The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-05

travelled with Theodore Roosevelt here
about might have a different opinion,
but there is a probably, truer estimate
OF their attitude which is based upon
what many OF them confided before and
after the meeting to Newspaper cor
respondents travelling with the Presi-
dent. and what they say comes to this:
The people of Ohio are worrying a
lot more about the cost OF beefsteak and
shoes and clothes TO wear than they are
about the fate OF the league of fine
passions" They are trying 70 figure out
how to pay their bills on Saturday
night. They want to know when the
President or somebody is going to step
In and wallop the profiteers
Ohio 10 full OF high cost of living In
vestigation commissions. Ohio II also
resounding with strikes. There was one
In full blast. n street car strike, when
the President got to Columbus to-day.
These matters are very earthly. grossly
material, Ii is true, and have nothing to
do with the heart Of the world, but they
have lot to do with Ohio. This state
Of mind quite frankly expressed by al
most anybody questioned may explain
the colorlessness. the dulness. the heavi-
ness Of the Presidents reception in a
state which, like California. has to ac-
oept lot of responsibility for four years
curiosity, Of tonguetied staring, was as
marked IN Columbus this morning as 1t
was in Boston the day the President.
nrst returned from Europe. The people
turned out In excellent numbers but
they left their cheers at home.
Receptions at Towns ON the way.
Mr.. Wilson stepped from the train at
columbus at IL A. NJ. after a little
Handwriting and bowling n Dennison
and Newark In the early morning at
the former city several hundred persons
trotted along the station platform In a
drizzle until they located the Presidents
private car and finally glimpsed the
President himself as he appeared smil-
ingly at the car door. There were
good many women In the crowd, and
these were obviously intent upon getting
glimpse Of Mrs Wilson One such de-
termined one. was heard to exclaim
You just quit acrowdin' in front Of
me. Joe. for I'm agoin' to see what she
brought back from Paris" The woman
was not fated to be gratined in this re-
spect.
There was bit of Handwriting with
the good people OF Dennison. and then
the long train slid into the mist upon the
first stage of it's 10000 mile journey.
Presently Newark and a fateful COM
ment was reached, for in the Newark
aggregation was an enthusiastic elderly
person who shouted. some say: We're
going to give you back In 1920 what we
took away from you" II there were
those who heard IL I'VE are going to
heard also the wilsonian NO" then II
may be stated on wilsonian authority
these persons need an amendment. or
at least a reservation, to their hearing.
Newark produced also ]. Cookey Jones,
Mayor of Buckeye Centre, who clam
bered to the private car Mayfiower with
a basket of flowers for Mrs. Wilson. a
proceeding which pleased the Newarkers
SO thoroughly that they gave Cookey sew
eral cheers as he faded into the throng.
At other towns and villages In the
soft coal and tobacco eating belt there
was a fairish sprinkling Of persons watt
ing to catch glimpse of the President
OF the United States. for Presidents en-
tour never lack for crowds, but most OF
there were disappointed. for Columbus
was nearing and Mr.. Wilson was in
seclusion.
Women Applaud. Men Are silent.
At the ohio capital excellent arrange
ments working smoothly conveyed the
President from the Pennsylvania station
Jess fashion. He passed smilingly
through thousands Of people lining High
street-people who had use for only one
OF their five senses. II may be the
Ohioans are unusually tender handed
and afraid of bruising their palms, but
II would be difficult to imagine the
progress of a President through q crowd
so dumb and expressionless. Here and
there groups of women clapped their
anI1 A,,tt aNA
giggled, but the men neither clapped
nor hutSred nor giggled. They just
stood and stared.
In Memorial Hall were 1000 people
and the venerable James z. Campbell,
Ex-Governor of the Buckeye State. Gov.
Cox was not among the 1000. Nobody
seemed to know where the Governor
was. and a lot of sensitive eyebrows
were lifted because of this absenteeism.
But Uncle Jimmy Campbell. a polit-
ical warrior OF the old days, the Foraker
days, did his noblest for the guest Of
honor. When Frank L.. Packard. presl-
dent Of the Chamber of Commerce.
turned the meeting over to him he let
fly with one resounding sentence:
I'VE are in the presence of the first
citizen Of the world, Woodrow Wilson,"
and sat down like a man who knows
when to quit. At this point, of course,
a trained band in the gallery tried out
the greatest OF all emotional accelera-
tors. Dixie" but the apathy OF the au-
dience was not to be disturbed.
Mr. Wilson commenced a fifty minute
speech with the statement that he was
here to report to the only people I
owe any report to-" and then he began
to lay. as he subsequently explained
privately. the groundwork for a long
series of League of Nations speeches
which he is to make all the way out to
the Pacific coast and back again. He
told the audience that II was his pur-
pose to expound to them Just what the
treaty contains and what 1t seeks to do,
but thereafter he picked and selected
his topics according to his own judg-
ment OF what needed expounding
Reply IL Made 20 Knox.
The first part of his speech was taken
as a direct reply to the protest made by
, Senator Knox (Pa.) the other day that
the terms Of the treaty with Germany
were, many Of them, too harsh to be en-
forced, and Mr.. Wilson went on to say
that while the terms were severe they
were not unjust. They were designed to.
punish Germany, which attempted an
| intolerable thing and she must be made
to pay for the attempt" He could not
see anywhere in the treaty any provision
which Inundated Germany, since the
terms were meant to rectify wrongs for
which Germany was clearly responsible.
Preparations were hxed only to the
| elastic point OF Germany's ability to
pay without destroying her life. and