The spirit that was Peace seems but a wraith,
The glory that was ours seems but a name,
And like a rotten reed our broken faith,
Our boasted virtue turned to scarlet shame
By the low, envious lust of party power;
While he upon the heights whence he had led,
Deserted and betrayed in victory's hour,
Still wears a victor's wreath on unbowed head.
The Nation gropes--his rule is at an end,
Immortal man of the transcendent mind,
Light-bearer of the world, the loving friend
Of little peoples, servant of mankind!
O land of mine! how long till you atone?
How long to stand dishonored and alone?
_To Woodrow Wilson, March 4, 1921._
[Illustration: THE FOUNDERS OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BALDRIDGE IN _Stars and Stripes_
Make firm, O God, the peace our dead have won,
For folly shakes the tinsel on her head
And points us back to darkness and to hell,
Cackling, "Beware of Visions," while our dead
Still cry, "It was for visions that we fell."
--Alfred Noyes]
_Workmen's Compensation_
We must hearten and quicken the spirit and efficiency of labor
throughout our whole industrial system by everywhere and in all
occupations doing justice to the laborer, not only by paying a
living wage but also by making all the conditions that surround
labor what they ought to be. And we must do more than justice. We
must safeguard life and promote health and safety in every
occupation in which they are threatened or imperiled. That is more
than justice, and better, because it is humanity and
economy.--_From President Wilson's Speech of Acceptance at Shadow
Lawn, September 2, 1916._
[Illustration: (C) _Harris & Ewing_
President Wilson as he looked during the Peace
Conference in Paris]
_Woodrow Wilson's Place in History_
_By General the Right Honorable Jan Christian Smuts, Premier of
the Union of South Africa_
General the Right Honorable Jan Christian Smuts, premier of the
Union of South Africa, served with President Wilson on the League
of Nations commission of the peace conference.
Gen. Smuts was an active leader of the Boer Army in the field in
the Boer war. He is a graduate of Cambridge University in England,
served as state attorney for the South African Republic, and was
known as a member of the bar at Cape Town.
Accepting the outcome of the Boer war, he entered the service of
the British Government, becoming colonial secretary for the
Transvaal in 1907 and exercising a leading influence as a delegate
in the national convention in 1910, which drew up the constitution
for the present Union of South Africa. He was minister of the
defense of the South African Government and commanded the troops in
the campaign against the Germans in East Africa in 1916-17.
Promoted to be an honorary lieutenant-general, he was the South
African representative in the imperial war cabinet in 1917-18. This
led to his prominence in the peace conference and to his close
contact with President Wilson. On February 8, of this year, Premier
Smuts and the South African party won a decisive victory at the
polls over Gen. Hertzog and those who advocated the secession of
South Africa from the British Empire.