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VOL. CI-O. 109.
AMEmCAJS '..PLEDGED NOT TO
ADDRESSING CONGRESS IN JOINT
SESSION, PRESIDENT DEFINITELY
STATES TERMS OF THE ALLIES
. . -
Wrongs of Germany Must be
Righted and Safety of Peace
Loving Peoples Assured
ATTENTION GIVEN RUSSIA
Sympathy Expressed for the Bol
sheviki in 4 ' Sincere ' ' Efforts .
to Gain Peace
14 CONCRETE PROPOSALS
America Will Fight to the End to
Achieve Her Purposes
'ashiugton, Jan. 8. Americans"
program of war and peace' with
definite terms upon which the na
tions, great and small, fighting to
gether against German world dom
ination, are ready to lay down
their arms, was given tohe world
by President Wilson today through
m address to Congress in joint
session.
For this program based npon
the righting of wrongs and the
safety of peace-loving peoples de
siring to live their own lives, the
President committed the United
States to fight and continue to
fdit until it is achieved. Thus he
pledged the country- to the allied
policy of no separate peace. '
""We cannot befseparated iruin
terest or divided in purpose," he
said. "We stand together to the
end." .
Virtually InanlmocR Approval.
The speech, heard by congress at an
hour's notice and accepted with a wave
of approval that brought together vir
tually every element of both houses,
was delivered as a direct response tu
the German challenge in the negotia
tions with the Russians at Brest-Lit-ovsk.
It followed closely and approved
the address of the British premier, but
was far more specific in statement ot
terms, robbing of force in advance any
'erman peace drive designed to con
fuse the entente and American govern
ments and their people while at the
fame time presenting the foundation
for genuine negotiations whenever the
fentral powers are ready to talk of a
just peace. '
P"ourteen Concrete Proposals.
Fourteen concrete proposals laid
down by the president began with the
declaration that the days of private in
ternational understandings are gone
and that- covenants of peace must be
reached in the open. Briefly summar
ized the other points were:
Absolute freedom of the seas in Deace
international action; removal of
b
economic barriers among nations asso
rting themselves to maintain peace;
guarantees of the reduction of arma
ments to the lowest point consistent
with domestic. safety; impartial adjust
ment of colonial claims, based upon the
Principle that the peoples concerned
have equal rights with the govern
ments; evaluation of all Russian terri
tory and opportunity for Russia's po
etical development; evacuation of Bei--urn;
evacuation of French territory
and rishtfng of the lsace-Lorraine
wrong:; readjustment of Italy's fron
tlprs alone, recognizable lines of na
tionality; free opportunity for autono
mous development or the peoples of
- istria-Huoeary; evacuation ot Ru
Jttania. Serbia and Montenegro and
Grantees for all the Balkan states;
nvereiErnty for Turkey's portion of the
ntiv a" empire and autonomy ioi
tier nationalities; an independent Po
Xvith access to the sea; and gen-
, assnciation of nations for mutual
fJramees-0f independence and terri
' rial integrity to large and small
siates alike.
Sympathy for Bolshevik!.
A notable feature of the address was
.vari the Russian rcDresenta-
1 1
the Germans at
the Bolsheviki,
their defection
Peace conference
n ex(rra(0j
fop
i ne
jh"mselves to be drawn into the Teu
presp P!are traD- The Russians, he said,
rf tT' a perfectly clear statement
... ,,Yle Principles upon which they
tw ,:ncere and in earnest and when
tarm ,und fhat the actual German
ta-ri setlement came from the mill-t.'i-P
8 who had 'no thought but
tistfer' what they had taken, the nego-
ere broken off.
k--fon
me question of whether the'
ians il. . ...
t0 ,ue worm are to listen
it,. Rul!taryana imperialistic minor
Tmn: so far has dominated the
-'"v- poucy, or to the liberal lead
and v partJes who epeak the spirit
4 bv l, lons of thG resolutions adopt
,o 5erman reichstag last July,:
-Continues on Page Three)
Text of President's Speech
Outlining
President's Speech is
Flashed to All Parts
Of the Civilized World
New York, Jan. 8. President
Wilson's address to congress today
was distributed to every news cen
ter in the civilized world through
essentially the same publicity ma
chinery .which was utilized in send
ing broadcast the president's ad
dress at the opening of congress,
Dec- 4.
The committee on public infor
mation and the various govern
mental and commercial news agen
cies operating in North and South
America, Europe, Africa, Australia
and the Far East co-operated.
So well laid were the plans that
tour and 45 minutes after the
President bgan y speaking, word
was received at the press censors
office here that the entire address
had been delivered to all news cen
ters in South America. Similar ad
vices were received at intervals of
ai. few minutes after this hour, tell
ing of receipt of the address in oth
er foreign capitals and news cen
ters. ES
Dr. Vesnitch Declares Austro-Ger-man
Ambition to Dominate
World Caused War "
WANT TO DESTROY SERBIA
Slakes as Severe an Indictment Against
the Hapsbnrgs as Against the Ho
nenzollerns Seek Personal
Advantage Only.
Washington, Jan. 8. The Serbian
mission had a reception in the House
today immediately after President Wil
son delivered his address. Speaker
Clark, in introducing Dr. Vesnitch paid
a tribute to the Serbian race and Dr.
"Vesnitch addressed the House telling
of the sacrifices made to withstand the
oppressions of Germany and her allies.
The ambition to dominate the world
and the determination to check demo
cratic movements in their domains were
the - motives . of the German and Aus
trian autocracies inaugurating the
world war, Dr. Vesnitch said. Serbia,
he declared, invoked the wrath of Ger
many because it stood between it and
domination of the Near East.
"The house of Hapsburg had even
irore reason to wish for our disappear
ance," the speaker continued. "Old feu
dal brigands, descending from the
Swiss mountains, the Hapsburgs con
quered, and acquired province after
province without ever seeing in their
provinces anything more than private
lands or family domains.
"Even nowadays the Hapsburgs do
not recogn ae an Auctrian or Hungar
ian, a Czech or Croat country, nor even
an Austria-Hur.gi.ry. They only know
lands and estates belonging to their
house, like simple property, considering
the inhabitants as belonging to and
forming a part of their estates.
"With the exception of the. German
and from th latter part of the last
century, the Magyar, they have never
tolerated national tendencies under
their rule and they have prosecuted
systematically every nation or race
with those ambitions, but they, have
emptied the vials of their wrath upou
the Jugo-Slavs because the democratic
Slovenes and Croats . had seen in the
Serbia of their brothers the realization
of their dreams and had openly and J
with all their energy favored our de
velopment.
"The feudal and bureaucratic Haps
burgs have seen in our country a men
ace to their political system and in this
menace, as they called it, they long ago
inaugurated the policy of oppressing
the Jugo-Slavs. of persecuting Serbia
and of thwarting all of our endeavors
toward a normal economic and political
development." -
WNT REFERENDUM ON NEW
YORK SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
HOUSE
SERBIAN
MISSION
Albany. N. Y.. Jan. 8. Re-submission
to the electorate of the equal suffrage
amendment to the state constitution, in
order that the women may have an op
portunity to express their sentiments
on the question, was demanded in a res
olution adopted today by a meeting of
representatives of 26 of the county aux
iliaries of the New TorK State associa
tion opposed to woman suffrage.
The resolution declared that equal
suffrage was imposed on the state by
the "alien, pacifist and socialist vote in
New York city," and that a referendum
on; the proposition had - never - - been
granted to the women themselves;
: -. ' - - . . . v'- v v
" ' ' , ' . ' , ' T - , ; : " ' i. .
WILMv ON, 0.t
Terms For Peace
Washington, Jan. 8. President Wil
son's address on peace terms before tha
joint session of congress today fol
lows: Gentlemen of the Congress:
Once more, as repeatedly before, the
spokesmen of the central empires have
indicated their desire to discuss the
objects of, the war and the possible
bases of a general peace.
Parleys ?rave been in progress at
Brest-Litovsk between Russian repre
sentatives and representatives, of the
central powers, to which the attention
of all the belligerents has been invited;
for the purpose of ascertainingjwhether
it may be possible to extend these par
leys into a general conference with re
gard to terms of peace and 'settlement.
The Russian representatives presented
not only a perfectly definite statement
rtf tViA rtrinpinlpa nnnn w Vl i r V) t Vl Alt
would be willing to conclude peace butiflve to eiht million tons, he declared,
also an equally definite program of thej were misleading to the public and
concrete application of thojse principles. ; should not be permitted to go unchal
The representatives of the'central pow- ienge(j
ers on their part presented an outline
of settlement, which, if much less defin- The greatest obstacle now in the
ite, seemed susceptible of liberal-inter-,
(Continued on Page Seven).
C. F. 5 Y. y.
AS SINGLE LINE
Government Control May Mean
Reconstruction of Railroad .
Ffom-Hercrto Greensboro
SOME LIVE SPECULATIONS
If Ideas Here Indicated Are Carrie
Out the Port of Wilmington Will
Become Important Terminal
for Government Shipping.
By P. B. ANDERSON.
Washington, Jan. 8. Government
operation of the railroads may mean
that the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
railroad between Greensboro and Wil
mington will be converted into and op-,
erated as one line of railway between I
the Gate City and Wilmington: i
A. Li. Brooks, of Greensboro, who has.
fought to have the line taken back 1
from the present owners and operated
as a single line, is authority .for the
statement that an effort will be made;
to use the line between Wilmington
and Greensboro to relieve the conges
tion of freight in northern ports,
Use Southern Ports.
. In a recent statement accredited to ! though he did not 'condemn the wood-Director-General
McAdoo , he was J en ship program, Mr. Ferguson said
quoted as saying that he intended to that he doubted if the vessels after
make use of a number of the; smaller , they were built would be fit for trans
southern ports not now being! used to i Atlantic service. They could be used
advantage and that much of the freight ; to great advantage he said, on coast-
no.w being handled exclusively by rail
would be turned over to coast-wise
vessels and distributed from the neat
est seaport to the various railroad 11m
Such a plan could be wprke dto advan
tage through the port of Wilmington
provided the old C. F. & Y.V. is con
verted Into a real railroad and operated
as such.
Government Might Improve Road.
This would give a direct line from
Wilminerton to Greensboro, where tne
trunk lines of the Southern would be i
met. ' The government by expending a I
few hundred thousand dollars could
also, and probably will, extend the line I
from Mt. Airy to a point where the
Norfolk & Western Railway would be
met and thus save the long haul of
coal from the mines through Ashevllle
and the mountainous section.
The government would only have to
build about 30 miles of road and a good
part of this is already graded and little
would have to be done aside from lay
ing the rails and ties. But whether the
government builds from Mt. Airy to
meet the Norfolk and Western or no.
there seems little doubt that Director
McAdoo' will put the line between ' Wil
mington and Greensboro into service.
Some repairs, of course, would, have to
be made to the line to handle heavy
traffic, but it claimed that the money
spent would be a good investment.
Has Wilmington In Mind.
It is known that the government ha
had Wilmington in mind as a real llvo
port for Boirte time even before the gov-
ernment took over the railroads. Wil
mington has excellent facilities for
handling large quantities, of ; freight.
She has docks and warehouses and ic
ing plants with the most modern
equipment and a harbor with a depth
sufficient to take care of large vessels.
With the C. F. & Y. V. opened up and
operated as a real railroad Wilming
ton would become one of the great
ports of the south and the section of
the country over which the road passes
would be benefited to a great extent. ;
But the real benefit derived, froiu
such plans would be that the thousands
of tons of freight now being sent to
northern ports and held there for
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1918
PROBABLE OUTPUT
OF SHIPS ABOUT
3 MILLION TONS
Ferguson Declares Repeated Esti
mates of Five to Eight Mil
lions are Misleading
HOUSING IS BIG PROBLEM
Newport News Man Stirs Senate
Committee in Explaining the
Shortage of Manpower
Washington, Jan. 8. America's
probable output of merchant ships in
1918 was put at three million tons to
day by Homer L. Ferguson, president
and general manager of the Newport
News Shipbuilding Company, testify
ing at the senate shipbuilding inquiry.
Estimates frequently made of from
t way of rapid construction, Mr. Fergu-
son said, is poor housing facilities for
shipyard workers. His story of hous
ing conditions at Newport News so
stirred the committee that a sub-com
mittee, comprising Chairman Fletcher ,
and Senator Harding, was appointed J
10 comer tomorrow witn tne proper
government officials with a Mew to ob
taining immediate relief there and
elsewhere.
Criticises Freely.
The testimony of Mr. Ferguson, for
17 years a naval constructor, made a
visible impression on the committee
and he wis kept on the stand most of J
tne day. He did not hesitate to crit
icise the shipping board, and the emer
gency fleet, corporation and held them
to blame In large measure for the slow
1 develroo?Mi'-oJ'L'the jovwMweays-"ir
gram. " '
"The housing problem," Mr. Fergu
son declared, "is one of the most vital
facing the government and the condhct
of the war. You "cannbt get the ships
unless houses are provided for work
men. We want to add 5,000 men to
our force and' there is nowhere in
; Newport News for them to live. I un-
derstand that conditions' elsewhere are
equally as bad.
"There is no limit . to the amount
of ships this country can build if it
really sets itself to the task. The
shipyards' already built . and those
building can turn out five million tons
of ships annually under' proper condi
tions and the' country could, if put to
It," add still other yards and produce
ten million tons a year. But it can
not be done without, man power and
man power cannot be obtaied unless
housin& is provided.'
"if is just as necessary for tihe
government to build houses for ship-
" .1S lor soaie
P1"81.?? l lLil Is 1.. f ? 1 ships'
yard workers as it is for soldiers. It
If I
had the power I. would commandeer
- "h -
Declaring that 3,000,000 tons is the
probable . maximum production this
year, Mr. Ferguson , said that Lloyd's
special representative estimates the
steel output at only 2,500,000 tons. Al
wise runs.
Members. of the committee were in
terested to know what had caused the
delay in the government's providing
housing facilities for shipyards and
Mr. Ferguson replied he thought it
Avas due to a lack of co-ordination by
the war and navy departments, the
shipping board and the council of na
tional defense. In Newport News, he
said, the growth of the military estab
lishment had absorbed all available
nousing.
Industry Should Be Scattered.
Concentration of shipyards in the
Philadelphia district was criticised by
housing difficulties and to add to rail
road congestion. The industry, he said,
should have been scattered more along
the coasts.
MAJOR PETERSON MUST
APPEAR AT MARCH TERM
Judge Calvert Grants Only Limited
Continuance of Case In- Which -Embezzlement
Is Alleged.
(Special Star Telegram.)
Raleigh, Jan. 8. Major George L. Pe
terson got his continuance today in
Wake superior court in the case charge
ing him with the embezzlement of ?7,-
J 600 while disbursing officer fo rthe
North Carolina national guard, but it is
only to the March term and preliminary
for trial at that time instead of an in
definite, postponement asked.
Judge Calvert said " from tne bench
that Peterson be ready, for trial at that
time and that he could take no official
note of the fact that Peterson's attor
neys have deposited a check with the
state treasurer for the ?7,600 as
."amount due" and the case must stand
On its merits. ,
The surety company on Peterson's
bond, having ben fully protected .in
the case, is taking no part in the pros
ecution of Peterson who has gone back
to Ida military duties at Camp Sevier
MAKE SEPARATE WACE
PLANS SAVING
OF
50
Fuel Administration Has New
Scheme to Adjust the Demand
to the Supply in 1918
IS IN FORM OF A BUDGET
Industries Not Engaged in War
Work Would Voluntarily
Reduce Consumption
Washington, Jan. 8. "A coal budget
plan" based on the voluntary agree
ments of manufacturers not engaged
in Tvar work to reduce their fuel con
sumption and backed by orders of the
fuel administration making the agree
ments applicable to all factories of
each industry, was announced tonight
by the fuel administration as its meth
od of adjusting demand to supply in
191S.
Reduction in consumption of possi
bly fifty million tons of coal for the
year ;s contemplated. The army and
navy, munitions works, other war ma
terial factories, public utilities and do
mestic consumers will be the only
classes of consumers to receive 100 per
cent of their needs while the war con
tinues. Axanufacturers already have been
called into conference to put the plan
into operation and the annual saving
promised by the first group will be be
tween lff.000,000 and 20,000,000 tons. In
1917 the increased demand for coal
amounted to 100,000.000 tons, while the
increase in output was about 45,000,000
tons. Under the same conditions this
year, the unfilled tonnage would be tak-
j en care of by the reduction in factories
not contributing directly to the prose
cution of the war.
Achieve Other Benefits.
Curtailment of fuel consumption ne
c e a sa rlly i m li esr r ea Trfrr pott wf - o crtpnt by
the factories so the fuel administra
tion sees in. its program aid in the di
version of labor and materials to war
work.
The budget by agreement is adopted
in lieu of the often proposed arbitrary
classification of industries into essen
tial and non-essential divisions. .
"It is believed," the fuel, administra
tion's announcement says, "that the op
eration of this plan will forever lay the
ghost of the agitation to 'cut off non
essential industries' and will automati
cally balance the relation, between the
production and consumption of coal
and prevent any repetition of the pres
ent coal shortage-" -
Brewers Volunteer Reduction.
Representatives of the American
Brewers' association and other affiliat
ed with the making of beer volunteered
a reduction of 700,000 tons of coal an
nually. Other industries represented
in conferences with the fuel adminis
tration ; have betn paint and varnish,
wall paper, confectionery, artificial ice,
box board and glassware. The volun
tary reduction of one day's running
each week by the box board manufac
turers, will amount to 1,000,000 tons a
.year and will take 30,000 carloads of
merchandise off the congested railroads.
The fuel administration has asked
that other industries get in touch with
Washington without waiting for formal
invitation. There are more than 100
industries not engaged in war work
which must curtail their use of fuel
because of conflict with war needs.
Are Essential Industries.
"These industries. sometimes mis
called 'non-essential' industries," says
the announcement, "are the backbone
of the country's economic system. They
employ ten million workers and from
the mmust come the taxes andt bonds
which will pay for the -war. These in
dustries have never objected to any
curtailment of coal or material or men
which could be shown to be necessary
to win the war. It was the Indefinite
threat of annihilation by restrictive or
ders' which during the last two or three
months has alarmed the leaders of
business and finance."
Committees representing various
groups of industries will be shown the
amount of coal available for all pur
poses, the amount required for war pur
poses and domestic consumers and the
total curtailment which must be ef
fected to supply these demands. They
will be asked on patriotic grounds, as
well as for their own future interests,
to volunteer a reduction in consumption
and advise the best method of curtail
ment so as to affect only the less esen
tial portions of their own business.
Arrangements by Manufacturers.
All arrangements will be made by the
manufacturers themselves, but when
an agreement has been reached the fuel
administration will issue formal orders.
carrying all the penalties provided by
the food control law, maning me agree
ment applicable to the entire industry.
The total curtailment of coal con
sumption when completed will equalize
theoretically the coal demand of the
country with the supply for 1918. If
later it develops that there still is a
prospect of scarcity a slight increase in
the voluntary curtailment can be ar
ranged quickly andjpvithout confusion.
The plan was summarized by the fuel
administration thus:
"The new plan hitches up all the in
dustries of the country to the fuel bud
get and gives them (which is. all they
ask) the fullest liberty of action, ex
cepting liberty to use coal needed for
war purposes." . ,
. Suffragist Appeals Heard.
Washington, Jan. 8. The cases, of
ten suffragists, sentenced to jail in Au
gust for so-called White House picket
ing were reviewed today by the Dis
trict of Columbia court of appeals. De-cUlQA-
was reserved until February.
MILLION TONS
OF GOAL A YEAR
M'ADOO APPEALS TO
BOTH OFFICIALS UND
EMPLOYES OF ROADS
Little Fighting Other
Than Bombardments and
Minor Trench Attacks
(Associated Press Summary.)
On the fighting front there is lit
tle but artillery duels and minor
raids. In one of these small affairs
near Bullecourt the Germans suc
ceeded in entering a Brifish trench
but later were driven out, leaving
prisoners in the hands of Field Mar
shal Haig's men. Likewise several
small attacks against French posi
tions were repulsed.
Although bad weather has fallen
upon the Italian front, heavy bom
bardments are in progress on the
northern part of the line from the
Asiago plateau to the Piave river.
At Monte Asalone, around which
sanguinary fighting occurred sever
al weeks ago, the Italians are vio
lently shelling the Austro-German
positions. 1
The, press of Germany and Austria-Hungary
in editorial comment
on the address of David Lloyd
George is unanimous that the terms
as set forth by the British premier
as the basis for peace are not ac
ceptable to the Teutonic allies.
Therefore it as not unlikely that
President Wilson's address delivered
yesterday will ' be received by the
enemy newspapers in a like manner.
Unofficial advices are to the effect
that the Russian peace delegation
has returned to Brest-Litovsk for a
resumption of the pourparlers with
the enemy representatives. No con
firmation of this has been received.
Approval is Given by President
Wilson. tasErogram. jf p.rLa-. t
bor Administration
TO SAFEGUARD STANDARDS
Secretary Wilson Heads the Adminis
tration and .Has Already Taken
Up the. Task of Putting the
Program Into Effect.
Washington,' Jan. 8. Approval by
President Wilson of a program for war
labor administration was announced
tonight by the council of national de
fense. The purpose is to provide work
ers for war industries and machinery
for safeguarding labor standards and
maintaining industrial peace.
Secretary Wilson, of the department
of labor, has been requested by the
president to assume charge of this in
stitution and already has begun work,
as shown by the announcement, of . last
night that the United States employ
ment service would have a director Tor
recruiting 3,000,000 workers for war
factories and shipbuilding plants.
Men of high standing, representing
capital, labor and the public generally
will be called into conference to giv&
early attention to whether congres
sional action is needed to assure suc
cess of the work.
The president authorized Secretary
Wilson to provide, first, an -adequate
and stable supply of labor for war in
dustries through a satisfactory system
of labor exchanges, a satisfactory
methodaof training workers, an agency
for determining priorities of labor de
mand and agencies for dilution of skill
ed labor when needed. The section on
industrial service of the council of
national defense, headed by L. C. Mar
shall, will co-operate in directing la
borers obtained by voluntary recruit
ing to shipbuilding plants and war
munitions factories which need more
men. Dilution of labor is not regard
ed now as imperative and doubtless
will be one of the questions put aside
until the army's drain on the men
makes necessary the introduction or
women.
COAST IINE SHOPMEN AT
WAYCROSS; GA ON STRIKE.
Waycross, Ga, Jan. 8. Efforts to
reach an agreement with more than 1,
200 employes who are said to have de
clined to return to work after the noon
day lunch hour .at the Attentic Coast
Line shops "here today had failed up to
a late hour tonight, according td Super
intendent of Motive Power J. W. Op
tinger, of the local plant.
The men declined to return to work,
according to statements by their lead
ers, because of the employment yester
day of a non-union workman in th
pipe fittings department. They declar
ed, however, their action was neither
a strike nor a walk-out.
PERSHING ANNOUNCES THE
DEATHS OF FOURTEEN MEN.
Washington, Jan. 8. Deaths of 14
soldiers in the American forces abroad
were reported today by General Per
shing. Among them were:
Private - Willie Campbell, stevedore,
January 5, gas asphyxiation; mother,
JanevCampbell, Tidewater, Va,
Corp. Henry C.- Myrick, - engineers,
Jan. 7, tuberculosis; grandfather, C. A.
MiUhouse, Bamberg, S. C.
PROVIDE WORKERS
FOR WAR PERIOD
WHOLE NUMBER 39,280
!
Urges Them as Patriotic Duty to
Put 'Forth Every Effort to I
Keep Trains Moving i
EQUAL TO UNIFORMED MEN"
Promises to Consider Labor Ques
tion ''Justly and Fairly'' I
at an Early Date i
HEARINGS
AT THE CAPITOL
Railroad Administration Discusses
Financial Problems
Washington, Jan. 8. Director
General McAdoo today addressed
Ian appeal to railroad officials and
i employes to do 1
! maintain efficient !
heir utmost to
railroad service
as a patriotic duty, saying, "every
officer and employe is just 'a's im
portant a factor jin winning the
war as the men in uniform who
are fighting in the trenches. ' ' i
Consider Wages Soon. f
He promised to consider labor prob
lems, "justly and fairly and at the
earliest possble moment" The names
of four members bf a board to inves
tigate the brotherhood's request for
more pay probably tvill be announced
tomorrow. . ' j . ' ' : j
At the capitol theT railroad problem
was the subject of hearings before the
Interstate commerce committees of
both .' senate nd -"bdnse. Interstate
Commerce ; Commissioner Anderson ex
plained the purpose j,and effect: of the
pending administration bill to the
house committee, while Julius Krutt
schnftt, chairman of! the board of the
Southern Pacific, continued his testi
mony before the senate committee on
the difficulties of railroads under pri
vate management, j
Appeal to Railroad SI en.
The appeal Of the director-general to
railroads and : employes, which, will "be -posted
within a few days at every rail
road station, shop and roundhouse in
the country, is as follows: : j
"The government j of the United
States having assumed possession and
control of the railroads for ; the period
of the present: war with Germany it
becomes more than j- ever obligatory
upon every officer and employe of the
railroads to apply himself with unre
served energy; and unquestioned loyal
ty to his work. j j j
"The supreme interests of the na
tion have compelled j the drafting of a
great army of our j best young I men
and sending them to the bloody fields
of France to fight for their lives and
liberties ', of those wjio stay at home.
The sacrifices we are! exacting bf these
noble .American boy$ call to us ; who
stay at home 'with, an irresistible ap-r
peal to support them with our most
unselfish labor: and effort in the work'
we must do at home, if our armies
are to save America! from the serious
dangersthat confront her. ! Upon th
railroader rests a great : responsibility
for the success of the war. The rail
roads cannot be efficiently, operated
without the wholehearted and loyal
support of every one in the service,
from the highest ta
the lowest.
I earnestly appeal to you to apply
yourselves with new
devotion and en-v
ergy to your work.
to keep ij train
moving on schedule
itime and to meet
the demands upon the transportation
lines sojjthat our soldiers and sailors
may want for nothing which will en
able them to fight (the enemy to ia
standstill and: win a glorious victory'
for united America. I ! j
"Every railroad officer and employe
is nor, in effect, in jthe service of the
United States and every officer i and
employe is just ai important a factor
in winning the war ae the men in uni
form who are fighting In the trench
es. ! t ; ' . .; j ; :.
"I: am giving careful consideration
to the problems of railroad employes
ani every effort wilir
be- made to i deal
with these problems
justly and fairly
and at ; the earliest
possible moment.
There should be a new Incentive to ev
ery one in railroad service while under
government direction to acquit him
self with honor and j credit to himself
and to the country.'
Finances Considered. 7
Together with the labor phase of
government operation", the railroad ad
ministration today considered financial
problems with which the government
will be forced to deal shortly, j From
scores of roads came reports on esti
mated amount; of additional capital' to
be raised this year by isssue of securi
ties. These win be compiled by Inter
state Commerce Cominissloner Daniels
and presented to Director General Mc
Adoo late this week j to be used as &
basis for computing 'the big sum which
congress will be asked to appropriate
to absorb the companies' securities, j
The director-general may take ! this
information to ; congress when he ap
pears before the house interstate com
merce committee lafe this week or
early next week. . !:
When Mr. Kruttscjhnitt has' com
pleted his testimony tomorrow; before
the senate ' committee, Samuel Rea,
president of the Pennisylvaala railroad;
George Schriver, i vice-president of the
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