Lite Of Woodrow America’s War President ^ ■■ ■ ■ — — i , _ | Led Country to Victory Life of in Pictures Idealism I In World War; Ruined I Health In League Fight

t| Twenty-eighth President ot the doned a legal career and went to S United States, and the first Demo- Johns Hopkins University at Balti- suc- in | erat since Jackson to serve two more for a post graduate course cessive terms, Woodrow Wilson oc- letters. While there he published £ cupied the Presidency during eight his first book, “Congressional Gov- and a in American { years ot such world upheaval ernment,” study poli- turmoil, that his proper place in his- tics. It evoked offers of professor- | him until at Mawr and ¥. tory cannot be assigned to ships Bryn Wesleyan his contemporaries are likewise as- and won recognition at home and | abroad. The I signed to their -niches. young man who wrote Certainly, he ranks as one of the of the defects of the American polit- the Ameri- ical in 1883 found himself great war Presidents of system exercised such to deal with them later. l can republic, and he Having affairs as written in a the an influence in world deprecatory tone of office. toward Ameri- never before attached to ills tendency autocracy in Empires crumbled, thrones col- can Presidents he lived to hear him- was self called the of : Ef lapsed, the map of the world greatest autocrat adminls- them all and to see a resolution de- made over, and under his \ its his office '•B tration the country abandoned claring vacant on those j policy of Isolation and became an ac- grounds introduced and tabled in | in l nve participant in world affairs, the senate. hand. ail of that he took a powerful Successively, Mr. Wilson became as- No biographer could attempt to professor of history and political in full. at Mawr and at Wes- sess him accurately, and economy Bryn in [ until the processes which began leyan University and later professor hi* day and with his participation of jurisprudence and political econo- have come to a conclusion. my at Princeton where, subsequently, a f An obscure lawyer, by nature he was made head of that institu- an edu- tion. Meanwhile, Professor Wilson j. man Of letters, he became attention as a ; eator and won his first had gained high reputation of hts with from the public as [’resident writer. Some of works, the the their | Princeton University. Then by date of production, were system as follows: "The State—Elements strange ways of a political .-fc he became Governor of New Jersey of Historical and Practical Politics,” of the “Division and later, because the voters (1SS9); and Reunion," Republican party were divided be- (1893 ); "George Washington,’’ §. v\lh- “A the American : 1 tween Theodore Roosevelt and (1896); History of ot “Constitutional | lam H. Taft he became president People,” (1902); the States. Government in the United States," 1 United “When During his eight years of power (1908); “Free Life,” (1913); human a J he travelled the gamut ot Man Comes To Himself,” (1915); “On “An ' emotions: victory, defeat: courtship Being Hitma ,” (1916); for and Political Es- O i and marriage: responsibility Old Master Other | with the and "Mere Literature and leading a nation into war says.” | THIS PICTURE of Woodrow Wilson I collateral responsibility of bringing Other Essays,” were among his STI I)K.NTS OF ART SAY per of earlier His state sonifies the of Idealism. Yet the war-time president, dis- 5 It back again to the ways peace: writings. papers, highest type with notes to and an article In a magazine which him as a gren 1 and finally a daily struggle belligerent governments cussing popular portrayed addresses to congress. would fill intellectual machine,•’ remarked to his secretary, Jos. II. Tumuliy: “Great » d the In me than that!” | He had heard himself hailed by many volumes. God, is there no more "the God of The Doctor | millions of Europe as j honorary degree of name hissed of Laws was bestowed upon him by peace" and heard his Acclaimed Wake Forest 1 Tulane l by the same millions. ( College ( 887): chant for doing things himself never ution of standing armies and the for- a new Mes- Johns state ! at one time almost as University (1893): Hopkins had lessened. He wrote pa- mation and increase of peace con- excoriated cabinet f „iah, he heard himself (1902); Brown University 1903); pers and read them to the gresses, he said: and Harvard Williams became and denounced as an autocrat Universty (1907); afterward; he iropatienj "The cause of peace and fhe caust -Nn (190S); and Dartmouth with men who disagreed with him i worse at home and abroad. College of truth are of one family. What Lincoln was Yale made him a and dismissed them. He if other President since college (1909). frequently ever has been accomplished in tht and hated; no other Doctor of Literature in 1901. quarreled with friends who in turn so worshipped | past is petty compared to the | had such Life was a well settled af- reproached him with being ungrate- glory I President since Roosevelt pretty of the future." Thiough for him he was ful but he always kept on his r friends and such enemies. fair while president once decided upon it. Woodrow Wilson lived his las: an outward calm of Princeton. Its oaks, shaded course having r it all he great preserved hov- Peace in sight. Mr. Wilson decid- years and died in “the glory o£ tht the destroyer which lawns and historic halls, furnished a 2—As a , I while grim At rate, Woodrow Wilson got 1—As young lawyer. himself and take during the lu. t the in which Mr. Wilson any ed to go to Europe promise of the future” confident that k ered close about him settings and won election no the nomination the Uni- a hand in making it. Congress, as he saw it would occupancy of the Pres- did much of the literary work which young professor at Wesleyan right ultimately f months of his with 135 electoral votes. Roosevelt the suppliant hand maiden it him relentlesly to later was to attract the world. He longer prevail. He never lost faith in tht t Idency, followed got 88 and Taft got 8. He came versity. 3—As governor of New Jer- was his first administration where he lived probably had little thought of being More Titan A Wife during but he lost faitfc | the modest home to the White House on March 4. roared its disapproval. Mr. Wilson retired gentleman snatched Into the ma#Istrom of poli- sey. 4—At the time of his inaugura- in some of the human whc the ways of a 1013, signalizing the return of de- assured congress that in the day of beings at his door every da> tics and war. He drew some public were its inevitable elements. | and knocked mocracy to power after successive tion as president. wireless and cable it would know al) attention in the for preserva- He closed liis t until it was at last opened. fight defeats of sixteen he did. As a matter of fact he told eyes conlident thal dent years. borne the bin tion of democratic ideals at the uni- Bottom row, left to right: he was ! as a man of letters and After having Immediately he galvanized the congress very little of what a Presldenl : li» undertook versity, but he lived the life of a > the war that mat- he had done his | of a war President. before 5—During period. fl— doing, or anybody else for best for humanity which man on small as late country, appearing congress r task of making a peace family pay and " until It was done. That was not btlt that his best was not all the in person, publicly denouncing a While touring the country in de- ter, that he believed would bo n last- as 1910 was contemplatng retiring I Mr. Wilson’s way. The result was might have wished. E" he sincerely vicious lobby” which he charged fense of the League of Nations. 7— and atthough he succeeded on a teacher's pension. that he committed the United States Time alone i Ing one was attempting to influence in Wash- can write his epitaph, i Europe to accept it in That year the inexorable force i On his 05th birthday. 8—At Presi- to the League of Nations and was I In getting and launched a legislative bis own country re- of events came into evidence. The ington dent | large measure of Harding's funeral ceremony in repudiated. lie broke tide which to program which included repeal e lected it. And in the fight "sweeps on fortune” I Washington. President Wilson’s participation out. suf- the tariff, revision of the currency Wilson’s wwre himself began to rise about him. Nominated In the memorable peace congress War CalJ f hli health, new of control of the which for of New in a system, styles been described many pens, I fered a stroke of paralysis governor Jersey pol- liad by trusts, the creation of many new and and his I The folowing words of Woodrow -I Ied to his death, and declared itical situation about which many friendly unfriendly, part k government agencies, and such a tral America and he confidantes in recent Wilson, America's it all that be would have interesting things have been said told was so Indelibly written President, will A. | through multitude of other legislative busi- it was to He withheld needs little attention ring down the in ’'mi to his life for the and denied with equal fervor, he going stop. history that it through ages: s been happy give that the country “The ness congress and recognition from Huerta and the sit- in a brief resume of his life works. world must be male safe for ■ success of his efforts. was elected on the Democratic ticket, had in tip with it. uation boiled were Its an dimmediately took on the state difficulty keeping until Huerta troop* The statesmen of fiurope Democracy. peace must be Woodrow Wilson was a precedent Theodore Roose. attacked his wit and planted “bosses” for a round of combat Congress thought some American blue jac- charmed by his oratory, upon the tested foundations I from beginning to end. lie I smasher velt a “dictator” and an “autocrat” kets at Tampico and Mr. AVIlson or- ! his personality unttil they bumped | of political liberty. We have no sel- reviving the. practice of which attracted the attention of the I [ began by but it soon found itself dancing to dered the ; into his indomitable will to do things :ilsh ends to serve. We in country. In the Jersey legislature he ! occupation of Vera Cruz desire no B f Washington and Jefferson deliv- tune and at first was convinced he found the Woodrow Wilson's by the American army. The official' Ills way when he I conquests, no dominion. We seek no to congress in young lawyer, Joseph P. in t ering his messages it danced very obediently and with reason for the was right. Then the sparks flew |indemnities for ur leav- Tumulty, who became his private given occupation was service, no ma- he finished by actually Mr. Wilson the secret meetings he had with terial [ person; secretary and very little grumbling. that the German ship Ypiranga was compensation for the sacri- f soil and going to Hu- biographer. "one Ciemenceau and Or- Ing American early confessed that he had a about to land arms and ammunition Lloyd George, fices we shall freely make. We are of a f His was the responsibility Political opponents charged Gov- con- lando. He was determined to have ™ rope. track mind” and he-proved to for Huerta and the was but one of the with a ernor occupation champions of tht- i when a country Wilson with radicalism but he to League of Nations so inseparably deciding gress early In his administration prevent it. The United State* rights of mankind. We shall be su- t sympathies drove his program through. Tiie interwoven with a of people torn by conflicting that he knew what he wanted and a treaty peace when demanded salute to the flag, which itisfled these rights have beer _ to throw itself into the outstanding legislation was the that no nation couid one t was ready how to get it. He had a cabinet, it critics of tlie AVilsoii administra- ^accept made secure as the faith and tht world war, and when the nm- “seven sisters laws” a series of bills without accepting the other. The op- | great was true, but he consulted it’after tion took delight In freedom of notions can make them.' he took tU* responsibility drafted under his direction which pointing out, statesmen found that only by L ment came he had determined what he wanted never was posing —Prom President Vvilsons and millions, dealt with trusts. New given. him have it could they get messagt y of throwing in the men Jersey up to When he w'anted a bill intro, letting of to do. Events in Mexico solved their own of wanted. April 2, 1917, in which he callet which turned the scale to victory. that time, been/ ®e of its corporate the provisions peace they | duced in congress lie frequently drew problem In a few months when Car- al! on Congress to declare war on tier- Boswells; laws, had been called a rendezvous The result was a treaty in which What ever an army of if it on it himself and hesitated pass- ranza, another newly risen leader, and it was denounced that will be the part in for monopolies. got something may write, age he summoned the leaders—and ejected Huerta who lied. American breeder of wars remembered by its opponents as a 1 which he will be best Governor Wilson’s nomination for soon thereafter. In deal- troops [ it passed were withdrawn from Vera rather than a of peace. Cruz. treaty Offices f by coming generations. the Presidency at the Democratic ing with the cabinet he did his own But Mr. Wilson had had one Woodrow Wilson Held It would require a large volume to I Born in Staunton. Va December convention of 1912 In Baltimore was thinking and conducted much im- experience with Mexican affairs and 1885-8—Associate Professor o. j he did tell all the interesting thiijgs that ! 28, 1856, of Seotch-Irish parentage, one of the dramatic spectacles of portant business of the various de- not recognize Carranza either history and political economy ai | | In fact no happened tv Woodrow Wilson while F he was christened Thomas Woodrow , American political history. It was direct from the White government In Mexico Bryn Alawr partments the College. in a battle was recognized for ten he was participating In making f ? Wilson and he was known early royal which brought him House. years—long 1888-90—Prolessor of history ano After he was afler after Mr. Wilaon had gone out of treaty of peace in Paris in that his- l, life as “Tommy.” victory more than forty ballots. Hardly had Mr. Wilson gotten political economy at Wesleyan Uni- office. The Mectican problem came toric winter of 1918-1919. It would graduated from Princeton in 1879 Champ Clark, the venerable and around when he had versity. B himself turned back to a i i he was known only as Woodrow beloved speaker of the House of Republican administration require another volume to tell the his first foreign situation to deal for settlement. 1890-1910—Professor at Prince- Wilson. His father was the Rev. Representatives, led Wilson In the j ‘'Watchful waiting” engrossing story of diplomatic man- with. It was with Mexico and was was not alone Mr. AVilson’s. ton University. ■ Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presby- early voting—in fact p.Iled a major- Re- oeuvers, Intrigues, and dramatic mo- a legacy from the preceding Mr. Wilson was much criticised 1902-10—President of Princeton <■ terian and his mother of the For the first ments that attended it. Publication [ clergyman, ity delegates. publican admtnistration. The Re- for "weakness” in * handling the was Jessie Woodrow. time in history a Democratic na- chieftains left it of either at this time would result publican said they Mexican situation., but liis friends 1911-1918—Governor of New tional convention refused to give the the creation on Annanias clubs Jer- When he was two years old the ! for Mr. Wilson because they didn't said he saw a world-war coming and in farn- necessary two-thirds to a candidate sides the Atlantic and I fortune* of his father took the | want to embarrass him in dealing had told them he "did not propose on both of | *vho had a Will- 191S-1921—President of the lly to Augusta. Qeorgla. and later! gotten majority. with It The Democrats declared to have the United States caught certainly would not add to good feel- iam Bryan, himself the United States. 't to Columbia, 8. C., where at the Jennings the Republicans had “passed the with one hand tied behind its back.” ing among peoples who are looking nominee of three conven- He did age of seventeen Thomas Woodrow previous buck It came to a crisis when not propose to be engaged forward to an end of wars and an era tions, led the fight against Clark in in a war with at i, Wilson entered Davidson college, but Huerta, the dictator, seized the reins Mexico such a time. of peace. Wilson's Three Nicknames soon to to Princeton. one of the bitterest contests ever and Ma- At all events, the world ." left there go of government, President war broke fn his childhood conducted in American It the same Woodrow Wilson himself would Thomas Wood- ; After graduation at Princeton lie politics. devo and Vice President Suarez were year. Woodrow Wilson SHE NEVER THOUGHT OF HERSELF. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson for- not wish it. When, in 19 he ac- row Wilson w'as known as studied law at the of broke Clark’s heart—he never for- Wilson had added his appeals to the futile ef- 20, Tommy'. j University murdered. Mr. very the its Wilson or he fort to stay got world and all pleasures when her husband's health failed during cepted the Nobel peace prize for Later his schoolmates called him Virginia and in 1882 hung out his gave Bryan—and op- fixed ideas of his own on successicfn it, sitting by the bedside J of | Wilson's in of his wife on a the last days his administration.. Confined in the sickroom of the en- i the who has ihinglo in Atlanta. Ga. Meantime he posed policies congress to the presidency by assassination. dying memorable being person promoted j' August #. 1914. feebled executive, she cheerfully applied herself to the hard role ol While he was courted Ellen Louise Axson, the repeatedly. Clark knew he lost not He thought it pretty general In Cen- Mrs. Wilson passed most or best the fraternity of na- President Wilson |■ that and nurse, ministering to fiis every want until ho was convalescent a Savannah only the nomination, but the Presi- away day, with a world sufficiently tlons and the abolishment or dimin- was popularly called daughter of Presbyterian to be abont j ^Woody." in dency, for the contest between Taft taking fire about him, he took her again. i j. clergyman. They were married ITA^N^SA^AA^VVVS^VVWWWvVVVVVVVVV and Roosevelt assured such rift In body to her girlhood home in Rome, ^ wwsA/wvviA/vwwwvws/yAA/ww\Ay* 3 886 and had three daughters, Mar- who Georgia, for burial. The President Evans Hughes, left the supreme £ the eldest who did not marry: the Republican vote that, the elec- ti garet, was almost prostrated with his court bench to become a candidate. i?i who became the wite of Fran- tion of a Democrat was all but in- grief, Jessie, and returned alone to the White The Issues of that campaign were ci* Bowes and who evitable. I Sayre, Eleanor, House to face his burden. Mr. Wil- very much muddled. The Democra- became the wife of William O. The convention realized this for | son's friends always said that from tic slogan was “he kept us out of f of tlie the man who nominated de- AIcAdoo, secretary treasury Clark the first Mr. Wilson saw it would war”. Mr. Wilson’s election, how- father’s administration clared: IS \ during her be a world war and that the United ever. was by a very narrow margin. 9 and later a Presidential aspirant. “We meet not only to choose a States eventually would be drawn in. The result trembled in the balance to a Mr. Wilson once said that as a candidate but choose President." But he realised that the country three days and finally turned in his g young lawyer he wore out the rug drawing its population from the favor when California finally flopped states of |E f in his office walking around the Europe which were going to the Democratic column by a few so lie to war would face a much divided votes. Mr. Wilson 277 ., desk waiting for clients, aban- got votes in sentiment and a very difficult situa- the electoral college and Mr. Hughes tion. His first words to his coun- got 254. II £ trymen were a caution to strict President Wilson actually assumed ! neutrality. his place as commander int chief of Mr. efforts Wilson’s were devoted the army and navy. He took the to keeping his country neutral until leading part in planning America's the submarine outrage He began. participation in the war. He insist- was at first unable to believe that ed from the first for a unified com- the atrocities had the sanction of mand on the western front; for I the German government, but was vig- orous measures to curb the subma- convinced when they sunk the Lusi- rine menace. He tania. That incident brought the personally Initiated the war first rift in his official family. Wil- much of legislation such as the liam Jennings Bryan, secretary of passage of the selective service state an avowed pacifist opposed Mr. law, the creation of "the Shipping Wilson course and left the cabinet. Board, the War Industries Board, Mr. Wilson nevertheless went ahead the War i,abor Board and a multi- and warned the German government tude of others arms of the govern- against sacrificing the lives of ment for carrying on the struggle. American citizen. Through a diplo- He devoted his whole being to the matic correspondence which contin- war, seeing nobody and thinking of ued for two years the President nothing else. Some or his days prob- built up a record which reached its ably were like Lincoln’s. climax when he handed passports to It was President Wilson who con- Count Johann Von Bernstorff, the ducted the correspondence with German ambassador and aBked con- Chancellor Max of Germany when gress to declare war. which It did. the request for an armistice came, With that the President led the na- and once the Germans laid down tion into tremendous the effort be- their arms he turned his fore it. thought wholly from war to peace, telling his Meanwhile, with a world war all friends that while Germany must be about him, Mr. Wilson had found made to pay to her full ability, time for an affair He of the heart. Europe must not have another had met Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt, the Alsace-Lorraine. widow of a merchant Washington It was quiteNi different Woodrow Their courtship was swift and thej Wilson who sat in the President’s were married December 18, 1916 chair when the war ended. With There were no children of this sec- hair whitened ana face lined he I FOB A DRIVE IN TH E SUNSHINE. Woodrow Wilson an <1 Ids wife broke the confinement of ond marriage. showed the effects. He had learned 9 after she bad nursed hi m back to recovery from his Illness by taking long drives through the A presidential election had Inter- something about men and human These oconsi were the vened beforo the ■ ashlngton signals for great crowds to gatlier along line of passage country went inte nature. He had learned, he told a \VHK\ HIS WOIIK WAS PIN ISHKI) Wilson and President Hindi ne rode down through the l.ialn H the war and ■ the former president. he is shown doffing his hat 1 n salute to the homage being pah this time Mr. Wiison'f : friend “that some men become great street* of Washington amid the tain ulttious cheers of the massed multitudes. But Wilson did not ac- Republican opponent was Charles j and others swell up,” b€t his pen- knowledge tlie plaudits, lie felt th cj- were not Intended for him but (or Ills siicumuow I * ...