THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA, FIRST YEAR OF WAR REVIEWED Achievements of United States Recounted in Official Statements, GREAT ARMY IN TRAINING Land Forces Now Aggregate 123,801 Officer and 1,528,924 Enlleted Men Navy Personnel la Tripled. The United States Is now entering upon Its second year of war. On the first anniversary of the beginning of hostilities between this country and Germany, the people are Interested In knowing what has been done by the United States In waging and prepar ing to wage war upon the forces of Prussian autocracy. The committee on public Information of the United States government, In a review of the first year of the war, gives a resume of the activities of the vurlous de partments of the government a they are concerned with prosecution of the war. The committee announces that all statements made are authorized by the wur department, the navy de partment, the United States shipping board and the treasury department. The outstanding feature of the first year of war, It is pointed out In the review, has been the transfor mation of the standing army and Na tional Guard, composed of 9,524 offi cers and 202,510 men Into a fighting force that now segregates 123,801 of ficers and 1,528,024 enlisted men. A statement of the adjutant general shows that the regulur army which In April, 1917, comprised 5,71)1 officers and 121,797 men, now Is made -up of 10,098 officers and 503,142 men. Tho National Guard In April, 1017, Includ ed 3,733 officers and 76,713 men, while now It comprises 10,893 officers and 431,583 men. The reserve, corps In service one year ago Included 4,000 men. Now It Includes 9C,21(J officers and 77,300 men. The Nntlonal army, Iwhlch did not exist one year ago, now Includes 510,839 men. ' A substantial vangunrd (military wpedlency prohibiting publication of actual numbers) of this army is meet ing the enemy In France toduy or Is en jcamped there awaiting the call to the trenches; In 16 cantonments and 16 camps and on numerous aviation fields and In a variety of other schools In all parts of the United States the men ef the remaining nrmy are hardening and training for their part in the great contest overseas. Behind the activities of this vast force lies a great industry organized to produce an adequate supply of mu nitions, equipment, and provisions, and to provide transportation to the firing line, almost every branch of essential Industry of the country hav ing been drawn upon to produce these material requirements. Expeditionary Forces. Military necessity particularly for bids a detulled review of the activities of the American expeditionary forces. ! General Pershing and his staff ar rived in Tarts on June 14, 1917, C9 cays after the declaration of war. The first American troops arrived In France on June 20. On July 4, In cel ebration of our natal duy and a new fight for liberty, American troops pa raded the streets of Pnrls and were greeted as the forerunners of great American armies and vast quantities of sunnlles and ammunitions. ' On October 10, 1917, 187 days after the war was declared, American sol diers went on the flrln? line. In Jan uary American soldiers took over per manently a part of the line as an American sector, and this line Is grad ually lengthening. Behind the fighting line In France the American forces have scientifically nrenared a groundwork of camps, com munications, supply bases, and works' In anticipation of operations by the full force of the army. They are building and have built railroads, hos pitals, ordnance bases, and docks In France. They have constructed Im mense barracks, erected sawmills, re claimed agricultural lands, and car ried forward many Incidental enter prises. The construction of an ordnance base In France, costing $25,000,000, is now well under way. Great quantities of material used in the foreign con struction work have been shipped from the United States from fabricated Ironwork for an ordnance shop to nails and crosstles for railroads, and even the piles to build docks. All the while there has been a fairly even How of men and materials from the United States to France. The men In the trenches, back of th! lines, on . the construction projects, and In the hospitals have been steadily supplied. Our losses at sea, In men and mate rials, have been gratlfylngly small. The greatest single loss occurred on Shell-Cap Cigar Lighter. Capt. John Corrigan of the traffic squad of the police department has re ceived a souvenir from his son, V. It. Corrlgnn, who Is In France as n mem ber of bnse hospital No. 22, and W dis pluming It to his friends. It Is n cigar lighter, made from a machine gun one Inch brass shell cnp. After the shell lad been fired some enterprising Frenchman made It into a lighter, to b filled with alcohol and a wick, which Is lighted by the friction of a steel wheel against a point of steel Silver Coins In Demand. Because of the world-wide advance In the price of silver bullion there bus been a pronounced tendency In all countries to withdraw silver coins from circulation. This effect, which Is quite noticeable In certain parts of the United States, Is growing and prcnilin;r. Canadian dimes which for merly were taken only at a discount nnd often refused on this side of the Intermit!. mal boundary now usually lire accepted as freely as dimes of our own coinage. Those who have February 5, when the British ship Tuscunla was torpedoed and sunk. The bodies of 144 soldiers, en route to France, have been found and 55 others were still missing on March 1(5." To secure an adequate number of competent officers to lead the new armies various plnns were devised. Two classes at West Point were grad uated In advance of the usual gradu ating dates and special examinations were held In various parts of the coun try for appointments from civil life. Three series of officers' training camps have been held. Of 03,203 candidates in the first two series of camps 44,578 qualified and were awarded commis sions. In the third series of camps, opened January 5,. 1918, about 18,000 candidates, consisting largely of en listed men, have been In attendance. Corps ef Engineers. At the beginning of the war the en gineer troops consisted of three regi ments of pioneer -engineers, with trains, one mounted company, one en gineer detachment at West Point. The aggregate strength was approximate ly 4,125 officers and enlisted men. At present the aggregate luthorized strength Is over 200,000, with an act ual strength of approximately 120,000. Of the special engineer units re cruited for service on railways and In the maintenance of lines of communi cation, many are already In France and others are awaiting recruitment to full strength in order to be ready for overseas service. The first en gineer troops, 1,100 strong, to be sent abrood, arrived in France about three months after war was declared. Since that time the number has been greatly augmented. These troops have been constantly engaged In general en gineering work, Including the con struction of railways, docks, wharves, cantonments, and hospitals for the use of the American expeditionary forces. They have, In some Instances, In the performance of their duties, engaged in active combat with the enemy. Ordnance Department Since the outbreak of war the commissioned personnel of the ord nnnce department has expanded from 97 officers, operating with yearly ap propriations of about $14,000,000 and with manufacture Inrgely confined to government arsenals, to 5,000 officers In this country and abroad, transacting an unprecedented war program for the supply of ordnance, the total direct appropriations and contract authoriza tions for one year having been $4, 750,503,185. While building the foundation for greater production, the ordnance de partment has provided 1,400,000 rifles; has brought the rate of rifle production up to 40,000 per week, sufficient to equip three army divisions; secured deliveries on more than 17,000 ma chine guns; brought the rate of pro duction of machine guns from 20,000 to 225,000 per year ; Increased the rate of production of 314-Inch to 9-Inch cali ber guns from 1,500 to 15,000 per year; and has arranged for the manufacture of some 33,000 motortrucks and trac tors for hauling heavy guns and am munition, which are being delivered almost as fast as they can be shipped. One billion rounds of ammunition has been purchased for the training of troops In the cantonments alone. An Idea of the extent of the ord nance program may be gained from the following few items of purchase: Twenty-three million hand grenades, 725,000 automatic pistols, 250,000 re volvert, 23,000,000 projectiles for all calibers of heavy artillery. 427,246,000 pounds of explosives, 240,000 machine guns, and 2,484,000 rifles. Quartermaster Corps. The magnitude of the work of the quartermaster corps is Indicated by the operation of the subsistence divi sion, which Is charged with the re sponsibility of seeing that food sup plies for the army are available at all stations from the Philippines to Lor raine. Purchases recently made In cluded 40,000,000 pounds dried beans, 116.000,000 cans baked beans of the 1917 crop, 05,184,475 cans of tomatoes, 01,000,000 cans of condensed milk, and 20,287,000 pounds of prunes. The establishment of the subsistence division centralized the purehnses of foodstuffs for the army, previous to which such products were distributed through the depot quartermaster. Ef fective January 1, the central control system hns resulted in greater effi ciency and a big saving. In January, for Instance, $100,000 was saved under this system as compared with the prices obtained by depot quartermas ters, and In February a saving of $39,740 was made on potatoes alone. The central control system Is still be ing perfected. Production of 10.000 new automobile trucks is in progress for the army, In addition to purchases of 3,520 passen ger cars, 6,120 motorcycles, und 5,010 bicycles, with appropriate repair and replacement equipment. In three months the cantonment di vision of the qunrtermaster general's department built 10 cantonments, each one practically a small city, compris ing about 1,400 separate buildings and providing quarters for 47,000 men. Air Service. The air service bus been called upon In the past 12 months to build an enormous structure of the most wire. A lid, or "cap," for the lighter Is made from another piece of brass shell Inclosed nt one end with n French cop per coin. It Is n novel contrivance and neatly made. Indianapolis News. No Longer "Made In Germany." Clinical thermometers have, In the past, been a feature of Germany's trade; and so, when the German pris oners In France were sorted out last year, they were asked If any of them were thermometer-makers, and If so would Ihey enre to work at their trade. studied the situation predict that If the war goes on for some time longer the world will see the greatest short age of silver coins that has ever ex isted. Would Save Shipmate or Die. The sailor Is nlivnys true to his ship mate. Whether It Is In the battle line or at nnelicirage uwny from the guns, If danger threatens, he is ever ready to stand by. One night last January n sailor fell overheard from the dock nt the Norfolk yard, lie went down highly trained personnel and the most Intricate equipment with practically no foundation to start from. Three large appropriations, Includ ing the $010,000,000 act passed without a roll call, made a total of f091.000.00i) available for the first year. All of this has since been obligated. Last April the air service had an almost negligible force of 05 officers and 1,120 men, 3 small flying fields, less than 300 second-rate planes, prac tically no aviation Industry, and only the most scanty knowledge of the ka leidoscopic development abroad. The first two months of war were required to secure Information, establish a staff, and work out the program finally adopted. The problem was twofold first, personnel ; and, second, equip ment. Today the personnel Is over 100 times that of a year ago, practically every member a skilled man who has gone through an Intensive course of training. Schools of 11 different kinds have been Instituted, courses of Instruction laid out, and instruc tors secured, Including foreign ex perts In a score of lines. Development of Navy. The development of the navy during the first year of war has given the greatest satisfaction. Its growth and achievements during this period may be epitomized in the following para graphs : Strength of the navy today Is nearly 21,000 officers and 330,000 en listed men; strength a year ago was 4,702 offices and 77,046 enlisted men. Estimated total expenditures of the navy during first year of war: Dis bursements and outstanding obliga tions, $1,881,000100. Total naval appropriations, real and pending, $3,333,171,005.04. American destroyers arrived at a British port to assist In patrolling Eu ropean waters 28 days after the decla ration of war. There are now four times as many vessels In the naval service as a year ago. Nearly 73,000 mechanics and other civilian employees are working at navy yards and stations. When war was declared, 123 naval vessels were building or authorized, and contracts have been placed since that time for 049 vessels. More than 700 privately owned ves sels have been purchased or chartered by the navy. Six new authorized battleships are designed to be of 41,500 tons, the larg est battleships In the world. Our 35,000-ton cruisers, 35 knots, will be the fastest In the world, their speed equaling the fastest destroyer. Prompt repairs of 109 Interned Ger man ships, partially wrecked by their crews, added more than 700,000 tons to our nvallable naval and merchant tonnage. The navy has developed an Ameri can mine believed to combine all the good points of various types of mines, and is manufacturing them in quanti ties. During the yenr the lntest type of naval 10-Inch gun was completed for our new bnttleshlps; It throws a pro jectile weighing 2,100 pounds. Navy has In Its possession now a stock of supplies sufficient for the average requirements for at least one year. Several hundred submarine chasers. built since the wnr, have been deliv ered to the navy by 31 private con cerns and six navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the Atlantic, some In severe weather. Naval training camps have a ca paclty of. 102,000 in summer, 04,000 men In winter. Shipping Board's Progress. Up to date congress hns authorized $2,034,000,000, of which $1,135,000,000 has been appropriated, for the United States Shipping board and Emergency Fleet corporation ; on March 1, $353,247,955.37 of this sum had been expended. The Emergency Fleet corporation had requisitioned March 1, 425 steel vessels and contracted for 720 steel vessels, making a total of 1,145 steel ships, of an aggregate dead-weight tonnage of 8,164,508 tons; It had let contracts for 490 wooden vessels, ag gregating approximately 1,715,000 dead-weight tons; It had repaired and put In operation 788,000 dead-witgnt tonnage seized from Germany and Austria. On Mnrch 5 the building program of the Emergency Fleet corporation was being carried on In 151 plants. First Year's War Cost. Total estimated expense of the United States government in the flt"st year of war, without loans to the allies, Is $12,007,278,679.07. To help meet this expense, the treas ury department floated $0,G10,532,300 subscriptions to Liberty bonds. Bonds, certificates of Indebtedness, War Savings certificates, and Thrift stamps issued by the treasury up to March 12, totaled $8,500,802,052.96. The United States government had loaned to foreign governments asso ciated in the war on March 12, 1918, $4,430,329,750. To March 12 the war risk Insur ance burenu had issued policies for a total of $12,405,110,500 to the armed forces. A large number stepped out ; and now nearly ail the thermometers for use In France are made by these German prisoners. ' Their workshop Is one of the old dismantled forts near Paris, and apparently they nre most happy In their work. Possibly this Is In part due to the fact that they are teaching their art to a number of French women. Joseph S. Ames, in the Atlantic. These are days when It Is not meet for man to live by wheat alone. Into 15 feet of water. John P. S-nlth, n fireman second class, nttnehed to the United States receiving ship, Jumped overboard after him. The man In the water was In n Heml-consclous condi tion when Smith reached lilni, but lie tnaile his rescue complete. For this gal lantry he has been commended by Sec retary Daniels. Smith enlisted In tha navy at St. Louis In March, 1914. The latest mother-in-law Joke Is on the i: in ti who married his to escape the draft, and didu't. PEACE By FORCE mm LI Is President Wilson's Answer to Germany, ACCEPTS HUN CHALLENGE Draws Fine Distinction Between Peo ple and Statesmen, as Compared to Their Real Rulers, the Dominion Seeking Militarists Measures Re ply Evenly With Challenge Lib erty Loan Drive Begins Parade a Revelation. Baltimore, April 6. To every' part of the civilized world there went out from Baltimore tonight the final de termination of America as voiced by Woodrow Wilson, its President and spokesman of a united people. It was that this war, as far as Amer ica Is concerned, Is to be settled by FORCE. And it Is to be "Force to th utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the World!" For the President has seen there. Is no other way. The time for tempor izing has passed, the time for peace by negotiation has gone, we cannot trust Germany, we have seen what she has done In Russia, have seen that her etatesmen have said one thing and her real rulers, the military, do another, that the only thing she recognizes Is her own god Force. She herself boa chosen it We ac cept the challenge, and with force we shall deal with her to the end. That, In substance, was the mes sage to the world from the American people, voiced by their- President, a message which the American people themselves havo longed to have ut tered, and to which they and all the Allies will respond. And delivered in the wonderfully beautiful setting of "Over There," in the presence of more than 12,000 peo ple, on the first anniversary of Amer ica's entrance Into the great conflict, It was virtually a new declaration of war. The President spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens: This Is the anni versary of our acceptance of Ger many's challenge to fight for our rights to live and be free men everywhere. The nation is awake. There is no need to call to it. We know what the war must cost, out utmost sacrifice, the lives of our fittest men and, if need be, all that we possess. The loan we are met to discuss is one of the least parts of what we are called upon to give and do, though In Itself Imperative. The people of the whole country are alive to the necessity of It, and are ready to lend to the ut most, even where it involves a sharp skimping and daily sacrifice to lend out of meagre earnings. They will look with reprobation and contempt upon those who can and will not, upon those who demand a higher rate of Interest, upon those who think of it as a mere commercial transaction. I have not come, therefore, to urge the loan. I have come only to give you, If I can, a more vivid conception of what it is for. The reasons for this great war, the reason why It had to come, the need to fight It through, and the Issues that hang upon lu outcome, are more clearly disclosed now than ever be fore. It Is easy to see Jutst what this particular loan means because the cause we are fighting for stands more sharply revealed than at any previous crisis of the momentous struggle. The man who knows least can now see plainly how the cause of Justice stands, and what the imperishable thing he Is asked to invest in. Men In America may be more sure thnn they ever were before that the cause Is their own, and that, If it should be lost, their own great nation's place and mission in the world would be lost with It. 6ought to Learn Objects of Germany. I call you to witness, my fellow- countrymen, that at no stage of this terrible business have I Judged the purposes of Germany Intemperately. I should be ashamed in the presence of affairs so grave, so fraught with the destinies of mankind throughout all the world, to speak with truculence, to use the weak language or hatred or vindictive purpose, lye must Judge as we would be Judged. ' I have sought to learn the objects Germany has In this war from the mouths of her own spokesmen, and to deal as frankly with them as I wished them to deal with me. I have laid bare our own Ideals, our own purposes, without re serve or doubtful phrase, and have Bked them to say as plainly what It Is that they seek. We have ourselves proposed no in tnstlc.e. no agression. Wo are ready, whenever the fln:il reckoning Is made, to be Just to tho German people, deal f.iiriv with the German power, as with all others. There can be no dif ference betwf-en peoples In the final Judgment, if it is indeed to be a righte ous judgment. To propose anything but justice, even-handed and dispas sionate Justice, to Germany at any time, Whatever the. outcome of the WASHINGTON. Attorneys for Swii't f: Co., and Zlnn & Co. appealed again .t the recommen dation of the New York Food Adminis trator that tho license of the New Yo"k branches or the flrrcs be suspend el for thirty days or alleged profiteer Ins In eggs. , A publicity campaign to protect the soldiers end the general public against spread of respiratory cII-cokc?. causrd by promiscuous couching, sneezing aad (pitting whs announced by Sur war, would be to renounce and dis honor our own cause, For we BBk nothing that we are not wilLlng to accord. It has been with this thought that I have sought to learn from those who spoke for Germany whether It was Justice or dominion and the execution of their own will upon the other na tions of the world that the German leaders were seeking. They have an swered, answered in unmistakable terms. Tliey have avowed that It was not Justice, but dominion, and the un htnclered'executlon of their own will. Statesmen vs. Military Leader. The avowal has not come from Ger many's statesmen. It has come from her military leaders, who are her real rulers. Her statesmen have said that they wished peace, and were ready to Slscuss Us terms, whenever their op ponents were willing to sit down at the conference table with them. Her present Chancellor has said In In definite and uncertain terms, Indeed, and In phrases that orten seem to deny their own meaning, but with as much plalnncM as he thought pru dentthat he 1 believed that peace should be based upon the principles which we had declared would be our own in the final settlement At Brest Lltovsk her civilian delegates spoke In similar terms; professed their de sire to conclude a fair peace and ac cord to the people with whose for tunes they were dealing the right to choose their own allegiances. But action accompanied and followed the profession. Their military masters, the men who act for Germany and ex hibit her purpose In execution, pro claimed a very different conclusion. We cannot mistake what they have done In Russia, In Finland, In fie Ukraine, in Roumanio. The real test of their Justice and fair play has come. From this we may Judge the rest. They are enjoying In Russia a cheap triumph in which no brave or gallant natlan can long take pride. A great people, helpless by their own act, lies for the time at their mercy. Their fair professions are rorgottcn. They nowhere et up Justice, but everywhere lmio.se their power and exploit everything for their own use and aggrandizement; and the peoples of conquered provinces are Invited to be free under thelr'donilnion! Are we not Justified in believing that they would do the same things at their western front if they were not there face to face with armies whom even their countless divisions cannot overcome? If, when they have felt their check to be final, they should propose favorable and equi table terms with regard to Belgium and France and Italy, could they blame us If we concluded that the did so only to assure themselves of a free hand In Russia and the East? The Objects of Germany In Plain Words. Their purpose Is undoubtedly to make all the Slavic peoples, all the free and ambitious nations of the Baltic peninsula, all the landu that Turkey has dominated and misruled, subiect to their will and ambition, and build upon that dominion an em pire of force upon which they fancy that they can then erect an empire of gain and cesnmerclal supremacy an empire as hostile to the Americans as to the Europe which it will over awe an empire which will ultimately master Persia. India and the peoples of the Far East. In such a program our idenls of justice and humanity and liberty, the principle of the free self-determination of nations upon which all the modern world insists, can play no part. They are rejected for the Ideals of power for the prlnci; pie that the strong must rule the weak, that trade must follow the flag, whether those to whom It Is taken welcome it or not, that the peoples or the world are to be subject to the patronage and overlordshlp of those who have the power to enforce it. That program, once carried out. American and all who care or dare to stand with her must arm and prepare themiselves to contest the mastery of the world, a mastery in which the rights of common men, the rights or women and of all who are weak, must for the time being be trodden under foot and disregarded, and the old, age long struggle for freedom and right begin at its beginning. Everything that America haa lived for and loved and grown great to vindicate and bring to a glorious realization will have fallen in utter ruin, and the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon mankind! The thing Is preposterous and Im possible, and yet it is not that what the whole course and notion of the German armies has meant wherever they have moved? I do not wish, even In this moment of utter disillu sionment, to Judge harshly or unright eously. I Judge only what the Ger man arm's have accomplished with unpitying thoroughness throughout every lair region they have touched. Still Ready to Discuss Honest Peace. What, then, are we to do? For myself I am ready, ready still, ready even now, to discuss a fair and juat and honest peace at any time that It Is sincerely purged a peace in which tho strong and the weak shall fare alike. But the answer, when I proposed Bitch a peace, came from the German commanders In Russia, and 1 cannot mistake the meaning of the answer. I accept the challenge. I know that vou accept it. All the world shall know that you accept it. It shall ap pear in the utter sacrifice and self- geon General Gorgas. The Federal Trade Commission or dered ninety-seven lumber companies In the West to desist from unfair methods of competition. Debate on the J19.000.000 Itlvers and Harbors Appropriation Bill began in the House. EERGER BURNED IN EFFIGY. His Adherents Threntensd With Tar And Feathers. ( Janesville, Wis. Victor Bcrger, So forgctfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all that e have to redoem the world and make it fit for free men like ourselves to live in. This now is the meaning of all that we do. Let everything that we say, my fellow-countrymen, every thing that we henceforth plan and ac complish, ring true to this response till tho majesty and might of our con certed power shall fill the thought and utterly dereat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear. Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether Justice and peace shall reign In the affairs of men, whether right as America conceives It or dominion as she conceives it shall determine the destinies of man kind. There Is, therefore, but one response possible from us force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down In the dust. RUSH TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS The Third Loan Campaign Opens To Flying Start Millions For Defense. WashinKton. Anil! 6. Tills was a day of enthusiastic patriotic celebra tions backod up by subscriptions to aovernment bonds of the Third Lib erty Loan. Throughout the United States communities observed the an niversary of the nation's entrnnce Into the war, and gave material evi dence of their Hupiiort by pledging millions of dollars to Insure suc cessful continuance of the struggle against ermany. While parades and public meetings t were In progress In nearly every city, telegram were pouring Into Liberty Loan headquarters at the Treasury telling of towns which had exceeded their quotas In the first day of the four weeks' campaign, or even with in the first hour. More than 150 had reported when the headquarters closed for the night, and more still were coming In. Sioux City any Lynn, Mass., were the largest cities exceed ing their allotments, and thereby win ning the right to fly the honor flag of the Third Liberty Loan. The ract that most others were smart towns prompted an announcement by the Treasury that their aggregate subscriptions were "infinitely" Miiall compared with the $3,000,000,000 cam paign goal, and that'today's reports "should not lie conductive to undue optimism regarding the final result." THE COUNTRY AT LARGE The plant of the Watson-Frye Com pany, of Bath, Me., engaged in the manufacture of bronze castings for the Emergency Fleet Corporation and machinery for paper and pulp mills, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $73,000. Tho Chicago trial of 112 I. W. W. leaders charged with sedition came to a sudden halt when the government showed that veniremen, before rejiort lng for Jury service, had been ap proached by alleged representatives of the derense. A maximum's agent's or attorney's mee of $3 for assisting men of the mil itary establishment In obtaining war risk Insurance Is prescribed in a bill favorably reported to the House. Rumors that there have been large losses among American troops on the western front wore stamped as false by the War Department and attri buted to German propaganda. The Third Liberty Loan campaign began with a rush throughout the country, a number of small towns 'oversubscribing their allotments soon after the campaign opened. Hotels and restaurants in Masa rtuisptts saved 8.478 tons of food dur ing the month of January, according to official figures received by the Food Administration. Confirmation of the nomination of Thomas Riggs. Jr., to be Governor of Alabama, was unanimously recom mended by the Senate Territories Committee. A 55.000-barrel tank of crude oil In the Rlngllng field belonging to the Magnolia Petroleum Company was struck by lightning and destroyed. MAY SEIZE TROLLEY LINES. Shipping Board Urnea President To Take This Step. Washington rower to the Presi dent and h's designated agents to take over certain street railways nnd interurban transportation systems for the transportation of shipyards and plant employes Is proposed In a Sen ate bill favorably reported to the House by. the Merchant Marine Com mute. The bill will be pressed to enactment as a war measure, and Is urged by the Shipping Board. BILLIONS FOR WAR INDUSTRIES. President Signs Bill Creating Corpor ation To Issue Bonds. Washington Pre -Ident Wilson has signed the bill creating a Government corporation, with capital or f.'OO.OOO, 000, and authority to Issue $3,000,000, 000 In bonds for the assistance of es sential war Industrie's. cialist aspirant for the nomination for tho United States senatorshlp, was burned In effigy In Edgerton, after more than 1,000 citizens had paraded the streets bearing banners inscribed: "Be al! American and back our sol diers." Berger adherents were threat ened with tar and feathers, but were save! from violence by the Interces sion of the leaders of the paraders. Tre'ldent Wilson Appointed Ed ward Stettinius and FrcJ P. Kcppe Secretaries of War. I Ifl Fighting Machine From Meade Stirs Patriotism CLIMAX TO GLORIOUS DAY Every Man Marches Like Veteran.. Most Notable Spectacle Ever Seen In Baltimore. Baltimore, April 6. Four liumlrl thousand persons sat down to their dinner table. in Baltimore tonight with one exclamation ringing through their minds "Good Night, Hals Bill!" Even the President of the Fnl'ej States must have had such a thought uppermost in his mind as he pomWrj over the scenes which he and Mm, Wllon and 399,998 other epeetatori had witnessed in this town on the flirt anniversary of this country's m- Iry Into war. There were that many persons, arul more, who saw the 12,000 soldiers of the Liberty Division of Camp Moid go marching through the streets tlit afternoon soldiers, every one o! them, and every inch of them eoicj forward eagerly and conflden.ly urti determinedly, on their' way to niet the Bodies. Never has E-.illlmore seen such i pageant, never has this city been no stirred to Its depths, never has pa triotic fever leaped so highly ami o gladly and so courageously as it did. when these men of Baltimore, ol Maryland, of Philadelphia, of Pennsy vanla and of the District of ColiunM went by In review betore their mm- mander-ln-chlef the leader .of thin; and of this nation. Those 12,000 soldiers were be:irln; with them a message. This mess was clear and convincing. It tnld i story to every American anion t!, hundreds of thousands of American-) who choked the city streets and k went Into a delirium of pride and t-n- thuslnsm as they read the tale. The message was stamped on the tanned, alert, cheerful faces of that movlni host of khaki-clad men. The Presi dent peered at It and studied It, and a glow of satisfaction came over lib face, hope and Joy and gratitude rant vibrantly In his heart, and the e became the mirror of his sou!. TIkh eyes which have seen so much and studied so much, knew that the ti, Ines which they had received wire true. The 400,000 fellow-Americans of tni President read that messiige and tliey Interpreted It the same as he. That Is why they went home with exulta tion In their heart, that is -r.y f said In unison, "Good Night, Kai;e: Bill." The message said that these er the boys of the Army of Liberty, th' men of the Seventy-ninth Division, members of the National Army, th greatest army the world will ever know. That message reminded th' President that a year ago when h clarion call camo to America to avenge the weak and to crush th tyrant, to make the world safe for democracy, that thought o.f tuna soldiers had not even been conceived They reminded him how the rout try, knowing that It must go lorwari to fight for the right, yet felt sick ai heart when It looked around ami fa not myriads of soldiers to defend it' honor, but a mere company of un: formed men who were but a dot against the vast army of imperialistic- mad militarists. But on that d-ay the President li ' spoken his trust in the valor and it termination of his countrymen. H ,felt that he could take men from iht work bench and from the factories from the mines and from the farm lands, from the law courts fcju I""1 the medical scliools, from banks s business houses, from the busy mart of trade and from little country town and mould them Into an army tltf never would brook defeat. That was why that gleam triumph came into his eyes as the 000 men f-wept by him the- Infantry and the artillery, the field signal 6a tallons, the machine-gun conipnnh" tho members of the sanitary train.' the eenerals and the buck private? tho whites and the blacks ail ' them with hearts that kept thumpiM thnmnlne Droudly as their feet tramp, tramp, tramp down the avenue past the Presidential revie' lng fttnnd. EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE. Cargo Hurled Over Building VVhe' Steamer Blows Up. Elizabeth City, N. C Five ni" u-im killed and wreckage and rarf hurled over adjacent buildings vh,; the little coasting steamer Annie M'' up at her dock here Just after arrive from Norfolk. The vessel was loa""' with flour and sugar. The men kill' were First Mate Mnnus Kinsey, of S' Tolk; Assistant Engineer James N' dy, or Edenton, N. C, and two tier deckhands. Two other negro d' hands were seriously Injured, one them dying shortly after the explo1. CUNARDER VALERIA SUNK. Goes Down In Irish Sea, Insura"" Interests Learn. New York. The Cunard Line sl" ship Valeria, a vessel .of 6,865 to gross register, has been sunk In Irish Sea, according to word rer'J here by insurance Interests. T; Valeria Mt here March 4 with (J; for a British port. At the office of ' Cunard Line It was said Instruct"'' had been received recently that ' ports of loss of steamers of the 1 must not be confirmed or denied. 12.000 OOPS PASS REVIEW
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