The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1918, Page 2

———___ a HO cad ever I have the “To assume contro! of the vast ered, but It ts clearly in the publ allway systems of the country | Interest uiso that the ordinary activ- 1 realize, a very great responsi- | ities and the normal industrial ond 4 bility, but to fail to do eo in the | Commercial life of the country should existing ciroumstances would have | be interfered with and dislocated as been much greater. | umed | little am possible, and the public may the lees responsibility rather than [rest aamired that the interes#and con- the weightier. venience of the private shipper w MUST MOBILIZE THE WHOLE RE. | De 48 carefully served and safeguarded SOURCES OF AMERICA. as it ts poawible to serve and safe- “T am muro that @ am speaking the | #uard it mind of all thoughtful Americans | “lreumstar When I say that it Is our duty as] “While the present author the representatives of the nation to do everything that It In necessary to tion of the whole resources of mw ‘ " Americn by aa rapid and effective a|!t 1% 1 am sure you will agree with me, right and necessary that the owners and creditors of the railways, the holders of their stocks and bonds, should receive from the Government an unqualified guaranteo that thelr CARRIERS INCOMES FULLY GUARANTEED means as cin be found, Transporta- tion supplies all the arteries of mobilization, Unless it be under a wing and unified direction, the whole process of the nation’s action is embarrassed. qt waa in tho true spirit of| Amer! and it was right, that we should first try to effect the nece sary unification under the voluntary faftion of those who were in charge of the great railway properties, and | ory and to the general public. We did try. Tho directors of the rafl- ways responded to the need promptly and generously. properties will be maintained through out the period of Federal control nent as at present, and that the sey eral roads will receive under Fedora net railway oper: | "The group of railway anak 1917. | earnestly recommend that itives who were charged with the these guarantees be given by ap- ; ttask of actual co-ordination and propriate legislation, and given general direction performed the promptly as circumatances permit, ‘difficult duties with patrictio ze fave been expected, and did, | | erent Influence and significance believe, everything that it was * possible for them to do in the | industrial situation of the country ‘circumstance: “Indeed, one of the strong arau- {It I have taken the task out of| ments for assuming control of the their hands/ it has not been because] railroads at thie time is the fin- of any dereliction or failure on thelr] ancial argument. It is nec ry part, but only because there were that the values of railway secur- wome things which the Government} ities should be justly and fairly ean do and private management cin otected and that the large fin bt. We shall continue to value most] ancial operations every year nec- highly the advice and assistancs of] essary in connection with the these gentieme 1 1 am sure wel] maintenance, operation and de ball not find them withholding It, velopment of the roads should, ONLY THE GOVERNMENT COULD| during the period of the war, be » ACCOMPLISH THE TASK. wisely related to the financial op~ "It had become unmistakably plain| erations of the Government. tHat only un jatration can the entire equipment OF PROSECUTING WAR: of the several systma of transporta- Our firat duty is, of course, to con- | tign be fully and unreservedly thrown | gerve the common interest and the into a common service without in-| common safety and to make certain jirious discrimination against par-| that nothing stands in the way of the ular propertics and only under Gov- | successful prosecution of the great of shay = war for liberty and justice; but it Is nd ment administration can absolute- | Wan fie Tie te te onclen ly unrestricted and unembarrasaé|| Oy public honor that the priv e@mmon tse be made of all tracks, terests we distur should be ke term! . terminal facilities ahd| from unjust injury, and It is of the ~_ utmost consequence to the Govern- ment itself that all great financial der that authority can new terminals} operations should be stabilized and equipment of every kind. Only un- be constructed and developed without regard to the requirements or limita tlond of particular roads, But under| ginwertcthe borrowings of the Government administration all these| Federal Treasury, and no funda things will be powsibly—not in-| mental industrial values should 4 with the financial © nent. “No borrowing should run tly, but as fast as practical dif- anywhere be unnecessarily im- Saiics which cannot be merely| Paired. jin the hands of many @njured away, give way before the! the country, in Na- few management tional Ban! in insurance com- “The common administration panies, in savings banks, in trust companies, in financial agencies will be carried out with as little of every kind, railway securiti disturbance of the present oper- the sum total of which runs gatina organizations and person to feme ten or tb at ane millions, constitute a vital part o nel of the allways ae pe Hh | the structure of credit, and the / Nothing will be altered or diss | Unaquestioned solidity of that turbed which it is not necessary structure must be maintained. »to disturb. We are serving the “The Se y of War andl public interest and safeguarding nterests which @ust F the public safety, but we are also pigrdid wil harmonised, ax Ww fegardful of the interest of thos | because of his exceptional expert by whom these great properties ANd ability in this new field of “are owned and glad to avail our- McAdoo wan eclves the experience end sume direct administrative control of trained ability of those whe have | this new executive task. At our re- ‘been managing them. Jquest he consented to assume the lauthority and duties of Organizer a 21t is necessary that the transport- fisector General of the new Te fig ation of troops and of war materials, Amiiistration, He has assnmed Solitaire Diamond Engagement Rings Lamberts will sell you a solitaire diamond engagement ring mounted in the latest style for the lowest price a fine + diamond can be sold for. As little as $25.00 buys a full cut + diamond in a handsome setting. Even if you spend as much as $1,400.00 or $1,500.00 for a Lambert Engagement Ring, you get a greater value than if you spent the same amount—we won't say where, for we speak only good of our neigh- bors. But the point is this, gentlemen. Lamberts are direct importers of diamonds. ‘Their prices include only a small profit to themselves and no profit to any middle man. Further, we do not pay a big rent and pass it on to our cus tomers. As much, if not more than anything else we sell, Lambert Seamless #2-karat,$5.25up Solid Gold Wedding Lae : pen Hated ls Rings have contributed bated Ha the upbuilding of a 14-kerat, $4.40 up reputation that tas been carefully guarded for more than forty years. Every shape and style. No charge for engraving LAMBERT BROTHERS Diamonds—Jewelry—Watches ' Third Avenue, Corner 58th Street | |) Store Open Daily Until 6; Saturday Nights Until 9. — velops diMoultics and makes it clear | of food and of fuel and of everything what they are, I have deemed tt my| that is necessary for tho full mobill « “duty to remove those diMcuities wher-| #ation of the energies and resources eal power to do so, | of the country should be first conmd- FOR MORE MONEY. = PROVIDED BY BIL their as much as the upon » will render desir for the funds oO present extraordinary neress for r that purpose. ‘Treasury wilt a with re Army and Navy. | aspect of : » L aug- rotary of the our commit gard to this very practi y of the ecutive suffices for all purposes of ministration, and while, of course, o to wecure the complete moblilza- |! private interests munt for the pres- lent give way to the public necessity, 1 guarantees appropriations : iia ment of M with them lies jas good repatr and as complete equi Management such compensation as is equitable and just allke to thelr own would suggest the average ing inoome of the three years ending June 30, a tinued from Pir: provided | be submitted appointed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose member “] need not point out the essential land marked ability, as wae to | justice of uch guarantees and their to a! board of three eloments in the present financial and will without mal compensd The just compensation of Fed making re- Commerce © determined in ac- |BASIS OF ALLOWANCE FOR Im. | PROVEMENTS BY ROADS, at a rate per cent. | ¢h Upon ods more direct the United ns and improve-| be groping in the dark for many Federal | montha before we can place ourselves y the carrier from ity own |in prover fighting trim, capltal or surplus, and by an amount| “This measure places all jurlsdic- the | tion over munitions of war and co- | advances ordinates all the bureaus, cuts red road for the cost of the |tape, does away with useless decisions and improvements r Government admin-| NOTHING MUST STAND IN WAY! Government under Federal control, without from pe any dividends tn rate during the ars ending June 80, 1917, excess of its regular This the no regular or no dividends during that sident's pricr whatever President may determine, 1x appropriates $500,000,000 | » together with any funds avail rnings of the} » Presh | expenses of the provide improvements, wily | rolling stock that, In view of the many com and equipment a dent may direct a as Congress may hereafter EXPENDITURES CRAFT AUTHORIZED. From tho revolving fund the Presi-| Newspapers Makes Announce aMNOUNt mem ‘bo-Diy r desirabie | . Construction ot ration of boats, tugs and other transportation facilt: | coastwise | Kuselan.” e acquisi-| The ernment action, the Hon, William G. ty . right man to as. WATER tillna. barges, waterways, and may 1 the public or for other legal and pr re-organizing recelverant, expenditures, con- t with the public to purchase States all or ding par and to aell there securities whenove hia judgment Prices not leas than their cost “revolving tion six # provided ins the powers granted him through whatever | {9 os he may dfetermine and may fix reasonable compen Workmen's Compensation Law to at ditions ax will avatlable compensation Ui stipulates that or corporation acting for or emp! by @ carrier or shipper or ¢ all fail to obs anspor. | 1 * or mhall violate a ; for carrying law, shall by gullty of and punishable by a maximum f he in THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, R USSIANS DEMA ND KAISER WITHDRAW FROM sages INTIS HE ~ INTRODUCED TO-DAY New Member of of C Cabinet to Control Supplies for ? acionas If it is not WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-—A Depurt- tlons, under a new eXPreRsINR | Cabinet head to be known as the may Secretary of Munitions, ts proposed in a bill Introduced to-day hy Cpatr- man Chamberiain of the Senate +] Military Cormmittes, as a result of tts {investigation of wor operations, The new department would operate during the war and one after, The bill has the b: ar there ' he Senate Committee and wil! equipment, tentage, transportation and any other materials the Presi-| |dent shall designate as munitions of | war. Government bureaus, agencies and | funds necessary to a munitions sd- |ministration would be transferred to [the now department which contem- plates control of naval as well as army #uppties. “The bill Is intended to Insrease and expedite the supply of munitions of war,” sald Senator Chamberlain “One great trouble with the war os lishment as disclosed by the in vestigation has been a lack of co- ordination and the seeming impos Urn bility of getting rid of leaden er will be increased by an nt reckoned methods of doing business Until can be co-ordinatic vl meth os will which had tended only to hamper dl- carrier, | Peet action, and gets to the heart of the whole situation, “I believe if Congress can see tts | way to the enactment of this measure | and the proper man ts placed at the head of the Department of Munitions, America will soon be occupying its | proper place at the battle front.” by Senator McKellar of Tennessee as a result of the committee's invéstlra- tion of the system of army supply purchasing, would abolish the advis- | ory committees of the ( Wl of Nae | tonal Defense and pre civilians mu ving the Government under the existing practice at $1 a year pay | The bill would amend tho law creat ing the council! and permit the Presi- dent appoint one advisory ¢ }mission of seven members to se without compensation SS "JAPAN TO. RESUME RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA Despatch From Tokio to G an COPENHAGEN, Jan. 4—The Tage printed to-day a desp jo that Japan had de fullest diplomatte to resume relations — with that te with t K <\v ORLEANS, La, Jun 4-1 rol tusite for to-morrow's races are a os, follows PHOS? HACK INine $400 rn i ar 1 ate f 1 Ne " WOT; Binal, 105: * Pe. ite AAO! elatinlng: four: sere | PTE RACE elgliatne - ¢ ' i) evs ny tas 100 SEEN Wack a t at Wee th or |s ns 1M Ha ‘ Working Hes L i ved | *Jomie iD Veonrenticn allowanee ra We oe | Track fast or | luring the period y order | tl Cong 8 herea ) the | otherwise oof | Sharp Deott Follow Wilson Ade yrlson dress, Boe Gains Poltow Jin keep ‘ d hurp decline t ; ' ie] transpor- the balance of the also lp BALTIC PROVINCES ° ‘SLUSH FUND’ INVESTIGATOR TWO HOURS WITH ROOSEVELT AMERICAN ACTRE y Jast night by COMES BRIDE OF BASIL SYDNEY IN LONDON | JERSEY 10 SEIZE COAL; CUTS SUPPLY» HERE | E1000 TONS. {s to Prevent went Recor wrote a letter joner Hugher dil- xpenditures 60 cents per culation was rife in the as to what Col Assistant) the " yesterday when nearest polic Mayor's Coal Cominit nitended by Chamberlain: yas announced delty red to the County to New York. lors of New put the frauds] cates reprosentit er his talk was al baznara neither Attorney Swann wi sixty cents wil w nd these will be | Administrator for the State « forbidding the re-consignm coal received New York City dealors This means, trator finds he He sald that gt his invita. -two wealthy men had luncheon he Downtown Association before the of the Mayor to Get Cont te New n ik was seo: WASHINGTON scanty supply of fuel will more than 1,000 tons daily ed among the ly pressed. The new Se ary ot | \, IN RAILROAD BILL srsirs renters nego om | trol arms, ammunition, food, clothing CR Hudson County : Charles Fall of Hoboken sent ore ¢ coming jn following making out th y 'Mitehel and mi vald It had b ONL REUEE HEAR, + S300 TONS HERE, 728 BOON THE WAY will be pushed unning Into New York dilly w Ontario and we atern terminal Don’t Wait Unt Your Eyesight Is Ruine Delay means danger if your eyes need the help of glasses now. Nothing is so important to YOU as good eyesight. Reliable yesight E through if l know | my P who had larg: BOLSHEVIK! LIKELY + TO BE RECOGNIZED BY ENTENTE ALLIES inued from First Page.) Corstely Fitted Glasses [rom $2.50, Established 55 Years ‘ay at John St. 223 Sixth Ave, isth St, gso Sixth Ave, aad St, tor Nassau, at Ann St, sige directv to Ne lay One ventured the opinion ork Administra Aiton * . a Soctalist would be epresentative leniency the Jersey no further than check ked principa Litvinoff, who LINES OF PEOPLE WITH BAGS ed, 1s a Nkely enough AND SCUTTLES BEG COAL. has been appr occupant of the emb aeiipicaces GERMANS REJECT RUSSIAN PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER PEACE PARLEY T0 SWEDEN Is Made by 498 Fulton St., cor.Bond St coal shipped f CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. with baskets Worth more than a dozen cook books! f coal had been received by distributors Another war bill, introduce’ to-day | Announcement Committee of the Reichstag. 4 (via Amsterdam),— | Refchstae Main Com- r word had gone forth | to serve meat, fis Fuel Admin “hancellor von Hert s so good on omelettes the Rusalan re- proposals dealing with disposition of the occupted terri: and Delica- tessen Stores Sell It MADE IN U.S.A. E. Pritchard, 331 Spring St.,.N. Y, they had demanded tons he | able to send only sa f and the Bronx hay ir benefitted in the least £ await the furthe and our fust Instructed te g Island City yards, ih passed through yes- eighty-seven routed rivers from midnight Manhattan got rain lations to Stockholin, cighty cars wht | Avorn —rst tunity of the VILLIAM UKE Island suburbs, the | WILSON—on beloved wife of spite of the arrivals by way not nearly enourh. « Word or reported * was unable him. 398, World Du Me Been at any of Th “Lot and Found” eft at any of The Wor. Newark Bay appears to be a mass so lists can be World's Offter New York, oF Brookyn Of) NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE, 1» dobate a member CHICAGO CORN MARKET. OUND nox iTEMS FOR INVESTORS. on behalf of the bondhe BUDERRCE ty —= These