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Established in 1891.
1 FORM LEAGUE FOR
1 NATIONAL UNITY
WIL80N ENDORSES MOVEMENT
IN ADDRE8S EMPHASIZING
NEED OF TEAM WORK.
UIUUAMUNAL PATRIOTIC MOVE
New League Represents Church, Political,
Labor, Agricultural and Industrial
Organizations Which Will
Work for Unity of Thought.
Washington.?An extensive movement
to lead and express public opinion
on the war was inaugurated here
by formation of the League for National
Unity, representing church, political,
labor, agricultural and industrial
organizations, to which President
Wilson gave his endorsement in
an address emphasizing the need for
team play by the forces of American
thought and opinion.
Welcoming the leaders of the
movement at the white house in a
brief speech, the President expressed
the belief that American public opinion,
although understanding the war's
causes and principles, needs guidance
to remember that the war should end
only when Germany is beaten and
Germany's rule of autocracy and
might are superseded by the Ideals of
democracy.
This is the issue, which the American
people should nlways keep in
mind, the President said, in order to
avoid being misled Into byways of
thought and of the resultant scattering
of the force of public opinion.
Talk of early peace before Germany
is defeated is one of the evidences of
misdirected thougHt, he suggested,
and should not cloud the vision of
those who understand that the United
States is fighting now for the same
Ideals of democracy and freedom that
have always actuated the nation.
President Gives Warning.
The President gave warning that It
should not be forgotten that German
success would mean not only prevention
of the spread of democracy, but
possibly the suppression of that already
existing.
The league, which will have headquarters
in New York, chose as honorary
chairmen Cardinnl Gibbons and
Dr. Frank Mason North, president of
the federal council of churches. The
uuure ix. van, preBiueni or me American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., Is
active chairman, with Samuel Oompers.
president of the American Federation
of Labor; Charles Barrett,
president of the Farmers' Educational
and Co-operative Union, and Georg"
Pope, president of the National Association
of Manufacturers, as vice
chairman. The object was stated as
follows:
"To create a medium through
which the loyal Americans of all
classes, sections, creeds and parties
can give expression to the fundamental
purpose of the United States to
carry on to a successful conclusion
this new war for the independence of
America and the preservation of democratic
institutions and the vindication
of the basic principles of humanity."
WIDE DIFFERENCES IN
BREAD PRICES SHOWN
In Consumers' Reports to Food Administration
from 52. Cities
and Towns.
Washington. ? Consumers' reports
to the food administration from 52
tmcn aim luwiiD in mi |innn ui lilt)
country show wide differences In
bread prices. The lowest price reported
was from Pleasantvllle, N. J.,
where a 16-ounce loaf sells for six
cents. The same size loaf sells for 15
cents In Rock Falls. 111.; Kastport,
Me.; Red Rank, N J.; Miami. Okla.;
Nashville. Tenn.; Laramie, Wyo., and
Newport. R. I.
A 16-ounco loaf Is sold for eight
cents In many cities throughout the
west and In some cities in the eats.
A five-cent loaf of 12 ounces is sold
in a few cities.
ITALIAN U-BOAT FIRED
UPON TY U. 8. PATROL
Washington. ? Vice Admiral Sims
miiiru ciiv iiuvy ui'purunoni mat an
American patrol vessel had fired on
an Italian submnrlne which failed to
answer recognition signals, killing one
officer anu one enlisted man. Secretary
Daniels at once sent a message
to the Italian ministry of marine, expressing
the deepeet regret over the
unfortunate occurrence .and tendering
his and the Am irlcar. navy's sympathy
for the l?*s of life.
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Dr. E O. Hovey curator of geology
at the American Museum of Natural
History and member of the Donald
McMillan polar exploration party, who
has returned to New York. Hovey was
In charge of the relief expedition which
found McMillan in the North.
INSURANCE BILL IS PASSED
WITH THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR
MAXIMUM INSURANCE
PLAN RESTORED.
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Provision is Inserted Which Raises
Major General Pershing and Major
General Bliss to the Rank of General.
Washington.?With the $10,000 maximum
insurance plan restored, as
; urged by the administration and witt
an addition provision raising Major
General Pershing, commanding the
American forces in France, and Major
General Bliss, chief of staff, to the
rank of general, the soldiers' and sail;
ore' insurance bill, carrying an appropriation
of $176,000,000, was passed
, by the senate by a vote of 71 to 0.
An amendment by Senator Smoot,
adopted, 37 to 33, provides that $25 a
j month shall be paid widows of Civil
j Wur and Spanish-American war veterans
as well as to the widows of men
( who may be killed in the present war.
I This will mean an increased cost to
j the government of $3,500,000 annually
1 and an advance of $15 a month to
; 4,141 Spanish war widows and $5 a
month to 43,544 Civil War widows.
Other amendments offered by the
Utah senator authoriztr.r the bureau
of war risk insurance after the war
to turn over to life insurance companies
at government expense policies
held by soldiers and sailors, and proj
vlding for the payment of $100 a
month to men permanently incapacitated
because of wounds or disease were
rejected.
Reductions were made by the senate
in the house provisions for compnesation
paid for death or disability
of soldiers and sailors or members of
the army and navy nurse corps. Under
the bill as it now stands a widow
would receive $25 a month, compared
to $35 fixed by the house, while a
widow with two children would receive
$47.50, a reduction of $5. The
other soctlons of the house bill were
accepted with only minor changes with
the exception of the insurance section
which permits a soldier now not later
than five years after the war ends to
convert his lifo Insurance without medical
examination into any other form
of insurance he may request.
GERMAN RAIDERS ARE
OPERATING IN SOUTH 8EAS
Washington. ? Two German com
, merco raiders, manned by the crew
| of the famous Sea Adler, which It now
| develops stranded on Mopeha Island, In
| the South Pacific, after ronmfng the
: seas for seven months preying upon
, American and allied shipping, are operj
ating somewhero in tho South seas,
I according to a report received at tho
, navy department from the commander
of the naval station at Tutulla, Sai
moa Islands.
Tho dispatch .transmitting the story
of Captain Hador Smith of the American
schooner C. Slade, one of the
See Adler's victims, was sent on September
29. several weeks after the
two new raiders left Mopeha Islands,
where they had been captured by the
Germans. The first put to sea on August
21, and the other on September 6.
and It probably was their operations
which led to recent reports of raiders
In tho Pacific.
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ADJOURNS BIG
WAR QRQfflN
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LA8T DAY OCCUPIED IN DEFEN8E
AND CRITICISM OF LA
FOLLETTE.
SESSION BEGAN APRIL 2ND
Generally Regarded as Most Momentlous
tn American Hlstorv?Gal
leriea Were Packed to Capacity
During Last Hours.
Washington.?In the midst of a
day's thrilling debate on alleged disloyalty
of Senator LaFoIlette, of Wisconsin,
the extraordinary session of
Congress, which began April 2, and
generally regarded as the most momentous
in American history, was adjourned
sine die at 3 p. m.
Vehement criticism of the Wisconsin
senator and his own defense occupying
virtually the entire day. marked
the close of the war session, with
other customary adjournment and
legislative procedure, including President
Wilson's attendance at the
capitol. The usual eleventh hour grist
of legislation was put through, following
six months of important war
action, and most of the members who
had remained for the final days were
en route home to await the call of
the next session, December 3.
With galleries crowded to their capacity.
the senate chamber was the
scene of five hours stirring discussion
I of Senator LaFollette's attitude, but
in the house there was IMtle to mark 1
tne occasion except submission or a
committee report mildly censuring
Representative Heflln of Alabama for
criticising fellow-members in connection
with Count von BernstorfT's reI
quest for Berlin to furnish funds to
influence Congress.
I Speaks Three Hours. I
The day began with a throe hours
speech by Senator LaFollotte in de- i
fense of his criticisms of war ques- ;
tions. Without mentioning his recent <
address before the Non-Partisan ]
league at St. Paul, for investigation
of which arrangements were completed
hy a senate sub-committee, or
naming any of his critics. Mr. LaFollctfe
read a carefully nrenared
| defense of his course and declared
j his intention to follow it in the fu- i
I ture. He was interrupted only once i
; and was applauded by the galleries
when he closed. i
ANOTHER NATION TAKES UP
ARMS AGAINST GERMANY
: Uruguay- Follows Peru In Seiterance
of Relations.
Germany has still another nation
arrayed against her in the world war.
! Following closely the action of Peru,
' the republic of Uruguay has severed
diplomatic relations with the imperial,
! government and the German minister
has been handed his passports. Although
Germany had committed no
direct act of hostility against Uruguay
the president of the republic in
his message to parliament said it was 1
necessary for Uruguay "to espouse 1
the cause of the defenders of justice,
democracy and small nationalities." <
Montevideo, Uruguay. ? Uruguay
has severed diplomatic relations with
Germany. A presidential decree announced
the rupture in a vote in favor
of it by the chamber of deputies,
74 to 23. The German minister has
J been sent his passports. Tho vote
in the chamber was taken at 2 o'clock
i this morning.
President Viera in his message to
the parliament declared that the
Uruguayan government had not received
any direct offense from Germany,
but that it was necessary to i
espouse the cause of the defenders of
justice, democracy and small nationalities.
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8.000 RUSSIAN TROOPS
REFUSE TO GO TO FRONT
Potrograd.?Might thousand soldiers 1
at Gomel in the province of Mohilev.
after a meeting, refused to go fo the
front, says a telegram from Gomel.
REICHSTAG TO DISCUSS
WA3 AIMS THIS WEEK
Amsterdam.?The Cologne Gazette,
i a copy of which has been received
here, In Its report of the address of
Dr. Karl lleifferlch. German minister'
of the Interior, In the relohstas Saturday,
represents him as saying: "The
| question of war aims will ho dlseuss!
ed In the course of a big debate nex'
week." The Rhelntsche Westfallseh"
Zeltung In Its version says "the big I
debate will take place Monday." )
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IT, OCTOBER 11, 1917
CURTIS H. LINDLEY
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Judge Curtis H. Lindley, prominent
California jurist, i? head of the legal
department of the food administration.
SENATE ACTED SPEEDILY
NO FORMALITIES ATTENDED
8IGNING OF BILL WHICH IS
NOW LAW.
Within Three Months Senate Adopted
WW mr appropriation Dili, Id tO DO
Largest of Kind in History of the
World.
Washington.?Tho war tax bill became
a law with President Wilson's
signature.
No formalities attended the signing
of the measure, which levies for this
year more than two and a half billion
dollars new taxes to provide war revenues.
It touches directly or indirectly
tho pocketbook of everybody in the
country, through taxes or incomes,
excess profits, liquor, tobacco, soft
drinks, passenger and freight transportation,
proprietary medicines, chewing
gums, amusements, musical instruments.
talking machines, records
and many other tilings.
One of the immediate effects of the
signing of the law will be an Increase
in distilled beverage prices to meet
tho new tax of $2.10 a gallon, which
reaches even 4he stock of the retailers
in excess f>f 50 gallons.
Within less than three minutes the
senate adopted the conference report
011 the war urgent deficiency appropriation
bill carrying $7.757,4.14,410
in cash and authorized contracts. Tomorrow
tho house is expeted to adopt
it and send it to President Wilson.
Tho measure is said to be the great
est of the kind In the history of any
government. It emerged this afternoon
from conference between the two
houses in which sections Involving
over $780,000,000 had boon In dispute
and went through the senate In recordbreaking
time without the formality
of a roll call.
The bill carries $5,355,976,010.93 of
direct appropriation and authorizing
the government to enter into contracts
for $2,401,458,393.50 more, almost entirely
for war purposes. Including the
navy's great destroyer program. In
conference, subsistence of the army,
for which the house had voted $175.000,000
and the senate $321,000,000.
was provided for In a compromise of
$250,000,000. For ai niv transportation
for which the house had voted $35.
000,000 and the senate $413,000,000,
the conference substituted $375,000.000.
For regular quartermaster supnllnol
$ OK AAA AAA ?
I'iivo, f I4n?,vvv,\;i;w was Uftl ouu iu uucr
the house had voted for $100,000,000
and the senate $163,000,000.
Probably the largest appropriation
In the bill Is for the ordnance department
of tho army, which gets $69f>.100,000
for purchase manufacture
and test of mou"?nln. s>o?re and field
cannon, and $22f?.000.000 more of contract
obligations authorization, together
with $663,000,000 of cash and
$777,000,000 of contract obligations
authorized for ammunition.
LABOR TROUBLES THREATEN
" FULL WAR PRODUCTION
Washington.?The government Is
working to develop some comprehensive
system of dealing with the labor
unrest which threatens to hamper
war production. It is concerned over
the pronounced upward movement of
wages, disproportionate for various
industries, nnu tne ninicuity or stabilizing
conditions without doing injustice
to workers or employers.
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MANGE TRAINING;
WORK MAPPED OUT
IS BASED UPON SIXTEEN WEEK8
OF INTENSE TRAINING
WORK.
SCHEDULES ARE ANNOUNCED
Work Will Be Varied With Lectures
by American and Allied Officers
Who Are Experts In Modern Warfare
Tactics.
Washington.?Training work mapped
out by the war department for
nutional guard and national army divisions
before they will be regarded
as ready for duty abroad is based
on a 16-week courso of the most intensive
kind of work in the open,
varied with lectures by American and
allied oiTicers, who are experts in
modern warfare, ho schedules have
been announced.
Great Stress is laid upon the necessity
for night training. Trench
raiding, scouting, trench building and
operations of all kinds which may be
called for in actual combat will be
duplicated at the ramps through the
night hours. To give the men some
respite, their Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons will be kept free, except
In the case of backward individuals
or units. Target praactice runs
through the entire course and the
schedules rail for 40 hours' training
each week.
A striking feature of the program
is the fact that practically the entiro
16 weeks will be devoted to training
individuals, platoons and companies.
Brigade, divisional and even regimental
exercises are reserved for a later
period with some minor exceptions
during the last weeks. Since the platoon.
commanded by a lieutenant, is
the actunl fighting unit in trench battles
the new regulations fix upon the
lieutenants of each company the responsibility
for training of less thacompany
units, so that they may get
in close touch with their men.
Rigid requirement is made that officers
bo present with their commands
at all drills. The whole system is
to bo prepared in advance so that
each officer and man will know just
the work to be done during the day
and night before him.
New elements will be injected into
the training each week. The lecturo
.program with graphic illustrations
will show all that three years of war
jhave brought of gas attack, of bombling
nnd of bayonet work. First aid
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wounded soldiers today must depend
largely on themselves.
At regular intervals review courses
will be given and a program of test
courses to determine the proficiency
of each man In each phase of his
work has been devised which will
give a perfect line upon every soldier's"
ability and be the stepping
stone of promotion.
COAL MINERS WIN FIGHT
FOR INCREASE IN WAGE8
Operators' and Miners' Represents*
kiwca ncdbn nj|recmeni on lerms
of New Contract.
Washington.?Bituminous coal miners
of the central competitive Held who
their fight for a general wage increase
when operators' and minora'
representatives in conference here
reached a compromise agreement on
the terms of a new contract. The
agreement pressages a wage raise
throughout the industry since the central
field scale serves as a basis for
all other districts and a consequent
advance in the government's fixed
price for coal.
Operators' representatives agreed
to the new wages no condition that
they be absorbed in higher coal prices.
After the agreement, drawn by a subcommittee,
is ratified by the full eon!
forence, they will go to the fuol administration
and ask a revision uptwnrd
of present coal prices to meet
the raise. The wage increase, according
to operators' estimates, will add
iroin .s& 10 :>n cent!, a ton to the cost
of producing coal in thick vein mines
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REVOLT AGAINST MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT IS STARTED
Brownsville. Texas. ? A revolt
against the Mexican government has
been started hv Gen Porflrio Gonzales,
former Carranza commander, who has
mobilized 800 folowers at Aldamas,
near the Nuevo Leon TaTinaulipas
line. 150 miles west of Mntamoras, according
to reports reaching here. Aldamas
is 100 miles south of Homa, Tex.
All trains out of Matamoras, advices
received here say .have beet cancelled.
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HELD MEETING IN COLUMBIA
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i It Will Put to Use Present Facilities
and Consider What Else is
Needed.
Columbia. ? The governor has appointed
a state vice commission.
It is composed of 11 men and women.
Their names are; Chairmau.
Albert S. Johnstone. Columbia; from
state at large. Ilr. Z. T Cody, C.reon
ville and Mrs. J. L. Coker .Jr.. llartsville;
Charleston, la-land Moore and A.
T. Smythe; Columbia, the Rev. K. G.
Finlay and Dr. Jane llruce Oulgnard;
Spartanburg, Prof Macon DuPre and
Dr. Rosa Gantt; Greenville. John M
Geer and Mn. M. IV Gridley.
| This commission met at the governor's
office last week to discuss ways
and means of Tarrying oil a state-wide
crusade smiimt vl??? wl?i? -*--*
titular attention to tho cities where
there are encampments.
Among the subjects which were considered
was that suggested by tho national
government of securing policewomen
and providing detention homes
for the misguided, in tho four rescue
homes in Greenville, Columbia, and
camp cities, the enlargement of the
rescue homes in Greenville. Columbia
and Charleston; how to aid tho local
authorities in these and other cities
and to give aid and encouragement to
citizens disposed to have evil conditions
corrected; to consider Stato legislation
necessary, such as injunction
and abatement proceedings; to put to
full use the present facilities for deal
ing with the vice situation; and to
coyslder the adaptation to state r.neds
of some aet containing the principles
of tho national white slave act.
A. S. Johnstone, chairman of tho
commission, expressed himself as
much encouraged by tlie- progress tho
national activities are making notonlv
In suppression and corrective measures
but dlversional measures in providing
recreation for tho sohliors, particularly.
He was particularly encouraged
by the action of the general
medical board of tho national council
for defense, which after most carefully
considering the matter passed a
resolution that "sexual continence is
compatible with health, and the best
The American Medical Association
War Mothers to Organize.
The "War Mothers" of America are
organizing to promote the food reglstration
campaign from October 21 to
28. Tho South (Jarolnn food administration
received the following article
from the Unit<sl States food administration
at Washington:
"'War mothers' are organizing in
every state of the union to assist dur
ing the week of October 21 to 28 tn
the house to house canvass to obtain
signatures to the pledge of the United
States food administration. The plan
contemplates enlisting the services of
every woman who has a son in the
army, navy or marine corps or a son
enrolled under the selective service
law and subject to future call. The
war mothers were formally welcomed
into the ranks of the food administration
workers in a statement issued by
trator.
"It is peculiarly fitting," said Mr.
Hoover, "that ihe mothers of the men
who urc to fight the nation's battles
should enlist in this vitally essential
service they are sending their sonK
forth to endure tho supreme test of
citizenship They want their sonB to
return to them as soon as the peare
of victory may he achieved They will
hasten the coming of that peace bv
the wark they have undertaken. In no
war in which the nation has engaged
has the loyalty, devotion and self
sacrifice of American women over
failed. In no other war have thev
had a greater opportunity for service
than is offered In 'he movement for
conservation of the nation's food supplf.
Not only does this food administration
cordially welcome tho 'war
mothers' into the ranks of the volunteer
workers, hut an equal welcome
will he extended to 'he wives and sisters
of our soldiers and all other loyal
women who will enlist for a service
which President Wilson hr sr1,1 '<
more essential than any ether which
American women <;an render. Tho Liberty
loan must bo subscribed and will
i i)o subscribed. mn u wouia no useless
to pal'ior this monpv prosecute
tho war if wo failed lo nrnko sure of
the food whirh will win the v<r and
the lack of which will surely lose t1??
war."