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Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-24
SECRETARY DENBY
 INSISTS THAT FALL
 MADE GOOD LEASE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Secretary Denby, despite the storm raging over the Teapot Dome oil lease, declared today that the Navy made a good trade in the Fall leases to Sinclair, and that there was not better one in sight at the time the leases were made.
 ' Senator Walsh of Montana declared that special counsel should be em- ployed to recover the governments oil lease rights, and these proceed ings should be conducted entirely in dependent of the Department of Jus tice as the Attorney General himself is under suspicion of being involved.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-24

WASHINGTON, Jan 23.-Charging it brazen transfer of public prop erty for a private consideration and that the whole Teapot Dome lease is tainted with corruption, Senator Car away today moved for immediate ac- tion on his resolution to cancel the lease
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

fair for him while he was president of Princeton. It's great oaks, shaded lawns and historic halls, furnished the settings in which Mir. Wilson did much Of the literary work which later was to attract the world He probably had little thought of being snatched into the maclstorm Of politics and war He drew some public attention in the fight for preservation Of demo- cratic ideals at the university, but he lived the life Of a family man on small pay and as late as 1910 was con- tcmplating retiring on q teachers pension.
 Nominated For GONernor
 That year the memorable force of events came into evidence. The tide which sweeps on to fortune" bgan to rise about him. Nominated for governor of New Jersey in a political situation about which many interest ing things have hnen said and denied with equal fervor. he was elected on the democratic ticket. and immediate ly took on the state bosses for round of combat which attracted the attention of the country. In the
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04
WILSON WAS ONCE
 BASEBALL PLAYER
Lost a Game and Won One--Had
 Good Student Record

Davidson, N. C., Feb. i.--The death Of Woodrow Wilson brought especial
 sorrow to Davidson college, where he
 was Il student from the fall of 1873
 until just before next commencement, when he left on account Of i'll health.
 His home at that time was in Mil- mington, N. C.. where his father, a member Of the board Of trustees of Davidson college, was pastor of the First Presbyterian church.
 During young Wilson's stay at Da- yidson. he chopped his own wood. pumped his own water, washed his lamps and cleaned his room in the historic chambers building, which Mas destroyed by fire two years ago. His average grade for the year was 9i ig. and his surviving classmates describe him as an all round young stor, Il recognized leader in college and especially verscd in current poli- ties.
 Becoming a member Of the Eumen- ian Literary society.-s minister's son led the negative of debate on the question. Resulved that rcpub- licanism is a better form Of goSern- ment than a limited monarchy" This This is believed to have becn his first in q debate.
 Thomas" Wilson. as he was known. took some part in college athletics and it is related that he played with the freshmen crucial bascball game which was lost because pf his failure tu run fast enough from third base Co home plate. bringing lown upon him sharp rebuke from Inc coach. One Of his classmates, The late Governor Glenn Of North Carolina. recalled in his later years. however. that young Wilson retrieved tis baseball reputation on another oc- 'asioH when he won game by al. and almost supcrhuman cap after a long fly.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04
IN THE LIFE OF WOODROW
 WILSON AS TOLD IN PICTURES AND STORY

hand in making it. Congress, no long CT the suppliant hand maiden it was during his first administration roared its disapproval. Mir. Wilson assured congress that in the day of wireless and cable it would know all he did. As a matter of fact he told congress very little of what he was doing, or anybody else for that matter, until it was done. That was not Mir. Wilson's way. The result was that he commit ted the United States to the league of nations and was repudiated.
 President Wilson's participation in the memorable peace congress had been described by many pens friend ly and unfriendy, and his part was SO indcliby written in recent history that il needs little attention in a brief resume Of his life works.
 Charmed Statesmen
 The statesmen Of Europe were charmed by his oratory, his wit and his personality, until they bumped in- to his indomitable will 10 do things his way when he was convinced he was right. Then the sparks flew in tho secret meetings he had with Lloyd George. Clemenceau and Or lando. He was determined to have a league of nations covenant so insep- arably interwoveh with a treaty of peace that no nation could accept one without accepting the other. The op- posing statesmen found that only by letting him have it could they get the provisions of peace they wanted. The result was a treaty in which all got something and it was denounced by its opponents as a breeder of wars rather than a treaty of peace.
 It would require a large volume to tell all the interesting things that happened to Woodrow Wilson while he was participating in making the treaty of peace in Paris in that his toric winter Of BESIDE. Ii would require another volume 10 tell the en- crossing story of diplomatic manenv- CTS. intriGues, and dramatic moments that attended it. Publication of either at this time probably would result in the creation of the Ananias clubs on both sides of the Atlantic and cer- tainly would not add to good feeling among peoples who are looking for ward to an end Of wars and an era of peace.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

him accurately. and in full. until the processes which began in his day and with his participation have come to a conclusion.
 An obscure lawyer, by nature a man of letters, he became an educa- tor and won his first attention from the public as president of Princeton university. Then by the strange ways of a political system hs became gov- ernor of New Jersey and later, be- cause the voters of the republican Roosevelt and William H. Taft he became president of the United States.
 During his eight years of power he travelled the gamut of human emo- tions: victory, defeat; courtshjp and marriage; responsibility for leading a nation into war with the collateral re- sponsibiIity of bringing it back agan 10 the ways of peace; and finally daiy struggle with death.
 Was Acclaimed And Kissed
 He had heard himself hailed by the millions of Europe as the God of peace" and heard his name hissed by the same millions. Acclaimed at one time almost as new Messiah, he heard himself excoriated and de- no1nced as an autocrat and worse at home and abroad. No other presi- dent since Lincoln was so worshipped and hated; no other president since Roosevelt had such friends and such enemies. Through 1t all he preserved an outward calm while the grim de- stroyer which lowered close about him during the last months of his occu- pancy Of the presidency. followed him to the modest home where he lived the ways of retired gentle- man and knocked at his door every day until it was at last opened.
 Task of Peace
 After having borne the burdens of a war president, he undertook the task Of making a peace which he sim cerely believed would be lasting one and although he succeeded in getting Europe to accept it in large measure his own country rejected it. And in l the fight he broke his health. wore 1 himself out. suffered a stroke of i paralysis which led to his death. and l declared through # all that he would |
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

Princeton where, subsequently, he was made head of that institution. Mean while. Professor Wilson had gained high reputation as writer. Some of his works with the date of their production. were as follows: "The State-Elements of Historical and Practical Politics." QSS9: Division and Reunion" OS93); George Wash- ington," GS96D. "A History of the American People," U902); "Consti- tutional Government in the United States" u90S; Free Life" Q91s); When Man Comes to Himself" G915). "On Being Human" I9161: An Old Master and Other Political Essays, and Mere Literature and Other Esays," were among his earlier writings. His state papers. notes to beligerent governments and addresses to congress would m many volumes.
 The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was bestowed upon him by Waks Forest college tissO; Tulane University tS93l! Johns Hopkins G902); Brown University Usos); Harvard University U901; Williams college la0s1: and Dartmouth col- lego tiaoa): Yale made him Doctor of Literature in 1901.
 Life was a pretty well settled af-
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

prevent it. The United States de- critics of the Wilson administration
 took delight in pointing out never
 was given.
 Events in Mexico solved their own problem in a few months when Car
 ranza. another newly risen leader ejected Huerta who fled. American troops were withdrawn from Vera
 Cruz. and later President Wilson ey- tended formal recognition to the Car
 ranza government. But in 1920 Car ranza in turn fled in tho face Of a
 revolution and tho Mexican problem came back to a republican admins tratlon for settlement. "Watchful waiting" was not alone Mr. Wilson's.
 "Wcakncss" In Mexico
 Mir. Wilson was much criticized for weakness" in handling the Mexican situation. but his friends said he saw world-war coming and had told them he "did not propose 10 have the United States caught with one hand tied behind it's back" He did not propose 10 be engaged in a war with Mexico al such time, Al all events, the world war broke the same year. Woodrow Wilson added his appeals to the futile effort to stay fl. sitting by the bedside of his dying wifo on memorable August 6, i9l4 Mrs. Will son pa ssed away that day. and with a world taking fire about him. he took her body 10 her girlhood home in Rome. Georgia. for burial. The prnsi- dent was almost prostrated with his grief. and returned alone to the White House to face his burden. Mr Will sons friends always said that from tho first Mir. Wilson saw fl would be world war and thai the United States eventually would he drawn in. But he realized that the country drawing its population from thc states Of Europe which were going to war would face a much divided sentiment and d very difficult situation. His first words io his conntrymcn were a caution to strict neutrality
 Mir. Wilson's efforts were devoted 10 keeping his country neutral until the submarine outrages began. He was at first unable to believe that the atrocities had tho sanction or tho 1 German government but was con- vinced when they sunk the l.usitauia. . That incident brought he first rift in . his official family. William Jennings Bryan. secretary or state. an avowcd pacltist. opposed Mr. Wilson's course and left the cabinet. Mr. Wilson neyerthclrss went ahead and warned the German government against sac rincing tho lives of American citizens. a diplomatic correspondence mich continued for two years. the built up record which reached it's climax when he handled to Count Johann Non Bern storff. the German ambassador. and asked congress to declare var. which ( did. With that the president Tod he nation into the tremendous cffort [ 1efor it
 Meanwhile. with a world war all [ bout him. Mir. Wilson had found 1 inc for an affair of the heart. He , lad met Mrs. Edith Rolling Gait the ( ridow Of a Washington merchant. Their courtship was swift and they , we're married December. IS. 1915. < here were no children Of this second < marriage. 70
 Won Over Huglies
 \ presidential election had inter- c ened before the country went into a hc war and this time Mir Wilson's C epubiican opponent was Charles .vans Hughes. who ieft the supreme [
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

Jersey legislature he found the young lawyer, Joseph F. Tumulty who be- came his private secretary and biogra- pher.
 Political opponents charged Cover nor Wilson with radicalism but he drove his program through. The outstanding legislation was the seven sisters laws a series of bills drafted under dis direction which dealt with trusts. New Jersey mp to that time, because of it's corporate laws had been called rendezvous for monop- olies.
 Governor Wilson's nomination for the presidency at the democratic con- vention of 1912 in Baltimore was one of the dramatic spectacles of Ameri- can political history. It was q battle royal and brought him victory after more than 40 ballots.
 Champ Clark, the venerable and be- loved speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, led Wilson in the early voting--in fact boiled a majority of the delegates. For the first time in history 8 democratic national conven- ton refused to give the necessary two-thirds to d candidate who had gotten a majority. William Jennings Bryan, himself the nominee of thrco previous conventions. led the fight against Clark in one of the bitterest contests ever conducted in American politics. It broke Clark's heart--he never forgave Wilson or Bryan-and he opposed Wilson's policies in con gross repeatedly. Clark knew he lost not only the nomination, but the presidency. for the contest between Taft and Roosevelt assured such a rift in the republican vote that the election of a democrat was all but inevitable.
 The convention realized this for the man who nominated Clark declared:
 We meet not only to choose n candidate but to choose n president"
 Win Election
 Al any rate. Woodrow Wilson got the nomination and won the election with 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt got ss and Taft got s, He came to the White House on March 1. 1913, signalizing the return of the democ-
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

the western front; for vigorous mea- sudcs to curb the submarine meanare. lie personally initiated much Of the war legislation such as the passage Of the seiective service law. the crra- ton or the Shipping Board. the War Industries Board. the War Labor board and a multitude of other arms of the government for carrying on the struggle. He devoted his whole being to the war. seeing nobody and think ing Of nothing else. Some of his days probably were like lincoln's.
 it was President Wilson who cone ducted tho correspondence with Chancellor Mat of Germany when the request for an armistice came and once inc Germans laid down their arms hc turned his thought wholly from war Co prace. telling his friends that while Germany must bc made 10 pay to her fnli ability. Europe must not have another Alsacc- Lorraine.
 Brukcn By War
 II was quite q different Woodrow Wilson who sat in the presidents chair when the war ended. With hair whitcned and faced lined he showed tho effects. lIc had learned. hc told a friend 'that some men become great and others swell up." but his pen chant for doing things himself never had Ipsscnod. He wrote state papers and read them to tho cabinet after ward: hr became impatient with men who disagreed with him and free puantly dismissed them. He quarrel nd with friends who in turn reproach- ad him with being ungrateful. bui he always kept on his course having 1ncc deridcd upon it.
 Peace in sight. Mr. Wilson decided 10 go to Europe himself and take
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

have been happy to give his life for the success of his efforts.
 Woodrow Wilson was a precedent smasher from beginning to end. He began by reviving the practice of Washington and Jefferson in deliver ing his messages to congress in per son: he finished by actually leaving American soil and going to. Europe. His was the responsibility of deciding when a country with people torn by conflicting sympathies was ready to throw itself into the great world war, and when the moment came he took the responsibility of throwing in the men and millions, which turned the scale to victory.
 Whatever an army of Boswells may write. that will be the part in which he will be best remembered by coming generations.
 Born In 1856
 Born in Staunton, Va, December 2s, 1856, of Scotch-Irish percentage, he was christened Thomas Woodrow Will son and he was known in early life as Tommy. After he was graduat- ed from Princeton in 1879 he was known only as Woodrow Wilson. His father was the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian clergyman, and his mother was Jessie Woodrow.
 When he was two years old the fortunes of his father took the family to Augusta, Georgia, and later to Co., lumbia. s. C., where at the age of IT Thomas Woodrow Wilson entered Davidson college. but left there soon to go to Princeton. After graduation at Princeton he studied law at the University of Virginia and in 1882 hung out his shingle In Atlanta, Ga. Meantime he courted Ellen Louise Ak son, the daughter of a Savannah Pres byterian clergyman. They were mar ried in 1885 and had three daughters, the eldest who did not marry: Jessie, who became the wife of Francis Bowes sayre, and Eleanor. who became the wife of William c. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury during her fathers administration and later presidential aspirant.
 Abandoned Legal Career
 Mir. Wilson once said that as a young lawyer he wore out the rug in his office walking around the desk waiting for clients. so he abandoned ! legal career and went 10 Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore for ! post graduate course in letters. while there he published his first book Congressional Government" a 'tudy in American politics. Ii evoked ,ffers of professorships at Bryn Mawr I md Wesleyan and won recognition at 1 ,ome and abroad. The young man who wrote of the defects of the Am- { .rican political system in 1883 found | himself to deal with them later. Hav- 1 ng written in a deprecatory tone of 1 he tendency toward autocracy in American presidents he lived to hear himself called the greatest autocrat If them all and to SC a resolution de- daring his office vacant on those rounds introduced and tabled in the enate.
 successively, Mir. Wilson became professor of history and political eco- omy at Bryn Mawr and at Wesleyan and later professor of jur- sprudence and political economy at !
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04
Eight Years Of Political Turmoil Most Crowd ed In History Will son Broken By War Ran Full Gamut Of Emotions.
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
 Twenty-eighth president of the United States, and the first democrat since Jackson to serve two successive terms, Woodrow Wilson occupied the presidency during eight years of such world upheaval and turmoil, that his proper place in history cannot be as- signed to him until his contemporar- ies are likewise assigned to their inches.
 Certainly, he ranks as one of the great war presidents of the American republic, and he exercised such an influence in world affairs as never be- fore attached to his office.
 Empires crumbled, thrones col lapsed. the map of the world was made oyer and under his adminis- tration the country abandoned its poll icy of isolation and became an active participant in world affairs. In all of that he took a powerful hand. No biographer could attempt to assess
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

racy to power after successive de- 1 foats of i6 years.
 Immediately he galvanized the l country. appearing before congress in | person. publicly dcnouncing "a vicious lobby" which he charged was at tempting 10 influence in Washington
 and launched a legislative program which include repeal Of tho tariff. revision Of the currency system, new
 styles of control Of the trusts. the ere
 ation of many new government 3gen-
 cies, and such q multitude Of other
 legislative business that congress and
 the country had difficulty in keeping
 up with it.
 Congress thought Theodore Hoosc-
 yolt d dictator" and an 'autocrat,"
 but 1t soon found itself dancing 10
 Woodrow Wilson's tune and at first
 if danced very obcdicntly aud with very little grumbling. Mir. Wilson
 early confessed that hc had a ''onr track mind'' and hc proved to con- gress carly in his administration that he knew what he wanted and how 10 get it. He had cabinet. it was true. bbb bf AbbHuiAtI II bAAtl ltA AlAI hE- termined what he wanted 10 do. When he wanted a bill introduced in con- gress he frequently drew it himself and if it hesitatcd on passage he sum- moned tho lcadcrs-sad Il passed soon thereafter. In dcaling with inc cabinet he did be own thinking aud conducted much important business of the various departments direct from the White lIousc.
 First Foreign situation
 Hardly had Mir. Wilson got hint- self turned around when hr bad his first foreign situation Co deal with. II was win Mexico and yas legacy from the preceding republican ad- ministration. The republican chief . tsins said they left it Tor Mr. Wilson because they didn't want to smbarrass him in dealing with ii. The demo- crats declared the republicans had # passed inc buck" 1t came io crisis when Itueria. the dictator. seized the reius or government. and 4 President Madero and Nice-I'resident ! Suarcz were murdered. Mr. Wilson /, had ters fixed ideas ot his own on spccession tO the presidency by assas- sination. He thought t pretty .gencr- al in Central America and he told conldants t vas going to s'op. He gfthhcid recognition rom HucTta and Inc situation boiled until IIuer1a Loops attacked some American blue jackets at Tampieo and Mir. Wilsoa ordered the occupation of Vera Cruz by the American army. The official reason given for tifc occupation yras hat the German ship YpirnHga was about to land arms and ammunition Tor sIlerfa and the occupation WAS f0I
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

court bench to become candidate. The issues of tbat campaign were very much muddled. The democratic slogan was he kept us out of war" MT, Wilson's election, however, was by very narrow margin. The result tremhled in the balance three days and finally turned in his favor when California finally flcpped to the democratic column by few votes. Mir. Wilson got 277 votes in the elec- toral college and Mir. Hughes got 2b4.
 President Wilson actually assumed his place as commander in chief Of the army and navy. He took the lead ing part in planning Americas parti- cipation in the war. He insisted from the first for unified command on
New Britain herald., 1924-02-04
EDUCATIONAL VIEWS.

Berlin, Feb. 4.-prosideni Ebert. iu Now Years greetings 10 the students economic relief committee of Berlin | niVcrSity. expressed the hope that inc organization will succeed in pre- venting 'ho 'plutocrat ization" Of edu- cation. He gave assurance that he will do all in his power to foster The work Of extending education as wide- Y as possible among students Of lim- ifad mrans.
The Washington times., 1924-09-19
.DEBUTANTE PROMISED
FROM CONGRESSIONAL Sc,

Miss Elizabeth Abigail Ransley,
daughter Of Congressman and Mrs.
Harry Ransley, Of Pennsylvania,
will be debutante this season and
her mother IL making plans to
present her to society both in Wash.
ington' and at her home in Philadel.
phia. Mrs. Ransley has issued in.
vitations for a luncheon at the Ritz.
Carlton Hotel. Philadelphia, on DC.
tober 81, at which many of her con.
temporaries have been asked to
meet her daughter.
Last year Mrs, Ransley kept open
her house in Ardmore, one OF the
pleasant suburbs Of Philadelphia, ali
winter, coming to Washington az
frequent intervals to be with Mr.,
Ransley, who maintained an apart
ment at the Washington hotel. Miss
Elizabeth Ransley Is a graduate OF
the Cathedral School.
Miss Elmeda AnselI, . senior Al
Vassar, and Burr Tracy AnseII, q
junior at Harvard, who have spent
their summer vacation with their
parents, General and Mrs. s. r.
Ansell. at 1857 Biltmore street, left
Wednesday to return to College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley p. Wilson
who have been in California for
several months, have returned 10
Holm Hall, their picturesque estate
near Alexandria, Va, where theN
will spend the autumn season.
~ 4 T.
Gordon K. Bush, son Of f.. w
Bush, Athens, Ohio, who has beer
the guest Of Mrs. Mendum r. Blu
menberg for the last week, left last
night Tor Cambridge, Mass. where
ne VIII enroll In the Harvard Schoa
Business administration. Mr.
Bush is graduate of the School Of
Journalism Of the University VI
Missouri.