The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
NO NORTH, NO SOUTH, URGES MR. WILSON
Believes His Election Forecasts Ob- liberation of Sectional Feeling, He Tells Virginians-Wife Tells
 Him to Put on His Hat.

Staunton, Va, Dec. 29.-president- elect Woodrow Wilson. by birth a Virginian, but by adoption son of New Jersey, proclaimed yesterday the hope that his administration might mean the final obliteration of everything that may have in the past divided the north and south.
 q suggested an added significance to the occasion" said MT. Wilson in presenting the greetings of New Jersey to Virginia, because it is a son of the south who brings the greetings of the north"
 Standing on the porch of Mary Baldwin seminary, in the chapel where he was baptized, the presi- dent-elect spoke to a great crowd gathered from far and wide on the occasion of his return to his native town on his 56th birthday anniver- sary.
 But while MT. Wilson spoke with feeling of his hopes for a spirit of reunion that would recognize neither region or section or north or south" he talked in politics with particular relation to the conduct of business.
 The presidency, the governor said, he regarded "as an office in which man must put on his war paint" but he added that his visage was such that "he did not mind mar ring it, for a man can keep his man. ners and still fight"
 A great many men who have talk en the narrow view of legislating for sectional advantages would have to be mastered, the governor point ed out, in order that they may be the instruments of justice and mercy"
 ReaSsures Business Men.
 To the business men of the coun- try he made an appeal that service to the nation meant giving full val ue for value received and remarked that in past decades too much of the fortune making had consisted of getting something for nothing.n The governor said he had no quar- rel with the free exercise of brains in business, but he objected to brains that established an "airtight isolation" or monopoly into which no competition could enter.
 The president-elect spoke out of doors. He intended to talk for only few minutes, but his voice came back to him in such strong tones that his speech lasted 35 minutes. He had not proceeded far with it. however, when Mrs. Wilson, who stood behind him, cautioned audi ply: Put on your hat" Voices in the crowd interrupted, too, with the remark: Put on.your hat, gover- nor" The president-elect smiled as he covered his. head in the cold air and remarked: II thank you for the suggestion. That was a suggestion from.l in front and a command from behind"
 The crowd laughed and applaud ed.
 q cannot forget at this happy moment" he continued, "the con- fidence that has been reposed in me and the privilege of service that has been accorded me by the great state of New Jersey, and I want to give myself the pleasure of bring ing to the great state of Virginia the greetings of the great state of New Jersey, and 1 believe that in doing so 1 suggest an added sig niflcance to this occasion, because a son of the south brings the greet ings of the north. I would fain be- lieve that in my selection as presi- dent by the people of the United States means the final obliteration of everything that may have di- vided the great section of this country"