- ; y.vf r,i v"'.V v, 'ir'iV V'.-f i' Euenmrj public lEeftger v s 0! 'w? POSTSCRIPT EDITION POSTSMt X . f3 rt EDITION Jkr. -a VOL. IV. NO. 117 PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918 Conuanr, IBIS, it im Pernio Lata Courist PRICE TWO CE1 ',v,TA - .. . IM- t?A ; WILSON TELLS U.S. ATTITUDE INWORLDWAR Won't Infringe on Terri tory or Independence of Any Nation DEMANDS LIKE PLEDGES Statements in Letter Designed to Combat German Propa " ganda in South America NHW YORK, Jan. 28. Tlio Unltld States "will In no case bo aggressor against cither tlio political In dependence or the teriltorlnl Integrity of, any other Statu or nation," declared 1'resldent Wilson In a letter mnda public today with his consent. "At tho same time," ho continued, 'plie Is proposing and Insisting upon similar pledges from till tho nations of tho world who havo Its pencil at heart and aro willing to assoclato themselves for tho maintenance or that peace. "Tho cry stiength uf her appeal In this dliertlon tonics from tlm fact that sho Is willing to bind herdelf mid slvo pledges of the utmost solemnity for her own good faith and dlslntcicsted ness." Tho letter was nddrcsicd to ltoy W. Howard, president of the I'nlted lros, on the eve of his departure for South America. It was In reply to a letter in which Howard called attention to tlm widespread efforts stilt being made by German propagandists In South America to misinterpret the purpose of tho 1'iesl dent In urging other American republics to Join In the fight "to niako tho world bafe for demociacy." It Is the 1'iesldent's opinion that tho Herman propagandist In South America has about exhausted his effectiveness and that slowly but surely a rlcar under Handing of the true, attltudo and pur poses of the United States Is becoming general In tho southern republics. Tho President's letter In full follows: THE WHITI HOUSE WASHINGTON", Jan. 1C, 1D18. Sly Dear Howard: Thank jou for your letter of tho 12th. ' I do not know what reply to make to tho llrst question jour letter pro pounds. Certainly I never had any thing In mind In regaid to co-operation among neutrals which would bo Particularly advantageous to tho I'nlted States. My thought was only to unite tho opinion of tho world so far as I could In protecting against the flagrant violations of right nnd of International Justice which had been committed. At no stage of this distressing war have I ever cnter- ' mined the slightest Idea of making any combination for tho special bene fit of the United States. My thought has been merely the establishment of International Justice and humane deal Kftl and,- the safeguarding of uni versal Interests. With regard to tho question wliether tho war and tlio participation of tho United States In It has served to strengthen the common bond between the democracies of tho Western Hemi sphere I will say that 1 think it has. I think that thoughtful men lu all the democracies of that hemlspheie are beginning to see the real purposo nnd character of tho United States. Sho Is offering In every pioposat that sho makes to gle the most sncicd pledges! on her own part that sho will In no cas.0 bo tho aggressor against either tho political Independ ence or the territorial integrity- of any other state or nation, at the same time that she Is proposing and Insisting upon similar pledges from all tho nations of tho -world who have Its peaco at heart and aro willing to associate themselves for tho main tenance of that peace. Tho very strength of her appeal In this direc tion comes from the fact that sho Is willing to bind herself and give Pledges cf the utmost Holemnlty for her own good faith and disinterested ness. If this Is understood thero rould be no question of fear or sus picion. . i am very much Interested to learn of your proposed return to Latin America, and I wish you bon voy age with tho greatest heartlnest. CordlallJ' nnd sincerely yours, WOODHOW WILSON". The letter Is particularly significant fit this time because It Is known that for several months tho Covernment has been cognizant of tho Insidious efforts of the Gorman agents In South America. The Germans maintained, an effective organization throughout the continent, which for a long tlmo tho United Stales had no effective means of combating. The Improvement In the situation h attributed to tho policy of tho United States in seeking nothing for Itself except what It asks for oery other de mocracy In the world. That tho real alms and objectives of this country havo finally been mado clear is attributed to a large extent to the Improved ex change of news between tho northern and southern continents, tho lower cable rates and the efforts of tho Ccrrftnlt'eo on Publlo Information. Tho South .American diplomats at Washington, In clone touch with tho actions and poli cies of the United States, aro paid to have contributed materially to estab lishing, tho better understanding. Back the President, Says Bryan WrtMINOTON. Del.. Jan. IS, "We should stand back of tho President nnd tho Government and gho them our sup port" declared .William Jennings Jlryan in a long speech on the war In Oraro Methodist Kplscop.il Church last night. He urged food conservation and sup port for tho activities of the V, M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus and other or ganizations. THEWEAT-HER FOKVptilCl1 ' for riiUadctnhla and vlclnltv Vart- R lu. claudu tonight and "Wednesday: iliahtlu polder innight, uitU lowest S - icmpcramrc aoottt t(t aegrccs; genue m irM. mostly northtcesU J.KNGTIl 01' ll.VV Hun rlnes.. 7:13 a.m. I Hun sets,,, SiUp.ni. PEHWAUE K1VKR T1IIR tllANMES ' CJIKSTKUT HTnUBT I Hail water ".M a.m. I Hlch water .tilt p.m. low Rter.lU:lt " ia I Low watcr,lU;S7 p.m. TBMrKBATUBr: AT KAC11 Hul'K If a I a tin 111 1 12 I 1 ) a I i I i'"c fa tasla1? ioli la j- Today's Installment of Governor Pennypacker'a ) r 'Autobiography JWttjt'BJt FOONW N TAOB 4 I It STEAMBOATS SWEPT AWAY BY ICE ON OHIO Great Gorco Catches Ships, Dashing Them to Ruin nt 1'n- ducnli, Ky. I'AOUCAir, Ky., Jan. 29. Vouilccti stenmboats wcro swept down tho Ohio Itlver today when hugo Ico gorges nbuvo I'aducah broko and tho fields of Ico caught tho vessels and toro them from their moorings. Many of tho boats swept past this city In the grasp of Ico tloes from Metropolis, Ills., say that the boat passod thero In bad bhapc. Two of them were reported Jammed In the Ico and standing on edge. Among thn boats swept nwny wero packets of tho Kiiglc line nnd tlio Cumberland and Tetinesxeo River line. TOWN IN AUSTRALIA WIPED OUT BY STORM! Heavy Loss of Life Reported in. Mnckny TorrenttaLBownpour in Rhodesia ' ' LONDON", Jan. IS. Tho town of , - Mackay, Queensland, Aiiitrnlla, hai boon submerged and It Is feared the loss of lug to a incwige from KrliOxmc. This! re)Kiit wnn reccUrd by wlrelest from a J steamship In the harbor, the only means of communication with tho town. There havo been reports tho l.it few , dajs of :i great disaster at Mnckny, a town of SOOO Inhabitants, owing to n cyelono nnd rain, but details havo been unobtainable btcauso all wlro communl cation has been destroyed. FORTY LOST ON FREIGHTER French Vessel Sunk Within Sight of Marseilles l'AIllS', Jan. 29. In the sinking of the French frc-lRhlcr nromo nn.Itlio trawler , lerOlllHll. Vllll.11 nil'l Mlltn u""W 3 within hlght of Marseilles, forty llcs wero lost. Tho Dromo first c.iine into mntnet with u mine, and tho Kerbllian shortly uf forward struck another. Alatnrs later illscotcrcil other mines In this region, wMch Immcdlntel was swept. Available Milpplng lecoids do not con tain a steamship of the name of Drome. There Is, howcer, a easel of 323C tons named I.a Drome. This esscl was built In Ncwcastlo In 1000 and Is owned by the French line. KAISEH LEADS AS SLAYEIt Foremost Exterminator of Human Life nnd Gamo WASHINGTON", Jan. 29. AdWccs reaching the I'nlted States Forest Serv lco show that Kmpcror William of Ger many up to 1908 had killed C1.730 pieces of game. "According to one German forestry Journal," tho Forest Service says, "the Kaiser In 1908 killed 1995 pieces of wild game. Including seventy Btags, elk and roe"bBcK.""At"4hSf time" he' ha"d"Bl9t!gh tcrcd a total of G 1,730 pieces of gamo, more than 4000 of which werostags, and was the leading exterminator of wild llfo In tho world. As a slaughteier of men, women and children slnco 1914, however, ho has been the foremost ex terminator of human life In all history." REV. THOMAS ARMOUR DIES Veteran Baptist Pastor Victim of Pneumonia at Norristown NOrtniSTOWN. PJa.. Jan. 29. The P.ev. Thomas Armour died In his eighty fourth year today at tho home of his son, tho Ilev. Tllomas A. Armour, pastor ofOonshoho'ckcn Methodist Church, ire was 111 only a few dan with pneumonl. Porn In Toronto, Canada, lie was a pastor of the Baptist Church for many jears, retiring ten years ago when pastor of Bcrwyn Haptlst Church. For tw enty tlio years ho was chaplain of Baker Post, G. A. Jt, Philadelphia, while ho served as pastor of a church there. In addition to his son, ne is surviveu by a daughter, tho wfo of Commander John A. Wanwrlght. Untcd States Navy. A sister Is tho wife .of Itev. Jacob K. Hughes, pastor of Old St. Georges Methodist Church, Philadelphia. LONDON BUTCHERS IN RIOT Retailers Storm Market for Share of Scotch Mutton LONDON, Jnn. 29. Itetoll butchers, ,.,.,.. f tvlitm have been unable to Umen their shops for tho last fortnight on nccouni oi mo mmt, .'.: stormed tho Smlthdeld Market to get their dmra of larga consignments of Sootrii lnuiion hiuhi " "" U.fore tho meat could bo unloaded re tailers virtually took possession of the LtTh'o police restored order and one cafiaia was served to each retailer. PERSHING REPORTS 4 DEATHS Natural Causes Assigned in Cases Cabled Today w VS1IINQTOK, Jan. 2?. Four deaths from natural causes were cabled by Genera" Pershing to tho Vt Depart ment today nfl follows: Private Hiram Murray, Ardmore, Sgeant John r. Kelley, South Bos- '"p'rlt'cfnay M. Waples, Nokomls. JU. Vrlvato Floyd It. Do Camp, It. F. D. 5, Dayton, O. CAMP WORKMEN KILLED Three Die When Train Hits Auto at Lunenburp, Mass. FlTCnmnta. Mass., Jan. 29. Three vvorkme.li employed by F. T. Ley. tho Cainn Dovens contractor, wcro kl led today nnd two others were, hurt when their automobile was struck by a llg t englno on. tho Boston and Malno Itall road crossing at Lunenburg depot. It was first reported hero that tho 'victims of tho accident were soldiers. Jacob Baum DieSuddenly Jacob Baum, a weUsjSiown dealer In laces ana t.lmmlngffn this city and vw York, died suddenly of heart dls eae, ot his home. 627 South street to day He was a member of the SInrons and many other large fraternities, both here and in New York; He is survived y, widow, Mrs, Ina Baum. a eon, a daughter, six sisters and one brother. e, .as been a recent -ot this city hnd New orK iur, v , " t - -- LAST SURVIVOR PUBLIC W h.fV tr,.r lNWv.S-e Uiiil-X.4 Ul. Iitv ii'ntMti'r MMorMJuvuuAuMsiic.i.itMirTiiTK'iiin iiiiiti,jUMr an imstw-.ii'-! Jr. ) . 3 ttr l'w.4 J.lXtJUl VCBIM (..M....I T.l.,l.-I..J0ir I. IIMIMIVVIT M.ttJ llt..UI.M.IUiAtLirUV I rHkii..iti.i ... u (M.,i.d hrtiif tiftiip aiiiiftiiiMe 4 . 1 IHO.l tUSCEB mt'fl VIA1IIII. MMiLOV It ul klV. Mn'.l' t.vl, uliM irniut invi t tAtm, tll4? rHAimt ' nt p'lr'Twssi." tfo vt(A Iraiders bomb LONDON TWICE Two Aircraft Attacks on British Capital Within Four Hours, ONE PLANE SHOT DOWN GENEVA, Jan. 20. The headquarters of the German , ;row irjcp at Thc,cs lns hct. , bombarded by Ilritish airmen, ac cording t" information rcceiu-cl here today. LONDON', Jan. :t. icrman all craft bombed London ia ?:. today for the second time within four hours. Tho laldlng planes reie "-.ivagely at tacked by llrltlsh airmen jind by high nngle batteries, and one of tlio machines i 111 file first n1liM.liii- t..imi.ltmi i, m wlw.l ! T l r, fl n ff in nip nrst ntincki g Mimulioii was sliot,T,w Kuwirni' nf Snnnsnrsi fif down hi Kssex whllo trlng to m.iku Its way to this city. Viscount French, rominniidi-r-lii-tlilef of- tho homo defciisis, anniiuin-id that (tho tlrst squadron was sighted over tlm I Kst and KcntUh loasts about S o'clock i and the wonl was rnmicdlatrly Hashed I IO 1.OIHI011, IntV Vmt e '.V'n'.C'n",?.?.'. men of tint high angln batteries began to comb the sky with their seaivlillchts. Some of tlm hostllo motilities were turned back, but others succeeded In reaching London," and shortly nfter 9 o'clock the thunder of the guns In the London suburbs announced that tho raiders had .been sighted. ..Homo potnba were "dropped. " " Tho people began scurrying to cover as soon ns tho alarm was sounded. many taking lefugo In the subway and ottieis in tho Goternment-bullt bomb proofs. The Poyal Geogrtiihlc.il Society was holding a meeting, presided over by General Smuts, when announcement of tho laid was made. Tho suggestion was mado that the members take tcfugo In tho basement of tho building, but there but thero were loud cries of protest. While the thunder of tho anti-aircraft guns echoed In the ears or tho audience. General Smuts calmly went on with his address, and tho bursts of applause showed that ho was getting undivided attention, Tho second squadron of hostile ma chines mado Its appearance over tho capital shortly before 1 o'clock. LUFBERRY PREDICTS GREAT AIR OPERATIONS WITH THH FP.KNCH AP.MIIIS IN TIIK FiKLD. Jan. 29. Airplanes capable of n ipeed of two Continued on Pare P.letrn Column Three PROBERS DIP INTO a diuv a id di a mo Baker's Statement Checks Agitation to Reorganize War Government COMPROMISE IS AWAITED WASHINGTON", Jan. 20. , Secretary of War llaker's astounding stntement of American preparedness be-1 foro tho Senato Military Committee has given boino pauso to the strong aglta- tlon for complete reorganization of tho i war government. Hut his lack of Information on some details and suspicion? held by tho com mittee of Inaccuracies In others led to resumption of the military piobe today with the aviation service as un objective Appai ently t)io fight for a "war cab inet" and a' Minister of Munitions launched bv Senator Chamberlain tit in statu tiuo. Ilellef was stronger today I that vvliuo cnambcrJaln will continue to press for tho measures a compromise will bo reached later In view of llaker's recent sweeping changes In tho character of his war administration. Appointment of Kdward It- StetllulUN to co-ordinate production, purchase and distribution of army pupplies has nut with wide con gressional favor. Those demanding a war cabinet, how ever. Ktnte tha? If STtelllnttiM um.nA.lu it will be thrnuirh Hlieep tw.rimi1 fnrr backed by authority delegated by Uaker, If ha doesn't get tho pui chasing depart ment well In hand by thirty days ho will resign, these .VrnntorH pi edict. They leaned to the view that ha will not be nblo to succeed, because ho has no authority from Congress, nnd because ho Is approaching only part of the prob lem, leaving the navy, tl0 "Shipping llburd and tho Allies as competitors for tho name things the War Depaitment Is buying. Baker's statement that thirty-two Na tional Guard and National Army camps are full of men ready to bo sent to Franco when needed was challenged to day. Qommltteo membeis will obtain figures showing hew many men each dlvUlo Is sliort. They claim Uaker ere ated tho Impression thirty-two full divi sions ara available, vv hereon the fact. is. they assert; that neurJy every National I 1 .-l .1I..I.I ld aUallA uuJfett f )JllAtff I WITH NAME ON THIS CORNER STONE ur 'im BUUJDINCS OF THR CITY OF. t Vlti I1Y 17. 1 Ctw.tltjr' tU. tl.t l !' I - iil,l. mmI , Ulliil.li, lid f-t h mkU4t- bv AI.FRBD R. VOTTF.lt. :... Oiivr-UIA.IMm kAHRN IIIIKMIKH. HC.II1..W iimri& ,. -, 't :(ficii. U.-f'Tl . a ltlli:ll e!,M.C.U(lA H.7. (OIUV; jSR: Rr8?; iNV mt& te&. c " ;. WA Thero wcro twenty-three names on the corncr.stono of City Hnll whenit was lnid in 1874. Tho last livintr member of tho group, Richard. 1'eltz, who.se jiicturo is shown above, died at his home, ;i70l llarinjr street,-last Satur ihiy. His funeral will be held today. RICHARD PELTZ TO m rTTIFl mrv llf I ! dUKILD IUUAi I - - I -' r . . wifunuw.u . City Hall Active in Mu nicipal Affairs ltkhaiil lVltA last surllor of the sponsors uf City Hall, will be bulled this "'"nernno,. after funeral services at his "ome, 3701 Paling street, v. hero he died S.itutdiiy. years old. Ho was tlghty-rtve, Mr. Peltz Mas the last man to dlo of thtt distinguished group of citizens whose names appeal' on the cornerstone In the "well" of City Hull. 'Tho death of Peter A,' linvidener lu 1915 removed 'oil' but' otio of tho twenty-threo mon whoso names wero carved on tho stone. This man Mr. l'eltz also was the last of a family of eight brothers nnd seven slitcis. As n member of the niunclp.il build Ing commission. Mr. Peltz took part In tlio cornerstone-laying exercises nt City Hall, July 4, 1874. Horn In Passyunk township, July 11, 1832, ho was n life long ltepubllcau. Ho began his public carter lu 1854, when ho was appointed a clerk lu Iho tat odlce. Among the olllces ho held weio Receiver of Taxes, Common Councilman from tho Twenty .lt til. 1UII A V.I.I.L......... I.uill ...U .....rf - fouith Ward, school director and deputy Mnrl- nt nnnricr S'esslonq for tuvntv. clerk of Quarter sessions for twiniv - Iho jears In charge of llouor licenses. He retired tvvelvo yeais ago He was a veteran ot tho Civil War and a mem ber of tho 1'nlon League. .Mr. l'eltz Is survived by a son, Samuel Peltz, a foimcr assistant city rollclter. Williamsport Hospital Burned WILLIAMSPOItT, Pa.. Jan. 29. The Wllllainsport Private Hospital, one of tho largest Institutions lit tho northern tier, wns desltosed by Ilro yesterday. All of the patients wcro rescued. Tho loss Is $50,000. winter hardest IN LAST 98 YEARS Average Temperature Lowest Since 1819-20 January Snowfall Makes Record Old-Fashioned Winter Sets Up-to-Date Record TTEKE, in black and white, is what old King Winter has done to Philadelphia this season: Daily uvcrage temperature for December and January of 2G.2 de grees, lowest for ninety-eight years. Snowfall of 34.2 inches, a record with the esreption of the winter of 1898-99. Hccord January snowfall of 2l8 inches. Forty-three days when dally average temperature remained hbclow freezing point; average winter contains but nineteen such das. More records may be shattered, cold will continue and more-snow may fall tomorrow night. As all Philadelphia bent its energies today toward nullifying tho effects of yesterday's bnowstorm, which tied up Philadelphia nnd tlio eastern section of tho country more effectively thari any Government shutdown order could, the man who looks after Phtladolphla'H weather hopes glanced over his records of past winters. "Looks llko wo had a llttlo storm," he mused. "Uuesi I'll see how close It came to belngu real oae." And he wnsfsurprUed, but only mildly, for ho had his suspicions. Ho learned that this winter season, with Its many storms, that have serious y delayed all tralllq as did this storm, was the. hardest in tho history of the Philadelphia we&ther bureau. 80 bad STONE BURIED PHILADELPHIA. n lt( ! . "' JlH I.KII t, 3lfKV0 mis um'M n(iin. wt,.TM', "J inm POTTER TO SEIZE COAL IN CRISIS Drastic Measures A 1" C Contemplated by State Fuel Administrator TAKE EXCESS SUPPLIES Action to relievo tho acuto domestic coal shortage In Philadelphia action Independent of tho national fuel ad ministration was taken today by Full Administrator AVIIllam Potter. Kxplalulng that looses would he made good. Mr. Potter continued plans for seizure of coal In check tho widespread sugcring intensified by jcsttiday'ii bliz zard, llo called upon owners nf hur- l''lH fll(' '" surrender It and mado n uiw tlnvi,t tli:it nU ro!" " """a l six weeks tuipply would bo rclzcd. Mr. Potter, It Is understood, has asked ror tllO ll.lCKtng OL tllO l'l'lllls IVllllla , i n. i.... i , ..!. I Inntoii In his effoils to sole tho coal IVIIIIIUI O Ullll IHI fUlliai ltl lit 1 HSU' I pioblem confroiitlng l'ennsylvanla, the ) greatest eoal-pioduclug Ktato 'n the ' Union. Members of tlio Federal Tiudo Com mission, co-operating with Mr. Potter's olllce, me surveying the local coal supply with a lew- of seizin,; coal In transit and excess tons blorcd hi the city. Ann i.n.vn.1 HiMzr.n ,rlo 300car,oa(H of ,,, con,,gIl(.,, t0 points in other States, but seized, never. Unless, by Mr. Potter, aro being dls-t-lbuted today. A leport that nnothor large consign ment of coal was being sent down tho Dctawafimtver wtortay In DarXes" re sulted In A. W. Vunn.iman, ondrof the Fulcra I Trade Co'mm'ssloiiers here, hur rjlng to tho riverfront to learn tlio des tination of tho coal. Hecelpts of coal up to midnight ex ceeded expettntlons, nccordlng to to. ! l,''y',H report l.jr tlia I'ennRytv.wtin Hall road. More than 11,000 tons of anthra cito weio received over tho Pennsy's lines. Of these. 132 c'.irlo.ids wero of domestic sizes (thirty-one. egg, thirty nlno nut, thirty-nine, stovo and twenty threo pea) nnd ninety wcro steam sizes Cttn broken nnd eighty buckwheat). Mr. Pottet s statement was as fol- l. , lo ,,:. , . , ,. , , ... coaI '" " inK diverted by tills ' AlImlllistIat 011 i)cf0ro provision Is mado nnd nssurance received that full payment will bu given for the diverted fuel, This announcement Is made to Insuro owners of fuel lu transit that they will not suffer finan cial loss througa ilivct&Ion of coal by this nlllco Owners of surplus stock of fuel nro offered splendid opportunity for pa triotic service In tellevlng domestic and urgent lnduspal needs by follow ing the lead of John Wanamaker, who two weeks ago allowed the adminis tration to draw on tho supply In Its Continued on I'ato Two, Column Two RED GUARD TAKES FINNISH CAPITAL Helsingf ors Captured After Hot Fight, and Senate Is Arrested SEVERAL SWEDES SLAIN STOCKHOLM, Jan. 29. Accotding to advices from Fin land, tho Red Guard has captured Helsingfors. Tho Finnish Senate, it is reported, has been placed under arrest. Sovcral Swedes nro said to havo been killed nnd hot fighting took place with tho civil guards Tho Finnish Government has lodged a protest with tho Powers against Bolshevik interference in the affairs of Finland. Tro Ilolshevlk guard is holding P.lkl malt! and other Important Junctions, Rus sian soldiers are aiding tho Holshcvlkl and rc-enforccments nre coming from Potrograd, Tho Finnish minister In Pctrograd pro tested to tho Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates agalns llusslnn interference In Finnish affnlrs. Ho received a .reply that "llubsta'g government, truo t'o its principles. Is In duty bound to support tho proletariat In Finland In its buttle against tho Finnish bourgeoisie." The Kolshevlk commissioner further asserted that help had been sent to the guards and that still mors troops would be dis patched. The Helsingfors Ilolshevlk organ Iivestlh, admits that tho Bolshevik guard has got out of hands; that troops at various places are beyond control and that they have been guilty of murdering and plundering. The newspaper adds that anarchistic, conditions prevail. The Finnish Government has sent to all the rowers that have acknowledged Finland' Independence a protest against Russian .Interference in Finnish affelra. Teiecrnpnio communicqiipa wim r- QUICK THREE HUNS MEET DEATH IN RArDlWC PIANI I0OT30K, 3oa. 29. VJscouat Prcneh reported tt aoon tody thAt ouo of the enemy alrploae3 attemptijafir to i-ald London was tJiot dora and itu three occupants were burned to death. SUMMER'S COMING; 200,000 TONS OF ICE READY Hcre'H something to look forward to lor tho hot dajs of next nummer. To meet tho threatening shurtugo of ninti.tl.i1s for making artificial Ice, farmers iilniii: the rcrkiotncn creek hao cut and stored away nearly 200,000 Ions of lee In n reeord-brcnkliig winter harvest along tlwt stream. Vir- tnally all of tho Ico -will bo sent to l'hlladelnhlit. H00VER1SKSLAW TO BACK HIM UP Legislation Needed to Will Never Conclude Im Ueach Unpatriotic perialist Peace, He Minority OVEHCONSUMPTION AIM i WASIIINUTON, Jan. 20 I Tci Lett Hoover today warned Con gress that If he Is not given tho power to enforce food conservation lu the coun try Congress nlono shall bear tho "gravo responsibilities" for falluro of tho focd program. Voluntary conservation. Hoover said In a letter to Representative Sydney Andcrt.cn, of the IIouso Agricultural Committee, Is Minvvluc wonderful results. Hut .&.nXt$rA vh.. .a.i.i.t bo readied by lerfsla. unpa nnd tlon. Hocvur declared In his letter he wants the puwers to enforce the following: Whealliss and other- "Uis" duyt per weelt . . Forbidding USq of foodstuffs In non food products. Limitations on food mrvrel In publlo , eating places. , . ,, Control cf distribution that all classes ami localities may fare ullko and tint unncc rwuiry consumption should be pi evented. Control of viva of foodstuffs In food manuf icturtiK. with a view to elimi nating tl 1 wo'it'sl I'lauufne lutes. Co.itriil of commodities critically ncce -ii-y jr t' o piodticti'.ii nnd pies ervatliiu of foodstuffs. In order to pic vent great lust.es or mllltaty saciiacos. 'While It Is v Itally necessary to regu late the consumption of food In public eating places," Hoover wrote Ander son, "they consume on various estimates from 12 to 20 per cent of tho total food stuffs, and If they wero reduced out of all reason they would not solvo the problem. Somo method must bo devised which will cover a much wider area of consumption. ATTACK NONUSSKNTIAL T'SKS should nt-'ot "It annealed to mo that wo tack tho nonehiicntlat uses of fooU-turs and that wo should attack tho points of unnecessary consumption of food stuffs. Uy these means we can place the burden where It belongs on the lux uries of the! greedy nnd not upon the poor. This Implies somo further meas ures of contiol In distribution nnd non essential ure. If you will give the whole problem study l believe jou will find that sumtwhero In tho nation wo con sumo or destroy over 30 per cent moro food than we need for health and strength, and that this margin. If it can bo eliminated, will supply all Allied de mands. But wo should not draw It from that class to which economy and moder ate uso Is a dally necessity. "Take, for example, the case of sugar, tho shortage In which will, we hope, not exceed 10 per cent. We should ho .able to accomplish this by tt reduction In the manufacture of confectionery and sweet drinks of. say 20 per cent, and these very manufacturers could . substitute other things and maintain their volume of production. "During tho recent shortage we made a patriotic appeal to such manufac turers to reduco their consumption of sugar by CO per cent, and placed It at this figure because wc did nijt wish to destroy the livelihood of 250,000 women And girls pending fuller supplies of sugar. I havo specifically before me tho case of one very large manufac turer who followed this suggestion Im pllclty. only to find that aver a score of manufacturers of Imitation goods sprang up on all sides, supplied tho trade to his gieat damage and loss, and we were powerless to glvo him any protection In his patilotlo action. Surely It Is better that the conservation of sugar should he made in tho luxury trades and that they should have protection In making It, than that wo should draw upon house hold supplies. LESSONS OF SUGAR SHORTAOH ine recent experience) witn sugar also serves to prove the necessity to have soma further powers In distribu tion, uunng tnc entire terent sugar shortige the gross supply amounted to 80 per cent of normal consumption, vet wo had sporadic famines and privation ConHnuM on rlw, Column Four DIDS FARMERS SELL WHEAT Secretary Patton Tells Them Mar- keting Now May Prevent Shortage HARRISBUna, Jan. 29. Secretary ot Agriculture Patton today called upon Pennsylvania farmers to market wheat they hold In their granerles. Market ing now, hd said, may prevent shortage. The price fixed for 1917 wheat was ;,"0 a bushel. The farmer cannot get more, no matter how long he holds his crop. The lilt price Is )2. Ho can let all except a. third of tho cereal go. This third he retains for pluitUrn net NEWS TROTSKY RESISTS ANNEXATION IDEA Tells Soviets CZEKNIN 1JACK AT BREST , AMSTERDAM, Jan. 29. The strike menace again loomed high 'today in the general political and industrial unrest in Germany. Strikes are makipg headway, in Hcrlin, according to information from the frontier, and have spread to factories turning out war air planes. An increase in the industrial un r; r? ,s vr L,chter- fcWc 1IeMorf and Johanncsthal. i A number of electrical workers have gone out. Owing to the presence of heavy bodies of troops, the labor troubles in Westphalia and thp Rhineland were said to be less serious. By JOSEPH SHAPLEN PETROGRAD, Jan. 2D. "Wo will never conclude an an nexationist, imperialist peace," was tlio message to the Pnn.Knvlpt f!nn- cress delivered todav bv I,oroitrni,"trI0 to ralBa tno health standard of' gress ueitvercu touay oy i oreign .(h!) country to m)cy the rulcs nn(J rec. Minister Trotsky. Tho congress was also advised by nn official statement from Smolny Instituto that twenty regiments of Don Cossacks had joined a revolt against General Kalcdines, Hetman of tho Cossacks. LONDON, .Tnn. 29. Socialist opposition has defeated tho Government's liono of obtaining a voto con,1,enco in "lo Reichstag. lino ivcicnstttg is not now in hcs eIoii, tlio recent Clerman declarations Coutlnoed on Face 1'tve. Column Turr BIG ITALIAN ATTACK LAUNCHED IN NORTH Desperate Fighting Between Brenta and Asiago Reported by Berlin HURLIN (via Amsterdam), Jan. 29. Violent figlilli.g occurred between the ,Ulago and tho Drenta on tho Italian front, following attacks launched by tho Italians, the War Offlco announced to day. Dispatches from Ilerlln last night re ported the beginning of a violent can nonade in northern itaiy, coupled witn unusual activity on the part of Italian raiding parties. These activities evi dently were tho prelude to the attack reported In today's dispatch. No word has yet necn received irom Home as to what gains tho Italians may have made. The nttaclt was made at a point where tho invaders jiro nearest tho plnlns. The Italians have been pursuing lately the jwllcy of gradually driving the enemy back from vantage points he had won In tho fall campaign! thus rendering tho position of Italy in.oro sccuro. LONDON, Jan. 39. A raiding patrol which set out from tho British lines northeast of Vpres on Sunday night to httack a. German posi tion has not returned, tho War Office reported today. Tho Hermans tried to raid a British" trench In the sector of Arleux (south of Lens), bulwero driven off. In tho Jlonchy district (Arras front), German artillery was active all night. PARIS, Jan. 29. Three American aviators have beejn killed while training on Italian xoll, said a dispatch from Koggla today. They were Lieutenant William Cheney, Lieutenant Oliver Sher wood nnd padet George. Reach. Thfc Americans wero burled with military honors, Italian, French, British, and American soldiers taking part. Tho War Ofilco announcement last night ravs: "In Champagne we carried out tvra raids on the German trcnchesA Our de tachments penetrated uc far at tlm third enemv line, brtmrtnir hark r,fU- oners, one of them an officer, and one macjiino gun, r) . "! - oere. was q.uiie JIY,eiy BW on Bom siaaa in Aunoein tnc GOALLESS RIVALS WAR - WeatherandLack of. Increase, City's 'Pi mqiila Mortality f.jt? j ' NATION'S HEALTH WANJK' li - - -1 i rf r, Physicians Told That WJf ning of World Confllctl)'. ncnd.M nil Hnmo Rnntnf )-, . rlV, S vi ri Itck of fuel nnd tho weather fornrfcr J combination responsible in part for PMfc adelphla'n Increased. mortality, dedltrCft j .. .....,.r .uurai, i,irecior oi jTjpqr Health and Charities, today, nddrewhk' meeting of tho Civic Club, held nf,'tfc Art Alliance Hulldlng. "-'' Pneumonia and diphtheria khow anri crease.. In .Philadelphia, as nrrestlntfMM? "9 casualty lists sent back from the battil .- 'I I fields, was another statement voiced ,fy '9 in Physician-speaker In a revIeiroV i"' ' I numinous uniavornine xo ncaun nrousm.,.. about by tho. -nctlto part played" bf J''. , Tliltf,,ln1t1.lti In fhi. fn, liaiimnU '. mortality Jlgures for 1017 exceeded Jlhsjie; of' tho preceding year by 1191, paUf',' Krusen asserted. I'Sk'' Doctor Krusen ndvnnced m crltljl oi ino luei numinihiraiion inr inc niarm.j :, Inc conditions ho nuoted. Other Cta-?v . trlbutlng factors, he said, wero. cv- A. lack of doctors, duo tO.the facl thVir , 24 per cent of them here., some tn&jKMft - .. . : .. .J.'...'. in tho city, nie serving In tho army., - 'I llecauso nourishing foodstuffs, partlo- ,) ;i ulnrly eggs and milk, have gone beyond X "i tho reach of many persons' pocket- ."jl books. n'e W llecauso children are suffering for the '4 lack of attention since many nwrej p i mothers nro employed outmue or tnei,,?, nome man mor ucioro. ?n1' Hecauso many tcrsons who formerly t" ..i. IL..I..1 ... ,nt aI.i..IIi.h l.n.a .ft . . A CU111I IMUlt'U IV IUVUI wmilHvn ,l,w .,,- verted their money to war funds. ..", And finally because of a large 10- iranau t,i tlm fnrtflnf? ttontllnllott afid'J thei negroes, who need medical attea-Tw , .1.... ..., Mn-n. .., I, "if ". IIUII ItllU ll.llllUb ftC, ... , , , lt.tf.r lvniMen extiatlnteil nn the P factors employed by tho Health Depart-tgfo ment In a superhuman effort to handle jj-j tl.A ulluntlnn nnrl ilfwlnretl tnut tno. scarlet fover mortality nt least had '3 shown n, remarkable decrease. t Jn Dr. James M. Anders, mepiber oM?S Ponrd of Health, was another FDeaker. w.ft Ho based his talk upon tho patrlptle'ji'; outy ox every ciiieii iu ncrp iu fw.-'tj Thn nrtual wtnnlnr of the war. Doctor v" a Andern nsHertetl was denendent on?the malntcnnncu of healthy conditions tf home. ."? "No nation," ho said, "can maintain k,': 1IH JfSltlUll UII1UIJK -tliU BCHb AJUtu .-4 ' of tho world, mue.1i loss exercise autbef-V) I... . -,1.-.. .....tnu .....nl. ,&.- .tlll.i. ' liy Ulr otlll-t iintivtiv, iiiulii &v ipwovn carry on a war with prospects of WSJ-';. nlng if handicapped uy a race toata inferior physically, The situation' lA$tgf country at present i not ret Unco ' tho national 'physique -ill lowly and gradually deter lor t ntr ttiA 1nht renfurv and our noDU has also recently been depicted 4f-JlM M most proauciive ciiizens us ira -reswivrn i of our drnft Iuwh." while nt the saw. tlmo tho work, per capita amonvtel;', stay-nt-homes has been liicrcascel.-v Jwl;i "if tbRA thlriffirba true. It becomesft' the patriotic duty of nil cltlrens te X-.a .. . . - . -- ' txt. jt ulat ons ot mo departments oi nenun, TJ so ns to lender them effective against J a and finally to keep their own bodies, in jfl a ni conuiciuu. t , g "Wa may assumo that the ph. J steal .iirJ fitness of the men now undergoing mill- , tnrv training In our camps has beea' -1 and will be further Improved, but It, Is $1 ClfUitll) llllfU,,nilk ,(,rtk ,11.1 M,.wav v nealtli oi tno btay-ae-nomes tie similarly .; tmnrnved lii nil nosslble wnvs. In order.', ' that the home defense will prove, atk JJ PHILADELPHIA SOLDIER. i.l v, i .. i-i . Private Henry Gconnp:, Selected'lpg'j First Call, Succumbs at . fe Camp Hancock , j$ Privato Henry Geortng, twcnty-fWeW years om, uiea iasi sunuay ainmwfl ati-J 15 inn., TTaMrtAlr nt hinnihlnl lt1llmnnlaV', v43 TT van um nt I'Vajik Georrlnr? a vet-l?, eran of the Civil War, with whotn,e.j 1 lived at 314S North Twenty-fifth BtreeC'jjSi this city. "?5d Tounc ueorlng went to the camp wit.Hi; tlm first draft and was taken 111 Eat-T urday and his father was notified. iKia sister, Mrs. nnur ncneyier, went uowno, 1 at once, but arrived too late to see'herJ brother before his death. The body wtH-vr bo bought to this city at-once. Wj; In his letters homo ueorglmr ea.!; that he was very well content with, 011? i nnnrtlttnna nt the ramn and that thA.'j boys wero treated hplendldly. fty,. ' x.v a DYNAMITE GIRL IS HELD. . , .;viv Confesses to Transportln Exjfi Blvo Bail Fixed at $20,00V, k i' "' CHICAGO, Jan. 59. Llpda Josrfh youngstown, O., girl arrested htn'-om, ' rylng n grip containing; dynamite,' vn' fcesed when arraigned today, ThVomj room was cleared vriiile alio told she storj'. "' After the Interview the only Info tlon made publlo was (hat tho girt ) Her nama was ,reaiiy J.inaa .joise, i sue wns permueei to write to.iier l nt Youngstown, and that sho wa. i ing to take her punlsbment'.JfCjp Tvltnout implicating irjenjR.u;i In :0,000 bail and sent back to ttoJ Amanda Moleskv, -, the Mw( another charge, ald pilsaJoUe i clays ago proposed tha they (attoejtj siitnti wun a jiaut wttian KEEP HOME FOLKS Red Cross ' Writers .-WillV Relatives oi Sick Soldi ' r-. . . , ' ' . WASHINaTON, Jail,'. 9, Rwm I of sick soldiers' in. army oammt hv countrj- are to bo-Kpt Informed jn tali as to iheir lcondtUcn. i? "'"' 4-iJ In rcsoonte to a rMUatfcy-8eali Raker, the lted CreW lnus agreed t tend to thl iwnntry t JHMtpltaj I nation servicer in operation, tn . wn-,announeed vwaj-,-' " Iteel Cross . wtkwM ' via . htSf)KU, KTH lMf." ' j jaaruBaamewryc.n J,;,!- ''"&"; ' hilt' i. , "' J M.IIT 4 .o u r ,Vr.S k,: Mi , was JHty-i' kzz;" IliUBni 41I11M1H IB B1HJ1L DCIUtHI luuuniuu &sr&,mKi. JOBtkilJitt.X. j-&m:. .i .. L. 1 .;.. . , '.ifPCi
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