Washington, Dec. 8. —President Wil mas Roll Call Week, December 16 to 23, “and thus send forth to the whole human family the Christmas greeting stands im greatest need.” The lamation, prepared before the Presi dent departed tor Europe, follows: To the American People: One year ago 22,000,200, Ameri eans, by enrolling as members of the Red Cross at Christmas time, sent to the men who were fighting our battles overseas a stimulating message of cheer and good will They made it clear that our people were of their own free choice unit ed with their Government in the determination to Wage war with the instrumenis struction but also by every in their Ages the and and renew the spirit of the and of the homes which they 1 resented The friends American Red Crosse in Italy, glum and France have will tell again, the story the Red Cross morale in the camps and at the and we to be that we been p be of service ferings and whose heritage of humanity Now, by grace Cross Christmas mMessag is not only ol de means power to repay the ray of invader sustain ihe Bel and ana of told, of how workers restored hospitals, In the cantonments, ought very proud ermitted to suf have th to the whose 5 glory are the God's message Ol be a LIFE SENTENCE FOR THEFT. Third Conviction For Prisoner Results in Heavy Penalty In W. Va. When tence for the third ‘ B were for thr vely He Was previous sentences years, re both Biaet 1 ten spect roled and when YEArs He is old. WILSON LAUDS SCHWAB. President Is Reluctant To Part With Emergency Fleet Director. Washington. —The Charles M h of the Eme ar Se gency aw less message (ron Geo Wa House. The “1 accep cause hinoet SNINETO0 ge vou CHILE CONSIDERS U. S. OFFER. Likely To Accept Mediation In Dis pute With Peru. The consid NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN. Eight Hundred Are Boats At League Island. 4 3Y More than boats at |RO4 wor Islan wo ery gone ! to handle dr solder pontoon learned presses, gplice wires, wing floats women work 49 hours a week and hulls and The same as the men construe SCORES RED FLAG. Orimson Banner Protest Against Law And Order. New York —'""When the carried upon our streets it pro test against law and therefore a men nce to institutions.” lared President John Grier Hibben of Prince ton University In an address the Association of Life Insurance Pres fdents. Dr. Hibben was emphasizing the obligations of liberty which, he sald, the sons of America had estab. lished anew, All d flag | is a re our free de before | ! i | | well ag a message of good wilk But peace does not mean that we can fold our hands. It means fur- ther sacrifice. We must prove conclusively to an attentive world that America is permanently aroused to the needs of the new era, our old Indifference gone for- ever. The exact nature of the future service of the Red Cross will de pend upon the program of the as sociated governments, but there is immediate need today for every heartening word and for every helpful service. We must not for: get that our soldiers and our sall- ors are still under orders and still have duties to perform of the high est consequence and that the Red Cross Chrisunas means a great deal them. The people of the saddened re turning kre to lands, moreover home today where there homes, that are must have the the with no Assurance hearts of our people the dark and doubtful days ahead. Let us, far as help them back to faith and in future happiness them in 80 we Can, in mercy the Red 8 great hour Ags president of in-thi value of such conscious A MesSEAE« American people, 1 thou y if every American woul Red Cross for 1919 a forth t the Ch nd is walls 4 greatest Woonnow Wiis THE COUNTRY AT LARGE. i TO EXTEND LONG DISTANCE. Connections Offered To Local By Burleson, Line ALMOST TO THE RHINE, Several Of American Units Are Withir 25 Miles Of The River. PETROGRAD DESERTED. The Population And Dr Out Terrorisr ven By Starvation HUNS LEFT INFERNAL MACHINES, Attempt Made To Blow Up Brussels Paiace Of Justice, Pari blow The Germans had up the Palace of is, according to a Brussels It fou by the oe to soir from the palace inferns place d found ammunition machines, {2 have 161 (Germans cle some gunpowder and BANS ALL SUGAR COWLS, Manager Of Childs’ Restaurants Says They Are Not Sanitary. Philadelphia Childs’ restaurants the eating in this city where the sugar bowl has not made its reappearance. J. A. Holmes manager of Childs’ restaurant at 120% Chestnut street, explained it had been decided not to return to the free bowl are among few places PERSHING TELLS STORY OF WAR Commander in Detailed Report Relates How the U. S. Men Won. SETS MARCH 21 AS CRISIS Views American Operations Prior to That Date as Part of Their Train- ing ~— Pays Supreme Tribute to Officers and Men. Washington, Dee, 5.—Gen. John J. as commander of the American expe lic Wednesday by Secretary Baker. port to the secretary, covering opera- tions up to November 20, after the German collapse. It closes with these words from the leader of the great army in France, expressing his feeling for those who served under him: “l pay the supreme tribute to our officers and soldiers of the line. When I think of their heroism, their patience under hardships, their unflinching spir it of offensive action, I am filled with emotion which I am unable to express, Their immortal they have earned eternal gratitude of our country.” The report Pershing's deeds are and the with General for Fran pave the way for the army that smash begins departure to ns to German resists the Meuse and give vital ald to t in allies forcing months Germany to its knees 10 later, Crisis on March 21. Pershing March Americar General ters before which th bri great nat hed and a crucial ad 1 1 slowed periority and strong position, than gEaineaG a far to onr with greater enems elves before the tured the village of Vaux precis Stand Between Paris and Foe. “Meanwhile our Second corps, under Second was relies aid fon Maj. Gen. George W. Read, had been organized for the command of our divisions with the British, which were held back in training areas or as signed to second-line defenses. Five of the ten divisions were withdrawn from the British area in June, three to re- lleve divisions In Lorraine and the Vosges and two were sent to the Paris area to join the group of American divisions which stood between the city and any further advance of the enemy in that direction.” By that time the great tide of Amer- jean troop movements to France was could be used freely. The Forty-sec- ond, In line east of Reims, faced the German assault of July 15 and “held thelr ground unflinchingly;” on the right flank four companies of the Twenty-eighth division faced “ad- vancing waves of German Infantry,” and the Third division held the Marne line, opposite Chateau Thierry, against powerful artillegy and Infantry attack. Single Reggment Checks Enemy. “A single regiment of the { In our military annals on thig occa- | sion,” General Pershing says. “It pre vented the crossing at points on its front while, on flank, the Germans who had foot- ing pressed forward. in directions, attacks with points certain either gained a Our met mens, the firing German at criti in throwing three counter-attacks and German cal succeeded two divisions into complete confusion, capturing G00 Thus the stage counter-offensive which with the smashing of the ener | Marne victory to risoners."” the beginning 1 I Was et for saniient, overwhel brought the allles and ie Un States in the eventful months followed The strong that General helped Marshal Foch to have intimation is Pershing's to mivice reach his de strike, Counter-Offensive Opens. General Pershing contin “The great fc Chateau cision Thierry Marne se char the deep WAS taking y of this turned t bers of | defense in artillery, but ugh five darvs - tinned continue First American Army Formed. describes In some detail auet On HE : re ser $4) ag ie #1} opern Twenty-sixtl Third Thirty-second With thus cv he nat the } the reduction long planned American mention second, division Marn« } «1, General Pershing write =, jon of Twenty-eighth W untion on the front enter Ren ery and alr involving alded by pegan * night, of Port sur eastward and ater t of the of Argonne wa n over, the Colonial rench ding Mihiel French Rey Corps, on above Verdun, being trans Pershing’s command French ritish, and the was the Inrgest enlarged to carry ge forest Rng enteenth helghts ral rred to General The combined nerican ftie, the ation assembly « alr forces 1 lized for report says, ver engaged on the y that time In a 1p sin Battle of St. Mihiel. Of the reduction St. salient General Pershing says: “After four hours’ ration the seven American divisions in the front line advanced at § a. m. on September 12, assisted by a limit. ed number of tanks manned partly by of the Mihiel artillery prepa- “These divisions, accompanied by groups of wire-cutters and others armed with bangaiore torpedoes, went | through the successive bands of | barbed wire that protected the ene- | my's front line and support trenches in irresistible waves on schedule time, breaking down all defense of an en- emy demoralized by the great volume of our artillery fire and our sudden approach out of the fog. “Our First corps advanced to Thiau- court, while our Fourth corps curved back to the southwest through Non- sard, The Second Colonial French corps made the slight advance re- quired of It on very difficult ground, and the Fifth corps took its three ridges und repulsed a counter-attack. “A rapld march brought reserve reg- into Vigneulles In the early morning, where it linked up with patrols of our Fourth corps, closing the salient and forming an new line west of Thiaucourt to Vigneulles und beyond Fresnes-en- Woevre, 16,000 Prisoners Taken. “At a cost of only 7.000 casualties mostly light, we had taken 16,000 pris oners und 443 guns, a great quantity of material, released the inhubltants of many villages from enemy domina- tion and established our lines in a po sition to threaten Metz, “This signal success of the Ameri can First army In first offensive was of prime importance. The allies found they had a formidable army to aid them, and the enemy learned final ly that he had The report shows for the [rst time its one to reckon with.” cuted coup, General had cle the way ared fort of the fo win =a Americt its crown of the Meuse The of this phases Septem) ly took the thins sector ber 20 positions Battle of “on nin a The First, Forty-second Eighty the line first ame equal to the Other Corps Active. commander in ch of the divis British arm The lose ht sight with French or this t He COTps oon me tells of of the Second ells « seventh Britis! whore prising Twenty iirtieth in the on the Hindenburg line Quentin a tunnel Of the total divisions, canal passes strength of the tionary force, General Pershi ports There are in Europe altogether, In regiment sanitars the Italian nd the organizations at Mdrmansk, also in the States men cluding a and some ite with army a cluding these en route from approxin ately 2.053.847 our losses First U. 8. Planes in May. “The first fron together The completely in Lerman airplane received May we have ceived 1.370 Americar ad b American production and first squadron crossed the 1018 tanks, we upon the i we cluding ai lines on J “As to rely were 0 npelled French Here less fort to 1 $y ina 107F however, 1 the that the French produ tion barely meet the require ments of their own armies, “It should be fully realized that French government has always taken a most liberal attitude and has been most anxious to give us every possi- ble assistance in meeting our deficien- in these as well as In other Our dependencies upon for artillery, aviation and were reason could +) cles France not been ex. tion.” Says Question of Permanent Reorgan. ization of Army Has Been Deferred. Washington, Dec. 5.-~The question deferred for consideration after the close of the peace ence. Secretary Baker, in his annual report says this course is determined determined the future relations of the world." For temporary purposes, however, Mr. Baker announces that he will lay before congress a plan of reorganiza- tion for the regular army. “which shall continue as the nucleus of any future military establishment.” The secretary also Indicates his In- | tention to press for perpetuation by | law of the strong general staff organi- i Small Things Once Precious. In the reign of Henry VILL a needle was 80 valuable a thing that an Eng- lish comedy was written about the loss of one. In the reign of Queen Ellza- beth, n palr of gloves were held to be a fitting gift for the sovereign. Henry IV of France, a poor and a frugal monarch, committed one extravagance, which was commented upon by the court and noted down in Sully's me- molrs. He used as many handker chiefs as he required when he had a cold in his head DEFY FATHER TIME Passing Years Need Not Bring Uselessness. California Writer Arigses in Wrath to Deny That Seventy. Two Should Be Considered a “Ripe Old Age.” A newspaper item, 8 few days ago, numed So- old age of man died “at ripe geventy-twa"” Commenting on this the Los Angeles Times says that seventy-two is not a the A ripe old age Is an age when the person who has attained it is ready for old Father Time to along and pluck him from the tree of life, If you will take a bird's-eye view of the ne- tivities of the world at present hour, or even If will about you In your own community, you will see that men and 1 i seventy two are among the foremost hustiers everyw here, Active heads of great natl t business come the You look o » men in the bigge businesses, leaders n hy ‘en l am thirt er than 1 was when T In ttle a almost wl Q khy Te to, ang everybody In 1 cheated me and gnenking Mological. think of they do of me” 0, some of them thers didn’ So, iv. I s'pose 1 don’t my feller citizens than — Kansans City Star. any worse Mount Ararat Now a Republio The announcement of the formation of “the Independent Republic of Ara. rat” will brush away the fallacy which regards Ararat as just a mountain ine stead "of a couniry, albeit the very mountain on which the ark rested when the waters of the Deluge began to abate. Genesis Is explicit enough to have prevented the mistake, It might be thought; it says quite dis tinetly: “The ark rested upon the | i i { Put to western Eorope Ararat has long been known as the place where the dove first plucked the olive branch and returned with her message of hope te the Ark,
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