are in my mind. First, the Hall of Representatives
crowded from floor to gallery with expectant throngs. Presently it
is announced that the President of the United States will address
Congress. There steps out to the Speaker's desk a straight,
vigorous, slender man, active and alert. He is sixty years of age,
but he looks not more than forty-five, so lithe of limb, so alert
of bearing, so virile. It is Woodrow Wilson reading his great war
message. The other picture is only three and a half years later.
There is a parade of Veterans of the Great War. They are to be
reviewed by the President on the east terrace of the White House.
In a chair sits a man, your President, broken in health, but still
alert in mind. His hair is white, his shoulders bowed, his figure
bent. He is sixty-three years old, but he looks older. It is
Woodrow Wilson. Presently, in the procession there appears an
ambulance laden with wounded soldiers, the maimed, the halt and the
blind. As they pass they salute, slowly reverently. The President's
right hand goes up in answering salute. I glanced at him. There
were tears in his eyes. The wounded is greeting the wounded; those
in the ambulance, he in the chair, are alike, casualties of the
Great War._

_From address by Joseph P. Tumulty_
_Thursday, Oct. 28, 1920_

When the armistice was signed one of the most eminent of living British
statesmen gave it as his opinion that the war had lasted two years too
long, and that the task of salvaging an enduring peace from the wreck
had become well-nigh insuperable. It will always be one of the
fascinating riddles of history to guess what the result would have been
if Mr. Wilson's final proposals for mediation had been accepted. The
United States would not have entered the war, and a less violent
readjustment of the internal affairs of Europe would probably have
resulted. There would have been no Bolshevist revolution in Russia and
no economic collapse of Europe. Nor is it certain that most of the
really enduring benefits of the Treaty of Versailles could not have
been as well obtained by negotiation as they were finally obtained
through a military victory which cost a price that still staggers
humanity.

Be that as it may, the German Government, now fighting to maintain the
dynasty and the Junker domination, took the issue out of Mr. Wilson's
hands. Ten days after his "peace