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THE REYIBW, HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA.
FORGET PROFITS,
WIN THE WAR
President Wilson Appeals to Bus
iness Interests of Country.
JUST PRICES IS HIS DEMAND
Business Should Not Take Toll Off
Men In Trenches, Says the Chief
Executive Ship Owners
Are Condemned.
Washington. President Wilson ap
pealed to the country's business in
terests Wednesday to put aside every
selfish consideration and to give their
aid to the nation as freely as those
who go to offer their lives on the bat
tlefield. In a statement addressed to the coal
operators and manufacturers he gave
assurance that just prices will be paid
by the government and the public dur
ing the war, but warned that no at
tempt to extort unusual profits will be
tolerated.
"Your patriotism," said the presi
dent's appeal, "is of the same self
denying stuff as the patriotism of the
men dead and maimed on the fields of
France, or it is no patriotism at all.
Let us never speak, then, of profits
and patriotism in the same sentence.
"I shall expect every man who is not
a slacker to be at my side throughout
this great enterprise. In it no man
can win honor who thinks of himself."
Condemns Ship Owners.
The president declared there must
be but one price for the government
and for the public. He expressed con
fidence that business generally would
be found loyal to the last degree, and
that the problem of wartime prices,
which he declared will "mean victory
or defeat," will be solved rightly
through patriotic co-operation.
In unmeasured terms, however, Mr.
Wilson condemned the ship owners of
the country for maintaining a schedule
of ocean freight rates which has
placed "almost insuperable obstacles
In the path of the government.
President's Call.
The president's statement follows:
The government Is about to attempt
to determine the prices at which it
will ask you henceforth to furnish va
rious supplies which are necessary for
the prosecution of the war, and vari
ous materials which will be needed in
the Industries by which the war must
be sustained. We shall, of course, try
to determine them justly and to the
best advantage of the nation as a
whole; but justice is easier to speak
of than to arrive at, and there are
some considerations which I hope we
shall keep steadily In mind while this
particular problem of justice is being
worked out.
Promises Just Price.
f "Therefore I take the liberty of
stating very candidly my own view of
the situation and of the principles
which should guide both the govern
ment and the mine owners and man
ufacturers of the country in this dif
ficult matter.
"A just price must, of course, be
paid for everything the government
buys. By a Just price I mean a price
which will sustain the Industries con
cerned In a high state of efficiency,
provide a living for those who con
duct them, enable them to pay good
wages, and make possible the ex
pansions of their enterprises which
will from time to time become neces
sary as the stupendous undertakings
of this great war develop.
Must Face the Facts.
"We could not wisely or reasonably
do less than pay such prices. They
are necessary for the maintenance
and development of industry, and the
maintenance and development of in
dustry are necessary for the great task
we have in hand.
"But I trust that we shall not sur
round the matter with a mist of sen
timent. Pacts are our masters now.
We ought not to put the acceptance
of such prices on the ground of patri
otism." "Patriotism has nothing to do with
profits in a case like this. Patriotism
and profits ought never in the present
circumstances be mentioned together.
"It is perfectly proper to discuss
profits as a matter of business, with a
view to maintaining the integrity of
capital and the efficiency of labor in
these tragical months, when the lib
erty of free men everywhere and of
industry itself trembles in the bal
ance; but it would be absurd to dis
cuss them as a motive for helping to
serve and save our country.
"Patriotism leaves profits out of the
question. In these days of our su
preme trial, when we are sending hun
dreds of thousands of our young men
across the seas to serve a great cause,
no true man who stays behind to
work for them and sustain them by
his labor will ask himself what he is
personally going to make out of that
labor.
"No true patriot will permit himself
to take toll of their heroism in money
or seek to grow rich by the shedding
of their blood. He will give as freely
and with as unstinted self-sacrifice
as they. When they are giving their
lives, will he not at least give his
money?
Assails "Bribery."
"I hear it Insisted that more than
a just price, more than a price that
will sustain our Industries, must be
paid ; that it is necessary to pay very
liberal and unusual profits in order to
'stimulate' production; that nothing
but pecuniary rewards will do re
wards paid in money, not In the mere
liberation of the world.
"I take it for granted that those
who argue thus do not stop to think
what that means.
"Do they mean that you must be
paid, must be bribed, to make your
contribution, a contribution that costs
you neither a drop of blood nor a tear,
when the whole world is in travail and
men everywhere depend upon and call
to you to bring them out of bondage
and make the world a fit place to live
in again, amidst peace and justice?
Appeals to Honor.
"Do they mean that you will exact
a price, drive a bargain, with the men
who are enduring the agony of this
war on the battlefields, In the trenches,
amidst the lurking dangers of the sea,
or with the bereaved women and piti
ful children, before you will come for
ward to do your duty and give some
part of your life, in easy, peaceful
fashion, for the things we are fight
ing for, the things we have pledged
our fortunes, our lives, our sacred hon
or to vindicate and defend liberty
and justice and fair dealing and the
peace of nations?
"Of course you will not. It is In
conceivable. Your patriotism Is of the
same self-denying stuff as the pa
triotism of the men dead or maimed
on the n?lcs of France, or else it Is
not patriotism at all.
Full Dollar's Worth.
"Let us never speak, then, of profits
and of patriotism in the same sen
tence, but face facts and meet them.
Let us do sound business, but not in
the midst of a mist.
"Many a grievous burden of taxa
tion will be laid on this nation, In this
generation and In the next, to pay for
this war; let us see to It that for
every dollar that is taken from the
people's pockets It shall be possible to
obtain a dollar's worth of the sound
stuff they need.
"Let me turn for a moment to the
ship owners of the United States and
the other ocean carriers whose ex
ample they have followed, and ask
them If they realize what obstacles,
what almost Insuperable obstacles,
they have been putting In the way of
the successful prosecution of this war
by the ocean freight rates they have
been exacting.
Making War a Failure.
"They are doing everything that
high freight charges can do to make
the war a failure, to make it impos
sible. "I do not say that they realize this !
or Intend It. The thing has happened
naturally enough because the commer
cial processes which we are content to
see operate in ordinary times have
without sufficient thought been con
tinued Into a period where they have
no proper place.
"I am not questioning motives. I
am merely stating a fact, and stating
it In order that attention may be fixed
upon It.
"The fact Is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken the
most effective means in their power to
defeat the armies engaged against Ger
many. When they realize this we may,
I take It for granted, count upon them
to reconsider the whole matter. It Is
high time. Their extra hazards are
covered by war risk Insurance.
Warning Is Sounded.
"I know, and you know, what re
sponse to this great challenge of duty
and of opportunity the nation. will ex
pect of you ; and I know what re
sponse you will make.
"Those who do not respond, who
do not respond in the spirit of those
who have gone to give their lives for
us on bloody fields far away, may
safely be left to be dealt with by
opinion and the law for the law must,
of course, command those things.
"I am dealing with the matter thus
publicly and frankly, not because I have
any doubt or fear as to the result but
only in order that in all our thinking
and in all our dealings with one an
other we may move in a perfectly clear
air of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
"And there is something more that
we must add to our thinking. The
public is now as much a part of the
government as are the army and navy
themselves ; the whole' people in all
their activities are now mobilized and
in service for the accomplishment of
the nation's task in this war; it is
in such circumstances impossible just
ly to distinguish between industrial
purchases made by the government
and industrial purchases made by the
uanagers of industries, and it is just
as much our duty to sustain the indus
trials of the country with all the in
dustries that contribute to its life as
it is to sustain our forces in the field
and on the sea.
Think Not of Self.
"We must make prices to the pub
lic the same as the prices to the gov
ernment. Prices mean the same thing
everywhere now. They mean the effi
ciency or the inefficiency of the na
tion, whether it Is the government that
pays them or not. They mean victory
or defeat. They mean that America
will win her place once for all among
the foremost free nations of the world
or that she will sink to defeat and be
come a second-rate power alike in
thought and in action. This Is a day
of her reckoning and every man among
us must personally face that reckoning
along with her.
"The case needs no arguing. I as
sume that I am only expressing your
own thoughts what must be in the
mind of every true man when he faces
the tragedy and the solemn glory of
the present war, for the emancipation
of mankind.
"I summon you to a great duty, a
great privilege, a shining dignity and
distinction. I shall expect every man
who Is not a slacker to be at my side
throughout this great enterprise. In
it no man can win honor who thinks of
himself."
' " -
ffjx ' ' SM jjjjl -
lVon Bethmann-Hollweg, who, as imperial chancel or, has been the center of a storm or dissension in .Ger
many. 2 Practice bayonet charge over a fence in one of the training camps of the Officers' Reserve corps. 8
French ladies of Moy driven to field work by the Germans who occupied the town; the photograph was found on a
captured German officer. 4 Lieut. Gen. L. G. Kornlloff, commander of the Russian army In Galicia and captor of
Halicz.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
President's Embargo on Foods
and Other Supplies, Hard
Blow at Enemy.
AMERICAN CROPS TO BE BIG
Russians, in Tremendous Drive on
Lemberg, Break Through Teuton
Line Governmental Crisis in
Germany May Result in
Internal Reforms.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
The matter of food, its production
and control, is becoming more im
portant daily as a factor in ending
tile war. The international aspect
was brought sharply to the front last
week when President Wilson pro
claimed an embargo on shipments of
food and certain other articles. No
i one has been blind to the fact that
Holland and the Scandinavian coun
tries have been shipping great quan
tities of foodstuffs into Germany ever
since the war began. This was with
in their rights, but to do it and still
feed their own populations, they have
been importing very heavily from
America. Therefore it is equally with
in the rights of America, certainly
the part of wisdom, to shut off the
exportation to neutrals of all food
stuffs beyond what they need for their
own sustenance and what we and our
allies can spare. It would be stupid
to continue to supply food, even indi
rectly, to our enemy, and the United
States, though slow to act, is now act
ing firmly. The neutral nations of
course are wailing, but if they are not
for us they are in a degree against us
and must stand the consequences.
President Wilson, being a humani
tarian, insists that the neutrals named
must be permitted to ship into Ger
many dairy products provided that
they can give guarantees that such
products will be consumed only by
women and children and other non
combatants. This is kindly, but ig
nores the fact that the German women
are doing most of the work in the em
pire, releasing all the men for fighting.
Great Crops in America.
The success of the American cam
paign for the increase of production
Is demonstrated by the highly encour
aging government forecast of crops.
The acreage sown was immense and
the general outlook is for correspond
ingly immense yields of all grains ex
cept wheat, and even in wheat there
win be a fair average crop. The yield
of corn will be tremendous, and In a
word, the United States will have not
only an abundance of food grains for
Itself, but also great surplus stocks for
Its allies. The crop of potatoes will
be the biggest on record, and the hay
crop, also of prime importance, will
be heavy.
On the other hand, Food Controller
Batocki, says Germany's fruit and veg
etable harvest is far below the aver
age and that the yield of grain will be
"as good as in 1915," which was a
year of drought and miserable crops in
the empire.
The senate is still trying to formu
late a law to regulate the distribution
and use of the country's food and prob
ably other supplies of vital Importance,
and has agreed to voteon the bill on
July 21. The long and patience ex
hausting wrangle over this measure
has been caused largely by the deter
mination of the "drys" to take advan
tage of the circumstances and make
It a prohibition law. Whether the dis
tillation of whisky shall be prohibited,
whether the stocks in bond shall be
commandeered and used for munitions,
whether beer and wine shall survive
or perish, and a dozen other like ques
tions have been the subjects of argu
ment and dispute. The inclusion or
exclusion of fuel, steel and other prod
ucts also has been debated at length.
Meanwhile President Wilson and Mr.
Hoover have fidgeted and fumed and
urged in vain, the food speculators
have been making immease unearned
profits, and the people marvel at the
stupidity of senators who are unable
to comprehend the necessity for speedy
action.
President Appeals to Business.
President Wilson on Wednesday is
sued an appeal to the business inter
ests of the country to display true loy
alty by foregoing unusual profits in
selling their goods to both the govern
ment and the public. He warned
them that extortion would not be tol
erated, and condemned especially the
ship owners who have maintained an
unfairly high schedule . of ocean
freight rates. At the same time mem
bers of the Council of National De
fense were holding important confer
ences with the heads of the great steel
concerns to arrange for a sufficient
supply of steel for war purposes,
The immediate result of this confer
ence was the assurance of the steel
producers that they would supply all
the steel needed by the government at
a price to be fixed after the conclu
sion of the trade commission's cost in
quiry. Thereupon the president au
thorized Chairman Denman of the ship
ping board to commandeer ships on
the stocks, shipyards and raw mate
rials if necessary and to begin expen
diture of the $750,000,000 fund for the
construction of a merchant marine.
The board has adopted the policy of
building as many steel ships as possi
ble and making up the deficiency with
wooden vessels.
Delay In sending in registration lists
caused a postponement of the great
day for which the registrants in the
national army have waited, the day of
the draft, the lottery of fate in which
the prizes are to be honorable service
for all selected and death and wounds
for many. During the week the war
department issued complete instruc
tions for the work of the exemption
boards so that it might be carried out
with expedition and with reasonable
assurance of fair and just treatment
for all selected with death and wounds
the training of the selected soldiers
are being rapidly constructed and all
other arrangements carried to com
pletion. It was made known in Washington
that every man of the 10,500,000 reg
istered will be drawn and that enough
of the first names as they come out of
the box will be used to fill the first
army. The rest will be on reserve and
will be called out in their order as long
as more are needed.
Yet another step In the making of
the great national army was taken last
week when President Wilson called in
to the federal service the entire Na
tional Guard and National Guard re
serve, the transfer to be completed by
August 5. This legalizes the sending
of the Guard outside the boundaries of
the nation.
"Various occurrences, more or less
unimportant in themselves, have
aroused our more than lenient govern
ment to the danger of permitting Teu
tons and their friends full liberty in
this country, and a number of German
employees of the diplomats in Wash
ington have been deported. Every day,
too, German agents and spies in other
parts of the country are being gathered
in and put where they can do no harm.
There is even some talk of legislation
for the regulation of newspapers print
ed in the German language. This
called forth a protest from the New
Yorker Herold and a covert threat of
disorders if It is carried out. The German-American
press continues to at
tack our government's conduct of the
war, to "strafe" Great Britain and to
sneer at RuSsia.
Getting After the I. W. W.
The Industrial Workers of the
World, a generally disreputable organ
ization that is openly opposed to the
war, is making all the trouble for the
country that it can by fomenting
strikes and riots in those parts of the
West where it is strong. It is accused
of being wholly pro-German and its do
ings are certainly treacherous and re
bellious. The war department has an
nounced that it is ready to do its part
in suppressing these disorders, and va
rious Western communities are taking
steps to rid themselves of the men who
stir them up. Bisbee, Ariz., was the
first town to act. The decent citizens
of that mining center rounded up 1,
197 I. W. W. members and sympathi
zers, loaded them on a cattle train and
deported them. Such mild treatment
trouble makers only go on to other
localities and continue their nefarious
propaganda. Work Is at a standstill
in many of the biggest mining and lum
ber camps of the country.
The department of labor last week
created the United States public serv
ice reserve, for the mobilization of
adult male volunteers for service in
employments of every kind, public and
private, which are necessary to effec
tive conduct of the war.
Russia's Drive on Lemberg.
Russia's re-awakened troops, direct
ed by General Brusslloff and command
ed by General Korniloff, continued
their great drive in Galicia last week
and inflicted a tremendous blow on the
Austro-German forces by breaking
through their lines and capturing
Halicz. This city is regarded as the
key to Lemberg, the immediate objec
tive of the Russian offensive, and last
year was unsuccessfully attacked with
Brusslloff from the north. This time
he moved on It from the south and
took It with comparative ease, togeth
er with a great number of prisoners.
The German and Austrian armies were
separated and their morale so broken
that Kornlloff was enabled to nise his
Cossack cavalry in the pursuit with
telling effect.
Some distance to the north the Rus
sians fiercely attacked in the Pinsk
sector, gaining considerable ground,
and the activity of their' artillery In the
Riga region presaged an attempt to
break that, the strongest part of the
Teuton line in the east.
On the west front the Germans
staged a successful drive against the
British close to the Flemish coast, forc
ing them back across the Yser river
in the dunes. British trenches were
captured to a depth of 600 yards on a
front of 1,400 yards. This German at
tack may be part of an attempt to
reach Dunkirk, or it may have been
made to forestall a British drive along
the coast that would threaten the Ger
man submarine bases.
There was tremendous fighting in
France, the Germans making desperate
attacks especially along the Chemin
des Dames. But the French withstood
the assaults stoutly and when they
were driven back anywhere, invariably
recaptured the lost ground.
Germany's Internal Troubles.
Germany's internal ferment is in
creasing, the opponents of Chancellor
von Bethmann-Hollweg are growing
In numbers and boldness, and the cab
inet seems to be breaking up. But all
this can have no immediate effect on
the prosecution of the war, for it is
internal and the general staff, headed
by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. domi
nates the entire imperial government.
Changes in the ministry mean little
more than the substitution of one set
of puppets for another, and even the
fall of the chancellor will be of only
academic interest to the outside world.
It would appear that the war must go
on until the kaiser, the crown prince
and the Prussian militaristic chiefs
are eliminated, or until the German ar
mies meet such crushing defeats that
the people take matters into their own
hands which means the same thing.
The main committee of the reichs
tag refused to vote a war credit unless
the government declared its policy re
garding peace and reform, and this the
government refused to do. Since the
demand of the committee is supported
by a majority in the reichstag, a min
isterial crisis was inevitable. The em
peror himself went so far as to issue
a manifesto declaring for equal fran
chise In Prussia. This, if granted, will
decidedly weaken the dominance of the
Junkers In the Prussian government.
The attempt to restore the Manchu
empire in China met with dismal fail
ure, and now turns out to have been
financed by Germany. Another bril
liant stroke of foreign policy by Zim
mermann. The young emperor again
abdicated and General Chang Hsun,
his sponsor and the kaiser's agent, re
tired to the imperial city section of
Peking, where he and his fast dwin
dling army were hemmed In by the re
publican forces.
The weekly report of the British ad
miralty on submarine activities was
very gratifying, showing only 17 mer
chantmen were sunk,, while 17 others
that were attacked, escaped. During
the same period arrivals in British
ports were 2,898, and sailings 2,79a
xne American steamer Kansas was ds
helps the town that applies it, but the stroyed by a German U
UNCERTAINTY HAR
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RELATIONS SEVERED u,,..
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uuuntry
ACTUALLY AT WAR.
MOB
EXPECT EARLY
Venizelos' DMiati
are Bindina MiSR,.,
States Will Probably be
Washington. - Uncertainty .
Greece's status in the vu l to
cleared away with the receim
cial information that n. 01 ft
ormaf . week ,
v.UUxu. uuly nas severed w'
with all four of the c.l 'S
but is actually in a state of J ,
them
villi
stat
Information has reached th
denarttnftnt tViat tv .
lut: 1 1 r UGir . .
in Paris has notified the Frenrh
ernment that Greece o.nnsu ' g0'i
a ftiii haiij,an .... .:. c,s aerseif
accord.
a full belligerent and will act
ingly. He said it was not
Pessary
i.wixLai ueciaration nf
o-,v.uuraii, iceis It jg
bv the delnratinna
at Salnnika hv Prflmin. ir, I
" 'viuici venip no
took with him to Athens all thV?
oyuiiBjuuiupB auu committments ct
mo tempuiary oaioniKi governmfm
A a a kalliffannnl C . -
- ""swcui, Greece is expected
uu who uu ume in moDiiizmg her war
resources and joining effectively I
wxuuivu aiiicu uyerauons in th
Balkans.
The strength of the Venizelos armt
is placed at aDout 60,000 men. and n.
remnants of the former regular army I
wane nor over auuou now, has ail
times been mobilized to a total oil
200,000 men, anad is capable of reach
4n O Art Artrt 1
me uvv,vw, ii luumuuiis are pro.
vided.
The regulars practically were dJ
mobilized by the allies when frond
king Constantine held the organize
tlon .as a threat to the allies' rear!
but can quickly be called to the colonl
again.
While it is understood the new got
ernment has not yet mobilized tto
army, the classes of 1916 and 1917,
previously prevented by the allies I
from being called out, were called !o
the colors about two weeks ago.
A Greek mission may be sent to the!
United States, not only to negotiaul
for supplies for this army, but
to oresent Greece's situation as to M
general word reconstruction after ftJ
war. For the present it is probabisi
Greece will be munitioned by tiel
allies.
RUSSIAN AND AUSTRO-
GERMANS ARE AT DEATH GRIP
Germans Are Worsted in Campaign
From Baltic to Roumanian Frontier
Against the Teutonic allies have sol
fered reverses in the loss to m
Russians of a part of the village of
Lodzinay, in the Lomnica river region
of Galicia: in the repulse of an attaci
Tf.l.... I
by the Russians northeast or u
and in the Champagne region
Prance wheer the French drove them
from positions they had recaptured, in
flicting heavy casualties on them.
From Riea .on the Baltic Sea, to
the Rumanian frontier, the Russian
and Austro-Germans along the entire
front are eneaeed in battle, but
cept in Galicia, where the Russiau
continue to develop their aa
or hold back thrusts of the ieuw
little has yet become known concert
inor tV, a nnpratinns
Not alone have the Russians'"
Hrvo in finiiria made consiuw
ble gains of terrain, but their capture
of men, guns and material na w -enormous.
From July 1 to Jutf
according to a Russian official i
i oa ciQ nffirprs and men"1
iu. m : ninH armies nave
tiio x eutuuiu oujou .
made prisoners by General Busi
j iQ-,iLitVirpfi hea
xorctJH miiu llllltl-J,'" . -.
light guns, twenty-eight trenc
tars, im niacins ba
one guns of other ciesciu
been taxen. iate
The Germans in . ,naui
again attempted with large
bodies
men to recapture positions
them recently near mow
the Teton.
SENATOR REED ATTACKS i
FOOD COMMISSIONER
Washington.-A wrangi c.
President's appointment oi n
Hoover as food administrator
pied virtually allthe days -
the Senate on the food Jonl
but meantime considerable f
, I 111 Oil I
on compromise amenu"- -
made bv the leaders w tf0
conferences. For more w
hours Senator Reed c - d ti
Hoover. Senator Fneiau
food administration.
NEW YORK GUARDSMEN fll
ANSWER CALL
New York-.New York took oj
more war-line apye.- rfl
members of the "ti0
mhli at the various ainon ed.
mum nreoaratory to enter us
ttri rvlce August 5- A. .ji 0
r: .otr city, whicn, -
state regiments, will w g
sixth division of
The actual guard
tire state is about Sf