The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-25
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 Gov
ernor of New Jersey Shows Him
Worthy of Highest Position In
the Gift of the People.

1t would be hard to find a school
boy over the age of twelve years who
has not heard of the name of Wood
row Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was born in
,Staunton, Virginia, December 2Sth,
1856. His father was the Rev. Joseph
R. Wilson and one of the most in
fluential 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 $4,000 Inhabitants, and it was
here that the boyhood of the future
governor of New Jersey and presi-
dent of Princeton was spent.
Rev. Wilson moved to Colum bia,
South Carolina, in the Autumn Of
1870 and became teacher in
the Southern Theological Seminary
which position be held for four years.
Woodrow continued to attend school,
but 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 op-
portunity to understand the north
ern, as well as the southern, point
of view.
In the autumn of 1885 he was
called to the chair of history and po-
litical economy in Bryn Mawr Col
lege. This he held for three years,
when he was called to similar po-
sition in Wesleyan University. He
remained there two years and was
called to his alma mater, Princeton, as
professor of jurisprudence and po-
1itical economy. Later in 1902 he was
elected president Of Princeton-the
second oldest university in the
United States He took his Phi. D.
degree on examination in 1886, SUBJ
hitting as his thesis congressional
Government" This Is considered the
highest degree conferred by institu-
tions of learning.
When DR.. Wilson came to the
presidency of Princeton he had been
known as a scholar, author and pub
lie speaker, but he was INFESTED 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 Office and out Of
Office. He proposed something at
Princeton that was radical change
from the old way: it was the COM
plete reorganization Of the university
in such q 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,
for It lent toward breaking up the
self.elective clubs 1T sounded a
startling note of democracy and point
ed out broad ways by which the
youth of the country could be brought
up for the service of the country"
Young Men Look Up to Him.
Woodrow Wilson has been an in
spiration to many young men who
have looked up to him as a master
of his calling-always helpful to 9TH
ers, as individuals and as a body pol
itic. He copies after no one and in
dividual thought is traceable in every
essay and book that he wrote but
always regardful OF the rights of 9th
ers, The reforms he has inaugurated
since he has been governor Of New
Jersey-probably the worst corpora
tion-ridden state in the union-has pu,
him prominently before the world. Al!
over the country thoughtful men are
writing AND saying that he will be
the Democratic nominee for the presr
dency when the convention convenes
next summer. He Is BY nature and
adaptation the nttest man for that 81
fica to be to1nd In the United States