Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — WILSON'S CAREER AN INSPIRATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILSON'S CAREER AN INSPIRATION

Young Men of the Country May Well Look Up to Him as Master of His Calling. AS EDUCATOR AND EXECUTIVE In Particular, His Record as the Governor of New Jersey Shows Him Worthy of Highest Position in the Gift of toe People. It would be hard to find a school boy over the age of twelve years who has not heard of the name of Woodrow Wilson. * Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, December 28th, 1856. His father was the Rev. Joseph nR. Wilson and one of the most influential churchmen of the ‘ south. At the age of two years his father moved to Augusta, Georgia, where he took charge of one of the largest and most influential churches in the south. Augusta was then a city of about 15,000 inhabitants, and it was here that, the boyhood of the future governor of New Jersey and president of Princeton was speiit. Rev. Wilson moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in the Autumn of 1870 and became a teacher in the Southern Theological Seminary Which position be held for four years. Woodrow continued to attend school, hut most of his training was under the direct supervision of his father, and in spite of his late years to start at books he soon qualified for college and at seventeen he was sent to Davidson College. North Carolina. Princeton Training Valuable. In the autumn of 1875 he entered Princeton, where he graduated with the class of 1879. His going north to college was fortunate, for it gave him at an impressionable age an opportunity to understand the northern, as well as the southern, point of view.

In the autumn of 1885 he was called to the chair of history and political economy in Bryn Mawr College. This he held for three years, when he was called to a similar position in Wesleyan University: He remained there two years and waa called to his alma mater, Princeton, as .professor of jurisprudence and political economy. Later in 1902 he was elected president of Princeton —the second oldest university in the United States. He took his Ph. D. I degree on examination in 1886, sub-j mitting as his thesis “Congressional Government.” 'This is considered the highest degree conferred by institutions of learning. When Dr. Wilson -came to the presidency of Princeton he had been known as a scholar, author and public speaker, but he was untested as an executive.

In his presidential office; he carried out the idea of leadership which he pronounced in his first book, and has held ever since, in officered out of office. He proposed something at Princeton that waa a radical change from the old way; it was the complete reorganization of the university ih such a way as to bring into daily communication and companionship representatives of all classes and of , the faculty. The proposal was against the tradition of Princeton, 1 for it lent toward breaking up the I self-elective clubs. “It sounded a , startling note of democracy and pointr !ed out broad ways by which the youth of the country could be brought up for the service of the country.” Young Mep Look Up to Him. Woodrow Wilson has been an inspiration to many young men who | have looked up to him as a master I of his calling—always helpful to others, as individuals and as a body politic. lie copies after no one and individual thought is traoeable in every essay and hook that he wrote, but always regardful of the rights of others. The reforms he has inaugurated since he has been governor of New Jersey—probably the worst corpora-tion-ridden state in the union—has put him prominently before the world. All over the Country thoughtful men are -writing and saying that he will be ! the Democratic nominee for the presidency when the convention convenes ! next summer. He is by nature and ' adaptation the fittest man for that of-, ».ce to be found in the United States. [ f.. < 'W j