New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
President. t.EIect Makes Good.
bye Address to Prince.
tonians While Standing
on Soap Box.
RECEIVES LOVING CUP
Real 'Rootages" Of Patriotism
Local, He Says, and It Is
Essential to Love o
Ones Country
Concretely.
lBy Telegraph TO The Tribune

Concretely.
by Telegraph to The Tribune
Princeton, ". j., March 1.-Citizc,'
Woodrow Wilson babe farewell TO hi
fellow townsmen here tonight, telling
them that while he was going to leav,
them in body he would still be with
them in spirit. He received in return
loving cup, eighteen inches high, to
take with him TO Washington as a res
minder OF how much his friends anG
neighbors here think of him
About fifteen hundred OF the nexi
Presidents friends and neighbors iis
tened to his farewell. clustered around
the lawn in front of his home in CIeve
land Lane. Many of them had known
Mr. Wilson ever since he entered the
university here as a freshman, in 1876.
He has lived here for twenty-sevcu
years all told
The President elect made his address
while standing on large soap box in
front Of his home Included among his
listeners were butchers, grocers, bank
ers and all the leading merchants Of
the town. who had closed their places
Of business for the evening so that they
could participate I'm the celebration.
Mrs Wilson stood in the front doorway
during the ceremonies. while the Misses
Wilson looked on from one Of the upper
windows of the house.
Flynn Master Of Ceremonies.
Colonel Daniel NJ. Flynn, cashier Of
the First National Bank. was master
of ceremonies. He formally presented
the loving cup, after which A. s. Leigh
and Charles L. Robinson. the two old
est residents Of the town. handed 1t TO
the President-elect.
The President elect was .deepI,
touched by the gift, and paused mo-
ment or two before he could reply.
Then he told how he hated 10 Ieay,
here and Of the associations that had
been his during his long residence H.
the town. He said:
Il feel very deeply complimented that
you should have gathered here tonight
10 say goodby to me and to bid me
Godspeed l have felt very intimate
identification with this town. ] sup
pose that some of you think there is
sort of dsconnection between the uni
versity and the town, and perhaps
some Of you suppose that IL Is onl.
since | became Governor of this state
that 1 have been keenly aware OF tn.
impulses which have come out OF the
ranks of the citizens of this place TO
touch me and inspire me-but that Is
not true.
81 think you will bear me witness
that l have had many friends in this
town ever since / came here. and that
one Of the happiest experiences ] have
had day by day has been the grasp OF
the hand and the familiar salutation
which I have met at every hand.
Il experienced only one modification
in this town. / went into shop one
day after I became president OF the
university and purchased a small ar
ticle. and said, Won't you be knd
enough to send that up? / had pur-
chased 1t of a man with whose face
had been familiar for years. and
he said, What is your name, sir?'
That was my single modification. and
that Is the keenest kind Of mortifca-
ton. because IL there is one thing
man loves better than another IT. 10
beinr known by his fellow citizens.
Three Days vacatieo.
Now, my friends. I said the other
day. and 1 said it most unaffectedly.
that / was going keenly to enjoy these
three days as I was-and l admit
Colonel Flynn used very appropriate
words--I am both q plain and an un-
titled citizen. I have admitted my
plainness many times. I said that
was going to enjoy these days. and
am enjoying them. Not because they
are days when | am not particularly
responsible for anything, but because
tbcy are days that remind me OF the
MANY years I have spent In this place.
going in and out as one Of your own
number: and want you to believe me
when I say that 1 shall never lose thaeF
consciousness. i..'
"I would be a very poor President
4, did lose It. I have always believed
that the real rootages Of patriotism
were local. that they resided IN one
conscious of an intimate touch with
persons who were watching him with
a knowledge Of his character. .~.l
You cal not love country abstracs-
ly: YOU have got to love IT concretely.
you have got to know people I'm ORDER
10 love them. You have got to feei'as'
they do In order to have sympathy
with them; and any man would be
sorry, poor public servant who DID
not regard himself as part Of the
public. No man can imagine how other
people are thinking. He can know only;
by what Is going on in his own hsaa''
and IL that head Is not connected ny