Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-02-09
Simple Funeral Ceremonies Mark Inter-
ment Of Dead President.-C Coffin
Borne By Jackies And Doughboys :
ENTIRE NATION PAYS TRIBUTE
AS BODY is LAID TO REST

William Woodrow Wilson twenty
third selection of the American peo-
pie as their chief executive, is.dead,
succumbing to five years of suffering
on last Sunday morning at 11.15
o'clock, and the nation puts on Off
cial mourning for thirty days.
In 1919, while on tour of Ameri-
ca, urging the cause of the League of
Nations, he was stricken down. The
public were not allowed to know the
full extent of his illness. There is
always a feeling that a casualty to a
nations head, is a menace to the
quiet and stability of the nation itself; /;
so the mass of people knew not, for a
long time, that Woodrow Wilson was
a doomed man, broken by a paralytic
stroke. The end came on Sunday
last.
Woodrow Wilson was one of the
worlds greatest men. In this coun-
try, many have associated him with
two others-Washington and Lincoln
the trio constituting the three fore
most Americans and ranking among
the most renowned in history.
Wilson was born December '28th,
1856, at Staunton, Va, the son of Rev.
Joseph H., and Jessie Woodrow Will
son. He was educated at Davidson
College, Princeton University, the
Law School at the University Of Vir-
ginia, and did postgraduate work at
Johns Hopkins University.
He took up teaching; was associate
professor at Bryn Mawr College, pro-
fessor at Wesleyan and at Princeton,
and elected president of Princeton in
1902.
Relinquishing educational work, he
went into politics and in 1910 was
elected governor of New Jersey, po-
sition he resigned for the presidency
in 1912, serving two terms in the
White House,
He was twice married;-the first
time to Ellen Louise Axson, of Sa-
wanna, Ca, who died August 6, 1914.
His second wife was Edith Boiling
Gault, of Washington, D. c., whom he
married December 18, 1915.
Wilson's career as president of the
United States, is, of course, the most
important of his life; and, the fact
that the world was precipitated into
great holocaust of war during his
administration, makes it one of the
most important in the history of this
country.
Germany's challenge to the world;
the Haunting of her autocratic flag in
tfihe face of a universe long tending
toward democracy; her f1inging of the
gauntlet of war at the feet of the
civilized world; are all too well known
facts to need repetition here.
America for long time held aloof,
clinging to the American theory of
avoiding entangling alliances. But
Germany's long preparation for war;
her acknowledged supremacy in all
matters militaristic; her despicable o.
pinion of all men not born as members
of the Hohenzollerin family, or as
their subjects; her disregard for all
international law; all these had en-
abled her to sweep aside the armies of
allied Europe, and had made her as
sumo a position of world empire.
/ Then it was that Wilson poured a.
cross the seas Americas inexhaustible
supplies of food, money, and men.
Every one knows the result-Ameri-
can doughboys saved Democracy to
the World. Wilson was triumphant.
But his war victories did not give
him taste for fighting. Rather they
instilled into him desire for univer-
sal and everlasting peace. He enters
second warfare to obtain surcease
from war. He gave his life to the
| idea of a League Of Nations, which
should have for it's end and aim the
prevention of National slaughter.
History too we'll knows the particu-
! lars of the battle which ended in ply
sical breakdown five years ago, and