New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1917, Page 5

ROUSEVELT LEGION _ GERMANY CRAGKING |FOREIGN NEWS BAN GROWING BY LEAPS - SAYS ILY UERALD, TUZCDAY, MAY 8, 1017, . HOOVER OPPOSED T0 SWISS EDITOR| BY SEC'Y LANSING! FIXING FOOD PRICES * Leaders Expect. 300,000 Volun- Silent But Powerful Under Cur- |Usual Chamnels of Information Reporté Similar Attempts in For- toers bf Bnd of Week New ,York, May 8{—Recruiting. for 8n ovefseas force for early service at ' sanne, which keeps an ear close to the | channels the front in France went on with re- 3 Bewed vigor yesterday at the head- 5 . #nd mq _. estimated that a total of at least 260,- | & - / T4 French ambassador to Rusela and haq Strensth for which reason it 4 to France. quarters of the “Roosevelt Division,” 83 ‘avenue. About 200 men, per of whom were college gradu ates, q’p'zlha in person at the offices, than 1,600 applications were' geceived Dy mail or telegraph. It was ? 000 names would be on file by the end of the week at the present rate, more than 300,000 having been previ- ously onrolad. Several the offers received yes- terday were for fully equipped units. They were aly placed on fill4 and the work of investigating reference and other information supplied was taken Hp &t ofce. Of the men who applied in person, all but one were able to pess the preliminary inquisition of Captain: W. E. Dame, the former rough rider, who is in' ¢hange .of the h He expressed the be- lef that they 'were as fine types of men &8 any who had some forward since the declaration of war. Hallst Alsop Borrowe, who served under the colonel as a rough sideér in the Spanish-American war and had charge of the “dyndmite gun” which, the regiment took along, was one of - the first to report at the Fifth avenue headquarters. He, wanted to serve, end said he could tell the colonel where he could get 60,000 fine horses within' twenty-four hours. been engaged during the last two years in obtaining horses for the Al- i Ues. s Another rough rider who enrolled | was Ralph A. Adams. He had a sur- | ®iecal operation performed in order to meet the army requirements. A. R. Elott, proprietor of The New York Medica] Journal, satd he was ready to serve in any capacity, and that a num- ber of men wanted to send an ambu- lance unit with the colonel. $ Prince Jean Palelogue of Rumania, who eatd he was a cousin of a former taken out his first papers to become an American citizen, ' wants - to go along. He hag lived in this éountry , seventaen, years. Fyomt Plainfield, N. J., the head- quarters receivdl an offer ' of the chélce of a string of/ thoroughbred horses owned by Charles. W. Mc- Cutcheon for the use 3 colonel 1t thé force should be to g6 rents at Work in Empire Paris, May 8.—The Gazette de Lau- ‘pnund far internal rumblings in Ger- many, and is always well informed, | publishes an editorial article, entitled “The Awakening of Germany,” which & striking indication of how lfle is ! known in the belligerent capitals con- cerning the great silent currents whigh ‘are steadily gaining force. | " The writer begins by stating that to “whoever is able to hear through walls or see through curtains, there can bhe no daubt that the ' German Empire is beginning to crack and that big flssures, which are perhaps still iy- visible to the naked eye, are already developing.” > 4 The writer suggests that revolutions aer always prepared in silence, example of which was the Ressian Tevolution, which was: little suspected even by the Csar. He goes on: “So far we only hear the voices shouting on the housetops, such as Liebknecht’s, which is now effectually stopped. Very _significant are’ the speeches of Hoffman, the socialist leader In the Prussian chamber, 4nd | evén more so the extraordinary violent articles of Hermann Wendel, who combats German methods in Alsace- Lorraine. Wendel spent his youth in Alsace, and came to understand the sufferings of the downtrodden people, and has since become their most fer- ‘vent champion. - True, he enlisted for service in Belgium at the beginning since repented, He has having learned the truth This is the | same Wendel who as the youngest member of the Reichstag, caused a scandal a’year before war by shouting ‘Viva la France!' during the session. ‘Significant also is a daring cam- paign waged by a small paper, ‘Die Action,” published by Franz Premfert, which, despite its pitiless disclosures, has ecaped = cemsure by dexterous means.” ) ‘The writer says, it is surprising to see the patience of the German .gov- ernment regarding the press and puts it downm 'to. the consciousness of its 2 lows much to be said, only surpressing what might sctually materialize into deeds. He cites the fact that a young revolutionary ' poet, Johannes R, Becher, creatéd a sensation in Berlin by recruiting at a soiree a violent poetic diatribe against ‘the greatest general in existence,” meaning Hin- denburg. . A book by him, entitled “To/, Europe,” has been bought by the in- tellectual set in Berlin, who ‘evidently i_aympu.tmxe with his ideas. Accord- '.hcwl’l‘brm thé An. he a expeditionary cclonel, headed. “Put ferce to France, and ‘outlines some of the, peace terms on which, he be- licves, the enemies of Germany should insist. In part he writes: b ‘The Prussianized Germany of the ' Hohenzollerris has shown itself even niote the enemy of freedom and hu- ' manity and justice and intérnational right than was Napoleon's. France. Let us strive for the peace of justice and 3¢ international right. Did they ‘but know it, the German people them- ‘ selves. would benefit by our victory, and especially the people of South Germany and of Austria, who would | be free trom the tyranny of Prussia, | and would be guaranteed in ail - their rights—surely more than an offset for not ‘being allowed to wrong others. “Belgium apd France must have ali that has been taken from them re- stored. The Turk must leave Europe —a democratic Russia at Constanti- nople will_threaten no one. Armenia should be freed < and _.autonomous. Austria is not a country but a knot of mationalities, of which two tyran- nise over the others. Let the Hus- garians keep Magyar Hungary, and the Austrians Germans Austria. Let the Itallans have the Trentino and Trieste. Let there be a great Serbia, a great Bohemia, a great Rumania. “Poland should once more be a ing to the writer ail this proves that the people who guage the German revolutionary currents merely by well known publications, fiich w}he Vor- “warts and Simplici s, are’ véry far from having soun he depths of the current. The article efigs thus: * “It is by this mpparent passivity and silence to the voices, louder than the cannon from Flanders to Alsace that the awakening of Germany is being prepared Today this is the only way in which discontent of the thinking element in Germany is able to react.” This ‘article, published by one of {he most authoritative papers in Burope, is thought here to'be deeply significant, especially -when taken in an | Are Closed to Press Washington, May 8.—The usual ¢f information through which news of America’s relationships to foreign powers have up to now reached the public were closéd late yesterday by Secretary Lansing. An order bedring his name was’ dis- tributed broadcast to state department officials instructing them not to talk Wwith newspaper men ‘‘even on insig- nificant matters of fact jor detail.” Henceforth, under the order, the press ‘will not be able to" discuss the! back- ground of camplicated international 'questions with the experts at the head of each bureau. The order says that hereafter all news of the department must be given out either by the secretary himself or by the newly created so-called bureau of foreign intelligence. Secretary Lansing sees the newspaper men twice dafly, but does not pretend to be able to answer the maze of questions which , dre raised by newspaper cables every hour of the day,. The meetings are becoming more and more perfunctory. ' ‘' The bureau of forelgn intelligencée is about a month old, and has charge \ ing news to all abroad. Usually very much behind the press cables, because of the need of coding and decoding, the bureau at the same time, because of its relative lack of authority, confines itselt most- 1y’ to formal statements on news facts and does not attempt to provide the background': or explanation which gives international news its real value. Cansequently from now on the pub- lic will receive from the state depart- ment only such perfunctory news as the bureau gives out and such frag- mentary = explanations as Secretary Lansing himself finds time for in the erush of other “work. The bureau ‘hiefs, handling questions of the far east, South America, the near east, or western; Eurape, will not be able' to give to'“the public the benefit of their expert knowledge and intim familiarity of their specialized situa- R Secretary Lansing sald’' that the present situation was entirely too deli- cate for the various bureau chiefs to be giving out information. He sald he recently had learned that = some| matters which he had not wished pub- lished had come’ out through 'news- paper men seeing various officials of’| the department, and he did not feel that they should expect to continue such visits under the present situation. DRY GOODS CO. connection with Maximilian Harden's Jatest article ip Die Zukunft. RAT CORN KILLS RATS AND MICE NO ODOR Harmless to imen Beings STORES tion, which would include all thg Po- ' 1ish lands, and have an outlet oh ‘the Baltic through old Polish Prussia, old West Prussia. East Prussia, which is German, would be unavoidably sep- arated from the other German lands; but it could not keep united with “them politically; and also commercial- 1y by arrangements for through rall- .way traffic such as we have with Can- 2da a# regards our internationsl rail- roadr. Thc Germans would keep Germuny, would lose nothing except the right to oppress others, would suf- fer no injustice. Ireland should have home rule. The colonel also points out what he belleves are the important duties of the “private citizen™ when: America is st war. WREATH ON LINCOLN'S TOMB. - Springfield, N1, May 8.—Marshal Joftre paid tribute to the memory of Lincoln at the emancipator’s tomb here yesterday and with the others of the French commission received:an enthusiastic welcome to the capital ot Ilinots. The Marshal of France silently ptaced a wreath on the Lincoln sar- sophagus. With -bowed heads and doffed caps the French hero, Rene Viviani, vice president of the French Council of Mingters, and the mil- ftary and civil officlals who accom- panied them filed into the tomb, paia Bomor to the war president and left without a spoken word. As his trata drew out of the sta- tion Marshal Joffre stooped from the form and Kkissed two little girls ‘who were dressed to represent the Unfted States and France. L LETE R§rap i a € CREAM FOR CATARRH OPENS UP NOSTRILS Tells How To Get Quick from Head-Colds. 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Special FLOUNCING SPECIAL 27-in. Fine Baby Flouncings, beautiful et:fes, 50c values | Wed. Special, - 25¢c ¢ign Countries Not Successial ‘Washington, May 8&—Uurging no de- lay in the consideration of the food problem, Herbert C. Hoover, Chair- man of the American Food commis- sion, appeared yesterday before the Houpe Committee on Agriculture and diséyssed for two hours the necessity for the conservation and distribution of foodstuffs und>r government direc- tlon. Mr, Hoover was heard behind closed doors at his own request. He suggested to the committea that some of the information and advice he had to offer shoul this time. The United States, Mr. Hoover told the committee, should profit by the ex- perience of other nations now en- gaged in war, and not delay legislation for the handling of the nation’s food supply. : It is understood that Mr. Hoover did ‘not advocate the maximum and mini- mum price-fixing legislation as pro- posed in the Lever bill now before the committee. In foreign countries, he sald, the attempt to fix maximum prices on foods had not been fully suc- cessful. The food expert said it might be feasible were the government to undertake to regulate strictly the prices of non-perishables, but he re- garded the fixing of maximum priceés on perishables as unadvisable. He suggested instead that if the govern- not be made publc at _ment would undertake to control \the transportation and distribution of foodstufts, paying particular attention to the prevention of congestion in rail- road yards and at shipping docks, the problem of price would practically settle jtself. . / Mr, Hoover urged, above all things, | npt only of the press but with/supply-| American missions | / THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE owned and used The Encyclopsedia unwieldy form, printed on oldfashioned large, awkward book that had to be supported the same route, makes the run in two hours. UNITED STATES L ! 3rd Edition, in fts origiaal bulky, X PAPER which necessitated a upon a tabls. - prompt action in dealing v problem. Other nations, he said, had grain. ° ! waited until the war had progressed | v~ food e cuch commedities as cotton Although Mr. Hoover's place for a year or more and suffered there- 'government’s food control progra; by. The United States, he argued . ot been determined finally, thi should start the war right by gIVIng |ingications that he will direet immediate attention to its food supply, I ports and later perhaps which is not only to serve this nation’ but this nation’s allies in the present l confiict. He supported the provisions in the administration bill to prevent manipulation of prices, to ' regulate storage, and to prevent hoarding. Mr. Hoover told the committee he ills. The department of largely to Mr. Hoover, as price-1 easures, if congress passes the: is fully equipped to enforce. ~egulatfons contained in the 1 tion, but,the problem of appo: ivod among the Allles may believed a special commission should | the Committee of the Couneil be created to aid the department of estions of an Internation agriculture and the president in con- 5 = i tiona] Defense. There have b Food mission, sitting in Washington to serving the food supply, encouraging |dle American and allied 160d pro| producing; and bringing about equit- able distribution. ¢ The committee began consideration of the bill yesterday with indications of a fight over some of the more dras- tic provisions of the measure. -Some of the soutliern members are ayerse to legislation which would permit anyone even, the president to become a food probably would be Mr. ceed with ‘measures until If it is created the Amerjcan ! oover, Secretary Houston anno t terday that Canada was await sage of the administrations bills ¢ into force similar regulations. . can and Canadian £00d inte: 30 nearly identical, le said, ada feels it would be useless to' t dictator to the extent of fixing prices | States decides on a definite co ] ‘THE 28th oFr aa i, PRESIDENT ‘I'n‘ mm-...—a.._n..uu-u-u-hnm-lb a8 easy to hold and read as a magasine. 3 1797 the stage cbach traveling between Philadelphia and New York took tw_o"dayh' cover the ninety miles. 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