's Speech of
Acceptance, 1916 73

TYPOPHOTOGRAVURE of Portrait of President Wilson at Peace
Conference, _by George W. Harris_ 74

WOODROW WILSON'S PLACE IN HISTORY--An Appreciation by General
The Right Honorable Jan Christian Smuts, 1921 75-79

CARTOON--Without the Advice or Consent of the Senate, _by Kirby
in the New York World_ 80

WE DIE WITHOUT DISTINCTION--From the President's Address at
Swarthmore College, 1913 80

WOODROW WILSON--An Interpretation--_Courtesy of the New York
World_ 81-93

TYPOPHOTOGRAVURE of the President on Board Ship Returning
from Peace Conference 87

THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEACE TREATY 87

TYPOPHOTOGRAVURE of the President at the Last Meeting with
his Cabinet, 1921 88

TWO PICTURES--From Address by Joseph P. Tumulty 88

THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 93-100

HISTORY'S PROVING GROUND

The modern newspaper through its intensive, minute and zealous
activities in searching out, presenting and interpreting each day the
news of the entire world, is tracing with unerring accuracy the true
and permanent picture of the present. This picture will endure as
undisputed history for all time.

Let us concede that the newspaper writer sometimes, in the passion of
the hour, goes far afield. It is equally true that no statement of
importance can thus be made that is not immediately challenged,
answered and reanswered until, through the fierce fires of controversy
the dross is burned away and the gold of established fact remains. Not
alone the fact stands out, but also the world's immediate reaction to
that fact, the psychology of the event and the man dominating the cause
and the effect.

The modern newspaper is the proving ground of history. To illustrate
let us suppose that our newspaper press, as we know it today, had
existed in Shakespeare's time. Would there now be any controversy over
the authorship of the world's greatest dramas?

Could the staff photographer of a Sunday supplement as efficient as one
of our present day corps have snapped Mohammed in his tent and a ke