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So Says the
Store Reporter:
For 18 years I have been writing
about FURNITURE.
I have deacribed and presented
THIRTY-SIX of these WORLD-FAMOUS
FURNITURE Sales in the
Wanamaker Store, where they
ORIGINATED.
I have helped to sell,
through ADVERTISING, more than
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION dollars of furniture.
I HAVE SEEN furniture
ALL SHINY YELLOW GOLDEN OAK,
And it was shiny and golden because
the people WANTED IT SO.
I HAVE SEEN the color and the wood
change to WINE-RED MAHOGANY,
but still shiny.
I HAVE SEEN the shirie disappear
in the SOFT-RUBBED polishes
of DULL REDS and BROWNS
I HAVE SEEN the designs of
furniture changa? with each
PERIOD OF DECORATION that followed
the WHIMS?OR LAWS?of the decorative art,
Colonial, William and Mary, Queen Anne,
Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Jacobean,
Sheraton, Adam, Elizabethan, Georgian,
Dutch Marquetry, Louis XIV, XV, XVI,
Empire, Mission and the various
HYBRIDS that rear their heads ever and again
only to have them chopped off by the
HAND OF GOOD TASTE.
I HAVE SEEN furniture grow massive
and grow small.
I have seen IT BULGE to the walls
and RISE TO THE CEILING;
seen IT SHRINK into the slenderest lines
until it scarcely could stand on its tiny legs.
I HAVE SEEN ?the greatest collection
of the finest American furniture
that's made?in the
NATIONAL FURNITURE EXPOSITION
at Grand Rapids.
That I might teh the story of
TUE 1917 AUGUST FURNITURE SALE
with more helpfulness and satisfaction
lo the Wanamaker patrons I went to
this HEART of the FURNITURE MARKET,
which is Grand Rapids, to see
?he greatest Exposition of furniture
IN ALL THE WORLD
BUT?
I have NEVER seen
furniture so CLASSIC,
furniture so BEAUTIFUL,
furniture so SYMMETRICAL,
furniture so ADAPTABLE,
furniture so USABLE and LIVABLE,
furniture so STRONGLY MADE,
furniture so WELL FINISHED,
furniture so TRUE to itself,
to its designers, and
to the people who will LIVE WITH IT,
as the FURNITURE now offered
in the Wanamaker August Sale.
More than a million dollars of
furniture is being shown
Offered at discounts of
10 to 50 per cent.
TODAY and TOMORROW
are the last
DAYS OF COURTESY
on which advance selections
may be made, transactions and
deliveries to date from the
opening of the Sale, August 1.
JOHN WANAMAKER
New York
Michaelis Charges
France With Plot
For Big Conquest
Continued from pa?e I
?i'rtakc any revision of the French war
aim? and announced the fact that Italy
also had received guarantees of great
territorial aggrandizement.
"In order to divest their ambition?
on the left bank of the Rhine of a
character of gned and conquest, he
resorted to the lawyer'? trick by neces
sity of creating ? buffer state, but the
opposition speaker? cried out in the
din of contradictions, *It is disgrace?
ful!'
"I would like also ?<-, mention that
Premier Ribot, after a pacifist --peech
by Deputy Augagneur, replied tha* the
Tin?=.--ian general? had declared that the
Russian armies never wer? in bettor
condition or better equipped than then.
Here appears in perfect clearness the
?1er.re to let the Russian peonle go on
shedding their blood in behalf of the
unjust ambitions of France.
Charger? Sacrifice of Russians
'This deeire has been fulfilled, but
-.' H Premier Ribot anticipated, for
W? can hart?is presume he hail such an
?.te lack of humanity a.? that,
'hough fOrOSOting the failure of the
Russian offensive, h? yet insisted upon
it, thinking it would give another
hour's respite pending the entry of
Am? rica into the war.
"The enemy press endeavors to force
upon my inaugural speech the inter
I rotation that 1 only consented to the
majority resolution wiih an ill con?
cealed reservation of Germany's de
ri - for conquest. I am obliged to
deny the imputation as to an object
of which there can be no doubt. Be?
sides, the resolution implies which is
qu.te clear that the enemy must also
renounce any ideas of conquest."
Dr. Michaelis added that it we? man?
ifest Germany's enemies were not in
the least considering such denunciation
and that the French meeting held in
secret w.-.s fresh proof that her en?
emies were responsible fot the pro?
longation of the war and were "actu?
al? ?1 by lust of conquesi.
"The conspicuousness of the justice
0? our defensive war," the Chancellor
concluded, "will ?teel our strength and
determination in the future."
Militarism Mortally
Wounded by War,
Painleve Declares
Paris. July 29. Militarism, the great
enemy of progress, actually has been
mortally wounded by war itself. This
summarises the progress of the last
three years, according to Paul Pain
lev?, the Minister of War. in reviewing
the war to date. Minuter Painlev?'l
summary follow?:
"Three year? of war! Imagination at
first conjures up mourning and demon?
stration. However, we ?lare to say that
humanity ha? progressed during these
three years. The great enemy of all
progress, militarism, actuaiiy has been
wounded mortally by war itself. The
ideal of the nations of peace expresses
itself very precisely against the brutal?
ity of nations of conquest and gains
little by little throughout the entire
world. "Despite the vicissitude.*., this
ideal will triumph.
?"While the curve of (jerman force
has sunk, the curve of the strength of
the Allies has risen year by year, and
the sntraaee of the United .*?tate? into
the war has given it a sudden and for?
midable ?mpetu?. Germany's fate is
determined. ,
"Henceforth France, particularly, car.
?how with elation *ts batane? of the
li\Kt three years. Bleeding, still in?
vaded, she is not only greater and more
glorioup, but she is stronger militarily
and politically than on August 2, 1914.
If Germany, stripped of it.? hegemony,
ruinerl in its commerce and reduced to
an alliance with several group? of ad?
venturers, to-day compares itself to
France, it will show what three years
of war have cost it."
"On the third anniversary of its
entry into the war," aaid Joseph
Thierry, Minister of Finance, "France
has the right to assert that it has main?
tained, and is maintaining, its financial
situation in a shape that no one would
in ???vanee have considered possible had
one been able to foresee the duration
and development of tho conflict. In ad?
dition to maintaining a military effort
without precedent in history and with?
out analogy in present times; in addi?
tion to the mobilization of ita active
population in larger proportion than
any oth-r people; in addition to having
submitted and submitting Still to the
invasion of parts of its territory, it has
raised its fiscal receipts to a point
which at present constantly exceed its
peace time product.
"The regular and easy flow of taxes
bears to the elasticity o"t the contribu?
tive faculties of the country and its
aptitude for supporting new taxes,
which, in its patriotism and its Arm
resolntiofl to conclude real trials with
honor, it doe? not he.-itate to accept in*
dependent)* of subscription? to two big
long-term loans, the success of which
it ha> assured.
"French economy is daily furnishing
the Treasury, in the form of short
term bonds, h continued and growing
contribution of resources, which per?
mits reduction from month to month
?f that portion of advances require?! by
tin banks of emission. The very diffi?
cult and very considerable efforts which
h;:ve been imposed on France have been
the regulation of unormous purchase?
v.h'.ch the Situation of the bclli-jeren?
f.nd the invaded country has obliged it
to make abroad. There Hgari it has
met with reward. Its trad'tional habit
"? saving its reserves In gold ?ml its
foreign holdings, which have he?!',
placed liberally at the disposition of
the state, have served in a large mean
ure to compensate for the ruptui?' of
the equilibrium of commercial balance. !
"But throughout France has bone-'
?rom stable credit, which sh? had
acquired from the world from sym
rathie? which sin-,? the beginning ?,f
hostilities have recognized the justice
ef her cause. From this community of
sentiments and irtercFts. which has
reunited to a closer solidarity th?
Western nation?, the union of the
1 nitOd BtatOS ?rith the Kntente Allie?
h-r constituted the same order of
things financially as in a military, po
li'ical un?! moral wey.
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Future of U. S. at Stake,
Says Secretary Lansing
We Are Fighting Our Own Battle and ?No Other's, He Tells
Students at Madison, to Give World Safety by
Makine Prussian Despotism Impotent
.Madison Barrack?, N. V., July ?9.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, r
minded 1,500 student officers to-day <
the war aims of the United States an
told them that the nation would owe
greater debt to the soldiers w.
foug-ht in this war than to those ?ri
fought in the Revolution, because "
calls for more patriotism, more sel
denial and a truer vision to wage vi
on distant shores than to repel a
invader or defend on/'-; home."
They would be tf(fhting- for worl
peace, he said, for whm the fight f?
democracy was won "there would h
no wars of aggression, and, if the*
were no wars of aggression, t lier
would be r . wars."
They would bn fighting against n
autocratic power ambitious to rule th
world, whose ambitions were betray?
by its disregard for treaties a-jd Inttl
national law, They would be figh'in
to free their homes and the horn? o
every person in the land from th
menace of invasion, of lost liberty.
No! urtil united aiemocra?-;fs ha
overthrown the military clique th?i
ru;ed Germany would the Germp.n po?
pie come to i's BSttOS, Mr. Lan s in
declared.
I.'. S. Will Be Prepared for P.ace
He said, in part:
"Were all the people on earth abl
to expresa their will there would be n
wars of aggression, and if there wer
no wars of aggression then- would b
no wars, and lasting peace would com
to this earth. The only way that i
people can express its will is througl
democratic institutions. Therefor?*
when the world is made safe for de
rnoeracy when ?hat great principl
pifvail: universal peace will be ai
accomplished fact.
"No nation of prop!?, will bi* fi
more than the 1'nited States for tha
time when it come-.. But it has not ye
come. A great people, ruled in though
.-?tul word, as well as |g deed, by t'ni
most sinister government of moderi
tinv?, is ?training every nerve to sup
plant democracy by the autocrac;
which they lia\e hem taught to wor
ship. When trill the German peopla
??wake to the truth? When will the?
rise in their might and cast off th<
yoke and become their own masters'
I fear that it will not be until th i
physical might of the united democ
racies of the wurld have destroyec
forever the evil ambitions of the mili
tary rulers of Germany and libertj
triumphs over its iron enemy.
Evil of German Rule Laid Hare
"The immealiate canse of our wai
with Germany the breaking of hei
promises as to indiscriminate -subma?
rine warfare has a far deeper mean
ing a meaning which has been grow
ing more evident as the war ha?
nrorressed, and which needed but thi?
act of perfidy to bring it home to all
thinking Americans. The evil charac?
ter of the German government is laid
bare before the world. We know now
tha? that government is inspired with
ambitions which menace human lib?
erty, and that to gain its end it doe?
not hesitate to break faith, to vi?late
the most sacreal rights or to perpe?
trate intolerable acts of inhumanity.
"It needed but the words reported
to have been uttered by the German
Chancellor to complete the picture of
the character of his government when
he announced that the only reason why
the intensified submarine campaign
was delayed until February last was
thirl ?nflelCBl submarines could not be
built before that time to make the at?
tacks on commerce efficient.
"Du you realize that this means, it
it means anything, that the promises
to refrain from brutal submarine war?
fare which Germany made to the Unit?
ed States were never intended to be
ktpt; that th?y were only made in
order to gain time in which to build
more submarines, and that, when the
time came to act, the German promises
were unhesitatingly torn^ to pieces,
like other 'scraps of paper'?
No Doubt of German Rulers' Evil
"It is this disclosure of the character
of the imperial German government
which is the underlying cause of our
entry into the war. We had doubted,
or at least many Americans had doubt
ed, the evil purposes of the rulers of
Germany. Doubt remained no longer.
In the light of events we could read tha
past and see that for a quarter of a
century the absorbing ambition of th?
military oligarchy which was the mas?
ter of the German Empire was for
world dominion.
"The future of the 1'nited States is
at stake. If any of you have the idea
that we are fighting others' battles and
not our own, th" sooner' h" gets away
from that idea the better it will be for
him. the better it will be for all of us.
"Imagine German victory in Europe
berau-e the 1'nited States remained
neutral. Who. then, think you, wouM
be the next victim of those who are
seeking to be maatera of the whole
earth? Would not this country, with
Its enormous wealth, arouse the cupid?
ity of an impoverished though triumph?
ant Germany? Would not this democ?
racy be the only obstacle between the
autocratic rulers of Germany and their
supreme ambition ? Po you think that
they would withhold their hand from
fu i ich a prize *
Wise In Join With Mlies
"Let me a?k you. then, would it hi
easier or wiser for this country, single
handed, to resist a (Somas Empire
flushed with victory and with great
armies ami navies at its command, than
to unite with the brave enemies, of that
empire in ending now anal fair all time
this menace to our future?
"Primarily, then, every man who
crosses the ocean to fight on foreign
sol against the armie?, of the German
Emperor goes forth to tight for his own
country and for the preservation of
those things for which our forefathers
were willing to die. To those who thus
offer themselves w owe the same alob?
that ve ai?, to those men who in the
past foort.' on American Sail |a ?hP
SOMS of liberty no, not the -ame ,].y,t,
but a greater one. It calls for more
patriotigm, more ?elf-denial and
truer vision to wage war on di?tar
?hore? than to repel an invader or de
fend one's home."
Briefly Mr. I^nting recounted th
broken treaties, butchered hostages, d?
molished communities, which blare
the trail of Germany's path towar
world supremacy a? an answer to an
one who might doubt the probability o
a German invasion of the I'nite.
States. Before the war, he pointed ou4
such atrocitie? were regarded as im
possible, "and yet," he exclaimed, "Go.
help us, these things have come to pas
and Iron Crosses have been awarded t.
the perpetrators."
Intrigues in Many Lands
"But there is more, far more," h.
continued, "which might be added ti
this record of unbelievable thingi
which the German government ha1
done. It only is necessary to mentiot
the attempt of the Foreign Office a
Berlin to bribe Mexico to mnke wai
upon us by promising her Americar
territory. It was only one o" many in
trigues which the German governmen
was carrying on in many lands. Spiei
and conspirators wore sent throughoul
the world.
"Civil discord was encouraged t<
weaken the potential Strength of na.
tions which might be obstacles to the
lutt of Germany's rulers for world
mastery. Those of German bloo?l who
owed allegiance to other countries were
appealed to to support the Fatherland
which beloved name masked the mili?
tary clique at Berlin.
"My friends, I am firmly convinced
that the independence of no nation is
i-afe. that the liberty of no individual
i? sure, until the military despotism
which holds the German people in the
hollow of its hand has been made im?
potent an?) harmless forever. Appeals
to justice, to moral obligation, to honor,
no longer avail with such a power.
There is but one way to restore peace to
the world, and that is by overcoming
the physical might of German impe
rialism by force of arm?.
"If enthusiasm and ardor can make
success sure, then we Americans have
no cau?e for anxiety, no reason to
ilouh*. the outcome of the conflict. Bui
enthusiasm and ardor are not all; they
must be founded upon a profound con?
viction of the righteousness of your
taaaa and M an implicit faith that the
god of battles .?.ill -trengthen the arm
of him who fights for the right."
Charles G. Dawes
For Shipping Board
Chicago Financier Mentioned
as Successor to Theo?
dore Brent
Washington, July '_'9. Charlo? ?'?
Dawes, of Chicago, was mentioned here
to-night as a possible successor to Theo?
dore Brent on the Shipping Board. Mr.
Brent, a strong supporter of Mr Den
man, resigned when the latter was
forced out by President Wilson.
Mr. Dawes is a financier, und was
Controller of the Treasury in the Mc?
Kinley Administration. He is president
of the Central Trust I'ompany of Il?
linois.
It i? considered re?"onabIy certain
the President will name a Republican
for the place.
Carson Confident
Russia Will Again
Strike for Allies
_
Says Revolution It Better
Than Treachery Hatched
by Czar
-
Praise for America
British Minister Asserts Entry
of U. S. Makes Clear Issue
of Democracy
London, July 2?*?.?-Confidence that
Rus'ia once more will he brought into
effective cooperation with the Entente
Allie?, and that America will in good
time give "material aid of overwhelm?
ing power, which will make an end of
all doubts a? to the completeness of
victory by the Allies," was expressed
to-day by Sir Edward H. Carson, min?
ister without portfolio, in a statement
to The Associated Press in behslf of
the British War Cabinet, of which he
is a member. Sir Edward al?o voiced
the determination of Great Britain "to
see this thing through until we have
attained the aim? we proclaimed at the
beginning." His statement follow?:,
""During the third year of the war,
which is just ending, two event? of
outstanding importance occurred which
must have deciaive Influence on the
last phase of the war and on the pesce
that is to follow. These are the revo?
lution in Russia and the entrance of
the United State? into the war in alli?
ance with the Entente power?.
"The immediate effect of the Rus?
sian revolution, from a military point
of view, gives eauae for great anxiety
and has up to the present proved di?- J
astrous. But it must be borne in mind ?
that the government of the late Rus?
sian Emperor was hatching no?itive
treachery to the alliance and would I
have caused much greater di?a?ter to
US by concluding separate peace with
Germany.
Revolution Welcomed
"The revolution, even from a mili?
tary point of view, ha? been far better
than ?fie regime which it displaced.
And from a political and social point
of view we in England welcome it
without reserve. We are confident that
the inevitable disturbance which ae- .
companies every revolution when the '
? eat of existing authority is over?
turned will settle into constitutional
order based on free democratic insti?
tutions, and that as soon as this is
brought about the ingrained patriot?
ism of the Russian people, combined
with their splendid military qualities,
proved on a thousand battlefields, once
more will bring that great country j
into line in effective cooperation with
her allies in striking at the common
? f nemy cf all.
?'The R issian revolution, moreover.
I as drawn a clear cut line between the
I contending nation*?, ranging them as
the de ender? of democracy on one
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side end as its assailant;, on the other.
This a?pect of the struggle, of course,
ha? been most strongly emphasised by
the action of America in joining the
alliance against the Central empire
and Turkey.
"The momentous decision of the
United States that no alternative re?
mained to her but to take up arm?
against Germany is one of fin* great?
est event? in the history of the warld
Previous t.) taking it she had proved
by a long course of patient Statesman?
ship how deeply Mated was her abhor*
rence of wai and her idealism in the
conduct ol international affairs. Noth?
ing but persistent and openly avowed
adoption by Germany of a policy of pub?
lic crime and flagrant violation of neu?
tral rieht? wr *d have driven America
into tne war.
Confident of American Aid
"The utterance? of President Wilsnn
have nobly vindicated the moral basis
cf the allian-e agnlttSt Germany, and
WO have full confidence that Amer?
ica's moral support will in 'good time
be backed by material aid of over?
whelming power, which will make an
| end of all doubts as to the complete?
; ness of the victory attainable by the
Allies.
"We feel sure that the American
people realiie as clearly as we do our?
selves that no peace can be lasting
which is not the fruit of a complete
and unquestionable military victory.
The new German Chancellor has shown
that ne'ther the German government
ror the Ger m in people is yet prepared
for any such peace. They still hope to
make civilization and democracy sur?
render to the black flag.
"It would be foolish to deny that
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"We enter on the four'h year in t
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saf? for democracy.'"
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