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“"‘ll: lnwyr he more out thn rur:
: ti".\k uniting for Clients. so he aban-
‘.lol'ns Hopkins l'nivcrsny nt Balti-
'lltters. \‘i‘hile there he published
. r-r: ment." 3 study in American pol-
' itlrs. lt rvokcd offers of professor-
. :ultroml. The young man who wrote
ililCHl system in 1583 found him-
!wl.’ to fit-{ll with them Inter. liar-
in} irh "suecps on to fortune
can to rise about him. Vominated
fur nournor of \(w Jrrse) in a the “pump:
pvllilf'lll situation about Vihich many
'lie tlrnxn his progruni through. Thr- 2
«la-mi Wilson’s Rise
Humble Professor
0 Supreme Leadership?
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millions, which turned the scale to
tlictors'.
\\ hatever an army of Boa-wells
may “rite, that uill be the part in
“inn he will lie lvcst remembered
it) coming generations.
porn in staunton. VzL. December
:8 1835 of Scotch- Irish parentage.
h! “:15 Cl ristened 'lliomas “oodrou
\\".1 son and he. “as known in early
life as ”Tomrm.‘ After he “as
graduated from Princeton in 1879
he “'as known only as “'oodrow
Wilson. His father was the Rev.
Joseph liuggles \‘i’ilson. a Presby-
it'l’lal’l clergyman and his mother
was Jessie \‘Voodrow.
“'hcn lie was two year) old the.
iortuncs or his father took the {um-z
ily to Augusta. Georgia, and later
ago of 17 Thomas “‘oodrow “'il—
son entered Darldson college, but
loutgthere soon to 1:0 to Princeton.
for graduation at I’rinceton ’hc
s‘udittl law at the L'nivcrsity of;
Vircinia and in 1148': hung out his!
>T main in Atlanta. GIL. Meantime
,1) r-nnrttd l-Jiis-n Louise Axson the
viziuzhtr-r of n Sat'unnun Presbyteri-
rin il'Y‘E:}ill51l’l. Tin-y were married
1'1 1%?» and had three dauchtt-rs.
Margaret. the (111051. who did not
inurr): Jessie. who became the wife
of Francis Bowes Sayre. and Elea-
xjnr, “ho lu-cnrno the “lie of \Vil-
linni G. McAdoo secretary of the
treasury during lttr father’s admin‘
istrution and inter a prisidcntiul :15-
(‘allod Greatest Autocrat.
Iilr.\\‘1lson once said that as a
in his. ottice walking around the
rir-nul a local career and want to
more for a post graduate course in
his first book “Congressional gov-
s=‘.,=t~s at Tiryn Mawr and “'cslcyan?
rind won ricognition at home and
of the defects of the American vio-
114: written in a dt‘pl‘t‘CBlOl’y tone of,
3 tie tr ndency toward nutocracy in l
l \11 eiitan presidrnts he lived to hear
" ircc'lt (:1 ‘led the greatest autocrat
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of thrm n ll and to see a resolution
'i“‘l£i?‘ll’lg his office vacant .on those
Hunts came into evidence. l‘he title
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illinl's'ilng things have lvccn said
it, and immediately took on the
state "bosses" for a round of com-‘
but wlmh attracted the attention of
'2» country. In the Jcrsry legislas
lure he found the young latt'3er.=
.los~-ph 1‘. Tuinulty who liq-came his.
:-r vnte S"(‘l".".'ll')’ and biographer. 3
lumirnl (t-vmntnts charged Go\—‘
rrr'ir \\i‘:soii ulth radicalism but:
".wivti Hist! is inn 5" :1 series of l-ills'
rlmt‘iwl und r his (lirmtmn uliich
Guilt i1 trusts.’ New Jorsn up:
M that timc, lit-cause of its corner-l
lite laws. hazi been called a rcndezwc
"tmis for monopolies.
(ioxrrtzor “'ilson's nomination for:
. l
‘ i lilL l-t‘f‘sldcllt‘y at the I" mocrntic
L'I-im ntion of ‘lPl 2 in Baltimorc_
His one of the dramatic spacia-
l5 0! American political lllSlUl'Y. It
- .\\;15 a battle rosal which brought
' .. ict-ssivc (1'
~' ' to after mo.c than 40
hltn “C FY Immediately
ballots.
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Woodrow Wilson at Various Milestones
in His Life, Birthplace and Late Home
IN RETIREMENT
rctircrnont. “do“ : His home in
Abouu—“Tx-drmv “'ilsmi in a youth. at the snex or his career,
llditli unit “'ilson. and (right) the home-
“hsliinmnn altor leasing the “’liile Houw.
stem] of lhr‘ “H.011 family in Stanmnn. \‘a.
his 5 (Tom! wife,
1 years. the president built up a. record
Choose A President.
' xtnr~rnl=le and,
l tucloud
’l" (mprrst
. our! y
exuurrls introduced and tabled 111;].
'thr‘ Senate,
In 391“ the inexorhnle force Oflnational
tnc program
a D"fll0(‘l"hil(‘_
refused to give3 5
-:hirds to a can-
“ho ind gotten
first time in histmy 1.1
4 had determined u..«51t he named to
‘do. When he war led a bill intro-
;:duced in Congress be. frequently
idrew it himstlt and if it hesitated
thrte previous con-
:lit against Clark
contests ewr
i1,
.- of the lulltr- st
and ilrnicd with equal fervor. lie-conducted
was riveted on the Democratic tlrk- ; liroke Clark's
lgzn'e \‘l'itson or Brynn—and he op-;
policies in Congress"
Clark knew he lost not
tut the pres—
.e cnotlst hctueen Taft
:issurtdg such
1.1.! llr'lln voile
Democrat was all bull
4
, himself turned around when he had
‘liis first foreign situation to deal
3 with. It was with Mexico and was
and lioos “l‘i
. r-uliiicaii administration. “The Ite-
,pulliican cliit-itairs said they left
I it for _\ r. \Yilson because they didn‘t
:i2r l‘uczt‘c & Atlantic)
lstic pr. so while speaking
'“hu‘e busy-l llucit a. the dic’afor. seized the
. Woodrow \t’ilson got
3 ”‘3 ”fink“ rtins or cox ernr
and won the
ti"’.l"l'al votrs. Roos-
‘ §\1url~ro and \‘it(-l‘r<siliei1t Suarez
Trm k Mimi. "
”(my)”: noose: i vtry fixed Hens cf Lis own on suc-
fcession to 1? r p: ~;i 3- .cv l~v assassi
1 5‘ K dancing 1° ‘ naiicn He 1 iouclit i: rim-ti y general
tune and at first
‘ and wth l fidantts it “as gcing to stop. He
.u'lihllt‘ld rt-Lo;2.1§ion trom Huerta
- \x’iiztc House (In March
tlL'liullf’Jllg the,
mower utter suc—
Cone." ss thouc':
the democracy
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As Publid Knew Woodrow Wilson
i. and 13::- situntion l-oi‘icd ‘ltili Huerta
i troops attacked some Amrr'ean Blue
-ordered the occupation of \era
'tion was that the German ship
:Tpiranga was about to land arms
. and ammunition for Huerta and
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very li tie crunrl-Iiug. r \‘i‘ilstn;
cariv confesstd that l=e 11d 3 ‘onci
cl; argcdi track mlnu‘ and l( pro‘el to Con-j
in l gross carlv in his ailnimzstrniion r11 .
«sci iii-f he kmw what he wanttd and how!
h inciudt-d ripeal;
of the tariff. rtw'ismn o! the currency ‘ true, but he cons
s‘vivz-s of control (1' the
to get it lie ha d a cabin 1:. it \\‘.15‘;
"(d it at tcr he;
on passage he summcncd the lead-
ere—and 1t paged soon thereafter.
in dealing with the cabinet he did
Hardly had Mr. “‘ilson gotten
a lrgucy from the preceding: Ile-
V-unt to emharrass hill“! in dealing
with iL The Democrats declared
the neptzblicans had “passed the
luck" It came to a crisis when
and President
“up: iiiurdrrtai. Ii‘lr. \‘i'ilson had
in Cer .iral Arnr rica a! 1d lie to} (1 con-
Jacktts at Ta mpico and Mr. “‘iison
Cruz by the American army. The
official reason given for the occupa-
the occupation “as to prevent it.
The L'nited States demanded a salute
to the flag. which. crimes of the Wil-
son administration took delight in
pointing out. nucr was given.
saw a. world-war coming and had
. that. the country drawing its popula-
_ and marriage.
'his oun thinking: and conducted»
much important business 0! the var-"
, mus departments direct from the.
White House.
315 Mexican Problem.
Events in Mexico solved their own
problem in a. few months when Car-
ranza. another newly risen leader.
ejected Huerta. who fled. American
troops were withdruwn from Vera
Cruz, and later President Wuson
extended formal recognition :3 the.
Carranza government, but in 1920
Carranza in turn fled in the (see of
a revolution. and the Mexican prob—
lq-m came back to a. Republican admi-
nistration for settk‘ent. "VVaLchtul
waiting" was not alone Mr. “'ilsou's.
Mr. \Yilson was much criticized for
"wrakncss" in handling the Mexican
situation. but .his friends said 410
told them he "did not propoSe to
have the United States caught with
one hand tied behind its back."
He did not propose to be engaged
in a war with Mexico at such a
time. At. all events, the world war
broke the same year. Woodrow
Vi’llson added his appeals to the
futile effort. to stay it. sitting by the
bedside of his dying wire on a
memorable August 6. 1914. Mrs.
\‘i‘ilson passed away that day. and
with n world taking tire about him.
he took her body to her girlhood
home in Rome. Georgia. for burial.
The president was almost prostrated
with his grief. and returned alone
to the Vi‘hite House to face his
burden. Mr: \Vilson's friends always
said that from the first. Mr. Vi'ilson
saw it would be a world war and
that the United States eventually
would be drawn in. But he realized
tion from the state of Europe which
were going to war would face a
much divided sentiment and a very
difficult situation. His first words
to his countrymen were a caution
to strict neutrality.
Submarine. Oumgc.1
Mr “ilsou's exerts uerc dexoted
to keeping his country neutral until
the submarine outrages began. He
was at first unable to believe that
the atrocities had the sanction of the
German government but. was con-
vinced when they sunk the Lusi-'
lama. That incident brought the
first rift in his official family “‘il-
liam Jennings Bryan. secretary of
state. an avowed pacifist. opposed
Mr. “'1lson's.course and left the
cabinet. Mr. “'ilson nevertheless
went ahead and warned the Ger-
man government against sacriflic-
ing the lives of American citizens.
Through a diplomatic con-aspen-
deuce which continued for two
which reached its climax "when he
handled passports to Count Johann
\ on bornstorm the German Ambas-
sador. and asked Congress to de—
clare war which it did. “'ith that
the President led the nation into
the tremendous eflort before it.
Meanwhile. with a world war all
about him, Mr. Wilson had found
time for an a‘Iair of the heart... He
had met Mr; Edith Bolling Gait.
widow of a Washington merchant.
Their courtship was swift and they
were married December 18 1915.4
There were no children of this see.
A presidential election had inter-
Tcncd before the country went into
the war and this time Mr. Wilson's
republican opponent was Charles
Ev ans Hughes. who left the supreme:
court. bench to become a. mdldate.‘
The issues or that campaign were
very much muddled. The democra-
tic slogan was “he kept. us out of
war.” Mr. “Wilson's election, how—
ever, was by a ret‘y narrow margin.
The result trembled in the balance
three days and finally turned in his
favor when Californll finally flopped
to the democratic column by a tew
votes. Mr. Wilson got :77 votes in
the electoral college and Mr. Hughes
got 254.
As Command In Chief.
President “'ilson actually assumed
his place as commander in chief of
the army and navy. He took the
leading part in planning America‘s
participation in the war. He insist—
ed from the first. for a unified corn-
mand on the western front; for vig-
orous measures to curb the subma-
rine menace. He personally ini-
tiated much of the war legislation
such as the passage of the selective
service law. the creation of the Ship-
ping Board. the War industries
Roard. the'War Labor Board and a
mulutud of other arms of the gov:
ernment r carrying on the strug-
gle. He devoted his whole being
to the war. seeing nobody and think—
ing or nothing else. Some of his
days probably were like Lincoln's.
It was President Wilson who con-
ducted the correspondence with
Chancellor Max 0! Germany when
the request ‘for an armistice came.
and once the Germans laid down
their arms he turned his thought
wholly from war to peace, telling
his friends that while Germany must
be mad e to pay to her full abuty.
Europe must not have another A]-
saceborraine.
It was quite a. difierent Woodrow
Wilson who sat in the president’s
chair when the war ended. With
hair whitened and face lined he
showed the eflects. He had learned
something about men and human
Maire. He had learned. he told a
friend “that some men become great
and others swat! up.” but his pen-
chant for doing things hme' it never
lessened. He wrote state papers and
read them. J
' Peon-ice of m Future.
It would require a large volume to
tell all the interesting things that
happened to Woodrow Wilson while
‘he was participating in making the
treaty of peace in Puritan that his-
torlc winter at 1818-1919. 1: would
require mother volume 'to tell the *
ME 1017 of diplomatic man-
oeuvers. intrigues. and dramatic
moments that attended 11. Public-.-
tion or either .1 this film! probably
would. result in the cream of An-
maummmuduotmmp
blade ind certainly wauid not and to
good testing uncut W W m
loom: toward to .In and at war:
and an or: of peace. “
Woodrow Wilson himself would
not with it. What. in 1128. hale-
oepted the Nobel Pelee Prise for
being "the perm who ha motel!
,-_.V.-_...._,- . _ _.n _-
érious 3‘Stages- " of His Caree'
Late President’s Wife
Giza-6‘5“.
Viqlsnti “itll Taft during in’rmretior if
Wilson as America
and Europe Knew Him
fiance-R we 0 c
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