Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20

profits, and the people marvel at the |
of senators who are unable |
to comprehend the necessity for speedy |
action:
President Appeals to Business.
President Wilson ON Wednesday is
sued an appeal to the business inter
ests Of the country to display true 10y
atty by foregoing unusual profits in
selling their goods to both the govern
ment and the public. He warned
them that extortion would not be toll
Grated, and condemned especially the
ship owners who have maintained an
unfairly high schedule of ocean
freight rates. At the same time mem
bers Of the Council of National De-
fense were holding important confer
ences with the heads of the great steel
concerns to arrange for a sufficient
supply Of steel for war purposes,
The immediate result of this confer
ence was the assurance of the steel
producers that they would supply all
the steel needed by the government at
a price to be fixed after the conclu-
sion of the trade commissions cost in
quiry. Thereupon the president au-
thorized Chairman Denman of the ship
ping board to commander ships on
the stocks, shipyards and raw mate
rials if necessary and to begin expen-
diture of the $75000O.000 fund for the
construction of a merchant marine
fha ~
building as many steel ships as possi-
BILE and making up the deficiency with
wooden vessels.
Delay in sending in registration lists
caused a postponement of the great
day for which the registrants in the
national army have waited, the day Of
the draft, the lottery of fate in which
the prizes are to be honorable service
for all selected and death and wounds
for many. During the week the war
department issued complete instruc-
| tions for the work of the exemption
boards so that 1t might be carried out
with expedition and with reasonable
assurance of fair and just treatment
for all selected with death and wounds
the training of the selected soldiers
are being rapidly constructed and all
other arrangements carried to com.
pletion.
1t was made known in Washington
that every man of the 10,500,000 reg
istered will be drawn and that enough
of the first names as they come out Of
the box will be used to fill the first
army. The rest will be on reserve and
will be called out in their order as Ions
as more are needed.
Yet another step in the making Of
the great national army was taken las
week when President Wilson called in
to the federal service the entire Ma
tional Guard and National Guard re
serve, the transfer to be completed b,
August 5. This legalizes the sendin.
of the Guard outside the boundaries O.
the nation.
Various occurrences, more or les
unimportant in themselves, hav,
aroused our more than lenient govern
ment to the danger of permitting Teu
tons and their friends full liberty il
. /
employees of the diplomats in Wash
ington have been deported. Every day
too, German agents and spies in othe
parts of the country are being gathere
in and put where they can do no harm
There is even some talk of Legislation
for the regulation of newspapers prinr
ed in the German language. Thi
called forth a protest from the Me-
Yorker Herold and a covert threat q
disorders if it is carried out. The Gel
man-American press continues to a
tack our governments conduct of tn
war, to "strafe" Great Britain and t
sneer at Russia.
Getting After the |. w. w.
, The Industrial Workers Of tn
l World, a generally disreputable orgal
ization that is openly opposed to til
: war, is making all the trouble for th
country that it can by fomentin
strikes and riots In those parts of til
2 West where it is strong. 1t is accuse
of being wholly pro-German and its d,
|, ings are certainly treacherous and r
DelllOuS- 1ue war department mas al
, nounced that it is ready to do it's pa
e in suppressing these disorders, and V,
: rious Western communities are takin
: steps to rid themselves of the men WI
r stir them up. Bisbee, Ariz, was tt
: first town to act. The decent citizer
/. of that mining center rounded up ]
:. 1877 /. w. w. members and sympath
j zers, loaded them on a cattle train an
s deported them. Such mild treatmel
d helps the town that applies it. but th