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
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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.
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