The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-02-06


waited to hear news from the bed
side of former President Woodrow
Wilson, who was stricken with a
fatal illness last Friday, he passed
away at 11:15 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. The end was peaceful, tired
man slept in eternal peace.
Virginia Native
Born in Staunton, Va, December
28, 1856, of Scoteh-lrish parentage.
he was christened Thomas Woodrow
Wilson and he was known in early
life as Tommy" After he gradu-
ated from Princeton In 1879 he was
known only as Woodrow Wilson. His
father was the Rev. Joseph Ruggles
Wilson, Presbyterian clergyman, and
his mother was Jessie Wilson.
When he was two years old the
fortunes of his father took the fam
umbia. S. C., where at the age of II
Thomas Woodrow Wilson entered
Davidson college, but left there soon
to go to Princeton. After graduation
at Princeton he studies law at the
University of Virginia and in 1882
hung out his shiugle in Atlanta, Ca
Meantime he courted Ellen Louise
Axson, the daughter OF a Savannah
Presbyterian clergyman. They were
married in 1885 and had three
daughters. Margaret. the eldest who
did not marry; Jessie, who became
Hn trsfF ~ nfa
and Eleanor, who became the wife
of William G. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury during her fathers ad-
ministration and later a presidential
aspirant.
Twenty-Eighth President
Twenty-eighth president of the
United Sattes 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 contempor-
aries are likewise assigned to their
inches.
great war presidents Of the American
republic, and he exercises such an
Influence In world affairs as never
before attached to his office.
Empires erumbled. thrones col
lepsed, the map Of the world wa
made over, and under his adminlstra-
ton the country abandoned its pol
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
him accurately. and in full. until the
processes which began in his day and
with his participation have come to
a conclusion.
Man of Letters
An obscure lawyer. by nature n
man OF letters. he became an edneat-
or and won his first attention from
the public as president of Princeton
university. Then by the strange ways
OF a political system he became gov
ernor of New Jersey and later, be-
cause the voters of the. republican
party were divided between Theo.
dore Roosevelt and william II. Taft
he became president of the United
States.
During his eight years of power
he travelled the gamut of human emo
tions; victory, defeat; eourtship and
marriage; responsibility for leading
nation into war with the collateral
responsibility of bringing II back
again to the ways of peacel and fin
ally a daily struggle with death.
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
enc time almost as a new Messiah
he heard himself excoriated and de-
nounced as an autoorat and worse at
home and abroad No other president
since Lincoln was SO worshipned and
hated; no other president since
Roosevelt had such friends and such
enemies. Through Il all he preserved
an outward calm while the grim de-
stroyer which lowered close about
him during the last months of his
occupancy of the presidency, follow
ed him relentlessly to the modest
home whore he lived the ways of a
retired gentleman and knocked at
his door every day until II was at
last opened.
Works for Peace
After having borne the burdens OF
a war president. he undertook the
task of making a peace which he
sincerely believed would be lasting
one and although he succeeded In
getting Europe to accept IL In large
measure his own country rejected It,
And in the fight he broks his health.
wore himself out, suffered a stroke