The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-19
WOODROW WILSON'S PENSION.
n New Jersey Tale Of Supcrannuatiol
Which Has IL N0rai.
(FrOm the New York Sun


(FrOm the New York SUM-
We print what the Sun believes to
DE facts concerning what it also be-
lleves to be one of the most peculiar
events in the Hon. Woodrow Wilson'S
career.
Up to the time when the Hon,
james Smith. Jr., of Newark, and 9TH
er o'd-fashioned leaders of the New
Jersey democracy procured the NOM
nation of DIR. Wilson for governor and
began to eXpend their personal energy,
thelr political sagacity, and cash out
OF the pocketbooks upon his campaign
Tor election. the president of Prince
ton university had been a member of
the board of trustees of Mr.. Carncgic's
foundation for the advancement of
teaching. He had participated in the
administration of that really bencfi-
cent trust. and had observed from "a
point of advantage the usefulness of
the. system of pensions for college pro-
MS attention from academic to politi-
cal affairs, entering upon his new
career under the auspices OF the Hon.
James Smith. Jr., and other most re-
spectacle patrons. DIR. Wilson prompt
" resigned as trustee of the Carnegie
board Of the delicacy of his course
IN this respect there cannot he two
ulHcr'hg opinions. II have severed
my connection with Princeton univer-
sitF. he wrote to his associate i'm the
oard. "and have given up teaching,
after rs years of service, to enter pub
lie life. l feel that in such circum.
+ should tender to you nv
resignation. l do SO with genuine re-
iuctance. and only out OF IL sense of
DUTY The admirers of Gov. Wilson
In the various college Wilson clubs and
will not and perhaps APP
plaud the scrupulous accuracy with
when he thus put on record the strict
!! personal and altOhiOgra phical de-
tail. 1t seems to us that it could not
nut interest tho remaining trustees to
learn That although their departing as
sociate was only 53 years old, and at
inc very threshold of Il new career of
rcmnneratfvc activity. he himself had
just completed, with not IL year and
perhaps not a month Il pare. the
minimum period constituting one hut
all of the proper qualifications for
Il Carnegie pension.
The coincidence may have struck
the trustees as curious. but DIR. Will
exhibition of his o5 years of
service certainly was not regarded as
81 petition for financial assistance. The
implied suggestion in his letter of
resignation was apparently followed by
d. more Spccihc reminder from DIR.
Wilson that he was technically in a DO
Sition to benefit by the fund. This. ac-
'ording to the narrative printed else
where. drew from the Carnegie foun-
dation The statement to DIR. Wilson
that the distribution of pensions was
not an automatic process. and that a
formal application was needed in or
dor that h case might be judged on
its merits: The formal application ar
rived IN u course and was consider
cd and rejected by the; board.
Such is the story told of the initia-
tive, the referendum. and the recall in
the case of the pension which the
Hon. Woodrow Wilson does not draw
as a beneficiary Of the Carnegie foun-
dation for the advancement of teach
ing. We know nothing about the feel
ings of his former colleagues with re-
gard to his claim. but was it humane
on his part to subject their affection
to SO unexpected and so severe a
strain? -