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Woodrow Wilson, America's War President Lite Of Woodrow America’s War President ^ ■■ ■ ■ — — i Wilson, _ | Led Country to Victory Life of Woodrow Wilson 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 League of Nations 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.
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