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History of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Paragraphed
INTERMOUNTAIN.
To discover nil the books In the
Scuttle library that might have pro
Gcrmun leanings, is the task the
library stuff has set before it. The
latest discovery is a book of toasts
every one of which is a toast to Ger
many and a wish for her success.
Vittori Hiittis. an Italian newspaper
man. under indictment by a federal
trand jury for attempting to discourage
enlistment in the United States army,
was arrested in Pueblo, Colo.
Representative Japanese business
men of the Pacific coast, from San
Francisco, I.os Angeles, Portland and
Vancouver. It. in conference with
Seattle Japanese, sent a telegram to
President Wilson pledging their loyalty
and support to the government for the
victorious prosecution of the war.
Tacoma celebrated July 4 with five
ship launchings, a military anil indus
trial parade led by the First infantry,
V. S. A., auto races at the speedway,
evening maneuvers in the stadium by
infantry, concluding with fireworks.
Grain raised in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and western Montana to the
summit of tite Rockies will lie routed to
the Atlantic seaboard tills year via the
Pacific coast and the Panama canal.
Fire at Itlnghnm Canyon, Utah, de
stroyed the school house, two apart
ment houses and three residences, the
loss running into thousands of dollars.
Two hundred and fifty soldiers of
the spruce division have been fighting
a forest fire near Cochran, Washing
ton county, Oregon, on the Southern
Paeific line to Tillamook.
DOMESTIC.
The bodies of Miss Tillie Jackson
arid a mule escort in an automobile ride
I we^tj found in a marsh at Jackson,
Mii;h., 'Satlirday afternoon. The worn
inf's bead was almost severed. It is
rfiWrieCted that a noted convict, named
'Burthen, with a lust for murder, killed
'toie ^>ttir.
A' lJerman submarine hovering off
thij 'Xffantlc coast was fired upon by a
BritIMi sleamer, according to passen
gers of the ship which arrived Sun
day'at all1 Atlantic port.
II frtdetrtHte postponement of the
strike gf telegraphers employed by the
Western Union Telegraph company,
called tA Thegin Monday, was an
nounced Sunday night, pending the
Ainshldration by congress of the reso-i
- tabUm,authorizing the president to take
BverKlgyuig t|ie war all wire and radio
t,\>\er a hundred people are believed
to, have been drowned when the ex
cuTfSiou steamer Columbia overturned
incite Illinois river, live miles soutli
of Peoria, 111.
I.ouigis Mctiill, a negro convict, sale
to have been Identified as the man who
atempted to attaek the wife of a farm
er living near Madlll, Okla., and who
later Is said to have stubbed the
an, Inflicting probably fatal injuries,
was lynched Friday.
Governor Hurmpiist lias notified
Mayor Thomas Van Lear and Chief of
Poliee Ilarthill of Minneapolis that
unless rioting and disturbances Inci
dent to a newsboys' strike are stopped,
he would remove them from office.
Charles M. Schwab, director gen
eral of the emergency fleet corporation,
launched a big vessel for every letter
In the word “Independence”—from his
own yards in the Sun Francisco dis
trict July 4, directed the launching of
five more from other yards, and then
said that lie longed for many such
days.
With thousands of persons crowding
its streets, Laclede, Mo., combined the
celebration of America's Declaration
of Independence with a day of tribute
to General John J. Pershing, who was
born there September 13, 1800.
A munitions plant costing $15,000,
000 and employing 20,000 persons, will
soon be constructed in St. Louis, ac
cording to an announcement. The plant
will be the only one in the United
States to turn out a complete shell.
Jack Dempsey knocked out Bob De
vore at Joplin, Mo., July 4, in the first
round of a scheduled twelve-round
light. Devore apparently was not in
|ood condition, while Dempsey was
hard and lit.
Six Japanese employed hy a fruit
picking contractor were killed early
July 4 when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck hy a
north bound Southern Pacific train at
Pomur, ten miles south of San Jose,
Cal.
Ship production In the United States
in June amounted to 380,400 dead
weight tons, making the total 1918 pro
duction to date 1,084.670 tons.
The lawyers of Martlnshurg, W. Va.,
are being marshalled for farm work
and the move is expected to extend to
other cities in the state. It is planned
that the lawyers close their offices for
g month during the season when the
courts are closed and put in the time
helping harvest the crops.
Reduction of $108,106,830 in the
operating income of 123 of the largest
railroads during the first five months
under government control, compared
with the same period a year ago, was
announced Tuesday by the Interstate
•oniincrco commission.
Detectives Investigating the death o#
John Klbbin, 35 years old, a waiter
employed at u laborers’ camp at Ches
terfield, MU„ reported that he was
beaten at the camp in a fight which
began when Kibbiu thought he was
being mocked by another man who
stuttered. •
Two children of -Mr. and Mrs. John
Dewitt, a girl aged ,S and a hoy aged
4, were burned to death at Snowflake,
Ariz„ when the Dewitt home was de
stroyed by fire. Two other boys, aged
12 and 10, who tried to rescue their
! brother and sister, were seriously
burned.
The Arkansas constitutional conven
tion on July 4 voted to incorporate into
the proposed new state constitution a
clause giving women all civil and
political rights, including suffrage anti
serving on juries.
WASHINGTON.
Moving picture players are classed
as "legitimate theatrical performers”
in an order announced by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder, and draft
boards are directed to consider such
players, musicians and all skilled per
sons employed in creation and presen
tation of moving picture productions
as engaged in productive employment.
Formal warning was issued from
the office of tile fuel administration
on July 7 that the stock of coal may
be Insufficient to meet the domestic
necessities during the coming winter.
Only the strictest economy will see the
country through the cold season with
out suffering from lack fuel.
Every American soldier who returns
from France would be given his choice
of a return to the life he led prior
to entering the army, or a farm,
planned out of the fifteen million acres
of land, owned and untouched by the
United States government, if plans of
Secretary of the Interior Franklin K.
Lane, are adopted.
The urgent desire of I’resident Wil
son to have the resolution providing
for the seizure of the telegraph and
telephone lines passed before congress
takes a recess was communicated
>>ednesday to members of the house
who were called into conference at the
White House.
Misunderstanding of the war risk
insurance act either on the part of the
enlisted man or by his dependents
has caused much of tile delay in the
mailing of monthly checks for allot
ments and allowances, according to the
findings of n special committee of in
quiry appointed by Secretaries Baker
and McAdoo.
FOREIGN.
General Count von Mirbnch, Ger
man ambassador to Russia, has been
ussassinated nt Moscow, according to
a Berlin report received by the Havas
agency. Two unknown persons were
involved In the crime.
The American Red Cross flood relief
camp at Tientsin, with its lltX) fam
ilies, aggregating 4380 persons, shel
tered there when river Hoods drove
them from their homes, is now only a
memory, every family having been
located in homes provided for them or
of their own choice.
Exports of foodstuffs to the central
powers from Denmark is being curbed
by tlie associated Scandinavian gov
ernments.
Germany will send three army corps
to the aid of Austria, according to a
Rome dispatch to the Temps.
English and Japanese landing parties
patrolled the streets of Vladivostok
and enforced neutrality in the area
where the eonsulated are loctted dur
ing the fighting between the Czecho
slovaks and the Bolshevlkl, according
to a dispatch from Vladivostok.
Stockholm advises state that Grand
Duke Michael, brother of the former
czar, Is inarching on Moscow at the
head of a Czecho Cossack army.
M. Volodarsky, Bolshevik! commis
sioner for the press, has been assas
sinated, the Central News learns, while
returning from a meeting, the dispatch
says.
The war will continue until “Ger
many is beaten and her power to
break treaties at will is shattered,”
said Iun MacPlierson, under secretary
of state for war, to un audience ol
Americans at the Palace theatre in
London.
The entire population of the Mur
man coast (on the Kola penlnsula(bor
dering the White sea and the Arctic)
1ms broken with Russia and Joined the
entente, according to a dispatch from
Vardoe, Norway.
Conforming to the action of the
director general of the United
States railroad administration order
ing United States carriers to increase
transcontinental westbound commodity
rates from the eastern states to coast
points, the dominion railway board has
authorized a similar increase in Cana
dian rates, effective August 1.
The American transport Covington,
homeward bound after landing several
thousand soldiers In France, was tor
pedoed and sunk In the war zone. Six
members of the crew are missing.
The supreme war council held its
seventh session at Versailles on July
5. it is permitted to stute that “im
portant decisions" were taken. Gen
eral Pershing represented the United
States at the session.
Several Dutch steamers, under an
j armed convoy and accompanied by a
j collier, sailed July 5 for the Dutch
Hast Indies, says a dispatch from The
Hague.
Hundreds of guns have been seized
hi Hallinasloe, Roscommon and King's
county, Ireland, and many arrests
have been made, according to a press
association dispatch.
Kdwin Samuel Montague, secretary
of the state for Indiu, in a report sub
mitted to the government July 5
recommends the adoption of home rule
in India.
PRESIDENT WILSON INSPECTS NEW MOTOR
Equipped with the new Liberty motor, an army truck recently arrived at
Washington. The photograph shows President Wilson taking a keen Interest In
an explanation of the motor’s mechanism.
MILITARY AIDED
DY AUTOMODILES
Real Significance of Motorcar in
Transportation Problems
of Present Day.
SOLDIERS MUST BE CARRIED
Food and Other Necessities Must Be
Transported to Them Without De
lay—Conservation of Gasoline
Is Important.
H. H. Franklin, president of a large
automobile concern, in a recent ad
dress before a large number of auto
mobile dealers and owners, pointed out
the real signficance of the motor car
In the transportation problems of to
day.
“America Is at war now In the full
est sense,” stated Mr. Franklin, “and
under such conditions come natural
transportation difficulties Incident to
efficient military operations. Not only
must millions of troops be transported
from place to place, but food and other
necessities must ulso be carried to
them without delay.
War Needs Are Primary.
“Military needs, absolutely and prop
erly, must have preference, and with
the railroads taxed to their limits man
ufacturers must find some other means
of forming a regular and satisfactory
contact between themselves and their
public.
“This problem Is already finding an
swer In the use of automobiles and
motor trucks. Not only are regularly
scheduled automobile express lines be
ing opened up between different cities
throughout the East, but manufactur
ers are finding It advisable to furnish
their salesmen with automobiles In or
der that they may not be dependent
upon unsatisfactory train service.
“The results In all cases where motor
vehicles are being tried seem highly
satisfactory, and it Is quite likely that
even after the war Is over and condi
tions have again become normal, thnt a
greater appreciation will be had of tne
desirability of automobile transporta
tion.
Drive-Away Satisfactory.
‘‘For example, the war has hrougnt
about with our firm the necessity for
insisting that dealers In adjacent ter
ritory, or even territory within several
hundred miles, come to the factory and
j drive what cars they order home them
selves instead of having them shipped.
This hus proved very satisfactory, and,
as even under normal conditions, sev
eral days could be saved. It Is quite
lllrely to be continued right along.
“Another important outcome of the
wnr Is the greater consideration auto
mobile owners are giving to the gaso
line their cars consume for each mile
they are run. In the past little thought
has been given to this question, but
now, with our double need for gaso
line, the issue must be faced.
"War requirements alone are over
1,1100,000 gallons of gasoline per day,
ant, ns the total dully production In
the United States Is but 0,849,000 gal
lons, the greatest conservation Is neces
sary In order that a shortage inuy not
occur.”
DON'T ABUSE THE SPOTLIGHT
—
Its Frea Use Is Sure to Be Legislated
Against Unless Drivers Restrain
Themselves.
Don’t abuse the privileges a spot
light gives yon. This light Is won
derfully helpful when properly used,
but damnable when misused. Its free
use Is sure to be legislated agulnst se
verely unless drivers curb some pres
ent propensities. Always carry the
spotlight higher than the other lights.
Never flnsh It on & vehicle which Is ap
proaching—It’s blinding. Use It to
light, up the road surface and to define
ditches, tut never on another cur.
PLEASE REMEMBER
To say and to write:
Passenger car or motorcar—
not “pleasure car.”
Runabout or roadster—not
“speedster” or “sport car."
And this Is the reason:
Eighty to 90 per cent of the
use of motorcars Is for utilita
rian ends.
The United States farm loan
board has listed the automobile
ns a necessary farm equipment,
for the purchase of which the
farmer may borrow money un
der the hoard’s plan for aiding
agriculture. The motorcar is
just ns necessary equipment for
the business man.
The United States fuel admin
istration In Its ruling that ga
rages and service stations might
use light and heat on the so
called fuelless days definitely
recognized the motorcar as a
public utility.
TURNING CORNERS AT NIGHT
Invention of New Yorker Does Away
With Necessity of Wigwagging
Arm Outside Car.
The autoist who In the daytime wig
wags one arm outside his car to indi
cate that he Is going to stop or turn
will at night be relieved of that duty
when the Invention of a New Yorker
becomes a permanent attachment of
Lights for Turning Corners.
motor cars. This Is a combined tall
light and electric semaphore with two
lighted, arrow-shaped hands.
According to Electrical Exi>erlment
er, two buttons are attached to the
steering wheel—one to Indicate a turn
to the right and >ne to the left. When
both buttons are pushed the signal Is
set at stop, after the fashion of a
railroad signal.
AUTO HELPS TRADE BALANCE
Motor Vehicles Require Little Cargo
Space in Sh pplng In Proportion
to Their Value.
Importance of maintaining trade re*
lntions In motor vehicles with foreign
dealers was considered at a recent
meeting of the export committee of
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. Motor vehicles require lit- j
tie cargo space In proportion to their
value and serve to maintain the trade
bnlance and the par value of the gold
dollar In such countries as Chile,
whose nitrates are required for am
munition, and Argentina, whose beef
and wheat are in great demand by
America and her allies.
PREVENT PLAYING WITH HORN
Switch May Be Placed In Circuit and
Current Turned Off When Car
la Not Running.
To prevent children from playing
with the horn and thus exhausting
the battery, a switch may be placed
in service with the horn circuit and
the current turned ofT when the car Is
stopped. By Installing the system so
that the horn switch operates In con
nection with the Ignition switch, the
later when thrown to “off” position
would automatically open the horn cir
cuit. Thus the horn could only be used
when the engine was running, I
NO PENCE UNTIL
HUN IS CRUSHED,
SMSKIDENT
Speaks Washington's Tomb on
Independence Day.
SETTLEMENT MUST BE FINAL
Says “Blinded Rulers of Prussia Have
Roused Forces They Knew Little
Of—Forces Which Once Roused
Can Never Be Crushed to
Earth.”
Mount Vernon, Va., July 4.—Presi
dent Wilson in his Independence day
address at George Washington’s tomb
here said that the father of his coun
try and his associates spoke and act
ed, not for u class, but for a people
and that It has been left for us to see
to It that It shall be understood that
they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only but for all mankind and
were planning that men of every class
should be free and America a place to
which men out of every nutiou might
resort who wished to share with them
the rights and privileges of free men.
The president then referred to the
present world struggle and said that the
peoples of the world tind themselves
confronted by a selfish group of na
tions who speak no common purpose
but only selfish ambitions of their own
and by which none can profit but
themselves and whose people are fuel
in their hands. lie declared that these
governments are clothed with strange
trappings and the primitive authority
of an age that Is altogether alien and
hostile to our own. He said the past
and the present are in deadly grapple
und tlie peoples of the world are be
ing done to death between them. The
rulers of the central powers even fear
their own people, said the president.
He declared that there can be but one
issue in tills war and the settlement
must be final; that there can be no
compromise and no halfway decision
is conceivable.
The president urged the establishing
of an organization of peace which will
make it certain that the combined pow
er of free nations will check every In
vasion of right and serve to make
peace and justice the more secure by
affording a definite tribunal of opinion
to which all must submit.
The president in closing his address
said: “The blinded rulers of Prussia
have roused forces which aroused can
never be crushed to earth again—for
they have at their heart an inspiration
and a purpose which are deathless and
of the very stuff of triumph."
Text of Address.
The text of thp president's speech
follows:
“Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps
and My Fellow Citizens: I am happy
to draw apart with you to this quiet
place of old counsel In order to speak
a little of the meaning of this day of
our nation's Independence. The place
seems very still and remote. It Is as
serene and untouched by the hurry of
the world as It was In those great days
long ago when General Washington
was here and held leisurely conference
! with the men who were to he associ
ated with him in the creation of a mi
i lion. From the gentle slopes they
I looked out upon the world and saw It
whole, saw it with the light of the fu
ture upon it, saw It with modern eyes
that turned away from a past which
men of liberated spirits could no longer
endure, it is for that reason that we
cannot feel, even here, In the Immedi
ate presence of this sacred tomb, that
this Is a place of death. It was a
place of achievement. A great prom 1st
j that was meant for all mankind was
here given plan and reality. The as
sociations by which we are here sur
rounded are the inspiring associations
of that noble death which is only a
glorious consummation. From this
green hillside we also ought to he able
to see with comprehending eyes the
world that lies about us and should
conceive anew the purposes that must
set men free.
Planned Universal Freedom.
"It is significant—significant of their
j own character und purpose and of the
influences they were setting afoot
| that Washington and Ills associates,
j like the barons at Runnyntede, spoke
and acted, not for a class, but for a
j people. It has been left for us to see
to it that it shall be understood that
i they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only, hut for all mankind. They
were thinking, not of themselves and
of the material interests which oen
tered In the little groups of landhold
ers and merchants and men of affairs
with whom they were accustomed to
act, In Virginia and the colonies to the
north and south of her, but of a people
which wished to be done with classes
and special Interests nnd the author
lty of men whom they had not them
selves chbsen to rule over them. They
entertained no prlvute purpose, de
j sired no peculiar privilege.
"They were consciously planning
i that men of every class should be free
! and America a plnce to which men out
of every nation might resort #ho
wished to share with them the rights
and privileges of free men. And we
take our cue from them—do we not?
We Intend what they Intended. We
here In America believe our purtlclpa
tlon In this present war to be only the
j fruitage of what they planted. Our
.•ase differs from theirs only in this,
that It la our Inestimable privilege to
concert with men out of every nation
what shall make not only the liberties
of America secure but the liberties of
every other people as well. We are
happy .In the thought that we are per
mitted to do what they would have
done had they been in our place.
There must now be settled once for all
what was settled for America in the
great age upon whose Inspiration we
draw today. This is surely a fitting
place from which calmly to look out
upon our task, that we may fortify our
spirits for its accomplishment. And
this is the appropriate place from
which to avow, alike to the friends
who look on and to the friends with
whom we have the happiness to tie as
sociated in action, the faith and pur
pose with which we act.
Hun Rulers Fear Own People.
•‘This, then, is our conception of the
great struggle In which we are en
gaged. The plot is written plain upon
every scene and every act of the su
preme tragedy, tin the one hand stand
the peoples of the world- not only the
peoples actually engaged, hut many
others also who suffer under mastery
but cannot act; peoples of many races
and in every part of the world—the
people of stricken Russia still, among
the rest, though they are for the mo
ment unorganized and helpless. Op
posed to them, masters of many arm
ies, stand an Isolated, friendless group
of governments who speak no common
purpose hut only selfish ambitions of
their own by which none can profit
but themselves, and whose peoples
nre fuel in their hands; governments
which fear their people and yet are
for the time their sovereign lords, mak
ing every choice for them and dispos
ing of their lives and fortunes us they
will, as well as of the lives and for
tunes of every people who fall under
their power — governments clothed
with the strange trappings and the
primitive authority of an age that Is
altogether alien and hostile to our
own. The past and the present are in
deadly grapple and the peoples of the
world are being done to death between
them.
Settlement Must Be Final.
“There can tie but one issue. The
settlement must lie final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway de
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision Is conceivable. These
are the ends for which the associated
peoples of the world are fighting and
which must be conceded them before
there can be pence: 1. The destruction
of every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately, secretly ami of Its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world: or, If It cannot be presently de
stroyed. at the least Its reduction to
virtual Impotence.
“2. The settlement of every question,
whether of territory, of sovereignty, of
economic arrangement, or of |iolitirnl
relationship, upon the basis of the fits*
acceptance of that settlement by the
people Immediately concerned, and not
upon the basis of the material Interest
or advantage of any other nation or
people which may desire a different
settlement for the sake of Its own ex
terior influence or mastery.
“3. The consent of all notions to he
governed In their conduct towards
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the Individual citizens of all modern
states in their relations with one an
other; to the end that all promlsi « and
covenants may be sacredlyohserved.no
private plots or conspiracies hatched,
no selfish Injuries wrought with Impun
ity, and n mutual trust established
upon the handsome foundation of s
mutual respect for right.
"4. The establishment of on organi
zation of peace which shall make It
certain that the combined power of
free nations will check every Invasion
of right and serve to make peace and
Justice the more secure by affording a
definite tribunal of opinion to which
all must submit and by which every
International readjustment that cannot
lie amicably agreed upon by the peo
ples directly concerned shall be sanc
tioned.
U. S. Can Never Be Crushed.
“These great object* can he pm l.tto
« single sentence. What wc seek Is
tlu> rclttn of law, based upon t)u> n,\
split of tho governed nnil sustained t y
tin* organized opinion of mankind.
“These great ends cannot lx
achieved by debating und seeking to
reconcile and accommodate what
statesmen may wish, with their proj
ects for balances of power and of na
tional opportunity. They can be
reached only by the determination «f
what the thinking people of the world
desire with their longing hope for
justice and for social freedom and op
portunity.
"1 can fancy that the air of this
place carries the accents of such prin
ciples with a prouder kindness. Here
where started forces which the great
nation attains! which they were pri
marily directed at first regarded as a
revelt against Its authority but which
has long since seen to have been a
step in the liberation of Its own peo
ple as well as of the peop’e of the
United States—and I stand here now
to speak, speak proudly and with con
tident hope—of the spread of this re
volt, this liberation to the great state
of the world Itself. The blinded rul
ers of Prussia have aroused forces they
knew little of—forces which, once
aroused,can never be crushed to earth
again for fhey have at their heart an
Inspiration and a purpose which are
deathless nnd of the very stuff of tri
umph."
Rush Work on Locomotives.
Washington, July 3.—The first of
the 1,415 locomotives ordered by tho
railroad administration In May has
been completed.