President Wilson Pleads for Pre- paredness Against Foes Abroad and Within. MESSAGE READ TO CONGRESS Larger Army and Navy Urged Trained Citizenry the Nation's Greatest Defense — Disloyal Acts of Foreign-Born Citi zens Scored—No Fear of War. Washington, Dec, 7.-At a joint session af the house and seaute the president to day delivered his annual message He sald in part as follows: Slace 1 last had the dres you on the stale of the the r of nations on other the sea, which had then only dizclose its portentous . proport! extended its threatening and sinister scope untid It has swept within its lame 2om portion of every quarter of U globe excepting our hemisphere, has altered ' face of international affairs, ana presents a prospect of reorganizs amd reconstruction fen and peoples have upon (oo attempt befare We have stood apart, st It was our mu the day of read tion we earnestly we can be of infinite service In this neutrality, to which they bidden not only by their se their habitual detach t tica of Europe but ception of international ’ America have become ©or of and more vital cor ty of inter i! moral partnership in affairs, mor rly” consclous of the m ! thies and interests a: m stand privilege of ad Union the #id ol begun to ns [LAN whole now on such as states MAY con I duties w t in the case wd the test Mexico by not and Weer under Ane Bg will aid § no egard to her ail Ameri f Hostile 4 i Rival ha g beat d arts of peace belligerent, 1 War Their t apd of the free | vd the uncer ¥ lens It Conquest not in our reckoning principles But just 3 $ development and nmolestod turbed or ind the undis government of our own lives ups own principles of right and we resent, fromm whatever the aggression we ourselves will not : ice, We insist upon security in prosecuting our self-chosen Hnes of na- tonal development. We do mores than that. We demand it also for others. We do nol confine our enthusiasm for indi. vidual liberty and free national develop- ment to the Incidents aud movements of affairs which affect only ourselves. Wa feel it wherever there is a people that irice to walk in these difficult paths of independence and right From the firat we have made common cause with all partisans of iberty on this side of the ta, and have deemed it as Important that our pelghbors should be free from ull outside domination ss that we our stlves should be; have set America aside as a whole ‘for the uses of independ sii tations and politica! freemen Might to Maintain Right. Out of such thoughts grow all our poli- <lesw. We regard war merely as a means of asserting the rights of a people against nggression, And we are as florvely foal aus of coercive or dictator. al power with- fa our own nation as of nggression from without. We will not maintain a stand- fog army except for uses which are as necessary In times of peace as in times of war, and we shall always see to it that our military peace establishment is oo longer than is actually and dbontinuous- fy needed for the uses of days in which fo enemies move against us, But we «lo beliave in a body of (ree citizens ready and sufficient to take care of themselves nnd of the governments which they have sel up to serve them. In our constitutions themselves we have commanded that “the vight of the people to keep and bear faring shall not be infringed,’ and our confidence has been that our safety In tines of danger would lie In the rising of the gation to take care of itself, as the farmers rose at Lexington, Put war has never besn a mere matter of men and guns. If ia a thing of discl- Plned might. If our citizens are ever to fighl offectively upon a sudden summons. they raust know how modern fighting is SGope, and what to do when the summons commas to render themselves immediately avaliable and Pamediately effective. And Mrter the government must be thelr servant In this matter, must supply them with the training they need to take care of them selves and of {t. The military arm of thelr government, which they will not allow to direct them, they may properly use to serve them and make thelr independence Bocure their independence merely but t rights also of with whom they have made Cruse, should they also be put in jeopardy They must be fitted to play the role In the world, and particularly in this hemisphere, for which they are qual fled by principle and by chastened tion to play It is with thease ideals in plans of the department of adeaguate national defense which will be laid before you to sanction fect nx soon as they can be tinized and discus They the essential first steps, and present sufficient h contempiate an increase standing force of the regular army from it strength of 5.023 officers and 102,956 o d men of all services to a strength of 7.138 officers and 134.707 en. listed men, or MLB43, all told, all ser ces, rank and fille, by the addition of companies of const artillery 15 com panies of engineers, ten in- fantry, four regiments of field artillery I four aero squadrons, besides 00 of. cars required for a great variety of extra rvice, especially the allddmportant d of training the izo { y of shall presently non-comnmi sloned ers for rv : rill recruit ald ot own those common great ambi mind that the war for more were concalved you, and } which put into ef- properly gcru urge and sed seem to me they seem of the regiments of whic CORSATY quota term prdnan hospital i ot} tuxtlinry ander the re sdequate for duties, t ha not on wits and my posts, but in the Hawallan is wnd In Port Bi Force of Trained of making its some pa and upon arise, th ting the iplined citi 12.00 a ) years HOON be carried built or bulldiy i 1 estimates of suryt al and standards of classification followed by the general board of the department, an effective navy consisting of 27 battle. ships ¢ » first line, six battle cruisers, 2» batileahips of the second line. ten ar. mored cruisers, 13 scout crulsers five first-class cru three second.claga cruisers, ten third-cla cruisers, WR de troyers, 18 fest ines, 157 coast sub narines, six monitors, 9 gunboats, four supply ships, 15 fuel ships, four trans. ports, three nders to torpedo vessels, eight vessels of special types, and two immune ships. This would be a navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our tradiiion ¥ ers, subin:g 4 Trade and Shipping. ut armies and Instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to consider tho supreme matter of national self-sufficiency and security in all ts aspects, There are other great matters which will be thrust upon our at tention whether we will or not. There ls, for example, a very pressing question of trade and shipping Involved In this great problem of national sflequacy. It Is necessary for many welghiy reasons of national efficiency and development that we should have a great merchant ma rine. The great merchant leat we once used to make us rich, that great body of sturdy saflors who used to carry our flag into every mses, and who were the pride and often the bulwark of the nation, we have almost driven out of existence by Inexcunable neglect and Indifference and by a hopelessly blind and provincial pol ley of so-onlled economic protection. It fs high fime we repaired our mistake and resumed our commercial independance on the sens, For it Is a question of Indepomdence If other nations go to war or seek to hamper each other's commerce. our mer chants, It seems, are at thelr mercy to do with as they pleases, We must ue thelr ships, and use them as they deter mine, We have not ships enough of our own. We eannot handle our own com. merce on the seas. Our Independence is provincial, and is only on land and with in our own borders. We are not likely to be permitted to use oven the ships of other nations in rivalry of their own trade, our wide and are without means to commerce even where the doors are open and our goods desired Buch a situation Is not to be endured it Is of capital Importance not only that United 8t should be its own carrier ind enjoy the in dependence which only an mer chant marine would gis o tha the Amerienn hemisphere as should enjoy a like Independence sufficiency, if It 18 not to b the tangle of European affairs the whol extend the nes on the seas economi adeaunts & it, but al independence politic] unity iR very indeed, Moreover we can dey fectiy merican policy our own-not ships of pence, careying creating gerion lop no true without war, hut and carrying } friendabipa and render services to all Intere the They must forth between more ing* indispensable on this slde of move tantly the Americas, Ti only shuttles that can weave abric of sympathy, comprehors ) “ nd mutual in which we clothe our policy of America for Ameri Ships Are Neaded. of buliding up marine America ndertake undertake like task admirable enterpris and vigor. and it seams to ifeat dictate of wisdom rot avery may stand degired and shou the bul tration Valer back and ey are the the delicat f con dependence Ans The task rohant adequate private and atid amongst that to be cpendencs possible way American regi sere Lhe) 2 } 8» to open currents have yet arterias of yet | he two A the I fr SE 00 ix HL ¥% 0 for prob. appropriations and §% neous debt and the hal redemptions LO the will be re. : THE emergency } ntinusd beyond Its pres ent time Umita n, would prod dur ing the half year remaining. about forty-one millions. The duty of one cent per pound on sugar, if continued, would produce dur the two months of the fiscal year remaining after the first of May, about fifteen millones. These two sums, amounting together to £58.05 000 if added to the revenies of the second half of the fiscal yea® would yield the treasury at the end of the year an avall able balance of F660 06.78 The additional revenues required tn carry out the program of military and naval preparation of which I have spok- en, would, as at present sstimated, be for the fiscal year HIT, EN00. Those fizurea, taken with the figures for (he prasent fiscal year which [ have already given, disclose our financial problem for the year 1917 How shall we obtain the new revenuas? ft seems to me a clear dictate of pru dent stateamanship and frank finance that in what we are now, I hope, about to undertake we should pay as we go The people of the country are antitied tn know just what burdens of taxation they ars to earry, and to know from the outset now. The new bills should be pald by in- ternal taxation, To what sources, then, shall we turn? We would be following an almost unl versal example of modern governmenta if we were to draw the greater part or even the whole of the revenues we nand from the income taxes By somewhal lowering the present Hmita of sxemptio~ ind the figure at which the surtax shall begin to be impossd, and by increasing atep by step throughout the present grad untion, the surtax liseif, the Income taxes. ie #8 present apportioned would yield sums sufficient to balanes the books of the treasury at the and of the flseal yea: HIT without anywhere making the bur den unreasonably or opnreasively heavy The precise reckonligs are fully and ac urately set out in the ronort of the see retary of the treasury, which will bs im edintely Inld before you And there are many additional sources of revenue which can justly bs rewrted fo without hampering the industries of the country or pulling any too great charge upon Individual expenditues, A one per cent tax per gallon on gasoline ney vield, at the present GOOOOOG: a tax of atftdmotiles and estimaled 60 cents and internal A stamp tax on bank I kn pi D0, a tax of ZO centa per | tax of 0 cents iron stoel a country of great In it on o f taxation, with anywher sively iertakings wlustry of bills of naptha would production, § horsepower” oh explosion ens i, per £16 O00 O00 ohably on Doar proba $18,000 pig iron, ton on fal $10 000 O00 a nnd ght to he euny 1G The Danger Within. you today the ti nation to 1 to muke » the linpartial and In the world w ‘ve to have been provide «1 to it 1 have in n ight of any immediate or danger arising out of our other nt We are at th all the nations of the world, and there in hope ths 30 and sorious Brave as some dt and policy huve bos have apoken to ohere find partic relation tions peace w Lon ir Con 2 ere hread of reason (o ue rey between other lead to any relations Her turn out to ravest threats and safely Own borders ates r other flags who have into the who st Be Crushed re anif-p 3 Atrio of tt thinks : bringin Credit are Many ce repeatedly trom de dally fone about whi ated ‘are being 10 decade, it is ex for our very eyes oven and are like! rapidly and mors v he days immediately ahead of us. when peace has returned to the world and na ons of more take up thei tasks of commerce and Indusiry with the energy of those who must bestir seives to build anew Just what these changea will be no one can certainly fore see or confidently predict. There are no caleulable, because no stable, elements + ithe problem. Whe most we can do is to make certain that we have the ne essary nstromentalites of Information constant ly at our service so that we may be sur that we know exactly what we are deal ing with when we come to act if should be necessary to act at all We must frst coriainly know what it is that we are sesking to adapt ourselves to. | may ask the privilege of addressing vou more at lenwth on this Important matter a little later In your session. Transportation Problem. The tranmportation problem fs an ex. coadingly serious and pressing one In this country. There has from time to time of late been reason to fear that our rail- roads would not much longer be able fo cope with It successfully as at present squipped and co-ordinated. 1 suggest that It would be wise to provide for a commission of inquiry to ascertain by a horough canvass of the whole question whether our laws am at present framed nd administered are as serviceable as hey might be in the solution of the prob. fom. It Is obviously a problem that les at the very foundation of our efMclency as a people. Buch an Inquiry cought to draw out every circumstance and opinion worth considering and we need to know all sides of the matter If we mean to fo anything in the field of federal legisla. on For what we are seeking now, what in my mind is the single thought of this message, is national eMelency and se. urity, We serve a great nation We ould serve It In the spirit of ite peculiar ronius It Is the genius of common men ‘or self-government, Industry, Justice, Hh. rity and pears. We should see to it that t Inca no Instrument, no facility or vigor of law, to make It sufliclent to play is part with energy, safety, and assured success. In this we are no partisans but heralds and prophets of a yew age. mare padi LAUTODE One fhe | | | § : i i | REFEREES NAMED Dr. Carber, Superintendent Of Phila deiphia Schools, Appointed To State Board Of Education, y ph Brumbaug of the Harrisburg Governor announced the mn workmen's compensation referees, and filled a number of other positions in the ta workmen appointment compensation y as well as the vacancies in the Water Commission and Btite Board oi ' Supply Fducation. Sials ile Ap pointments are as follow WwW. B former ant, Philadelphia Jacob Snyder, boiler inspector, ing Spring, Biair county I.. E. Christley, ler. police liculer Scott, Hoar -atdaw, But atiorney Com former County and Paul Houck, cierk to missioners of Schuylkill legislator, Shenandoah Thomas J. Hability adjuster, W. WW, Cham Tri y vy L114 ‘ittsburgh. poe, sport 00T Ww Bed ier, Scranton, 3 pores {Y, lander, Bala, Mont sry county E. XK. Saylor, M nt walter works former factory superintende and ingpector, H. Young tie Hubler, allorney-atdaw, Scran wus appointed a Compensation Harry Myers, Keesport, and J. | Wills, inty, were appoint chief of police, Mc }, Means, former Heg Brookville, Jefferson d chief clerks fer of ompensation Bureau anounced the ap Kelsey, Lock the vernor als of Oliver Jeri the nher of erintendent &ppoil Jacob Against enfirag Grundy Company incorporated. H aver 1Gy ia the prin i but thre by individuals. all ¥ also spproved the the following companies on to nineteen electric com ir Butler county Glen & Maxwell Ferry Com iv, Maxwell, $65,000, Noves Electric Light Company, Re £0) novo, $6 South Electric pany, Renovo, $5,000. Hammersley Watar novo, $6.000, Atlas Paper Box Company, Philadel phia, $5,000 saver Steel Company, 15.0600. Charles E. Bard Company, piano manufacturers, Harrisburg, $5,000. Dickson Borough Home Improve nent Company, Scranton, $6,000, Hazen Sand Company, Bangor, $10, HW, United Mercantile Company, Pitts. burgh, $10,000. Schmidt-McCormick Company, motal manufacturers, Pittsburgh, $5,000, Samuel C. Kane, Inc, real estate, Jhiladelphia, $5,000. Red Path-Brockway Chautauqua ivatem, Pittaburgh, $20,000. Realty Servioe Company, Juakertown, $6,000. The Natural Gas Building & Loan ‘ssociation of Tarentum, Tarentum, 26500,000. The Quality Knitting Mills, Phila Adelphia, $50,000, Pitteburgh Federal Track Sales Company, Pittsburgh, $25000. Kensington Lumber Company, New Lensington, $26,000, Nemo Theater Company, Philader phin, $5,000. Matthiag & Freeman Paper Com sany, Philadelphia, $50,080, Overbrook Heights Building & Loan Association, Philadelphia, $1,000,000, Joseph J. Lifter Building & Loan Arsociation, Philadelphia, $1,000,000. Fifty first Street Bullding & Loan Association, Philadelphita, $1,000,000, Light Com Renovo Company, Re Pitlsburgh, Inc. When 2 rich man ali may: “Well he af {tf with him.’ dies the people L tage any couldn't are best Crreee Sit the Dr. bowels a laxative for liver, Pellet for Ady Good Selection. made that old card player & War news censor.” “Good. He'll pass anything.” “They've . 5 Not Gray Malrs but Tire 1m make us jook oder than we are. Weep your Eyes young and you will look young. After the Movies wuiways Murine Your Eyes Don’t weil your age. The Proper Way. “1 thought you qua: reeled laundress over the ir “Bo 1 did, hut that smoothed over.” with the ming? difficulty The Metamorphosis. “1d like to know one thing.” “What is that?” “When a cowboy ball player, is he turned catcher?” base onw becomes a into a An Improved Quinine, Does not Cause Nervousness nor Ringing in Head Ihe happy combination of laxatices io LAX. ATIVE OMOQUININI the Quinite tn this form have a far Delior than tho srdinary Quinine, and .t an be taken Dy uy- we withoul affecting Lh ad. Bemonbeor to sall for the full na vo Broo Quielns, Look for signature o roy 3 nakes “Wont Frank Author—]1 sent few anced Criticism, you a copy of my latest book a sup- Ago, f over £7 need over it! throe times Then interest days pose 8 § Why, Indeed! I cant Bay eroly trying to about town proud lighted in Oar ienl, our y, Our po- ve ori cheap moving HARD TO DROP But Many Drop It ng Calif, wife talks about cof 0 drop Mocha and ‘osium a trial, but my 80 shattored that | was a ck and of course that all kinds of ails. id not want to acknowledge caf fee caused the trouble for | was very fond of it At that time a frioand came io live with us, and I noticed that after he had been with us a week he would not drink his coffee any more. | asked him the reason. He replied: ‘I have not had a headache since | left off drinking coffees, some months ago, till last week when 1 be gan again here at your table. I dom't see how anyone can like coffee, any. way, after drinking Postum!’ “1 said nothing, but at once ordered a package of Postum. That was five months ago, and we have drank oo coffee since, except on two occasions when we had company, and the resalt each time was that my husband could not sleep, but lay awake and tossed and talked half the night. We were convinced that coffee caused his sul fering, so he returned to Postum, oon: vinced that coffee was an enemy, in stead of a friend, and he is troubled no more by insomnia. “I have gained 8 pounds in and my nerves have ceased to quiver it seems so easy row to quit coffee that caused our aches and alls and take up Postum."” Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich, Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal-the original form-- must bo well boiled. 15c and 25¢ pack: ages, instant Poatum-—a soluble powder dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 20c and 50c tina, Both kinds are equally delicious and sost aout the same per cup. “There's a Reason” for Postum. ~a0ld by Grocers. nerves were be
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