New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1924, Page 3

/ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1924. MILESTONES IN THE LIFE OF WOODROW WILSON AS TOLD IN PICTURES AND STORY . o0 7 T : g [ " ” i y (hand in making it. Congress, no long- Elgllt Years OfPohhcal g b : 3 4 T ; er the suppliant hand maiden it was g g i { . b ¢ : % & s during his first administration roared s its disapproval. Mr. Wilson assured Turmoil Most Crowd- P . cainas 7 2 T o e . o A 50 ; ¢ . and cable it would know all he did. ed In History — Wil- | e , | 4 » s a s R ! L : ; ! ' : g itthe of what he was doing, or | o v anybody else for that matter, until it son Broken By War it T e | e v 7 | F e ke iy el Ry g gl oot e resvlt was that he commit- g = resident Wilson's participation in N 3 et seribed by many pens, friend- (87 Pacific & Atiantic) | unfriendly, and his part was o indelibly written in recent history By The Assoclated Press, that it needs little attention in a brief Twenty-eighth president of + the United States, and the first democrat since Jackson to serve two successive i ; h terms, Woodrow Wilson occupled the 4 by ¥ & ¢ | Jersey lcgislature he found the young presidency during eight years of such | 3 e # . 3 i [lawyer, Joseph P. Tumuity who b world upheaval and turmoil, that his : A 4 came his private secretary and biogra- proper place in history cannot be as- s i pher. signed to him until his contemporar- N e Political opponents charged Gover- . . his ies are likewise assigned to thelr . 3t nor Wilson with radicalism but he 3 . s niches. g : i o |drove his program through. The Certainly, he ranks as oné of the il , 3 | outstanding legislation was the cen great war presidents of the American 3 % " * sisters laws” a series of bills drafted republic, and he exercised such an £ a $ T ] under dis direction which dealt with on influence in world affairs as never be- v # & i A |trusts. New Jersey up to that time, 5 BV ¥ arably interwoveh with a treaty of fore attached to his office. by 4 ey . | because of its corporate laws, had peace that no nation could ept one Empires crumbled, thrones col- g o | been called a rendezvous for monop- 2 : ¢ without accepfing the other. The op- lapsed, the map of the world was ? 3 g £ | olies. o posing statesmen tound that only by made over, and under his adminis- . 3 ) { ¢ | Governor Wilson's nomination for etting him have it could they get the tration the country abandoned its pol- i e 7 3 J i {the presidency at the democratic con- £ i provisions of peace they wanted. The icy of isolation and became an active SR T " 4 7 s 1 | vention of 1912 in Baltimor: was one P« 2 ! lresult was a treaty in which all got participant in world affairs. In all of i " 4 " & bt |of the dramatic spectacles of Ameri- , b Bk, 3 EEp Y something and it was denounced by that he took a powerful hand. No 5 A 5 4 iz | can political history. It was a battle : e _ e its opponents.as a breeder of wars biographer could attempt to assess Sl 4 s 3 ¥ § ¥ ] | royal and brought him victory after Sl L, ¢ B rather than a treaty of peace, oen A {more than 40 ballots, It would require a large volume to | Champ Clark, the venerable and be- By Pacific & Atlantic) telt all the interesting things that As president of the United States. [loved speaker of the house of repre- AT AlSE happened to Woodrow Wilson while [sentatives, led Wilson in the early Latest picture of Mr. Wilson. he was participating in making the Have. besn BRSnY 35 MW RIS tor | Pritoston whens sukesaieitly, ho v voipIBe Sk Ml 8 Whderity of treaty of peace in Paris in that hiss the success of his efforts, made head of that institution. Mean- | N dclesates, Ior ““"_" ') tme In{pavent it The United States sourt bench to become a toric winter of 1918-1919. 1t would Woodrow Wilson was a precedent | while, Professor Wilson had gained :"':"'” 3 demaneatis e eve s [ manded a salute to the flag, which, |The issues of that campaig Foqutes nihos Yolune S tosk he A smasher from beginning to end. He |high reputation as a writer, Some of | 100 refused to give the necessary|oritiog of the Wilson administration [very much muddled, The democratic grossing story of diplomatic maneuve began by reviving the practice of | his works with the date of their |LVO-thirds to a candidate who had| ook qelight in pointing out, never|siogan was “he kept us out of war,”|ers. intrigues, and dramatic momenta Washington and Jefferson in deliver- | production, were as follows: *The |SOtten a majority. Willlam Jennings | ., givoy Mr. Wilson's election, however, was ' thut attended it. Publication of either ing his messages to congress in per- | State—Ilements of Historical and | Br¥an, himself the ‘nominee of threa vents in Mexico solved their own by a very narrow margin, The result [at this time probably would result in son; he finished by actually ving | T ical Politics,” (1889); “Division ]vrf-\Iolls.v('on\lvnllo|n4‘. led the fight| soniem in a few months when Car- trembled in the balanee three days the creation of the Ananias clubs on American soil and going to, Europe. [and Reunion,” (1893); “George Wash. | “E4inst Clark in one of the bitterest| p,;,a, another newly risen leader, lund finally turned in his favor when| both sides of the Atlantic and cer- His was the responsibility of deciding |ington,” (1896); “A History of the |CONtests ever conducted in American | jocted Huerta who fled. American |California finally flepped to the ! tainly would not add to good feeling ' It broke Clark's heart—he [iroops were withdrawn from Vers|democratic column by a few votes, among peoples who are looking for- when a country with a people torn by | Amerlcan People,” (1502); “Consti- | PO!Ues: i 3 : . conflicting sympathies was ready to |tutional Government in the United | NCVer forgave Wilson or Brsan—and | Cruz, and later President Wilson ex- My, Wilkon got 277 votes in the elec ol s ot bl s, throw itself fhto the great world war, 5" (1008); “I'ree Life,” (1913); | "® ""(‘(“"‘"" ‘};‘f"":} "_‘kf’l:;"'r"‘l_‘;" “]‘:“;; tended formal recognition to the Car- toral college and Mr. Hughes got of and when the moment came he took | “Whe Man Comes to Himselr,” |S'°S8 repeatedly. Cia g Iranza government, But in 1920 Car-| pregident Wilson actually assumed - the responsibility of throwing in the On Being Human,” g); (Mot only the nomination, but the rynza in turn fled in the face of Alpi place as commander in chief of men and millions, whfch turned the |“An Old Master and Othe . residency, for the contest between | pevolution and the Mexican problem . army and navy, He took the lead- scale to victory. Essays,” 'and “Meore Lite r ft and Roosevelt assured such ‘.n came back to a republican u:!mlm.\— ing part in planning Amerlea’s parti- Whatever an army of Boswells | Other Fsays,” wer o | TIft in the republican vote that the | ipation for settiement “Watc "."” cipation in the war, He insisted from may write, that will be the part in ings. Hiu state papers, notes to | “1eotion Of & democrat was all b vaiting? was not alone e Wilson's. (e firsi for _unificd_command_on which he will be best remembered by | belligerent governments and addresses The convention realized this for the Mr. Wilson was much criticized for coming generations, to congress would fill many volume ~ E e Bom In 1858 The honorary degree of Doetor of |MAN Who nominated Clark declared: | “weakness” in handling the Mexics - | “We meet not only to choose a | situation, but his friends said he saw 4 Born in Btaunten, Va., December Laws was bestowed upon him by | > o2 . " A ) 1 b TOMMY WOODROW WILSON 28, 1856, of Scotch-Irish parcitage, he | Wil Forest colloge (1887); Tulane | “4ndidate but to choose a president.” u world-war coming and had told LOS[ ) Game flfld WUH 011&-Had A Senlor In Princeton University | was christened Thomas Woodrow Wil- | Unf®rsity (1593)! Johns Hopkins Win Election hem he “did not propose to ha In 1879 Characteristic Pose While spdiking ! um of his life work : w . Charmed Statesnten The statesmen of Europe were charmed by his oratory, his wit and binrperaonaiity; untll they bumnsd 107 to his indomitdble will to do things way when he was convinced he Then the sparks flew in meetings he had with Clemencean and Ore He was determined to have a of PatiGiE dovesant 0. kosdns son and ‘'he was known in early life | (1802); Brown University (1503):| At any rate, Woodrow Wilson got!!nited States caught Wwith ons ot y as “Tommy”. After he was graduat- Harvard University (1807); Williams [the nomination and won the eleetion tied behind its back v + GOOd Slllflelll ReC'Old ed from Princeton in 1879 he was | college (1808Y; and Durtmouth col- |with 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt | Propose to be engaged in a war ¥ him wccurately, and in full, untll .the |y 0n quly as Woodrow Wilson. His |lege (1909); Yale made him a Doctor | got 85 and Taft got 8, Me came to L . e g v processes Which began in his day and | . iper was the Rev, Joseph Ruggles |of Iiterature in 1901 {the White House on March.4, 1913, | the wrerid ware broke She samo veer Davidson, N, €., ¥eb, 4,—The death With his pasticipation have come 0 & | wijuon, & Presbyterian clergyman, and | Life was a pretty well settled af- | signalizing the return of the democ. | Yoodrow Wilson added hix apprals i« Y Weatrow WAl hiadiht oot conclusion. « bis mother was Jessle Waodrow. the futile effort to stay sitting by of Woodrow Wilson brought especia An obscure lawyer, by mature al “who e was two years old the s - - . the bedstde of hix dying wife on a sorrow to Davidson college, where he than of letters, he became an educa- |, # ks ol ; 3 1914, Mrs, Wi . was a student from the fall of 1873 'ortunes of his father took the family £ + 8 5 . ity tor and won his first attention from to Augusta, Georgla, and later to Co- 8 < son passed away at duy, and ' , until just before next commencement, the public as president of Princeton lumbia, 8. C. wh,,l.,.‘ at ”": age of 17 g O 9 . i iy world taking fire about him. he took when he left on account of i1l health. tiniversity. Then by the strange WaYS |y, onat Woodrow Wilson entered . o o 5 her body to her girlhood home His home at that time was in Wils of a political system he became g0V-| 1y, \1450n college, but left there soon " i Rome, Georgla, for burial, The proat ¥ mington, N, C., where his father, ernor of New Jersey and later, be- to go to |.,."",,.“;“ After Eraduation - dent was almost prostrated e member of the board of trustees of cause the voters of the republican | . "o .. o e g 3 4 g grief, and'returned alone to the Wi Davidson college, was pastor of the neeton he studied law at the My party were divided between Theodore |\, ... (0 Mradata & . House to face his burden. M IPirst Presbyterian church, y of Virginia and in 1882 g ) that ¢ ' Roosevelt and William H. Taft he|, . o * { son's friends always said " During young Wilson's stay at Da- g out his shingle In Atlant . the . Wilson saw it \ ’ became president of the United States. Meantime he courted Blien Loulse Axe he firw Mr : vidso e chopped his own wood, During his eight years of power he | .\ 1y gaughtor of o Savannah Pros. < n world war and that th . pumped his owil water, washed his traveled the gamut of human emo- |, wiiiny clergyman. They were mars Ftatea eventuially would he dr Py 5 amps and cleaned his room in the tions; victory, defeat; courtship and | iog 1y 1585 and had three daughters, fut he realised 1t oS Wi pric chambers. bullding, which marriage; responsibility for leading & | yio oot the eldest who did not drawing ita population Tro i MRS, WO s destroyed by fire two years ago, nation into war with the collateral re- [ | oo™y o (T L G X E of Furope which . average grade for the year was sponsibllity of bringing it back agan | oS0 Lt L e i Eleanor { would S - (. the western fre orous 1 and his sarviving classmates to the ways of peace; and fnally a | . " Pt b G, . o84 & yory SHSER : s to cn - unace Im as an all round young- ame the wite of Willlam G. " > his ) a daly struggle with death. MoAdou, secretaiy of the troms 5 firet words v ally i r cognized leader in collegy ‘as Acclaimed And Hissed oo V. A . RORSUry 2 cantion to striet 1 o R the . p Vst e e g e : Was during her father's administration Mr, Wilson's cfforts were devoted e lally versed in current poli He had heard himeelf hatled by the 05l o0 oot SRR R, WS o 8 st " millions of Europe as “the God of | e ] : X A St a keeping his coun - ' tion the ving Board, 1 p . yor of the Eumens peace” and heard his name hissed by Abandoned Legal Carcer Wilson with Taft during inauguration in 1912 submarive ot S v 3o B Wor | = s STy wroobr 3 the same milllons. Acclaimed at one Mr. Wilson once said that as a | e, oo it first unab : \ t o i e s & o debate o8 time almost as a new Messiah, he|young lawyer he wore out the rug in|fair for him while he was president [racy to power after successive de. firocitics had the that repube heard himself excoriated and de.|his office walking around the desk of Princeton. Its great onks, shaded | foats of 16 years. T nounced as an autocrat and worse at | waiting for clients, so he abundoned | juwns and historic halls, furnished the Immediately he galvanized the s ""‘ “‘ "‘M‘. S home and abroad. No other presi-a legal career and went to Johns wettings in which Mr. Wilson did much | aountry, appeating before congress in | o ",“’ % . dent since Lincoln was so worshipped | Hopkins university at Baltimore for of the literary work which lter Was | porson, publicly denouncing “a viclous Ma officta and hated; no other president since (4 post graduate coursc in letlers, (o attract the worl He probably | jobby™ which he charged was "I“‘,H‘ 3 Roosevelt had such friends and such | while there he published his first had fittle thong f being snatehed | (ompting to influence in Washi e enemies. Through it all he preserved | book “Congressional Government,” a jnto the maelst politics and | ind launched a legislative program . an outward calm while the grim de- |study in American politic It evoke ‘l‘u . He drew 10 public attention | whieh include repeal of thé tariff, stroyer which hovered close about him | offers of professorships at Bryn Mawr iy (he fight for prescriation of demo- | pevision of the currency system, new during the last months of his oecu- |and Wesleyan and won recognition at | cratie jdeals at 1 university, but he siyles of control of the , the er pancy of the presidency, followed him | home and abroad. The young man jived the life of imily man on ation of many ne ernment a y . o for ‘wo 3 1 20 t t Mate inging relentlessly to the modest home where | who wrote of the defects of the Am- smull pay and as late 110 was con- | ¢ and such a multitude of other . o ' t . et t b von hir urp rebuke from he lived the ways of a retired gentle- | erican political system in 1883 found | femplating retiring L teacher's | jegislative business that congress and pohe man and knocked at his door every | himself to deal with them later. Hav- pensio the country had difficulty in Keeping | jocoow day until it was at last opencd, ing written in a deprecatory tone of Nominated For Governor up with it stordt, 1) Task of Peace the tendency toward autocracy in That the inexorable foree of Congrees thought Theodore 10osc- ' asked congr After having borne the hurdens of | American presidents he lived to hear cvents came into evidence. The tide | yoi o “dictator” and gn “antocrat,” §i Wit A war president, he undertook the | himself called the greatest autocrat which “sweeps on to fortune” bgan pur it soon found isclf dancing to atior task of making a peace which he sin- [ of them all and to se a resolution de- to rise about him. Nominated f0F \Woodrow Wilson's fune and at first . cerely believed would be a lasting one | claring his office vacant on those governor of New Jersey in a political | g ganeed ve edicntly and with| Meanw and although he succeeded in getting | Brounds introduced and tabled in the |situation about which many interest- | yery fittle grumbling. Mr. Wilson about him Europe to accept it in large measure | senate ing things has cen sald and denied | carly confe t bud & “one time for & y of t eart . . his own country rejected it And in Successively, Mr. Wilson became with equal rvor, h & elected on | graek mind ' 9 ot ' . FDUCATIONAL VIEW S the fight he broke his health, wore | professor of history and political the democratic te 1 immediate- gr arly in hi nistration himself out, suffercd a stroke of | nomy at Bryn Mawr and at Wesleyan |1y took on the gtate “bosses” for he v what he w ted and how paralysis which led to his death, and | university and later professor of jur- [round of combat which attracted the ' He had a cabinet, 1 was tru declared through #t all that he would | fsprivdence and political cconomy at 'attentlon of the Y In the consulted he had 4 e s ved whiat | unted to do. When | marriage L bill introduced in co Won Over quently dre it himse A pres and if it hesitated on pak 3 © sum moned the leaders it pas soon thercaft 1 valing with cabinet he did bis own thi ng conducted mueh important reinces of the various partments dirvet from the White Hou First Vorcizn Situation Hardly 1 Mr Mexico at such a time At all events memorable Angust § KOVerie v This his first was g he ¢ erucial igh from assmates, Nort was w M¢ ministration tatns said Wim sitvatio oope attack Jackets at T ordered 11 by the "-:.,:""- n ship Y > e § X f4 I%e Fous { i The other three are "r)r i