VTWVVss v- r f. T .. .j f" . " v "- ' ' - f 4.J, , ( - Jlll-'S S r - "t IMi It' ' iit ,) , i' .i''f, t t "" )- v iaientng public Sfcftger MIGHT EXTRA 0. tt i u VOL. V. NO. 9G rubllhd Dally Eicrpt Sunday. Subtcrlptlon Price IB a Tear by Mall. Copwluht. luin. by Public Ledger Company. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1919 Untrcl k Hrrond-tiiiM Malt-r at lh rnHonVe. at Philadelphia. Ta. L ndi'f the Art of March . 1MB. , PRICE TWO CENTS ' . THE WEATHER WishinKton, Jan. 4. Fair tonight; Sunday cooler. Ti:Mi'En,TiHn at men noun r I I 10 I U I 12 1 2 a 4 1 El lit) I 19 j 19 19 I 19 I ID I I I I I LERGYREADY TO WAGE WAR ON ROBINSON itiirn to Power Assailed by 'Doctor Bat ten VnT-r r'tirr'TVT MAvnn THAT HE MUST FIGHT ilntcrcluircli Federation Will Ask Secretary Daniels to Clean City iHATCH WRITES SMITH RNavya Officer Says City Exec utive Broke Promise to Keep Mills in Power RJ Lieutenant Colonel C. 15. Hatch, ItJnltcd Statc3 Marino Corps, Is under- ktood to have gono to Washington to i'confer with Secretary Daniels about the reinstatement of rollco Super intendent Robinson. Secretary Daniels, seen In Wash ington this afternoon, said he had not yet received Colonel Hatch's re port on vice conditions in Philadelphia, out expected It by Monday. Director Wilson, of the Department of Public Safety, refused today to go Ebehind his order returning Robinson kto power. The Director mado It cieier tnat rRoblnson and not Assistant Superin tendent Mills will bo In supreme com trnand of the Philadelphia police force. Mr. Wilson, when told Indications were lhat returning troops would not bo permitted to land hero ir Robinson FNuld remain In power, said: am not concerned with tho Idlo ichattcr of persons who are seeking notoriety." Those are tho latest developments In itho controversy over Robinson's re- It. turn to supieme command In the f; police department. fr Lease or absence was given hod tllnson last spring, following Colonel 'rllatch's complaints concerning vice Pcondltlons here, and Robinson got a Ecaptalns commission in tho Quarter master Corps. Recently he received his discharge from the army. While Robinson was DUt .Mills was acting superintendent. Members of tho Intcrcnurch Federn- Bond wnrthne committee, which has aken a leading part for months In ha Jlaht. aaulnst -vlclausi. conditions in Ihl'j city.'plan to petition the Secretary pi the Navy to keep returning troop- Mps nway fiom Philadelphia, The Hev, Dr. Samuel Zane Ratten, one of the members of the committee, today ailed the reinstatement of Supcrlntend- nt Robinson a reflection on every dc nt man and woman in Philadelphia." The Hev. Dr. Carl F. Grammer, chair- nan of the committee, Is 111 with a cold t present, hut Doctor Batten expects I mto get Into the fight against Robin- iBon hy the first of next week. "I can ely upon his support as soon as he is able to leave lil.s r.ome, Batten today said Doctor ; Director Wilson ,who is Robinson s in flect superior, and to whom Inquiries IJabout the situation were referred by iayor smitn. nan neen expecteu to tie- fend his position today. WINon rurrlea QueMloiiii Inatead of doing so, he parried ques tions directed at him. Wilton Krtlcrnt An effort was made to Induce Director Wilson to define tho exact status of Sunerlntcnde'nt Robinson. His only re- IC ply wis: "Supcilntenuent uomnson is me. su- 'perlntendent of the Police Department of Philadelphia nnd will rtmaln so." When reminded that a controversy al ready exists over Robinson between . Mayor Smith and Colonel Hatch, Dl- P'" rector' Wilson said: "I am not concerned oer uny charges Colonel Hatch may make against tli j rnoliile. It was afternoon, nnd we went Mayor," ' t to a house wheic he told me a friend It was s-uggested to tho director that iof n)H veJ- when I got Inside I recog he could settle tho entire question i by nzclI tw nature of the place and tried defining the status of Captain Mills, Said Mr. Wilson: "On December '2 I Issued an order In which Superintendent P.oblnson was named as superintendent of police nnd that ordtr (.ays that Captain Mills shall be assigned by Superintendent Hoblnson to the vice situation. That order ex plains tho fctatus of Captain Mills." "Will you state just wnai comes within tho meaning of 'vlco situation' ' as applied to Captain Mills?" the direc tor was nslud Order i:plalns It" "Tho order explains It," was the reply, it was utter the protests of prominent .'ministers against bringing troop trans. ports lure If Itoblson contlnueil in olllce, Contlnuril on Pace Two, Column Four WEATHER SEERESS AT WORK l-Elvettn Mies Promises Fair Day "as She Aids Father If fair weather prophets make fair r.weathi r then the prospects are counted "most r.ivoranie. tor me wrniiier rriiona 'nr tnki-n down today hv Miss Elvetta Mills". Philadelphia's unolllclal "weather- lad v." Miss llllss Is tne uugnier ui nenrKo W, BINS, mi'teornlogist in cnarge or lie ..Uriltea hiates weniner nurcjiu. wwuik ltd the flinrtHKe of men and tho number 'taken for tho Weather Department of tho armv Mr llllss was becoming des Operate In his attempt to find experts to no IIIO woriv. Ills uuusmci uuncu iu lhelp. . .. . , MIFS I K Iss nss iirnru writiiivr iuitt-u ,mrr, ,,.- ikhr nil her life, and Is familiar with the workings of all the Intricate (instruments with which bent and cold, humidity, velocity oi winii mm ouier .ti,.ru or intereFi to tne weatner Rirmihet nro ninsurecl 9f. n.,..ui. ii.fia lift- first nrflelal visit to ithe Weather Hureau nnd she brought Ci message of fair weather which was Iloublv welcome because of tne source Ifrom wmen u came. 1CICLESI .Cold fonlo'ii and fomorroto at least. June. 1'luv. made a (larrlson finish, tlVifft coWcr tonight in tho cast The strong northwest brcezea diminish. Today's Developments at the National Capital Director General McAiloo In fur ther testimony before the Senate Interstate Committco expressed a fear that If the railroads were re turned to prlvato control within twenty-one months, the mllrond question would become a political ono In the coming Presidential campaign. Continuing his testimony before tho Senate Labor Committee, Sam uel Oompcrs said the American people would not countenanco a. change to Industrial stagnation after tho war. General March announced that 83.000 more United States soldiers abroad, comprising tho 30th, 37th and 91st combat division) and the Second Corps headquarters, soon will bo returned to America. De mobilization Is progressing, 630,369 men and 40,491 officers already having been discharged. Troops designated for demobilization total 1,379,000. Tho total of deaths among the American forces In the Arch angel region up to November 25 was eighty-six. DELIRI0USW0MAN PUZZLE TO POLICE Between Spells Tells of Having Been Lured to House SAYS SHE WAS DRUGGED Mystery surrounds tho identity of a well dressed young woman found up consclous today near tho Fifty-second street bridge of the Pennsylvania Rail road at Lancaster nvenue. She was discovered by Norman Humes, un em ploye of the railroad. Between spells of hysteria, and lapsing snmotlmei. Into unconsciousness, she told, ...... . - -. at the Presbyterian Hospital how she was lured to a house, drugged until she was senseless and then locked In u room. She leaped from a window to escapo and ran until exhausted, she says. Refusing to tell her name, she also has persistently declined to give the name of the man' she says took her to. I the house In an automobile. "Jack ! Jack ! No ! No 1" she exclaimed, while she was delirious. The girl's left arm and side are badly bruised and physicians of the hospital believe she received these bruises when she Jumped from the window. There are a bruise and a scratch on the right side of her face as though she had been struck In a struggle. Sns She Was Student The only clue to her Identity Is her statement mado Inadvertently that she Is a student In the pharmaceutical de partment at Temple University. Four 'girl students were absent from the uni versity today, but no one there could Identify the young woman In the hos pital from her description. Sho was bareheaded nnd wore no coat when she was found unconscious. Her outer garment whs a one-piece aress oi darK material. Jicr nair is oarit cnesi- nut. sho Is about five feet six Inches tall and weighs about HO pounds. Apparently a woman of refinement, she speaks four languages French, Russian, Jewish and English. Her Eng lish is good, and apparently she had lived In France at one time, ns she possesses a familiarity with French idioms that Is not learned In college. She Is about twenty-threo years old. Story Told by Olrl Her story. Interrupted at times by fits of violent weeping and hysteria. Is as follows: I was out with a friend In an auto- to get out. There were several persons there and they forced mo Into a room and forced me to drink out of a bottle until I lost consciousness. When I came to, It was dark, and I was alone, locked In the room. I tried tho doors, but couldn t open them. I could hear people moving about In other parts of tho house, but tney pam no at tention to my pounding. "I looked out Into the street, and I saw that I could Jump, and I did It. Then I ran until I fell exhausted. I don't remember anything more." I Wildly Delirious The girl has been state even since bel hospital early this morning. 'She rose freauently from the cot In the hospital as though struggling with Imaginary assailants. As tho woman's pocketbook Is mlsw Ing, the police believe she was robbed. When Hulmes picked her up he noticed that her Hns moved slightly, but he could not hear the mumbled words. He summoned employes from the Pennsyl vania nallroad station. The woman was brought there where efforts to revive her proved futile. Sho was then sent to the hospital. Marks around her lips lead tho physi cians to believe her story of being drugged. Her clothing Indicates that she Is a woman of refinement. District Detec tives Seal and Slbre, of tho Sixty-first and Thompson streets station, are Inves tigating the case. MOTOR VEHICLES CRASH Wrecked Truck Was Carrying In jured Man to Hospital A motortruck crrrylng an Injured man collided wth ahother automobile today at Penn nnd Wakefield streets, wrecking both machines. i The trucu, vvnicn belongs to tno Amer- ' lean Pulley Company, .N'lcetown, was driven by Norman Qulnlan, 1337 West Venango street, who was taking Zlncenio Uortl, 20J1 West Indiana rvenue, an- 'her employe of tho company, to the ermantown Hospital to have his foot Ircaled for nn Injury received at the plant. The other car was driven by William Neilimlth, Brtghthurst street near Wake fluid. Neither driver was seriously hurt and StorU suffered no further Injuries. KEEP RAILROADS OUT OF POLITICS M'ADOO'SPLEA Voices Danger of Return to Private Owners Within Twenty-one Months INSISTS ON 5-YEAR TEST Meanwhile, He Says, Congress Could Develop a Permanent Solution of Problem By the Associated Press Washington, Jan. 4. Director Gen eral McAdoo frankly told the Senate In terstate Commerce Committee today that he feared the railroad question would be dragged Into politics and that the employes would become objects of solicitation by candidates If Government control was not extended for five years. Ho Insisted that a proper trial In peace times would demonstrate whether or not all railroad competition should be eliminated. nxlstlng rate structures would con tinue If railroads were turned back to prlvato control until changes wero made by orderly legal procedure, even where States have specific rato laws. In the opinion of the Director General. The Interstate Commerce Commission has power to preent discrimination In rates and this power could be Invoked, said Mr. McAdoo, to prevent Inequalities between Intra and Interstate rates. He called attention to the fact that the courts have power to annul rates which might be confiscatory In view of thf present high cost of operating. The Director General also expressed the opinion that railroads operating privately could maintain Joint ticket of fices without violating antitrust laws. Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, chal lenged this conclusion. "Don't you know," the Senator in quired, "that when a committee of rail road presidents tried to unify tho roads before the Government took hold, the Attorney General inquired by what authority they were acting and Intl mated that they were violating the law? ,.. .. . ... ., . .. uo you Deueve in mo elimination oi all competition between railroads? Don't you think that the competition of service has been a principal factor In promoting good railway service?" Mr. McAdoo replied: "1 don't know yet whether. It would be good railway service. I don't know whether It would be best to eliminate all competition. That Is why I want a flve-ycar test period. I do not think competition Is Bnun1Io'l1 blessing, but a longer trial will aViiiur hnw niitoVi trinv li nncMinrv" Mlcht.n l'olltlcnl Qurntion Turning to the question of u. threat, ened breakdown in morale among olllcers and employes, which he feared If Gov ernment control should be limited to twenty-one months, the director general said: "It would bo difficult with tho Im pending presidential campaign to keep the railroad question out of politics. If the railroads are held only twenty-one months. I fear the employes themselves would become objects of solicitation for one plnn of campaign or one group of candidates. The railroads of the United States must be kept out of politics. I have religiously kept politics out of my administration I do not know the politics of my assistants or my regional directors. I selected them because of their ability to run tho railroads. If for the reason that railroad men might fore seo a chrnBe of masters, the result I i fear would be a lowering of efficiency and this would work out ns danger to the lives of travelers." Townsend duration MrAdno Senator Townscnd, of Michigan, Inter rupted: "But won't you Just postpone thin condition and extend ngltutlon over five years Instead of two?" Mr. McAdoo replied that with a five year period railroads could operate at least three years without prospect of change and by that time Congress should be able to develop a permanent solution. Tho Director denernl also cited a number of examples of objections by railroad companies against undertaking Improvement deemed nccefsary by the Federal administration. If control were extended five years, he said, there would be less Inclination to postpone Improve, ments. In his testimony before the Senate Committee yesterday Director McAdoo argued for an extension of governmental control from twenty-one months to five years, so that a definite test or Govern ment operation might bo made In times of peace. In making this rccommenda- lnn I.a oil.! l,ln nhlcf-t wrift (n play safe with everybody the Govern- ment, the public ana tne rnuroaas. Delirious Mr. McAdoo satel there were tnree gen- In a wildly dellrous rnl permanent solutions of t"e railroad .. nrimittpil to thn I problem. The first Is to "send the rail "B '"- "JSi,!0 J? roads back Into the private control of Mr. McAdoo said there were three gen the several hundred old companies. The second Is to have outright Government ownership and control of all the rail roads. The third l to reronstrurt the railroad tnsp along loclrnl lines so as to wine out these liandre-'. of different rail- road companies and subitum a com-, Daniels Y1?, tn"."TVr .?m,... resources for plalnB the game In any p.ratl.ely few companies, which under F"?. ln 'm l,?tetlf ?h1c sUck" "v fJft necessary by th- conclusions strict and close Oovernmrnt control n, jf ,""$" wxr his "cent recited by the Peace Conference. Wll be expected to combine the advantage of i icpecch In favor of a preponderant Amer- ' son's conciliation stands out In relief, Oove-rnmrnt control. Including unified ic.in naVv was directed at Great Drltaln. This is tho kind of evidence that control of those things where It is j "He Is mistaken If he supiroses we Kuropo understands nnd without which needed with tho advantage of the sen a menace even In tho highest e. ,,bstracton, however sound nnd elo Initiative of private management." I 'J'J (1 '"f.naVTels'Tortlav lead iuntly presented, would become Irksome Under any method of future admin- .meriean t tint the President Is by repetition, istratlon, Mr. McAdoo said, the follow-J, ,Fnei hi Washington more than In ' To sum up the current discussion, it Ing changes In railway operation, in- IIUEliniira UIIUCI viu.niimwtfc vw.....-., .. . . .....1.... r ..AM.an . flniilrnl should be continued; Maintenance of the permit system, so as to control llio I tralllc nt Its source: maintenance of heavy loads for cars; pooling of repair shops; elimination of circuitous routes, .minntinn nf terminals, maintenance of the "salllng-dny plan" nnd consolidation j of ticket offices ; utilization of universal j mileage ticket ; stanaariiuation of equip inentj maintenance of the uniform freight clsfslflcatlon Introduced by the railroad administration und maintenance of common timetables between Important points; maintenance of high demurrage rates and uniform rules; establishment of through way-billing freight from point of otlgln to destination; elimina tion of the old practice of paying In mileage or per diem rental for the use of freight or passenger cars of one car rier by another; simplification of the old practice of apportioning Interline pas senger revenue; utilization of water routes for the relief of crowded rail line. PHILA. SOLDIER JUMPS TO DEATH FROM TRANSPORT Private William Bnlinski Com mits Suicide While Returning to United States Private William llnltnskl. 2641 Uast Ontario street, committed suicide by leaping overboard from tho transport Slboney while returning to the United States from France. News of his death was given out at New York, following an arrival there of the transport. No one knew the case of the Philadel phia's net. When he dived from the deck of tho steamship he took with him every trace of Identity, nnd it wns not until every person on board had been checked up that his nnme was revealed. UallnsUI wns thirty jenrs old nnd the son of Adam Ballnskl. He entered the sen Ice five months ago. Three weeks ngo his father received a letter from him saying ho had been wounded, but that he expected to be home by Christ, mas. He wns Polish. ( MITTEN TO GO ON STAND Will Testify Today in Ptwyunk Avenue Trolley Controversy Thomas II. Mitten, president of the I. It. T nnd other olllcers of the roin panv are expected to testify at todays Public Sen Ice Commission hearing of complaint of the P.issyunk Avenue Bus Incss Men's Association against the company's plan to remove the Passyunk avenue line from service. Thn imiinnv'ji contention Is that by running cars over Snyder nvenue better time can be maao anil nuumonai earn placed In service. aiore man a score oi .sn.vuim c nue and South street business men have been called by the complainants and their evidence In every Instance Is that the present line, which has been In ex istence fifty ve.irs. Is hadlv needed and that to take It nway would caue a de preciation In the value of realty and deprive many riders of an easy routo from the southwestern part of the city to the central section and rlvi r lines. CommisHloner Ryan expects to com plete the nldente today and will then take the case under consideration. COLDANDMJEXT WEEK Some Prospect of Local Snows Noted by rorecaster r, WaxliliiRtnii, Jan. 4. (By A 1 ) Weather predictions for the week begin, nlng Monday Issued by tho Weather Bureau today are. NYiriii nml Mlilrllo Atlantic States' Low torrrierature and generally fair weather, but with some p-obablllty or local snowa Monday or Tuesday and again toward end of week. Kmiih Atlantic, and Hast Gulf States: Low temneraturc and generally fair WentlllT- West Gulf States: Generally fair weather with temperatures considerably below normal. Ohio Valley nnd Tennessee1 Low temperature nnd generally fair weather Region of the Great Lakes: Low temperature and mostly overcaBt weath er, with occasional snows. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Generally fair weather with temperature near seasonal average, Cold weather first half of week followed by higher temperature after Tucsuay. V BURNED IN XMAS TREE FIRES Boy and Girl Injured by Diazes in Homes A little girl Is In a serious condition nnd a boy escaped Injury today in two Christmas tree fire.s. Trying to light an oil stove, the nine-year-old son of George 12. Stroud, 32 Dast Garfield btrect, set , fire to his Christmas tree. The tree was destroyed and furniture In the room was ddinoeti) j J,-'; " w as out of the houe, six-year-old Anna McCabe, 112 McKean stieet, tried to light the candles on the Christmas tree and set fire to her dress Pollcemnn Friend, of the Fourth street nnd Snyder avenue station, who lives next door to the McCabe homo, heard the girl's scrtams He broke open the door of the house nnd be it out the flames The girl Is in a serious condi tion In St. Agnes Hospital. TRAIN WRECKS HOUSES Cars Leave Track and Cati?e De struction at New Brighton, Pa. New IlrUlitnn. r., Jan. 1 (llv A dozen tflephone pole's nnd a signal tower torn down nnd a number of nrrsom spri. ously Injured here this morning when a crone en a fast eastbound freight train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wavne and Chi cago Itallroad swung around, piling up a score of cars across the roadbed. Tho train wns thundering past Fifth street wnen tne nuge crane Doom, on lint car. swung nrounfl. snapping off the s unal tower and telenhone Holes. At Sixth street one o the freight cars ' restore normal conamons ..... .. Jumped the track plunging Into the permanently better for the common peo residence of A. I, Brewer, He, his wife pie. nnd five children were hurled In the. nle Vnvy Thrrnt Winn wreckage nnd seriously Injured. Eleven , . ,,,. , , . ,., more cars then left the track, crashing . What has Keen the . ff et "f the Into other houses. freeU"nt mention by HiitiIoIh .mi others Fires were started by the wreck.d , of our naval bul "Tn'ghn'a Tto houses and all nvallable fire apparatus President was visiting England rhe w rusheil to the scene to nre-vent ' effect vvaB strengthening If It be. per j spread of the flames, Tt.. ... .,,,., ...,,-,.! ,., ,., , ported missing. LONDON PAPER PRODS DANIELS - n - t . . n . UPClnres aneeril Advocating Ulg, Now Aimed nl Itritnin I 1 l.nmlon. Jan i. The Pall Mall Ga- rette said that It Is clearly Sicretary rcutopc." , Mad Because lie Made a Million Dollars Yes, sir, Philip Whlttcmore was angry clean through when he learned the result of his hard labor. WHY? Well, tho reason Is so thoroughly Interesting that wo hate to spoil things by telling you. MOREOVER You may learn all about It ty reading the first Installment of Flower of the North The story begins this coming Monday In the Evening Public PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO EUROPE WISE, AMERICANS AGREE Wilson Has Done His Work So Far Without a Mistake GREAT PROGRESS MADE Differences of Opinion Make It Necessary That He Attend Peace Congress Personally Hy CHARLES H GHASTY Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger! I Cowrloltt, ISIIO. Ill .Vfic York Times To. Paris, Jan. 4. With the absence of President Wilson In Italy. Americans In Paris nre surveying the general situation and questions tire asked nnd nn.swercd regarding Mr. Wilson's Eu ropean activities nnd the results flow Inn therefrom. What progress Is the President making in his effort to sluipo peace? No actual agreements have been reached, but that thero has been great progress Is admitted on all sides. Americans nt homo must understand the complexities of tho Kuropean sit uation nnd not expect concrcto re sults too quickly. Tho President has wasted no time. He hns now visited thu principal Al lied countries, nnd talked with their chiefs. The high points have boon touched. Rig questions have been dis cussed, but the President's work so far has been one of preparing tho ground. The President has done his work beautifully. There liavo been no mis takes of taste or Judgment. He has been equal to every occasion. Ho must have felt his mastery, for he has been ns blithe as a. huntsman nbout it. And Mrs. Wilson fitted well Into tho picture. Her smile has charmed ns well as the President's, nnd no where has any other woman outshone her. Driving Hoine Fourteen Points Another question often asked Is, "What nro Wilson's peace plans?" Perhaps he htmself does not know them in their flnnlltv. Next to mak ing friends with those with whom he will shortly have to deal at close qunr-1 PrcRW(.nt WPso" was the guest of le?'.lK,t,.r,Vln,0.7'e.h.S'O"rtnihonV.r nt n-i n-vm. ,,nnr tve at points nnd the fact that they nre in tho .cornerstone Pf the. peace, nego tiations, not by Iteration that would make European statesmen tired nnd wear away the virtue of the claim, but by tactful and relevant allusion The President is hero to help to find u way to make war less easy in the future. In n general way his four teen points nre the foundation upon which It is hoped to erect the super structure of a League of Nations. Did the President bring an open mind nnd has he been impressi-d by the Kuropean viewpoint? He came modestly and nppt cached the Euro peans with great sympathy The President is very tenacious, but no body sees n sound point more qulckly In argument He could not be budged from his bedrock position, but he! would doubtless give up minor points j to secure major ones. i rowtniitly Kstabllshes Sympathy Wherever he goes, he seems constantly j to establish sympathy between himself ana nis man or ins tniwu. ,i me fior lionno no French professor was more nt home or outdid him In scholarly dis tinction. It was a long vay thence to the church In Carlisle, where Wilson was the .center of another unforgetable scene. j There was the same subtle, unrnn sclous differentiation between the tlulld hall and the Amerlc.in-lllte environ- men' ot Manchester, where the Presj. ilello. dent was pleased to nav Woodle," shouted at him. There w.is an Interesting difference between his reception Ip England and In France-. This was largely one of temperament. There was the sam- In terest to see President Wilson In both mint res. tile same continence in ni '.""-""hip and the hope that ho would unnersiup .' '",,"' ,'..,..., mitted to borrow ii nui nun iiuaiivr, tn niiniotion from .1 lurmtr i-resiutui is I apropos. "Speak softly but carry a hip- fctlcle " ' livery on her' knows that America :!Ktrr?.tphr."u,e,r rSrl".,iV aZ IWIflP".. - .... . AkLr.a 11 Ill.ll.l'H llfttllllllL llll-ll!.1 lll.lhl'b pleas for peace convincing, wnson eiiini's mod.stly and with s-nuliie sJiniMthy, j with all vlevp"iniK, vvitnnui seinsn in- e-ri-sts of any sort or description. I Acalnst thn background of America's , may ne a-ieu no niisunri nip iiruvrn wise so fur'.' The answer Is In tho alllrmiitlve, and there Is no note of dis sent mywIiiTe Everybody has e'oino over and nearly everybody had to come over, for tho opposition was pretty nearly universal when tho matter wus first proposed. The popular response to the Prceldent and his Idea for a leaguo of nations has been most extraordinary. Naturally there will appear In the Penco Confer ence many counter-currents and Influ ences. It Is one thing to enunciate gen 1, ' i:,i.i n.i eiulte another to lav erol principles ami fluiie anoiner to jay mem uuii "-'0 "'"", ,rv prosecut on of the war. Mr. Vauclaln, tendance will be even more necessary m Mn ottMax capacity In Washington, when that time comes. worked In c'ose nswlatlon with Captain If America Is to take n direct hand',niire Tardleu. French hlgh commls- In reshaping conuiwu'i". ninom per- tonal leadership is essential to success or any hope of success.' Without his SS.K corn uuivii . 4r r dangerous unrest among the masses. TIIK T1IA7. CAFE. It S. litb fit. Italian T iltchin. HoeclS Clnn.r auaday.-aiv, B pqPE RECEIVES WILSON WITH EXTENDED ARMS AND WARM HANDCLASP Kaiser Lost Trade Scepter by War Lust, Says Wilson Home, Jan. 4. President Wilson de livered three uddrcsses yesterday In tho Italian Capital, In tho Qulrliml, before the Chamber of Deputies and In the Capitol. His Capitol speech fob lows: ".. l.n..A .!.... mrt n I'nri' nrpnt honor. Perhaps you enn Imagine wlot a feeling It is for a citizen of one of the newest of the great nations to be made a citizen of this ancient city. It Is a distinction, which I am sure vou ure conferring upon me as a representative of the great people for whom I spenk. One who has been a student of history cannot accept nn honor of the sort without having his memory run back to the extraordinary series of events which have centered In this place. Home Mistress of Empire But ns I have thought today. T have been Impressed by the contrast between the temporary and perma nent things. Many political changes have centered about Home, from the time when, a little city, she grew to bo mistress of a great empire. Change after change hns swept away m.iny.thlngs, altering the very form of her nffalrs, but the thing that has temalned permanent has been the spirit of Home and the Italian people. That spirit seems to have caught with each age the character istic purpose of the age. This Imperial people now gladly icpiesents tho freedom of nations. This people which nt one time seemed to conceive the put pose of governing the world now takes part In the Iiber.il entcrpilso of offeilng the world its own government. Can there be a lliur or more lmpres slve Illustration of the indestructi ble human spirit and of tho uncon querable spit It of liberty? I I. ave been ri'llecting In these re cent il.i.vs about a colossal blunder which h:n hern made the blunder of lorce by tho Central Knipire.s. If ITALY'S HEART ECHOES WILSON'S PEACE POINTS, SAYS KING VICTOR the CJulrlnat lat night. Thero wero Onlv two addresses: hy King Victor Emmanuel nnd bv Mr Wilson. The King said: You. yourself, Mr. Wilson, have become o'ir welcome and pleasing guest only toelay. hut, in the cxin science of our people, your person ality already for a long time had Inscribed itself In nn Ineffaceable wav It Is thnt which, In Itself, cathers all the powers which go to stimulate a will bent on liberty and Justice nnd gives Inspiration toward the highest conception of the destinies of humanity. The enthusiastic salutations which have accompanied our passage through the streets of Rome today are attestations of the sentiments of admiration nnd recognition that your own nnme anil labor and the name and labor of the United States stir In the Itnllnn people. The prin ciples In which jou, In magnificent synthesis, have summed up the ideal teasons of the war for 1'Lerty find resonance in Italian hearts. Aflluity Between Peoples Tho best traditions of Italian cul tuie. the liveliest currents of our national thoughts, have constantly aimed nt the same Ideal goal, to ward the establishment nt the Inter national peace for which you have, with tenacious faith, stood Al ready befoie the vicissitudes of war and the fraternity of nrmles hid established toda.v's itelmirnhlf com munlon of Intentions und purposes between our two countries, h-glons of our workers had emigrated to your grtat republic. They had knit ted America nnd Italy together with STRIKING MILK WAGON DRIVERS ATTACK DETECTIVE Striking milk wagon drivers today attneked John Quell, n detective, while tlio laller wns aiding: in the distribution of milk in Gcnnantown. He was beaten about the head" and hnd to be taken to the devmnntown Hospital for treatment. i SOLDIER HOSPITAL RECOMMENDED HERE Recommendation was mado today to Secretary Baker of tho War Sepaitnient by the Surgeon Geneial of the Army that a Government hospital be established here for the tieatment of convalescent soldier, returning fiom Fiance. AUERBACK MUST SERVE JAIL TERM Emanuel Auerback, alias Mattie J. Herman, a policeman of the Third and Do Laucey streets station, convicted of assault and battery on Benjamin Ynuovitzo, a rifth Waid muider case witness, must serve jail term, according' to opinion of Judge Ticxler, Superior Court. TRIBUTE TO S.M.VAUCLA1N Maile Chevalier of Legion of Hon- or by French Government i Samuel M Vauclnln, vice president of tho Baldwin locomotive Worlts, has heen made n chevalier of the Legion of Honor by tho Trench Government. . . - .... - This Honor was-awarnru mm tor con. , a,Bnc. to France In th gioner to tne e.iuieci nun. "iifii Lr tain Tardleu returned to Pnrls ho was asked to name several Americans who I Fran'ce?"and Vaualn" $2 Stf S thnuM Kelected. Word of the award was receives Thursday py Mr. Vauclnln., He5bs,. been' HI several days, but expects soon to re- '111 everal uays. I turn to nil Office. Germany had waited a single gen eration ihe would have had a com mercial empire of the world, She was not willing to conquer by skill, by enterprise, by commercial suc cess. She must needs attempt to conquer the world by arms, anil the world will nlwajs acclaim the fact that 11 Is Impossible to conquer by arms; that the only thing that con quers It Ls the sort of serlce which can be rendered In trade. In Inter course, In friendship, and that there Is no conquering power which can suppress the freedom of the human spirit. Rejoices In Partnership I have rejoiced in the partnership of tho Itnllnn nnd American people, because it is a new partnership In an old enterprise, an enterprise pre destined to succeed wherever it Is understood the enterprise which ha always borne that handsome namo which we call "liberty.' Men have pursued it sometimes like a mtrag that seemed to elude them: thnt seemed to run before them as they advanced, but never have they flagged in their purpose to achieve It, nnd I believe I nm not deceived In supposing that, in this nge of ours, they nro nearer to it than they ever were before. The light that shone upon the summit now seems to shine almost at our feet and If we lose It. it will onlv be because we have lost faith. A breath of hope and of con fidence has come Into the hearts and minds of men. I would not have felt at libertv to come nway from America. If I 1ml not felt that the time had arriv ed when, forgettlne local Interests and local ties and local purposes, men should unite In this great en terprise that will ever tie free turn together as a b'id.v ir brethren and :i body or free spirits. I am honorel. sir. to be taken Into this nncient roTna.lcshlp of the citizenship of Home. strop-? ror-is of relnt'onshlns nnd theo became re-ciforced hy ths sub ttual affinity between both ' peoples wl'.o had a-mmmon fnlth in tne virtue oi nee poiuiuai uum mpnt. Vlinn Italy entered Into th" war p hrsith n preeMrsor of the Ameri can soul penetrated Into the rank and file of our nrmv through the means of o'jr workers who returned to the fntherland from America and brought into Itnlv nn echo of their second pat tin. So, correspondingly, the Italian soul vibratci In the hearts of our emigrants em oiled tinder your banners when the American nation under vour iuld nnce. threw Itself Into the fight against the common encmv Heady to Co-operate It was natural that our visit, awaited with a most earnest desire, should now give form and exprcs. sion almost tangible to this fervid agreement of spirits, to this happy communion of Intentions and of Ideals, forming themselves between the two peoples, and which are em ployed In u union, nlwuvs moro Inti mate, and n co-operutlcin, alwavs more cordial, in the face of the grave duties Imposed by tho com mon victory. Italy, having now gathered to her own bosom those brothers so lonij sorrowing under foreign oppression, nnd having re conquered the confines which nlone can give her security and true In dependence, Is preparing herself to e-n-operate with .vou in the must cordial manner to le.ich th most practical means fur diaulng Into a single circle the civilized nations, for the purpose uf creating in the tontlnurel on Pace Tour, Column Tuo j DIES AS HE CALLS FOR AID Park Guard Hows in uin to Help ' .Man in River Screams from the ilvtr attracted the attention of Sergeant P.oinuiell, of the , . . n,larliho., wsil h unn ne. hfUgley (Juarunojje wn le lie was p.i- ItrnUnir th MrhtivkUl ttlipr lnwt nlpht - - ----- ----- ." near the Glrard Avenue Bridge. A lift- boat was obtained from a nearby land ing nnd nominal! rowed out to the mid. die of the stream, only to And the man dead from expojure. Letters In his iiocket identified the body as that of Madison M. Meredith, of S037 Green street, a rate clerk eniptoyd by the Pennsylvania Itallroad. The body was taken to the Lankenau Hospital, where, exposure was given as the cause of death.'. Police -of. the peUtley Ouurd. hfttiB np... InVAiiHirnf Inv tr. itlavrivr If MeredllUJwas thrown fromlthf j?rlde. Pontiff Confers With' President in the Throne Room VATICAN HONORS PEACE APOSTLE, "Star Spangled Banner" la Played by Gendarmes as Party Arrives SERVICE, NOT FORCE, WILL WIN UNIVERSE Eternal City Confers Its Citi zenship on Head of American Nation LEAVES ROME TONIGHT Royal Family Will Be Lunch- eon Guests at American Emhassy President Wilson was received by Pope Benedict with outstretched arms and a double handclasp at the Vatican today. Pontiff and Presi dent held a private conference in ths throne room. The conquest of the world is pos sible only by service. President Wilson declared Inst nijjht in Rome's nncient Capitol, where he received th- ciMr.enh'n of th Eternal City. I1 said the Italian people represent th" freedom of nations. Later in th evening, Mr. Wilson pnid eloquent tribute to the Italians, here and in Ttalv, at the official d'nner nt tV QuHal. He spoke In' answer to Kintr Victor's brilliant ad dress in .praise of A- cica,. In the afternoon, the President spoke aH against tno balance of power idea in his address in the Chamber of Deputies. Rome, Jan. 4 -Pope Benedict greet ed President Wilson with outstretched arms today. The Pontic's reception of the Amerl nn President wns extremelv cordial. He c'asped the Hxeeutlve's hnnds In both of his nnd shook them warmly. After this greeting, the Pope and tho President entered the throne room, where thov conferred In private at ome lenuth. The President went direct from the lAtucilcan emhassv to the Vatican, j where he arrived nt 3.43. A platoon I of Swiss Ouards In a gala uniform I was drn wn up nt the gate, while the j hand of the Vutlcnn gendarmes played j "the Slur Sp.uigld Uauner" llonoied iu Vatican I Htiterlng the S.ilnt Damascus court, Ithe presidential party walked past a i-iinipiiny of gendurmes, n platoon of Swish Guards and u pl-ituun of Vatican firemen, who pro.-ented iirms. President Wilson was iccelved by i MuiiMgnnr T.iccl, major domo: Mon islgnor '.iiinpliii. siicrintnii of the pat 'ae'es; MoiiMguor .S'-ielllrecn, grund ar- molere to the Pnpe, and four sacred ehumbeii.iliis. They escorted him to the tup of the riijnl htnlruii), where he was, gn-eted b n pieturesqi e group of i-uiiiiniiiiders of the Vatican mllltla nnd their staffs. A riirtege foimed here, with the uillltU ottkers lending and unother platoon tit Swiss (iirirels in the rear. When Ihey anivi'd lit the thiehold of the t'lementhie Hull. Minulgiinr Sam per, muster of ceicmone welcomed the I'l t-'ilmt In the name of the I "ope. Ho escorted I'lesldeut Wilson -jS to the hall "f uiiii-, from which a door opens Into the siniill throne room. The elooi upemsl und Mir. Samper stepped furwitnl, uiiiiouncing tu the I'opo that President Wilson hnd ar- ! live-d. Pope lienedki eaiiie out. dre-sbCd n whlU lobes. With outsti etched aims ho btiude fiiiwunl und clasped both,- t'untllHii-d un r-.e lour. Column four Trvnvlutnt Utterances of President in Rome President Wilson. In Ida ad dresses in Koine, ni'idc the fob' lowing Important declarations: At the Capitol "It is Impossible to coiuiucr by urms; tho onlyt thins that conquers Is service." At the Quintal "It has been matter of pride with us that eo many Italians, so many men of Italian origin vvero In our own! nrmles and nssoclnted with their brethrens In Italy Itself In tlie.greeit; enterprise of freedom. At the Chamber of Deputli "We know that there cannot bv another balance of power. Tl has been tried anil found w Ing." . .- ' " - l fc.- tj i -i i 4 il I K "s. 4 v. . 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