tly and surely and without surcease,
Where other light was not, save one red star,
Treads now, as then, the certain path to peace;
Wounded, denied, but radiant of soul,
Steadfast in honor, marches toward the goal.

II

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 Sout