The Penn's Grove record., 1919-07-18
Enthusiastic Welcome Home

Ii is doubtful whether the National
Capital has ever, IN all history, gwen
to any one. SO generous and spontaii-
eous q WELCOME as that winch was e&-
rendad 10 President Wilson upon ms
return to this country. For once the
folks lust went down TO the tram ana
waited'-and it was 3 long wait, 1of
the beiated train did not pun IN 10 Jiie
train shed until midnight. tlh&n!
tine President and Mrs. Wilson arr1N-
ed. and as usual, they We're whlsNeo
through the crowds, with n usu&
amount of cheering, and the President
having to right and left from ms
swiftly moving automobile. Down Oht
Ayanue. with more crowds, and more
cheering-and then through the gates
10 the White HOuse-Home again.
To the unIuitiated the event nuglt
nave seemed like q very ordinary form
of greeting To the head Of the Nation
RuT those vine have been IL Washing
ton long wears know that no President
ever received such L welcome from Lht
Capitol. The reasons are Uwo-1olQ.
and prosaicallv stated, the party u
the FIRST bart is the public. wnlcn
rlibs elbows daily with the great ana
the near-rreat. and pine 10 the IL
evftable conclusion that 81 men ana
women are made Of the same klnQ u
clav- and possessed Of the same 1ololes
and virtues as all the other people
With TINS sort Of z pesslmstlc OUTLOOK
on life the President is not apt TO be
come as famous III Washington as
Ian r,-r,.ap-r,any TlrE where
ms identity is impressed upon The
masses once Or twice q year.
President Wilson, Is party OF Jht
SECOND part. mas not been 3 popular
sshero" IL Washington. He never mas
smixed. Is did Mr.. Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt and ms alDofness mas MOI
served 60 make MIN personally popu-
lar. Likely. mad Washington been IN
enfranctIised part Of the United States
in the last election, Mr.. Hughes would
hsve mad q landslide. When the arm
istice Was arranged, the Opposition 10
M. Wilson was terrific
1t may be Z large task 70 interpret
hhe feelings and sentiments Of z
c-ovd. especially IL heterogeneous
N-Ahnvtun; but as the correspondent
Of ths IennsCrOve Record watched tins
great event. II seelead tha1 there WIS
an instance where men ~-I women
from all over the country gauhei& n
quietly express their approvaI OF Ine
efforts baing mace Tor The mgnesI
ideals Of civilization. In their MINDS
'politics was adjourned" -.
Critical Washington did not mean
to SLY that II u~nfeservedfy approved
the work Of tne Peace Conference. anc
the plan of the League Of Nations
But Whit TINS great welcome ONT 2
pressed emphatically was the conn
dence of the people, and Im1measurable
respect for tne way in which the Pres
ident mas handled the biggest PROT
lens that nave eve been put up u
any human being ID the history Of Ths
world. L WIS n~on-partisan American
ism Of the finest kind, for tins exact
IMP crowd stood, more than any ! haTe
ever seen before, for the finest ideal:
that America can hope TO achieve. Il
Was that rarest Of rare things; Tht
heart Of the Capitol Of the Nation tx
pressing itself.
In the subsequent events much has
and VIII happen, that viii change 1he
attitude of our ''pubhc," Is party Of
the first part, and our President, Is
party Of the second part; but the Two
never got closer 10 each other thai
they did on the night Of the home
coming Of Woodrow Wilson, July 9th.
". Washington, D. &, 7-10-Is