The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-11
FIGHT WAS SHARP
WILSON TELLS
COLLEGE BOYS
Presidents First Public Comment
Made at WiIliamSt0wn
TIME TO END PAR1INSANSHIp
All of Us Should Now Address Our
selves to the Welfare of the
Nation.

Williamstown, Nov. 11-"Now that
the campaign is over, we may all ad-
dress ourselves to the welfare of the
nation without thought of partisan
feeling" To a group of 500 Williams
college boys and townspeople Presi-
dent Wilson, here 10 rest Tor two days
from the strain of the campaign and
TO act as godfather at the christening
of his granddaughter, Eleanor AXson,
daughter of Mrs. Francis B. Sayre.
made the first speech since his re-
election
"The fight was q sharp one. he
said, but politics is after all a means
of getting things done, OF putting for
ward ideas. 1t is a fight but the man
who does not love the fight has no
red blood in his veins
A long cheer for Wilson" made
very good. brought the president
and Mrs. Wilson out on the porch OF
his son-in-law's home soon after D
o'clock Although it was officially
announced that he came here for
quiet and that no band or red fire
demonstrations would be welcome, he
obviously enjoyed the celebration. He
laughed with the college boys when
he told them that when it came to
practical politics, he thought some of
them could give the regular fellows
pointers" He preached to them lit
tie. telling them to "be true to what
you believe" and finished on the fight
ing theme by telling story of man
who, when offered a sword and a
horn. chose the horn first lmmedi-
ately the sword vanished. After the
speech he remained standing on the
porch while the crowd cheered anG
the boys serenaded with the famous
Williams song, The Mountains"
Led by Stanley Young. chairman of
the student council. and Norman
White. head cheer leader. the entire
college body assembled at the Lasell
gymnasium at 5 o'clock and marched
up the street singing Williams songs
and cheering to the Sayre home. Here
the 500 students were met by 200
townspeople. Sam F. Blagden, chair
man OF the board OF selectmen. wei
coined the president to the town in a
speech of two sentences. President
Harry A. Garfield, who gave the col
lege's official welcome. declared that
the presidents words during the cam
paign had been full of wisdom and
light I'VE wish you Godspeed in
your great Office he said.
At $50 the small group of people
assembled at the ST. Johns Episcopal
church to see the party enter were re-
warded by the sight of two automo-
biles carrying the guests and the Sc
cret service men. In the first automo-
bile were President and Mrs Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. SayIe. Mr.. Nevins, broth
er Of Mr.. Sayre and secret service
man. The second automobile con
talned more secret service men and
the baby's nurse.
President and Mrs. Wilson alighted
first and waited for the rest OF the
party to get out of the car Mrs VIII
son was dressed in a black velvet coat
with black fox trimmings. under
which was a blue Georgette crepe af-
ternoon dress. She wore a bunch of
violets which matched her hat of roy
al purple Mrs. Sayre held the baby
until they arrived, when the father
took her and carried her into the
church. The regular Episcopal bap-
tismal service was read by Rev j.
Franklin Carter.
President Wilson and the babys
uncle, j. Nevin Sayre, acted as god
fathers, while the godmothers were
Mrs. r. II. Sayre, grandmother of Ele-
amor Axson Sayre. Misses Margaret
Wilson and Miss Blanche Nevin, the
babys aunts. During the service the
baby was perfectly quiet, lying in her
fathers arms. but Just toward the
close she gave evidence of her pres
ence by few cries.
Tonight the family had dinner to-
gether at the Sayre home. The presi-
dent will remain in Williamstown un-
! til 525 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
and then will return to Washington,
where he is due to arrive Sunday
| night. Tomorrow he will remain
quietly with his family, attending, if
| the weather is favorable, the VIII
ms-Massachusetts agricultural col
lege football game in the afternoon.
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