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Sims Quoted
By Daniels
In ?Defense"
CtBtinn?! fre>m page I
1ft,
?Ml to bis ship at daylight with ?
-Irtge party was an offense more seri?
as than ? error of Judgment,* and
?Iftdnint Gleaves stated officiaI1y that
-?f cannot recommend him for the award,
citherforamodaloracross."
?Because of his previous service in
?he transportation of troops. Captain
Hubrwek was selected by my direc?
te? for a Naval Cross, as was awarded
'o aemaanding officers of other trans?
ports- Captain Hasbrouck writes he
ja? not desire to accept this medal.
-Instructions have been given for the
??giltst investigation, with the view of
farther awards to other officers and
sen on these and any other ships who
rendered meritorious service by reason
of sttack of enemy ships. Late and in?
complete reports have necessarily de?
layed foil justice to all who deserved
recopition.
uWe cannot give too much honor to
:he commanding officers of surface J
ibips which were able to sink or de?
stroy a submarine. It is clear that
trues a ship is sunk the commanding
officer should be^ewarded if he meets
tktt'supreme crisis with poise, fear?
lessness, with thought of his men
ibove himself, with the utilization of
I those attributes that show a man
hero. To deny this principle is to
deny one of the bases of the moral
?aw."
Incorporated in the letter were the j
words of all of the officers who lost |
their vessels, including Commander D.
W. Bsgley, brother of Mrs. Danieis.
sad. Commander Percy W. Foote, the
Secretary's personal aid. about whom
Effl?h of the controversy has centered.
In Commander Bagley's case Mr. j
Daniels quoted from a letter by Rear ,
Admiral Sims in connection with his j
approval of the findings of the court ?
o? inquiry convened to investigate the ;
Iks of Bagley's ship.
"Bagley's handling of the situation !
liter his ship was torpedoed was ;
?T?rything that I expected in the way '
of efficiency, good judgment, courage ;
tad chivalrous action," Admiral Sims !
wrote.
The findings of the court of inquiry
sere that "the commanding officer,
officers and n'en of the United States !
Steamship Jacob Jones bore themselves
in accordance with the best traditions j
o? the tervke."
Seer?tey Daniels said Rear Admiral
Sims recommended Commander Baglev
for? Navy Cross, the Kaight Board on
Naval Awards approved the award, and ?
the Secretary changed it in common
viih the awards of all other command
its; officers of torpedoed ships, except '
Captain Hasbrouck, to a Distinguished
Service Medal.
Reviewing the case of Commander
Foote, whose ship, the President Lin?
coln, was struck by three torpedoes ;
simultaneously and sunk in thirty min-'
ates, the Secretary quoted Admiral;
Sirns's report a3 follows:
"The small loss of life is due to thor?
ough discipline of the ship's company,
sad excellent seamanship of Com- :
mander Foote.''
Admiral Gleaves's report on the case,
tfee letter said, contained the state?
ment that fcthe small loss of life was
dne to the splendid discipline of the
ship's company under the gallant lead
?rship ?* Commander P. W. Foote."
Admiral Gleaves recommended Com?
mander Foote for a Distinguished Serv?
it? Medal, the letter said, and the r??c
?iseridation was approved by Admiral
?jo, tommander-m-chief of the
united States fleet, and by the Knight
Ihay Denies Peace Offer
[General Contradict? Statements
1 Emperor Charles's Leiter
ROME, Jan. 4.?Italy did not send
?gent? to Berne in April or May, 1917,
to propose peace to the Austrian Min- ;
?Jter to Switzerland, declares General j
^?ora, Commander in Chief of the I
?*taB armies at that time. The gen-j
j**ia statement is made in the course j
? an emphatic d?niai of assertions j
?atame^ ? a published letter from
?nner Emperor Charles of Austria to !
*? eoasin, Prinee Sixtus of Bourbon.
jjM, according to the letter, was
anng to make peace and receive only
?*, I!*rt ?* the Trentino inhabited
?y Italians.
*?? ?
Hiding Campaign Begins
* H. Fairbanks Opens Head
S9****? for Senator in Chicago
.CHICAGO, Jan. 4.?N. H. Fairbanks,
j^raan of the Ohio Republican State
i*?*' Committee, opened temporary
r^frtew here to-day for the cam
j*??*f Senator Warren G. Harding, of
?wo, tor the Presidential nomination
*r*??wsced that no effort would be
~** ? obtain delegates in any state
.?* Ms a candidato for the Presi
?Democrats Will
Plan Campaign
?Aims Thursday
jTime and Place for Con
. vention To Be Fixed
I and Candidates and Poli?
cies Will Be Discussed
; Conferences All Week
Bryan's Probable Course
and President's Stand
Are Main. Topics No^
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.?The na?
tional capital is to be the rallying
ground during the coming week fot
national leaders of the Democratic
party, who will choose the time anc
place for the 1920 national convention
talk over candidates and policies anc
renew acquaintances at a Jackson Da>
love feast which many of them believ?
will make party history of one kint
or another.
Although only one day, Thursday
is set aside for the formal business
of the week, leaders of various magni
tude already were arriving to-nigh
prepared for a week of conference!
and gossiping over the outlook for th<
Presidential campaign.
Choice of the convention city an<
time is to be the only business di
rectly taken up by the national com
mittee at its meeting Thursday, bu
an effort probably will be made t<
have it recommend that the conven
tion nominate a President and Vice
President by majority vote in plac
of the two-thirds required in pas
years.
Wilson May State Course
At th|> banquet that night severa
aspirants for the Presidential nomina
tion are to outline their policies. Tw
former nominees, William Jenning
Bryan and Alton B. Parker, also ar
to be present, and President Wilso
is expected to send a message, i
which many leaders believe he wil
state his position toward a third tern
Six cities are in the race for th
convention, and talk among those men:
bers of the committee who had arrive
to-night indicated that there would b
no walkaway. The six are Chicag?
already selected as the convention cit
of the Republicans; Kansas City, Sa
Francisco, Indianapolis, Cincinnati an
Cleveland. Discussion generally cei
ters on late June or early July as tl
time of meeting.
Talk of changing the time-honore
Democratic custom of requiring a tw<
thirds vote to nominate started son
weeks ago at a meeting of the nation;
committee in Atlantic City, and tl
movement has been actively promote
in many quarters. Should the con
mittee make such a recommendatic
it generally is conceded that the co?
vention wouid adopt it. Only a m
jority is required to nominate by R
publican conventions, and those a
v..citing the change believe that mu<
unnecessary convention work ai
worry could be eliminated if the Der
ocrats made a like provision.
Speakers Not Announced
The names of speakers for the Thur
day night banquet had not been ma<
public to-night, but it was understo*
that several of those mentioned f
the Presidency would deliver address?
Mr. Bryan, returning to tho party coo
ciis for the first time in many montl
is expected to be on the speakers' lii
which will include about a dozen narai
Two subjects earnestly discuss
among th? gathering leaders to-rtig
wore the part Mr. Bryan would pi
in The campaign and the attitude
President Wilson toward the Pre;
dential nomination.
After his long period of quiet, ^
Bryan apparently has made exter.si
plans to ?jet into the political sw
again, but whether he will be a cum
date for the nomination or will atterr
:o become the controlling factor in t
convention has not b-.'f-n clearly de
onstrated. His activities during t
weeK. therefore, are awaited in ma
quarters with considerable curiosity
Speculation about the course of Pp
I ident Wilson has raised the questic
whether he intends to seek renomii
tion and whether, if iie steps aside,
will actively support some one of t
aspirants. Xo authoritative reply
these queries has come from the Wh
House, nor has it been indicated d*
nitely whether he would touch on th<
subjects in his Jackson Day mess?
as many leaders expected him to do
"Bryan Dynamite Bag"
Ticketed to Washingti
New York Tribut
Washington Burea
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4?"The Br;
Dynamite Bag goes to Washingtc
Frank H. Warder, secretary of
Bryan League, declared in a telegi
to The Tribune correspondent to
following the announcement of
Democratic National Committee t
there would be an ^overflow" din
in addition to the affair under the m
tent, and that 1,400 of the fait!
would be accommodated at the
dining halls.
Mr. Warder's telegram, addressed
Carter Field, read:
"Far be it from the Bryan Lea
to interfere in the obsequies of
Tumulty, Arthur Mullin, Regan pa
Let them hoid the 'last supper' or
of them. The Bryan Dynamite
goes to Washington in charge of Ja
Stack, proprietor of Hotel Imneria
"FRANK H. WARDER
This is taken to indicate that al
not harmony with regard to the i
r.?r, despite the change in arrai
ments which insures that the Br
men will be given some scats an
chance to make some noise. It is
thought now that there will be
separate Bryan dinner, as had 1
announced by Mr. Warder.
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Republicans of Central
West to Plan Campaign
Women to Take Prominent Part
in Conference Opening
yn Chicago
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.?Republicans of
to-day for the opening to-morrow of a
two days' conference. National com
mitteemen, state chairmen and nearly
1,000 men and women delegates are ex?
pected to attend to discuss organiza?
tion work and campaigning methods
and to hear WilL-H. Hays, national
chairman; Mrs. John Glover Smith
chairman of the women's division of
the party's national committee; Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, of New York, chair?
man of the women's national executive
committee; Mrs. Medill McCormick,
former chairman of the women's di?
vision; Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of
Kansas, and others.
The Chicago conference is the first of
a series of three arranged by Chair?
man Hays for January. The second
will take place in Denver January 8
and 9, and the third in San Francisco
January 12 and 13.
Women are to take a prominent part
in these gatherings, the party leaders
planning their campaign on the suppo?
sition that the national suffrage amend- ;
ment will be ratified in time to give
votes to all women of the nation at
the November election. The confer
enees here will be open forums, with
Miss Hay presiding.
-.
Owners Violate
'Peace' Agreement,
Is Miners' Charge
??i- i
Union Asks Palmer to Slop ?
s Alleged Infractions and;
Declares Wage Increases
Have" Not Been Granted
COLUMBUS, Jan. 4.?Attorney Gen?
eral Palmer has been asked by the
United Mine Workers of America,
which meets in convention here to?
morrow, to put a stop to alleged vio?
lations by operators in six states of
the terms of the agreement which was
made with the government and which
brought to an end the recent strike of
soft coal miners.
This announcement was made here
to-night by William Green, secretary of
the miners. He said that the viola?
tions were most numerous in Alabama,
West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, !
Tennessee, Colorado and some parts of j
Illinois.
Green said the agreement made'with i
the government provided that the min- I
ers resume work under the same con- j
ditions as existed nripr to the strike, i
and at a wage increase of 14 per cent, j
In the states enumerated, Green said, ?
many of the operators had told miners
that they could not return to work un- \
less they resigned from the union. He '
saL! the miners were told that if they ;
left the union they would be given
work at the 14 per cent increase.
The United Mine Workers' conven- ,
tion, which convenes to-morrow, is ex?
pected to hear reports from its officers ;
regarding the government agreement
and the settlement of tho strike. It !
also is expected to instruct Jis scale
committee, which will meet in Wash?
ington next week with thi commission
appointed by President Wilson to make
a final settlement of the wage dispute j
between the miners and operators.
John P. White, miners' representa?
tive on the Presidential commission,
arrived here unexpectedly to-ni^ht to
attend tho convention. He explained i
that he had come merely al" a spectator. \
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4.?Declaring
that there is much dissatisfaction with
the constitution of the commission ap?
pointed by President Wilson to settle
the controversy between coal operators
and miners, representatives of five
groups of public utilities of Indiana,
in a petition sent to the President to
day, Suggested enlargement of the
commission in the interest of the pub?
lic.
The document declares that the utili- ,
ties men, who said they represented
more than 3,000,000 persons, did not :
wish to presume or intrude their opin- ?
ion, but that the magnitude and far
reaching possibilities ?of the coal prob?
lem are such that ''no decision should
be made by a body two-thirds of which
are made up of the chief contestants, '
whose interests are likely to be di?
vergent from those of the public at
lartre."
The petition deals largely with a pro?
posed increase in price of 25 cents a
ton, declared by the operators to be
necessary to meet the 14 per cent in?
crease in miners' wages.
Third Great Pyramid
Discovered in Mexico
History of Relic Found at Teoti
huaoart Is Puzzle to
Archaeologists
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4.?Discovery at ?
Teotihuaoan of a third pyramid greater .
than those to Sun and Moon, which :
have long puzzled archaeologists, and j
rivaling those of Egypt, is announced j
here. Experts who have been investi- ,
gating ruins of forgotten civilizations |
near this city believe that in the new j
pyramid may be found relics which ;
will be invaluable in the study of the
age of the Toltecs.
.. ?. ?
Home Calls to Hungarians
Land Grants To Be Offered to!
Induce Return ?
BUDAPEST, Jan. 4.?The govern- '
ment is supporting a movement, which
had its origin here, to induce Hungar- ,
ians in America to return to the
Fatherland, bringing their movable
valuables with them. Special induce- i
ments in land grants and other privi- !
leges are to be offered, it is stated.
MASSIVE
ENGLISH
FURNITURE
JOS?T7fT>!
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'Reds'jto Ask
Freedom on
Habeas Writs
Continued from pagre 1
? Freedom," of which Peter Bianky, now
! on his way to Russia on the transport
Buford, was editor.
The Rev. Dr. Gustav A. Carstensen,
: rector of Holy Rood Protestant Epis
i copal Church, Washington Avenue and
? 179th Street, rebuked the Rev. Percy
i Stickney Grant in his sermon yesterday
' for likening the deported revolutionists
? to the Pilgrims. He had hoped in vain,
I he said, for some word of protest from
j Dr. Grant's superiors in the church,
! and declared he expressed the shame'
and indignation of the community "but
feebly" in saying that Dr. Grant had
"besmirched his cloth and bex'ouled his
pulpit."
The Social Democratic League of
America gave out a statement yester?
day saying that the real menace of
Lenine's program lay in its endeavor to
ccmbat progress. To hinder the de?
velopment of democracy, it was said,
? L?nine and his followers would and
had allied themselves with reaction
; aries.
Raids Trap 900
Detroit Radicals
Headquarters Again Vis
ited by V. S. Agents;
300 May Be Deported
DETROIT, Jan. 4?Two hundred and
eighty alleged radicals were taken into
custody this afternoon by Department
of Justice agents aided by local police
officers in a second raid on the "House
of Masses," known as headquarters of
radicals here. To-day's raid brings to
approximately 900 the number of al?
leged apostles of direct action rounded
up here in the last forty-eight hours.
Two meetings were in progress in
the hall when the Federal operatives
arrived. They met with no opposition,
and the 280 were taken quickly to the
Federal Building, where they joined
about 300 of those taken in Friday
night's raid, who were awaiting ex?
amination.
Interrogation of alleged radicals pro?
ceeded all day at the Federal Building
and comparatively few were released.
Arthur L. Barkey, chief of the investi?
gation bureau here of the Department
of Justice, said he believed when the
examinations were completed between
250 and 300 will be held for deporta?
tion.
Painter Asks Laws
To Curb Radicals
Americans Who Seek to
'Overthrow Government
Now Immune,.He Says
New Yarl: Tribune
Wa.ihtngt.on Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. -Attorney
Genera! A. Mitchell Fa'.mer issued a
statement to-night expressing the hopo
that Congress will speedily enact legis?
lation which will permit the Federal
government to deal quickly and
forcibly with American citizens who
preach overthrow of the government,
aa thousands uf those captured in the
latest radical raids have been accused
of doing. There is no existing Federal
statute under which American citizens
can be punished for seditious utter?
ances and hundreds of those taken
must be freed unless the state in
which they were taken has a law which
can reach th<vn. In his statement
Mr. Palmer said:
"In order that the Department of
Justice mf?y deal forcibly, effectively
and quickly with seditionists who are
American citizens, but. who are seek?
ing to injure or destroy the govern?
ment, 1 hope very earnestly that Con?
gress, immediately upon the recon?
vening January 5, will enact into law
a measure adequate to meet the grave
situation now confronting us.
Laws Inadequate ?
'"There exists no reason for lurcher
delay in the enactment of such a iaw.
and I confidently expect that there will
be none. That seditionists should be
punished is denied by no loyal citizen
and that our present laws are inade?
quate is questioned by none familiar
with the facts.
"Several months ago, in appearing
before a Senate committee, I made
clear that the Department of Justice
was unable to proceed properly against
seditionists because of a lack of statu?
tory definition of the crime, and I also
suggested the kind of a law which 1
thought would meet the situation.
"Since that time the bill 1 outlined
has been introduced in the House by
Representative Davey, of Ohio, and it
is now in the hands of a sub-committee
consisting of Representatives Hucsted,
of New York; Graham, of Peunsyl
vf.nia, and Gard, of Ohio. Epitomized,
the bill, after properly detining acts
of sedition, would provide for a line of
not more than $10,000 or ?mprtsomnW
of twenty years, or both, for any per?
son guilty of sedition; a line of not
mere than $10,000 or imprisonment of
not more than ten years, or both, for
any person guilty of promoting sedi?
tion; for the deportation of any aile ;
convicted of either of the foregoing
crimes, and for the dcnaturalization
and subsequent deportation of any
naturalized citizen guilty of either or
both of these crimes.
' "Jhe. country's^response to the in?
troduction of this measure leaves no
j'excuse for a single moment's unneces- !
j sary delay in the passage of it.
Indorsed by Presa
"The patriotic press of virtually ;
| every state, without regard to politics, I
i has indorsed the bill as the kind which >
; must be enacted into law if the suprem- '?
' acy of our government is to be main- ;
tained. Organizations of many classes,'
including posts of the American Le
I gion, have gone on record unqualifiedly
in favor of the measure. Individuals
i liave written hundreds of letters in?
dorsing the bill. In truth, it has been
i hailed generally by red-blooded Amer- '
! icans as a measure 'with teeth in it,' \
; an? that is the kind of measure the ?
j Department of Justice must have if it j
I is going to stamp out this grave men- j
; ace of sedition."
More Than 500 Held
As Radicals in Chicago
\224 of 300 Seised by Federal
Agents Facing Deportation;
88 Detained in Philadelphia
< CHICAGO, Jan. 4.?Of the more
than 300 radicals arrested by Depart
, ment of Justice agents in raids begun j
I on Friday night, 224 have been held
j for deportation proceedings, John T.
! Creighton, special assistent attorney
i general, announced to-night.
? State'3 Attorney Hovne, who con
j ducted raids on New Year's Day, said
: to-night that he was heiding more
than 300 radicals, with 500 warrants re?
maining to be served. Only citizens
will be prosecuted by the state, he
said, the aliens being turned over to
the Federal government.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.?Eighty
eight of the 115 men and womeltf caught
in the Government's dragnet Friday
night, when alleged radical centers
in Philadelphia were raided, were held
to-night for possible deportation. A
majority of the prisoners are in the
county prison, while the others are
scattered among a half dozen police
stations.
Chicago Federation
Of Labor Denounces
Raiding of Radicals
CHICAGO. Jan. 4.?The Chicago Fed?
eration of Labor to-day adopted two
resolutions of protest against the Fed?
eral raids against radicals on January
2. One declared the executive board
suspected that the raids were "a part
of the gigantic plot to destroy organ?
ized labor by the employers." The
other resolution declared the Federal
agents' acts were "repressions" re?
sembling; "Czaristic methods in Russia"
and "terrorists' tactics."
LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 4.--Mem?
bers of the Amalgamated Textile Work?
ers of America at a mass meeting to?
night protested against the Federal
raids upon alleged radicals and against
the policy of deporta?on. They based
their protests, on the "rounds that "an
injury to one is an injury to all,"
Strikes Basis
Of Revolution
In "Red" Plot
Continued from put?? 1
I according to the full text of the call
! issued by wireless in January, 1919,
! which was reproduced in the memo
j randum. These organizations were the
! Socialist Labor party of America, the
? "Left Elements of the Socialist party
j of America, especially that group which
j is represented by Debs, and the Social
j ist Propaganda. Association," the In
j dust rial Workers of the World, of
America, and the Workers' Interna
! tional Industrial Union of America.
This call was signed by Boris Rein
; stein, representative of the Socialist
I Labor party of America, who succeeded
in reaching Russia without a passport.
I His wife was arrested recently in Buf
| falo. ??
The extraordinary commissions and
organized terror under tho Bolshevik*
r?gime" are discussed in the memoran
j dum, and . supplemented by official
proclamations from the president of :
| the ail-Russian extraordinary commis
: sion. This message, signed by Pe- !
trovsky, September 2, 1919, contains
? the following:
"End should be put to weakness and j
j softness. All Right Socialist-Revolu- '
; tionaries known to local soviets should
i be arrested immediately. Numerous
j hostages should be taken from the
! bourgeois and officer classes. At the
! slightest attempt to resist or the
i slightest movement among the white
? guards, mass shooting should be ap
j plied at once. Initiative in this mat
I ter rests especially with the local
executive committees."
The world* program of the Bolshe
viki is amplified in the May Day
proclamation last year of the Com?
munist "International," in which ap?
peared the phrase:
"Long live civil war; the only just
war, in which the oppressed class fights
its oppressors."
The closing sentences of the procla?
mation were: "in 1919 was born the
great communist international. In
1920 wili be born the great inter?
national soviet republic."
Rain Falls on Yuma's First
Sunless Day in 45 Years
YUM?, Ariz., Jan. 4.?The sun failed
to shine on Yuma yesterday for the
first time in forty-five years, according
to persons who have lived here that
long. Rain fell throughout the day.
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Crystal for the whole year
at January sale prices
Table crystal at 1C%
to 40% reduction '
LIKE Christmas and New Year's and the Fourth of
' July, Ovington's sale of china and table crystal
comes but once a year. '
Table crystal has been reduced from 10 per cent to
40 per cent from previous prices. China; dinner sets only
excluded, is 20 per cent lower than it was.
These prices provide a purchasing opportunity that
we cannot foresee in the near or even distant future.
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312-314 Fifth Ave. Near 32nd St.
Berger to Run '
F?r # Governor
K Ousted Again
Will Carry Wisconsin in
Fall and Then Be Elect-!
ed to Senate, He Says,;
as Police Listen to Talkj
-
Predicted Arrest Fails!
Socialists at Manhattan
Lyceum Cheer Visitor; I
?Speech Called "Tame"!
, 'After receiving an ovation at the !
hands of 1,500 Socialists at Manhattan j
Lyceum, 68 East Fourth Street, yes- i
terday afternoon, Victor L. Berger, for ]
I the second time within a year Con?
gressman-elect from the 5th Wisconsin
; District, boasted that if he were un
; seated again by Congress he would
? carry Wisconsin next fall for Gover- I
?norx and would then be sent to the
i United States Senate.
"If I am unseated again," he said,
? "I'll run again?seven times, anyhow
I ?just as fast as my district will elect
i me. Last time I gqt a majority of
i 5,000. The next time it will be 10,000.
? I am going to carry the flag of so?
cialism into Congress or into jail."
The police of the 15th District dis?
appointed the meeting by failing to
arre3t Mr. Berger, as preceding speak
? ers declared had bean ordered. For
two hotfrs before Mr. Berger appeared
the audience was kept in a fever of ex?
citement as one speaker after another
expressed the fear that the rights of
free speech were about to be violated.
Among these were Assemblyman Louis
Waldeman, of the 8th District; Alger?
non Lee, of the Rand School; Alder
; man Abraham Beckerman, of the 6th
i District, and Oscar Ameringer, of
| "The Milwaukee Leader," Berger's
; campaign manager.
Speech Called Tame
Contrary to the announcement that
Berger was to be arrested the moment
: he appeared on the platform, nothing
? happened. The only police action vis
I ible was the occasional bobbing of
; a policeman's head from behind part
of the scenery. He complained that
! while the stage setting showed a sum?
mer scene, his feet were cold. The
. entire audience, well overcoated and
with many women wearing furs, chat?
tered a proletarian assent.
Captain James McAulev pf the
15th District was oft hand with a
dozen policemen. He denied that any
order had been issued to prevent Ber?
ger's speech.
'"If Mr. Berger had begun to abuse
the government," said Captain Mc
Auley, ''then I would have acted. But
lie made the tamest speech I've ever
heard him make."
Captain McAuley's guards ejected
two men from the rear of the hall in
the midst of a speech by Assembly?
man Waldeman. One of them con
? fessed that lie had come to have a
! little fun by "ragging" the speakers.
Trouble Is Averted
The nervous state of the Socialist
; audience, however, proved a tinder box
: for the intruder's shout that there were
' "a hundred million Americans ready
'? to right" Socialists sympathizing with
Berger's views. A half dozen workers
who paced the cenf;r aisle of the hall,
partly to keep warm and partly to main
! tain order, rushed to the rear to avert
: trouble. Cries of "Throw him out!"
' mingled with pleas to maintain order.
! When the chairman finally obtained
! order, he said:
"So far the meeting is orderly. If
j violence is provoked, we ask vou to re?
main seated. I am told a good portion
j of the Lusk committee is in this hall.
Don't run, rise or yell."
The audience was quieted by the
speaker's praise of the police, who, he
said, were only doing their duty and
not acting as individuals. Then Mr.
Berger, heralded by a cry for cheers,
entered the hall and strode to the
stase.
"I seem to be the most highly prized
person in the United States.** he said,
"out under $145,000 bail and arrested
and indicted five times in one year.
Why? Because I says before the
espionage act was passed exactly the
same things . President Wilson said
when it came time to make peace. Why
don't they give him twenty years also?
Opposed "Commercial War"
"I opposed the war, because I said
it was a commercial war. What did
we get out ??>? it? A Constitution on
the way to becoming a 'scrap of paper,'
the 4fl?,* prohibition, the high cost of
living and government by injunction.
Now I can't even get a letter through
the mails unless it is addressed to my
friends, my wife or to Victor L. Berger,
Congressman-elect."
Assemblyman Weldeman attacked
"Journalist" Palmer and "Exaggerator"
Lusk, and declared tvat American
troops at the present time were at the
gates of Russia on many fronts try?
ing to overthrow Russian government.
Algernon Lee declared be had been
counted out at the recent election.
Oscar Ameringer kept the audience
convulsed for an ' hour with his
pantomime description of the city gov?
ernment of Milwaukee. Alderman
Beckerman declared that if Bertter was
again unseated by Congress he would
be elected Governor of Wisconsin next
fall.
Mr. Berger spoke again last night at
the headquarters of the 4th Assembly
District Socialists, 1285 Boston Road.
the Bronx. He will be given a banquet
to-night at the Yorkville Casino, 210
East Eighty-sixth Street.
Meeker Sees
No Chance for
Drop in Prices
Continued from page 1
smaller number of commodities, prices
are bound to remain high. It will take
a long time to deflate the world's in?
flated currencies or to inflate the
world's deflated supply of goods. The
profiteer is being blamed on all hands
for the increase in prices. Undoubted?
ly, profiteering of a-most reprehensible
sort has existed and does exist to-day,
but the profiteer is a result of ever in
?reas? prices rather than a cauta
thereof: His influence in boosting
prices is negligible. If all the profiteers
in the World could be apprehended and
thrown into jail or lined up and shot,
it would have no appreciable influence
upon prices.
"I see no prospect of any consider?
able fall in prices for several years to
com*. It will bs impossible for the
governments of the world to pay 0fT
their debts very rapidly. On the con?
trary, there is every reason to appre?
hend that credits must be issued to
foreign government?, foreign manufac?
turers and foreign business men in or?
der to rehabilitate the broken and
shattered industries of Europe. This
being the case, we may expect that
larger volumes of checks and credit in?
struments will be thrown into circula?
tion, thus boosting prices still higher."
THE RESTORATIVE
In his new book, "The Army
Behind The Army", E. Alex?
ander Powell, the veteran war
correspondent, say6:
| " The man who sits down to
j a breakfast consisting of soggy
biscuits, poorly prepared
! coffee,and an omeletthat looks
! and tastes as though it were
1 made ofleather, can, when the
i noon hour comes around, step
| into CHILDS and restore his
? balance of digestion by a well
j cooked meal" *
A word to tha w?m to
?ufficieat.
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The Crack Has Come!
r
To You Who Have Patiently Waited
For "A Break In The Clothing Market"!
ANNUAL AND ONLY
CLEARANCE SALE
Clemons Ready-To-Wear Suits
TAILORED BY A TAILOR
'NOT JUST RETAILED BY A RETAILER
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$50 Suits
$60, Suits
$70 Suits
$80 Suits
now $39,50
now $46.50
now $54.50
now $62.50
Perhaps you've been like thousands of other
men who obstinately refused to buy a Win?
ter Suit up to now, because they honestly
believed that
The Sheep Raiser Wat A Robber
The Woolen Man Was A-Robber
The Clothier Man Was A Robber
The Tailor-At-The-Bench Was A Robber
You didn't stop to think why or how prices
must be so high. You merely knew that they
seemedextortionate and you'd rather be scalped
than pay them.
Right or Wrong in your belief, you didn't
wait in vain, for now and here you can buy
a Suit at your own price.
Here is a Real Reduction Sale of our own
make of Suits, which cannot possibly be stale
or shopworn, because we produce them from
week to week, not six months ahead.
As it is our first season in the Ready-To -Wear
Clothing Business, every pattern and style
in this sale must bear this season's time-stamp.
Single And Double-Breasted Suits?All Weight*.
Weaves, Colon, Patterns, Modela-All With
This Season's Law-Minute Style Touche?.
?oadw/ay at 39^ Street
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