Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 289 Balldi EIGHT PAGES—64 COLS, POPULATION 29,919 PRESIDENT REGARDS TRIP TO PEACY CONFERENCE AS HIS HIGHEST DUT NORWICH, CONN. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918 ~ Polesin Control of |Estimates of Federal City of Lemberg| Expenses For 1320 Order is Bei t Total Placed s Bemng Kegt Aons ) REGULAR ARNY OF WAL A MLON That Number Provided For in Estimate Submitted to Ce f Condensed Telegrams The army reserves in Lima, Peru, ‘were called to the colors. News division of the Comnittee on Public Information was closed. Secretary Daniels announced there will be no demobilization of the Ma- rine Corps until after peace. Details of a merger of 29 explosive manufacturing firms in England, rep- Tesenting practically the whole British at $7,443,415,- Question of the Strangth of Ay After Conchimsis il In His Address to Congress the President Declares That He Has No Private Thought or Purpose in Making Trip Abroad—Asks For Friendly Continuance and Encou- ragement of ises Full Publicity of All Affairs That Transpire at Peace Conference—Requests Members of Congress to Make 2 Complete and Im- pcrfinlStndyoftheR:ilmdl’toble{n.WithlV'm.wof the Early Return of the Roads to Private Ownership. Washington, Dec. 2—Congress _in joint session today heard President Wilson announce formally his purpose attend the peace conference and give his views on the part the gov- ernment should play in dealing with after the war problems. Democrats of the house received the announcement with cheers, in which some senators joined; the republicans were silent, almost throughout the ad- dress except when the president re- ferred to the valor and efficiency of America’s soldiers and mentioned the names of Pershing and Sims. Threatened interruptions by members who disapprove of the trip and of the president’s failure to include a senator among the peace delesates, however, did not materialize. Duripg the first hour of the new session Senator Cummins of lowa, re- publicen, introduced a resolution to send a committee of eight senators to Paris to keep the senate advised of the progress of the peace conference, and in the house Representative Rodenburg of Illinois, republican, had offered a resolution proposing that the vice presicent take over the executive tunctions upon the ‘departure of Mr. Wilson from the country. Senator Shermen of Illinois, republican, an- nounced later that he would submit tomorrow a resolution similar to that of Representative Rodenburg except that it would declare the office of president vacant. The president’s annual address was read before a crowd that filled floore and galleries. He reviewed at length | the country’s accomplishments in the | war, paying tribute to the armed forces and to loyal workers at home. Among other things, he disclosed that he. thinks the problem of readjustment is taking care of itself without gov- erpment aid. “It is surprising,” he said, “how fast the procese of return to a peace foot- ing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped. It promises o outrun any inquiry that may be in- tituted and any aid that may be of- red. It will not be éasy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. American business man is of quick initiative.” Of the railroad question Mr. Wilson aid he had no solution to offer. He said be was ready to return the lines ‘0 private control whenever a satisfac- tory arrangement was offered 1o pre- vent a return to the old systems under private management without modifica- tion, and asked congress to study the subject. Recommendations included a renew- ed appeal for woman suffrage in recog- nition of woman's work in the war; a request for early and favorable action on the unratified Colombian treaty, and a suggestion that authority should he given the war trade board or somo other body to continue control for a time over exports. Tho president concluded with the announcement of his forthcoming trip overseas. He said since the associated governments had accepted principlas enunciated by him as the basis for peace and reasonably desired his per- equipment and supplies, and carried safely through extraordinary dangers of attack—dangers which were altke strange and infinitely dificult.to guard against. In all this movement only 758 men were lost by enemy’ attacks— 630 of them were upon a single English transport which was sunk near the Orkney Islands. I need not tell you what lay back of this great movement of men and mate- rial. It is not invidious to say that back of it lay a supporting organiza- tion of the industries of the country and of all its productive activities more complete, more thorough in method and eMective in results, more spirited and unanimous in purpose and effort than any’ other great belligerent had ever been able to effect. ‘We profited greatly by the experience of the nations which had already been engaged for nearly three years in the exigent and exacting business, their every resource and every executive proficiency taxed to the utmost. We were the pupils, but we learned quickly and acted with a promptness and a readiness of co-operation that justify our great pride that we were able to serve the world with unparalleled en- ergy and quick accomplishment. But it is not the physical ecale and executive efficiency of preparation, upply, equipment and despatch that I would dwell upon, but the mettle and quality of the officers and én we sent over and of the sailors who kept the seas, and the spirit of the nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sail- ors ever proved themselves more quickly ready for the test of battle or acquitted themselves with more splen- did courage and achievement when put to the test. Those of us who played some part - in_ directing the great processes by which the war was push- ed irresistibly forward to the final triumph may now forget all that and delight our thoughts with the story of what our men did. Their officers understocd the grim and exacting task they had under- taken and performed with audacity, efficiency and unhesitating courage that touch the the story of convoy and battle with imperishable distinction at every turn, whether the enterprise were great or small—from their chiefs, Pershing and Sims, down _to _the youngest lieutenant; and their men were worthy of them—such men as hardly need to be commanded and go to their terrible adventure blithely and with the quick intelligence of those who know just what it is they would ac- complish. T am proud, to be the fel- low countryman of men of such stuff and valor. Those of us who stayed at home did our duty; the war could not have been won or the zallant men who fought it given their opportuni- ty to win it otherwise; but for many a long day we shall think ourselves “accurs'd we were not there, and hold our manhood cheap while any speaks that fought,” with these at St. Mihiel or Theirry. Ths memory of those days of triumphant battle will g0 down with these fortunate men to their grayes; and each will have his sonal counsel in their interpretation, he regarded it ae his paramount duty to go. Through cables and wireless, 10 added, he would keep in close touch with all that goes on on this side “and you will know all that I do.” He ap- pealed for the encouragement and add- ed strength of united support from congress. There was no debate in either house on the president’s trip to France, The only reference to it in the house was made by Representative Mann of Illi- nois, the republican l8ader, after the president had delivered his annual ad- dress at the joint session in the house chamber. “I am not objecting to the presgint soing abroad,” said the repubiican jeader, “but I think some wise gentle- man on the majority side of the house ought to be able to inform congress what courise to be pursued when matters come before us. Is there any way by which we may make into law anything put through congress before the president returns? favorite memory. “Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember with advantages what feats he did that day!™ ‘What we all thank God for with deepest gratitude is that our men went in force into the line of battle just at the critical moment when the whole fate of the world seemed to bang in the balance and threw their fresh strength into the ranks of free- dom in time to turn the whole tide and sweep of the fateful struggle— turn 3t onmce for all, so that thence- forth it was baeck, back, back for their enemies, always back, never again forward! After that it was only a scant four months before the com- manders of the Central Empires knew themselves beaten; and now their very empires are in liguidation’ And through §t all, how fine the country. These great days of complet- ed achievements would be sadly mar- red were we to omit thaz act of ju tice. Besides the immense practical services they have rendered, the wo- men of the country have been the moving spirit in the systematic econ- omies by which our people have vol- untarily assisted to supply the suf- fering peoples of the world and the armies upon every front with food and everything else that we had that might serve the common cause. The details of such a story can never be fully written, but we carry them at our hearts and thank God that we can say that we are the kinsmen of such. And now we are suro of the great triumph for which every sacrifice was made. It has come, come in its com- Dleteness; and with the pride and in- spiration 'of these days of achievement quick within us we turn to the tasks of peace again—a peace secure against the violence of irresponsible monarchs and ambitious military coteries, and made ready for a new order, for new foundations of justice and fair deal- ing. We are about to give order and or- ganization to this peacs, not only for ourselves but for the other peoples of the world as well, so far as they will suffer us to serve them. It is in- ternational justice that we seek, not domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have dwelt of late upon Europe,.upon Asia, upon the near and the Far Fast, very little upon the acts of peace and accommodation that wait 1o be per- formed at our own doors. While we are adjusting our relations with the rest of the world is it not of capital ‘im- portance that we should clear away all grounds of misunderstanding with our immediate neighbors and give proof of the friendship we really feel? 1 hope that the members of the sen- ate will permit me to speak once more of the unratified treaty of friendship and adjustment with the Republic of Colombia. I very earnestly urge vy them an early and favorable acion upén that vital matter. I believe that they will feel. with me, that the stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just hut generous and in the spirit of the new age upon which we have so happilv entered. So far as our domestic affairs are concerned, the problem of our return to peace is a problem of economic and industrial readjustment. That prob- lem is less scrious for us iban it may turn out to be for the nations which have suffered the disarrangements and the losses of the war longer than we. Our people, moreover, are quick and resourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose and self-reliant in action. Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily be- come hopelessly tangled because they would pay ro attention to them and g0 their own way. A# that we can do as their legisla- tive and executive servants is tc medi- ate the prodess of changes here, there, and elsewher2 as we may. I have heard much counsed as fo the plans that should be formed and personally con- ducted to a happy consumation, but from no quarter have I seen any gen- eral scheme of = “reconstruction” emerge which I thought it likely we colild force our spirited business men and self-reliant laborers to accept with due pliancy and obedience. While the war lasted we set up many agencies by which to direct the industriés of the country in the ser- vices it was mnecessary for them to render, hy which to fnake sure of an abundan: supply of the materials needed, by which to check undertak- ings that could for the time be dis- pensed with and stimulate those that were most serviceable in war, by which to gain for the purchasing departments of the government a cer- tain control over the prices of es- sential articles and materials by which to restrain trade with alien enemies, make the most of the available ship- ping and systematize financial trans- actions, both public and private, so that there would be no unnecessary conflict or confusion—by which, in short, to put every material energy of the country in harness to draw the common load and make of us one team in the accomplishment of a great task. But the moment we knew the armistice to rave been sigred, we took the harness off. Raw materials upon which the government had kept its band for fear there stonld mnot be enough for the industries that sup- plied the armies have heen released and put into the general market again. Great industrial plants whose whole output and nachinery had been taken over for. the 'use of the government have been set free to return to the Ruthenians. Lofiibeng, Galicia, Deg. ) ZThe ciyt of Lemberg, capital of the Austrian crownland of = Galicia, again is in the hands of the Poles after months of vicissitudes and fight- ing against the Ruthenians. Order is beink gept among the Jewish sympa- thizers with the Ruthenians. The beautiful city was threatened with destruction many times but es- caped with the burning of one wing of 2 (By the A. of the postoffice, the railway station and a few dozens of houses. Only a few persons were killed, though many were wounded, most sf them being civilians, The political sitwation of the Poles is uncertain. They wish to recall the Polish legion from America and also a division from France. Poland’s hope of union since Napoleonic times has not yet been realized. Her problems are a mystery to outsiders; her gen- eral situation is much more difficult than that of any of the other new re- publics of the former empire. Chaos prevails and it cannot vet be said that a Polish government exists, since Poland still is divided into three districts. The first of these is Russian, with Warsaw its center, which the German soldiers recently left and which now is controlled by Bolshevists working against Russian. The second is Posanian, with the capital at Posen, and the third Austrian Poland or Ga- licia, with Cracow the capital. The Bolshevism in Warsaw does not Dlease the businesslike Galicians, nor does it find any sympathy in Posnania, where the Poles are working for a real organization. German Poland is a big question’ mark in the minds of the Poles ,due to the fact that the Germans have not vet evacuated it. It is through here that the Poles hope to secure an outlet to their own port on the sea. The position of Galicia is somewhat like that of the Austrian republic, though the government in Galicia is more unseitled. Business men, how- ever, are attempting to do business with the Czechs. They also are sell- ing crude oils at high prices and ate temting to trade in coal with the Austro-Hungarians The whole aim of the Poles is to meet the situation by physical pos- session of the territory in order to face the peace conference with decks clear. say, in finding place and employment. Buf there be others who wili be at a loss where to gain a livelihood unless pains are taken to guide them and put them in the way of work. There will be a large floating residum of labor which should not be .left wholly to shift for itself. It seems to me important, therefore, {hat the de- velopment 5" public’ works of every sort should’ be prompti¥? resumed, in order ‘that oportunities should be cre- ated for unskilled labor mn particular and that place should be made for such developmerits of our unused lands and our natural rcsources as we . have hitherto lacked stimulation to under- take. I particularly direct your attention to the very practical plans which the secretary of the interior has devel- oped in his annual revort and before your commitfees for reclawation of the arid, swamp and cut-over lands, which might, if the states were will- ing and able to cooperate, redeem some three hundred million acres of land for cultivation. There are said to be fifteen or twenty million acres of land in the west at present arid, for whose reclamation water is available, it properly conserved. There are about two hundred and thirty million acres from which the forests have been cut but whith have never vet been cleared for the nlow and which lic waste and desolate. These iie scat- tered all over the Union. And there are nearly eighty million acres of Jand that lie under swamps or subject to periodical overflow or t00 wet for any- thing but grazing, which it is perfect- ly feasible to drain and protee) and redeem. The congress can at once di- roct thousands of the returming sol- diers to the reclamation of the arid lands, which it has already under- taken if it will but enlarge the plans and the appropriations which it has entrusted to the department of the in- terior. It is possible in dealing with our un- used land to effect g great rural and agricultural development which will afford the best sort of opportunity to men who want to help themselves, and the secretary of the interior has hought the possible methods out in a the diet building and the blowing up|' 12,000,000 For War and Navy Dep’ts. ‘Washington, Dec. 2. Estimates mounting in peace times but falling off rapidly, will make the government's outlay ‘in the “fiscal year 1620, begin- ning next July 1, $7,4424153833, of which $5,212,600,000 will go to the war and navy departments, $892,000,000 to pay interest on'war debt. and $759,- 000,000 for continuing the building of 2 merchant marine, according to de- partmental estimates presented today to_congress. These expenses compars with the $24,599,000,000 appropriations for the current year, ending next June 30, with $18,000,000.000 which probabl wili be accordingly spent this year, and with the ordinary anrual expenses of about a billion dollars before the war. The sarily advance estimates are mneces- rough and many departments expect to cut them down during the next few months as k committees of congress work over the figures in drafting appropriation Lills. Herefo- fore, annual estimates have exceeded the 'appropriation authorizations and the actual ,expenditures usually have been considerably less than the ap- propriation. Secretary McAdoo trans- mitted withcut comment the esti- mates of various departments as sub- mitted and compileq at the treasury department. The war department wants $2,556,- 000,000 next year for bringing the army home from Europe. and main- taining part of the force, continuing fortifications and other purposes, and the navy department estimates its needs at $2,656,000,000 even more than hipping hoard asks $500,000,000 for building ships already authorized by congress, $60,000,000 for operation of vessels, $17451,000 for recruiting and_training officers anl crews, and $1,453.000 for individual administra- tion expezse. The item of $893,000,600 as interest on public debt includes provision for mecting the semi-annuai pavments on Liberty bonis at ready cutstanding and those .to he issued in the near future and this sum is not subject to any great alteration. For congress, it i penses will be $17, presilent and estimated, ex: 55,000; for few bureaus revolving about him, 981,000; for the state de- partment $12,725 00 for ‘the treasury and all fiscal purposes $1,427,515,000; Panama Canal $12,216,000; interior de- partment and a number of public works projacts $270,282.000: depart- ment of agriculture '$53.28%000; . de- partment of commerce $31.388 000; de- partment of labor $25 .00 de- partment of ustice $14.155,000; fed- eral courts 21,410,000; for foreign in- tercourse ircluding consular activi- ties $11,042,000; for Indian affairs $11,- 939,000 and for pensions arising out of past wars $220,000,000, the usual sum s(‘)Ught. = There is provision in th for $287,000,000 for the _establishment of a sinking fund, repérted perfunc- torily in previous years. In the face of tremendous public debt, however, it is regarded as probable that congress now will provide for a real redemp- tion fund with which to pay bonds when they fall due in future years. The estimated total of does not include thi: 307,000 for postal serv of which are covered automati appropriations, but are met directly from postal 1evenues. Despite the uncertainty of life for a number of government war agencies estimates are made for the War Trade Board, $2,650,000: War Industries Board $1,005.000: food administration $12,000,000: fnel administration $1,- 500,000, the Capital Iss Commit- tee $450,000 *and Council of National Defence $675,6000. Payments to soldiers and sailors, or their dependents on account of compensation or government allow- ances are expected to run to nearly $120,000,000. who conduct the great essential dustries of the couniry must be told as exactly as possible what obliga- tions to the government they will be expected to meet in the years imme- dately ahead of them. It will be of serious consequence to the country to delay removing all uncertainties in this matter a single day longer than the right processes of debate justify. It is idle to tallk of successful and confident business reconstruction be- fore those uncertainties are resolved. If the war had continued it would have been necessary to raise at least in- the| estimates | industry, were announced. Shipbuilding industry in Japan creased to an extraordinary since the beginning of the war. Copper Co. by the Milwaukee way. Rudolph Havenstein, president the German people not money. of Flatbush, and took and jewelry. taken from the Germans. Telephone installation charges master-General Burleson. Cardinal Mercier, of _Belgium, coming to the United States for short visit, to thank the people for the succor given to Belgians. coma. A report' from Kingston says nage facilities permit. killing the bearers. the submarine war zone. to the Allies under the’ terms arrived at the frontier War Industries Board ued. Increased rates on corn Middle West to various ouri Pacific. A Peruvian commercial Mexico Ci viding for closer commercial with the Latin-Amerinan envoy ama Canal. Legation at Stockholm against Aftonbladet, in which it w Wilson, was dismissed on charges. announced shortly. Sufficient petitions to assure stitution legalizing the sale of and light wines were filed with State Hotel Men's Association. A naval seaplane, three Liberty motors, established 50 passengers at a speed of 80 an_hour. my.. Contrary to reports, the President’s personal lied leaders in London.. City c injured when their airplane West Springfield, Ohio. was instantly fell Horace E. Andrews, one of ia‘at his home in New York. walk. The body was found near trolley line by a conductor. field had been Canaan. in- extent An order for 6,000,000 pounds of cop- per was placed with the Anaconda Rail- the Imperial Bank of Germany, urged to hoard Eight robbers held up 30 members ! of the Five Points Democratic Club, | $1,000 in money\k It is reported in Tokio that Japan| will abolish the civil administration | on the Shan-tung peninsula, the area | .re- cently fixed by government controlled wires were ordered reduced by Post- American | the ! Stickers bearing the words, “We de- mand the release of all political pris- oners,” made their appearanceon the parade grounds at Camp Lewis, Ta- the United Fruit Co. will ship from Ja- maica to the United States next year 4,000,000 bunches of bananas if ton- During the retreat of the Germans, hand grenades were attached to the bodies of dead Huns, and as the hodies were ipicked up the grenades exploded, Ships chartered by the Commission ! for Relief of Belgium will not be re- quired to have safe conduct for the firs* time sinne Germany established A large batch of the 150,000 railroad cars to be surrendered by Germany armistice and ‘were received by military authorities. announced | maximum prices of foreign hides and skins fixed to cover shipments during November and December will expire by limitation and will not be contin- and rye uour to basis of wheat rates from the parts of the country were asked of the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Miss- presented a project pro- union countries, | and urging competition with the Pan- | The suit initiated by the American the charged the newspaper had insulted President technical George Armsby, of the War Indus- tries Board, confirmed rumors that the price of tirP to be distributed in New York by the United States Steel Prod-, uets Co. was decided upon and will be sub- mission of an amendment. to the con- beer the Secretary of State of Michigan by the equipped with new world’s record, when it narried miles Emil Zimmerman, a trade reporter of the Wall Street Journal, was com- mitted to the Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, as a dangerous alien ene- E. M. House, representa- tive, at Paris, has not left to attend the preliminary confegence of the Al- Lieut. J. U. Brumback of Kansas| killed and Lieut. J. Sohn of Washington state was PJohn Viialedo, son of the gypsy “king” of the United States, died of pneumonia in the Bridgeport hospiti!, 1 . the most widely known electric railroad men in the country, died of pneumon- Michael Mansfield, 50, of Holyoke, Mass., was frozen to death near Nor- Mans- employed in New The United States tranhport Ori- Washington, Dec. 2.—A regular army of approximately half a million men is provided for specifically in estimates submitted to congress today for the fiscal year 1920, beginning next July. Detailed items on the pay of the army show that in the total $1922,000,000 asked for, exclusive of the fortification estimates, provision is made for the payment of only 21,239 officers and 382,667 men of the line and approxi- mately 130,000 non-combatant troops ith the requisite staff officers. The inclusion in the estimates, how- ever, of five items of pay, with a nominal appropriation of $100 each asked, shows that the whole question of conclusion of peace has been deferred and th to be expected under these headings when_it is possible to present a com- pleted project. The items thus held in ion are those providing for the scrves and national guard officers and men. The naval estimates are framed on an exactly opposite theory. provi is a sion is made for steady and rapid of the strength of the army after the| t supplemental estimates are| ‘Every | marine Iyear. Peace Has Been Deferred—Naval Estimates Are Framied. on Theory for Steady and Rapid Increase of the e increase ‘of the fleet, a fotal of @p< proximately $434,000.000 being Of that sum, $200,000,000 is the increment of the proposed new threes ten additional dreadnoughts, six bat- tle: cruisers and 140 other -fighting craft. The remainder of the $434,000,< 000 would go to complete ships of the first three-year program. - Secretary Daniels has renewed alsa the navay emergency fund item under which congress appropriated 100,000, 000 last vear to provide for the coms struction of additional destroyers, sub= marine chasers and other special craff and to expedite construction work, This year, however, the department asks for $175,000,000. ¥ The total appropriation for the naval establishment is estimated at $2,644,- 000,000 or an increase of approximately a billion dollars over appropriationsg made for the current year. The pay of the navy nem stands at $579,rd6,~ 6,000 sked for the corps NAT C. GOODWIN, ACTOR, TO LOSE ONE OF HIS EYES New York, Dec. Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, submitted to an operation today for the removal of one of his eves at a hospltal here, Damage. to the eye caused by his mixing, throus error, the wrong ingredients in an {wash made the operation neces: it was said. He has been on the road recently in a comedy. M’GOVERN NOMINATED AS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS Washington, Dec the senate today cluded: Gardner, Garden Ci as collector of internal r New York district. James L. McGovern, Briagep: sonn as collector of customs, di: hing of the complexif problem. -It is a problem which studied, studied immediately, i s or prejudice. s can be gained of becoming partisans of any particular plan of cttlement. It was necessary that the at long as the war lasted. It would have been impossible otier- wige to establish and carry through under a single direction the necessary prigrities of shipment. It swonid-dmave beén impossiblé otherwise to combine maximum production at the factories and farms with thé maxi nium possible car supply to take the products to the ports and markets; ble to route troop shipments and freight shipments without resard to the advantage.or disadvantaze of the roads employed; i berdinate, when nec tions of convenience to the public nec- essity impossible to give the neces- ary’ financial support to the road from the public ury. But all th necessities have now been. s the question is, what is railroads, and for the public future, Exceptional circumstance: ceptional - methods of admini were not needed to convincc us that the railroads were not equal to the immense task of transportation m- Posed upon them’ by the rapid and continuous development of the indus- tries of the country. We knew tnat already. And we knew that the: unequal to it, partly because the -operation a sign to them severally traffic which could best be carried by their respective lines in the iaterest of expedition and national econom ‘We may hope, I belicve for the for- al conclusion of the war by treaty by the time spring has come. The twenty-one months to whicn the vres. ent control of the railway Tim after formal proclamation of peace shall have been made will run at the farthest, I take it for granted, only to January of 1921, Dhe full equipment of the railways, which the federal ad- ministration had planned, could ot be completed within any such period. The present law does not permit the in a NET DEFICIT OF $170,000 AT YALE THE PAST YEAR New Haven, Conn, De=. A Yt deficit of $170,000 in tne finances-of Yale university for the past year was forecast today by H. J. Fisher, chiir- man of the University Fund Associa- tion, in an appeai for funds to be @ap- plied to running‘ expenses. It Ziis make good this deficit is urgent, that the institution may be in strong pos tion to take up constructive work WitH the relinquishment of military cen= trol. An analysis of the treasurers budget is made, and it is shown that while many and iarge gifts have been made to the university tho st year most of the mare for specific purposes or endowments and canuot bé applied to running expense: ITALIANS ENDORSE THE = INDEPENDENCE OF ARMENIA New York, Dec. 2—Independence’iof Armenia has been endorsed by the Italian chamber of deputies, it was announced here today by the Arman- ian Press Bureau, which stated th it had just received cable advices-to that effect from Rome. The cable~ gram, as given out by the buregu; read as follows: =i “On November 30, at instance Signor Luzzati, Ttalian chamber deputies, by 200 votes adopted reso: lution in favor of independence of ATr- menia A SEAMAN WAS KILLED WHEN AUTO OVERTURNED! Norwalk, Conn., Dec. l—-—Chafl!a W. Miner; 20, a seaman from the U._S. S." Seattle and whose home was i Guilford, Conn., died today after thel upset of an automobile. His_brothor, Herbert, a_soldier, escaped injury, but Earle B, Frick, also of the Seattle, had! concussion of the brain. - The men! had been to a funeral in Madizon, nn., and were returning to Brook-! Iyn. Their automobile’ was overtur;- ed on the highway at Westport, GOV. M'CALL REVIEWED 74TH INFANTRY REGIMENT Ayer, Mass, Dec. 2—The Eeventy- Fourth’ Infantry Regiment, which won| first honors # the recent militacy carnival at Camp Devens, marched in review before Governor McCall and! Major General Clarence B. Edwards,: commander of the northeastern de-| partment, today. The visitors were escorted into camp by the headquar- ters troop and were tendered a recep- tion. by the division officers. SEVEN MEMBERS OF BRITISH TANKER LOST| London, Dec. 2.-Seven members of the crew of the British tanl sieamer Konakry perished and one member is{ missing as a result of a collision fo- day near Galley Head between the, tanker and the Cunard liner Orduma. Thirty-five survivors of the Konak- ry have been landed at Queenstown.” TRIAL OF MILWAUKEE SOCIALISTS CONTINUED; Chicago, Dec, 2.—By agreement attorneys the trials of Congressmane| elect Victor Berger of Milwaukee and four other socialists indicted for vi lation of the espionage law, were con= tinued today from Deccmber 4 to Dy cember 9. e year building' program providing -fo1 46 this year. Sima, against $143/39,000 this pointed out that meed of funds:to . ¥ zaba sailed for Brest from Hoboken with nearly 500 newspaper correspon- dents from all parts of the country. The Municipal Council of Paris has decided to 2o in a body, on the ar- rival of President Wilson, tg present him the good wishes and welcome of use of the revenues of the several roads for the execution of such plans except by formal confract with their directors, some of whom wiii_consent, while some will not, and _therefors does not afford sufficient authority to undertake improvement upon the cale way which is worthy of your most triendly attention. ° I have spoken of the control which must yet for a while, perhaps for a long while, be exercised over shipping because of the priority of service to uses to which they were put before war. It has not beer possible to remove sc readily or so guickly the control of foodstuffs and of shipping because the world has stii: to be fed from our grasaries, and the ships are eight billion doilars by taxation pay- able in the year 1919; but the war has ended and 1 agree with the secretary of the treasury that it will be safe to seduce the amount to six billions. An immediate rapid decline in the ex- There was no reply to the question, and after the unimportant bill then under discussion was passed Repre- sentative Kitchin of North Carolina, the democratic leader, moved adjourn- ment until tomorrow. Belgian Troops'Enter Aachen. Paris, Dec. 2.—Belgian troops en- tered Aachen (Aix La Chapelle), Rhen- | ish Prussia, on Suncay. After the president spoke the senate was in eession only a short while. At thé opening of its session, however, t regarding plans for the personal comfort of President Wilson and his part yon the trip abroad be read. Senator Phelan of California objected, but on a viva voce vote the senate ordered the arti- cle read. Text of President’s Address. -~ Gentlemen of the eaT- vear that has elapsed sinee I last stood before you to fulfill my constitutional duty to give the congress from to time information on the state of unjon has been so crowded with events, Ereat processes and sults that I cannot hope to or of the far-reaching changes nave been wrought in the life nation and of the world. You ha yourselves witnessed these things, 1 have. It is too sogn to assess and we who stand in the them and are part of them qualified than men of another tion will be to say what they even what they have been. But eome great outstanding facts are takable and constitute, in a sense, of the public business with w) is our duty to deal. To state to set the stage for the legisiati executive action which must gro of them and which h_‘m yet shape and determine, 3 A year ago we had Since then we nave sent only. They e but directed the vast achieve- ment. Throughout innuinerable fac- tories, upon innumerable farms, in the depths of coal mines and iron mines copper g 84 can look any man-at- face and say, We also and gave the best that s to make our fleets and sure of triumph! what shall we say of the wo- men—of their instant intelligence, quickening every task that they touch- ed; their capacity for organization and co-operation, which gave their ac- tion diseipline and enacted the effec- tiveness of everything they attempt- ed; their aptitude at tasks to which théy had never before sec their hands; thetr utter self-sacrifice alike in what they did and in what they gave? Their mmm the great result is be- yond aj ey have added a new lustre to the annals of American womanhood. i 'The latest tribate we can pay them is to make tbem the equals of men in political rights as they have proved them selves their in every field of practical waerk Jhave entered, i ss°ils g i) whether for}(hggaselyes*o: for theif| Wil find no difficuity, still needed to send supplies to our men overseas and to bring the men back as fast as the disturbed condi- tions on the other side the water per- mit; but even these restraints are be- ing relaxed as much as possible and more and more as the weeks go by. Never before have there been agen. cies In existence in this country whicn know so much of the field of supply. of labor, and of industry as the War m&mth Boardw the \War Trade e Department, the Food Administration and the = Fuel Administration have known since the labors became thoroughly systematiz- ed; and they have not been isolated agencies; they have been directed by suu which represented the permanent lepartments of the government and so have been the centres of unified and co-operative action. It has been the policy of the executive therefore, since the armistice was assured (which is in effect a complete submission of the enemy), to put the kngwledge of these bodies at the disposal of the busi- ness men of the country and to offer their Jntelligent mediation at every point and in every matter where it was desired. It is surprising how fast the process oz return to a peace foot- ing has moved in the three weeks since e fighting stopped. It promises to outrun any inquiry that may be insti- tuted and any aid that may he offered. It will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. The American business man is of quick initiative. The ordimary and normal process of private initiative will not: however, provide immediate employment for all the men of our armies. ‘Those who are of trained capacity, those who are skilled woriimen, those who have acquired fariliarity with established busimess, thuso who are ready ané willing to g¢ to the farms, all these whose aptitudes are known or will be sought out by cmployers, it is safe to which our forces overseas are entitled and which should also be accorded the shipments which are to save recently liberated peoples from starvation and many devastated regions from perma- nent ruin. May I not say a special word about the needs of Belgium and northern France? No sums of money paid by way of indemnity will serve of themselves to save them frem hope. less disadvantage for years to come. Something more must be done than merely find the money, If they had money and raw materials in abund- ance tomorrow, they could not resume taeir place in the industry of the world tomorrow—the very important place they held before the flame of war swept across them, Many of their factories are razed to the ground. Much of their machin- ery is destroyed or has been taken away. Their people are scattered and many of their best workmen are dead. Their markets will be taken by oth- ers, if they are not in some special way assisted to rebuild their factories and replace their lost initruments of manufacture. They should not be left to the vicissitudes of the sharp com- petition for materials and for indust- rial facilities which is now to set in. I hope, therefore, that the consress will not be unwilling, if it should be- come necessary, to grant to some such agency as the war trade board the right to establish priorities of export and supply for the bemefit of these people whom we have been so happy to assist in saving from the German terror and_whom we must not now thoughtlessiy leave to shift for them- u;ms in a pitiless competitive mar- et. For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business readjust- ments nothing is more important than the immediate determination of the itaxes that are to be jevied for 1918, 1919 and 1920. As much of the burden of taxation must be lifted from bus neéss as sound methods of financi the government will permit and those nenses of the government is not to be looked for. Contracts made tor war supplied will, indeed, be rapidly can- celled and liquidated, but their imme- diate liquidation will make heavy drains on the treasury for the months Jjust ahead of us, The maintenance of our forces on the other side of the sea is still nec- essary. A considerable proportion of those forces must remain in Europe during the period of occupation and those which are brought home will be transported and demobilized at_heav: expense for months to come. The in terest on our war debt must of course be paid and provision made for the retirement of “the obligations of the government which represent it. But these demands will of course fall much below what a continuation of mili- tary operations would have entailed and six billions should suffice to sup- 'y a’'sound foundation for the finan- cial operations of the year. I entirely concur with the secretary of the treasury in recommending that the two billions needed in adition to the four billions provided by existing law be obtained from the profits which have accrued and shall accrue from war_contracts and_distinctively war business, but that these taxes be con- fined to the war profits accruing in 1918, or in 1919 from business origi- nating in war contracts. I urge vour acceptance of his recommendation that provision be made now, not subse- quently, that the taxes to be paid in 1920 should be reduced from six to four billions. Any arrangements less definite than these would add elements of doubt and confusion to the critical period of in- dustrial readjustment. through which the country must now immediate pass, and which no' true friend of the na- tion’s essential business interests can afford to be responsible for creating or prolonging. Clearly = determined conditions, clearly and simply charted, g | are indispensadle to the economic re- the people of Paris. from Stuttgart. The Netherlands government peror occupies in Holland. The enormous influx of dations in the city. jcaused a sensation in his address the French embas no_command. jerity of 1,804. interrogation points away. the programme which covers of development for the mavy. rupted pursuit of that poli ‘world policy as vet undetermined. greatest concern is the qunestion railroads. counsel upon it. 1 frankly The King of Wurtemburg has for- mally abdicated, ancording to reports has appointed a commission to report on the position the former German em- American soldiers and sailors on leave in Lon- don has flooded all the hotel accommo- M. Clemenceau, the French premier, declaing that but for him Marshal Foch would have Charles B. Clarke, republican, was elected mayor of Portland, Me., over Llewellyn Barton, demograt, by a ma- ment which may confidently be ex- pected if we act now and sweep all T take it for granted that the con- gress will carry out the naval pro- sramme which was undertaken before we entered the war. The secretary of the navy has submitted to your com- mittees for authorization that part ot the building plans of the next three years. These plans have beea prepared along the lines and in accordance with the policy which the congress establish- ed, not under he exceptional condi- tions of the war, but with the inten- tion of adhering to a definite method ', L earnestly recommend ihe’ uninter- would clearly be unwise for @3 to at- temipt to adjust cur plans to a future The question which causes me the upon which it would b unde: 4 this difficult subject matter of decis- ion brings us face fo face. therefore, with this unanswered question: What s it right that we should do with the | railroads land in fairness to their owners? Let me say at once that I have no-answer ready The only thing that is perfectly clear to me that it is not fair either to the public or to the owners of -the rail- reads to leave the question unanswer- ed and that it will presentiy become my duty to relinquish con‘rol of the roads, even before the expiration of the statutory period, unless tnere should appear some clear prospect in the meantime of a legislative solution. Their release would at least produce one clement of 2 solution, namely, certainty and a quick stimulation of private initiative. 1 believe that 1t will be serviceable for me to set forth a3 explicitly, as pos- sible the alternative courses that He open to_our choice. We can simply release the roads and go. back to the cld conditions of private management, unrestricted competition and _multi- form regulation by both state and federal authorities; or we can go to the opposite extreme -and _establish complete government control, accom- panied, if necessary, by actual gov- ernment ownership, or w2 can adopt an_intermediate . course of modified private 'control, under a more unified and affirmative publi¢- regulat: and under si ations of the law as will permit wasteful compzfition to be avoided and a considerahic degree of cation of administration to be ef- fected, as, for example, by regional corporations under which the railways of definable areas would ha in egect combined ir single systems, The one conclusion that T am at It of dy would be a disservice alike to the (Continued on Page 3, Col, 4) the interest of the pubiié ! oL BTt I VR T | A ““Mother”” To Our Boys Ip | The Trenches CENTRAL NEWS PHOTO SERVICE, NEW YOAK. This is the most recent portrait of the Countess of Crquicr, wio. has: welfare work. in-the first lines of the American trenches on the West £ the policy to be adopted towards thelto state with confidence is that it|just retarned from a year's work in. turn to you fo 1 have no confident vival and rapid mdustrial develop- | judgment of my own. I do not see