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PRESIDENT WII
WAR DECLA
INHIST0R1
I IS NECESSARY TO
MEET SITUATIONS
FACED BY AMERIC
A Declaration of Hostilit
Against Other Allies Not
Now Necessary.
The President sharply dlsm's
the possibility of premature per
sought by German Intrigue and
bated here by men who underst<
neither Its nature nor the way
may be attained. With victory
acoompli8hed fact, he said, po
will be evolved based upon "me
and Justice"?to enemy and fri<
?with hope of a partnership of
tions to guarantee future wo
peace.
The war will be deemed won.
declared, "when the German peo
say to us. through properly
credited representatives, that tl
are ready to agree to a settlemi
based upon Justice and reparation
the wrongs their rulers have don
Terms of peace, he added, woi
not include dismemberment, r
bery or puniahment of the ener
but would be baaed on Justice. <
fined briefly aa follows:
Freedom and Reparation.
Freedom of nations and their pi
plea from autocratic dominate
reparation to BeJtfJum, relinquli
ment of German power over the p<
plea of Austria, Turkey, the fi
Balkan states, an well aa evacuati
of Prussian territorial conqueata
Belgium and northern France.
Emphasizing the purpose of t
United States not to Interfere In t
internal affairs of any nation, t
Pr?|sldent asserted that no wroi
against the German empire was I
tended and that there was no deal
to rearrange the Austro-Hungari
empire. He said when he epo
eight months ago of the right of ?
tlons to free accees of the seas
Tiwiutf im UWnlil
OlAlEiMEilNl ur WAK AIJ
Possibility of a Premature Pes
is Sharply Dismissed by 1
President Who Says to V
the. War is Our First Task.
Washington, l)ec. 6.?Imincdl
declaration of war against Aust
Hungary was recommended to c
gress Tuesday by President Wils
The President did not, ho we'
recommend a declaration of '
against Turkey and Bulgaria at 1
K time.
Immediate war against Aust
the President told congress, was r
essary to meet the anomalous
uation the United States faces in
war with Germany even though,
declared, Austria was not her c
mistress and merely a vassal of C
many.
The same logic, he said, wo
lead to war against Turkey i
Bulgaria, but they do not yet,
said, stand in the path of the Unl
States in its war
autocracy.
America's War Aims.
Washington, Dec. 6.?A defli
statement to the world of Amerii
war alniB and of the basis u;
which peace will be considered, 1
made Tuesday by President Wil
??? on oHHr?u? to confirress in wil
he urged immediate declaration
a state of war between the Unl
States and Austro-Hungary?C
many's vassal and tool. As to 1
key and Rulgaria. also tools of
enemy, he counselled delay beca
"they do not yet stand in the dii
path of our necessary action."
To win the war, the President
clared in emphatic and ring
tones. Is the immediate and unall
able task ahead. He urged congr
just before beginning its second i
session, to concentrate itself iim?r>
/
"HE L
im -weekly.
SON RECOMMEND,
RATION ON AUST
C ADDRESS TO COI
OUR IMMEDIATE TAS
WAR, WILSON
,A "And Nothing Shall Turn U
Accomplished?Autocracy
C8 Futility of Its Claims 1
Washington, Dec. 6.?President
Wilson's historic address to congress,
In which he urged a declaratlon
of war on Austria-Hungary
was as follows:
The President spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: Eight
months have elapsed since I last had
the the honor of addressing you. They
have been months crowded with
*,n events of Immense and grave significance
for us. I shall not undertake
to detail or even to summarize those
events. The practical particulars ol
iate the part we have played in them will
ria- he laid before you in the reports ol
on- the executive departments. I shall
ion. discuss only our present outlook up
irer, on these vast affairs, our present
war duties, and the immediate means o!
this accomplishing the objects we shal
hold always in view,
ria, I shall not go back to debate thf
iec- cause of the war. Intolerable wrong;
sit- done and planned against us by th<
its sinister master of Germany hav<
he long since become too grossly obvi
twn ous and odious to every true Ameri
}er- can to need to be rehearsed.
Rut I shall ask you to considei
uj(j again and with a very grave sci u
and t,ny our nhjective and the measures
he by which we mean to attain them
ite(1 for the purpose of discussion here ir
tian Plaoe *8 action, and our nctior
must move straight towards deflnit<
ends. Our object, is of course, U
win the war; and we shall not slack
nite en or suffer ourselves to be divertec
ca 8 until it 1h won. But it is worth whil<
P?n asking and answering the question
was when shall we consider the wai
son won?
l'c*| Trcsr. cr.c point o? view. It i* nni
necessary to broach this fundamen
tec* tal matter. I do not doubt that th<
Jor,
American people know what the wai
ur" is about and what sort of an out
the
come they will regard as a realiza
USP tion of their purpose in it. As a na
ect tion we are united in spirit and in
tention. I pay little heed to thos<
de" who tell me otherwise. I hear th?
,nK voices of dissent?who does not'
ter" I hear the criticism and the clamoi
pa8? of the noisy, thoughtless and trou
*'ar blesome. I also see men here and
'* there fling themselves in impotent
3?d (disloyalty against the calm. indomlce
itahle power of the nation. I heai
('e" men debate peace who understand
jod ne|ther its nature nor the way ir
It which we may attain it with upliftan
fed eyes and unbroken spirits.
aCP But I know that none of these
r?y speaks for the nation. They do not
md touch the heart of anything. They
na* may safely be left to strut their un'"ld
easy hour and be forgotten.
But from another point of view I
he believe that It is rfecessary to say
pie plainly what we here at the seat ol
if- .
ie>t VIRGINIA MAN BADLY
WOUNDED IN FRANCE
e."
jld General Pershing K?porf? Two Solob
dlers Killwl In Action and Sevny.
eral Others Wounded,
de
Washington. Dec. 6.?General
Pershing haB reported, through the
eo_ war department, the nameo of two
}n men killed In action. In France,
4h- seven men severely wounded and
fto. four slightly wounded. The casu ep
allies occurred between November
on 12 and 17. General Pershing's mes)n
sage gave no details, but the men
are believed to have been with units
he occupying front line trenches in
he France.
he Those killed are:
Corporal Virgil G. Winebrenner.
in" infantry, November 12; Marion, Ind.
'ie Private Peter Wojtalewicx. lnfan
an try. on November 16; Chicago,
ke ,
(a_i Those severely wounded includo:
he Sergt. Harvey L. Haburne. infan_
try, ou November 17} father, S. B.
ANCAi
LANCASTER, S. C.. TU
S IMMEDIATE D1
RIA-HUNGARY I
EGRESS TUESDAY
kIstowinthe k<
tells the congress
I)E
s Aside From It Until It Is
Must Be Shown the Utter
De
to Power or Leadership.
i
: action consider the war to be for. (
- and what part we mean to play In y
the settlement of its searching is,
sues. We are the spokesmen of the
American people and% they have a ^
right to know whether their nurnoRe
bei
1* ours. They desire peace by the nat
[ overcoming of evil, by the defeat faE
r once for ail the sinister forces that ..
the
i interrupt peace and render it impos- f
. sible, and they wish to know how
ere
> closely our thought runs with
n
? theirs and with the action we pro>
pose. They are Impatient with sar
I those who desire peace by any sort
f of compromise?deeply and indip- as
I nantly impatient but they will be e
. equally impatient with us if we do am
I not make it plain to them what our SIN'
f objectives are and what we are <
1 planning for in seeking to make con- 'he
quest of peace by arms. the
, I believe that I speak for them hi
s when I say two things: First, that tee
this intolerable thing of which the me
, masters of Germany have shown us
the ugly face, this menace of com- |
bined intrigue and force which we
now see so clearly as the German sh0
r power, a thing without conscience nex
. or honor or capacity for covenant- (j,,
, ed peace, must be crushed and, if it cj,j
be not utterly brought to an end. ^,01
, at least shut out from the friendly (jjV
, Intercourse of the nations; and, sec- ^aI
> ond, that when this thing and its t.nt
) power are Indeed defeated and the
. time conies that we can discuss ^
1 peace?when the German people nef
* have spokesmen whose word we can nf
believe and when those spokesmen ,en
r are ready in the name of their people
to accept the common judgment
the
. of the nations as to what shall hencei
? ... Alt
forth be the bases oi law aim oi .
f ro
, covenant for the life of the world? ,
kai
we shall be willing and glad to nnv
i " " vis
the full price for peace, and pay It
ungrudgingly. We know what that
price will be. It will be full, impartial
Justice?justice done at every <
point and to every nation that the for
final settlement must affect, our ene- M.,
mies as well as our friends. a I'
Voice of Humanity. an
t hit1
You catch, with me, the voices of
humanity that arfe in the air. They
Rrow daily more audible, more articulate,
more persuasive, and they 1
come from the hearts of men every-j
I where. They insist that the war
i shall not end in vindictive action of
any kind; that no nation of people Rail
shall be robbed or punished because ia
the irresponsible rulers of a single h'ar
country have themselves done deep and
abominable wrong. It is this |
thought that has been expressed in
the formula, "No annexations, no
contributions, no punitive indemniContinued
on T*age 7.) Bk
NATIONAL UNIFICATION
OF RAILROADS URGED ^
I ~
Recommended by Interstate Commerce
Commission in Special
l Report. and
the
I. Washington. Dec. 6.?Immediate1
action to effect national unification Ite'1
'of the railroads, either by govern- wai
! ment operation or by suspension for haR
the war of anti-trust and anti-pool- for
'ing laws, a federal loan and regu'a- on
tlon of security issues to permit
more effective voluntary co-opera<- ,,iatlon,
was recommended by the* Inter- *'e,<
atate Commerce commission In a'nia'
apecial report to congress. I Jon
j # Neither plan was apeclflcally in-|*h<M
domed, but an implication that tho!my
majority believed the railroad* J ^ofl
might succeBsfully work out the1r|wh<
own unification, prompted Commis-jkno
I sioper McChord to submit a Beparate, nias
, report emphatically urging govern- ltor
ment control add saying: "The
strong arm of government authority 1*
essential If the transportation sit- see
U?H?? U lo> radically Improyed."
STER
KSDAY, DEC. 4, 1917.
;ATHS INCREASE C
N TRAINING CAMPS ,
OVER THE COUNTRY
port on Health Conditions It
Shows Improvement Week
of November 30.
:ATH LIST TOTALS 261 S'
cided Improvement is Noted C;
n Camps at Macon, Ga., and
Sreenvflle, S. C., Where There
Were Extensive Outbreaks.
Washington, Dec. 6.?Although
ilth conditions generally in the ^
ional army and National Guard cr
ops showed Improvement during 8lJ
week ending November 30, the re
rober of deaths materially in- w
ased.
The report of the division of field
dtation shows that there were
I deaths among the guardsmen sa
compared with ninety-seven the
vious week and ninety-seven
ong the draft men as against
ty the preceding week. so
3ne hundred and thirty-four of,"1
guardsmen and thirty-nine of lo
draft men died from pneumon- v'
and nine of the former and flf-!w
n and of the latter died from '
ningitis. j ct
Decrease in Pneumonia. a'
Iteports from all divisions in1
ieh pneumonia has been prevalent!
iwed a decrease in the number of ''
v cases except the Thirty-sixth 111
tard) at Cainp Howie, Texas. L)e- cf
ed improvement is noted, the ret
says, in the Thirty-first (guard) ,1J
ision at Macon, Ga.. where Ala- r<
jia, Georgia and Florida men are
lamped, and also in the Thirtieth ri
uard) division at Greenville. S. tti
where there are men from Ten- gi
isee and the Carolinas. In both ta
those camps there have been ex- w
isive outbreaks of the disease. ui
Conditions have also improved in ?(
i Thirty-ninth (guard) division at I
ixandria, Ha., containing men t It
m Mississippi, Louisina and Ar- n
risas and in the Eighty-ninth di- ai
ion (national army), at Fort tl
ey, Kan. tc
Increase in Measles.
ei
3nly two divisions, the Thirtyirth
(guard), at Camp Cody, N.
and the Eighty-seventh (national
my). at Little Rock, reported _
increase in cases of measles and ^
number was small.
?
I
KU1J HKiCJS SAYS?
E
'Mr. Editor, things is pickin' up"j
(I Bud Biggs as he came into our;
mond-studded sanctum and be-i
1 cleaning his jimmy pipe with
^ our solid gold letteropener.
"and there's]
goin' to be some terri-i
5 Sf hie runnin' in this elec- J()
pk tion to he pulled ofT|j)t
Pi* next week. I like to seej m
BxrV the campaign warmin' jn
N jt UP' makes] j0
11 q things lively. Roach | jn
|*| | Stewart is runnin', I m
see by your Album of an
Song of Tuesday, and i wi
BUD I suppose Charlie Jones mi
not goin' to let a man walk up
I take it away from him?that's th
whyfore of my prediction. Mr -w
n u
tor, that there's goin" to be somej^
ible runnin". I don't know who 0o
its the Job of alderman?nobody th
come out in public print asking or,
it and the offices may be forced
somebody, but It's a cinch, Mr.
tor, that somebody's goln' to be
for o" this here town, and I'm (a
tin* real money that the best
1 wins. Nobody accuses Charlie
es of making a bad mayor |nj
? past years; a lot o' folks out m(
way think he's made a good one; wf
ich Stewart Is a big old clever.' re(
?le-hearted fellow and nobody SO]
ws but what he'd make a good jri
ror?you never can tell, Mr. Kd,
you never can tell." jn^
idi
-and Bud beat It up the street to
If anybody is handing out cam- clt
tian. j U 1
New
rn./lliTf' rrririiT/i r
iLKlTlANd SLLMNb
DECISIVE BATTLE
ON WEST FRONT
alian Armies Have Bravely J
I
Thwarted Central Powers'
Plans, Says Baker.
I
TRAIN AFFECTING ENEMY !l
an not Endure for Much Long- I
#
er Period the Strain of French
Warfare Imposed By the
Allies in the West.
Washington, Dec. 6.?An effort by
e Germans to bring on a decisive e
igagement on the western front is 1
iggested in the war department's t
view of military operations for the t
eek ending December 1, issued by t
jcretary Haker. c
"The outstanding feature of the a
?neral military situation today." c
iys the review, "is to be found in
le ever-increasing mobility of ac- j *
[>n of the forces engaged. I "
ii seems that a decision is being
night by the enemy, who realize x
lat he cannot endure for a much f
k f
nger period the strain of trench
ai fare imposed bv the allies in the 1
"This explains the effort of the
ultra', powers in massing considerile
forces in order to invade Italy
-a concentration of troops made '
I \
issible by the international situann
in Russia. This offensive was
ldertaken to crush the Italians and ^
impel them to sue for peace.
"Five weeks of desperate fighting ^
is brought them no nearer their
al objective. 1
"The Italian armies suffered se- j
ous reverses in the early stages of (
le battle. They were compelled to
ve way and for a time the tniliry
situation along the Italian front 1
as serious. Hut the enemy had '
nderestimated the resisting power '
' the Italians.
"The hoped-for revolution in 8
aly. which had ben sedulously fo-1 r
lenieii by German propagandists, j
id which a'no on ? * ' ?
...... ?u impuiuiii pan 01
le German plan of invasion, failed :
i materialize.
"The Italians, by a maginfirent
Tort, reorganized their broken *'
(Continued on Page 4.)
; t
)EATH TOLLRUNS I'
UP IN THOUSANDS '
I r
xplosion Results From Collis- <
ion of Munition-Laden Vessels
in Halifax Harbor. j r
IOST FEARFUL DISASTER v
Halifax, N. S., Dee. 7.?With the '
II of dead steadily mounting, il was
lieved early this morning that
ore than 2,000 persons perished
the explosion and Are which fol-i^
wed the collision yesterday moin- '
g in Halifax harbor between a
unitions-laden French ship and!
lother vessel, the loma, loaded
th supplies for the Belgian com- *
Ission.
The disaster, which has plunged
e Dominion into mourning, prob-:
ly will rank as the most fearful
at ever occurred on the American ,
ntlnent. Residents of Halifax and K
ousands of volunteer relief work- n
? who have come into the city have h
en almost dazed at the extent of p
e horror. a
Temporary morgues have been es-' o
hi 1 shed in many buildings toi
lich a steady procession of ve- it
des of all kinds have been carry- A
< for hours the bodies of men, wo- h
?n and children. Most of them ?
ire so charred that they were un lr
cognizable. Thousands of per-jci
as seeking trace of relatives and fi
ends have passed by the long, si-; ti
it rows, attempting, by the flicker- j a
; light of lamps and lanterns, to d
sntify the ones they sought.
Virtually every building in the tj
y which could be converted Into 01
hospital la filled with wounded. Si
mmmm *m
$2.00 A YEAR
rOWN ELECTION TO
BE HELD TUESDAY
DRAWING INTEREST
Mayor C. I). Jones Will Be a
Candidate for Re-Election
For Next Term.
IE THREE NEW ALDERMEN
I
Messrs. Croxton, Gregory and
Witherspoon Will lie Only
Members of Present Board to
Be Voted For By the People.
In the latter days before the town
ileetion, which is to be held next
Tuqsday, there iH considerable inerest
being manifest. and while
here will be no real political fights
o take place, the friends of the
andidates are going to be "moving
iround" in the interest of their favirites
for the next few days.
The present administration, which
las given the town a good, moral
ind business government, according
o well posted business men with
rhotn a representative of The News
alked yesterday, will stand for rejection.
This ticket, with additions
or those who will not again be canliriotnc
i
....m.vk, i.-> ?.-* miiows:
For Mayor- C. I). Jones.
For Aldermen?E. M. C'roxton.
H. Wit horspoon. A. J. Gregory,
lazel Ferguson. John M. Madra,
Valter S. Stew man.
For Commissioner of Public
Vorks?J. C. Elliott.
Of those named for aldermen, Mr.
'roxton and Mr. VVitherspoon and
dr. Gregory are members of the
resent board of aldermen.
Mayor Jones will be opposed by
I. S. Stewart, a prominent local ntorney.
It is a fact, well known to all peo>le
who have taken an interest
n the affairs of the town, that an
'conomical. strong and conservative
ulministiation is not only desirable
it this time, but is an absolute necessity.
No matter who is elected,
here will be the nroblem of financng
the town, already heavily in debt
tnd in need of many things. Taxes
or general purposes are now as
ligh as the law permits and wise
md consistent management of the
nunicipal affairs will be one of the
-ver-present necessities for the next
wo years. The husiness men give
he present administration credit for
having done many things for the
own for which it deserves commenlation;
the?e has been little, if any
omplaint, and the mayor, and the
lien who compose the board of allermen,
a*e men of affairs, who are
apable and safe. and in whom
rust ran tie placed of careful adnin'st.ration
and Rood, clean povernnent.
It is a serious question as to
whether it is advisable at this time,
veiything considered, to mal$e any
hange in the present administraion.
further than to fill the vacanies
on the old hoard with good,
onservative business men.
. *
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
ARE NOW IN FRANCE
!vcry State in the Union Represented?They
Have Already
Started Training.
With the American Army in
'ranee, Dec. 6.?National guardslen
from every state in the union
ave arrived in France, it is today
ermitted to be announced. They
re among the troops now training*
r lately arrived.
They are showing a spirit in keepig
with the purpose to make the
.merican expeditionary force a
omogeneous American army in
hich each division, whether reguir,
national guard or national army,
annot be distinguished In efficiency
rom the others. The former state
roops are billeted over a wide area
nd are pronounced excellent soliers.
For the information of the relaves
and families. of the men, every
net who sailed from the United
tates has arrived safely in France