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PAGE THREE Seventh Democrat to Occupy White House as President Is Woodrow Wilson PRESIDENT WILSON was born in Staunton, Vir ginia, December 28, 1856, the son of Rev. Joseph R. Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wil son. He was christened Thomas Woodrow Wilson, but dropped the Thomas before entering college, lie studied at a private school in Columbia, South Carolina, at Davidson college, in North Caro lina, at Princeton college, now Princeton university, and in the law school of the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia,- in 1882 and 1883. He returned to his studies, attending Johns Hopkins university 1883-5. He was married June 24, 1885, to Miss Helen Louise Axson of c 1 . oavannan, ueorgin. There are three daughters, Margaret, Jessie and Eleanor. He became associate professor of history and political economy in Bryn Mawr college in 1885 and served there until 1888. As pro fessor of history and political economy, he went to Princeton university in 1890. .Two years later he was elected president of Princeton university. This posi tion he held until 1910, when his political career really started. In 1911 he began his term as governor of New Jersey, which title he resigned shortly before being inaugurated as president of the United States of America. He was nominated by the dem ocratic national convention at Baltimore July 2. 1912, for the office of president and was elected November 5, 1912. Woodrow Wilson is the seventh democrat to hold the highest place in the trust of the American people. The first was Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1828. After him came Martin Van Buren, who was inaugurated in 1836. James K. Polk swore to uphold the constitution of the United States in 1844, as did Franklin Pierce, in 1852. James a long wan Derore American History tells of another democrat's being in the White House extends from 1884 to 1892. Essex Troop of New Jersey, Inauguration Escort, and President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Buchanan. 1856. came next Thf.ro ia Grover Cleveland's presidential career ! Things You Have Forgotten There Are Plenty of Interesting Stories in History of Which the Book Say Little (This is the first of a series of brief sketehrs of histnrii-al incidents that are half forgotten, featuring reminiscent matter. The series is to deal with things that everybody might know, but are not part of gen eral information, for instance, every body knows how America was named. Certainly, but just hnwf Read what's to come Editor.) FOUR hundred ami x years ago. in 1")07. this continent received its name, America. It was a Oermnn scholar who decided that the vast, newly found land across the sens was old enough to be named. He wns the one man in the world with the wit to see the possibilities of a continent named America and the only one with such a sense of sympathy that it made his heart ache to see a half crown country almost big enough for long trousers running around unclas sified. The name of this unknown great wns Fr. Martin Waltzemuller, who hailed from Freiburg in Breisgau, and was a professor at St. Die in tho Lorraine. Despite the fact that he gave us a name that is now a matter of na tional prido and is liked by everybody but those who come here from lands of oppression to make over our rules of liberty into regulations for unregu lated license, you see no monuments to Horr Waltzemuller. His classic fea tures are not shnped in Parian stono, nor docs his intellectual and earnest visage adorn the label of even a mod erately good brand of cigars. Martin Waltzemuller has been sadly neglected and something should be done in the way of presenting a substantial mark of esteem to him, or, at least, to his widow, if she has been left in want, as is more than often the case with the relicts of literary gentlemen. In naming America, Martin went at it in the regulation way. He wrote a book, which he called a geography, and in it he placed a cute pink smudge and labeled this America. In his introduc tion, he said: "And the fourth pnrt of the world having been discovered by Amerigo or Americas, we may call it America." That was all, but the name stuck like a burr and wow, more than 400 years later, seems as frosh as ever. Martin certainly picked out a name that wore well. Within the remarkably briof time of two years, the English had heard of the new name, America, of which they were destined to take a more defined interest afterward. Sebastian Brant was the first Briton to use tho new name. In his "Shipp of Fools," he first spoke of America in English. More than likely, he alluded to us sar castically, as English, writers still do. Herr Waltzemuller was alluding to Americas Vespucci, of course, when he said, "having been discovered by A morions." His geography is now out of print, on account of trifling inac curacies in general detail. He. thought it was about 17 miles from Boston, Mass., to Tonopah, Nev., and that any non paralytic could throw a dog from San Francisco, Cal.. to Pekin, China. Subsequent exploration disproved these ideas. THORNHILL. Should Die If I should die tonight, And you should come to my cold corpse and say, Weeping nnd- heartsick o'er my lifeless elny If I should die tonight, And you should come in deepest grief and woe And say: "Here'B that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my largo white cravat 1 And say, "What's thatf " If I should dio tonight, And yon should come to my cold corpse nnd kneol, Clasping' my bier to show the grief you feel, I say, if I should die tonight, And yon should come to me, and thero and then Just even hint 'bout paying mo that ten, I might arise the while, But I'd drop dead again. Hen King. UNDER THE MISTLETOE. "I like your cheek," he said, kissing her. "Don't be facetious," she responded coldly Life. First Hen What a ridiculusly giddy creature that ypnng Miss Dorking iB! Second Hen Oh, she's young yet. Wait till she has known the sorrow of sitting for three weeks on a china egg and two door-knobs she'll sober down then Tit-Bits. A woman is more or less backward from a literary point of view when she reads the last chapter of a novel first. Better Living -More Money Solving the Problem of a tor ALL on the Coast whatever other profession or buslneaa we may be In, THERE MUST BE SOMEONE WHO WILL BUY For years, the cry has been, here on the coast, "BUT A FARM OB ACREAGE, AND YOU'LL MAKE A GOOD. EASY LIVING " The man who buys these things is practically always the man who cannot produce them himself. ?frWyhrPrccemSW ta manufactnrln enterprises-men who work In mill, and shops. These men and their families need all such things a. are now proLed on the coast and must buy them WfflOTHSnl ' gd ,r0m b,ine!U, ta WU0h Wa BIO WESTERN COUNTRY MUST BE MORE PERFECTLY BALANCED IK THE LINES OF BUSINESS IN Did you ever stop to think That only a very small part of the manufactured goods that we buy every day of our lives are made here on the coast f The people who should be using those things which we produce are not living near us. Just think what it would mean to the small farm owners alone If most of the furniture, cereal foods, clothes, etc., which they buy were made right here at home by men who, in turn, were buying their vegetables, butter, eggs, etct Think of the advantage to every man, woman and child who now lives here If, with mills and factories located along our rivers and in our cities, large and .small, thousands upon thousands of families' were living here employed in these mills! The result would not only be a better market for what is now produced, but a better price on those manufactured articles which we are buying every day. Instead of paying for high transportation rates from the East, the raw mate ' rials would be manufactured into the finished product and sold right here at home. It is plain that what we need is more and larger manufacturing institutions. The result in increased prices for what we produce and cheaper prices on the manufactured goods we have to buy is sure to follow. II II ( "' ? '"" i ""L-"""''!,-, Prosperity Problem Solved The question is, "How can we get to that state t" The answer is simple. We, ourselves, are responsible for the present condition for the shortage in mills and factories. We are to blame because there are not right now thousands upon thousands of families drawing good weekly pay envelopes, enabling them to put a large amount of money into circulation among us. It is our own fault that we have to pay excessive prices for many articles. It is our own fault that we send our raw products East to be made up, then bring them back here and pay Eastern fac tories and EuBtorn cities to make what we ought to have made right here. The factories on the coast are anxious to go ahead to enlarge, to employ thou sands more of men. But the territory in which they can soil their output is limited to this coast alone, in almost every case. They cannot compete with big Eastern manufacturers. They cannot sell in the Eastern markets. In many cases, they have not the large amount of capital to advertise extensively, even In this, their home territory. They cannot go into the papers and magazines and convince you that the goods they make are as good if not better, as cheap if not cheaper for you to buy, as Eastern made goods. We know it is the desire of almost every family on the coast to boost for coast mada onnUm Wa.,... u ii- prosperity if we can make our own manufactured articles from our own raw products aid kim , thJ mnn, . 7 g, 9- " mean botter t""08' more money for eTer7on. better property values and increased - . . Q wwwug UUIDUIIUO, In the past, however, it has been impossible for us to know the Pacific Coast made nrodncU W n..M j: -i.. n . . . , product is made on the coast, manufacturers are now uniting and using the stamVwMch is ibm hJL tSEJf . . Wh"Wf """V6 WaS made ?" th6 coa't To lot "wyon. kow pUinly, in advance, whether a everything you can think of that you may need is made on tSe coast and made weU If you booTt loi - it the rTlt wni TJi,"! w'. WhateJer you wish to purchase, ask for such an article bearing this stamp. Almost better times. 7 D00St Ior "' tbe re,ult W1" be that s,,cn '"tones making such products can grow, can give work to more people; can help YOU to Better Living Conditions for All Show this article to your friends. Tell them what it means to everyone on the coast. Exolain to them how It means money in their pockets if they will Demand this stamp on every article they buy; Ask your dealer to show you this stamp on the goods he wants to seU yon. Bemember, every time you Insist on an article bearing this stamp, yon are helping several Pacific Coast families Your Own. and all those Interested in that product. DEALERS: Ask your Jobbers to supply you with goods bearing the Pacific Coast Products Stamp. Your customers will be asking for them. Special Prize Contest Win Part of ThU 910.00 Each Month Write a story of not to exceed 600 words on the following subject: "HOW THE PACIFIC COAST 18 PROFITED BY BOOSTING FOR COAST MADE OOODa" Send In your story not later than the 86th of the month, together with two stamps cut from coast made goods. The stamps will be like the one shown herewith, though they will be of different sizes. Prizes will be awarded and announced the first of the next month. First prize, $6; second prize, 3; third prize, 12. Co-Operative Advertising Association of the Pacific Coast 303 Phoenix Building PORTLAND, OREGON