Evening star., 1915-12-11
Shakes Hands With More Than
7,C00 People at Columbus
Reception.
URGES U. S. BUSINESS MEN
TO MOBILIZE RESOURCES
Doesn't Believe There Will Be a
Patched Up" Peace as Re-
suit of War.

COLI MEES Ohio. December IL
President Wilson yesterday afternoon
expressed the opinion that there will
be no patched up peace" following the
European war In comprehensive and
forceful address before the Columbus
Chamber of Commerce he urged
American business men to mob1llze
their resources in order that the United
States might be prepared to play a
more important part in the worlds al
fairs, and bring about justice after the
present war.
The text of the Presidents address
will be found in another column.
Shakes Hands With 1000.
The President spent eighteen hours
in Columbus, during which he was
active every minute. His reception was
enthusia site and pleased him greatly.
In addition to the chamber or COM
merce speech he delivered an address
last night before the commission on
country and church life or the + feuerai
Council of the Churches of Christ OF
America shook hands with more thah
1000 people at a reception in the ro-
tunda of the state capitol, spoke priehs
to a large crowd from the steps OF the
caDIto' and took ioiS ', -, a. IN .:s
The streets of Columbus. The entire
city and many people from surround
ing towns greeted him.
The address was delivered before
more than 1,i00 men and women IN IN
the Masonic Temple, patrioticaliH
draped with American flags for the oc-
casion. Near him sat Gov. Willis, FOR
mer Gov. Judson Harmon. senators
Pomerene, Representative BrumpauS IL
and others of Ohio's leading men his
Spaacb freuueutly interrupted DS
applause.
Big Reception in Capitol.
At o'clock. after the President and
others in the receiving line at the
capitol had shaken the hands OF nearly
5000 men. women and children for an
hour and a half. DIR. Cary T. Grayson.
the Presidents physician. recommended
that the capitol doors be closed and no
others admitted The President re-
fused to give his approval. however
and for another half hour he dis
pensed handclasps and smiles to those
who came at the rate of about sixty
a minute. When the doors were finally
closed more than 1000 persons were
turned away. About 1000 of those who
passed down the receiving line were
suffragists.
Mrs Frank B. Willis. wife of ohio.s
governor, was at the head of the SUI
fragists' delegation. She gave Presi-
dent Wilson a bouquet of yellow roses
and white lilies of the valley, repre-
senting the suffragists' colors.
Gov. Willis. former Gov. Harmon,
Senator Pomerene and Representative
Brumbaugh were among those IN the
Guy H. woodrow of Columbus. and his
son Lloyd also were in the line.
Little Girl Wins Attention.
An old lady, who said her home was
Columbus, wanted to talk to the Presi-
dent about a pension claim she said
she had against the government, but
secret service men hurried her along
the line. The President spent thirty
seconds talking to four-year-old Vrina
Jane Hughes of Columbus. giving her
more time than any other person DUR
ing the entire reception.
In his evening address before the
closing session of the national confer
ence of the commission on church ana
country life, President Wilson empha-
sized the need of making country
churches more useful. He spoke before
1000 persons. many of whom were
clergymen and agriculturists from all
parts of the country.
How Nations Are Judged.
The President declared that laws are
useless unless they express the normal
feeling of the people. Therefore. he
said, it is primarily the duty of Chris
tians to better the moral character OF
all persons He added tina. Chris
tiantty is the most vitalizing thing -
the world.
Nations are judged by w!:=t they
think rather than by what they
possess" he said.
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Pre- sident declared. amid appl3u>S. Ie
said that he believed that the Schools
and churches should be used - social
centers in rural districts $ wen IS In
cities
America is great not as govern
ment, but as an accomplishment OF sro-
cessfuI citizenship. he added.
The President and his party lett
Columbus for Washington last night
at 1890 o'clock on special train.
Mr.. Wilson Addresses Conference.
The Presidents evening address in
part follows:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen:
] feel an unaffected diffidence in COM
ing into this conference without hav-
ing participated in its deliberations.
wish that ! might have been here to
learn the many things that / am sure
attended these conferences. / feel con-
ddent that nothing that / say about
the rural church will be new tc you.
] want you to understand that j am
here simply because ! wanted to show
my profound interest in the subject
which you have been considering and
not because ! thought ] had anything
original to contribute to your thought
But / think as we have witnessed
the processes of our civilization in re-
cent years We have more and more
realized how our cities were tending to
draw the vitality from the countryside
how much less our life centered upon
country districts and how much more
upon crowded cities.
There was a time when America
was Enthusiastically rural, when
practically all her strength was drawn
from quiet countrysides, where life
ran upon established lines and where
men and women and children were
familiar with each other in a long
established neighborliness: but our
rural districts are not now just what
they used to be and have partaken in
recent years of something of the fluid
fty that has characterized our general
life. So that we have again and again
been called upon from one point OF
view or another to study the revitali-
xation OF the countryside.
Vital Work in Rural Churches.
There was a time, no longer age
than the youth Of my own father. for
example. when pastors found some OF
their most vital work in the country
churches. / remember my dear father
used to ride from church to church
In a thickly populated country regior
and minister to several churohea with