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EDITION
Tonight and Friday,
ESTABLISHED 1871-Vol. 47; No. 274.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
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SENATOR THOMAS SAYS
PRICES FOOD WIRELESS CHURCHILL WARNS
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A breakfast of coffee, bread and but-
CARTER GLASS
CLEVELAND CAR
MEN STRIKEMAY
Capital Feels Easy.
leci-
NOW BE SETTLED
FE
RECRUITING IN
MARINE CORPS
the general sit-
TEXASMAN RESIGNS
social and political disoi
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manner are untrue.
In the dining hall musy:
and quar-
let of sailors.
Wireless Is Active.
be reopened for the present.
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ANDROOMS IN TELLS OF PEACE CONFEREES
PARIS SOARSAFETYNO NAVY DECREASE
Many Trades, Professions
Represented By Those Who
USE 1916; RESULT OF
AMERICAN GENIUS
STREET RY. 18
RETROACTIVE
Washington
Guarded
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President’s Party Mov-
ing Forward—Carrier
Pigeons Start Back
With Messages.
2000 German Airplanes
Surrendered By Piecemeal
Lansing and Other
Delegates Well Located
of the trip on this steamship work-
ing in the office part of his suite.
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MISTY WEATHER
WAS PREVAILING
Three American
Cruisers to Peru
Declares Germany Will Not Be Disturbed On
Helgoland, and Neither Must England’s
Naval Supremacy.
“GIVE NOTHING UNTO
SULLEN GERMANY BUT
LET JUSTICE DICTATE”
THE STATESMAN
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS RECEIVING COMPLETE LEASED WIRE REPORT
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918.
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Washington Is Now
“Bone Dry” State
while
of an
German
expegted, because it has been found
impracticable to assemble 2000 air-
plnes nt one place, and it is doubt-
Washington Report, "All Well."
By Associated Prern.
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 4.—The British naval autlroritie
have decided that it will he unnnecessary to demand the return of
Helgoland to Great Britain from Germany, Winston Spencer
Churchill, the minister of munitions announced ip a speech at Dun-
dee tonight.
Would Leave for Palestine
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same suite on (be trial
George Washington.
was fur-
reached the general
once under an order issued yesterday
by Secretary Daniels. Enlistments will ....... -......g
be for four years, former standards nished by the ship's band
will be maintained and there will be no
U nit to the number of men to be ac-
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 3.—Paris is filled to overflowing. Prices
of all hotel rooms, following the requisitioning of twenty-five hotels
for peace conference purposes, have doubled and tripled, and are
still going up. Food in restaurants and pricestgenerally are sim-
ilarly mounting.
homeland. A special department hns
king been established by the organization to
collect the Information contained La
day were based on the war program
and that the reduction process that
had already eliminated over a fifth of
the $2,600,000,000 total in continuing.
Tonight and Friday
reports that
American Skill Utilized it.
A representative of the British gov-
ernmnent who happened to see the ex-
hibit conceived the idea that the cat-
erpillar tractor principle might be
employed in propelling a huge steel
fighting machine which would enable
a moving fort to negotiate the steep-
est hills and move over different
ground impossible of passage by any
other vehicle.
parties to industry"- < apital, manage- for recreation and the develpment or
ment, labor And the community—was “■* himk -
potent instrumnent in ending the war. Mr. Rockefeller Pro
Must Not Resort to Enmity. *' "
“But when we have exposed German
Mr. Glass will Ho into office on Dec.
16 under an agreement with Secre-
tary McAdoo, whose resignation was
icoopted by President Wilson to take
effect upon the appointment and qual-
ification of his successor.
By Associated Press.
LONDON. Wednesday, Dec. 4.-.
Among the candidates for Parliament
nominated yesterday were fourteen
women. They include Miss Christabel
Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline
Hankhursi, the suffrage leader; Mrs.
Frederick Pet hick Lawrence, joint ed-
itor of Votes for Women: Mrs. Mary
McArthur, secretary of the British
Women’s Trades Union, and C’ountess
Georgiana Markievicz of Dublin, the
Sinn Fein leader.
‘As the leadera of industry face this
period of reconstruction, what will
their attitude be? Will it be that of
the standpatter, who take no account
of the extraordinary changes which
have come over the face of the cie-
ilfzed world, who attempt stubbornly
to resist the inevitable, and arming
themselves to the teeth invite open
war fure with the othef parties in in-
dustry, the certain outcome of which
OF VIRGINIA. IS
11.8. TREASURER
these applications. Several subcom-;
mittees have ben attached to this de-
partment, including oe on invest - •
ment and another in charge of the
Zionist Society of Engineers to stdy
the physical aspects of the Jewish re-
settlenient of Palestine.
Mrit pre ssiye demand, according to
the i or ghniz ot ion. Is for Febrew teach-
err since the schol syslem of Pales-
tine is to be leorgmlxed
germs of every
rder. Parts of
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Wage in-
creases for employes of the Bay State
Street Railway, operating in Eastern
Massachusetts, were awarded today by
the war labor board.
The award, fixing a scale varying
from 11 to 45 cents an hour for mo-
tormnen and conductors and giving an
approximate increase of 10 per cent to
other emploves is retroactive to Oct.
22 and th" board held that the higher
(ost of operation will call for read-,
justment of passenger fares.
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Wednesday. Dec.
Ry Associated Press.
NEW ORK/ Dec. 5.— Forty trades
and professions are represented in the
first 350 applications received by th*
Zlonist, orgarization of America, from
persons who are prepared to, leave for
Palestine at once for service in the
establishment there of the Jewish
will be financial loss. Inconvenience
and suffering to all, the development
of bitterness and hatred and in the
end the bringing out through’ legisla- ‘
tion if not by force of conditions far
more drastic and radical than could
now be amicably arrived at through
mutual concession in friendly confer-
ence.
Brotherly Co Operation Needed.
“Or will it he an attitude, in which
I myself profoundly believe, which
takes cognizance of the inherent right
and u8t~) of the principles underly-
ing the new order, which rocognies
that mighty changes gre inevitable,
many of then desirible, which not
waiting until forced to adopt new
methods, tkes the lead in calling to-
gther the parties in Interest for a
round table conference to be held In a
spirit of justice, fair play and broth-
erhood, with a view to working out
some plan of co-operation which will
insure to all those concerned adequate
representations, an opportunity to earn
a fair wage under proper working and
living condrtions with such restric-
tions as to hours as shall leave time
in 1913. This official account of
........ H“iSEVERAlWBMFN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Discha rge
of 20 per cent of the navy's war time
personnel, about 100,000 men. has been
suthorized. Secretary Daniels said to-
day that the men would be released
as quickly is possible, with due regard
to the convenience of the service.
Private Craft Turned Back.
Frivate yachts, motorboats and other
craft taken over by the navy for the
war already are being turned back
to their owners. Mr. Daniels said by
February 700 craft will have been
stricken from the navy list.
The release of enlisted men is au-
therized, not because the navy is over-
manned but to permit the return to
civil pursui*s of youths who joined for
the war an! who do not intend to fol-
low the sea.
c< pted.
Emergency substations established
during the war in small towns will not
After acknowledging from the
bridge the greetings that were
given him as the ship put to sea,
he turned to the pile of letters and
telegrams awaiting him and spent
several hours working with his
stenographers.
Rested, Then Received Calls.
In the afternoon on the advice of
his physician. Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, he lay down and rested foi
a time because of a slight cold thut
was affecting his voice.
Later file President received call4
from officials on board. including tha
Italian ami French ambassadors. Fol-
lowing this, he took a walk on deck, to-
gether with Mrs. Wilson.
“Luxurious Suits'’ Denied.
*The Presidential party dined quietly
in the evening, being sevved by u wait-
er who claimed to have attended Im-
peror Wtlam and the empres in tin-
First Tanks in 1916.
“This officer immediately brought
the tractor to the atteniion of Gen-
eral E. D. Swinton of the British army,
who also realized the effective use
to which the caterpillar tractor could
be put.
"Extensive experiments were begun
under General Swinton, and in Sep-
tember, 1916, the first tanks ever em-
ployed in warfare were launched on
the British front in France."
WILL CONIINUE
• —+ _
By' Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Recruiting
for the marine corps will be resumed at
vance south of the Moselle,
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Repre-
sentative Carter Glass of Virginia
was nominated today by President
Wilton to be secretary of the
treasury.
number of reliable pilots forthat pur.
pose. I •
Hence the first surrender in history
of an air fleet is being effected py
1*9 emenl The Germans are shedding
thir, winds in the course of retreat
yu1 ", vET, enru 11 i» uvuUI-ane 'ho 'advancing allies are pic
ful whether Germany has a sufficient then up.
There will be no formai surrender of
German airplanes as was at one time
By .Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 5.—The
2400 street car men who went on strike
at 5 o’clock Tuesday morning because
of the employment of women conduc-
tors and since which not a car has
been operated, probably will return to
work at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
with cars in operation on all lines.
The strikers will assemble at 1 p. m.
today to vote on terms that their
union leaders have accepted for them.
The women conductors are to be
eliminated from the street car serv-
ice not later than March 1. That is
the proposition union leaders will in-
dorse to the strikers and it was evolved
at a conference of all interested par-
ties in the Mayor's office that ended
at 8 a. m today. This conference fol-
lowed an all night meeting of the City
Council. ,
ambition and denounced German meth-
ods. it would be a curious way of pre-
1 venting their revival by committing
1 ourselves to the acceptance of German
principles. Only on the theory that the
menace of Prussian militarism must
survive can there be any reason found
for looking to the future security of
the world In the waging of a bloodless
war inspired by the same enmity, sus-
picious and fears that but lately di-
vided the world.
Must Receive if She Pays.
“Nor can the fact be ignored that
in a trade war as in this clash of
military force, the balance of slaugh-
ter mst be reckoned with since all
the facts from the other side can not
be obtained.
“It is certain that if Gereiany is to
be compelled to repay the wanton de-
struction she has wrought in Belgium,
northern France, Poland and Serbla,
she must have access to the raw ma-
terials of manufacture hy conversion
of whiep Into finished products she
may earn the money necessary to pay
her debts
I Should Enjoy Economic Necessities.
I “Given the frank acceptance by Ger-
many of the terms of peace which will
be dictated by the Allies, there can be
no reason for separating her economic
» wants from those of the rest of Europe.
These will be sufficiently imperative to
use’up all the surplus foodstuffs and
taw materials that can be spared for
many months to come.”
Rockefeller Outlines Creed.
An industrial creed for the “four
BvAsocinted.Press. . -r. , tor demonstration in one of the large
M A3hlNG TN, Dec. 5. 'I he use of {German cities about 1913
tanks in warfare resulted from ideas American Skill Utilized it
............................ARE NOMINATED
FOR PARLIAMENT
By Associated Press,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 By unani-
mous vote the Senate foreign rela-
tions committee tod iy disapproved the
rr volution of Senator Cummins of
F wa. Republican. proposing to send a
Senate committee to Paris for the
I peace conference.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 Evidently
all was well today aboard the transport
George Washington, upon which Pres-
ident Wilson is crossing the Atlantic.
No word had come to the White House
School limk Will c. or the Navy Department and if there
sSSS-'BSsSS
.In the canes of specialstudent bodies White orricidls rav the Pres,
ri.../,'” the Paymasters xchool at Idem leri hle acak <■ lean and a mil
Rrincpton. and, thg,.enc1g"50.6c 100 at | there are developments no instrue tion
annapolis ntudenis in the present are needed for the conduct of the ex-
<• asses, up m maduatlon. will bo com- ei utlve offices. Nothing has arisen
missioned in the.reserxe since Tuesday night of sufficient Im
Navy Estimaten Decreased, J portance to call for a report to tire
More than s 1.000,000.009 has been cut George Washington by wireless
fr< m the navy 8 estimates of expen-. ______________—
ditures for the coming fiscal year.,-
Secretary Daniels diselosedtody that Kesolution of .
the estimates sent to Congress Mon- — .
Cummins Lost
By Associated Press. *
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 5.—Wash-
ington formally became a "bone dry"
State today with the issuance of a I
proclamation byGovernor Ernest Lis-
ter announcing the passage at the
November election of the prohibition
referendum. This brings definite end
to the liquor permit system which was
nullified by the State legislature.
13 or $4 for a simple meal. People
arriving at the city frequently go to
fifteen or twenty hotels before they can
secure rooms, for which the owners de-
mand large sums and refuse to lower
their rates, saying they can get the
price.
Newspaper Men Not Yet Assigned.
The city is becoming more crowded
daily with the bulk of the conferenct
officials and others interested in get-
ting rooms, such as several hundred
of the world's newspaper correspond-
ents not yet here.
Where persons of the latter class
are going to find accommodations no-
body in Paris knows. In addition to
all the other arrivals, oficers and men
of all the armies are coming to Paris
on leave in considerable numbers.
Hometimes as many as twenty officers
stand for an hour in front of hotel
offices waiting for somebody to leave,
when they all demand accommodations.
gained by a British officer
watching the demonstration
its press are constant and competent
sewers of sedition. From such congen-
ial soil was bred the black hand and
the I. W. W. A powder magazine un-
guarded is not more dangerous to th
community.
Thomas Waxes Sensational.
“Into the face of this sinister menace
wealth flaunts the orgies of the great
white way. It thus supplies the cast
side with text and justification. A
population, sullen with the discontent
of poverty, confronted with the vulgar
and ostentatious display of lavish ex-
travagance, will not talways remain
quieseent. An explosion* is inevitable.
It is a sinister fact that excepting
Lenine, nearly all the leaders of the
Russian Bolshevism graduated from
the swarming centers of New York.
Chicago and Philadelphia. Their bloody
program was formulated here and here
they proposed to test it when oppor-
tunity beckoned and Russia became
their victim.
Thrift a Natipnal Virtue.
"The war has taught us the wisdom
and simplicity of thrift We should
make it a National virtue. It is the 1
best cure for discontent."
tee of finance.
Interest on Debt Over Billion.
"The war leaves us a legacy of a
stupendous debt.” declared Seuatok
Thomas. Ht will reach, if it does not
exceed, 335,000.1100,000, or twice as
the combined dbt of the Allied na-
tions. including Russia, when the war
began. The annual interest on this
stupendous sum will be $1,400,000,000;
nearly twice the net total of the Na-
tion’s annual pre-war expenditure.
People Will Demand Economy,
This means a vastly increased rate
and radius of taxation. The people
must bear the burden, for Germany
can not make indemnity. They will
bear it willingly if economy in pub-
lic administration and the application
of every dollar to the public needs
shall become the policy of the Govern-
ment. They will not and should not
be. content if the gross extravagances
of the past continue.”
General Immigration Hurtful.
Senator Thomas declared that
American shorts have been flooded
with a mass of humanity apparently
unassimilable. Immigrants" colonies
have become "National plague spots,
breeding places for all the ugly dis-
orders of the century.” Disruption of
the central powers, he believed, Would
remove all restrictions upon immigra-
tion of their people. "The dam," he
declared, "must be erected on this side
of the Atlantic."
Senator Specific in illustration.
By Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 5.—
Possibility of perpetuating in the do-
main of commerce the hatred and bit-
terness engendered by the war will be
greatly lessened if the United States
refuses to be drawn into any agree -
ment or understanding that would
make her a party to a boycott of the
commerce of any of the nations that
have been n: raj rd agninst each other,
was a declaration contained in an ad-
dress prepared by James A. Farrell of
New York and read in his absence to
i he reconstruction congress here to-
day. x .
Germany Unrepentent, Undeserving.
"In this matter of economnic warfare
nfter the war," Mr. Farrell said, "there
should be no ground for misunder-
standing our position. An unrepentent
Germany, still wedded to her idols of
militarism and rolentless application
of superior force, can establish no
right to demand the raising of the eco-
nomic blockade which lias been ft most
By Associate Press.
WASHINTON, Dec. 5. Robert H.
Lovett has resigned as director of the
iailroad administration’s division of
capital expenditures and wll 1 ret urn
Jan. 1 to his former duties as chair-
man of the executive commttee of the
Union Pacific.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Ordinary efficiency in public adminis-
tration would save the people of this country $600,000,000 a year, _____________________________________
United States Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, told' the l terscontinucsto cost between si and
Association of Life Insurance Presidents in a thrift conference which sible t unch or dine"forlssmPn
began today. Senator Thomas is a member of the Senate commit-
The President in keeping in touel
with official business by wireless.
The escorting destroyers, with the
battleship Pennsylvania leading the
column, are keeping in close touch
with the steamship carrying the Pres-
ident.
Mine sweepers are running beforo
the bow of his ship. They are loaded
with steel billets .to insure their deep
draught.
The weather is cold ant misty, but 1
the sea is calm.
Carrier Pigeon Released.
In the evening Mrs Wilson released
from the George Washington carrier
pigeons bearing notes of thanks Io Vico
Admiral Gleaves for the success in ar-
ranging the departure.
Correspondents Given Pri vilegg.
Representatives of the Assiatei
Press, the United Press and th Inter-
national News Service are accompany-
ing President Wilson and party to Eu-
rope a boa r<l the U. S. S. George
Washington Arrangements were made
in advance to permit the correspond-
ents to send brief individual messages
frdrn the ship by wireless, the first
dispatches being released for simul-
taneous publication at 11:30 a. m.
Eastern time, today.
• Mr. Churchill also said the govern,
ment had decided upon the national*
ization of the railways.
No Limitation on British Navy.
"We enter the peace conference,"
said Mr. Churchill during the course
of his address, “with the absolute de-
termination that no limitation shall be
imposed on our right to maintain our
naval defense. We do not intend, no
matter what arguments and appealg
are addressed to us, to lend oursely.s
in any way to any fetterinz restrletfons
which will prevent the British navy
maintaining its well tried and well de-
served supremacy."
History of Helgoland.
The island of Helgoland, formerly
Danish, was ceded to Great Britain in
1814. In 1890 Great Britain ceded it to
Germany, who began developing it into
an extremely important naval base, it
lies in the North Rea off the mouths
of the Elbe ami Weser Havers and of
the entrance to the Kiel Canal, which
it dominates.
la German Stronghold.
The island was a German naval
stronghold throughout the great war.
Its occupation by the Allies was unde r
consideration shortly after the signing
of the armnistice when the (iorinan
nawal revolution made it app< ar
doubtful if Germany could comply with
the naval terms of the armistice. These,
however, seem since to hve been ful.
filled nearly in their entirely.
Duke of Grafton
Dead in London
By Awr la ted Fr*w.
LONDON. De. 3 The Duke of
Grafton, head of the Fitz-Roy family;
and a retired general in the British
army, is dead. He was 97 years old.
Augustus Charles Lennox Htz-Roy,
seventh Duke of Grafton, served in
the German campaign. His heir is
the Earl of Euston.
the origin of the tanks is given by
Colonel I. C. Welborn, director of the
tank corps of the United States army,
in his annual report made public to-
day. The report contains no informa-
tion as to the American tank program
as it was prepared before the cessa-
tion of hostilities.
Idea Long in Mind.
"For several years pror to the
world war the authorities of the Brit-
ish army had been endeavoring to cre-
ate some machine highly destructive
in its fighting capacity and at the
same time affording maximum protec-
tion to human life. The Holt Manu-
facturing Company, makers of the
Holt farm tractor, were giving a trac- »
outlined by John D. Rockefeller in an
address today before the war emer-
gency and reconstruction conference In
session here. >
Capital and Labor Partners. /
Asserting that capital and labor urw
partnern with common interests a mi
not enemies Mr. Rockefeller stated ten-,
tenets of his industrial creed. These '
included advancement by industry, of
social as well as material, wellbeing
of employes; opportunity by employes
to earn i living under conditions of
fair wages, reasonable hours and prop-
er industrial environment _ reword for
.initiative and efficiency; machinery
for uncovering and promptly adjust-
ing grievances; adequaie representa-
Hop of all (lie industrial parties with
annual joint conferences to assure in-
dustrial harmony and prosperity in
each plant, with this system extended
"to include all plants in the same In-
dustry, all industries in a community
in a nation and in the various na-
tions.”
By Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru. Wednesday, Dre. 4.—
Three American cruisers axe expected
to arrive here from San Francisco in
a few days.
WAR TANKS FIRST IN 100,000 MEMBERS OF
i
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — General
Pershing's communique for Wednes-
day follows:
"The third army, continuing its ad-
, By Associated Press.
PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 3.- Quarters
' for Secretary of State Lansing and the
other American delegates to the peace
conference have been assigned at tne
, C’rillon Hotel to the Place de la Con-
corde. This large hotel has been di-
■ vided up into suites of rooms for dele-
gates. Each suite will comprise liv-
ing quarters and a business office for
1 each delegate and his immediate sec-
retaries.
Finery Marks Suites.
The apartments overlook the Espla-
nade of Place de la Concorde, which is
now filled ■ with' war trophies and
where stand the great statues of
Strasbourg, Lille and Metz, each cova
red with floral offerings and flags.
Fach suite is handsomely furnished
and has paintings ami tapestries. There
are commodious baths and sleeping
chambers. The delegates will probably
dine together in what was formerly
the hotel restaurant. All accessories,
including the bar. have been removed.
Americans Will Confer There.
Most of the, conferences between the
American delegates will be held in the
large salon at the Hotel Crillon. The
business offices of the delegation,
where several hundred experts in in-
ternational law, geographical bounda-
ries. intelligence, etc., will be at work,
will be in a large building immediately
adjoining. Joseph C. Grew, secretary
of the peace delegation, has established
quarters there.
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