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No. 27,275. ' WASHINGTON,' D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918?SIXTEEN PAGES. * TWO CENTS.
WAR RISK BUREAU
CUTS 70,000 OFF
DEPENDENTS'LIST
Action Follows Investigation
Showing Allotment Claims
Are Unwarranted.
EXPLAINS COMPLAINTS
OF DELAY IN PAYMENT
Charges That Mail Is Neglected
% and Employes Shirk Work Befnted
hy Officials.
Widespread complaints charging
? the bureau of war risk insurance
with delays in paying allotments and
family allowances to soldiers' dependents
concern for the most part
cases in wnicn sucn paymcuis uaro
not been delayed, but have been cut
off. it was learned today.
In all more than 70,000 monthly allowances
heretofore paid by the government
have been suspended, following
investigations which disclosed
the fact that the alleged dependents
were not actually dependent, or that
the allotments and allowances far exceeded
the amounts previously contributed
by the enlisted men before
they entered the service, the basis
upon which the law requires that the
allowances be paid.
In the vast majority of ca-*es the
eliminations are based on replies to
questions made by the benefloiaries
themselves. The government is not
oonoerned with, the amount a soldier
sends to his family, but when he
makes an allotment because of alleged
dependency, and then claims a federal
allowance to supplement that, it
does draw the line if his claims are
found to be unwarranted.
It was explained that most of the
cases disallowed after investigation
disclose no attempt on the part of the
men to defraud the government, but
arose because of a misapprehension
as to what constituted dependency
under the war risk insurance act or
from a misunderstanding of the law.
Sample Case Is Cited.
As an example, many young men
had contributed previously to their
families, but ln many cases.that particular
family was buying a bouse,
paying for a piano or other furniture
oh the' installment plan, and this
money was-often used for other purposes
than their support Such con
tributions were held not to have been
for support. In many eases contributions
were made by young men living
with their parents, but it was held
that part of these contributions really
went for board and lodging.
The officials of the bureau are considerably
concerned regarding certain
charges which reflect not only on the
conduct of the bureau, but upon the
thousands of loyal, hardworking and
faithful employes. Many of these employes
came to Washington out of a
patriotic sense of duty. They came
to render a war service here, and they
have rendered, under very trying and
hard conditions, most faithful and efficient
service," was stated.
One of the statements which has
had wide publicity was to the efTect
that most of the 14,000 employes of
the bureau did not average a real
day's work a week. Another statement
was that members of the night
force of the bureau were accustomed
to report at 6 o'clock and then go
away to the theater or movies practically
at will. Officials state that
these charges are wholly without
foundation, and that they are an unwarranted
slur upon the patriotic employes
of the bureau.
Absences Are itecoraea.
A time system is used at the bureau's
buildings, by which tardiness
. and absences are recorded. The night
force is checked up just as accurately
as the day force, and none is permitted
to leave without his name
being recorded and his absence being
noted and charged up against him.
Members of the day force have
worked overtime on many occasions.
Some- of them have had no leave of
absence whatever. While the law contemplates
ordinarily thirty days' leave
of absence for employes, no employes
of the bureau have been allowed more
than two weeks' leave.
As a sample of the generous and
whole-hearted support of the employes,
it was pointed out that just before
t'hristmas there were 200 applications
from clerks who had leave coming to
them to go home for the holidays.
These clerks were appealed to to withdraw
these applications because of the
heavy pressure of the bureau's work,
and 95 per cent of them did so. in spite
of the fact that they lost any claim
upon the leave coming to them after
December 31. Such instances might be
cited as one group of employes, consisting
of several hundred, who worked
continuously not only all of the
regular day. but all the next night, and
many" of them were on service until
2 and 3 o'clock the next day, a few
of them for thirty-six hours continuously.
with only time out for
meals. ,
No Kail Left Unopened.
, ' Another charge which has been
given wide publicity throughout the
country was that there were 300.000
letters in the bureau, and that many
<.f them had not been opened. This
barge is declared to be without
foundation. Letters are not allowed
in lto unooened in anv case more than
a few hours after they reach the bureau.
The correspondence problem of
the bureau has been one of its most
difficult ones to handle, and largely
because of the difficulty of identifying
the enlisted men about whom
people are writing.
The daily mail now is running between
40,000 and 48.000 letters daily,
and Including discharge notices and
applications the mail sometimes ex.
reds 100,000 pieces a day. It is
. dmitted. and was announced at
the time, that there was a delay in
sending out September and October
i hecks. This was due to the influenza.
which affected the bureau employes
more seriously than many
other government offices. In the disbursing
office there were about 70 pet
rent of the employes away on account
of Illness for a time.
An additional difficulty was experienced
with the addressograph ma.
hines. which was explained by the
shortage of good materials and the
, tack of skilled mechanics, which seriously
interfered with the quality of
? <he machinery and plates used. In
this connection there were letters unanswered.
They concerned complaints
f the tardiness of the September and
October checks. Instead of taking
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POSTERS TO ANNOUNCE
IRISH REPUBLIC EXISTS
Central Sinn Fein Council, Calling
Itself the Irish Parliament,
to Meet in Dublin.
LONDON, December 28.?Posters
will appear In every parish In Ireland
today announcing that the Irish republic
has come into being, says the
ExDress. The nevsoaner adds that
the Sinn Feiners in the recent election
swept Leinster, Munster and Connaught.
Seventy members ot parliament
were elected by the party, but they
will not take their seats. It is stated
by the Express that a central Sinn
Fein council will be established in
Dublin almost immediately and will
call itself the Irish parliament. If
the government orders its disbandment.
it is stated, it will establish
itself elsewhere, and, if necessary,
move from place to place.
BRIWHER
GETS BjGMAIORITY
Indications Point to Overwhelming
Indorsement of
Government Policy.
RESULTS OF ELECTION
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 23.?All indicatinn?
at 2 nVlork this afternoon were
i that Premier Lloyd George and his
government would have an over!
whelming majority in the new house
' of commons.
I Of the 353 members whose elections
j had been announced so far not less
than 274 support the government. The
new house will have 707 members. Of
the members already elected 198 are
coalition unionists and seventy-six
are coalition liberals. The independent
unionists have elected
eight members and the Asquithian
liberals only five. Labor has thirtyfive
members, the Irish nationalists
one, the Sinn Feiners twenty-six, and
there are four independents.
| It is probable, therefore, that the
! laborites will be the second strongest
! party in the house, as the Sinn
Feiners will refrain from attendance
I at Westminster. The laborites, however,
have lost two of their most
prominent leaders in the defeat of
Arthur Henderson and Philip- Snowden.
Of the fourteen woman candidate,
only five so far know their fate, and
they all have been defeated.
Premier Is lie-Elected.
David Lloyd George, prime minister
and leader of" the coalition government.
has been re-elected to his seat
in parliament from Carnarvon, Wales.
The premier, who stood as a coalition
liberal, received 13,993 votes to 1.095
for Austin Harrison, son of Frederic
Harrison, the writer. Mr. Harrison
was an independent candidate.
Asquith Suffers Defeat.
The Asquith section of the liberals
) received a severe blow in the defeat.
: not only of the former premier himself.
but of Sir John Simon, who was
I considered the probable heir to the
I leadership, and Reginald McKenna,
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I UUC VI LUC iVIIUCI |itCiU!Cl O VlllCl livu~
tenan ts.
The former premier was defeated by
Col. Sir Alexander Sprot, a Scottish
laird, who has served four years with
the British army in France. On two
previous occasions Sir Alexander had
been defeated by Mr. Asquith. The
vote was: Sir Alexander Sprot, unionist,
8,996; H. H. Asquith, liberal, 6,994;
W. P. Morgan, independent, 591.
Sir Eric Geddes a Winner.
In Cambridge, Sir Eric Geddes, first
lord of the admiralty, coalition unionist,
defeated the Rev. T. R. Williams,
laborite, 11,553 to 3.784.
Sir Albert Stanley, president of the
board of trade, was re-elected for
Ashton-Under-Lyne. He received 10,260
votes against 7,334 for T. F. Lister,
candidate of the national federation
of discharged soldiers and sailors.
At Blackburn. Philip Snowden,
laborite and pacifist, was defeated.
The result there was: Sir Henry Norman,
coalition liberal, 32,076; Lieut.
Commander Dean, coalition unionist,
30,158, and Philip Snowder., 15,274.
Blackburn has two seats.
Defeat of Arthur Henderson.
Arthur Henderson, leader of the
; British labor party and former mem.
ber of the war cabinet, has been dej
feated for re-election from the south
' district of East Ham. The vote there
was Clem Edwards, coalition liberal
7.972; Frank Hamlett. unionist. 5,661
; Arthur Henderson, labor, 5,024.
AID TO VIENNA HUNGRY
Swiss Government Begins Shipment
of Foodstuffs for Relief of
Civilian Population.
I " T.
j -ine swiss fovernmeni Degan today
i the shipment of more than 1,000 tons
of foodstuffs to Vienna for the relief
; of the civil population, with the coi
operation of Dr. Alonzo Taylor, Her!
bert Hoover's representative in
' southern Europe. Word to this effect
! was received by cable today by Dr.
; Hans Sulzer, the Swiss minister.
The emergency shipment consists of
600 tons of flour. 400 tons of rice and
sixty tons of milk and chocolate, to
make up which the Swiss population
sacrifices a part of its own food card.
Dr. Taylor is now making his headquarters
at Bern. The cable indicated
that the Swiss government will cooperate
fully in assisting in the revictualing
of the Austrian civil <population.
XT. S. AIR SERVICE LOSSES.
The summary of casualties in the
American air service in France, as
announced by the War Department
today, shows that 150 commissioned
offlcers of this service were killed In
action in 191$.
Of this number three officers were
residents of Washington. namely
Second Lieut. James E. Bo wye r, 135th
Squadron, of 3410 15th street; First
Lieut. Harris E. Petree, 22d Squadron.
of 133$ Euclid street, and First
Lieut Oeorge V. Selbold, 148th Squadron.
of IM Rook Creek Church road.
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NATIONS AGREED
ON ALL PRINCIPLES,
SAYSAOELEGATE
Declares in Paris That Differing
Viewpoints Have Been
Reconciled.
OPTIMISTIC VIEW IS NOW
TAKE OF COMING PARLEY
Several Difficult Questions May Be
Left Over for Future
Arbitration.
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By the Associated Press.
PARIS. December 28.?One of the
most prominent delegates to the peace
conference now in Paris, said today
that the exchanges of the last few
days had resulted in an agreement
on the principles of virtually all questions,
including the reconciling of different
viewpoints on the question of
freedom of the seas.
Premier Clemenceau, it 13 reported,
has informed his intimate friends
that his three conferences with President
Wilson and Col. House have rea
a. i
; suited in a complete unaersuuums.
As the result of these reports peace
! delegation circles take a much more
j optimistic view of the outlook of the ,
peace congress than they did a week
ago.
Members of the American delegation
attach significance to the President's
conferences with Premier Lloyd
George and Secretary Balfour and to
his speech at Buckingham Palace last
night.
Some Questions Kay Go Over.
In conference circles the opinion
prevails that several difficult questions
which will come before the allies
at some time during the peace
conference may be left over for ar- I
bitration after an agreement has been
reached as to a league of nations.
One of these questions may be the
future status of Luxembourg. One
party there desires the re-establishment
of the grand duchy. Another fa|
vors the proclamation of a republic.
! A third advocates annexation to
France, while still another prefers
annexation to Belgium. The same
course may be followed concerning
differences between the Italians and
Jugo-Slavs as to a division of territory
on the eastern shore of the Adriatic
.
A question which attracts attention
is the future of Serbia, where there
is a conflict of several European influences.
Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop
of Westminster, went to Serbia recently
and before leaving Rome had
a long interview with Pope Benedict.
An Anglican bishop also has visited
Serbia, it is reported.
Pledges Labor's Support.
LONDON, December 27.?In a letter
written to Lord Robert Cecil, who
will be the British representative in
charge of all questions affecting the
I proposed league of nations at the
; peace conference. J. H. Thomas, secrej
tary of the National Union of Rail!
waymen, declared that no section of
! the people in this country would give
I more hearty co-operation and support
| in his efforts to establish a league of
I nations than those in the labor move
j incut.
In reply, Lord Robert pointed out
I tuat such a league would be more than
| an agency for preventing war. It
| would have to consider, he said, the
problem of the reduction of armaments,
It must protect smaller
states, it must safeguard the races
that are yet unable to protect themselves
and it must act as the guardian
of places of international Importance.
Poducts essential to the welfare
and prosperity of mankind, he
: declared, must be made available for
all.
Lord Robert said that such a league
must revise obsolete treaties, and in
i his opinion, regulate traffic by air and
sea, sanitation, and even labor conditions.
He added:
"For this policy to be successfully
. inaugurated we shall require not an
ordinary peace treaty, but a settlement
every line of which is inspired
' by the league of nations spirit."
MORE SOLDIERS RETURN;
GREETINGS BY WIRELESS
1 Capt. Harrigan, Famous Comedian's
Son, and Among Rescuers of Lost
t |
>j Battalion, Wounded.
NEW YORK, December 28.?The
American transport Turrialba, with
j ninety-two wounded officers, arrived
I here today from France. She brought
a return cargo of explosives. The
officers include Capt. William Harrigan,
son of the late Edward Harrigan,
comedian. Capt Harrlgan .eras
wounded by a machine gun bullet
while leading one of the detachments
which went to the rescue of Col. Whittlesey's
"lost battalion" in the Argonne
forest
In a wireless message received today
by the Associated Press from the
American steamship Lake Huron, now
on her way from Kircaldy to Norfolk,
the officers and enlisted men extend
Itheir relatives and friends Christ
mas and New Year greetings.
The transport General Gorgas,
which left Bordeaux December 13, arrived
here yesterday with fourteen
! officers, seven enlisted men and twenI
ty-two civilians. As the ship was
i loaded with returned ammunition, she
anchored in Gravesend bay and the
passengers were brought ashore in
boats.
BOLSHEVIK. WARSHIPS TAKEN
British, Capture Two Destroyers,
One Bombarding Lighthouses.
LONDON, December 27.?The British
warship Calypso has captured two
bolshevik destroyers in the eastern
Baltic, according to an official report
from the admiralty today. One of the
destroyers was engaged in bombarding
lighthouses in the vicinity of
, RevaL
The officers and men on board the
destroyers were made prisoner. No
casualties occurred on the Calypso, according
to the reports reaching the
admiralty. The Calypso was commanded
by Cut. Bertram S. Theslger.
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SEESNOEARLYDRQP
IN THEJGH PRICES
A. C. Miller Says Expansions
Due to War Must First
Be Eliminated.
LOSS IN POWER OF GOLD
By the Associated Pirss.
RICHMOND, Va.. December 28.?
High prices will prevail until the expansion
of currency and credit resulting
from the buying of war
rsccurities on credit has been eliminated
and until +he volume ofcrecilt
and currency has heen reduced..tp. an
equality with the needs of industry
and trade, declared A. C. Miller, a
member Of the federal reserve board,
speaking today at a session of the
annual convention here of the American
Economic Association.
Gold Loses Purchasing Power.
Tested by price levels in the leading
markets, gold has lost abont one
half its purchasing power since me
beginning of the war in 1914, said Mr.
Miller. Gold as a standard of exchange
has fallen in its purchasing
power, he said, because it has shared
the fate of paper currency from rising
prices, which, on a wholesale
basis, are up about 100 per oent in
the countries where the gold standard
still obtains.
"Gold will not recover its lost purchasing
power until prices decline,"
Mr. Miller said. "Financial, credit and
business relationships which have
been thrown into confusion by reason
of the rise in prices will not be
straightened out until the price situation
is rectified. But the price situation
will not be rectified until the
expansion of our currency and credit
attributable to the buying of war securities
on credit has been eliminated
and the volume of credit and currency
has once more been brought
back to a normal economic volume?
that is to say, a volume corresponding
to the needs of Industry and
trade for the production and exchange
of goods at normal values."
Should Lift Embargo.
"The embargo-laid by this country
during the war on gold shipments,
Mr. Miller said, should be lifted at
the earliest practicable moment or
"as soon as our international financial
relationships are such that we
are no longer under the necessity of
taking care of - adverse balances of
the nations with which we have been
associated in the war arising out of
their trade with neutral countries."
Other Speakers and Themes.
Roger W. Babson of the United
States Department of Labor addressed
the association this morning on the
subject. "Stabilizing the Dollar,^ urging
that the dollar be based on 200
commodities instead of gold. Senator
Robert L. wen of Oklahoma also
spoke on the subject of the dollar.
Irving Fisher of Yale University presided.
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Mr. Babson said the present dollar
is a "fake" dollar. He said the" plan
to base the dollar on certain commodities
is just as feasible as any
system. The world's productivity since
the European war started increased
20 per cent, but the purchasing power
of the dollar decreased, contended thd
speaker.
Mr. Babson's Address.
Mr. Babson spoke, in part, as follows:
"For thousands of years people
thought that the sun went around the
world. At last this is no longer believed.
But people still think that
high prices are due to a scarcity of
goods instead of the depreciation of
the dollar.
"The real crime of plutocracy is not
that a few men today control the coal,
iron, timber and other raw materials,
but that they control the purchasing
power of the dollar with which you
and I have to buy everything of them.
Moreover, they are continually cutting
down this purchasing power by
depreciating gold.
Grow Tired of Treadmill.
"The people have trod the treadmill
about as long as they will. The
masses will not be bled forever by the
present Take' dollar. Either we must
voluntarily change the Take' dollar of
today for a real dollar based upon
what we 'eat, wear and sleep,' or else
,we will encourage the bolshevists to
carry on their damnable work until
we have no dollars at alL"
Dr. Royal Meeker of Washington
spoke in advocacy of government Insurance.
He favored an automatic insurance.
so that everybody would be
protected. He. said that 100,000,000
persons in America can be insured
for what the present policy holders
In this country are paying under the
competitive system.
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PRESIDENT WILSON
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President Wilson- is sixty-two
years old today.
Born in a humble parsonage at
Staunton, Va, today he is in Europe
conferring with the heads of
the world's great nations to formulate
a peace treaty which will
rank with the world's greatest
historical documents, alongside the
Magna Charta, the Declaration of
Independence and the emancipation
proclamation.
While in England he will visit
the birthplace of his mother.
Just before he left Washington
it was said that, despite the momentous
problems he has faced for
four years, he never was in better
physical condition. When he entered
the White House he was pale,
lacking in endurance and suffering
from-a. chronic atomach disorder.
Under a strict physioal exercise
and diet program, prescribed by
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his
physician, the President no\v is robust,
red cheeked and shows remarkable
vitality in the execution
of a vast amount of work.
Cabinet members sent birthday
greetings to President Wilson in
London through the daily cable
and wireless service maintained by
Secretary Tumulty.
TO RECEIVE D. S. MEDALS
FORWARWORKATHOI
Secretary Baker Approves Awards
of Decorations Recommended
by Gen. March.
Upon recommendation of Gen.
March, it was announced today, distinguished
service medals will be
awarded to the following general offi
cers for services rendered at home
during the war:
Ma J. Gen. William M. Black, chief
of engineers, for planning and administering
the military railroad semice.
Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, for
preparing and operating the draft
laws, as provost marshal general.
Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, retired,
for reorganizing the quartermaster
department and organising
and administering the division of supplies,
purchase and storage of the
genferal staff.
Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, retired,
for organizing and administering
the medical department as surgeon
general.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, organizing
and administering the embarkation
service.
Brig. Gen. Henry Jervey, general
staff, for directing the division of
operations, general staff, which had
charge of the mobilization of personnel.
These reoommendations have been
approved by Secretary Baker. Formal
award of decorations will be made at
a date to be announced later. Gen.
March pointed out that the names as
announced were arranged alphabetically
and indicated ho distinction between
the officers recognized.
WWIMESUPIM
I I
Solon Making Flight in Airplane
From Washington to
Mew York.
Senator Wesley L. Jones of
Washington left here in an airplane
at IX o'clock this morning for New
York. Senator Jones, who is an
enthusiast, has taken a number of
flights in airplanes. He left Boiling
Field in a De Haviland two-seater.
The pilot is Lieut. Logg of Seattle,
one of the instructors at Boiling
Field. The airplane was fitted with a
liberty'motor.
Senator Jones has been quietly
planning this trip for some time, and
as soon as the necessary formalities
were put through the day was set
for the flight.
He was scheduled to land at Mineola
Field.
Creel Has Hot Resigned.
PARIS. December 28.?George Creel,
chairman of the committee on public
information, said today that he had not
resigned. He said he was busy winding
up the affairs of the committee and
when that work was finished his appointment
naturally would end.
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HUH COUNCIL ASKED
TO ACTIN CRISIS
Radical Elements May Put
Ledebour and Liebknecht
in Control at Berlin.
EBERT BELIEVED DOOMED
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Friday, December 27.?
While the government continues to
dcpy the existence of a crisis, developments
appear to be rapidly approaching
the point where the Ebert,
Haasa cabii*r-^vill- no longer be able
to assert itVauthorRy-.?
The Berlin newspapers reflect the
apprehension pervading all circles.
The Vossische Zeitung, for instance,
says that the six men who sign for
the government are no longer the
government, and it caTts upon the
newly created central council of soldiers
and workers to assume the responsibility.
Crux of Situation.
VV.A it wmili Ka
I fatal to pin hopes to the national assembly
as a constituent body or as
one which could repair the damage
now threatening. The Lokal Xnzeiger
believes that the crux of the situation
is to be found in the struggle between
the independent socialists and the
Spartacus group for control in order
to prevent the meeting of the national
assembly. It points to the probability
of a repetition of the events
of November 9 with the result that
the radicals might constitute a new
government dominated by Georg Ledebour
nd Dr. Karl Liebknecht.
The Frieheit, the organ of the independent
socialists, declares that the
position of the cabinet Is critical and
that it is not likely to survive in its
present make-up. The Taeglische
Rundschau says it is highly uncertain
if Ebert and Scheidemann will
be able to save the situation for
themselves.
According to a Copenhagen dispatch
of Friday night the workmen's and
soldiers' central council has been
summoned to meet with a view to
reconstructing the government in
Berlin. This report was contained in
a Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
Berlingske Tidende.
"Only Aim Is to Rebuild."
PARIS, December 27 (Havas).?
Herr Landsberg, one of the former
majority socialist members in the
German reichstgg, -today made a
declaration to the correspondent of
the Temps at Bern that no thought of
revenge would ever come to the majority
socialists, whose only aim was
to establish order in the country and
rebuild Germany.
The members of the German government,
Herr Landsberg added, believed
it would be criminal to go
against the will of the people of
Alsace-Lorraine, who had been entirely
estranged by the execrable
politics of the former regime in Germany.
He said these provinces were
lost forever for Germany, and al
tnougn it paineu miu very mucn to
say it, he must admit the fact.
Concerning the present situation in
Germany, Herr Landsberg declared
that the danger of anarchy depended
in great "measure on the great question
of revictualing. He added that
bolshevism'would never take root in
Germany and that military reaction
would not spread to any great extent.
Propose Federal Republic.
GENEVA, December 27 (Havas).?
Reports received from Germany indicate
that the present government
there is to constitute a federal republic
on virtually the same plan as
the United States. There would be a
congress, composed of -two chambers,
a volkshaus, or popular chamber,
which would be the chamber of representatives,
and a stadtenhaus, or
chamber of states, which would take
the part of a senate. The president
would be elected by the people and
would not be responsible before congress.
The border states would be
completely modified, the privileges of
the nobility abolished, and Germany
would annex German Austria.
final lap of long flight.
Army Air Squadron Starts From
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XiUiiua iui xiuo \jliy.
DAYTON A, Fla., December 28.?The
Army aviation squadron which crossed
the continent from San Diego. Cal., to
Jacksonville left here today for Washington.
accompanied by four more airplanes
which joined them at Arcadia,
Fla.. for the final lap of the long flight.
The machines, commanded by Maj. Albert
D. Smith, arrived last night from
Arcadia and spent the night here.
Maj. Smith said before leaving today
that he had not decided on his first stop
between here and Washington.
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By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 26.?Sp
Hall at a ceremonious gathering
guished statesmen, President Wi
there must no longer be a balanc
the peace of the world, but that
cert of power which would presei
In the course of his speech th
had fought to do away with the 0
The old order, he said, had for
called the balance of power, dete
"jealous watchfulness" and "an a:
Fought to End 'This Sort of Thing.'
The men who have fought the war,
he said, had been "men from free nations
who were determined that this
sort of thing should end now and forever."
The suggestion for a concert of
nowpr to renlace the balance of
power, he remarked, was coming now
from every quarter and from every,
sort of mind. The concert to come, he j
declared, must not be a balance of.
power or one powerful group of nations
set off against another, but "a
single, overwhelming, powerful group
of nations which shall be the trustees
of the peace of the world.'*
The minds of the leaders of the
British government, the President
said, were moving along the same
I lines as his own, and their thought
had been that the key to the peace
was the guarantee of it and not the
items of it. The ftems of it, he added,
would be worthless unless a concert
of power stood back of them.
Such Union Unprecedented.
No such potent union of purpose
had ever been seen in the world before,
he said, as that which now demanded
a concert of power to pre- |
serve the world's peace.
Whereas it had been the thought of j
closeted students and academic men j
he now found the practical minds of
the world determined to get it.
"I am particularly happy that the
ground has been cleared and the foundations
laid." he continued, "because
we have already accepted the same
body principles. Those principles are
clearly and definitely enough stated
to make their application a matter
which should afford no fundamental
difficulty.
"The peoples of the world want
peace, and want it now, not merely by
the conquest of arms but by agreement
of mind."
Such an achievement the President
characterized as this great may I not
say final, enterprise of humanity.
Address Key to Conference.
There had been a hint that the President's
address would be the key to the
conferences he has been holding with
British statesmen, and the address as
it was delivered today was interpreted
in American quarters as confirming the
previous intimations that these conferences
had been satisfactory from
the President's viewpoint.
At the outset of his address President
Wilson declared he did not fancy
that the welcome of Paris and London
to him was purely personal, but rather
that the voices of the people were expressing
not only emotions of gratification
that the fighting had ceased, but
also their conception that the peace
to be made must guarantee that the
war could not be repeated.
"It now rests upon others to see that
those lives were not lost in vain," the
President added.
The President concluded his address
amid a great demonstration, and then
proceeded to the luncheon at the Mansion
House with the lord mayor.
Record Reception.
The oldest observer in the Guild Hall
today declared no reception ever accorded
any dignitary there approached in
spontaneity and volume that which
greeted the President's appearance and
the address which followed.
As the President left the Guild Hall
after his address the crowd in the yard
took up the cheers that had been echoing
within the building. The President,
with Mrs. Wilson, entered their carriage
and as they drove off through the lanes
of boisterous and hat and handkerchief
waving throngs, some one proposed
"three cheers for Wilson." They were
given with such a will that the President
smiled delightedly and rose and bowed
again and again.
The distinguished government and
other officials received by the lord
mayor before the President's arrival
included Premier Lloyd George. Field
Marshal Haig. Foreign Secretary Balfour,
Admiral Sims, former Premier
Asquith. Andrew Bonar Law, the
chancellor of the exchequer, and the
ambassadors of the principal allied
governments.
After President Wilson's arrival all
were grouped on the dais, the lord
mayor in the center and President
Wilson on his right, next to the Duke
of Connaught The Royal Artillery
Band in the gkllery played American
airs, ushering President Wilson in
with the "Star Spangled Banner."
King George Felicitates
Mr. Wilson on Birthday at
London's "President's Day"
LONDON, December 28.?This Is
President's day In the city of London.
King? George called at President
Wilson's apartments at 10 o'clock this
morning and wished him many happy
returns of the day. It was President
Wilson's birthday?his sixty-second.
The first two chapters of President
Wilson's English visit have been devoted
to meetings and functions with
royal and political personages of the
government circle. The scene shifts
today to the somber old precincts of
the Guild Hall and the Mansion House,
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eaking today in the historic Guild
f of Great Britain's most distinlson
reaffirmed his principle that
e of power which might unsettle
the future must produce a conrve
it.
le President declared the soldiers
ild order and establish a new one.
its center the "unstable thing"
irmined by competitive interests,
ntagonism of interests."
commercial precincts, which are the
heart of Britain's strength.
In the Guild Hall an address of welcome
was presented to the President
on behalf of the city in the presence
of a company of more than a thousand
representatives of the government and
of finance and of commerce. Afterward
the President was entertained
at luncheon by the lord mayor and
the corporation of the city?a funci
tion which was attended by 300
guests, with the business element predominating.
Honored Other Presidents.
Of American presidents Grant and
Roosevelt, after their respective administrations,
have received honors at
jthe Guild Hall, while the eloquence
i oi a long line 01 American diplomat*,
| such men as John Hay, Thomas \V.
i Bayard. Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw
Reid and the late Ambassador Page,
have been heard in the Mansion House.
A number of European rulers and
statesmen have been entertained in
both places.
Today's event in the city had a double
interest through the appearance
there of the first American President
to come during the term of his office,
and a general belief that he would
make a pronouncement of political
and international importance.
Troops Starch to Positions.
"While the President this morning
was receiving addresses from deputations
representing a number of societies
and church organizations ai
the American embassy, khaki-clad
troops were marching toward the
city and distributing themselves
j along the route, while the gilded
I coaches of city fdcic.tionaries werbringing
the aldermen and the sherifls
in their robes of office to the Guild
Hall.
xne procession naa me same ieatures
as that on the occasion of the
President's entrance into London.
There was the same escort of household
cavalry outriders in scarlet
livery, but there were only three
semi-state landaus instead of five as
before.
The guard of honor from the famous
ancient artillery company was drawn
up before the Guild Hall, where the
Duke of Connaught was the first important
guest to arrive. The presidential
party was received at the entrance
by the lord mayor. Sir Horace
Marshall, the lady mayoress and the
sheriff and members of the reception
committee.
Yard a Gorgeous Bower.
The Guild Ball yard was transformed
into a gorgeous bower of pennants
and flags of the associated governments.
among which the Stars and
Stripes predominated. From the
spire floated the great white and red
flag of the city of London.
The daughter of the lord mayor presented
Mrs. Wilson with a bouquet
as she arrived, and the President
inspected- the guard of honor.
The procession then formed and
passed into the Guild Hall. It made a
fine show of color with the crimson
and black and gold of the city officials'
regalia. First came the cU>"
marshals and the undersheriffs and
the members of the commons on the
rccepuuji cuuirniiiee, oir narry ncpburn,
chairman of the committee; the
town clerk, the sheriffs, the aldermen,
the recorder and the President's
suite. It passed through the south
court vestibule, and the President
was ushered into the banquet hall, already
crowded with guests.
The spacious, lofty room, whose
oaken walls were darkened by time
afforded a rich background for the
glowing guilt of the decorations emblazoned
on the Gothic arches of the
ceiling. High up on the walls hung
the cherished battle banners of the
famous London regiment, and below
them at intervals there were draped
for the occasion the flags of the United
States and of England.
Informal Program at I<uncheon.
The program of the Mansion House
luncheon was comparatively informal,
except for the toasts. When the aged
master of ceremonies, in city livery
and standing behind the lord mayor's
chair, proclaimed "Your royal highness
(addressing the Duke of Connaught),
my lords, your excellencies,
ladies and gentlemen, I pray silence
for the President of the United
States" there was a burst of hearty
although decorous enthusiasm, with
handclapping, waving of napkins and
beating of tables.
The President's sgieech was in a
lighter vein with a personal touch.
He described himself not as a coldtalking
machine, but with something
of Scotch caution, tempered by a liking
for insurgencies which could have
no other than Celtic origin. His explanation
of the breaking of precedent
in coming to Europe because he
thought consultation was a 'duty
above all others, was applauded, as
was his quotation from Charles Lamb
that one could not hate a man whom
he knew. The President spoke without
a touch of embarrassment or hesitation.
His only gesture was when he
spoke of the shadow of grief which
had been lifted from the world.
Declines Northampton's Invitation
LONDON, December 27.?In decliniag
an invitation of the mayor of North- i
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