The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-03-08
INAUGURATION.
OF PRESIDENT
Under Circumstances Without Paral-
lei in Memory of Present
Generation
BREATHES HOPE OF PEACE
Not Unlike LincOln's First Inaugural
American Spirit Predominant
Unusually Heavy Guarded

Washington Special, March 5, to
Greensboro Daily News.
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
was today again inaugurated Presi-
dent of the United States under cir
substances without parallel within
the memory of the present genera
ton.
His inaugural address was one that
breathed the hope of peace-world
peace as we'll as peace for the Unit
ed States-but there was in it the
warning note that war may come to
us.
More than so years ago Abraham
Lincoln closed his inaugural address
with prayer for peace and the
touch of "the better angels of our
nature" Civil strife soon came.
International strife threatened to-
day as Woodrow Wilson, Easing re-
.sponsibility greater than that of any
President since Lincoln, stood at the
capitol and told assembled thousands
Of his hope for the avoidance Of wal.
1t was because of all this that pa
.triotism was predominant in today's
ceremonial. Never before has the
nation induced into office Presi-
a time of trial.
American Spirit Predominant
The American spirit was predomin-
ant in the inaugural today. The thrill
that cine to Francis Scott Key in1814,
when at daybreak he saw the Stars
and Stripes still floating over be-
se1ged Fort McHenry was the sort
of thrill that gripped the Americans
of today as Woodrow Wilson took
the oath of office and rode up Penn
sylvania avenue to the White House.
The pulse of every spectator
quickened as the days epochal events
were written into the pages of ma
tional history. An ovation such as
seldom has been accorded any Amer
lean President as he rode between
the lines of soldiers from the CAPT.
toll. They cheered Wilson, the man, as
well as Wilson, the President, who
has so far kept the nation out of war.
If there were political enemies
present they forgot their enmity in
the blend of Americanism. If there
were pacifists nearby they were out
of place in a throng that did not
want war but expressed by their
cheers this afternoon the fact that
they will back to the end the Pres
ident in any step this nation must
take.
The parade would have been not
able for it's spectacular features
alone. But it became more than a
mere pageant, more than a quadren-
NAL display of soldiers and sailors,
marching clubs and civic organiZa-
tions. The parade today was one
reflective of the national spirit, just
as one recalls the spirit of '76".
through the pictures of the fife and
drummer boys.
At the capitol, where national en-
thusiasm was scarcely less rampant
than along crowded Pennsylvania
avenue, the President kissed the BIZ
bic and completed the ceremony of
taking the oath at 12:47 o'clock The
start back to the White House was
soon begun and for several hours this
afternoon the President reviewed the
paraders who, with bands and United
States flags, marched by the court of
honor.
Pennsylvania avenue was a picture
of color as the parade moved. Amer,
lean flags floated from almost every
window and the skies, dull and un-
relenting for a week. opened to let
the sun come through shortly after
9 o'clock this morning.
One must go back IS years to find
anything like parallel to the inau-
gural scenes of today. Not since
Abraham Lincoln was guarded from
bodily harm as he became President
of the United States-then on the
verge of civil war-have such precau
lions been taken to protect the life
of an incoming chief executive.