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NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY" 27, 1921. 3 PRESIDENT WILSON'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN EIGHT YEARS HIE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. Wilson Dreams for America May Yet Become Realities Where President and Mrs. Wilson Will Make Their Home After Mar. 4 MOST OF WILSON'S AIDS PLAN RETURN TO PRIYATE LIFE National Achievements -and His War Record Which Will Make Secure His Place In History High PJace Accorded to His State Papers The League of Nations Put Down as His Great Ideal.

was common knowledge. Bub he was compelled to steer a course of neutrality and to endeavor to keep the American people neutral in deed us well as in thought. Patience and national honor were subjected to the sorest trials. All the correspondence growing out of the Lusitania and other crimes shows that the President exercised tho utmost forbearance, often carrying it far beyond what the public seemed willing to endure. He was determined not to lead the nap tion into war until there was no other recourse.

This correspondence, at tho same time, was perfecting a moral and legal case for the United States when the final plunge came, as ho knew it would come. So far as his relations with the American people were concerned, they were far more lowed as a great leader, but for all tho dreams he brought to America, lie made no deep apfieul to the American heart -of his own generation. What place Woodrow Wilson will, have in history is, of course, Impossible to forecast. In the coming two or three decades, the Intrinsic forms which his idealism assumed, such as the Leaguo of Nations and parts of the Versailles arrangements, will be political points at Issue in all coun-tiioH concerned, so that the broad aspects of Mr. Wilson's work will be lost sight of In domestic bickerings about his means.

In the long run, however, Woodrow Wilson's name and reputation will emerge clear and shining. Provided, of course, thirt Europe realizes that continued Internecine strife will prove its everlasting ruin. There are four possibilities for the future nf Europe. Ono is that tho present makeshift character of International relations is allowed to continue for want of courageous leaders who would drag the dead weight of narrow nationalism after them Into a new order. Continuance of the present situation would mean, in the end.

more war, and more war would mean sociul and economic chaos, with an outcome from which Imagination shrinks. Another possibility, not un President Wilson lins purchased tho residence of Henry P. Fptrlmnks, 2340 Northwest, Washington, 1). for the permanent liomo of himself and Mrs. Wilson.

The purchase price is understood to have been Slot), 000. The house is in tho fashionable Dil Pont Circle iiciglihorliood mid has 18 It was built alKiiit three years ago. Tho President and Mrs. Wilson took possession Feb. 15 und the house will Ik; ready for them when they leave the White, House, March 4.

The house is of Colonial architecture throughout. Future Will Remember Him as the President Who Guided America Through Eventful Period. By HKMIY Sl YD.VM. "A man enrlehes a country to which he brings dreams," Woodrow Wilson once said to an audience of foreign-born Americans. And that will be the verdict of future men who will judge our chaotic present that Woodrow Wilson brought dreams to America at the great moment when America was, for the first time, assuming her just share in the vast responsibilities of the modern world.

Woodrow Wilson will puss from the center of the American stage on March 4, leaving the guidance of government to men of sincere purpose but of lesser mould. He vill devote the rest of his life to the cause of peace a devotion that will probably enrich and explain much of his earlier effort to reconcile International dispute. The war has left tho world in a temper of irritation and a mood of hate hate against men, against movements, against inevitable changes in our human und universal attitudes and sympathies. It Is probable that Woodrow Wilson's further efforts toward peace will achieve no definite or conclusive end, nor will they alter his place In the record, but he who has so often been charged with ln consistency will at least follow out his main line of thought und action us long as he has life. The belief has spread during the eight years of Mr.

Wilson's Presidency that he bus been a man all Intellect and no heart. His blunders would never have been committed by a mere thinking machine, unmoved by human emotion. Yet it is a curious fact that Mr. Wilson's appeal as a man has always been immeasurably stronger In Europe than in America. We have been perhaps too close to his domestic political actions always to appreciate the broad sweep of his more general ideas.

As far as Europe Is concerned, It is true that he suffered from tho extreme reverence, almost amounting to canonization, which greeted him on his first arrival abroad. There was a natural reaction from ull this superfluity of enthusiasm, complicated of course by the general dissatisfaction with tho Treaty of Versailles. Just at present Europe is very bitter toward America; our role meant too many diverse things to too many sets of men, Woodrow Wilson is exposed to this general condemnation, Just as President Harding will inevitably be If he ever undertakes some form of direot action cutting through the tine-spun lines of European national Interests. One ot the considerations which makes It difficult for us to foresee Woodrow Wilson's place In history Is his total lack. In the public mind, of any sort of intimate personal one might almost say sentimental appeal to the Americun electorate.

Within the restricted circle of his formnl prerogatives, and with no outstanding qualities of mind, King Edward VII achieved a certain reputation in Europe as a peacemaker. How Just this reputation may be Is another mutter; the point is tluit King Edward had a way with him. He drove through the streets of Paris with the President of France, us Woodrow Wilson did, and was given a much less enthusiastic reception. He smiled; he lifted his hat; he dined In state: lie hail a fling at Biarritz and he was credited with preserving the peace of Europe. Most Americans have never realized King F.dward In this role, but he wus emphatically a peacemaker to his own subjects.

An old priest In Ireland, referring to the war, said to me: "All this would never have huppened If Ned hod been alive." We cannot, at this juncture, quite imagine a Kansas farmer, for example, in 1D31 during the war which our alarmists anil Jingoes seem determined to drug us into with Japan, saying: "All this would never have happened if Woodrow Wilson had been alive." Says Wilson Made Xo Deep Apcul lo the Amcrii'fUi Heart. Mr. Wilson did not have way with him, and not having one, he scorned to affect what ho essentially larked. So that when the harsh and disillusioned and sometimes half-lnformeir Judgment of his contemporaries fell upon him, it lacked the Immunizing quality of mercy for a beloved man. Yet Mr.

Wilson has never wanted for passionate adherents. He was fol E' NEW POSTAL PACT AIDS U.S. BUSINESS IN LATIN AMERICA President Remains in Capital. Marshall Goes AbroadLaw Claims Several. Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building.

By C. C.jHHAIXKRD. Washington, Feb. 26 Future plans of most of tho members of the Wilson Administration have already been made and March 4 simply means a transition from public office to varied activities in private life. Two of the members, at least, will reside in Washington, while some of the others are likely to spend a part of 'their time here on business matters.

The President's household is all ready to move over to the house on st. that whs purchased recently by Mr. Wilson for about 1150,000. The President's literary planning In not understood to be very far advanced, at least so far as any detailed work goes, although any suggestion that Mr. Wilson Is going into complete seclusion from the world is resented.

He 1b expected to take things rather easily for a few months, however, and go about his writing in an unhurried manner. There is no need for haste on Mr. Wilson's part, so fur as tho literary market Is concerned. It will always be bidding for anything he chooses to write, and meantime he Is under no necessity of forcing tho work in order to make a living. Being the first ex-rrcsldent to make his permanent home in this city, Washington is much Interested In waiting to see Just to what extent he will figure In the life of the city.

The Wilsons will be welcome guests wherever they may choose to go and will have a unique status in the Cupltal, even though no longer a part of the official circle. Tumulty to Kcniuin. Joseph P. Tumulty, the President's secretary for eight years, will also reside here, Mr. Tumulty not Ion? ago bou a house on Kalorama rd in tho Northwest section, which is now being remodelled and modernized, with tho addition of a garage.

Secre tary Tumulty has learned to like Washington ltfo and atmosphere, his large and growing family of children aro at school here and lie did not care to pull up stakes and return to Jersey City, which was formerly his Ho will open a law office. Coun'tlng the period when ho was sec-rotary to tho Governor of New Jersey, he has been associated for 10 years with Woodrow Wilson. It Is possible that Mr. Tumulty will write a book dealing with his experiences as a President's secretary. Vice President Marshall's immediate plans provide for a trip to Europe.

While he is going abroad with Mrs. Marshall for a rest, he also makes the Journey In his capacity as a 83d degree Mason. There will be an Important gathering of Scottish Kite Masons at Geneva, at which Mr. Marshall will be a representative of the United States. Although the Vice President is a lawyer by profession, it is not expected that he will return to uctlve practice.

There Is a field ojien to him as a public speaker and lecturer, work which he Is likely to find more congenial. Ho has made a fair and popular presiding officer in tho Senate, has carried himself without narrow partisanship and Washington will bo sorry to see him go. Possessing a fine sense of homely humor and a habit of 'peaking bluntly, he can write an entertaining book about the Job of presiding over the Senate, if he chooses. He has never taken the task very se-iously. Colby to Practice Law.

Bainbrldgc Colby, Mr. Wilson's third Secretary of State, is a lawyer and will return to private practice, as did Rob ert Lansing, his predecessor in ofllce. Mr. Colby has planned to reopen his law office, in New York. He may specialize in international law, as Mr.

Lansing i already doing In Washington. is one of the most finished onitfcjs who over held a Cabinet place. lid is one of seven members of tho Cabinet who are lawyers by pro-fission. David V. Houston, Secretary of the Treasury, and formerly of Agriculture, Is contemplating the practice of law.

Mr.NHouston was admitted to the bur when he was a young man, but has never been in active practice. Until he entered the Wilson Cabinet, lie de voted himself to educational work, being a professor In Washington University at St. Louis at the time he was summoned to Washington. He has received several educational offers. Newton D.

Baker, Secretary of War, Is a lawyer who has been In active ami successful practice for much of his life. His home is in Cleveland, of which city ho wus formerly Mayor. Mr. Baker will return to Cleveland after March 4 and enter a law partnership which has already been formed. John Barton Tayno, Secretary of the Interior, is expected to return to Chicago, which is his home.

Mr. Pay ne is a lawyer, but it is understood that he will not resume practice. He Is a man of considerable wealth. President Wilson his always had a high regard for his ability, taking him from the Shipping Board to fill Franklin K. Lane's place in the Interior Department.

A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General, will go back to law practice In his home State of Pennsylvania. Whether he will open offices In Stroudsburg or Philadelphia, is not known. Mr. Palmer is a familiar figure in Washington life, having nerved several terms in Congress before he became connected with the Wilson Administration.

He may carry on departmental practice In Washington as a branch of his luw work. Burleson to itetlie. Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General, Is going back to his home in Austin, whero he will become a private citizen after many years In public life ut Washington. He wus in Congress for 16 years beforo Presi dent Wilson took him Into the Cabinet. Air.

Burleson is a lawyer, but has had no privato practice for a long time. Ho does not contemplate going into the law. He is a large landholder and cotton grower in Texas and is a man of ample fortune. Edwin T. Meredith.

Secretary of Agriculture, will go back to his home In Des Moines, and resume ohurge of his agricultural weekly newspaper. Successful Farming, which he established ineaiiy 20 years ago, and which has proved to be a profitable venture. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of tho Navy, has made all his plans to ro-turn to Raleigh, N. his homo lily. Mr.

Duniels is the owner and editor of the Raleigh News und Observer, over which he has kept a close Huprr-vision during all his 'Cabinet work. He will take full charge of the paper after March 4. William U. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, who Is a coal miner by trade, is expected to return to his home In BloHsburg, Pa. He owns a farm there and is now In comfortable circumstances.

Mr. Wilson may devoir, some of lils time to representing Labor Interests In endeavoring to obtain adjustments und settlements wltti Music Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. By C. C. BRAIXERD.

Washington, Fob. 26 When all Is aid and done concerning Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States, the thing that stands forth among: all others as a Wilson achievement is the League of Nations. That is the judgment of most men in Wash ington, both enemies and supporters, who have closely followed Mr. Wilson's work in 8 years. Whether a good or bad piece of work, it is ad-mittedly' an achievement, even though the United Btates may never belong to it.

The League of Nations i tin IT I 1 ri lj3 tflt, II cross-index line in history. Ir. the case of neurjy every President whose name is easily remembered, there is a specific act of achievement that springs first into the mind whenever he is mentioned. It may bo only one of many, but it is the high spot. George Washington the Revolutionary War; James Monroe the Monroe Doctrine; Abraham Lincoln the Emancipation Proclamation; Theodore Roosevelt the Panama Canal; Woodrow Wilson the League of Nations.

League and Wilson Belong Together. There are many who do not regard the League of Nations as a success, but there are very few who deny that it will always be inseparably associated with Wilson's name in history. It will be the black type line under the Wilson cross-index, Just as under the heading "League of Nations" the Wilson name will be similarly starred. Unmistakably they belong together for historical purposes, entirely aipurt from Mr. Wilson's actual rank as an American President or the status of the League of Nations CO or 100 years hence.

One will always bring the other first to mind. If ever It were necessary in the case of President Wilson to employ one of the many devices of memory systems to call him into recollection, the mental starting point would be "League of Nations." The Leaguo is the big Wilson ideal, among all the visions of a President who has ranked conspicuously high as an idealist. He did not invent the idea of League, but it is admitted that he inspired the world to tho creation of one. He did not get the United States into the League, but the Leugue in there, nevertheless. Whatever association of nations the United States may ultimately join will serve almost as surely for a Wilson cross-index as the League he hud the chief part in creating.

There are somo good Judges of Presidential achievements who set down me winning or ine war us me greatest Wilson accomplishment and the making of the peace as his greatest failure. But winning the war was essentially a purely American task, so far as his part was concerned. The making of the peace terms was chiefly Juggle-'in Knropeun politics. The League of Nations, standing apart from the Peace Treaty itself, is of world caliber. When historians of the future sit down placidly to put Mr.

mr.i 1.1;. i. UBUU 111 jua uiuiioi uiuit; 111 lilt; scheme of humanity, tho first note on their memorandum pads will inevita bly concenvitsclf with the League and that despite whatever may happen to it. Identified as a Peacemaker. President Wilson is not so readily identified in the public mind as a war leader as he is as a peacemaker.

But his leadership of the nation during 1917 and 1918 is set down by many as his greatest practical achievement. It constitutes a definite record, concerning which there is not much room for dispute. It puts him very high among the War Presidents, leaving everything else out of tho account. Once he was committed to a policy of "force to the uttermost," he put himself at the head of the nation's organization for war and he stayed there, directing it with the single purpose of victory. No such war organization had ever before been built in the United States, perhaps in the world.

As a Mr. Wilson was aggressive and unrelenting. He was impersonal. He was harsh when It was necessary to bo harsh. When he had chosen his human instruments for carrying on the war, he demanded their utmost effort and ho supported all their acts.

He never bothered himself about the cost or the details. All he had in his mind was whipping Germany in the shortest possible time, and thus "making tho world safe for democracy." The man "who kept us out of war" became, when events de manded, one of the greatest of ull American war leaders. There is a largo aspect of his war leadership that is international. He counseled and inspired the Allies and their people. He co-operated with all of Germany's enomles wheresoever and in whatsoever way there was opportunity.

He put aside any smaller consideration of American tradition and pride in the army and navy, making them merely parts of a. great whole. He furnished a moral leadership to the world. He contributed in large degree to the wrecking of German morale by his assaults upon autocracy and by the picture he painted of a new order of right and justice. Hand In Hand With Leadership.

All those things went hand in hand with his leadership of the American people at home. But they drew their chief strength and authority from the tremendous war effort that was being made by a whole nation under his direction. Lacking that effort, his world leadership would have been mere words. It was tho nation's power, placed in his hands, and the manner in which he employed it, that furnished momentum for the moral crusade which peculiarly characterized America's part in tho war. All these things aro more or less interwoven with tho idea of a Leaguo of Nations.

Before the war was over Leaguo was wen to be one of the inevitable consequences. The President came to associate the Leaguo with victory, after the victory 'vision was distinct; but he kept the victory iirst until it was in hund. In some minds this moral world leadership of the President is placed first of all his achievements. Put his moral leadership covered a broad scope and many items. Eventually he himself brought it to a focus in the League of Nations.

So, tor all this moral leadership, the League serves as tho historical index point, affording a quick reference to all the subjects entering into it. No American President ever touched world affairs so intimately and directly as Woodrow VHson. Apart from the actual war period itself, there are two great chapters, one he-fore America entered the war and one following it, in which the President exercised large influence on other nations. The pre-war chupter concerns itself with the interval between August. 1914, when Hurope went Ber-Berk, and April, 19t7, when America was drawn in.

It contains an important record of American diplomacy, of precedents and formulas for neutrals, of the rights of uon-bel-liVei-'-iits In a time of world turmoil. The sympathies ol the President his personal sympathies were with I the Allies from the beginning. That Baa--L. i rA difficult during the pre-war period than during any time in his two terms. His greatest exercise of Presidential patience and restraint came in those days.

The chapter following tho war deals with tho Peace Conference and is fresher in the public mind. It is the growing, judgment of most persons who went to Paris at that time that President Wilson itiado a mistake in ever leaving tho United States. The pedestal upon which the world had lifted him during the war was clearly revealed tho instant ho set foot on foreign soil. Ho was a superman. Peoples received him with worshipful acclaim whilo statesmen stood back and watched almost in silence.

No human being could enact in the flesh the part which the world had thrust upon him. It was beyond the power of the President, in direct touch with Europe, to sustain the lore and the legends that had been created around his name. It was merely human for Kurope to cool off. The cooling oft process Inevitably damaged his prestige and power. He had far less moral support among peoples when ho left Kurope than when ho entered it.

Only One of Several. His personal contact with Kuro-pean statesmen produced a very similar reaction. Each successive meeting with Lloyd George, Clemen-ceau, Orlando and the rest drove home with emphasis the fact that President Wilson was only ono of several men who were making the world peace. His leadership, so clear and unmistakable before the Armistice, becamo-obscured. Ho found himself confused and almost overwhelmed by the tangled mass of European greeds and ambitious.

He was forced to pay a price for the League, because they knew ho wanted the League ubove all things. And he hud lost, among statesmen as well a people that almost mysterious power which he possessed so long as he remained aloof in America, but which slipped from him as soon as he became one human being anions many in Kurope. It will, of course, always be a subject of controversy whether the President would have obtained more had he remained at home. Most persons in Washington believe that the chances would have favored his do ing better. But apart from any such argument as that, Mr.

Wilson's experiences and his work in Kurope constitute a great and unique chapter in any history of the American Presidency. He brought home a League of Nations coupled with a treaty with which he was never himself satisfied. But he had the League, and he had seen more than a score of nations enter into It when the parchment was signed at Versailles. There is no doubt that the President at first under-estimated the opposition to the League and Treuty In the United States. But he soon became aware of the situation in the Senate.

Later he became aware of a wide division of opinion among people at large. In spite of this opposition, he set himself to the task of trying to drive the Treaty through the Senate. In that he failed Partisan politics was mixed up with personal pique and with a considerable proportion of conscientious opposition. The President would not yield his principles, although he was charged with having yielded some of them abroad. It is very doubtful If either the League or the Treaty could have been put through the Senate, even had they been separated, a proposition to which ho would not consent.

Failure at home had been written in his book of destiny, and he could not erase it. Large National Achievements. Tn purely domestic affairs, President llson a eight years in ofllce will always be identified with certain large national achievements. But they are not so distinctively Wilson matters, so exclusively a part of his personal career, as the larger Rflairs which touched the whole world. Foremost among iheso domestic achievements stand the Income Tax laws and the Federal Reserve system.

Both came early In Mr. Wilson's first term. The fact that tho way had been paved for them does not, detract from the other fact that they are entered on the credit side of the Wilson ledger. The country was headed for an income tax, no matter who was President. Tho Sixteenth amendment to the Constitution, which cleared away the last obstacle, became effective only seven days before Mr.

Wilson's first inauguration. But under his leadership, a party which had long been out of power handled the problem with an efficiency and a dispatch that- probably would not have been supplied at that time by a Republican Administration. The Democratic party under Wilson was bound up with no hampering precedents and traditions. It was free to tackle the Job and did it well. Tho Federal Reserve system, following the Income tax and a lower tariff, was pushed through without a breathing spell.

For ten years the subject had been studied and for a. long time the Aldrich plan had been before the country. Tho old banking und currency system was due to be scrapped. But to President Wilson's first Administration goes tho credit of putting the change through, without the long legislative delays that might easily have been involved in so great a piece of work. Many other notable pieces of legislation fall within the Wilson Presidency.

A Federal farm loan act was passed, providing for rural credits. There was a good roads law, providing for Federal aid to the States. The Federal Trade Commission was created. There was revision of tho antitrust laws. The separation of the de partments of Commerce nad Labor came into effect.

The provision that American ships in coastwise trade should pass free through the Panama was repealed. The Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark, thus increasing American possessions. A dictator in Mexico, Huorta, was overturned, largely because President Wilson willed it, and later another one, Carranza, went to his fall. High SK)ts in Eight Yours. There is no lack of high spots in the two terms of President Wilson.

There would bo sufficient for any President's fame, had there been no war In Europe. But the international aspect of Woodro Wilson will always remain uppermost In any historical picture of him that is ever presented. In passing It will always be a matter of record that National Prohibition and National Woman Suffrage came into effect under Wilson, although not because of him. But history will note the fact that they fa.ll vIUau tha crowded Wilson purioak Tho FresUent Aas oeen much erltl- connected wit tuts ono, is that the communistic program of Soviet Russia would spread throughout Europe, Involving a mighty shift in the bal-unce of power. If either of these possibilities eventuated Into what we might term semi-permanent chaos or Bemi-pernianent communism, so that the whole temper and attitude of Europe was changed, it is indeed doubtful whether the name of Woodrow Wilson would have much meaning, except as some vague, far-off visionary.

The third possibility is simply that Europe will reach some well-ordered system of International relations, either through the present Ieaguo of Nations, or 'through some other arrangement' with tho same Idea ns its basis. In that cose, Woodrow Wilson would have a place in European history analogous to that which Lincoln occupies In our own, minus Lincoln's appealing humility, hut with ail of Lincoln's stanch moral earnestness. As fur as America itself is concerned, forecasts of Woodrow Wilson's place in our history aro not so difficult. fine thing Is certuin that oodrow Wilson will never be assigned to the polite obscurity which veils most of our former President. The names of Washington and Lincoln stand out, with perhaps John Adams, James Madison and James Monroe, of no less essential lustre, hut otherwise tho Incumbents of our greatest otllco are more or less mere links in a chain.

Van Buren, Polk. Pierce, Taylor are names that mean very little to the average headlong American, Will Always Mean Something to America. Woodrow Wilson, on the other hand, will nlwuys mean something. Wilson i will be the President who guided America through a difficult neutrality with patience and forbearance; who led America through a victorious wur. who fought for a scheme of international conciliation for which the world was perhaps at that time unready and unprepored, at the cost of sacrifices of point and principle thot endangered the very scheme itself.

The future will wonder nt Wilson's weakness, ot his abandonments and his reversions, but it will remember that it was a President of United States who fir. enunciated til Idea of an abandonment of narrotf nationalism, who was a pionoer In th almost revolution iry movement for cession of nonessential factors In national sovereignty. As lime passes, America Is bound fo lie less conservative and less reactionary. Unless we have been cradling ourselves in the cotton-wool of senMinenlnllsm, there is a moral force In this country which will Justify and solidify our past traditions. As these traditions regain their temporory loss In strength, us they aro fed and nourished through our Inevitable contact with similar moral forces abroad, the passing phases of Woodrow Wilson will gradually disappear.

Our domestic nntagonlsms toward hlni, complicated by party allegiances, by personal iimbltlons. by sometimes naif-Informed attitudes, will be forgotten, A new generation may wonder at some of Woodrow Wilson's acts, but It will not bo aroused to passionate condemnation, and It will remember his courn go, History in its more Intelligent aspects has a way of fustening'on crises, on turning-points, on the main facts in the case. Tho main fact Is that Woodrow Wilson established a Leugue of Nations. He stood for an organization to prevent war. Ho believed In peace among the nations of th earth.

lie built a pattern with )il own hand, even If he was unobln to prevent the statesmen's union from narrowing the windows and skiinpln the foundations. History will sav thot he was a man. When all is aaM and done, tho dreams he brought America may yet become realities. erans marched In the parade and thor was brilliant array of officers in thf city. A much commented on feature of the parade was battalion of cob ored troops anil a colored lodge of Masons.

Philadelphia was represented by several tire companies with engines rind two hose companies. Lincoln's second Inaugural adilreM was done In a thousand words, but the following part of it is still echolnc In American thought as pertinent tc tin- world's ulTalrs of today: "Willi malice toward none, wit I. charity for nil. with firmness in the rlirlit, us God gives us to see tho right, let us strive to finish the work we nn-In. to hind up the nation's wounds, nnd care far him who shall have borne the buttle, ami for his widow ond orphans- to do all which may achieve and cherish a Just and lasting peace among ourselves and with nil f)n IIiIr great day the President' thought, as the thought of the Nation, wns with its generals.

The great news on the dny that Lincoln was inaugurated the second time was that Gen. had captured Oen. Kaiiy. occupied Charlottesville, ami was last heard from at Staunton, where nine rears before, a war J'rS'- deiit to be, Woodrow Wilson was born. I QUEENS ESTATES Maria K.

Schloo. late of Corona, left ill net estate of 19,157 3.10, according to Transfer Tax Appraiser Warren B. Ash mead, of l.meens County. The estate goes to two sons, Charles and Henry Schloo; two daughters, Emma A. DoHcvolso and Anna M.

K. Meyer, ami a KiandilnuKUtcr, l'mmu M. Meyer, a II of I "orona. Joseph Dykes, lite of Flushing, left a net estate of to his widow. Ma rv A.

Dykes, of 312 Sanford Flushing, and a niece, Belle Dikes, of I.os Angeles, CM. Tho estate left by Meli'hor IToftrnmi, late of Kidgewond, has a net value of which is to go to four laughters. Marie Kuckcl. Sophie Hoffman nnd Lena Schocn. of Kidgewood, anil Tin res Van Huron, Brooklyn; John Hoffman, of Brooklyn, three grandchildren.

ciscd for partianship. There is no question about the fact that he wanted Democrats In ollico and put them there. He has always believed soundly in his party principles. Most Presidents have been partisans, particularly those since the Democratic and Republican parties became lixed factors in running the National Government. Those whohave been weak in partisanship huye usually been weak Presidents.

President-elect Harding proposes to be as much of a partisan as Mr. Wilson. The President's greatest political error came in 1918, when lie appealed for tho election of a Democratic Congress during the ip.rogress of the war. it grew out of one of the rare cases when Mr. Wilson accepted the judgment of others who surrounded him.

Apurt from that, lie has been recognized as a generally successful politician. His success lay not In tho manipulation of men and political maneuvering of the moment so much us it did in his ability to detach his mind from immediate turmoil, project it into the future und then look backward, seeing things In their true perspective. Political outbreaks of the moment rarely disturbed him aniVnever defeated he hud the vision to see ahead. Few Intimates mid Counsellors. Mr.

Wilson has had few intimates and few counsellors. In that respect he ranks us one of the very lonely Presidents. Ho has not consciously held himself aloof from other men, but the uloofness, rather, has been the result of the quality and habit of! his mind. When it came to the study of specific problem or the doing of a particular thing, the President, almost without volition, cloistered himself, lie had the single track mind. It provided for no sidings, no switches, and tlierf was room for very little rolling stock beside his' own.

His Cabinet officers were the heads of their executive departments, rather than his advisers. Tiio President did not try to change the mental habits ot a life time; he worked in the way ho knew how. If he was criticised Tor it, well and good, but lie could not do otherwise. This aloofness, which was not of his delibtrate creation, but an outgrowth of tho way in which his mind worked, inevitably made very few dose friends. Not possessing the social side that has characterised many Presidents, he lacked that additional point of contact.

He is always courteous; his manners are charming. But with the social instinct undeveloped along ordinary lines, it became a caso of either meeting the President on purely business mutters or scarcely meeting him at all. And in business contact most people would go away with the impression that ho was simply a cold Intellect an impression which always surprised him and which he never consciously sought to create. State Pnppro Have High Place. His state papers, including his addresses to Congress, have already taken a very high place in Presidential literature.

He took much pains with style and the use of words, und when he clothed a world ideal with language he produced, a finished and often beautiful thing. He has always possessed in exceptional degree the faculty of condensation, probably because he is prone to see things in large and general aspects and has little taste for details. As a result, his Presidential messages uverage by far the shortest of any collection in American history. That made It easier for him to get a wide circle of readers, lie-ing given to brief statement himself, he has always been impatient of verbosity in others, whether in writing or conversation. Whatever has beeli said of President Wilson, ho has never been accused of lowering the dignity of his great ollico.

lie has always maintained a lofty con ception of that, and It fell In readily with tils natural personal dignity. No- fjody will ever charge him with having cheapened the Presidency. He has had a deep-rooted aversion for any thing suggesting that, lie has always looked like a President and borne himself like one, and If at times he has given an impression of austerity it has grown chiefly from the fact that he never cared to make himself "popular," in tho ordinary sense of the term. Likes Simple Amusements. For all the serious und intensively developed intellectual sido of his nature, the President likes simple amusements.

Ho is very fond of the theater, particularly when there are light musical shows to he seen. He likes vaudeville. He likes motion pictures, lie reads good deal of fiction, including Inconsequential detective stories. Physical exertion has never made much appeal to him: lie did not grow up accustomed to It. But when he wus In full health he found recreation in golf, although driving was his most favored means of getting Into the open ulr.

His sense of humor is full-grown, but sharp rather than robust. Whatever actual rank may be assigned to him by historians of the Presidency, there Is no question that he will bo lound among the "big' nun who have lived in th White I House. Certainly he Is among a big half dozen, probably among a big four. Some there are who now discount fu- 1 Will Cost No More to Circularize a Peruvian Than an American City. Washington, Feb.

26 By tho Associated Press) Widespread interest in the application of the new postal convention between Spain and seven American republics, including the United States, is being shown by American business men. Its full significance In the way of stimulating trade, correspondence and the Interchange of periodical literature between the countries involved is not properly appreciated by the public, Otto 1'raeger, Second Assistant Postmaster General, said today. Mr. Praeger headed the American delegation to the convention of tho Universal I'ostal Union hi Madrid last November, where the Latin American republics with Spain and the United States refused to follow the lead of other European countries doubling oxistinir foreiirn and domestic rates. "It means that a mail order house in Chicago can now circularize Lima, Peru, in search of customers for the same amount of money that It can circularize any American city," Mr.

Praeger said. "Great newspapers cun extend their mall circulation to all the signatory countries at domestic rates, while books and commercial samples may flow back and forth between the United States and South America or Spain with the same facility, and at the same cost as New York and Philadelphia. Tho advantage which will accrue to American business can only uuw be estimated, but it will be enormous." Although Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras anil Culm aro the only countries whose new arrangement Willi the United States has already become effective, all other countries in the western hemisphere except Canada signed the Treaty and will lie affected by Its provisions as soon as their congresses have ratified the pact. A feature of the agreement which Is of highest Importance, according to Department of Commerce offi cials, and which will serve to make American circulor advertising matter much more acceptable to Central and South Americans, is that will now be Impossible to send mull matter Insufficiently stamped. This practice they say, cuused thousands of protests to be sent tho Department by Latin-American commercial bodies.

Such deficiencies were collected with the addition of 100 percent from the addressee. Under the new treaty a 1-cont stamp will carry a postcard to an addressee in any of the member countries, while tho maximum weight limit for newspapers and other printed matter will lie eight pounds and 12 ounces, making it possible to send the bulkiest of Sunday papers through tho mail. Hooks weighing 11 pounds may be carried. In return for concessions on tho part of Lntin-Amcricnn countries through which they increased maximum weight limits for mail matter, the United States agreed to transport free of charge through Its territory malls received from any of the other countries destined for a third. Bv means of this agreement the United States will undertake to accept mall delivered in any American port and forward it free to the Philippine Islands or to Spain.

At the next Universal Postal Union convention in Sweden In 1921, Mr. Praegen said, an effort will be made to standardize customs regulations in the different American countries so that the free exchange arrangement may ho extended to Include the parcel post. COLOXFL SMITH TO SPEAK. Huntington, L. T.I Feb.

26 Col. Dan Morgan Smith, leader of the "Battalion of Death," 1st Battalion, 358, Infantry. 90th 'Division, A. E. during the World War, will speak at the M.

E. Church next Thursday evening under the auspices of tho Anti-Saloon League of America. ture judgment so far as to place him among a big three. But not even his bitter partisan enemies gainsay the fact that one of the "big Presidents" Is leaving the White House on March 4, with a unique und secure place in American history, achieved during one or tho great epochs of the world. Harding's Inauguration 1921 Compared Willi Lincoln's 1861 Chicago.

Feb. 26 While Senator Harding's Inauguration us President of United States is designed to fol low arrangements of Abraham Lin coln's inaugural, there nre features of 1861 thut fortunately will be missing in 1S21. Instead of veterans of North and South marching side by side, as they will next month, tho only military forces in the inaugural parade of 1861 were the dappers find miners. The rest of the United States troops In the capital were stationed in different parts of the city to provide against emergencies. As I lie IMiuon novereu on the brink of civil war, the great fear of the authorities was that effort would b'l lade to Interfere Willi the ceremoniei.

If Presiil it Harding follows Lin coln's first il.iugurul address In com pass, he wilPdo it In less than S.iMio words. In that spuro Lincoln mado his idea for the Union and declared his intention to maintain it. Four veins later Lincoln's second inaugural was overshadowed by the procession of victories. The crowds were smaller than those In 186 1. Vet MAY SELL OPERA HOUSE Financial difficulties are given as a reason for the decision of Mrs.

Oscar Hamniersteln to place the Manhattan Opera House once more on the market. Although prominent theatrical Interests, It is said, have, mado repeated efforts to help Mrs. Hummer-stein to retain the property, it has been finally arranged to dispose of the big building, and advances have been mado to the Chicago Opera Company to take it over. Haniincrsteln finds herself in temporary embarrassment," said George Bluiiient hill, manager of her" interests. He expressed the hope, however, that her friends who have helped her in the past would succeed in assisting her to retain the property.

Sol Bloom Is understood to have of-I'erod her financial assistance to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars..