Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was born on Dec. 28, 1856. Seventy years later, many of his admirers gathered at luncheons and dinners through out the land to honor his name. In Manhattan Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and some 500 distinguished guests assembled to hear Elihu Root accept a check for $25,000 and a bronze medal from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Dec. 20) "in recognition of his services to humanity. . . ."

Mr. Root, aged 81, spoke to rebuke the U. S. for deserting the League of Nations. Said he: "We have allowed insensate prejudice, camouflaged by futile phrases, to appear, but falsely appear, to represent the true heart of the American people, with all its idealism, with its breadth of human sympathy, with its strong desire that our country should do its share for peace and happiness and noble life in all the world."

Next day, Mr. Root gave his $25,000 check to establish an endowment fund for the magazine Foreign Affairs* a quarterly review published by the Council on Foreign Relations and edited by Professor Archibald Gary Coolidge of Harvard, and Hamilton Fish Armstrong.

Inspired by the Wilson Day celebrations, there arose within the nation an anonymous donor with $50,000. He (or she) presented it to the Woodrow Wilson Founda tion, which forthwith announced that it would award two prizes of $25,000 each to the man and woman (between the ages of 20 and 35) who submit the two best articles on: "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." The manuscripts must not contain more than 2,500 words and must be completed before Oct. 1, 1927.

*Mr. Root and practically every important statesman of Europe have written articles for Foreign Affairs -- not the usual thoughtful "hand-out" monographs. The list of contributors includes Statesmen Herriot, Stresemann, Vandervelde, Bethlen, Masaryk, Poincare, Benes, etc. Foreign Affaires is not published for profit.