It's a pretty good world, whether seen from the petty excitements of reforming the world and dreaming of a diseaseless earth in New York, or from the stump-pulling recreation of a North Carolina wilderness.
Health be with you! W.H.P.
To Edwin A.Alderman Garden City, L.I.
March 10, 1913.
MY DEAR ED ALDERMAN: I'm home from a month of perfect climate in the sandhills of North Carolina, where I am preparing a farm and building a home at least for winter use; and I had the most instructive and interesting month of my life there.

I believe I see, even in my life-time, the coming of a kind of man and a kind of life that shall come pretty near to being the model American citizen and the model American way to live.

Half of it is climate; a fourth of it occupation; the other fourth, companionship.

And the climate (with what it does) is three fourths companionship.
Then I came to Washington and saw Wilson made President--a very impressive experience indeed.

The future--God knows; but I believe in Wilson very thoroughly.