v-c .-; v-' MSTCBlPaiW nH. awr "' r? .f v " 'a ' x ) . i ii.fi t ' ; e .-. , !S, j, .' i-Pt.s KVENING LKDGEB-I-HIJlJADELPHIA, MONDAY, APtiWJ 13, Hfr '." t)a,i tfmEITEPLAN PEACE DOOMED v imature Death of Meas- sVure in Senate Seems to j". Be Crtainty WHITTLE DEBATE EXPECTED .? . Fronh&iicd tn Bi Connicmed to ' ( : " V' Forcltrn Rclntions Committee ty$ ' Soon After Discussion Starts Wf-ftJ1 WASHIXYITOV. Auc. 13. W'ifj 1'ha Senate nnd Ifou.io tire nroud over iui v tn movo InltlRl'il by Senator I,a 4 Vollttf, of Wisconsin, to Induco Consents fty lo proclaim to our Allien nnd our enemies vM' flnlte term upon which the United Statc.i iA rould make an erly peace with Germany, t l V....1 a. ...... .!. -It...... I I.w1-.tf. AH . territorial ncquMtion nnd the restoration of r 'VMVMtatea territory oy a money pool 01 an t '- '. h h.lllir.r.iil. V$, from talks ultli .Sena to leaders It appears mat tno i.mrcmtie resolution win have a lmrcl road to go, with the Inevitable fa to of being cast Into the discard. It li expected that the tesolutlon will como up for debate early tills week, and that before discussion has gone very far It will be con algned to the Forelen Ilelatlons Committee for report lo tho Senate. DATES AND DATA THE HISTORIANS OVERLOOKED. By P. E. SUMNEh . ,. w. s u .l w 1 hi i: tr Resolution to He Hurieil Senator Hone, of Missouri, nn ultru pacifist, is chairman of tho Korean Hela tlona Committee and one of tho original "little croup of willful men" who voted last March against the arming of American mer chantmen to leslst the attacks of Gciman ubmarlnes. The Missouri Senator li the only pacifist on the committee, and what ver effort ho might make lo report out the resolution Is destined to defeat. At least that Is tho way most of the Sen ator! feel About It. Senator Stona Is nntlous to set a 1 evolu tion of his own before the Senate, calling Upon the President to make a ptonounce- tnent to Germany as to what peace terms would bo acceptable to America. This too, la bound, pa tho Senato leudcra wild to night, to bo overridden. Tho temper of the overwhelming majority Of tho Senate nnd the House, it was as erted hy leaders In a position to know. Is firmly opposed to uny promulgation by the United States nt this time of 'peaco terms with Germany, 1'very one Insists that America's part and alms In the war tiero sufficiently defined by the President In his speech beforo the Senate In Aptil. K' Valor of Poilus Saves Plateau H Km & - Ns' t mt WW' s&. if r m. " '- u' Ii!i S' Centlnurd Irum Vacn One courage, devotion nnd supicino nglitine quality spells pollu. Sllrigd tn the hcait nn 'I nm In thin moment of writing, feeling tho enforced Injustice done It In hasty record ing. I am, as If urred by something Ir resistible within ins, compelled to stop pounding these keys for a minute, rise, and, facing the fight still going on within my hearing, salute these Frenchmen In blue, who nt Craonne and Caements and Callfor riia maintain the proud slogan, "They shall not pass." t l'"or elexcti tlmei this month, now twenty two days old, the Germans have thrown great masses of fresh troops against the coveted plateau west of Craonne and nine times have they been completely icpulsed. Today they stnnd Just where they were twenty-two ilay3'ago, with naught to show for their efforts but thousands and thou sands of German dead. They do not hold a. foot of trench they did not hold July 1. They did succeed In tnlting a trench or ft piece of trench here nnd there, but tlicy have been compelled to relinquish It com pletely before they could make themscUca "at home," If mien a thing were possible among such hell of flro and gas and flame : and death that surrounded them. cnowx rniNCR pays thick The Crown Prince ban endeavored to buy with thousands of human Uvea two kilo meters of France, and this In the third jear of the war. He has seemingly been willing to pay forty times the military nlue in men and material for these two kilometers. His attacks are feebly classified when spoken of as despeiate. 1 am told that even at Verdun they weie not more violent than during these last thiee days and that never In the history of the war have po many of the enemy been ruthlessly slaughtered for but a fen feet of material around or that which might bo maintained as a moral gain. French losses have been Important, but not a marker to thoso of tho Uoclie. And may my arm wither If I ever write ugaiu that the pollu Is tired, or unabln to stand the gaff that he stood In February, May oT June, 1916, at Verdun, that he has stood all througli this war. If anybody eer tells you as much just lean oer and whisper, "Craonne." For these soldiers of France are marvelous. They aie mor than mar velous. N'C other soldier In all the world' wars have done that which the pollu has done for three yeais, and then, that wlikh It was my privilege to see him do today and yesterday If there were a million more of him, he'd trim these Doubts without tho United States or Ungland or Russia or any other combination of nations on the globe. He has borno tho brunt ai 110 other fighting man could. lie has stood as an Impregnable bulwark In guardianship of i4 ' ' woria nonor, even wucii mo worm tnu noc r " know its honor was at stake. Anil bo'll be ms m w$ K?ft fcfiT V S.-W Jte" W i. Ivt ?4: there at the finish, full of fight still, ns full of It as an egg of meat,. and bb modest as ver, For two4 full days and nights I have had my .ears stuffed with cotton, and jet heard the continuous lolent thunder of shell, For two full days and nights I have seen black shell flight in tho sunlight, and red .shell flight under the stars, and If It had been possible to forget that the attack wait limited In uiea, It would have been easy to imagine sight of the greatest battle of all time. "A tremendous Intcn- J' jmy or enemy nre, laconically icaus the Ak rommunlauo of Julv 21. And It hiiia whs. PJ;U" tilth some more. r:i , IliVe I.LUUUIIUII9I ur iJL,.lll jT I have an Impression of fwmethlng new, pyet duiii out. 01 me 01a. 1 uau looueu upon k&0t in w piivit i7 ii, in, iiiuccu, n cuiauia rsiYBiancne inai. upprnacneu a ciouaDursi or frtm and lead and steel, nut this which I ihave Just witnessed, and urn about to re- witness, as soon as l can write and send w flft this artlclo by courier to Pails, wus a l&s-fu uunareu ciouuduisis in one, me one a ?Krfc ilJUdburnt of death. It deemed ns If a Kitr,r1now force, an unknown force, If you will, EpCj. y'had superseded all, the combined visible E&av& And Invisible forces In nature; that It was Att-i. TKnn innnue una incaicuiaDio comomation or ure ol noise 01 srnoHe, ui geysers, max. me r'lworld was no longer a world, even of war ythat I have looked upon this past year,but tllHJIIlCLIIIlib uuiicaiu it. iyiiiuii LUU1I1 IIUI. classify, could not In any precedent of read- .lna or observing or study or experience f'. find In any semblance of slmlll: that even ' men had changed Into living things I could L i. W 'lCEer recpgnlze. (-..The only familiar things about me were . tfce sky's blue and the sun's yellow. As for of shell, nothing could describe It. .might compare Us shriek and song to E thousand Infernos ; the color, even by day, pi a minion lurm furnaces with open- rand closing naming mouths, and the mu to a kaleidoscope. AM -here and there, amid all this. It was M If. auurtan had been magically raised, l could see, for a little, men far on in -te-hana encounter men seemingly. irlUwl,9rotMqueIy different from men idmk ana neimec rny -irsr VMiOQ MVMN, ,.. I'l ,-, i'Kfc r."-VlM?& bumncb nhAlV j 'f"ijf I ''iiEfrWi" Very early in life Mr. Luther Murbank conceived tho need of a stonclcss plum. Cevvrtaht, ion. face of n hc.-ully shelled modem battle field Am the Miioke closed In and the vllon of the thing we knew was going on behind It wnt hidden, it seemed that again I felt the force of this now thing that en circled It, nnd hero endeavor lo portray. HATTMIS IX TIIU AIK Overhead airplanes, Ilocho nnd French, wern observing, clrnppliig bombs, lighting with earh other I had promised meelf long slnco th.it somo d.iy 1 would stand entranced, looking at n fight In the air. Well, three wero going on within clear rango of my glass, nnd I gao them but a passing glance, "dure tho Kpectnclc before my eyes at lower level was stupendously more supreme For ovotlico.il it was but a man and a machine against n machine and h man; while before ine, now visible and now Invisible, theie was u hell of scientific death stalking wild, thousands of men fighting and dying, those In giay dying In vain, those In blue dying for tho world's cause. And winning. Foi no hlnglo floehe, save he is dead or a kamcradc, Is as r write occupying n centimeter of France that he did not occupy Juno 30, 1917. Tho Interesting point about this tre mendous battle Is that Its resemblance to Verdun Is almost minute in compniikon The Crown Prince Is utilizing tho Identical methods of 1U1C. He Is sending forth thickly massed troops follow lug intense shelling, with Intent of gaining a foot or a jard or fifty yards of territory; murdei ously willing to exchange quantities of Ger man lives for a little earth, to hang on if he can, to return if he cannot, tn enlarge any footing when It Is attained, lleic. be tween Verdun and Craonne, the likeness Is startling. And here, too, the result will be Identical, lis nc passcront pas ' Tho country where this battle i.s being fought is ns a long crest. Upon Its top a plateau thtough which inns the Chemln des Dames, ending heond the village of Craonne, wheie It Is Intersected nt almost right nngles by two other plateaus, the one to tile light or west being Oasemedts, the ons to the left or cast I'allfornle. Continu ing westwatd, the way leads to Hubcrtlse, tho Grotte Uu Dragon. Cemy and Paradise Wood, of which I havo written In pievlous articles on this section of the fiont; east ward the plateau terminates abruptly. If one descends toward tho southeast one would eventually como lo Merry-au-Uac, Coucy und Rheims, In the order named. The German attack began on tho morn ing of the nineteenth upon n two-kilometer front between Ilubertise and Callfornle, aiming at territory wrested fiom tho bai liarlan, but lelatlvcly little betoie. Be tween Casemente and Callfornle the Fiench trenches are in salient fonn The attack d' lectly under the range of my islon was the Uoclie effort to curl up this salient for mation. They launched I,andsturni nnd reg iments of the Fifth Division, Prussian Guards, against It. And they were received by the poilus of the th French Dtvision, to bo crumpled up as ou would a piece of paper In your hnnd. That which the sudden raising of tho smoke curtain, due, no doubt, to a cross condition of the wind, permitted me to see, was this crumpling And that which I later saw the Bame day was a French counter-attack In which a piece of this ralient, lost two days ago, was gloriously redeemed again for France. Both s-eemed staged as If for the benefit of us four men In a tree platfonn, the height of the plateau being on a level with our eer During tho second vista 1 caught sight in the far distance of X.aon Cathedial tower Just as the smoke closed in again my offi cer escoit touched mo on the shoulder and told me we would have to descend because a Uoclie observation piano was being pep pered with French shrapnel, and the bullets were likely to fall through the follago of our tree. It was then wo made our way to our automobile, returning to headquarters where 1 vvrito these lines, ere presently re turning to another observation point. Hoover Strikes Blow at Food Gamblers CnUnnl from I'ftie On teen-ouuee loaf could be sold with a tea sonable profit at five cents, once the food administration had the power lo regulate the cost of wheat and flour. Whether that end Is accompllslicdior not, It will bo used as n basis for action taken. The statement Just Hsued showed that Mr. Hoover had decided against all but reasonable profits and might act to abrogate contracts made for future If the If your skin itches just use Resinol No remedy can honestly prom ise to- heal every cate of eczema or similar skin ailment But Resinol Ointment, aided by Resi nol Soap, jrivos such itutant re lief from the itching and burn ing, and bo generally succeeds In clearing the trouble away for ttotLtfcat it is the standard aldn fri-fjiimt f thousand aad tfeou. , .i '! prices seemed lo iilm out of all piopor tion. He advised all who held wheat or fiom contracts In larger quantities than necessary for the ordinary course of busi ness, to liquidate them, pointing out that the new food administration had full powei to prosecute them under the law. Wheat shipments to tlm Allies ami lo neutrals, Mr. Hoover decided, would, for nn Indefinite peilod, be made largely In the form of flour. In order not lo take woik from American mills because of the huge expoits which must be sent to Kurope, In excess -of the amounts taken In normal times. Theie -a no Intimation as lo the price which would be fixed for the 1917 crop, but Mr. Hoover was careful to point out that the minimum of t" a bushel fixed by the food control bill did not apply lo it, and affected next car's crop only under lestrlutlons lo be later explained. More Exemption Decisions Today Continued from Tnte One lutelv necessary to the operation of that Irdustry." Steps already have been taken for the organizations of the two disti'ct appeal boaids They will be called upon to certify the llt.s of local diaft boaids nnd decide appeals fiom decisions, and many cases of indiisliial exemptions which havo been asked. United Stales Maishal Nooiiun will notify the board mcmbeis to ussemblc ns socvu as tho olllclal appointments of the mcm beis aio announced. The official appoint ments will come f I oiii Waslilngotn. No draft lists can be ceillfled until the di'lilct appeal boards arc In hession. The Thlit.v -second lcglstratlon dlstllct boaul, which stalls rendering exemption de cisions today. Is lequlted to fuinlsh 225 men for the new nimy. It was one of tho first boaids In the city to stall exemption. Neatly COfl men have been examined nnd !43 havo been accepted It is estimated that 73 per cent of this number havo filed claims for exemption British Planning Flaitders Drive C'untinued from race One losses to the enem Our Hoops main tained all their positions and In the course of the night leallzed fuither progi ess In the Champagne and on both banks of the Meilo and aitlllery bombardment was quite lieavs West of Avocouit (Veidun legion) we checked an enemy surprise attack I1ERL1X, Aug. 13. A i my headquarters today Issued the following: After the attack the artlllerv bat tie In Flanders dlmlnshed II did not revive again until evening, when It recommenced on a wide sector nnd temalned lively also during tho night. I'.aily today strong enemy reconnoltering detachments came forwaid at many points of the front after hours of gunflic. Thev weie lepulsed everywhere. North of Hollebcke the English biought foiwaid seveial leginients to attack Thev had no sme'ess and had to letieat Willi vcrj lies losse Fiom l.a Bassee canal to the south ern bank of the Scarpe and northwest of St Qucntin the artillery activity In creased in stiength at Intervals, during which fortified engagements frequently developed. On the Alsna frsnt. In the wcslen Champagno and on both banks of tho Mouse, tho artilleries nre fighting each other with moio Intenrlty than has been usual lately. At Cerney-en-Laonnols two French at tacks broke down, with heavy losses, In the evening On Carnillat enemy, hand grenade detachments were repulsed be for our newly captured positions. PAUIS, Aug. 13 The French War office attempted several attacks near Lake Doiran In tho Ccrna bend and In the region between Lakes Presba and Ochrlda All the attacks were beaten back. The British troops in the region of Krastalla carried out a successful raid on Bulgarian tienches. DRAFT SUSPECTS RETURNTO CELLS Bail Is Denied to Members of New York Exemption Board MAY TRY FOR IT AGAIN Other Boards Under Investiga tion on Suspicion of "Graft" UBoat Captures Four Yankee Gunners Coullnued frm I'sie line teied the war April 6, 1!17. and twenty five since that tlme.0 The total tonnage nt the ships lost Is about jj 13,000 tons, Including 64.000 tons sunk since April C. No American ships fell victims to the Cential Powers in 1914, and only two In 191u and the same number In 1916 When Germany began her um eslricted submarine waifnie, however, attacks on American shipping becamo more fie qucnt, nnd America lost nine ships be tween that date and tho time when the L'nltcd States declaied n state of war existed with that country. The first American ship sunk was the William P Fiye, January 28, 1915, J American Survivors Reach Port AN ATLANTIC PORT. Aug 13 - The captain and the sic membcis of the crew of the American schooner John Hays Ham mond, victim of a German submarine July 27 while on a voyage from England to Ice land, have anlved here on an American steamship Cable dispatches telling of tho loss of the schooner had said nothing of the fato of the crew. The men said they weie picked up by a British destroyer 360 miles northeast of the Irish coast after being twcnt.-four hours in their lifeboat. AIRMEN SHELL SEBASTOI'OL Russiun Fortress City on Black Sea Attacked by Germans ODKSSA, Aug. 13. Sebastopol was at tacked recently by Teutonic airplanes, which threw bombs on the suburbs. The Germans aro dtstrlbutlnc liumhera of proclamations signed by Trlnce Leo- pom oi uavaria, me uerman commander In tho east, pointing- out to the Russian troops the great noed of immediate nae- with Germany, In view of the recent dis asters on the southern fiont, and mglng lutfiu nui in listen to jveiensKy, who, H is tiucBi'u, it leuuiiiK -.lussia 10 nun. Regulation Army Hat $5, $6, $9 ' ' For men in the service who appreciate the value of Stetson quality. In two heights of crown. John J3. Stetson Company i, A .--. Vn aa&?ttw- -.. - .. . tlJW mff!, NKW Y011K, Aug. 1 3 The Intervention of the United Stales Attorney, who proteited against ball being ecrepted, although United States Commis sioner Hitchcock had traveled all the way from his home In Yonkers to the Tombs to take It, prevented Louis I, Cherey and Dr. Samuel J. Dernfeld, members of I-x-cmptlon Board 99, accused of having con spired for pay to exempt men eligible for di aft, from regaining their liberty pending Hal. The two men had donned their atieet clothes and wero waiting In the office of the prison warden for tho papers lo be drawn up, when the telephone bell rang and the mesnage was received that sent them, greatly disappointed, back to their t'ells. For some reason, Kalmau Gruher, of 280 lielancey Mreet, the alleged "ex emption blank distributing agent" for the board, did not participate In the episode, nnd, so far as could be learned, no effort was made to get him out of Jail. It Is probable that another effort to ob tain ball will be made today, and If they are successful the accused men will return to their homes nt about the time that the new board, the members of which were announced by Itoscoe Conkllng. Deputy Attorney General, and who will probably be appointed by Pesldent Wilson today, will begin the task of re-examining all the 728 registrants who nppcared before the old board while Cheeey and Rcrnfeld were member of It. At about tho tame time also, or a few hours later, Kdwln M Stanton, Assistant United States Attorney, acting under the Instructions of John P. Knox, Assistant United States At toinej lu charge of the criminal division, will take the chatges against tho three men before the Federal Grand Jury. ,i ..l and la' plans to defeat any counc.m . Jandldatewho does not pledge MfJ pockets of the consumer. At present the consumer pays 1 Pr reSifJas i??fenM1r.,MCnnutn1e8r0fn,? nisi othe year does not receive the benefit Sf the flve-centrreductlon, a total of twenty- dent oMhe Chamber of Commerce, the pub lic utilities committee of the Chamber Is nvestlgitlng the merits of t he , nvejcer .gas i eduction controversy, both from the st-imi point of the consumer nnd the standpoint of engaging the ntt, revenue. . .i ....- ! nnnr .rne. co",r".:.:' il 7 tniiseholders and uxpa "-eV. and politician, throughout tho city. Politicians regard the QUMtJon m a ticklish one, and aro looking the ground over raicfully before they leap. Four Children Burned to Death iTTpnrtT N J., Aug. 13. Three chll drcoYciJlTierhsoia an'd the little augh ter of Angelo Roselle were butned to death, and Mrs Esola and her baby were seriously i i r i when the Hsola summer home was destroyed by fire near here. riinJ""1'--'"--"-'J-aUL-"iw: en yjvU-A-A'AMjcagagrag "-fl SuritcA, r 1 vi Never Oct dff your ncrvZ? Shade-grown. Real Havana 10c and up 0 mm , : - i w liMl ' ft IB II L !E i 111 : Lower Gas Rate Asked for People Continued from rate One Before tho winter Is half over we aic going to feel the pinch oven more; In fact, we ate going to tec a lot of suffering. Kvery nickel Is going to count, and the people are going to need those nickels which some city officials aro selfishly proposing to hoard away in the City Treasury. The city of Philadelphia, of course, should guard its levenue, but not at the expense or the people. "Nlnety-five-cent gas will be one of the most important Issues in tho coming elec lion. Tho people of Philadelphia should get together on this gas Issue very soon now Clean Your Bathroom With RADIUM CLEANSER Simply spray the porcelain tile work and paint and rub oft with a dry rag and yott have not only a clean, swcct-smclling surface, hut one that is thoroughly disinfected and deodorized as well. , Radium cleanser lias already become a permanent by-word in thousands of Philadelphia homes. Vou cannot fully appreciate its wonders until you've tried it. For Sale at Leading Department, Drug, Grocery and Hardware Stores or direct from RADIUM CHEMICAL COMPANY, 805 Bailey BIdg., 1218 Chestnut St., Phila. I WAR CONDITIONS and the Franklin Car A PROMINENT man has said that the things that will not stand the test of war condi tions are not worthy to survive after the war. It is true that war needs, and the state of mind in duced by the war, throw a new light on much that Americans have spent their money fcm Among these things is the short lived car. Cars have been built and sold on features, novelties, talking points, engine stunts. One year the whole country talks about a car, and next year its users condemn it as a "one year car." Do Inot put all the blame on the manufacturer; perhaps his idea of business is to supply the people what they want. It is a much slower process giving them what they ought to have. There has always been a pub lic for the long-service car- Prac tical, hard-headed men who, even if they buy a new model every year, are shrewd enough to see the rela tion between long life and used car value. Economy Demanded in Motor Car Operation . T,he, ?e,cnd-hand value is espe cially high where there is the com bination of strength, lightness and flexibility, because these things mean economy of operation and long life. This is emphasized because there is a section of tho public that has always associated strength and en durance with dead-weight and rig idity the very things that pile up operating cost and wear out a car. i 4.u ax-faSt that war conditions and the National Thrift are mak ing a bigger market for the Frank lin as the fine car of the strong, light, flexible type. " ,T1e bJ? public is waking up to the truth about gasoline waste! tire mileage, friction loss and de preciation. People keep right on buying cars-but they are thinking more aUhfcPCOnn,,JrUCfee se.-ce a5d use! The automobile s a tremenl dous factor in, American" life and achievement, in national health and efficiency, in conservation of human energy, in the ready con tact between men and their affairs. Automobile owners want to use their cars more freely. They are impatient of weight, rigidity, ex cessive upkeep all the old and ar bitrary restrictions. What do you, as an American citizen and automobile owner, think about this matter? Do you favor a restriction of use, or a re striction of waste? Official Economy Tests Won by the Franklin The Franklin has Avon every prominent official economy test ever conducted, and continued to win so long as the official tests were run. ,nT?'G?U("A Eiencu Test, May 15, 1900, under the official supervision of the Automobile Club of America won by the I'ranklin with a accord of 87 miles, llie l-ranklin average was 7 per cent above the average record of all compet ing cars. l LoW? WW1 Ec"H0My Contest, Febru ary 25, 1908, under the official supervl sion of the Loner Island Automobile Club Z, &i oH"1 7on over a11 contestants by doing 212 miles at an operating coat Jt tfy J 1-B cents Per mile The cost miiS01"1- ca" Lav"agcd C cents per mile five times tho Franklin operating COST i 10?o"e,.nH! Iv$(."7,c T1 May 8, New vdJi thoffoc-al supervision of the New ork Automobile Trade Associa tion, with twenty-one cars entered in competition-the Franklin Car wont 00.0 tni'lna" " S?llo.r.' of Bnso-o and scored 105,408 weight-miles. The Franklin Car ?ntl2,LY0n ,0 Pri.z0 for thc best score in its price class, but also the Willvs priftlass lh bCSt SCOrc "Kctlve o? JuW0inno,7aM onomy Contest, vision of tW under the official super! vision of the Automobile Club of Buffalo -j'? Frank-m set a world's record for gasohno economy of 46.1 miles on gallon; 79 per cent more than tho aver- Thofr hc ? er clBhtecn competing ran The Franklin scored 135,902 S,i of M a?pngai.n9t the.,bet competing kJS of 86,612 weight-miles, and the averarn competing score of 64 495 weighSea Fuel Economy Testa of FranWlln r, -a FSktXSte?talAfn N These official nnnAm i. ,.mvfi,.,.,l i " I, "'"' l-l-s'3 ;;V;V'ul"? "atln-wide are ex- Sf.e of FraiHn owners" The .jsjs ss.'-ks Price -ri t ,. . . " " '""c" w tires. . .w, ail modeI Sunibw Ui 'iti$!?rx2&tf'& Sw?ete!talfe Company 'm:i. i- M M ,J ,a M 'a I
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