, 33; night, 202; or
J. F. Buchanan, 401-J.
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in town. We deliver our
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extra charge.
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