Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY

Models by C. A. BEATY ~ Words by BENE MORGAN

New Jersey “begs to ofTer" here a statesman, ripe. Though young, who thinks with his own and who talks with his own tongue. He used to run a college which wore ivy on its eaves, and each morn he'd chuck his college gown and roll up both his sleeves. His hands were full ..of blisters, but he’d ring the old cracked bell and all the merry scholars would erupt the football yell. And then across the campus in their sweaters —“tiger” hue— rush to greet “Prex Woodrow,” cheering Alma Mater, too. Those humdrum are ended, days of culture, cant and kids; days of research work and lectures, bulldogs, pipes and funny lids. Erasing those fond memories came a blare of brazen brass, thumps of gavels, throaty fireworks, shrieks of Commonwealths en masse; cruel cartoons and wiord clay models, roorbacks, crossfire from the foe, miles and mileß of unklssed babies, officeseekers all aglow, private cars with speaking porches, lozenge drops for rusty pipes, would-be friendly New York tigers, who wore not the Princeton stripes, gay and sad campaign predictions, tin horns, rattlers, megaphones — tender fondness for such terrors no true Princeton scholar owns. But New Jersey men are Titans, skeeter-proof and full of vim, and since days of boyhood this one’s kep\ in flghtlhg trim. (Copyright, Ul2. by Universal Press Syndicate.)

WOODROW WILSON.