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91.00 a Yr In Advance "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." 8ingle Copies, 5 Csnts. VOL. XXVIII. PLYMOUTH, N. C; FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1917 NO. 20. E J It i A UN APPEALS FOR CO-OPERATION 'RE8IDENT 18 OPPOSED TO PEACE UNTIL GERMANY 18 BEATEN. Appeals to Workingmen for Co-operation in Conduot of War Victory w Cannot Be Won Unless All Factions Are United. Auditorium, Buffalo, N. Y. The text of President WiWlson's speech fol lows: "Mr. President. Delegates of the American Federation of Labor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I esteem it a great privilege and a real honor to be thn3 admitted to y6ur public councils. When your executive committee paid me the compliment of inviting me here I gladly accepted the invitation because It seems to me that this above all other times in our history, Is the time, for common counsel for the drawing not only of the energies but of the minds of the nation to gether. I thought that It was a wel come opportunity for disclosing to you some of the thoughts that have been gathering in my mind during the last momentous months. "I am introduced to you as the president of the United States and yet I would be pleased if you would put the thought of the office into the background and regard me aa one of your fellow citizens who has come here to speak, not the words of au thority, but the words of counsel, the words which, men should speak to one another, who wish to be frank In a moment more critical perhaps than the history of the world has' ever yet known, a moment when it Is every man's duty to forget himself, to forget his own interests, to fill himself with the nobility of a great national and world conception, and act upon a new platform elevated above the ordinary affairs of life, elevated to where men have views of the long destiny of mankind. "I think that in order to realise just what this moment of counsel Is, it Is very desirable that we should remind ourselves just how this war came about and Just what It Is , for. You can explain most wars very sim ply but the explanation of this Is not so simple. Its roots run deep Into all the obscure soils of history and in my view this Is tht last decisive Is sue between old principle of power and the new principles of freedom. "The war was started by Germany. Her authorities deny that they started it. But I am willing to let the state ment I have Just made await the ver dict of history. And the thing that needs to be explained is why Germany started the war. Remember what the position of Germany in the world was as enviable a position as any na tion has ever occupied. The whole world stood at admiration of her won der ful Intellectual and material achievements, and all the intellectual man of the world went to school to her. As a university man, I have been surrounded by men trained In Ger many, men who had resorted to Ger many because nowhere else could they get such thorough and searching train ing, particularly in the principles of science and the principles that under lie modern material achievements. "Her men of science had made her Industries perhaps the most compe tent Industries In the world, and the label 'made in Germany was a guar antee of good workmanship, and of material. She had access to all the markets of the world and every other man who traded in those markets feared Germany because of her effec tive and alraast inexhaustible compe tition. She had a place in the sun. Why was she not satisfied? What more did she want? There was noth ing in the world of peace that she did not already have and have In abundance. "We boast of the extraordinary pace of American advancement. We show with pride the statistics of the in crease of our Industries and of the population of our cities. Well, those statistics did not match the recent statistics of Germany. Her old cities took on youth, grew faster than any American cities ever grew; her old Industries opened their eyes and saw a new world and went out for Its con quest; and yet the authorities of Ger many were not satisfied in her meth ods of competitien. There is no Im portant industry In Germany uion which the government has not laid Its Hands to direct it and. when neces sity arises, control It. "All the while there was lying be hind Its thoueht. In its dreams cf the future, a political control whirh wou'd enable It in the long run to dominate the, inhnr and the Industry of the world They were not content with success by superior achievement; they wanted success by authority. I sup pose very few of you have thought much about the Berlin-to-Bagdad rail way. The Berlln-to-Bagdad railway was constructed in order to run the threat of force down the rank of the indus trial undertakings of half a dozen oth er countries, so that when German competition came in it would not be re sisted too far because there was al ways the possibility of getting Ger man armies into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies could be got there. Look at the map of Europe now. , Germany, In thrust ing upon us again and again the dis cussion of peace talks about what? Talks about Belgium, talks about Northern France, talks about Alsace Lorraine. Well, those are deeply In teresting subjects to us and to them, but they are not talking about the heart of the matter. "Take the map and look at it. Ger many has absolute control of Austria Hungary, practical control of the Bal kan States, control of Turkey, control of Asia Minor. I saw a map in which the whole thing was printed in appro priate black the other day. and the black stretched all the way Lom Ham burg to Bagdad the bulk of German power inserted into the heart of the world. If it can keep that, she has kept all that her dreams contemplated when the war began. If she can keep that, her power can disturb the world at long as she keeps it always pro vided, for I feel bound to put this pro viso in, always provided the present influences that control the German government continue To control it. T believe that the spirit of free dom can get into the hearts of Ger mans and find as fine a welcome there as it can in any other hearts. But 'the spirit of freedom does not suit the plan of the pan-German's. Power can not be used with concentrated force against free peoples if it is used by free people. You know how many intimations come to us from one of the central powers that it is more anxious for peace than the chief central power; and you know that it means that the people in that central power know that if the war ends as it stands, they will in effect themselves be vassals of Germany, notwithstanding that thsir populations are compounded with all the people of that part of the world, and notwithstanding the fact that they do not wish In their pride and proper spirit of nationality to be so absorbed and dominated. "Germany is determined that the political power of the world shall be long to her. There have been such ambitions before. They have been in part realized. But never before have those ambitions -been based upon so exact and precise and scientific a plan of domination. "May I not say that it is amazing to me that any group of people should be so ill-informed as to suppose as some groups in Russia apparently sup pose, that any reforms planned in the interest of the people can live in the presence of a Germany powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue or force. Any body of free men that compounds with the present German government is com pounding for its own destruction. But that is not the whole of the story. Any man in America, anywhere else, who supposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastered upon the world is as fatuous as the dreamers of Rus sia. "What I am opposed to is not the feeling of the pacifists, but their stu pidity. My heart is with them, but my mind has a contempt for them, r want peace, but I know how to get it, and they do not. "You will notice that I sent a friend of mine, Colonel House.to Europe, who is as great a lover of peace as any man in the world; but I did not send him on a peace mission ; I sent him to take part in a conference as to how the war was to be won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace, if you want it for more than a few minutes. "All of this is a preface to the con ference that I referred to with regard to what we are going to do. If we are true friends of freedom our own or anybody else's we wW see that the power of this country and the produc tivity of this country is raised to its absolute maximum and that absolute ly nobody is allowed to stand in the wav of it. "When I say that nobody is allowed to stand in the way, I don't mean that they shall be prevented by the power of the government but by the power of the American spirit. Our duty, if we are to do this great thing and show America to be what we believe her to be, the greatest hope and energy of the wor'd. then must be to stand to- gether night and day until the job is finished. "While we are fighting for freedom we must see, among other things, that labor is free; and that means a num- ber of. interesting things. It means not only that we must do what we have declared our purpose to do, see that the conditions of labor are not rendered more onerous v by the war but also that we shall see to it that the instrumentalities by which the conditions of labor are improved are not blocked or checked. That we must do. That has been the matter about which I have taken pleasure in con ferring from tim to time with your president, Mr. Gompers. "Now to 'stand together' means that nobidy. must interrupt the processes of our energy, if the interruption can possibly be avoided without the abso lute invasion of freedom. To put it concretely. tha. means this: Nobody has a right stop the processes of labor until all the methods of conciliation and settlement have been exhausted; and I might as well say right here thai I am not talking to you alone. You sometimes sto4 the courses of labor, but there are others who do the same, and I believe that I am speaking of my own experience not only but of the experience of others when I say that you are more reasonable in a large number of cases than the capi talists. "I am not saying things to them per sonally yet, because I havenU had a chance. But they have to be said, not in a spirit of criticism because I would like to see all the critics exported. But in order to clean the atmosphere and come down to business, everybody on both sides has got to transact business and the settlement Is never impossible when both sides want to do the square and right things. "Therefore my counsel to you is this: Let us show ourselves Ameri cans by showing that we do not want to go off in separate groups by our selves but that we want to co-operate with all other classes and all other groups in a common enterprise which is to release the spirits of the 'world from bondage. "1 would be willing to set that up as the final test of an American. That is the meaning of democracy. I have been very much distressed, my fellow citi zens, by some of the things that have happened recently. The mob spirit is displaying itself here and there in this country- I have sympathy with what some men are saying but I have no sympathy with the men that take their punishment into their own hands and I want to say to every man who dees join such a mob that I do not recog nize him as worthy of the free insti tutions of the United States. And so I want to enter my earnest pro test against any manifestations of the spirit of lawlessness anywhere "Why, gentlemen, look what it means. Wo claim to be the greatest j democratic people of the world, and democracy means first of all. that we j can govern ourselves. If our men have j not self-control then they are not ca-1 pable of that great thing which we call democratic government. A man who takes the law into hi8 hands is not the right man to co-operate in any form of or development of law and in stitutions. And some of the processes by which the struggle between capital and labor is carried on are processes that come very near to taking the law into our own hands. I do not mean for a moment to compare them with what have just been speaking of, but I want you to see that they are mere gradations of the manifestations of the unwillingness to co-operate and the fundamental lesson of the whole situ ation is that we must not only take common counsel but that we must yield to and obey common counsel. Not all of the instrumentalities for this are at hand. I am hopeful that in the very near future new Instrumental ities may be organized by which we can see to it that various things that are now going on shall not go on. There are various processes of the dilution of labor and the unnecessary substitution of labor and bidding in distant markets and unfairly upsetting the whole competition of labor, which ought not to go on I mean now on the part of employers and we must interject into this some instrumental ity of co-operation by which the fair thing will be done all around. I am hopeful that some such instrumentali ties may be devised but whether they are or not we must use those that we have and upon every occasion where it is necessary to have such an instru mentality originated upon that occa sion, if necessary. "And so, my fellow citizens, the rea son that I came away from Washing ton is that I sometimes get lonely down there. There are so many peo ple in Washington who know things that are not so, and there are so few people in Washington who know any thing about what the people of the United States are twnsing about, I have to como away to get reminded of the rest of the country; I have to come away and talk to men who are :up against the real thing and say to jthem, 'I am with you, if you are with jme.' And the only test of being with jme is not to think about me persona.1- jly at all, but merely to think of me as jthe expression for the time being of the power and dignity and hope of the United States.' ITALIANS HOLDING PANE RIVER Li AU8TRO-GERMANS MIGHTY VANCE HAS NOW BEEN CHECKED. AD- HEM SHELLING III PROGRESS Italians Are Entrenched on West Bank of River, Which Is From One-Half to One Mil Wide Reports Favor able. Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy. The Italians are holding the Austro-German advance on the Piave line. Reports from the front were fa vorable. Heavy Bhelling is in progress all along the new front. The Italians are entrenched back of the west bank of the Piave river and the Austro-German force now is tak ing the place of the advanced guard on the east bank. The strip of water between the opposing lines is about half a mile, widening at some points to a mile. An observer just back from a tour along the line told the correspondent that the cannonade had become con tinuous. The Austrians are using 6 inch guns, not yet having brought up many of their heaviest pieces. The enemy is turning his fire against the high campanille bell towers of small villages fringing the western bank to prevent the Italian artillery from us ing them as observation posts. The Italian artillery reply is spirited from a considerable number of guns that they succeeded in bringing back from the old front. The battle front has two main sec tors. The lower extends from Feltre to the sea and the upper from Feltre westward. ' LLOYD GEORGE'S FAIXH IN FINAL OUTCOME IS FIRM "Single Front, Single Army, Single Nation, Is Program Requisite for Victory." Paris. "A single front, a single army, a single nation that is the pro gram requisite for future victory," said Premier Painleve at a luncheon In hnnnr nf TJavirl T.lnvrt fifinre-fi. thfl BrItl3h prime mmlster, who has just (ufl Trails n war toyia ftnd Signor Barenini, Italian minister of education. "If after 40 months of war ater all tho lessona tne war was taught us, tho allies were not capable of that sacred international onion, then in spite of their sacrifices they would not be worthy of victory." In discussing the manner of accom plishment of this fusion, to which the allies have long aspired, M. Painleve said: "The enemies' alliance realized unity of effort by brutal discipline, one of the peoples among them hav ing mastered the others and rendered them serviceable. But we are free peoples. We do not admit of subjec tion to other peoples in time of war. That independence is at the same time a source of strength and weak ness, of strength because of their ca pacity for resistance which is un known to subject peoples, and weak ness because it renders more difficult co-ordination of military operations. To reconcile this independence with the need for unity of direction which is required to achieve an efficacious war policy will be the work of the Inter-allied war committee or of the superior war council Just created by the allies." Premier Lloyd George, alluding to a centralized direction of the allied efforts, said : "Unfortunately we did not have time to consult the United States or Russia before creating this council. The Italian disaster necessitated ac ion without delay to repair it "But, in-order to assure the com plete success of this great experiment, which I believe is essential to the vic tory of our cause, it will be necessary that all our great allies be repre sented In the deliberations. I am persuaded that we shall obtain the consent of these two great countries, and their co-operation." RUSSIAN FACTIONS REPORTED IN BLOODY ENCOUNTER - Stockholm. A lloody encounter has taken place near Gattxiina between soldiers from the front headed by Pre mier Kerensky and Bolshevik! forces from Petrograd. according to advices which have reached Ira Nel.son Morris, the American minister, from reliable aources. In Finland the travelers are report ed as surin? the Equation Is desperate- Anarchy is on the increase and arts of violence and even irurder. MACHINERY FOR 2ND DRAFT III OPERATION PRESIDENT WILSON ' WRITES FOREWOR DTO REGULATIONS FOR SECOND CALL. SAY BE I'M IN FEB Regulations and Questions Forwarded to Local Boards Must be Complete Inventory of Qualifications of Each Registrant. Washington. President Wilson for mally put the new machinery for the carrying the selective draft bill into operation with the publication of the foreword he has written to the regula ions under which the second call will be made. The regulations themselves and he queetion&ires which more than 9,000,000 registrants will be required to fill out are being forwarded to local boards, but have not yet been made public. War Department officials estimate that .the whole process can be com pleted within 60 days. This means that no second call will be made upon the draft forces before the middle of next February, as the period of classic fication will not begin until Decembei 15th. The president describes the new plan of dividing all registered men not already mobilized Into five ' classes, subject to military service' by classes, as being intended to produce "a more perfect organization of our man power.' "The selective principle must be scarried to its logical conclusion," the President said, and he added that there must be .made a complete Inven tory of the qualifications of each registrant In order to determine "the olace in the military, industrial oi j agricultural ranks of the nation in i which his experience and training can best be made to serve the common good." The inquiry projected in the ques tionable will go deep into the qualifi cation of each of nearly 10,000,000 men. The success of the plan and its completion- within the estimated time rests absolutely upon the whole-hearted sup port given by the people especially by the doctors and lawyers of each com munity. REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA ON VERGE OF COLLAP8E Troops Loyal to Kerensky Are March ing to Capital. London. The Bolsheviki revolution in Petrograd is reported to be ap approaching collapse. Regiments loyal to Premier Kerensky are marching on the capital .and fighting is under way in the city, according to reports reach ing here from Petrograd. An organ ization which has adopted the name of All-Russian committee for saving the country and the revolution an nounced that the defeat of the Bolshe viki movement was a matter only of days or hours. The town of Tsarkoe-Selo, 15 miles south of Petrograd, where former Em peror Nicholas lived much of the time, Is said to have been captured by loyal forces, after which the rebels retired to Petrograd In disorderly mobs. Paris. A wireless dispatch from Haparanda in Sweden, near the Fin nish border, says that Premier Keren sky has 200,000 men supporting him. The wireless message, which escap ed the censorship of the Bolsheviki by being sent from Haparanda, says Pre mier Kerensky left Petrograd Tues day for general headquarters, being concealed in the bottom of an auto mobile ambulance. It is understood he was accompanied by General Alex- leff, former commander-in-chief, and by Foreign Minister Terestchenko. Premier Kerensky now has 200,000 men devoted to him," the dispatch con tinues. "It is believed h is going to Moscow to reestablish his government there and march on Petrograd. This possibly may be unnecessary as the latest news from Petrograd says a bat tle is going on in the streets and that the Cossacks have joined the minimal, lets and are mastering the maximal ists." TO STANDARIZE BREAD AND BRING DOWN PRICES Washington. Definite steps to stan dardize bread and lower its price were taken when President Wile-on issued a proclamation placing all bakeries under government license Lecember 10 and subjecting them to food admunls tratifm ruls prescribing ingredients and weights of loaves. Prices will not be fixed, but with the standardizaion it Is expected that natural competition ma simm;nra,iion oi uisinum-ivu vruiji force down psices. S THANKSGIVING PROCLAIM Washington. President Wilson is sued his 1917 Thanksgiving proclama tion, calling upon the nation, even in the midst of the sorrow and great peril of a world shaken by war, to thank God for blessings that are bet ter than mere peace of mind and pros perity of enterprise. The proclamation, fixing Thursday, November 29, as Thanksgiving Day, follows: "THANKSGIVING 1917. "By the President of the Uni ted States of America. "A Proclamation. "It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn In the fruitful autumn of the year In praise and thanksgiving' to. Al mighty God for His many bless ings and mercies to us as a na tion. That custom we can follow even now in the midst of the trag edy of a world shaken by war and immeasurable disaster. In the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst the darkness that has gathered about us we can see the great blessings God has be stowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise. "We have been given the op portunity to serve mankind so we once served ourselves in the great day of our Declaration of Inde pendence, by taking up arms against a tryranny that threatened to master and debase men every where, and joining with other free poeples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then demanded and obtained for ourselves. In this day of the reve lation of our duty not only to de fend our own rights as a nation, but to defend also the rights of free men throughout the world, there has been vouchsafed us In full and inspiring measure the resolution and spirit of united ac tion. We have been brought to one mind and purpose. - A new vigor of common council and com mon action has been revealed la us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances, in the midst of the greatest en terprise the spirit of men have entered upon, we have, if we but observe a reasonable and practlca ablo economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us. The great duties of & new day awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. We ahall never again be dividod or wonder what stuff we are made of. "And while we render thanks for those things, let us pray Al mighty God that in all humble ness of spirit we may look always to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and . purpose of service; that by His grace in our minds may be directed and our hands strengthened; and that fn His good time liberty and security and peace and the com radeship of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth. "Wherefore, I, Wood row Wil son, President of the United States of America, do hereby des ignate Thursday, the twenty ninth day of November, next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and Invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day and in their several homes and and places of worship to render thanks to God, the great ruler of nations. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to to be affixed. "Done in the District of Co lumbia, this seventh day of No vember, in the year of our Lord ' one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and of the independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and; forty-second. "WOODROW WILSON." "By the President: "ROBERT LANSING, "Secretary of State." ENEMY ALIENS ARE TAKEN TO OGLETHORPf Baltimore. A' train from Bostoa passed throngh this city on its way to Fort Oglethorpe, Go., with 50 alien, enemies under guard far internment., Three Germans arrested here receatlyj joined the train and were welcomed ?a 'board by the others, who burst Into ' e chorus cf "Die Wacht Am Rhein SUES