New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1917, Page 1

‘Wilson Declares We Are Provincials N0~Longer and Must Take Lively Interest ipn Activities of Human Family NEW BRITAIN HERALDE NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 5, | PRESIDENT INAUGURATED WHILE PLANS ARE MADE TO GAG LA FOLLETTE AND HIS CROWD; SENATE FILIBUSTERING TO BE PREVENTE 1917. —_TWELVE PAGES. HERALD “ADS” MEAR BETTER BUS\INES : ESTABLISHED 18 Peace Cang 'Securely oc Justly Rest on Armed Balance of Power---National Armaments Should Be Limited to Necessities of National Order and Domestlc Safety---America Forcnbly Drawn Into lntematlonal Whlrlpool . WILSON SWEARS TO UPHOLD OUR HONOR Takes Public Oath of . Office Shortly After - Noon Amid Resplend- _ent Scene at Capitol || ‘Washington, Ma ‘Wilson and Vice ident Marshall ‘were inaugurated . their second" . term today with a .reat pa.trlouc “demonstration of Americanism. © The solemn dignity of the cere- /monies of inaugurating the vice presi- + ‘dent in the semate chamber and the | slmple but impréssive ceremony in the air on the Plaza before the capi- Aol when the President delivered his ’Hmngunl uldren, were accentuated’ E% h. 5.—President or mea mnoondmtmotofloovmhs new consecration to the service of his “eountry. It whs the président’s wish that his insuguration should be a simple. one, and all ough the fixed program which ‘covered more than five hours, ‘while there was the pomp, ceremon: iund spectacular display which inevi- tably attaches to the inauguration of & president, the Studied effort was to keep -the ceremonies In accord with i the best traditions of America—cere- ‘monies which in the main were ) planned by George Washington more than a century ago, The event was simplified because i there was no dual ceremony to attend * the departure of an outgoing president and- further simplified because it did ;: mot fail in with the rush and con- ; “'fusion -of the dying hours of congress. Departure From White House. X ‘The ceremony began with the presi- dent’s departure from the White House for the eapitol. That was fixed by program for 11 o’clock. Just be- fore that tinde the escorts for the party began assembling, a squadron of the ‘Second United States cavalry . for the president and the black horse troop of Culver Military academy for " the vice president, Just before the hour of departure the congressional committee in charge of the inaugura- tion arrangements arrived. Through the gates of the White House grounds to Pennsylvania avenue, the marching ground of inaugural armies of . war and peace gone long before, the official party headed toward the capitol. President Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and twé members of the congressional inaugural = committee, rode in a conveyance surrounded by . troopers of the escort. In the second . convevance came, Vice President and . Mrs, Marshall surrounded by the Cul- % yer troop. The third conveyance i3 brought Robert N, Harper, chairman sy of the local a.rransemenu ¢committee, .-and the remafning members of the congressional committee. Steel cables strung along the line of arch held a_multitude from crowding into the avenue. Reviewing stands were well filled for the wait of some “two 'hours before the presidential party would return at the head of the ihaugural procession. Thousands at Capitol. At the capitol the crowd already ‘was packed about the inaugural stand. The broad Plaza with standing room for - thousands filled rapidly and out over the park spaces and avenues which converge there another crowd bad to content itself with lodking on the ceremonies from a distance, quite out of reach of President: Wilson's voice. . ‘When the official party arrived at ! tHe capitol, the president with Mrs. ‘Wilson went to the president’s room near the senate chamber and _the " vice president and Mrs. Marshall went the vice president’s room to await the beginning of the ceremonies in the § senate chamber. } * Galleries had been filling long be- this hour. Invited guests of the dént, vice president, speiker and s-of the mufig mrt ,a?t the l 1 s e o e e INAUGURATION STATISTICS, . Woodrow Wilson is the 28th president of the United States, reckoning Cleveland’s two terms as separate because he was the only president serving twice who was not re-elected. Virginia leads in the nativity of ‘presidents. Eight .of her lonl—Wumnmn. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Willilam Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and Wilson—have held ' the highest office in the gift of the nation.. Ohio has given six native sons to presidency. They were Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrisan, McKinley and Taft. Of all the vocations in life the law has furnished most - presidents. Ninetéen.chief ex- ecutives of the United States were lawyers at the time they were elected. Three are classi- fied as statesmen; two as sol- jdiers; two as farmers, one as a + publie officlal. - Seventeen 'ruidunt.s luve been college men; one was graduated from West Point, nine had no colleglate ‘educa- tion. ‘English paternal ancestry has predomisiated among all - presidents. Fifteen were of English extraction. Six were Scotch-Irish, thrée were Scotch, two were Dutch, one was ‘Welsh. & ‘ The youngest president, at the time of inauguration was “Roosevelt, who was 46. The oldest was William Henry Har- rison who was 68. Of all the Presidents John Adams lived to the oldest age. He was 90 when he died. AMERICA A COUNTRY DIVINELY ORDAINED United States. Thus Described by Yice President Marshall HIS PATRIOTIC CREED Belicves No Finer Form of Govern- ment Exists and He Should Be Ready to Die to Guaranteo Its Ex- istence. ‘Washington, March 5.—Vice Presi- dent Marshall made his second in- augural address before the senate to- day—a statement of his creed of cit- izenship under a government for which, he said, “I ought to be willing to live or to die, as God decrees, that it may not perish offs the earth through treachery within or through assault from without.” The address follows: “Custom calls for the utterance of a few words upon this occasion; otherwise, I would gladly remain si- lent. It may not be inappropriate to express my gratitude for the little nameless, unnumbered and oft-times unremembered acts of courtesy and | charity shown to me by the members of this body during the last four years; to express my regret over the vanishing faces of those who are leaving and to welcome those who in a few moments are to become our co-workers in the cduse of constitu- | tional freedom. “Everywhere ~in America are clamant and strident voices proclaim- ing the essential elements of pa- triotism. He who seeks out of them [all to select one clear note of love for country may fail. I. conceive it to be far more important to examine PRESIDENT WILSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS Washington, March 5.—Président Wilson’s inaugural address was as follows: “My fellow citizens: The four yeéars which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowned with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or 8o full of significance and ehanges in the spirit and purpose of our political action. We have sought thoughtfully to set ouur house in order, correct, the abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the pfocesses of our national genius and energy and lift our politics tQ a broadgr view of the people’s essential interest. It is a record of singular varieety and singu- lar distinction. But I shall not at- tempt to review it. It speaks for it- self and will be of increasing - in- fluence as the years go by. This is not the time for retrospect. It is the time rather to speak aur thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future, “Although we have centered counsel and action with such unusual concen- tration and success upon great prob- lems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselyes four year ago other matters have more and more forced themselves upon our attention matters lying outside our own life as \a nation snd over which we had no eontrol, Bt which, Wte our wlsh to p free of them more and more irresistibly in(o theh‘ own current and influence. “It has been impossible to avold them. They have affected the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywere with a passion and an | apprehension they never new before. It has been hard to preserve calm counsel while the thought of our own | people swayed this way and that under thelir influence. We are a com- posite and cosmopolitan people. We are of the blood of all the nations that are at war. The currents of our'| thoughts, as well as the currents of our trade, run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevitably stamped its mark from the first upon our minds, our industries, our politics and our social action. To be indifferent to it, or !ndependent of it was out of the question. “And yet all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it. In that consciousness, despite many divisions, we have drawn close together. We have been deeply wronged upon the seas but we have not wished to wrong ‘or injure in re- turn; have retained, throughout the consciousness, ' of standing in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that tranécended the immediate is- sues of the war itself. ““As some of the injuries done us have become intolerable, we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind—dealing justice, the freedom to live and beat as against organized wrong. 5 “It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more DECLARED GERMANY HAS WARRED ON US Governor of West Virginia Says We | Cannot Quietly Submit to Loss of Commercc, Charleston, W. Va., March 5.—Gov- | ernor John J. Cornwell in his augural addréss here today urged the residents of West Virginia to lay aside | all partisanship ana support the; president in the present internationgl crisis, making whatever sacrifices that may be demanded, no matter how great. “While our earncst prayers are for | peace,” sald Governor Cornwell, “yet when a nation drives our commerce from the seas and sacrifices the lives of our peovle; engaged in peaceful and lawful pursuits, that nation has made war on us and to quictly submit to in- i { i fitted up in peace for the sake of ease and com- ! of wealth, would involve a 1 national self-respect and friendship of the other peoples of the world. The man who countenanges such a gur-.i Yender to lawlessness and barbarism: fort and the continued accumulation | of ¢ and more aware, more ,and ' more, certain that the part we wished to’ play was the part of these who meant to vindicdte and fortify peace.. We have been obliged to arm. ourselves to make good our claim. to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. We stand firm in armed neu./ trality since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is’ we ineist upon and cannot forego. We may even be drawn onm,’ by circum- stances not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active ‘assertion of our rights’and more immediate ac- tion with e great struggle itself. But mothing will alter our thought or our purpose. They are .too :clear. to be obscured. They are rooted in the principles of our na- tional life to be altered. We desire neither conquest por advantage. We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people. We always profess unselfish purpose and we covet the opportunity to . prove that our proessions are sincere. “There are many things still to do at home, to clarify our own politics and add new vitality to the indus- trial processes of our own life and we shall do them as time and apportunity serve but we realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for a stage and in co-operation with the wide and universal. forces of man- kind and we are making our spirits r those things. ‘They will fol- o flie iMmediate wake of the war itself’ and will set civilization up again. We are provincials no longer. The tragical events of the thirty months of vital turmoeil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved whether we would have it so or not. “And yet we are not the less Amer- icans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have bLeen bred: They are not the princi- ples of a province or of u single con- tinent. We have known and- boast that they were the principles of a. lib- erated, mankind. These, 'theréfore are tHe things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace: “That all nations are equally inter. ested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peo- ples and equally responsible for the maintenance. “That the - essential principle of .peace is the actual equality of na- tions in all matters of right. “That peace cannot securely or just- ly rest upon an armed balance of power.” “That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by them on thought, purpose or power of the fam- ily or nations. “That these should be equally frea and safe for the use of all peoples un- der rules set up by common agree- ment and consent and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible to all upon equal terms. SUBMARINE TRAP Tanker Fitted Up With Four Con- cealed Broadside Guns Encountered by U-Boat Off Irish Coast. Berlin, Friday, March 2, (By wire- less to Savville), March 5.—Two Gel man submarines that recently re- turned to their bases, sank fifteen steamers and seven sailing vessels ag- gregating 64,5600 gross the admiralty announced today. “One of the submarines,” continues the statement, “encountered oft the south coast of Ireland a tank steamer as a submarine trap with four well concealed broadside guns. The ship boats also were in use to throw bombs against submarines. “‘After emerging, the submarine had an artillery engagement from 3 m. until dark with this suomarine trap and against a submarire de- strover of the Fox Glove type which joined her. At least three hils were obtained on the Fox Glove.” WEATHER. Hartford, March 5.—For Tlartford and vicinity followed by will some day be called to :cconnt % too deeply | “That national armaments should be -limited to the necessities of na tional qrder and domestlc safety. “THat in4he intefests of such power and upon which peace must hence- forth depend imposes upon each na- tion' the duty of seeing to it thdt all influences proceeding from its owi citizens; mean to encourage or assist revolution in other states, should be ! sternly and effectually suppressed sn&l prevented. <~“I need not argue these pr‘nclples’ to you, my fellow couptrymen. Tney *re part and parcel of vour own think- ng and your own motive in afl'ah‘s. They spring up native amongst us. Upon' this as a platform of purpose 2nd of action wé can stand tozether. | “And it is imperative that we should | stand together. We are heing forced into a new unity amidst the fire that | how. blazes throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God’s providence, let us hope, be purged of factions’ and divisions, purified of the humors of party and of private in- terest, and shall stand forth ih the | days to come with a new dignity of na- tional pride and spirit. Let every man see to it that the dedication is in his own heart, the purpose of the na- tion in his own mind, ruler of his ow= | will and desire. «] stand here and have taken the high and solemn odath to which you have been audience because the peo- ple of the United States have' chosen. t me for this a%dsmflon of pawer and have, bY, sracious judgment, named me their leader in affairs. I know now what the tisk means. redlize to the fullést responsibility which it involves. I pray God I may be giventhe wisdem and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great pecple. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither 1 counsel nor my action will avall, is .the unity of America—an America united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity of service. We are to beware of men who would turn the tasks and the necessitles of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power; beware no faction or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarass the spirit of our people; beware that our gov- ernment be kept pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United also in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must now set our hand. rhad no connection with it. Democrafic'i.e;iders Call Caucus of Ser ! to Overthréw “Little Group of Wiiful |/ Who Prevented Maj ority Authorizing ecutive to Arm Defensively Merchant ADMITS PLOT T0 ASSASSINATE. WILSON Man Arrested in Hoboken, Confesses, Detectives Alege. Hoboken ,March 5—.Friz Kolb, ar- rived here this afternoon in a hotel opposite the . piers where German steamships are tied up is alleged. by the police ta have confessed that he conspired in a plot to blow up Presi. dent Wilson. In the man’s room were found a number of bombs and some ex- plosives. Kolb told detectives, they said, that he participated in the. ex- plosicns on' Black Tom Island, in New York harbor ‘and Kingsland, N. J‘, which cost & number of lives and ' @d mary million dollars worth of ‘property damage. MURDER SUSPECT IS RELEASED BY POLICE George Crist Talked Too Much About Local Crime and Placed Under Arrest. = \ Bridgeport, March 5.—George Crist, thirty-two years old, who was arrest- ed here on Saturday because he talked too loudly and too much about the murder of Charles A. Taft, the taxi- cab driver, in New Britaiy last week, was discharged in the city court here today. The police had held him as a suspect in the Taft case but after an investigation were convinced that he Crist said he formerly lived in New Rritain and was interested in reading about the murder. - Search for the slayer of Charles A. Taft of Hartford, “Venetian special” “For myself I beg vour tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves—to ourselves as we have wished to be known In the counsels of the world | and in the thought of all those who love liberty and justice and the right exalted.” 111,488 TON STEAMER SUNK Royal Mail Liner Drina, Rio Janeiro l to Liverpool, Destroyed But Passcn- gers Are Landed. New York, March 5.—Advices re- ceived here from Rio Janeiro and London indicate that the Royal Mail | steamer liner Drina, of 11,483 tons, { with passengers and cargo from Rio Janeiro, has been sunk between Lis- bon and Liverpool. The passengers | were rescued and landed. No details { are given. TO ADOPT WHOLE VILLAGE. Bay to Be Foster Father to 2,400 Belgian Children. New York, March 5.—After listen- ing to an addréss by Theodore Koose- velt the citizens of Oyster Bay made arrangements to form a committee, whose . object will be to mak: plani to adopt a Belgian village of 2,400 children. The plan will call for a lcentrihution of $2,400 a montn. ‘ol. Roosevelt, it was annovneed today will serve as honorary chair- man of the general committes of the Rocky Mountain club of New York which chas eur‘gg «&.; campaign, . to 3 fonth ¢o aid chil- anm Oyster ‘chauffeur, who met a tragic death at a lonely spot on Kensington avenue Thursday)night, has settled down to a tracing out of clues already in the hands of the authorities. While the authorities express conviction that there will be arrests of impartance ultimately, it ig admitted that it may be several days before sufficient evi- dence is secured to warrant action. Inability of the manufacturers at ‘Worcester, Mass., to furnish informa- tion as to whom the death-gun was sold has come as a surprise, to the authorities and upset their calcula- tions materially. The manufacturers report that they are not compelled to keep records of the sale of firearms, until there are retail purchass at the factory. Officials refuse to admit that Taft has been used as a ‘“‘stool pigeon” by federal dr state authorities in their investigations among inhabitants of the underworld. It is curren ru- mored that he has been, had become suspected and the murder resultéd as vengeance of those suspected of being connected with nefarious gangs. The funeral and burial of the trag- edy’s victim was held this afternoon in East Hartford. BLAMES WILSON FOR PLOT. Berne, via Paris, March 5.—The Munich Neuste Nachrichten, discuss- ing the Zimmermann note, denies that any plot existed on the part of Ger- many to bring about war with Amer- ica but rather Germany acted in pre- paredness for possible eventualities. The paper maintains that the respon-, sibility for the whole affair rests on President Wilson. The Frankfurter Zeitung comments in a different tone and offers no defense of Secretary Zimmermann's action. GERMANY TAKES OVER R. R. / Amsterdam, March 5, via Londop/~— According to the Krouz Zeltung” of Berlin the entire raflway systém of ny ‘hag been placed updér the mmg‘tu authorities. § Washington, March 5.—A d cratic senate caucus has been T 10:30 tomorrow morning. o the subjects jof discussion will: cloture movement to prevent' filibusters as defeated the neutrality measure yesterday. Responsive to the presldent peal to the\senate to change that a “little group of wilfu might 1ot make the country " and comtemptible before the the submarine crisis, th movement was initiated tod democratic leaders. v Thirty-three members have to co-operate with the : anti- movement. President ‘Wilson has r his legal advisors his doubts . absence ' of direct authority Bress. Some. decision is from' the attorney general with next twenty-four hours, " “President Wiison believes. the ing of the armed neutrality bill senate filibuster before adjo yesterday may effectually: preven from exepcising his prerogative 4 merchant ships and advp exp | or, prevent a small minority trom M up legisiation, in the future. twelve senators led by S Follette had defied th e\ overwhelming: majority-10:3 ‘meutrality bill until fo ment ' yesterday noon ca measure down to its death, Pres ‘Wilson issued a statement denqy the obstructionists and expi .| doubt whether he can procged ships without: !eglc!quve sanctiol Senator, Follette had intend bring his fight on the ntutraljty a‘dramatic climax by deliye long, speech up to the hour journment. He was prevented, ' ever, by a parliamentary maneuy which Sendtor Hitchcock, leadel the seventy-six members who the bill and wanted to,vote, O that time with a #peéech of his o {FRENCH DEMAND ANSWER FROM B Paris, March 5.—The Frencl ernment has spummoned Gern reply favorably without dela; propositions for reciprocal of prisoners of war made by A semi-official communical out here denies categorically th man claim that the holdisig of prisoners of war in the zone behind the German line is in for similar treatment of Germ oners of war in France. The, munication puts French famili guard against what it calls a m ver of the German government - tined to create anguish and er with the public mind, in the s reprisals. o The French government, it communicated thrfough the Amep embassy its desire to arrive at & understanding regarding treatme prisoners in the zone of the a but no reply was forthcoming Germany. Meanwhile the thi reprisals were put into effect. fore, notice is siven that G must reply. ¢ General Von Stein, German g of war, announced-in the Rl last week that injreprisal for, tion of France in compellin prisoners of' war to work close behind the front, Germai adopted similar measures. G he declapéd, had warned Frane such maéasures would be take) the -practice censed against tl ans. AGED REGISTRAR 8 Meriden, March 6.—Timothy" win, aged 65, democratic reg voters, was®stricken with aj today while shoveling snow and" later: £ C