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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-09

William Reed, aged nineteen. of Sea Side Park, N. J., was seriously in jured when his gun was aecidently discharged while he was hunting, the buckshot entering his side.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-09

A woman depositor in the Mechan- ics National Bank of Trenton, N. J., was robbed of $2,OO0 when she laid the purse on a shelf in the bank while making out a deposit slip.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-09

Michael B. Smith of New York, wanted by the police for entering an apartment house, gave himself up. When perched on a fence. thirty feet high. afraid to jump, he called to a policeman to get a ladder
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large them, and with every enlarge
ment, with the mere growth, indeed,
Of the country itself, there must come,
Of course, the inevitable increase Of ex-
pense. The sort Of economy we ought
to practice may be effected, and ought
to be effected, by a careful study and
assessment Of the tasks to be per
formed, and the money spent ought to
be made to yield the best possible re-
turns In efficiency and achievement
And, like good stewards. we should so
account for every dollar of our appro-
priations as to make 1t perfectly evil
dent what 1t was spent for and in
what way Il was spent.
1t Is not expenditure but extrava.
gance that we should fear being criti-
cised for. not paying for the legiti-
mate enterprises and undertakings Of
a great government whose people com
mand what 1t should do. but adding
what will benefit only few or pour
ing money out for what need not have
been undertaken at all or might have
been postponed or better and more
economically conceived and carried
out. The nation IL not niggardly; It is
very generous. 1t will chide US only
If we forget for whom we pay money
out and whose money 1t is we pay.
These are large and general standards,
but they are not very difficult Of appli-
cation to particular cases.
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GOVERNMENT ECONOMY
is VERY IMPERATIVE.
Urges Systematic Reorganization &c
Gain Greater Efficiency.

Urges Systematic Reorganization to
Gain Greater Efficiency.
Before l close may l say few
words upon two topics much discussed
out Of doors upon which 1t Is highly
important that our judgments should
be clear. definite and steadfast?
One Of these Is economy in govern
ment expenditures. The duty of econ
omy is not debatabe. 1t is manifest
and imperative. In the appropriations
we pass we are spending the money
Of the great people whose servants we
nre-not our own. We are trustees and
responsible stewards in the spending.
The only thing debatable and upon
which we should be careful to make
our thought and purpose clear Is the
kind Of economy demanded OF Us.
assert with the greatest confidence
that the people of the United States
are not jealous Of the amount their
government costs If they are sure that
they get what they need and desire for
the outlay, that the money Is being
spent for objects OF which they ap-
prove and that II Is being applied with
good business sense and management.
Governments grow piecemeal both
In their tasks and in the means by
which those tasks are TO be performed,
and very few governments are organ
lied. venture to say, as wise and ex-
perienced business men would organize
them If they had clean sheet of paper
to write upon. Certainly the govern
mcnt of the United States IS not |
think that it Is generally agreed that
there should he n systematic reorgani-
cation and reasSembling of its parts
so as to secure greater efficiency and
effect considerable savings In expense.
But the amount OF money saved In that
way would, believe. though no doubt
considerable IN itself. running, 1t may
be. into the millions, be relatively
small-small, ] mean. In proportion to
the total necessary outlays OF the gov
eminent 1t would be thoroughly
worth effecting. as every saving would,
great or small
Our duty Ia not altered by the scale
OF the saving. But my point Is that
the people Of the United States do not
wish to curtail the activities Of this
! government They wish. rather. to en-
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n Curu1n mat transportation at rea-
sonable rates will be promptly pro-
vided, even where the carriage is not
at first profitable, and then, when the
carriage has become sufficiently profit
able to attract and engage private cap
ital and engage 1t In abundance, the
government ought to withdraw.
very earnestly hope that the congress
Will be Of this opinion and that both
houses will adopt this exceedingly i'm
portant bill.
The great subject Of rural credits
still remains to be dealt with. and 1t
is a matter OF deep regret that the diff
fculties of the subject have seemed to
render It impossible to complete bill
for passage at this session. But 1t can
not be perfected yet. and therefore
there are no other constructive meas
ures the necessity for which | will at
this time call your attention to, but
/ would be negligent Of very mani
fest duty were / not to call the atten-
ton of the senate to the fact that the
proposed convention for safety ut sea
awaits It's confirmation and that the
limit fixed In the convention Itself for
its acceptance is the last day Of the
present month. The conference In
which this convention originated was
called by the United States. The rep
resentatives Of the United States play
ed very influential part indeed In
framing the provisions Of the proposed
convention, and those provisions are In
themselves for the most part admira
Bile. 1t would hardly be consistent
with the part we have played In the
whole matter to let it drop and 20 by
the board as If forgotten and neglect
ed. 1t was ratified in May last by the
German government and in August by
the parliament Of Great Britain. 1t
marks most hopeful and decided ad-
vance in international civilization. We
should show our earnest good faith in
q great matter by adding our own ac-
ceptance Of It.
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SELF GOVERNMENT FOR
FlLIPINOS Is URGED.
President Says Senate Should Pass
Measure Now Before Senate.

President Says Senate Should Pass
Measure Now Before Senate.
And there Is another great piece of
legislation which awaits and should re
ceive the sanction of the senate.
mean the bill which gives larger
measure of self government to the PEG
pie Of the Philippines. How better in
this time Of anxious questioning and
perplexed policy could we show our
confidence in the principles of liberty
as the source as we'll as the expression
of life; how better could we demon
strate our own self possession and
steadfastness in the courses Of justice
and dlsinterestedness than by thus go
ing calmly forward to fulfil our prom
ises to a dependent people, who will
now look more anxiously than ever to
see whether we have indeed the liber-
atty. the unselfshness, the courage,
the faith we have boosted and profess
ed2 | cannot believe that the senate
will let this great measure of construc
tive justice await the action of another
congress. It's passage would nobly
crown the record Of these two years
Of memorable labor.
But think that you will agree with
me that this does not complete the toll
Of our duty. How are we to carry our
goods to the empty markets of which
| have spoken If we have not the
ships? How are we TO build up great
trade II we have not the certain and
constant means of transportation upon
which all profitable and useful com
merce depends? And how are we to
get the ships If we wait for the trade
to develop without them? To correct
the many mistakes by which we have
merchant marine Of the country, to re-
trace the steps by which we have, 1t
seems almost deliberately. withdrawn
our flag from the seas, except where,
here and there, ship Of war is hidden
carry 1t or some wandering yacht dis
plays 1t. would take long time and
involve many detailed items of legis-
latlon. and the trade which we ought
Immediately to handle would disap-
pear or find other channels while we
debated the items.
The case is not unlike that which
confronted us when our own continent
was to be opened up to settlement and
industry. and we needed long lines OF
railway. extended means of trnnspor.
tation prepared beforehand, II develop
ment was not to lag intolerably and
wait interminably We lavishly sub
sidized the building Of transcont
mental railroads. We look back upon
that with regret now. because the sub
sides led to many scandals Of which
we are ashamed. but we know that
the railroads had to be built. and II
we had 1t to do over again we should
OF course build them, but In another
way. Therefore i propose another
way OF providing the means Of trans
portation, which must precede, not
tardily follow, the development Of ouI
trade with our neighbor states OF
America. II may seem reversal OF
the natural order Of things, but It Ii
true, that the routes Of trade must be-
actually opcned-by many ships and
regular sailings and moderate charges
before streams of merchandise will
flow freely and protltably through
them,
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II will be right enough, right American

It will be right enough, right American
policy. based upon our accustomed
principles and practices. to provide a
system by which every citizen who
will volunteer for the training may be
made familiar with the use of modern
arms, the rudiments Of drill and ma
neuver and the maintenance and sani-
tation Of camps. We should encourage
such training and make 1t means Of
discipline which our young tnen will
learn to value.
It Is right that we should provide It
not only. but that we should make 1t
az attractive as possible, and so induce
our young men to undergo it at such
times as they can command a little
freedom and can seek the physical de-
velopment they need. for mere healths
sake, II for nothing more. Every
means by which such things can he
stimulated is legitimate, and such q
method smacks Of true American ideas
1t is right, too, that the national guard
Of the states should be developed and
strengthened by every means which is
not inconsistent with our obiga lions
to our own people or with the estab-
lished policy Of our government, and
this also not because the time or occa-
sion specially calls for such measures,
but because 1t should be our constant
policy to make these provisions for our
national peace and safety.
More than this carries with 1t re-
vereal Of the whole history and char
meter of our polity. More than this,
proposed at this time, permit me to
say, would mean merely that we had
lost our self possession, that we had
been thrown Off our balance by a war
with which we have nothing to do,
whose causes cannot touch us, whose
very existence affords us opportunities
Of friendship and disinterested service
which should make us ashamed of any
I thought Of hostility or fearful prepare
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tets which we must supply. and we
must find the means Of action. The
United States. this great people for
whom we speak and act should be
ready as never before to serve itself
and to serve mankind, ready with its
resources, It's energies, its forces Of
production and its means of distnbu-
ton.
1t Is very practical matter a mat
ter of ways and means. We have the
resources, but are we fully ready to
use them? And. II we can make ready
what we have, have we the means at
hand to distribute it? We are not
fully ready; neither have we the means
of distribution. We are willing. but
we are not fully able We have the
wish to serve and to serve greatly gen
erously. But we are not prepared al
we should be. We are not ready to
mobilize our resources Mt once. We are
not prepared to use them immediately
and Mt their best, without delay and
without waste.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
erred in the way In which we have
stunted and hlndered the development
Of our merchant marine. And now,
when We need ships. we have not got
them. We have year after year debat-
ed. without end or conclusion, the best
policy to pursue with regard to the
use of the ores and forests and water
powers Of our national domain In the
rich states OF the west, when we
should have acted, and they are still
locked up. The key Is still turned
upon them. the door shut fast at which
thousands of vigorous men, full OF
initiative, knock DANGEROUSLY for ad-
mittance. The water power Of our nav.
! 1gable streams outside the national
domain also, even in the eastern states,
where we have worked and planned
for generations, is still not used as 1t
might be, because we will and we
won't; because the laws we have
made do not intelligently balance en-.
cOuragement against restraint, We
withhold by regulation.
/ have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis
sions, even at this short session Of q
congress which would certainly seen
TO have done all the work that coult
reasonably be expected Of It TIL,
time and the circumstances are ex
traordinary, and so must our efforts b.
also.
Fortunately two great measures, hne
| " conceived tho ono m unlock will
proper safeguards, the resources of thu
nationa! domain, the other to encour
age the use Of the navigable water
outside that domain for the genera
ton Of power, have already passed tn
house Of representatives and are read!
for immediate consideration and &C
ton by the senate. With the deepes
earnestness l urge their prompt pas
sage. In them both we turn our back
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COASTS OF ALASKA
SHOULD BE SURVEYED
Present Dangers TO Navigation Ought
to Be Removed by Charts.


There is another matter of which |
must make special mention, If am to
discharge my conscience, lest 1t should
escape your attention. 1t may seem a
very small thing. 1t affects only a
single item Of appropriation. But
many human lives and many great en-
terprises hang upon 1t. 1t Is the mat
ter Of making adequate provision for
the survey and charting Of our coasts.
1t Is Immediately pressing and exigent
in connection with the immense coast
line of Alaska, coast line greater
than that Of the United States them
selves. though 1t is also very impor-
tant indeed with regard to the older
coasts Of the continent.
We cannot use our great Alaskan
domain, ships will not ply thither, If
those coasts and their many hidden
dangers are not thoroughly surveyed
and charted The work Is incomplete
at almost every point. Ships and lives
have been lost in threading what were
supposed to be well known main chan
ne's. We have not provided adequate
vessels or adequate machinery for the
survey and charting. We have used
old vessels that were not big enough
or strong enough and which were so
nearly unseawOrthy that our inspectors
would not have allowed private own
ers to send them to sea. This is a
matter which. as I have said, seems
small. but is in reality very great. Its
Importance has only to be looked into
to be appreciated.
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No Standing Army, but a
Trained Citiz0nry For War.
I'VE Have Not Been Neg|i-
gent Of National Defense"
A Powerful Navy Needed,
but Who Shall Tell Us
What Sort Of Navy TO BuiId?"
To Learn and Profit by the
Lesson Of Every Experience.

as a whole, and we as clearly owe the
other In fulfillment Of our repeated
promises that the water power Of the
country should in fact as we'll as in
name be put at the disposal Of great
Industries which can make economical
and profitable use of 1t, the rights Of
the public being adequately guarded
the while and monopoly In the use pre-
vented. To have begun such measures
and not completed them would indeed
mar the record Of this great congress
very seriously. l hope and confidently
believe that they will be completed.
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sentattves of great people whose
thought Is not of US, but Of what Amer
ica owes to herself and to all mankind
in such circumstances as these upon
which we look amazed and anxious.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only, but also the processes
of production. In Europe It is destroy
ing men and resources wholesale and
upon a scale Unprecedented and ap-
palling. There Is reason to fear that
the time is near, II it be not already at
hand, when several of the countries of
Europe will find 1t difficult to do for
their people what they have hitherto
been always easily able to do-many
essential and fundamental things. At
any rate, they will need our help and
BUR manifold services as they have
never needed them before, and we
should be ready, more fit and ready
than we have ever been.
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GATES OF TRADE MUST BE
OPENED.

Tho government must open
those gates Of trade, and open
Thorn wide, open them before II
is altogether profitable to open
Thorn or altogether reasonable
to ask private capital to open
them at a venture. II 10 not q
question OF tho government mo-
nopolizing tho field. II should
take action to make II certain
that transportation at reason
able rates will be promptly pro-
vided, oven where tho carriage
is not at first profitable, and
then, when tho carriage has be-
come sufficiently profitable to at
tract and engage private capital
and engage il In abundance, tho
government ought to withdraw.
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POWERFUL NAVY Is
AMERICAN POLICY.
United States Will Continue to Remain
Strong on tho Seas.


A powerful navy we have always
regarded as our proper and natural
means OF defense. and 1t has always
been Of defense that we have thought,
never Of aggression or of conquest.
But who shall tell us now what sort
Of navy to build? We shall take leave
to be strong upon the seas in the flu
ture as in the past. and there will be
no thought Of offense or of provocation
in that. Our ships are our natural
bulwarks. When will the experts tell
us Just what kind we should construct,
and when will they be right for ten
years together, II the relative efficiency
Of craft of different kinds and uses
continues to change as we have seen
It change under our very eyes in these
last few months?
But ! turn away from the subject
1t Is not new. There is no new need
to discuss It. We shall not alter our
attitude toward it because some among
us are nervous and excited We shall
easily and sensibly agree upon policy
OF defense, The question has not
changed its aspects because the times
be for an occasion. 1t will be cunceiv
ed as a permanent and settled thing
which we Will pursue at all seasons
without haste and after fashion per
fectly consistent with the peace Of the
world. the abiding friendship of states
nd hn ha, % oil
with whom we deal Let there be no
misconception. The country has been
misinformed. We have not been neg
ligent OF national defense. We are not
unmindful Of the great responsibility
resting upon us. We shall learn and
profit by the lesson OF every expert
ence and every new circumstance, and
what Is needed will be adequately
done.
| close, as | began, by reminding
you OF the great tasks and duties of
peace which challenge our best powers
and invite us to build what will last,
the tasks to which we can address our
selves now and Mt all time with free
hearted zest and with all the finest
gifts OF constructive wisdom We pos
sess. To develop our life and our re-
sources. to supply our own people and
the people OF the world as their need
arises from the abundant plenty OF
our fields and our marts Of trade. to
enrich the commerce Of our own states
and OF the world with the products Of
our mines. our farms and our facto-
rIes, with the creations of our thought
and tho fruits Of our characteristics
Ia what will hold our attention and
our enthusiasm steadily now and in
the years TO come az we strive 10
show in our life az nation what lib
erty and the inspirations OF an emnn-
cipated spirit may do for men and for
societies. for individuals, for states
and for MANKIND
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AMERICA FACES NEW
MARKETS FOR TRADE.
Merchant Marine Must Be Built Up to
Meet Opportunity

1t is of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually sup
Piled with innumerable articles of man
fracture and commerce Of which they
IRE in constant need and without which
heir economic development halts and
stands still can now get only Il small
part Of what they formerly imported
and eagerly look to us to supply their
all but empty markets This Is partic-
ularly true Of our own neighbors, the
states. great and small Of Central and
south America. Their lines Of trade
have hitherto run chiefly athwart the
seas, not to our ports. but to the ports
of Great Britain ana of the older con-
tinent of Europe. DO not stop to in
quire why or TO make any comment on
probable causes. What interests us
Just now IS not tho explanation, but
the fact and our duty and opportunity
In the presence OF II. Here are mar
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The CEisf Executive DopIores
the Lack Of Ships, Declares
That Tho Government Must
Open tho Gates Of Trade and
Urges Passage Of the Pend
Ing Shipping Bill Rural
Credits and Safety al Sea.
Self Government For FilipinOs
Again Recommended.
- OLLOWING is President VIII
sons annual message deliver
ed at the beginning Of the
short term of the Sixty-third

snort term or the SlXty-th1ru
congress:
Gentlemen Of the Congress-The SEES
sion upon which you are now entering
will be the closing session Of the Six
ty-third congress, congress, ven
ture to say, which will long be remem-
bered for the great body of thoughtful
and constructive work which it has
done in loyal response to the thought
and needs of the country. / should
like In this address to review the nota-
BILE record and try to make adequate
assessment of it, but no doubt we
stand too near the work that has been
done and are ourselves too much part
of It to play the part of historians to
ward it
Moreover. our thoughts are now more
Of the future than of the past. While
we have worked at our tasks of peace
the circumstances of the whole age
have been altered by war. What we have
done for our own land and our own
people we did with the best that was in
us, whether Of character or of inteli-
gence. with sober enthusiasm and a
confidence in the principles upon which
we were acting which sustained US at
every step of the difficult undertake
ing But it is done. 1t has passed from
our hands. 1t Is now an established
part of the legislation OF the country
Its usefulness, its effects will disclose
themselves in experience. What chief
~ strikes us now, as we look about us
during these closing days of year
which will be forever memorable In the
history Of the world, is that we face
new tasks, have been facing them
these six months, must face them In
HE months to COme-face them without
partisan feeling, like men who have
forgotten everything but a common
duty and the fact that we are repre-
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upon hesitation and makeshift ana
formulate genuine policy OF use and
conservation In the best sense of those
words. We owe the one measure not
only to the people of that great west
ern country for whose free and sys-
tematic development, as It seems to
me our legislation has done so little,
but also te the people Of thu nat'n"
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ton for trouble This is assuredly the
opportunity for which people and a
government like ours were raised up,
the opportunity not only to speak, hut
actually to embody and exemplify the
counsels of peace and amity and the
tee and fair and generous dealing.