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WH.SON MUST ABANDON REQUEST FOR
BLANKET POWER IN U-BOAT CRISIS
OR RUNE EXTRA SESSION CERTAIN
CL 0. P. and Pacifists
Are Opposed To Giv
ing War Power
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2«.—At
•:S0 •‘stock thia morwlof Sena
tor tons, ahairman of the for
mt§n relations committee, called
•t the White Heuee to confer
with the p r ***4* nt ° r th * un *
tonal aotwatien in cengrccc.
WASHINGTON. P>b. '.€. —Ka< in*
BS oulproocedroted situation to con
great, Prrcldmt Wilson Is exported
to reach a decision today or tomor
row aa to addressing a Joint session
before adjournment to ask broad
power* for handling iirernational
developments after March i.
He has been advised b> leaders of
bis own party again*' appearing at
tbls time merely to a*k blanket po*
•r If be wishes to avoid an extra
peas ion.
Speaker Clark has notified hiru
that to ask such power now, with
©aly a few days left before adjourn
■tent would preopitatp » wrangle
that would tie up all rhanre* of pas
aage of needed .<n<i
would make an « xra -esslon ine\iia
ble.
The president has been further ad
vised that in the house particularly,
there Is not onl* * united Republi
tan opposition against giving broad
powers until congress reconvenes,
but there is also strong oppo*itlon
to surh a program by niembets ot
hie own party
On the other hand, the president
baa been told that if he wishes some
definite concrete action by rongr* >.•
at tbls time power for Instance 10
arm merchantmen, for positive
means of protecting American lives
and property on the high seas, he
can get it in tig time
In other words, the presidents
friend* in congrrs* say th«i Repub
licans and Democrats alike stand
ready to support definite anti
limited action he ■»dee«js necessary
low, but they do not propose to vest
In him unlimited powers for the ru
tort
In spite of this, some Democrats
declare the president in th» face ot
thla situation has only one course
open and that Is to fight for what
b# want*—lf It takes all ummet
la order to show Kurope thla roun
try pre sent* a united front in the
greaset erlaia.
In the house. p,uifl:t Democrats
claim to have 24 or 30 who will line
op with the Republicans against
granting individual power to handle
developments In the absence of con
iroaa.
Nevertheless the belief is strong
among the president s advisers that
rwoatualljr be rquld beat the oppoai
‘Jon on this question If be had tiu>e
It couldn't be done they admit, in
Iho few days left before adjourn
ment unless all legislation was sac
rlfleed and an extra session render
ed necessary. The general situation
to congress is not unlike that facing
the president when Rep.
introduced his resolution to warn
Americans off armed ahlpa. At that
tlam the president forced the issue
to n decision and won—but It re
|«!r*d some time Many of his
IHoada adriae his adoption of a
rtmtlar course at thla time.
Hw president has canvassed the
filiation thoroly. Postma*ter-Gen
*ral Burleson, legislative gobetw*eu,
ifter conferring with partr leaders
to congress has presented his re
sort to the president snd Mpeaker
Hart explaining the outlook in d*
toil.
N. Y. URGED
TO BUY FOOD
FOR HJJNGRY
Whitman To Be Told
Millions Are
Needed
SCHOOL STRIKE
IS PROPOSED
Many Family Incomes
Too Small to Cope
With Prices
NKW YORK. Feb Repreten
tatlvis of t2f> unions nnd Socialist
and women a organization* today
planned to urge upon <*o\ Whitman
a legislative appropriation of one
to ten million dollar* to be used for
the purchase of food which would
b* *old at cost to the poor.
While officials predicted a break
In prices soon, and city investiga
tJon* revealed a constantly ln< teas
In* pressure on families, with small
Incomes, the array of protest con
tinued Its campaign today
A school strike to center alien
tlon tin the hardships endured hy
the chlldrt nos the eajd side whs
proposed. T».e boycott plans on the
east side were so lightly drawn
that retail poultry dealers decided
to close shop When the slaughter
house owners voted against this pro
cedure women who have been pick
etlng retail stores were shifted to
slaughter house picket duty
Mrs Ida Harris, who was a lead
er in the march on city hail last
week made a spirited attack on her
husband a grocery proprietor, when
he spoke again*t closing of grocery
stores before the Hebrew Retail
Grocers’ a*socist|on She jrd the
w< mrn present a? the meeting from
the hall in a body The grocer*
voted aralnst closing but approved
the boycott of potatoe*. onions and
lln.M beans
After It was reported tha* hi* In
vertlrator* found no actual starva
tion conditions, Health Commission
er Emerson. In a statement today
said that unlesa wages are raised
or food conditions bettered “there
will be a constantly increasing nun
ber of people whose health will bo
Jeopardlied hy Ihelr inability to
buy sufficiently nourishing food a'
the present prices’*
Rioting Haturday, which nil
mlnated Id a raid on the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, rendexvnus for New
Yoiks fashionables, by frentled
women, which was with difficulty
suppressed by Ihe police, wus not
repeated Sunday The city general
ly remained quiet
*S hllUreN are l eal Mure
tk*. ever.** mIK • H ..*.in-*t.,
candy m.rehant whose *h ,p f.
« Ici.e to twro schools. "Since f.snt
began mv r.csipta have fallen off
more than It j a da'. mnii|\ in pur
rhaaes of from one »•» fl-, e . en*».
f am not makinx expenae* if the
«e|f-dental pefiod ia*«*d inoiethsn
«n ,t. \ . I e uH e. nhl t r, l to atja
pend "
Ai trar r.. «nravnv
r»? fteeerder. —Ad
DETROIT TIMES
-818 CROWN
AT PEACE
MEETING
Anti-War Folk Adopt
Resolutions In Ar
mory Gathering
SPEAKERS PRAISE
THE PRESIDENT
Attribute His Re-Elec
tion Largely to His
Peace Efforts
Speakers who attended the anti
militarist meeting in the Armory
Saturday night were unanimously in
favor of the question to
a vote of the people before this
ciruntr) *h*ll be plunged into a war
that “would '»ipe out every ve.tlge
of democracy." and w hich would he
contrary to the wishes of the great
majority who voted ior The re-elec
tion of President Wilson It was
agreed that Mr. Wilson’s platfoim
guaranteed pcare. and that more
than anything e|sr p was his pacific
attitude that brought about hi* vie
tore.
A resolution was adopted hv the
meeting in which the mitinn wrr
urged to keep out of war This will
be forwarded, ,^r president.
The Rev Eugene Shlppen read a
telegram from Welliam .lennmgs
llr>an. who had been invit'd bv the
Detroit branch of the American
Futon Against Militarism to make
eg address
‘ I aui in hearty sympathy with
you in your effort to give ihe almost
universal sentiment against war an
t-oi:unity to expr* -i
ih* message 1 lie pi« id*n< seua
t» rs end- representative* < «.ire to
« •ri > »*ut the w ishe.s of the pe**p;c,
-Put they c .innot know what the
tin st v wan* unleas citizens e»ery
where express themselves in tele
grams and letters. This is the only
va> in whtrh to overcome the mis
representations of the Jingo portion
of the metro|>olltan pres*, which,
whilf denoun* Ing all pacifists as uu
patriotic, dally distort the news and
demsnd war.*’
William E Mason, formerly eena
tor from Illinois, said the proposal
before the country was to go to war
to enforce the right to tarry contra
band gooda to some of the Allies
“Washington proclaimed to the
American people in 175*3 thal citizens
of the Fnlted State* would render
themselves liable to punishment by
< * Trying contraband good.*," lie said
“Today we are faced bv the qtjes
tlon. shall we go to war flth a coun
try thal ..eeka peat e w ith us? a "on
grees la the only power to de* ide.
and congress Is hand washing the is
•ue over to a man who has r.o power
to declare war There are a bun
dred million people in this country
who have to be fed till next fall,
if we go to war. there will b* a big
ger tightening of the belt around
nur middle* than there is now ”
Aid J. Kennedy, of Chicago,
unde an impasaioned appeal fqr
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2«. 1917.
How One Great Corporation Moots
High Cost ot living and Food Riots
BHBB
The Interborough Rapid Transit company, of New York, the largest
traction company In the world, has long made provision against the high
< «>st <f living and food riots so far as its own employes are concerned In
ihe upper photograph here shown l* a bakenhop of ihe company in New
York The lower photograph showg one of the three general stores with
the employes In front.
These stores do a business of $400,000 a year among the 21,000 em
ployees of the company. They sell at wholesale prices plus the overhead
charges, and thus save their customers about 2o per cent, over the prevail
ing retail prices of the neighborhood. President Theodore P Shorn*, head
of the company, the railroad man who became famous on the Panama
canal, and other high officials patronize the stores
peace. declaring that thin country
had non the esteem of <he world
thru it* peaceful attitude He de-
I flared that the American people do
not want war and will not haTe war
If the question 1a left to them to de
i ide Allan L. Benson candidate fr>-
president on the Boclallat ticket laat
fall. sent. a telegram declaring that
he indorsed „ the *entiments of the
meeting and regretting hi* inability
to attend
There was a large croud present,
and It waa highly enthusiastic for
peace.
BRYAN SUPS
“JINGO PRESS”
Aaverts Advocated of Belliger
ent Action Libel Pres
ident
NEW YORK. Feb, 26 The fol
lowing aa* received Sunday by the
Emergency Peace federation from
William Jennings Pryan from Mi
ami. Ha
"The Jingo newspapers are con
stantly giving reasona why we
should go to war. but they denounce
as unpatriotic anyone who dares to
present reasons for not going to
war And. while advocating war.
they pretend to be supporting the
president, who is hoping to avoid
war
"They misrepresent the presi
dent's position and tr# to put him
in the attitude of desiring to enter
the war They libel the president,
too, when the) assume that he
a ants to take from congress the
constitutional right to declare war,
a right which belongs exclusively
to congreaa. and they libel con
gress also when they assume that
j congress objects to anti war pet'-
; Mona from the people or oen a ref
1 errndiim vote by the people on such
an Important question
'‘And the Jingo i*per» do all flu*
m the name of patriotism ”
2 BRITISH
SHIPS SUNK
Bt BOMBS
‘German Plots’ Blamed
For Disasters Off
Ceylon
TOKIO. Feb 26—The British
seamers Ptrseua sod Worcester
shire have been sunk off J’olom bn
according lo announcerren' today.
No details have so far been receiv
ed, but It was reported there were
explosions aboard both vessels, due
to German plotting
The Peraaua was reported sunk
trom London on Feb 2.1 r.nd the
Worcestershire on Feb. 19. It was
then assumed they fell victim to the
German submarine warfare in the
tarred tone. The Toklo dispatch Is
the first report that they were sunk
m a section where other rumors
have recently reported a German
raider. The Japanese government
has a strict censorship on ship
news and It is barely possible that
the “explosions." due to German
plotting, mentioned in the diapatch
may be simply an indication that
these vessels fell victim to the
talder,
Colombo is the principal seaport
town of Ceylon, an English posse*
slon
The Peraeus was a steel screw
liner of 6.7J6 tons. o*n>d by the
Ocean Steamship t ompanv, Limited,
and registered at Liverpool
The Worcestershire *a s steel
acrefr eieamer of 7 ITS ion- owned
by the Rmby Cteam«hir> compin'
and registered at Lieerr*»nl
Try Oar SnSlai a* i.s
efceaeMs LaaaSrr fa.— stale sees. -Ad
TEUTON FORGES WITHORAW FROM
FOUR TOWNS WITHOUT A FIGHT; FILL
OF BAPAUMi ROW BELIEVED CERTAIN
AMERICA
HINDERS
MEXICO
Expert Predicts Great
Things For Neigh
bor Republic
SAYS CARRANZA
HAS FULL CHARGE
U. S. Should Establish
Friendly Relations
With New Government
1 »r. John Slaughter, authority on
; Mexico, who w a# in l>etrolt Sunday
| declare* that America la now or. th**
j right track to "helping Mr tiro b\
j tending an ambassador. riving fur
I» fIU-ial recognition, and withdrawing
her arm?.
He *ayn that it wan Impo«*ihl*
for Oarmata to do other than hr
old with thr American commission
while the army ©erupted hla terri
tory. it was allowed to enter aa *
I unit-ire expedition, but a hen it re
fused to leave it became an armv
of lnvaaion With an army of in
\asion on hla own domain*. rar
tanxa or an? *nif-r**p*ctlng repre-
Tentative of a nation could do* nr
g<-tlau> term* of an? sort.
'Meotioo baa now drawn up the
l**st romaUtutloc of ary coun’t;' in
j the world. It embraces all the inoet
! i rogresalve thought Tt la complete
i ly democratic and goes neynnd mir
most advanced Ideas of democracy.
It will give justice to all |ta citizens
if it is carried out." b* said, and
continued;
Single tax ta one of !*• '
m»ntafs and the big land holdings
(are already going hack wh»r* *hev
he' <n| .th- land'o - u«. > » ns fir i ■
country in moat caaea.
Thin « system of taxation « mli
la J'J«! to the Inveatoi. iht tf»a«ur'*
of Mm cn ta faat becoming a stable
Inst | on and no loans ft
or any other country are nt<-M*irv
Th» taxes are put where they be
long, on the producta of the ground
oil. ore etc. and thla, with the single
tai Idea, 'a what is so dlatasteful to
i the foreign holder.
Tasea on unuaed land ar» now such
that no one ran afford to b"ld a
million acrea for a rlee In value
while th* peon etarveg.
The banka, and financiers of th»
t'nited Mtataa will do their best *t«
i force Mexico to borrow their m
hut I'l'riru 1s too wise to and i It
and unless completely hrowh*»t»n
by hi, there will he •no <*«•« asion
for It. Illg loans are the safeguards
lof hjg business Interests anywhere
If they have the “friendly offices" of
I th* porernment behind them in I
these friendly office* are nothing
j more nor less than the armv an«l
r»av> That la why we are preparing
our nave. To ba« it up the |..ane that
are ne.ng made to Chin* on ' i ;
countries in need of gi.hl When
the exorbitant interest I* not forth
< cmlng. the friendly offl. e« step*
In and tat.e* a albs of territory
A* far as Villa is cornerned )i»
a tie cti g i hie f|toan|lt>. It te a* f
I tome lawless ptrn n util in Aritori*
J.' in lud*d 'hat be did not approve of
[things in Washington and gathered «
few thousand 'nen togethei to *v.
tt'inga a* unpleasant as posable
People do not realise hare ahii an
• normoii* counter Mexico a Vilta
a lard In « at< h be.-aus* there • «.»
small an arm • and he km »l e\*r\
tildmr pla< e la the whole land !!»•!
Ib* A bigger art •• . « s*
•a* er A* for bandits fhe.e »r»
Amer can and Mexican handle along
the border and sleave base t.esn
It? a are rather unreasonable t n e»
pa. r • ar ran as to so. . essfiillv *tr 1
t-ith a tremendous d.s'am-e with *uc
afterirnkditM!
ceaa when we cannot pretend to do
It ourselves.
rarrania la In complst* control in
Mexico Villa and Zapata will ha
put down in time. Tna Clantlftcos
nave glvan gp or Had. tho a few of
th»m will be stood up against the
wall and shot before long
The railroads, bridges and all pub
lic utilities are being constantly re
built. and If we will keep our Angara
off Mexico haa a Ana opportunity to
become a great country. I do not
believe for opr mnmet.t that Ger
many or any other foreign country
will step In.
AMERIND
FEAR SWAY
HOUAND
iDesire to Protect Ships
Hampered By Men
ace On Borders
SEE REASON FOR
GERMAN MASSING
LONDON, K*b. 3*. —Holland now
understands why two months tgo
Germany began ma*«tng troops n*nr
i hr Dutch border und appreciate*
i lt» men*** In wldonprvad rumors
that those troops have actually con-
Mructed french** paralleling th*
line. Puhltc indignation ov*~ th*
pinking of «*rsn IXitch ships bv
Orman submarine* was tempera!
today by reallaallon of th* amt*
r*ang*r with which Th* N*th*rl«nds
nr* menaced in ih*»* massed Or
man forro* just across the lin*
Dispatch** front various Dutrtt
«iflow tori*' indicated no abatement
in 'popular ang*r .u th* sinkings,
but a general disposition to wotgb
ihi* example at Orman dn*rhl* deal
ing ngainst th* consequence* of a
.»wrep forward by thoae over men
n< Ing Orman troops Th* Orman
explanation, a* reoe.ved bv wlr<!**»
did no., set ve to qu *1 11 •* pub.t*
This *xpl*na ton riet,ni* n»tn'.s
lions »uh Marlin bv Ih.'ct *hipi**r*
frv *afe t otldtx ' of tic line,* 'rom
1 .i mouth after Fe when th** la«
ri>iri<:|on on «uhn rintr.g* re
moved how permission *ar granietl
to KeL 11 and ho. imer ih* <!' r .
l tan Ko«*rnm* ( T announced th
ships could leav* ''» i h full safetv
on March 17, or "or.lv jelanv* safe
ty” on F*h 22 The "relative
rafety" for the 2-n I. It was explain
en was due to (he fact that It via
uol certain all vobrnaMr** would re
< e.ve wireless ordei* to acc-onl the
I uieh “htos passage
* ppar-otlv.'’ the llerlln state
men ( corn lude*. "the eight «bln.«
fliifillv took upon themselves the risk
of the 1 rjp If tho lAilrh nerws |s
uirret that these eight ships *>ave
been de*lroved on* Is said to have
strtM'k a mine near the Rnglish
coast, abile the fdlie-r seven on th
hfternoon of Kel* .’l' wi-r* destroy* and
[cn tho course ludcaled If Is ’p b*
• bcplv r< grvtted. but the regp n»l
--| luliiv fall* iijiou t'-e -.hip carvers
iV«lo preferre<| to *>end their hip*
| under only rtwnpara'lv* aertirit) on
j feb 32. Instead of aultmg until
'far* h 17. at vhx h time full vafetv
1 I ad l<een pr««on«ed
is- v m ans; i a mn st
• binitt ' '-nr future »*S ’Miuuha "
»S|» pgrchlc marvel. M lea Theater, alt
th . week. Ratgata Mallß**e" IS
■St I* cefilg.— Adv.
IN DETROIT: ONB CIWTw
British Win Great and
Bloodless Victory
In West
AREA REGAINED AS
YET UNCERTAIN
Germans Still Movtaff
Back Pursued By
ADy Patrol
LONDON. Fab M -Tke graHwt
gala of torrltory a Inca tba batik of
the Mania, with ita tarrthlo mmA
flees of troopa, baa juat boao
achieved by the British—ami vftfc
practically no loaaaa. FfoM MardMal
Sir Douglas Haig's man baao M«
Bapauma a I moat within tkatr fMdF-
The troops of the Crown MBs
Ruppraeht bare abandoned a Mm
tion of territory of probably ads
square miles extent.
Retirement by the G«rmaaa fbMasi
Uapaume. an Important strabMNb
point, is now confidently pradkßnd
her* For ivrtv years British trntfa
have pounded unceasingly tamapi
this position. Even winters laavt
and frosts have not stilled »a
methodical British bombardmentea
German poeMona Bit by bit JWl**
troops have worn away the Germ aw
.moral* and battered the enemy
trenches.
On* week ago tb* British draws
forward sensationally, north west af
T/#fctrs and near Petit MtraoaMft-
At that time It was pointed oat that
the German#’ strategic poettioa aft
er this first British advance was
lost Tt was not hellevad. boasarar.
that the Threat would be eairtad
ami without a desperate effort by
the enemy to straighten out die
"kink" in the line put there by the
advance of F*h 17
But front dispatch** today la
dlcated a withdrawal with hardly a
blow struck A few machine gas
squads were left, with snipers, to
harrass *b* advancing forroa but
these were quickly stilled. Th# full
exten* of the retirement baa not ywt
'h#rn r*v#f*d h* reconnoitring par-
Pr*!mins v InfurmaHon how
ev ei d«. |n«V« *ba' British Afftw
arc no* «iAbm four miles of Ba
paume
Hum* i'» Wgricnrourt. of bloody
meiuorv Serre. M ranmotit and
I'eflt Mira imnn' all are *n British
hxi.d* Ail have vrrne*a*d s..m# of
th moat b!< *e<jy Agh'ing *n tba
w»«tern fron #
One «*»her advance by Brttlab
for-e* was th* cause of raJofcdM
hete today Kntel-Amara. mom OPS
bl* a# th* apof where o*n. Town
abend and his 9.<Klb British troops
early in tb* war held out so lowg
before the Turkish forces, be Bur*
they were starved Into surrender,
is now almost surrounded by tho
British Mesopotamian foreea. Tho
Turkish garrison appear* to bo
trapped In much the same fa ah law
th.it Town*h*nd wae caught.
By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMM*
tyr.iff f rv*»p. judea' f'witod Ptsm.)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMINE
AFIKi.D Feb ?• —Ha paume. ww
wbxh lb* A>ermans lavished great
defensive works and which tboy
hare often declared twoufd fkll owl?
after ‘ the greatest pneg ever paid
bv a victorious army" la now di
rectly threatened by the growtapl
German retirement since "atausWMF
warfare' began more haw pmg
year* ag«*
Vaulting in 'heir newty worn fgR»