Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-10
"New Jerseys Problems Are
Only Those the Nation Has
Been Facing"
lFrom a staff Correspondent

PRINCETON, Nov. 10-Resting at
Prospect, his Princeton home, Gov
ernor-elect Woodrow Wilson has al
ready begun to put his teeth into the
meat of the problem who's solution
he will seek as chief executive of this
State. Congratulations still continue
to cone in by mail and messenger.
Literally by the thousands, n from
every State in the Union, these con-
gratulations poured in on DIR. Wilson.
Hundreds of them added hopes for 1912
To the ~rejoicings over 1910, and, tired
as he was from the strain of his CAM
paign, the Governor-elect confessed the
qualification he felt because so many
were glad of his success. Two OF the
messages in particular pleased him.
One was from Vivian NJ. Lewis, his
Republican opponent.
Accept my heartiest c~ongratula-
tions," it read. May your admins
tration be a most successful n happy
one"
The other came from Mayor Ha1np-
ton H. Wayt, Of staunton, Va, Dr..
Wilson's birthplace. 1t read:
"The city of Stanton congratulates
the Democratic party n yourself upon
your selection and election"
DR.. Wilson added to his morning
statement later in the day.
Seeking nm Opening.
'sUnhappily," DR.. Wilson began with
a smile, 81 have a business mind and
I must have meat to put my teeth into
when I try to talk. It's a hardship at
a time like this, for l can never find
a place to make a beginning"
Don't you think that that business
mind is the very thing h a the Ameri-
can people are looking for just now In
their public menu" DIR. Wilson was
asked.
'I do indeed" was his prompt reply.
But the business mind must not be
one that confines itself to a single
topic or a single interest. 1t must be
a coordinating mind; it must seek not
to solve this problem alone or to serve
thai interest alone; it must look ana
work toward the welding together In
one organism of all interests for the
solving, in so far as we may, of all the
problems that confront us.
THAT is the Job of the statesman to-
day. I was struck some time 9 by
an announcement made at a meeting
of the leaders in the tobacco trade.
w must meet public opinion more
than half way these men were told
by their chairman. Today's greatest
need is to develop the man who can
foster that inclination. 1t is betraying
itself all around us and in quarters
where we might least expect to see 1t,
but we cannot afford to wait for the
Impulse that suggests or advises 1t.
Every day brings to my notice some
new mar who wants to get away from
the old way of doing things. These
tobacco men had that desire, n / be-
lieve that there was more than &C
Acknowledgement of -ntagontsrn IN IL
conscience had it's part, the desire to
do right for rights sake, but we must
do more than hail these changes OF
heart. Public opinion, moved by fits
and starts, becomes uneven n IN
stable. and with such a public opinion
we will fail of the needed result.
TT comes back to coordination. The
province of law is to set up standards
of conduct that will preserve and
nance the common welfare. The man
we need. the man we must develop, is
he who can lead us to the will that is
square with those standards. If that
will does not come the law must be In
voked to an exercise of the power with
which 1t is invested and to he con-
fusion of conditions that so invariably
comes with that.
1T was talking with a man abou the
interstate clause of the Con-
s~titution.
well he said, I don't believe that
the Constitution shouldn't grow
Have you heard the latest theory
regarding ~cancer?' I asked him. I
don't know that I have, but h latest
that has been brought to my attention
is thai the cancer Is not the result of
diseased tissues, but of an access of
life so hectic, so excited. that 1t burns
the tissue away, and so breeds the
deadly condition
".Iy business has been the study Of
constitutional processes, not only in