Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 3

2 ENTE TROOPS | Text of President Wilson’s Speecfi THE BEE : OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915. BN ABANDON SERBIA Berlin Report Says Anglo-French Expedition to Balkans Has Re- treated Into Greece. IONDON PARTLY CONFIRMS THIS BERLIN, Dec. 10.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—According to informa- tion received in military quarters here, the Anglo-French expedition in the Balkans hias continued its retrest ‘and has now entirely evacuated Ser- ¥ian territory. In the battle between Bulgarian and British forces in southwestern Berbla ten guns were captured from the British, the war office announced Before Columbus Chamber Commerce COLUMBUR, O, Dec. 10—President | point of view and in proportion as it has Wilson's speech before the Columbus | altered its point of view it has gained in Chamber of Commerce today la as fol- | power and momentum. I have sometimes lows heard exhortations to the effect that “Mr. President, gentlémen of the Co- | polftics ought not to be injected into busi lumbus Chamber of Commerce ! ness. “T want first to. express my very deep | «y¢ i just s tmportant that you should gratitude to you for the cordial manner |ioe tniect business into politics, because, ‘. which you have greeted me and my #0 far as the business ‘of this country is sense of privilege in standing here before you to speak about some of the things In which we are mutually interested. You, gentlemen, are perhaps more Interested in those matters of policy which affect the business of the country than in any others; and yet, it has never seemed to me possible to separate the business of A country from its essential spirit and the life of its people. The mistake that some men have made hhs been in aup- posing that business was one thing and life another, whereas they are inseparable concerned, there ought mot be any poli- Ues, "I, gentlemen, am a democrat, as you probably have heard, and 1 am a mili- tant democrat, but It is beeause I believe that the principles of democracy will be of more service to the country than any other kind of principles. Not because 1 belleve democrats are better than repub- llcans; it 1s because I think republicans are mistaken and democrats right, and I hope and belfeve that T hold that con- viction in no narrow, partisan spirit. I in theit principles and in thelr expression sfuctory, “1 must say that, ih looking back upon the past, there is something about the history of business in this country which is not wholly satistactory. It Is interest- Ing to remember that in the carly years of the republic we folt ourselves more a part of the general world than we have folt since then. Down to the war in 182 the seas were full of American wships American enterprise was everywhere ex- pressed In American commerce when we were a little nation and yet now that we AT® & great nation the seas are almost bare of our ship, and we trade with other dountriés at the convenience of the car- riers of other nations. “The truth is that after the war of 1812 wo seem deliberately to have chosen to be provinclal, .to shut ourselves In upon ourwelves, explolt our own resources for our own benefit rather than for the benefit of the rest of the world; and we did not return ‘to address ourselves to forelgn commerce until our domestic de- velopment had 86 nearly burst its jacket that there was no strait jacket in which it could be confined. The Provineia) Mind. “Now American industry in recent yoars has been orying for an outlet Into the currents of the world. There were some minds, some American business hot a few—who were not upon the provinclal type, who did find their way Into forelgn markets and ‘| made the usual American peaceful con- in those forelgn markets;? but see! deliberately to refrain or know that there were opportuni- . be ‘availed of. the recent banking act you could find, #0 far as I am informed, = an American bank anywhere the United States, whereas nations of the world were doing 3 _buginess on farelgn shores the instrumentality of their own today. The statement follows: “The army of General Von Koeveas In the last two days took about 1,200 Pprisoners. “There is nothing to report from the farmy of General Von Gallwits. “South of Strumitsa, the Bulgarian troops took ten guns from the British." “On_the western front a French at- tack with hand grenades agals our fhew position on Hill No, 1%, ; ! Y s necessary to politics necessary to business, but the ganization ought not to be n i i) spirit of ex- b 11t Spirit of Opportanity. “The Amerlcan spirit s a spirit of op- and of equal opporfunity and :%l very man to the race who oan the pace. Bo I say that we have to look back upon the past of Ameri: business with some dlasatis- faction; 1, for my part, look foréard to the of American business with the greatest confidence. “American PARISIAN | Boxes, Powder THERMOS CARAFE $6.00 Therm o8 Carafe, l#nrhr and Monday ..$2.89 ‘Thermos makes & very £ %1 Stearns fim Vet . .60 ‘10¢ Physiclans’ and Sur- RO IO ... $6¢ box Linen Stationery...1 50c Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab- $3.76 Horlick’s Malted M1 1 B¢ de bottles of 100 pills. . . $1 Pinaud's Lilas Vegeta) $1.50 2-qt. Legrand’s Red Rubber Hot Water Bottles.P0c Health . % e M B Oc 's Emulsion. .. .. and 88¢ 82¢ All the latest odors and a few prices on some of the most pop- ular sellers in original boxes and bulk, Original Packages. Houbigant's Ideal Extract, Houumtm Extr, ut. original Manicure Sets, ete, up from.......8$1.00 PERFUMES find that I am one of the few men of | my acquaintance who absolutely belleve every word, for example,.of the Virginia bill of rights, Most men use them for Fourth of July purposes and use them very handsomely, but 1 stand before you | and tell you that I beileve them. | One of Originals, “For example, the Virginia bill rights—I cite that becauss it was one of the first bills of rights; the others were of | Iargely modeled upon it or run along the same lines—the Virginia bill of rights | says that when .a government proves unsuitable to the life of the people under | It (I am not quoting the ianguage, but | the meaning) they have a right to alter | or abolish it in any way they please. | When things were, porbaps, more de- batable than they are now about our mmediate neighbor to the south of us, I do not know how many men came to me and suggested that the government of Mexico should be altered as we thought it ought to be altered, but being a subscriber to the doctrine of the Vir- ginia bill of rights, I could not agree with them. The Mexicans may not know what to do with thelr government, but that is none of our business and so long A I have the power to prevent it, no one #hall ‘butt in' to alter it for them." “That s what I mean by being a demoorat bullt on the original plan of the bill of rights. “Now, those bills of rights say some things that are very pertinent to business. They assert the absolute equality of right on the part of individuals to opportunity. That is the reason I am opposed to | monopoly, not because monopoly does not produce some excellent remults of a kind, but because it is Intended to shut out a lot of people who ought not to be shut out, and 1 belleve thut democracy is the nly thing that ‘vitalizes a whole people instead of vitalizing only some of the people of a country. Belief In Common Man. “I am not fit to be the trustee of pros- perity for this country; neither are you: neither is any group of men fit {o be the trustees for the economical guidance of this countyy. I belleve In the common m I belleve the genius of America to be that the common roan should be consulted as to how he is governed and should be given the same opportunity with every other man under his govern- ment. T bell that that spirit la the spirit of the average business man in America, 1 am sure that it is the spirit af the a ‘business man in America, because, aithough it 1a & current theory that the preaident of the United States is & very much secluded pereon, a good many people talk to him, I assure you, and he takes particularly pains to know what the people are talking about, who do not talk directly to him. Nobody who has been bred in the atmosphere of American socleties from one end of this continent to the other, can mistake the ‘| spirit. of the average man and I am for business has altered its!the aversge man. The country consists rug Bargains at BEATON'S VORY—Free Engraving ° ‘We will engrave free & block or script letter on all purchases of Ivory Saturday and Monday. $3.50 Ivory Hair Brushes..... $3.00 Ivory Hair Brushes. . $3.00 Ivory Mirrors . 76¢ Ivory Combs ...... ¢ Ivory Files and Cuticle ry Trays, Glove, Hairpin and Jewel from , Knlves. . up Boxes, Hair Receivers and Don't bother with Dress Shields. $1.00 Fellows Syrup.... 36¢ Castorla ... 60c Pebeco Tooth Paste 50¢ Bell's Podolax .. 50¢ Resinol Ointment . 50¢ Beaton's Cold Cream B80¢ Casavera Cream.......28¢ 25¢ Sanitol Tooth Podwer or Paste ... .. 85¢ Durham Duplex Demon- strator Razor . aeans A lot of Ebony Solid Back Hair Brushes, worth §1.25, Saturday .. 26¢ Tooth Brushes ...... A lot of 40¢c and 50c Ladle Hard Rubber Combs for...20¢ Coty’'s Jacqueminot Tollet R Lt e sw b o . .$8.00 Assorted odors, all makes, per package . ssseaes B0 Assorted odors, all makes, Assorted odors, all make per package ........... TBe T6¢ Piver's La Trefle Sachet Powder, bulk, per oz.....40¢ $2.50 Mary Garden Extract, POR O Nsisssrnrsanss - SLTS $2.50 D'Orsay Jasmine, per o5, . . sesss $1.78 A lot of 60c and 76¢ odors, per 0% e See our complete line of lm. wmmw “Waters, Sachet Powders and Face Powders. 15th and Farmam_ | tering may not be direct, but directly or | moditte | |the world will in part depend and the of him. He is the backbone of the coun- try. The man who is above the average uses him, and ought to respect his tool outright, to respect his instrument, ought to respect the veins through which the | very life-blood of the country flows. Futnre of Business. “Now with regard to the future of business in this country, no man cAan speak with confidence, becauss It hap- | pens that the distressing events of the months since the great European war | began have put America in a pecullar| relation to the rest of the world, It looks as if we would have to be the reserve force -of the world in respect to financial and economic power. It looks As It in the days of reconstruction and recuperation, which are ahead of Europe, we would have to do many of the things, | |many of the most jmportant things, | which hitherto have been done through | Buropean instrumentalities. No man can | say just how these matters are going | to shape themselves, but every man can ree that the opportunity of America is going to be unparalleled and that the| | resources of America must be put at| the service of the world as they never were put at its service before. There- | fore, it Is Iimperative that no impedi | ments should be put in the way of com- | merce with the rest of the world. You cannot sell unless you buy. Commerce i8 | only an exalted kind of barter. The bar- indirectly, It is an exchange of com- and the payment of the bal- ances; and therefore, there must be no impediments to the free flow of the cur- rents of commerce back and forth be- tween the United States upon which other countries which it must supply and serve. And for the first time, gentle- men, it happens—I belleve providentially that the business men of America have an Instrumentality in the new banking law, such as they never had before for the ebb and flow and free course of the natural processes of credit. For the first time we are not bound up In an in- elastic ecurrency. Our credit is current and that current will run through all the channels of commerce in every part of the world. Looks Up 0la Speeoh. “A gentleman present here today told me that he had done what I trust it ls not his habit to do; he sald he had been e I ] looking up an old speech of mine and that when I addressed the American Bankers' assoclation in Denver some years ago he said that I had been called upon a little while before to speak to the bankers of Now York on the elasticity of the currency and that I had replied that T spoke upon it with the more free- dom because | knew nothing about it Being a professor at that time on a sal- ary, I was not In a position to know any- thing of the elasticity of the currency. 1 hope that he is ready to believe that in the time that has intervened r have taken pains to find out something about the elasticity of the currency; for 1 was an enthusiastic supporter of the finally established the federal reserve system. and 1 think I understand it “At any rate, gentlemen, jesting apart, it does furnish the business men of this country with an instrument such as credit never possessed before. Credit is & very spontaneous thing. Its excursions ought not have been times in this country when the expeditions of credit were personally conducted. agencies where guides were provided. But it you are starting an enterprise in one part of the country you do not want any guldes; you rather resent guidance from another part of the country. Knew They Didn't. “And there were times when there was limited circles in the eastern portion of our great country who thought they knew more about business in the other parts of the country than the people who lived in those parts of the country. 1 always doubted them. I now know that they did not. “The vision of a democracy that I have In this, that you must not be presumuous enough to determine beforehand where the vitality is going to come from. The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with you and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what cir- cumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country. “That is the beauty of democracy, that you do notbeforehand pretend to pick out the vital centers, but they pick them- selves out. The men who are going to |1ead you and dominate you pick them-|where in what used to be the frontier selves out and elect themselves by an|back in Jackson's day who sent a pitiful bill which | | electoral process over which legislation | eAn have no control whatever. I like to | think that the youngsters now playing somewhere, perhaps in p gutter, are some time or other going fto stand up and speak the volce of America for all the world to hear. Muast Share Vislon. “I want you to share with me thie | vision of the future of American business |=of A cosmopolitan spirit, of a spirit of enterprise out of which the old timidity |has gone. For you will have to admit, gentlemen, that American business men have been timid, ‘“They have constantly run to Wash- |Ington and sald: ‘It looks like rain; for | God's sake give us shelter.’ You do not need Washington. There is genlus enough in this country to master the enterprise |of the world and it does not have to ask |0dds of anybody. I would like to have to be personally conducted. There |the thrilling pride of realizing that there | | was nobody in America who was afraid |to match with the world. When I move plea to Washington that congress would not hurry up and give them a territorial form of government, because they aid not have any government; they happen to be beyond the bounds of the govern- ment theretofore #et up. Jackson sent [them a very proper reproof. He sald that they were the first Americans he had heard of who did not know how to set up a government for themselves and take care of themselves. The character'stic Ameriean eommunity {tor & long time was the frontier com- munity, made on the spot and made ac- cording to the local pattern. So that {when I hear Americans begging to be | assisted by authority, I wonder where | they were born. 1 wonder how long they {have breathed the air of America. T won- der where their papers of spiritual | naturalization are. For America now may make peaceful conquest of the world, and 1 say that will al the greatest con- fidence, gentlemen, because I believe I hope that the bellef does not spring merely from the hope that when the I could name some of the |8bout this country I feel as you do the | present great conflict in Europe is over (r | vitality of the thing that is going on in |the worlq is going to wear a different |1t, the quick organization of minds when | aspect they meet new circumstances, the readi- | No Patched Up Peace. ness with which Americans adapt them- | selves to new clrcumstances—that is the | I d0 not belleve that there is going pirit of conquests |to be any patched-up peace. I beljeve that “I originally, for example, belonged to |thoushtful men of every country and of stock which have never falled to feel at |€Very sort will insist that when we get home anywhere as soon as it got there. |Peace again we shall have guarantees .1 mean the Bootch-Irish. The Scotch- that it will remain and that the instru Irish have taken leave to belong the (Mentalities of justice will be exalted minute they landed and presently a good | AbOve the instrumentalities of force, I deal else has belonged to them besides | belleve that the spirit which has hitherto themselves; and I like to picture that |ré8ned in the hearts of Americans and | as also typical of America. Whom would |in like people everywhere in the world you plek out among the early Americans | Will assert itself once for all in inter- as the typical American? You know that | Dational affairs and that If America pre- for more than 100 years after the settle- |serves her poise, preserves lew self- {ment of this country—for nearly 100 years | Possession, preserves her attitude of |after the establishment of the union— |friendlines’ toward the world we may there was always a frontler on this con- |have th privilege whether in one form tinent, and the typical American was the |or another of being the mediating influ- {man who did not need any assistance |ence by which thee things may be in- from anywhere or anybody, but who went \dured» |out into a new country, made his own| “I am not now speaking of govern- | home for himself and established his own [mental mediation. 1 have not that in government, arranged everything to sult [mind at all. I mean the spiritual media- | himselt and then occasionally went back |tion. 1 mean the recognition of the to his old home rich and powerful and |world that here is a country that had contented. The Typleal American. ““That was the typical American. There was a certaln community of men some- always wanted things done that way, and whose merchants, when they carry their goods will carry their ideals along (Continued on Page Six, Column One.) Glove Certificates When you have decided on gloves, but do not know the pre- ferred color, style or size, buy a cortificate issued for one or any number of pairs, at any price, re- deemable any time for full face value, Hundreds and Thousands of Snowy White Handkerchiefs Those who make their se- lections from these stocks of holiday handkerchiefs will find the choosing most grati- fying experiences. Handkerchiefs in an almost end- less variety of choice patterns awalt you. Madeira, Armenian and Hand- .. ..80¢ All Linen Handkerchiefs, with s A 25 e i B Children's Handker- 25¢ chiefs, in boxes « -« = c For making pretty Ohrist- mas things and for tying gift packages are offered in ex- ceptionally choice assort- ments. Main Floor. Bungalow Aprons, 29¢ A’sale of large serviceable Bungalow Aprons in plain colors, Saturday - - - 20¢ $ For Intrinsic value they excel any offering of the whole season ==Fractical and appropriate for gift purposes. Wrapped in a OChristmas Box ‘Without Extra Oost to You. SILK ANp WOOL CANTON CREPE, 40 INCHES WIDE 4 v.py, THOMPSON-BELDIN & CO. W The Fasllion CenlEr Established 1886.; hether we choose to speak of the extent of these Christm Jormly high quality, there is much to say, for no other Christmas season has found us so well prepared and rveady to serve those wiho select with cave the gifts they are to give. Saturday store hours 8:30 A. M. to9 P. M. Shop here with pleasure, of the MiddleWest —-» as stocks, or thewr uni- A Sale Iof C Saturday $25 Values to $42.50 These coats comprise the lat- est and newest styles—Fur trimmed garments predomi- nating; broadcloths, gabar- wool velour, Boliva cloth, duvetine, fancy dines, serges, mixtures and the new checks and plaids so fashionable this season. Colors are well repre- sented—Black, Blues, Green, Brown and other fashionable shades. Second Floor. Christmas Silks Styles to Satisfy The demands of every occasion, crisp, new fabrics in weaves and colorings that are distinctive. For loveliness and usefulness few gifts are better than a Silk Waist Pat- tern. When in Doubt Gloves They are always graciously re- cejved-—that is those uncommon styles. Those who are seeking something just a little bit differ- ent will find their search well re- warded in these assortments of Trefousse — the best made in ¥rance, and American makes of the most reliable quality and style. The New Leatherette Gauntlets, strap and pearl clasps in white, tan, brown, sand and gray, at - - $1.00 a pair, DPouble Silk Gloves, in a complete variety of styles; colors, blue, brown, gray, black and white, at - $1.00 a pair South le—Main Floor. loth Coats Women’s Underwear of Fine Quality Ribbed lisle vests with hand crochet tops 50c to $1.50 8ilk vests, plain or hand em- broidered - - - $176to$4 Toilet Articles Powder Pufts (all sizes) - 7¢ | 8ilk combination suits White Combs - - - - - 19¢c | from - - . ..$3.75t0 $4.50 Ivory Novelties, in fine variety Third Floor, of styles - - v . o= First Aid Cases - - - - $1.00 New Silks for Mufflers Complete, with all the necessary Main Floor. articlos for first ald work. lvory—G ny——Bh ck s . 'y " The newest fabric for this Make This a Silk Hosiery Christmas | purpose, of beautiful texture, needs—8o a gift of hosiery acoeptable, A new drop stitch silk hose with lisle tops and soles, a pair - . - . $1.00 Black thread silk hose with gold, white and green striped —— Probably not for some time will there be better reason than now for supplying immediately one’s silk hosiery Hosiery Boction—>Main Floor. designed especially for scarfs. y Silks—Main Floor, this Ohristmas will be doubly Men's Furnishings tops, apair- - . - $1.00 ¢ Fine silk hose with lisle The wisest of Santas gives tops and soles, in black, | thingsto wear—shirts, neck- wear, gloves, silk hosiery, silk pajamas, reefers, fancy suspenders, linen handker- street and evening shades, apair - - - . - . $100 The December Clearaway of Suits A money-saving event, an opportunity to buy a fash. ionable Winter Suit at a price you usually associate with poorer merchandise. $15.00 to $45.00 chiefs, sweaters. The Fur Shop 2d Floor Red Fox Sets - - $15to $60 Taupe Fox Sets - - - - $62.50 Pointed Fox Sets - - - - $75 You buy fur here with as- surance. No misrepresentations. as inrif = S g