Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-29
Cheering Throngs Greet the
President on His Arrival
in Pittsburgh.
CLEVELAND NEXT STOP
Is Urged to Speak to Those
Unable to Hear His
Formal Address.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 29.-President
Wilson, opening here today his six-day
program of speaking in the middle
west on national preparedness, told a
throng which packed Memorial hall
that the test of national preparedness
lay not with congress but with the
young men Of the country in their
answer to the call TO volunteer and
their employers who should oppose no
obstacle to free response.
And |, for one" the president said,
believe both the young men and the
employers will do their duty.
and l am not afraid that America
will not do enough 1 am only earn
testify DESTROYS that she should be very
coolly considerable of what she does.
One cool judgment is worth a thou
sand hasty counsels."
Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 29.-President
Wilson reached Pittsburgh at $40 a.
m. today to make the first speech Of
his middle west tour in favor of ma
Itional preparedness.
The presidents special stopped at
station four miles from the city proper
so that he might elude the crowd which
the police felt would be awaiting him
at the Union station. A scattering
1crowd cheered him as he rode in a
sprinkle of rim through the streets
After reaching the hotel, the presi-
dent and his wife held an informal re-
ception to which were hidden some of
the city's leading men, and two men
who had been appointed to accompany
Mrs. Wilson to Soldiers Memorial
hall where the president was due to
begin his address at l o'clock.
Lunch in Seclusion.
The president and Mrs. Wilson
lunched in their suite in keeping with
their predetermined plan not to at
tend any public luncheons or dinners
lduring the tour.
Notwithstanding the unusual activ-
tiles Of yesterday in Washington and the
fact that he had spent three consecu-
tive nights on the train, the president
Irose refreshed. DR.. Cary T. Grayson,
the White House physician, said Mr.
Wilson was in good condition for the
activities of the week ahead. These
Include addresses at Cleveland to-
night, Milwaukee Monday, Chicago
Monday night, Des Moines Tuesday
might, Topeka Wednesday afternoon,
Kansas City Wednesday night, ST.
Louis Thursday morning and many
hriof oIdroccac from, hn lou
form Of his car in smaller towns.
Urged for "Overflow Speech,
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan 29.-Chamber
of Commerce officials and William F.
Flynn, chief of the United States sec
ret service were in communication
today with President Wilson in an eff
fort to arrange for him to speak to an
overflow meeting after his scheduled
address on national defense before the
Chamber of Commerce tonight.
Chief Flynn, on his arrival here.
Learned that thousands of persons who
wished to hear the president speak
4 will be unable to do so unless an over
flow meeting Is held. 1t is hoped the
president will consent to talk for a
few minutes from the balcony of a
downtown hotel
Hall Is Packed.
Pittsburgh. Pa, Jan. 29-Half an
hour before the president was due to
speak, Memorial hall was packed with
1000 persons and a crowd of several
thousand was standing at the doors
outside. 1t appeared as if many would