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PRESIDENT URGES WAR ON AUSTRIA. ALSO STATES TERMS UPON WHICH THE UNITED STATES WILL CONSIDER PEACE. A definite statement to the world of America's war aims and of the basis upon which peace will be con?-J J hu Proairjpnt Wil- ' Siuercu waj mauv UJ m. son, in an address to Congress}Tuesday in which he urged immediate declaration of a state of war between the United States and Austria-Hungary?Germany's vassal and tool. As to Turkey and Bulgaria?also tools of the enemy, he counseled de- j lay because "they do not yet stand J in the direct path of our necessary i action." To win the war. the President de- j clared in emphatic .land bringing j tones, is the immediate and unal-l terable task ahead. He urged Congress, just beginning its second war session, to concentrate itself upon it. The president sharply dismissed the possibility of premature peace, sought by German intrigue, and debated here by men who understand neither its nature nor the wav it may be attained. With victory an accomplished fact, peace will be evolved based upon "mercy and justice"?to enemy and friend? with hope of a partnership of nations to guarantee future world peace. The war will be deemed won, he declared, when'the German people say to us, through properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a settlement based upon justice and reparation of the wrong their rulers have done. Terms of peace, he added, would not include dismemberment, robbery " *?- - or punishment or me e-ucmj, uu<, would be based on justice, as defined briefly as follows: "Freedom of nations and their peoples from autocratic domination, reparation to Belsrium. relinquishment of German power over the peoples of Austria, Turkey, the free Balkan States, as well as evacuation of Prussian territorial conquests in Belgium and Northern France:" Emphasizing the purpose of the United States not to interfere in the I internal affairs of any nation, the | President asserted that no wrong | otroinaf- the German empire was in- f tended, and that there was no desire | to rearrange the Austrn-Hungarian J empire. He said when he spoke fc eight months ago of the right of na- | tions to free access of the seas he | had Austria, as well'as *the smaller I and weeker nations, in mind. | Approval of the President's de- p claration of war on Austria-Hun- | gary was voiced by practically ev- I ery member of Congress who com- | mented upon it. Many of those p who approved it regretted only that | it did not recommend also declara p tions of war on Turkey ana Bulgaria. Many pronounced the address the J greatest State paper ever prepared | by the President, and declared J it f sounded the keynote for the win- | ning of the war. I An Atlanta Pish Story. An Atlanta fisherman whose reputation for veracity has (hitherto) never been questioned tells this tragic tale; While'fishing in a Florida lake he noticed a large fish, about 5 feet in length,floating about half out of the water and apparently suffering great pain and laboring under jk intones eYfitpmpnt. He cau?ht it 11 with a hand net, cut it open and IJ found its interior mechanism shot I all to pieces by the vicious fins of a f catfish it had swallowed, which was still alive and on the job.?Florence Times. General Maistre, who commanded the French army that conquered the last remaining position of the famous Chemin des Dames and thus earned promotion to the rank of Grand Officer in the Order of the Legion of Honor, began to serve his country when he was twelve years old by purloining powder from the Prussian soldiers who were quartered in the house of his parents in the Franco Prussian war of 1870. The boy who was afterwards to lead the French army in one of the hardest fought battles of the great war, laid away the stolen powder for gunning expeditions in the forest near his home. There was some of this borrowed ammunition left when the present war began. ProfitSt I We the undersi Profit Sharing System t< Either of us charge which explains i basis. 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