MOUJfl AIRY, JfORTR CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MAY 2.9,
ffetos.
1918. MO. 46
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
NEW YORK SPEECH.
Ib Had CroM Addni*, Ho Do
cUm U mi tod Stoto* U Dw
tormia«d to Mt m R»»tric
W SmI to Frmmem, Not Evm
to Five Million.
New York. May 1*.—Opening with
• speech bar* tonight the K»i Croea
drive for a aacond $100,(100,000 war
fund, PrMidmt Wilnon announced the
purpone of the United State* to wt
no limit on ita effort to win the war.
"I have heard gentlemen recently
«ay," uid he, "that we mint get Ave
million men ready. Why limit it to
flea million? I have axked Congrene
to name no limit, Sera una Congre ;*
intenda, I am aura, aa wa all intend,
that every »hip that ran carry men or
Huppliea Khali go la<ten upon every
voyage with every man and every .up
ply i<he ran carry."
The United State*, the Prenident de
rlared, will not I* diverted from it*
purpoee of winning the war by innin
cere approarhe* on the aubject of
poare.
"I ran nay with a rlear conscience,"
he naid, "that I have te*ted thone in
tention* and have found them inain
rerc. I now recognize them for what
they are, an opportunity to have a
free hand, particularly in the rant, to
carry our purp • ex of ron<|ue«t and:
exploitation. Every proposal with re
gard to arrommodation in the wr^t in
volve* a rei-ervntion in reimrd to the
ea*t. I intend to *tand by Ru*'ia ajj
well a* Franc."
I ne statement Drougn tne nou-e to
it* feet cheering.
German ruler*, the President de- J
dared, are mistaken if they think the
United States will sacrifice anybody,
for its own sake.
'If they wish peace, let them fume
forward • • * • and lay their term* |
on the table. We have laid our*, and
they know what they are," he said.
The war, the President declared, i*i
a war to nave the world. The conflict
he naid, will knit the world together. :
Dwelling or the duty of Americana'
to flWfti Hi© IM Ci iww, *h« Prert»|
dent declared no man could aftord
to make money out of the war.
The President's speech in full fol
lows:
"Mr. chairman and fellow country
men : I houlil lie very sorry to think
that, Mr. Dii-ison in any degree cur
tailed his exceedingly interesting!
speech for fear that he was postpon-i
ing mine, because I am sure you lis-1
teiwvl v.-iih the same intent and inti-1
mate interest with which I listened to
the ext raordinary vivid account he
gave of the things which he had re-!
alized because he had come in contact
with them on the other side of the
wate-n.
"We compass them with our imagi
nation; he compassed them in hi* per-1
sonat experience, and I am not come
here t.mii-K to review for you the
work if the Red Cross; I am not com-j
petent to do so, because I have not
had the time nor the opportunity to
follow it in detail. 1 have come here
simply to say a few words to you as
to what it all seems to me to mean,
and it means a great deal.
"There are two duties with which
we are face to face. The first duty is
to win the war. And the second duty,
that goes hand in hand with it, is to
win it greatly and worthily, showing
the real quality of our power not only,
but the real quality of our purpose
and of ourselves.
First Duty i* In win.
"Of course, the first liuty, the duty
that we must keep in the foreground
of our thought until it is accomplish
ed, is to win the war. 1 have heard,
gentlemen ic-ently say that we must
get live million men ready. Why
limit it to five million?
"I have asked the Congress of the
United .States to name no limit tie
cause the Congress intends, I am sure,
as we all intend, that every ship that
can carry men or supplies shall go
laden upo.. t\»ry voyage with every
man and every supply she can carry.
"And we are not to be diverted i
from the grim purpose of winning the
war by any insincere approaches upon
the subject of peace. 1 can say with
a clear con'n. nee that I have tested
those intimations and have found
them insincme. I now recognise them
for what they are, an opportunity to
have a free hand, particularly in the
east, to carry our purposes of con
quest and e ploilation.
To stand by Ruaaia.
"Every proposal with regard to ac
commodation in the west involves a
reservation with regard to the east.
Now, as far as I am concerned, I in
tend to stand by Russia as well as
Francs."
A voir* from the audience inter
ruptsd with:
"(iod btaaa you."
"The Helplaaa and Um frtandlaaa arc
the vary oim that naad frianda and
*uccor; and if any man ia fiaimany
Ihinka »r are going to »a< riAce any-1
bfidy for our own at.lu>, I Ull them
now they ara mistaken.
'Tor tha glory of tliia war. my fal
low rittiana, in ao far aa wa ara run
rarnad, ia that it i* parhapa for tha
Arat lima in hiatnry, an unaalflah war,
I rouid not ha proud to Aght for a
aalAah purpoaa, hut I ran !>a proud to
Aght for mankind. If thry with peace
lat them roma forward through ar
i raditad repraaantative* and lay thair
terms on tha tahla. Wa hava laid,
our, and they know what they ara.
Karre to tha I t moat.
"Rut hahind all thia grim purpoaa,'
my frianda, !»<••* the opportunity to
dainonatsate not only for re which will
ha demonatrawd to th» utmost, hut
tha opportunity to demonstrate char
acter, and it i* that opportunity that
we have m«t con«p>uoualy in the!
work of the Ked Cross. Not that our
men in arm* do not represent our
character, for they do, and it i* a
character which thoaa who ace and j
realize appreciate and admire; hut
their duty ia the duty rf force. The1
iluty of the lied (,'roaa ia the duty of
mercy and auccor and friendship, '
"Have you formed a picture in your
imagination of what thia war is doing
for ua and for the world T In my
own ihind I am convinced that not a
hundred yeara of peace could have
knitted this nation together a* thia
■ ingle year of wnr ha.i knitted it to
gether; and better even than that, if
poa: ible, it ia knitting the world to
gether.
"Look at the picture. In the center
of the iccne, four nationa engaged
agninat the world, an/i at every point j
of vantage 'howmg that they are
seeking selAsh aggrandizements; ami:
against the 23 government represent-'
ing the greater part of the population 1
of the world drown together in a new
sense of community of purpose, a new
senr.e of unity of life.
interesting incident the other day. He
when he mu in Italy a member
of the Italian government wax 11
p'aining to him the many reason* why
Italy felt near to the United States.
"'If you want to try an interesting;
experiment, go up to any one of these,
troop trains and ask in English how
many of them have been in America,
and see what happen*.'
Experiment Tried.
"He tried the experiment. He went
up to a troop train and he "aid. 'How
many of you boys have been in Ameri^j
c«T" and he said it seemed to him an
if half of them »prang up, 'Me from
San Friminco; me from New York;
all over.' There was part of the heart
of Ameiica in .re Italian army. Pco-'
pie that had been knitted to us by'
association, who knew us, who had
lived amongst us, who had worked
shoulder to shoulder with us, and'
now friend", of America, were fighting
for their native Italy.
"Friendship 1* the only force that
will ever hold the world together,!
And this intimate contact of the Red
Cross with the people* who nre suf
fering the terrors and deprivations of
thi* war is going to be one of the
greatest instrumentalities of friend
ship that the world ever knew, and:
the center of the heart of it all, if
we sustain it properly, will be this
and that we so dearly love.
t.reat Hay o( Duty.
"My friends, u (Treat day of duty,
has come and duty finds a man's soul
as no kind of work ran ever find it.
"May I say thisT The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other, and no man ran afford to make
a fortune out of this war. There are
men amongst us who have forgotten
that, if they ever saw it. Some of
you are old enough—I am old enough
—to remember men who made for
tunes out of the civil war. and you
know how they were regarded by'
their fellow ci'.isen.s. That was a war'
to ; ave one country-^this is a war to
save the world.
"And your relation to the Red(
Cross is one of the relations which
will relieve you of the ttigma. You
can't give anything to the government
of the United States; it won't accept
ti. There is a law of Congress
against accepting even services with-,
out pay. The only thing that the gov-!
ernment will accept is a loan, and
duties performed, but it is a great!
deal better to give than to lend or to!
pay, and your great channel for giv-j
ing is the American Red Cross. j
leaning i«. Giving.
"Down in your hearts )ou can take!
very much satisfaction, in the last
analysis, in lending money to the
government of the United States, be
mil a |h« ii.tarect which you draw
will burn your packaU; it ia a • >*n
marriat I ran aa ft ion. and some men
have ev»n dared to cavil at the raU
•>f inttril, not knowing the inriden
lal commentary that conatitutaa upon
their attitude.
"Hot when you (in, something of
your heart, something your aovl,
something of youraalf goea with the
gift, partirularly when it ia given in
such form that it never ran come
hack by way of dirart benefit to your
naif. You know there ia the old ryni
ral definition of gratitude, aa The
lively exportation of favora to come,'
"Well there ia no exportation of
favora to rnme in thia kind of giving.
Theae thinga are bextowad in order
that the world may he reatorad; that
suffering may be relieved; that the
face of the earth may have the blight
of deatrurtion taken away from it and
that wherever forre goea, there shall
go merry and helpfulnese.
(jive to the Limit.
"And when you give, give abao-i
lutely nil that you ran spare, and
don't consider yourself liberal in the
giving. If you give with aelf-adula
tion, you are not giving at all, you
arc giving to your own vanity; but if
you give until it hurta. then your
heart Mood goea into it.
"And think what we have here.
We call it the Ameriran Ited Croat,
but it in merely a branch of a great
international organization, whirh ia{
not only recognized by the statutes of
each of the civilized governmenta of j
the world, but it ia recognized by in-i
ternational agreement and treaty aa
the recognized and accepted instru
mentality of mercy and succor. And
one of the djepw. stairs that rest*,
upon the reputation of the Germar.
army ia that they have not respected
the Red Croaa.
"That goes to the root of the mat
ter. They have not respected the ip
trumentality they themselves partici
pated in retting up as the thing which
no man was to touch, because it wa.»
the expression of common humanity.
Mnhit m or t nriMUaitily.
"Wf are member* by being mem
hem of the American Red Croiui of a
great fraternity ami cooinulealilp
which extends all over the world, and
this ern*n whirh these lads bore to
day is an emblem of Christianity it
self.
"It fill* my imagination, ladies and
ifentlrmen, to think of the women all
over this country who are bu y to-,
nijrht end are busy every night and'
every ilay doing the work of th< Re.!
Cros*. busy with a great e*Mme<» to
find out the most serviceable thir g to|
do, bu«y with a forgetfulnes* o" all
the old frivolities of their social rela
tion-hip. ready to curtail the duties
of the household in order that they
may contribute to this common work
that all their hearts are engaged in.
and in doing '.vhich their hearts be
come acquainted with each other.
"When you think of this, you re
alize how the people of the United
Stales are being drawn together into
a great intimate* family whose heart
is being used for the service of the
soldiers not only, but for the service
of civilians, where they suffer and art
lost in a maze of distresses and dis
tractions.
wiinn of l.il>crly.
"And you have, then, this noble pic
ture of justice and mercy as the two
servants of liberty. Kor only where
men are free do they think the
thought* of comradeship; or.ly where
they are free do they think the
thoughts of sympathy; only where
they are free are they mutually help
ful; only where they are free do they
realize their dependence up< n one an
other and their comrad.ship in a com
nu n interest and common necessity.
"I heard a story told the other day
that was riduculous, hut it is worth
repeating, because it contain* the
perm of truth. An Indian was enlist
ed in the army. He retu-ned to the re
servation on a furlough, lie was
asked what he though of it.
"He said: 'No much good;; too
much salute: not much shoot.' Then
he was asked: 'Are you going back?'
"Yes," 'Well, do you know what you
are fighting for?' 'Ye*, me know;
fight to make whole dam world demo
cratic party.'
Right in Part.
"He had evident^ misunderstood
some innicent sense of my own. But
after all, although there is no party
purpose in it, he got it right as far as
the wort! 'party' to make the whole
world democratic in the sense of com
munity of interest and of purpose
ami if you ladies and gentlemen could
read some of the touching dispatches
which come through official channels
for even through those channels there
comes voices of humanity that are in
finitely pathetic; If you could catch
some of those voice* that rpeak the
utter longing tA opprwtrf mm) help
law people* all over the world to hear
something Ilka the Rattle Hymn of tlx
Republic, to hsar the fast of tie gl eat i
host* of liberty going to set them free,]
to set their minda fraa, set their lives (
free, aet their children free, yeui
would know what comae late the
heart of thoae who are trying to ron-'
tribute all the braina and power they
have to thia great enterpriae of lil>
arty. I summon you to the comrade- .
• hip. I summon you ia this next weex
to say bow much and how aiaceiely
and how unanimously you suatain the
heart of the world."
SEEK MILLION RIFLES
HOARDED FOR GERMANY
New York Brohan Doubt E»
iatonce of Um Gum* or tbe
Billion C*rtrid|aa For Thorn.
Mew York, May 14.—Inquiry by
the state attorney general'! offer to
day into reports of hoarding of ammu
nition in the United States by Ger
man agents developed testimony by
New York brokers and others that
they doubted the existence of 1,000. '
000 Mauser rifles and 1,000,000 rar-j
tridges which they had tried to buy!
or sell.
One of the witnesses, Edgar A.
Holmes, of New oYrk, testified that
ht-ha<l been informed by James H.
frossley that the rifles had been1
smuggled from the Krupp works at
Essen and would he used in an effort
to "Germanize" the United States if'
the eCrman.i xhoulii rapture the chan
nel ports.
»*umiav i.uHxen, wno wa* nom in
the German province of Schleswig-'
Molstein and was naturalized 30 year*'
ago, was mentioned m»t often in the
testimony. Mont of the witnesses
testified that he tried to tell the rifles
(ml one rlaimed he hail tried to buy
250,000. Lusaen was described by
his lawyer, iWlliam E. Ford, of New
NVw York as a New Jersey farmer
and promoter interested in coke oven
and monorail project*.
I.ussen was at the hearing under
subpoena, but was not asked to testi
fy. Deputy Attorney eGneral Becker
said it ia understood Lusaen win tes
tify later.
The nearest identification of the
owner* of the rifles was in testimony
byllarford T. Marshall, a New York
lawyer, that they were German-Amer
icans who feared to endanger their
reputations by disclosing themselves.
\ .Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, was
named by Marsha!) as one of the pos
sible principals.
Ford had several clashes with Mr.
pecker.
After testifying that a statementat
tributed to him that he could nee the
storage place of the rifles from his
office window was "a lie," Ford re
canted and admitted he might have
made such statement in relation to a
-mall quantity of rifle*.
Various witnesses testified to hav
ing heard reports that the rifle* were
stored in 40 different parts of the
United States on a farm that was only
an hour and a half from Broadway by
automobile, and in warehouses on the
east side of the Manhattan and Brook
lyn. One report was related of a din
ner of German officers, including ("apt.
Hans Tauscher, former agent of the
Krupps here, at the German club in
New York, followed by an automobile
trip to the hiding place of the rifles.
The most definite testimony as to
the location of the rifles was given by
Francis L. Judd, a New oYrk mining
engineer, who had sought to buy them
for the Rusrinn government. A man
whose name he said he did not recall
took him to a storehouse on Liberty
street, east Hide. Manhattan, he said,
and showed him an old Catling gun, a
couple of old Colts. a one- pound field
piecc and cases said to contain rifles1
and cartridges. Three cases were
open. Five rifles were in each. One
was unwrapped. It apparently was a
Mauser, the witness said. Judd left
the hearing with a secret service
agent to try to identify the building. •
The testimony revealed that all ef-|
forts to buy or sell the rifles had!
ceased two months ago, when the
United States, through Major Nichols'
Biddle, of the army intelligence f*i
reau, tried to buy them. Major Bid
die attended the hearing.
A Symbol of Health.
The Pythagorians of ancient Greece
ate simple food, practiced temperance
and purity. As n badge they used the
five pointed star which they regarded
as a symbol of health, A red flva
pointed star appears nn each package
of Chamberlain's Tahlets, and *tTll
fulfills it* ancient misfon as a sym
bol of health. If \J are troubled
with indigestion, biliousness or con
stipation. get a package of these tab
let* from your druggist. You will he
surprised at the <} trick relief which
they afford. Obtainable everywhere.
ALLIED ARMIES STAND
AS READY AS HUNS FOR
RENEWAL OF FIGHTING.
German* in Picardy ixl Flan
der* Keep up Prtymtion*
For Drive.
Although the (lermana in FlatnWr*
and Picardy are keeping up ineaaeant
tjr tkair preparation* for a rnumptmn
at their »pring drWa, there la a* yat
no indication that an attack on a large
■nil ia immediately imminent.
For aavaral week* paat the enrmy
hat been engaged anaiduoualy in
bringing op run a and aupptiaa at all
kind* and alto new fore* to racon
•trurt th* tinit* Which the American,
Britiah and French run* rut to ptirea
aa it tried at varioua pointa to break
the allied line, and the feeling now ia
that the work ia fairly well done and
that any day may witness the com
mencement of another great offen
aive on the we* tern front.
Aa ready i« the enrmy for the
battle •talRd^»iS*'lIliad iirrniea, fit, *nj
far aa men and run power are con
cerned, are confident that no advan
tage will be gained over them ex
cept aa ha* been unual by the pay
ment of an awful price in men fed
to the gun*. Large number* of Amer
ican* daily are being broungh to the
front ready for .mmediate aervice,
or are reinforcing the unita under in
tensive training immediately behind
lit battle Una.
.Meanwhile, tnr nijf (run* continue
to roar in mighty duels on various sec
tor*, and hern anil th«re small hand*
of infantry constantly are leaving
their trenchcs in raids or small at
tacks with the object of c..pturing
pieces of terrain which may be of
strategic value when the big fight be
gins.
The iat'jKt of these small affair*
where a bit of ground was required
has been successfully carried out by
the British in the capture of the vil
lage of Villei-Sur-Ancre, on the
Amieiis suctor. N'ot only was the po
sition taken, but with it 360 prisoners
and 20 machine guns fell into the
hands of Keld Marshall iiaig's troop
whose own casualties were slight.
In raidirg operations northwest of
Albert and near Mamel, the British ftl
so were enabled to take additional
prisoners and machine guns. That
tho German : have the capture of Pe
trograd in prospect seems evident
r'rom their latest operations in the
gulf of Finland. Here they have taken
the Island of Bjorko, which lie* only
30 miles northwest of the Russian
capital.
Dispatches from Russia show that
airain there is considerable activity in
trans-Cauca;ia and in Persia. At
Baku on the western shore of the Cas
pian sea in trans-Causaia, the Mus
sulmans and Bolisheviki have fought
a battle in which, according to Mos
cow newspapers, 2,000 persons were
killed and 3.000 wounded, while in
Persia the Turks have occupied sev
eral towns south of Lake Urmia. The
operations in Persia may indicate that
it is the purpose of the Ottoman
forces to harass the British line of
communication along the Tigris river.
Advices from Amsterdam say that
14 persons were killed and a large j
number injured in the bombing raid |
carried out by allied aviators on Colo-!
gne last Saturday.
Butte Manganese Street*
May Be Ripped up Soon.
Rutte, Ma/CVny .—City officials
and residents of Butte have discover
ed that they have been paving their
streets with mangnnese ore worth
about (32 a ton. Now this question
arises:
"Shall the city rip up its streets'
and sell the ore. use the proceeds to
construct new streets and keep the
profit T"
A few years ago this manganese
rock was considered worthless. Butj
the war has changed everything. The,
demand for manganese for making
implements of warfare constantly has1
been growing heavier.
RETALIATION IN POISON
CASS NETTLES GERMANS
Trying to Stop Wirf»r« Ttojr
Initiated When tfcoy S«M
Their Destruction.
LoruJon, March Mo-Tile GermaA
government I* back of the move to in
<iuce all the belligerent nations to
■free to stop the uae of potion (u,
declare* the national war aims row
mittee. "Having let looee thia peat
of modem warfr.re, they wiah, whoa
they aee it about to devour them, to
cry pear*," a*Id* the committee. Thia
•xplanation ia riven for the move
ment aet on foot by the International
Red Croe* society of Geneva to aband
on the uae of the g«* in righting. It
ia esaerted that the influence of neu
tral powm ia being enlisted to brinf
about thia end. German pacifists in
Switzerland are strongly supporting
the attempt to aave tha Germans from
receiving payment in their own rota.
"When the Germana introduced thia -
rrtVhhd 'lcn-lly meana of warfare,"
»yi the national war auna committee,
'they put into the handa of their ene
mies a weapon which could be used
against themselves with terrible ef
fect. The uae of poison gas in rlouda
ia entirely dependent on the direction
of the wind. A study of the meteoro
logical records of northeastern F-ance
for a period of 170 yeara pervious to
1915 would have shown them that
for every day on which the wind blow*
'rom the east or northeast, the direc
tion necessary to allow the German*
to use gas. there are at least si* <laya
on which it blows from the went or
southwest, the quarter favorable to
the alue*.
"In not more than two month* in
the whole year are the prevailing
wind* favorable to the enemy and
their preponderenee even in those
month* i* not *o great a* the prepon
derance of westerly wind* in *ome at
the remaining month*. The allies
were, of course not slow to avail thera
«lve« of this natural advantage with
result* that must by now have made
'he German higher command bitterly
ue the day that they committed what
••as not only a rrime but a blunder.
"The development of ga* warfare
KCanc a conflict between the scienti*
fic brain* and manufacturing capa
cities of the two *ets it combatant*.
I Time and superior industrial resources
I have assisted the British and the
j French in catching up on the original
handicap, and the participation of the
! United State* in the war is about to
throw the balance overwhelmingly on
the allies' side. At the present mo
ment the respirator worn by the Ger
man troop* is marking inferior in pro
tective power to those with which the
British, French and American armies
are equipped. Gase* which penetrate
the German respirators, but not those
of the allie* hrve already been employ
ed by the allies with marked effect.
"On the other hand, the respirators
of our troops give a complete protec
tion to the lungs and eye* against all
ga.tes hitherto u ;ed by the enemy and
unremitting investigation and fore
sight are at work preparing for the
adoption of new fo/ros of protection
to meet any future development* that
may arise.
"It is at this sU.ge that the Ger
man government is exploiting a move
ment for the abandonment or hu
manitarian ground* of gas warfare."
German Compulsory marriages
London, Enf.—The German com
mission appointed to examine the de
cline in the birth rate in Germany has
reported a recommendation for the
compulsory marriage of German* be
fore their twentieth year is panned,
according to a di* patch to The Daily
Express from Amsterdam.
Financial assistance would he grant
ed by the 8tate according to this plan,
which provides penalties fer those
falling to comply. Provisions is alaa
made for the punishment of married
couples who remain childless.