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WILSON DECLARE
U.S. MUST RALU
TO WORLD NEEI
Nation Should Help Pn
vent "Patched Up
Peace," He Says.
MUST BRF.AK BONDS
OF PROVINCIALISE
President Spends Busy Day i
Columbus?Suffragists Ask
Amendment Support.
' olumbus, Ohio, I??-c. 1"
WUa ' -<l?y lbs
"pStcbsd I
. ??" following the I.uropean war. I
i Mises bet re the I
? ? Csssisaire !.?? argti h
business men to mobilisa thsil ft
rces in order thiit the United Stat?
*rd to play a met
? jiart ?ti the world's affairs an
? g ?bout Justice ??ftcr tha pressa
. i.
.en houi
i sttuabsa, ?luring which ho wa? at
tive every mil uts. His reception wa
?:. isiastic iiii'l pleased him greatl;
..ldition to the Chamber of Com
i live red an addres
the Commission oi
?titry Life of the Federa
.... ,1 o? ?he Churches of Chnsi i
hook hands with more thai
raona at a reception in th
a lar*
? I ft'.>in the steps sf the Capitc
. took a long walk at?out th?
? . lunbns. The l'utile city ar.
niany persons from surrounding town
; him.
Ml WiliiOD'a Chamber of Commerc
r.'ss was delivcri?! Deforc more thai
I men au.i womsn Is the Mason!.
for ilie occa?ii)i
? G nor Willis, ts-Gorerno
Hrumbaui*h and other
Ohio'a leading men. Hi.?
.? ntly Interrupted bj eppfaaao
..ri iv< .1 at I chim
- sent the President n
I.ou?in.-t of rossa. With the rose?
v. card saying t? ta sup
?
. amendment in) i i both
Bington, pro
..iTruge.
liu-inexs and Politics Mingled.
? expresd nv won
lud? to you,' said the ]'>< i
. manmi in which
? ..
privi .- here bef
I of the things in
which w?' aie mutually int?
?
than in any
mod to
rit and
made has been in lUp?
- - -
ind in their
"I must saj that in looking back upon
? p.i -t there ?i lomethii
m this .
? ??t wholly satisfactory
?.?member that
the rtpui
more a part of the get eral
- war of 1813 the ?ei
full of American ?hips. American en?
vases expre
?. .can commerce wher
that we art?
.. great nation the leaa ar?
Of oi ' ?1 we trade with other
i ountries at the conven ?
ther nations.
"The trul -he war of
1812 we seem deliberately to have
chosen to be prorinc il our
? ? in upon ourselve?, exploit our
\ own resource? for our own benefit,
?ather than for the benefit of tl
? '.? world, and we did
. i commerce
had so
?t there wa*
???raitjacket in which it could be
?.unfilled.
a' American indu-try In recent
bai been crying for an outlet into
.rid. There Were
kmei me American
men not a fen
i ?jilt upon the provincial type, who
? ? eijrn markets
and ruade the usual Amerlcsn i
?onquest in those foreign mai
mned delibi refrain
not t?i know that th? re were pppOf
i of.
No American Dan*,? Abroad.
? tit bankitii; act
i not lind,
bianch of an Ar? ? ik any
of the I ' ?
: the world
: ess on
tsllty of their own banker*. 1 usa
at . meeting of the American
that much of the
nsaa. the i
n foi ? . lone in
v?ur per)
? J among ou:
? ?I the
K act t?< niwi';. ? ses II
bal the national banks
would IB this hi.
.-?.* In It, and some
' ?
functions
: nkai
"I nf?-r ?? tl
hat 1 take leave to call our
? 0TS9, durinir this
thing
happened, that American baainoaa men
?o be protected
against '.he competition of stl er busi?
ness mer. ?r, otl
? aded by organization lo proteet
kbssssslToi
7.a'ion
[i of
"Kor your organization f?.r the pur- '
I preventing ?ucce??ful com?
tition i? not in moral level any high
thim running politic? upon the basis
organization rather than upon the t
-tatesmanship ar.d aehieveme
Organisation i? neceasen '
.-?sary to bu?!n*??, but t
object of organisation ought not to
exclusion; it ought to he efficiency.
Object of Organliation Kfticieno.
"I he only legit ?mftte object of t
ganization Is eihciency. It can nev
imate when it is intended f
hostile competitive purposes. I ha
Btertalaed the slightest jealou
of those processe? of orgaalsati
which led threat er and greater coi
potency, but 1 hav.. always be
jealou? of tho-..? processes of orgar
zation which were intended in t
of exclusion and monopoly.
"Beeaeei the ?pirit of exclusion ai
iv is not the American ?plr
The American ?pint i? a spirit of o
portunity, and of eqnel opportune
und Of admitting every man to tl
race who ran stan.l the pace. So I ?i
that we lave jeason to look back upc
the pi-st of American business Vit
gome tisfai tion, but I. for ?
part, look forward to the future i
American business with greatest co:
fidence.
"American b?is.:ie.?s has altered 1
point of view, ai.d in proportion as
lias altered Its pelai of view it hi
i-ained in power aad in momentum.
have BOSBetiav B< rd exhortation? I
-t that polltid ought not to t
! inTo buslaeii. It ?? just, ?
Dt that you should not inje.
business into politic?, because ?o fi
B| the baalaOM of this country is cot
earned there ought not to be I
tic?.
"I, gentlemen, am a Democrat, as yo
have heard, and I am a mil
tant Democrat, but it la because I bi
Here that the principias of Democrat
will be of more service to the counti
than any other kind of princi:
because I believe Democrats are betti
thai, Hi publican?; it is because i taifl
Republican! are mistaken and Demi
cratl right, and I hope and believe tha
I hold that conviction in no narrow pai
tiaan spirit
Cite? Bill of Right?.
??! lad that 1 aaa'eni of tai
it ray acquaintancs ak i abaoluteli bt
Yeve every word^ for eiampls, ol th
bill of right*. Moll men us
I i
usa them very handsomely, bul I
before you and tell you that 1 b<
then. For ei imple, the Virginia bii
of right! I ell . ? - .use ii va
one of the tirai bills of right?, Th
othen were largely modelled upon i
| : ... Yines the Vir
ginia bill (.7 right! lays that wat ??
government prove? unsuitable to th
Yf?. of the people ander it 'I ?m no
quoting the language, but the mean
lag), they have a right to alter or abol
IflB it in any way that they picase.
"When thingi wera pcrhapi more de
battit1 , "ow about our im
mediate neighbor to thl south of u?,
do not know hoe many mea curae t<
me and laggestod that the gov?rnmen
.if llexico should be altered aa w?
thought it ought to te altered, bu
being ber to the doctrina o
a bill of right? I could nol
With th IB. Th?: Mexicans ml'
now what to do with their gov
t that is none of our bf.si?
.. |ong>si I bave the powet
pody shall 'butt in' t?
? for them.
"Thai ll what I mean by being a
rat built on the original piar
? bill of rights.
hills of r ghtl say sotr.?
are very pertinent to
. assert the absolute equalI
? right on th? perl of individual?
to ac? ? nity. Thai is the
?i 1 am oppose 1 t.. m.pol;
because monopoly does not produce
B kind, but
I.'Cause ii is Int. ? ded to ?hu? out n
if people who ought not to be put
raey ??
the only thing that vitali7.es a whole
? Bfl of vitalizing only .sonic
of the people of tha country.
"I am not Q| to be the tru I
ti y ; neither
ou; neither i- any group of men
? lie the trustee? for the economi?
ca! guidance of this country.
? common man.
"I believe the geniui of amerl
common man should be enn
? bow he I -.1 and
should be given the rtanity
with ? ? man under his gov
? ut.
"I believe that that spirit is the
i .an in
America, i - the .spirit
I man in Ameri
n is a current
? that the Pi
Stater: | ? ? y much M?luded per
Ik to him, I
you, and he takei perl
to know ' le are
ut who do not talk dl
to him.
? tody who has been bred in the
stmosphere of Americsn ?oeietlet from
one si ' ? tinent to the other
can mil-take the tp r:t of the |Vsragt
man, and 1 am for the average ma..
The country consists of him. He
the country. The man
who i? above the average use? him.
poet his tool, oup-ht t..
respect his instrument, ought to re
the win?, through which the verv
life blood of the country flow?.
America World's Ke-serve Force.
"Now, with regard to the future of
business in this country no man can
speak with confidence, because it hap
that the distressing event,, of the
months since the irreal European war
I < Iran have put America in a peculiar
>n to the rest of th?. arorle.
"lt looks as if we would have to be
the reserve force of the world in re
tpect to flnencisl and economic power.
It looks as if in thl day? of reronstruc
? enperation which are ahead
of Europa we would have to do many of
the t). of the most important
things, which hitherto have been done
through Kuropean ?nstrumrntalit?e?.
"No Btan can -ay just how these mat
... going to shape themselves, but
BUM catI see that the opportunity
of America is ?rqanjt, to be unparalleled
and that the resource? of America must
servies ol the world as
Borer were put at its service be.
"Therefore it is imperative that no
Impedimenta should be put in the way
of commerce with the re?t of the
worl.l BBOl sell unless you
?'??n.niercc is only an exalted kind
of barter. Th?- bartering may not be
i but directly or indirectly it is
an exchange of commodities and the
: the balances; and there
there must be no impediments to
?he free flow of the currents of com?
merce back and forth between tho
tea, upon which the world
will ii id, and tha other coun
.[iust supply aad
V : fei thl ' : -t time, gOB?OBM
happens 1 believe providentially that
Fall Reductions
N'.where?not even here??have? such remarkable
values ever before been offered. A large stock bought
to advantage enables us to make this offering at a time
when woolens ar?- stead fly advancing.
Regular $_ > to $35 suitings and overcoatings now
$20. $40 to $50 materials now $2'). Call and see them
or send for sample*? I?. mcisurr only.
Broadway
C& 9th St.
Arnly^tm
the business men of America ha
instrumentality in the new bankin
-urh as they never had before fo
* bb and flow and free course o
natural procedes of credit,
I time we aae not \
up in an inelastic currency. Our i
is current apd that current will
through all the channels of corni
"i ?very part of the world.
Currency Now Elssti?.
'"A gentleman present her? V
tolcl me that he had done what I
it is not his habit to do; he sai
had been looking up ?a. old apes)
min.' and that when I addreaeoi1
American Hankers' Association in
' ver some years ago I said that I
been called upon a little while b.
to ?peak to tin.' bankers of -New
on the elasticity of the currency
that I had replied that I -i"?r?e
it u i'h the mor?? freedom hccau
knew nothing about it. Being ;?
lessor at that time on a balsrf, I
not in a j.? ition to know anythin
the elasticity of the currency. I
that he is ready to bel .
the tune that has Intervened I
tak.-n ssin - to li ?l sel
ttbo.it the elasticity of tha
for I was an entl liaisstic
th.? bill which Insll) established
Ked.i.ii lUserve .-.?tern. at.?l I '
tha* I understand it.
"At anj late, gentlemen. ?01
: apart, it does furnish the busi
men of this country with an in.?
pent such as credit never posse
; before. Credit ?a a vei\ ?pontam
; thing, .'ts excursions OSgbl not t?
; personally conducted. There have I
times in this country when the a
?lit.m.s of credit wtre personally
ducted I could name some of
a;.ues where guides were provi
Hut if yen are Htarting an enterp
in one part of the countiy you do
want any guides; you rather re
guidance from another part of
country.
Ihnamic Force nf Perno? rac)
"The \it ion of a democrat-.*, thl
have is this, that you mu?t BO, be I
lumiituous enough to determine
forehui"! v. I ?n I Iba vitality i* gol |
' come fron- The beauty of ?
? i? '?hat yon nerer egn t?
whal be
; do with you, and Ibst no matt? r I
l,e || ho. n, no msttei whei
I is horn, so matter what eirenmatai
r him it! the outset, he has
i . i anea te master the ml idi
naginstiosa of the who)a eeani
"That la the beauty of democr
thai ?ou .??' not beforesai d protend
pick oat the vitgl esatrss, but t
pick thsmaeiTei eat The men srbo
going to lead you ami dominate ;
pick tbemsehrea out and elect tin
selves h> sn electoral process a
which legislation can have no out
whatever. I like to think
joungsters now playing somewh'
I ? rliups in a gutter, -re aeSM '
or other going la stand Up and ?*p<
? v ?:. i ?es for all the wo
"8o I want viu to share with me I
vision of the future of American bu
of a cosmopolitan spirit, of
spirit of enterprise ont of which 1
old timidity tlSS gone. ?"""?" >"?' "?
have to admit, gentlemen, that Ame
can buaineaa men have bean tlm
Tl.ey bSTf coiisii inly run to V. . ' [)
ton and asid: 'It looks like rain; !
l?o.i's ask rire us shelter.' You t?o i
Deed Washington. There I
enough in thia country to aasatei :
enterprise of thi world, and it one
ybftdy.
"Whom would you pick out amo
?. Imi cans s the typli
American? \ ?-.. know thai for me
than a hundred yeara after tl
ment of this count r;.
hundred ? ibliahme
of the Union there was alw..
tier on this continent,
American was the man who di.I B
need an; ? ?e from anywhere
anybody, bul who went out into a ni
country, made hi* own hon?a '"' i--1
rii.'i.l.ii hia os n govsrnmet
arranged everything to suit bimse
h ?. i j then occasionslly went baefc to h
old home rich and powerful md CO
tented
?on sent them a very prop.
reproof, lie -aid thai the;
flrst American?? he had hoard of wl
didn't know how to asi up a gpW*T\
? ? <? themselT? * sad ' <tk* (ara i
themselves. The characteristic Amer
can community for a long time w.?.- :l
frontier community mane on the apt
and made according to the local pa
"So tha? .vhci. I hear Americans be;
>,, assisted by authority I wot
.er where 'hey were horn. I wondi
how long thi breal as I be a:
of America. I wonder where their pi
P?iS >f spiritual naturalization are.
Pifftre.U World After War.
"For America now may make pSfCi
ful conquest of the world, and I sa
that with all the greater eonfidenc?
? | hop
that the belief .iocs not spring .
from the hope that when the ?
great contl.ct in Europe la otsi th
world it ?.'.?'?.'.f.' t?' wear a diff?ras
il h? lieve t bal tbei a I
going to be any patched up peace.
"I bslisra that thoughtful men o
erery country and of every sort wil
.nsist ?hat when we gi ' pease sgaii
We shall have guarantee? that it wil
leinuiti and that the ir.strumentalitie
? ? will he exalted above the in
itrumentslitiei sf fores. I believe tha
the spirit which bal hitherto reigned ii
the hearts of Americans at.?l in liki
people everywhere in the world wil
a-sert itself once for all in interna
affair . sad that if America pre
epfTea bSf poise, preserves her self
? lion, preaerrea her attitude o
friendliness toward all the world, shi
may have, the privilege, whether in oiu
form <ir another, of being the mediatinf
influence by which these things may b<
| induced.
"I am not now speaking of govern
mental mediation. I haven't that ii
mind at all. I mean the .?pin tua
r.ediption. I mean th.? recognition el
the world that here is a country thai
haa always wanted thinga done tha!
way and w?..>.?? merchants, when th?>>
carry their go?.d.?, will carry their ule?
- with them, an.) that this ?.pint
of 1'ivc and take, thia spirit of lUCCeil
only by having better goods and bette I
brains and better training will through
their influence ?road the more rapidly
to tha ends of the world. That ii
what I mean by the mediating in
' flutnee which 1 think American com
I merce will exert.
"So I challenge you and men like
you throughout the I'nited ?States to
! apply your minds to your business as
it yes were building up for the world
' a great constitution of the United
States, as if you were going out in the
spirit of service and achievement the
Kind of achievement that comes only
through service, the kin?! of achieve
ment which i.? statesmanship, th?
? -.-man-hip of those arrangement
which are most serviceable to the
v?oild.
"As you do this, the American
whether it be labelled so or no*
have it? conquest far and wide, and
i when we come back from our long
voyage of trade we will not feel that
; wt? have left btranger? behind us, but
| that wa have left friends behind u*
; ??nd have coruu home tu .?it by the rire
, nide and speak of the common k.nship
| of ail mankind."
In his evening adtlres* before the
i Commission on Church and i o un try
Life. President Wilson emphasized the
need of making country chinche? mora
uselul He spoke In lore four ih?.
peisons, lacludiag clergymen and agri?
culturists fiimi ?ill p..r'- of the coutj
I he President declared that laws
were useless unless they expressed the
moral feeling of the people. Therefore
it was primarily the duty of ( hnstiane
, to better the moral character o? all
i persons. He added that i hnatianily
I was the most viUlmng thing in the
PROTECT UFE
BEFORE COTTON,
URGES LODGE
Senate Asked to Investi?
gate Hyphens and U
Boat Horrors.
SEIZURE INQUIRY
SOUGHT BY SMITH
ProfJtl Behind Willingness to
Tolerate British Interfer?
ence, He Charges.
Kr.jn? Ti.g T-lbung IlureaJ ,
Washington, Dee. 10. "The body of
an innocent child floating dead on the
water?, the victim of destruction of ?n
unarmed ve??el, ia to me a more poig?
nant and a more tragic -spectacle than
an unsold bale of cotton," declared
.Se iator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa?
chusetts, on the floor of the Senate to?
day.
Senator Hoke Smith, of Ceorgia, had
just completed a set speech in favor
"i an investigation of British inter?
ference with American trade, so that
in the one session the President'? for?
eign policy was attacked from both
sides of the Senate. His resolution
previdiag for uuch an investigation by
lb. Senate Foreign Relations ? ommit
tec was pending when Senator Lodge
offered an .?iiiu-i.iliiu-n: which would
couple with tli i j investigation tin in?
quiry it.to outrages committed on
American ctuens in the de?truction
of the Lusitania. (?ulflight, Fulaba,
Arabic, Ht-.pt. rian and I'etiolite.
Senator Smith objected strongly to
combining the two lines of inquiiy,
intimating that many of those who ob?
jected to any action against tireat
Britain*! interference with American
trade were interested in the dollars
which were bein; made out of the sale
of munitions.
Lodge ( Hes Message.
Senator Lodge also proposed in his
amendment an inquiry into the activ?
ities of hyphenated American?, quoting
fioni the message to Congress of the
President on this subject. The Lodge
amendment to the Hoke Smith resolu?
tion follows:
"Resolved, further, that the Commit?
tee on Foreign Relations be also re?
quested to lavesttgeto aad report upon
the law and tho facts involved in the
attack? upon or tho destruction by the
belligerents of the following vessels:
The t.uiflif-ht, Falaba, Lusitania. Ara?
bic, Hesperian and the I*t trolite.
"And also to investigate and report
upon the law and the facts involved in
the meiden'? referred ta by the Proel
?lent of the United State? in his annual
.: aid, referring 'o cer?
tain person?: ''Ihev have formed pl?.t
. ? rt)T. they hate eatered
into co::-i.natie-, against the neutrality
of th" government, they have sought
to pry into every confidential tranaac
tion of the government in order ...
servo Interest? alies to our own.'"
"1 think, Air. President,*- -aid Sena?
tor Lodge, "that neutral rights
teased bj ai ipould be inaistee) upon
and investigated ir, every place where
II esa h.- ?paved thai they have been
? .], but I think also that we aro
Squally hound to failli our neutral
Uy and strictly, although I
.[.served in some quarters that
? i our rights is a little more
vivi'i than our sen-- of our duties.
"I thiuk ameritan I -huuld be pro?
tected m their live! and in their liberty
everywhere. I ?lo Bot think they
-., bl murdered m detail and obii-ui.lv
in Mexico or openly or wholesale on
the high seas.
"Although I am as anxious a
one can be to care for our rights in
trad" if they at?? violated, to BM Ameri
rea are more important than
uj .I- Y.ra The body of an In
child floating demi on
.eaters, the victim of (Jeatruction of an
unarmed vessel, ig to me a more poig?
nant and a more tragic spectacle than
an unsold bale of cotton.
Deplore? Frigid Silence.
'1 think if we are to investigate and
inquire, with a view to action, such
a? 'hese should not be omitted.
I am not willing to get into a p..
..v.r an infringement of our trade and
:hen allow American citizens to lose
their lives and have it go by in frigid
silence.
"1 do not wish to see this country
when it looks into the book of time
close the pages on which are written
the outrages that have been committed
against American citizen? in Mexico
and on the high seas, and be blind to
what is written there, and lit its whole
attention on the page? where are reck?
oned up the pi oilt and loss accounts in
dollars.
"1 think the United States stands for
something higher in the world than
mere trade and mere dollars. I do
not want to see our citizens wronged
in their property, but I think we
should also, above ?II, stand for moral?
ity and humanity In the dealings of
nations with each other."
Senator Lodge asked that the reso?
lution, with his amendment, lay over
for a day, so that th amendment could
be printed, whereupon Senator Smith
agreed that both should be referred
to the ?foreign Relations Committee.
"I am no. surprised," said Senator
i Smith, "at the ?peech or at the amend
' ment of the Senator from Massachu?
setts. Almott from the beginning of
the war there has been a class of peo
' pie good people ? ho have almost
succeedeil in suppressing any inquiry
into the British rettraint? upon our
commerce simply by euggesting tympa
thy for the lives that have been lost.
But I euspect that thete cries of sym?
pathy come from persons interested in
munition? plants that are making ?hip- ;
ment? to Great Britain. Thsy corns ?
from those patriots who. to .-ay the
least, have not lost anything from mu?
nitions. No one eres more for th?
los? of life than I do. but to forbid an
inquiry such as I have suggested by
recurring to the loss of life in a way
that moves the heart or any red
blooded man do.? not ?eem to me qu t
fair. It seems an effort to distract ?
attention from tie lawlessness of
f.reat Britain. Th???e persons have si- ;
ways held pnd many BO? stumer? like- '.
wise that effort? to restrain the op-'
pressive British blockade came from
lerdid motives."
Walah Condemni Seizure.
Senator Wal.-n. ol Montana, ta.d:
"I apprehend that no Senator here ever
heard of a blockade of neutral ports,
shipment* of our goo.'..?, going to Hol?
land seized because thai might then
go on to another eauntry, a?>.d goods
coming f ri m Hellend to us also se'/.c I.
"At the beg.nning of The var ??J-'"
ments of our goods were .?eizoil whole?
sale without any effort to bring them
to the adjud cation of a prize court.
In manv, if not in most, of these cases
the captor did not even deign to m BBS
an explanation. Seizure? ?>f copper
have eiascd, a- v?.u may have observed.
Why? Because ?hippeis in the Inite 1
.-?t.-.tes have been nerrassed into -
an agreement to .hip con i
such placfi and persons a? the In
Admin ously fully Informed.
grac ously permitted Kot a shipment
has been BUdl -ave under this hunilh
ating eoBditloi .
Mr. Walsh then had lb? agreement
read.
"I would lib- ' mutter re
ferred to th.- Committee ob jrorelgB 1? ?
latio;. iquiri
late the ein um I
eondil ioni fro? a ira and
Inqu ,. ., -a? .-tu. r Iheae air
cumstancc. |u -tits the aslatioi
obtaining betwe?
ami Great Britain "
Disref ird I
alludi i to r?solu!
?
I.eY. res it I
eminent ?s..t onl] to proclaim but to
maintain an attitude of t ? i n h
neutrality a? h.-t wttn belli]
els of all nat. ithoul fear
or favor, and arlth BO tin.'
mont or prejudice, ?nd thai any v ola
! tion of ne.r
treetiei aid pi IB f int. ?'national
law -hould meet with Ihl prompt and
rigoroui i rote-t <.f those omfari of this
I government, who are i th the
! conduct, of ..ni foreign r? ll
| said utTu-eis should perl
incumbent upon a neutral BBl
Vigorous denial of the admit
ilalia thai ? titude
low.nd preparedi di?eati
irssl ?.f policy by th?.1 Pi ident,
whs made t" day by Senator Vard
of M i: si iiipjpi, m a si il tack
lag the .i. .?? and the
Presiden!
fei a. th. s ? ,.i d ? Re
publican policy, ami has been for
100 v. ar i He is ;?t .. complete i..it '??
underatand what hi brought Mr. Wil?
son into line vvi'h it.
"The Preaidenl
ither extraordinary, scintillant
- : .. . unequivocal m
purpose, but pregnant, 1
evil for the future.*1
NEW LAWS TO GUARD
NEUTRALITY ASKED
Attorney General iuggtstf?
Measures and Amendnionts.
\v >,
?lei.-.
II all t> viola! ?? arked
? ? an?l
thl .Mexican revi
I r.e>-al !
Gregory in h?a i is At
'...! lie f G
?
explosive! on ??? ' .. Ing
to make it s
crime l -
- ip of i. b . ligeri ' '
and in a
ity to so.ne govei
-
tha place <>?' '? \
the gorernmi nt 1
of a Presidental prods
d am?
munition sb. in connec?
tion I which
? .ves aie i.i.w prohibit
Attorney General ?gam r<
mends an smendmenl to ths eommodi
? ?
act to prohibit a railroad from ??
porting m ?
or :.. od '? i ? or
which are manufactured or produced
?. eorpora! on eontrolle ! or af
'? Srito it -aine
eoatrolliog
whether such railroad or inch con
trolled or affiliai d eoi por ition ha? .
interest in the article! at the time of
transportation.
"Il is also accessary,'1 ha added in
this connection, "if transportation and
production are to be completely di?
vorced, that Congress prohibit any
railroad owned or contrallad by a pro?
ducing or trsding corporation and not
operated in. rely , a plant facility
from transporting in iateratate com?
merce articles produce.I or owned by
such corporation."
Educational League Benefit.
A benetit for thl 1 dueational Dra?
matic i_?aa*as will be given at th? new
l alogy Club on the iifternoon of Jan?
nary n thiough the courtesy of Mrs
August Belmunt. Miu Ethel i
more. John Parrymme and Lionel Bar?
remora will pre ent a aea one-act play.
?Mme. Fames and other artists are ex?
pected to speak.
eherne, from "?lfiilollos,'' Op I? -Jflcerdufi . i.?r.glit kf uli.fr ii.ta.,0. Oa) I
?Step into our well-appointed factory ?an-rooms and
listen to the lovely tone of Kranich -i Bach instru*
meats?a tone so pure, so full, so rgrg thai ?tl superb
individuality is instantly reeopiii/-?! bj svefyone,
even the novice in music?beautiful beyond ???in
parrson. To hear it is to understand \vh.? the Kranich
&, Haoh is recognized by educated musicians as the
leader of the world in actual musical merit.
I l^laANICH -ff BACH
P??j^"*'- ^tra-Quality Pi A NOS
X ISmo* and PAYER PIANOS
'Step tntii a real piano /attory and Wmtk* f9S? fshotte.*
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N.H.THRHLSLOST
ON ROCKEFELLER
Accused Director Paid
Little Heed at ?Meet?
ings, Says Mellen.
BAY STATE SUITS
PUT INTO EVIDENCE
Elliott, at Boston Hearing.
Favors Extending Federal
Power Over Roads.
William Rockefeller was apparently
only mildly interest???! m the affairs of
the New York, New Haven ?fc Hartford
Railroad during the per nut of his di?
rectorship. Testifying yesterday for
the thirty-second successive day before |
the Federal Court in the trial of the.
former directors, ('hartes S. Mellen,
formerly of the New Haven system,;
told of the'extent ef Mr. Rockefeller's:
activities at directors' meeting?).
Richard V. Lindabury, counsel for Mr.
Rockefeller, ask? ?I Mr. Mellen, called
by the prosecution in redirect exam?
in?t;.. ,i, what Mr. Rockefeller's Interest
had ..mounted to.
"He took but little part la any of our
meetings," replied IfsUsh. "Ha Bjaa
neither well nor in itrOBg > lies. OsCS
-loi.ally he would SON SS anil
arhiaper is my car some matten arhieh
emed ought to come befen
board. Beyond th.it lu? took littl
tiTS part m ?jui- .1? 111.elation?."
The eroea-essminatios or '
eompl? | aitei tin.- opening of
; ttS, fOI
the prosecution, took up ihe redirect
lohn I.. H Hard of the
H?, ton ? ' laine Raili a
"Did you '.?-il jrour directora every
deal in which you and your .
- Ur. Bst|s.
"Most aeauredly," returned Mr. Mel
len. "I encouraged QUCI
Elliott Favors Extending
Federal Rule Over Roads
Boston, Dec. 10.- Federal jurisdic?
tion over "some of the larger railroad
qui suons" which are now under au?
thority of state eommiaaiona or logia?
latorea eras favore l by Howard Elliott,
president of the New York, New Haven
4 Hartford Railroad, when he alossd
the company's case in connection with
the iniiuiry of the Public Serv.ee Cum
mission into the New Haven's financial
condition.
After f. A. Farnham. counsel for the
road, had made a plea foi validation
by thia
the ," ent Elliott urged upon
the commission the expediency of
abandoning any further restrictive
powers o htch mlgl t? tnplated.
Mr Elliott advocated as extanaion in
the powers of railroad companies, per
?' them to acquire
, and to j.urctiiise the itock
uri'i' i of .?? . compi n. ?
Public Serrice Commisi on find
? -<> t.. be in 'be publ i
Masaaebua ?" -. he ,; ?
not insi??t upon ?mmed i
New Ha* ? n ?.f || hoi ?
. i ...
- i >n of
the possible effect of any I
? '?i."
REPOPaTS ON OIL CONDITIONS
Inter-tale Commerce Hoard Suggest?
That T. S. Complete Inquiry.
Washington. Dec. HY In a long re?
port to the Senate to-day the Inter?
state Commerce Commission trans?
mitted, without conclusions, the results
of its investiga'ions into conditions in
the oil field! of New York, Pennsyl?
vania, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Ohio
and elsewhere.
The Senate aiked the commission to
|Ugate whether there was price kl?
ing, the relations between the pipe line
companies, and whether th>- pipe line
companies had ceased to carry inde?
pendent oil. The commission trans?
mitted a ?ong statistical report, and
-ted that the Senate have the
.1 Trad ? Commission investigate
further.
The report includes statement? from
tho management of several pipe line
companies explaining that they cur?
tailed running crude oil from produc?
ers' wells m I9H because of business
conditions erisiag a? a consequence of
the Eurepeafl war.
SEEK TO AID SANTA CLAUS
( hildrcn's Aid Society Would Help
?.OOU Tot?.
In order to play Santa Claus to ti.OOil
poor children, some of them ho:
the Children's Aid Society, lo.
Twenty second Street, yeatei a-,
hi appeal for clothing, toy? and nioney.
! .i-.vi'i 0. Merrill, the treaiu.i. B|
Charles I.oni -, Brace, the secretary,
will he ':1a.1 t., receive any contribu?
tion to aid in making happy for a day
the ki.idit? to 4 m the winter means
.1 poverty.
During !.. * mu 1 t"M.'- were found
tor ? -a and orphan children
by the society, and 1,011 Wars | I
. ?
t.. their i Nipi
.
?arm tcheei for train
Iterad
?
WAR FILM BENEFIT
FOR RELIEF FUND
Special Presentation of "Firth
ing in France" Arranged
for Wednesday.
For the benefit of the Britiik?Aa_
?can War Relief Fund a tpeei?! 9t*t
entation of the war picturet "Fit?'
ing in France" will take pltc. -,t ai
Forty-fourth Street Theatre Weds*,
day afternoon and evening. \ U
just received from LngUnd gkoeU.
the British Red Cross at work on _,
liring line In France, will be ??hibit?<j
for the first time in this country.
The National Allied Relief C??_ait.
tee. Lee, Higginson _ Co, uepotiU/.?.
200 Fifth Avenue, acknoaa led^ed e?n
tributions of $1,747.50 during tg?
week, including lau? from Mr.? N?u?
?Y, vard and $100 each from Dea;
>_,,.?. W. C. Abbot, Mrs. Natcltt K.??k.
Mi-, Florence Sullivan, Charltj? *'
Maud and George \? aleaaaaer.
Contributions amounting to $647?aj
were received during the week by au.
guat Ueinu it, treasurer of the iJb?!
mittee of M rey, 200 Fifth Atrasas, la?
eluding $100 each from Mrs. lierig-.
I. B-tterUs and Mi- Georg? ?Vvbui'
the total reported to dale, induiin?
funds raised in cooperation with a..
I It
The Armenian Fund, raised b> t-..
Armenian Committee ??J'ipertUo
?_ ith the Commit!? i . no* is.
tai? $i5:i.oi:.ti; g ?.,?-',
rer, 70 Fifth Avenue, tcknt?!
the following . oi 'ubutiaa? <?'
??Kill or mor. dui ? ???.???; Tl>
|;, i i, 1 Pual man Arm? i
mittee, $1??,0 i ..nim.t???
?? S
Church, ? 120; Bur.
Church. $4.V1 2$; i'turf!)
?ta of San
Harl
Good Milk Is All Food
and No Waste
?T is the only complete fc>od nature has n-o-le
and dollar for dollar it will produce more
energy and sound tissue than anything you
can buy. The only serious question ever
raised about good milk was its safety. We*ve
*v?rttled that for all time. The result is
PASTEURIZED
Vine M?h (lean Milk Safe Milk.
(ALL ANY HORDES WAGON,
?Those who are fond of coffee and find that
coffee disagrees and who cannot find enjoy?
ment In drinking coffee substitutes, should try
Kaffee HAG?real whole bean coffee, with the
true coffee flavor, but without the disturbing
I element, the drug caffeine.
; ? 15% of the caffeine removed from the bean fl
i| Real Bean Coffee Not a Substitute M
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