HERBERT TOLD TO DROP DESHONG CASE [Continued from First Page.] and crashed Into the smaller ma chine. The driver of the large truck did not sound his horn and I at once stepped up to him and said: 'This was your fault. The best thing you can do is get In your truck and drive off and let your em ployer fix it up with the other fel low." DeShong's Story "As I was walking away Wilson came up to nte and asked me what business it was of mine to interfere. 1 had not seen him before that. I told him that I was an ofilcer in the ward and thought I had a right to be interested in anything that hap pened in the neighborhood. "He continued to bluster and I warned him to keep quiet or I would lock him up. His reply was. 'All right, arrest me. Lock me up." I told Constable Hodge to plaee him under arrest and take him to my office. Xo warrant was necessary. He was arrested on view. I made out a commitment and as soon as the constable returned he signed the information which 1 had drawn and which I have in my possession now." The alderman produced the in formation which was dated August 10. and which charges Wilson with disorderly practice. Tt shows that the defendant was committed to jail for a hearing and that the same day the Constable withdrew the charge. And Ho Did "Wilson did not ask to use the telephone when he was in my otflce. He said, 'Send me to jail. Send me to jail.' I learned that he was in the employ of the United Tee and Ccal Company, and 1 called tip the office and finally got in touch with S. F. Perkins, his employer. I ex plained the situation to Mr. Perkins and said that if he came to my of fice I would give him a release for Wilson. I made an appointment with him for 8 o'clock and five min utes before that hour he came in and I gave him the release. "August 22 Arthur R. Rttploy came to my office and asked io see the information in the case. 1 .-i 1 not show it to him. He did not toll me that he was co"nsel for Wilson and did not ask for a transcript of my record which I certainly would have furnished him. The oniv per sons to whom I need show my docket and records are the coroner and district attorney. T alwnvs fur ri'shed transcripts of my records when they are requested and paid for. V<> Warrant Served "Xo warrant has been served on me yet," Alderman DeSliong said shortly before noon. "I question an alderman's jurisdiction in such a suit. So far as my jurisdiction in the disordetly practice case n con cerned. I am at present the commit ting magistrate for the rnajv,;*, and! of.y because 01" that can act 111 such e case." Constable Hodge also denied that Wilson had asked him for permls- j sion to telephone while he was be- ! ing taken to jail, "lie wanted mo to get ball for him and I told him i I could not hunt bail for him but would communicate with anv one he I named He tcld me to tell Harry i P. Stroh, of North Six*h street, j about his arrest and T sent word to I Mr. Stroll. Mr. Stroll came to A'.-j derman DeShong's office at 7.30 i o'clock and was told that Mr. Per kins had been notified and would! call for the release, so he did not bother any more about the case." Speaking about Wilson. Alderman DeSliong said: "I did not recall un til to-day that he is the man I had h"fore me in .Tune. 1917. charged with disorderly conduct at the Mapio i Grove hotel. t fined him $5 that' time. I believe." The alderman called police headquarte'rs by tele- 1 Thone and verified the penallv which had been imposed. The Ideal Woman The great Xapoleoi? once said: 1 'My ideal woman is not the beaut'- ful-featured society belle, whose ! physician tries in vain to keep her i in repair, but the matron who! reaches middle age in complete preservation—that woman is ren- ! riered beautiful by perfect health." ! To attain such health in middle life a woman must guard against those ills which drag her down and pro- i duee nervousness, headache, back- ! aches, sleeplessness and "the blues." ' The standard remedy for such con ditions is Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound, which for fortv- 1 Jive years has been restoring women ' to health and strength. HAIP HINTS Helpful Advice for Cure of the Hair Worthy the attention of Every one Who Would Avoid Dandruff, Itching Scalp, t; r n.\ Hair and Baldness. if your hair is getting thin or viu I are troubled with dandruff or itch ing scalp use Parisian Page daily for I a week and you will surely be sur- I prised to see how quickly" it stops ' your hair from falling and removes '■ every sign of dandruff and itching i scalp. "Before going to bed I rub a little Parisian Page into my scalp," says a j woman whose luxurious soft and I fluffy hair is greatly admired. "This ! keeps my huir from being dry. brittle | or straggly, helps it to retain its i natural color and beauty, and makes I it easy to dress attractively." Beautiful, soft, glossy, healthy hair. ! and lots of it. is a simple matter for those who use Parisian Page. This harmless, inexpensive, delicately per fumed. and non-greasy invigorator is sold by Kennedy Drug Store and at all good drug and toilet counters. Be sure you get the genuine Parisian sage (Giroux's) as that has the money-back guarantee printed on every package. IA Boon To Tired, Aching, Sweaty Fed! Dash Halm Guaranteed To Stop the Agony and Pain at Once Thousands of people have learned that the simplest, easiest but best of : all treatment for tired, aching, puffed ' up, burning, perspiring feet is an I application of Dash Balm. This almost magical preparation can now be obtained at nearly every ; drug store in the country. Get a box ! to-day; you will be surprised and delighted the way it acts. It is simply marvelous how quickly it re lieves the pain and soreness in those tender, tired feet. Use Dash Balm and laugh at foot sufferers who arte always on the grumble. IMPORTAXT—It is not necessary to use the balm unless there is a good deal of soreness and inflamma tion. In most cases Dash Antiseptic Powder sprinkled between the toes and in the sock or stocking will usually be found sufficient. -Most dealers can supply you. but if rot don't accept a substitute. We will gladly send either. Mail charges paid on receipt of 35 cents, silver or stamps. Allan J. Dash Manufactur ing Co., Oleart, X. Y. TUESDAY EVENING, Important Paragraphs in President Wilson's Request Fora Wage Truce WE ought to postpone questions of this sort until we have the opportunity for certain calculations as to the relations between wages and the cost of living. It is the duty of every citizen to insist upon a truce in such contests uirtil intelligent settlements can be made and made by peace and effective common counsel. We are face to face with a situation which is more likely to affect the happiness and prosperity, and even the life, of our people than the war itself. We have now got to do nothing less than bring our industries and our labor of every kind back to a normal basis after the greatest upheaval known in history, and the winter just ahead of us may bring suffering infinitely greater than the war brought upon us if we blunder or fail in the process. ■ The very first step is to increase production and facili | ta:e transportation, so as to make up for the destruction j wrought by the war, the terrible scarcities it created, and so as soon as possible relieve our people of the cruel burden j of high prices. It goes without saying that if our efforts to bring the cost of living down should fail, after we have had time enough to establish either success or failure, it will of course be necessar) to accept the higher cost of living as a perma nent basis of adjustment. Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss Many years ago, while hunting in an amateurish way for trilnbitcs in a deep, shady, romantic and wonderful ravine near Ithaca, X. Y„ I was sud uonly confronted by 4. young man of my own age. carrying a geological l.mmner in his hand, who came unex ,:ec.e'.l; around 71:ojeetir.g corner of tlie prccipitj n rock wall that .tot tered high above the natural pavement of slate over which a little wrinkling stream slid like a film of liquid dia monds. After a few words of greeting 1 said 1 was looking for trilobites. but couldn't tind any. "Good place. though." said he. glancing at the broken edges of the layers of slate piled up at ins elbow like the Ught-prcssed leaves of a time stained book, a hundred feet thick. "Why. here's one now." He pecked at the foliated stone with his hammer, and out came the dark gray, bow-shaped-head and the typical three cross-barred body-lobes cf the finest fossil of a trilobite that I had ever seen outside a museum. The man was Herbert Huntington Smith, who had already, by his ex plorations in Brazil und elsewhere, be come known as one of the most ex pert collectors of natural history spe- 1 cimens in the world. A few days ago he was killed by a I freight trai in Alabama. Even at the time when I nut him in the ravine he was already quite deaf, and his deafness is said to have contributed to the accident that ended his life. I have never seen htm since the day he found the trilobite for me. but that i old, gray fossill. mounted in a little wooden frame, still hangs on the wall 1 in my writing-room, piquing the curi-! osity of visitors. The way it was found illustrates a | species of human faculty, very inter-; esting to observe in action and which j sometimes gives rise to superstitious notions. It recalls a story told by 1 Emerson about Thoreau. A friend of the latter while walking with him one j day lamented his continual failure to i tind an Indian arrowhead, and said: j "It you should ever find one I beg I you to give it to me." "They are j rare." said Thoreau. stooping and pick- j Int. dp a fragment of earth-covered j substance he saw in the sod." and now ; that you have an opportunity, you had j better examine this!" And he pre-, sen'ed a fine specimen from which he j finished disengaging the earth-rust. As Mr. Emerson told this story to Mr. ] Woodbury he hinted that he thought j the finding of the arrowhead "no ac- j C'dent." He said things "came" to! Thoreaw. "as they will to lovers of the J woods and fields." Cut out the touch of mysticism, ■ which Emerson always loved to put in 1 because he was a poet, and his state- j ment about things "coming" to such j a man as I'iioreau was logically [ sound. Herbert H. Smith too, had this genius of the finder. He was a ! living embodiment of the legendary ; power of St. Anthony of Padua. Things came to him because he went to them. The fossils seemed to know I his step because, of course, he knew ■ beforehand, by a kind of knowledge ! that appeared instinctive and there fore uncanny, where they were buried. Peculiarities about a rock that the > ordinary person would not notice at all were as plain as print to him. In the j cottage where he dwelt near the shore . of Cayuga Lake, he showed me, the ; same memorable day when we met in j the ravine, a collection of rare fossils, 1 seme yet half enveloped in their stone i shrouds, that I remember because of j their astonishing perfection. They ! were like statuettes in their delicate | beauty. "To show me how It was done 1 he removed the remaining stone from I seme half disengaged specimens. But, j ab the same. I did not see how it was ■ dene any more than one sees how a j prestidigitator performs his apparently j impossible feats. Blows if struck by me would have smashed the fossil irto dust, when dealt by him simply 1 ur.shelled it and it rolled easily out | of the bed of its million-year nap. Of ! course, this was acquired skill but, 1 then, it was something more. too. j Some men hate as marvelous abil-1 ity in finding money as Herbert | Smith had in finding petrified life- 1 forms, and perhaps Charon would as readily accept a trilobite as an obol , for his ferryman's fee. SHIPS JOIN SEARCH Santa Cruz, Cal., Aug. 26.—Three I ships of the new Pacific fleet, the j old cruiser Machias, the submarine ! chaser 306 and the tug Challenge, ' have been ordered from San Diego ' to lower California to aid in the j search for the lost army aviators. ] Lieutenants Waterhouse and Con- | neljiv. Admiral Hugh Rodinan an nounced here to-day. f Hit AGO CATTLE MARKET Chicago. Aug. 26—Hogs—Receipts. 30,000; lower: top $21.50: heavy weight. $10.106 21.25; medium weight. $19.15621.40 light weight. sl9.2Bifi 21. ".<•: light lights. $18.756 21: heavv packing sows, smooth. $ IS. 256 IS. 85"; packing sows, rough, $17.25618; pigs. $17.50 6 10. Cattle—Receipts. 10.000; good and choice native beef steers best she j stock und dull about steady: in be tween steers and she stock slow to 23c 1 lower; calves steady to 25c higher; ; feeders end westerns steady to shade j lower; beef steers medium and heavv weight, choice and prime. $16.55*1 ; 1575; medium and good, $12.50616.35;: common. $10612.50: light weights.: good and choice, $14*118.25; common! and medium. $9.50*114; butcher cattle, I heifers. $7.50615: cows. $7.25*113.50; I ennners and cutters. s6*s 7.25; veal calves, light and handy weight. $19.50 ! 6 20.50: feeder s'eers. $B6 13.75: stock-1 er steers. sB*l 1.25; western rangy 1 steers. $9.50616.50; cows and heifers.! $7 30* IS. Sheep—Receipts 30.00'!: lower: sheen week. Lambs 81 pounds down. SHC J 17.2": culls and common, $9613 30; yearling wethers, $10.256 12 50: ewes, j medium, good and choice. $7,256 9.25; i culls and common. $3 @7.25. ! lAsks Federal Investigation Into High Cost of Shoes ' -• j V \ 11. Representative William L. Tsroe, Democrat, of Missouri, who sees 1 profiteering in cost of shoes und asks an investiatlon by the Federal | Trade Commission. I'nderwood & Underwood i 22,000 Members of the P. 0. S. of A. in Service, State Camp Report Shows Hu Associated Press. llctlilclicin, Pa., Aug. 26. —The 34th annual convention of the State ; Camp of the Patriotic Order Sons ;of America was opened here this morning at 9 o'clock with nearly : 1.200 delegates in attendance. The ! order gained 6,016 members in the 1 State during the year, bringing the ! total membership of the 571 sub : ordinate camps to 123,717. Of the i latter number more than 22,000 saw 1 service In the world war, of whom j more than 500 made the supreme sacrifice. The total receipts for the [year were $58,666.60 and the ex penditures $49,569.94, leaving a bal ' ance of $9,096.66. President Harper in his annual address recommended stringent im migration laws, control and regu ' lation of the foreign language j press; the strengthening of the Fed • eral Corrupt Practices law; full con trol of manufacture, sale and dis tribution cf explosives; laws provid : ing for the deporting of all traitors ; and aliens who insist in pulling j down this government: immediate ; action of the government in lower j ing the high cost of living; and re ; enactment of the espionage law or enactment of a peace-time substi [ tute therefor. LABOR NOTES Electrical workers in Xew Or- I leans have been given an increase ! in pay of 20 cents an hour. In American cities the wages of ' firemen range from $951 in Provi dence, R. 1., to $1,440 in Denver, i Col. There are about 2.500 large and ; 5,000 medium-sized flour mills in ; European Russia. U. S. Cavalry Leader in Pursuit of Mexicans ! Captain Leonard S. Matlack, of ; Louisville. Ky., who rescued Lieu , tenants Peterson and Davis, held i for $15,000 ransom by Mexican ban -1 dits, und who led in the chase for members of Jesus Rentarto's kid- I naping band. HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH WILSON RFEUSES WAGE INCREASE i [Continued from First Pago.] ! attempt to increase freight rates to; 1 provide funds for higher wages. J Asks Co-operation i "We ought to postpone questions: of this sort until we have the oppor- I 1 tunity for certain calculation us to] the relations between wages and the] ' cost of living." the President de-1 dared in a statement to the public | : explaining his decision as to wages. | ' -it is the duty of every citizen to in-1 ' sist upon a truce in such contests; until intelligent settlements can be made, and made by peace and ef fective common counsel. I appeal to my fellow citizens of every em i ployment to co-operate in insisting upon and maintaining such a truce." I Air. Wilson's statement was issued in connection with the decision of | himself and Director General Mines on demands by railroad shopmen for I ja 25 per cent, advance in wages, but the general policy pronounced cov | ers also the wage demands of other Ihundreds of thousands of railroad j workers, which are pending before 'the director general or about to be | presented. It is to be expected that 'other unions trying to obtain morj pay will be asked, as tlje shopmen. ; to play their part with other citizens in reducing the cost of living by fore going a temporary advantage which would add to transportation costs, j Get Some Increases j The decision of the President and j the director general was announced | to a committee of one hundred, rep . resenting the shopmen. In reply to ; their demands for a 25 per cent, in i crease, the shopmen were asked to accept an adjustment of their pay to the basis of ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, which they contended was given other employes and de nied them when the Adanison law became effective. This means an advance of the basic pay from 6S cents to 72 cents an hour, whereas on increase of 17 cents to S5 cents on hour was demanded. Acting President Jewell, of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor, and his advisers said they would ccni niunionte the decision to the union locals for acceptance or rejection. A strike vote completed Sunday, but not yet tabulated, was on the' ques tion whether the men should quit work to enforce consideration of their demands hy the railroad ad ministration instead of by a con gressional commission as first sug gested. As this plan was aban doned. the vote, whatever its result, is non-effective and the shopmen now have an entirely new question before them. President's Statement The President in his statement to tie representatives of the shopmen said: "Gentlemen: "I request that you lav this crit ical matter before tile men in a new liglit. The vote they have taken was upon Hie question whether they should insist upon the wage increase they were asking or consent to the submission ot" their claims to a new tribunal, to be constituted by new legislation. That question no "longer has any life in it. Such legislation is not now in contemplation. I re | quest that you ask the men to re | consider the whole matter in view :of the following considerations, to | which I ask their thoughtful atten tion as Americans, and which T hope that you will lay before tliem as I here, state them. "We are face to face with a situa tion which is more likely to affect ithe happiness and prosperity, and (oven the life, of our people than the I war itself. We have now got to do 1 nothing less than bring our indus- I tries and our labor of every kind I back to a normal basis after the greatest upheaval known in history. I and the winter just ahead of us may bring suffering infinitely greater thai the war brought upon us if we blun der or fail in the process. An ad mirable spirit of self sacrifice, of patriotic devotion, and of commun ity action guided and inspired us while the fighting was on. Wo shall need all these now, and need them i in a heightened degree, if we are to accomplish the first tasks of peace. They are more difficult than the tasks of war—more complex, less easily understood —and require more intelligence, patience and sobriety. We mobilized our man-power for the fighting, let us now mobilize our brain power and our consciences for the reconstruction. If we fail it will mean national disaster. The verv first step is to increase production and facilitate transportation, so as to make up for the destruction wrought hy the war, the terrible scarcities it created and so as soon as possible relieve our people of the cruel burden of high prices. The railways are at the center of this whole process. Would Offset Results "The Government has taken up with all its energy the task of bring ing the profiteer to book, making the stocks of necessaries in the country available at lowered prices, stimu lating production, and facilitating distribution, and very favorable re sults are "already beginning to ap pear. There is reason to entertain the confident hope that substantial relief will result, and result In Increasing measure. A general increase in the levels of wages would check and might defeat all this at its very be ginning. Such increases would in evitably raise, not lower, the cost of living. Manufacturers and pro ducers of every sort would have in numerable additional pretexts for in creasing profits and all efforts to dis j cover and defeat profiteering would jbe hopeless'y confused. I believe i that the present efforts to reduce the costs of living will be success ful, if no new elements of difficulty are thrown in the way; and 1 con fidently count upon the men engaged in the service of the railways to as sist. not obstruct. It is much more in their interest to do this than to insist upon wage increases which will undo everything the Govern ment attempts. They are good Americans along with the rest of us, ; and may, I am sure, be counted on j to see the point. "It gees without saying that i'j our efforts to bring the cost of liv ing down should fail, after we have had time enough to establish either success or failure, it will of course be necessary to accept the higher costs of living as a permanent basis of adjustment, and railway wages should be readjusted along with the rest. All that I am now urging is. i that we should not be guilty of the I inexcusable Inconsistency of" making general increases in wages on the as sumption that the present cost of living will be permanent at the very time that we are trying with great confidence to reduce the cost of liv ing and are able to say that it is actually beginning to fall. Realizes Men's Inseeurity "I am aware that railway em ployes have a sense of insecurity as to the future of the railroads and have many misgivings as to whether their interests will be properly safe guarded when the present form of Federal control has come to an end. No doubt it is in part this sense of uncertainty that prompts them to in sist that their wage interests be ad justed now rather than under con ditions which thai' cannot certainly RUBE BRESSLER, 2ND, WITH CINCINNATI | Without the Klein team Harrisburg would not have had any chanee to see the big: league teams. On Friday, Cincinnati will he here for a game with the ehoeolato boys. "With real baseball weather, baseball fans will break all records. The Rods are leading the National League and there is every indication that they will not be chased out. The leaders are stopping off in this city onrouto home for their tinal series. They will have with them their big stars. Manager Pat Moran will be here. The game starts at 3.45 on 11. A. P. Held at Island Park. In the lineup will be Kuhe lirovlor, a nephew of the famous "Rube" who played with Williamsport in outlaw days and later with Ilarrisbtirg and other teams in the Tri-Staff league. foresee. But I do not think that i their uneasiness is well grounded. | 1 anticipate that legislation dealing! with the future of the railroads Willi in explicit terms alTord adequatej protection for the interests of the i employes of the roads; but, quite! apart from that, it is clear that no; legislation can make the railways I other than what they are, n great public interest, and it is not likely j that the President of the United States, whether in possession anil | control of the railroads or not, will j lack opportunity or persuasive force, to influence the decision of questions arising between the managers of the | railroads and tlie railway employes. The employes may rest assured that, during my term of otlice, whether 1 ] am in actual possession of the rati- ' roads or not, 1 shall not fail to exert j the full influence of the Executive; to see that justice is done them. j "1 believe, therefore, that they, may he justified in the confidence j that hearty co-operation with the; Government now in its efforts to, reduce the cost of living will by no means be prejudicial to their own I interests, but will, on the contrary, 1 prepare the way for more favorable and satisfactory relations in the fu ture. I "l confidently count on their co operation in this time of national test and crisis." Statement to the Public The President's statement ad dressed to the public follows: "My fellow citizens; "A situation has arisen in connec tion with the administration of the railways which is of such general significance that I think it my duty to make a public statement con-1 oerning it, in order that the whole j I country may know what is involved. "Tile railroad shopmen have do- ! mandtd a large iherease in wages.! They arc now receiving 08, Go and i (IS cents per hour. They demand 8.1 cents per hour. This demand lias i been given careful and serious cor.- i sideration by the board which was: constituted by the railroad admin-! istration to adjust questions of wages a board consisting of an equal num- j her of representatives of employes' and of the operating managers of the • railroad companies. This board litis been unable to come to an agree- j ment. and it has therefore devolved ; upon the Director General of raii- j roads and myself to act upon the i merits of the case. "The shopmen urge that they are! entitled to higher wages because of I the higher wages for the present] received by men doing a similar i work in shipyards, navy yards and I arsenals, as well as in a number of j private industries, but I concur with i the Director General in thinking that, there is no real basis of comparison between the settled employment tf-] forded mechanics by the railroads j under living conditions as various as! the location and surroundings of the: railway shops themselves and the i fluctuating employment afforded in industries exceptionally and tempo rarily stimulated by the war and lo cated almost without exception in industrial centers where the cost of living is highest. Expects I.iving to Come Down "The substantial argument which ' the shopmen urge is the very ser-1 ious increase in the cost of living. This is a very potent argument in- { deed. But the fact is that the cost I of living has certainly reached its] peak, und will probably be lowered ; by the efforts which are now every- j where being concerted and carried j out. It will certainly be lowered as soon as there are settled condilions! of production and of commerce; I that is, so soon as the Treaty of | Peace is ratified and in operation, j and merchants, manufacturers, I farmers, miners, all have a certain i basis of calculation as to what their i business will be and what the con-! ditions will be under which it must be conducted. The demands of the shopmen, therefore, and all similar demands are in effect this: that we I make increase in wages, which are] likely to be permanent, in order to meet a temporary situation which will last nobody can certainly te'l how long, but in all probability only for a limited time. Increases in wages will, moreover, certainly re sult In still further Increasing the costs of production, and, therefore, the i-ost of liviiu' ninl we should only have to go through the same process again. Any substantial Increase of wages in leading lines of industry at I this time would utterly crush the I general campaign which the Govern ment is wuging with energy, vigor and substantial hope of success, to reduce the high cost of living. And the increases in the cost of trans-. portatlon which would necessarily result from increases in tlie wages of railway employes would more cer tainly and more Immediately have that effect than any other enhanced wage costs. Only by keeping the cost of production on its present level, by increasing production and liy rigid economy and saving on the pari of the people can we hope for large decreases ia the burdensome cost of living which now weighs us down. The Director General of railroads ami I have felt that a peculiar re sponsibility rests upon us, because in determining this question we are not studying the balance sheets of corporations merely, we are in ef fect determining the burden of tax ation which must fall upon the peo ple of tlie country In general. We are acting, not for private corpora tions, but in the name of the Gov ernment and the public, and must assess our responsibility accordingly. For it is neither wise nor feasible to lake care of increases in the wages of railroad employes at this time by increases in freight rates. It is im possible at this time, until peace has come and normal conditions are restored, to estimate what the earn ing capacity of the railroads will be when ordinary conditions return. There is no certain basis, therefore, for calculating what the increases of freight rates should he, and it is necessary, for the time being at any rate, to take care of all increases in tlie wages of railway employes through appropriations from the public treasury. "In such circumstances it seems clear to me, and I believe will seem clear to every thoughtful American, including the shopmen themselves when they have taken second thought, and to all wage earners of every kind, that we qught to post pone questions of this sort until normal conditions come again and we have tlie opportunity for certain calculation :is to tlie relation be tween wages and the cost of living. It is the duty of every citizen of the country to insist upon a truce in such contests until intelligent settle ments can he made, and made by peaceful and effective common counsel. I appeal to my fellow citizens of every employment to co operate in insisting upon and main taining such a truce, and to co-oper ate also in sustaining Hie Govern ment in what I conceive to be the only course which conscientious pub lic servants can pursue. Demands unwisely made and passionately in sisted upon at this time menace tlie peace and prosperity of the coun try us nothing else could, and thus contribute to bring about the very results which such demands are in tended to remedy. "There is, however, one claim made by the railway shopmen which ought to be met. This claim that they are not enjoying the same advantages that other railway em ployes are enjoying because their wages are calculated upon a differ ent basis. The wages of other rail way employes are based upon the rule that they are to receive for eight hours work the same Pay they received for the longer work day that was the usual standard of the prewar period. This claim is, I am told, well founded; and I concur in the conclusion of the director General that the shopmen ought to be given the additional four cents an hour which the readjustment asked for will justify. There are certain other adjustments, also, pointed oait in the report of the Director General which ought in fairness to be made, and which will be made. "Let ine add, also, that the posi tion which the Government must In conscience take against general in creases in wage levels while the present exceptional and temporary circumstancs exist will of course not preclude the luilroad administration from giving prompt and careful consideration to any claims that may be made by other classes of employes for readjustments believed to be proper to secure impartial treatment for all who work in the railway service. "WOODROW WILSON. "Th