Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — APPROVE NOBEL AWARD [ARTICLE]

APPROVE NOBEL AWARD

Christiania Papera Bay Wilson Wa* Creator of League. Christiania, Norway, Dec. 11. —The Aftenpost und the Tldens Tegn yesterday devoted their first pages to pictures and biographies oj President Wilson and M. Bourgeois, to whom the Nobel peace prises were awarded. The Aftenpost said in an editorial: "It will be told with great Joy that President Wilson gets this prlxe. After disappointment in Versailles he returned home a beaten man, ridiculed by his adversaries and fellowcitizens. By circumstances out of his control he was restrained from promoting his international peace work. As president of the United States, he was unable to do anything more, but history will keep memory of him as creator of the league of nations. To Europe and to great parts of America, President Wilson looms as the man of peace who broke with the old doctrines and showed the way toward new ideas. He is, first and last, the great peace promoter —popular among the victorious and among those beaten.” The Tidens Tegn said the awarding of the prize to President Wilson was a great demonstration for the league of nations, “and especially for its creator,” who, the newspaper asserts, suffered disappointment, as his most precious plans were not accepted by his own nation. “But,” adds the newspaper, “without President Wilson there would have been no league."