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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
AMERICAN VESSELS
ARE HELD IN PORT
Passenger Ships Await Word
From U. S. Authorities Be-
fore Sailing for Europe.
BUT FREIGHTERs START
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 2.-Owners OF
American vessels in transatlantic trade
probably win follow the example Of the
ship owners of the entente nations and
abide by the instructions of their gov
ernment in regard to runninGs thesrisks
of the new German blockade regulations.
They awaited today the reply Of the
State Department to a measure sent by
P A. S. Franklin, president of the In
ternational Mercantile Marine, seeking
advice as to the future movements of
steamships of the American line. I'm
less orders to the contrary are received
from Washington the American liner
St Louis will sail from here Saturday
for Liverpool, her regular port Of des-
| tination. No efforts have been made.
Mr.. Franklin said, to send wireless in
structions to the vessels of the line
now at sea.
The ship of the American line whose
safe arrival is awaited with the great
est anxiety is the Philadelphia, from
New York to Liverpool. This morn
ing the Philadelphia was believed to
be about 1900 miles from Liverpool.
Her port engine is out of commission,
due to the breaking of a crank shaft
last Saturday, and it is believed that
she cannot make port until late Mon
day.s The Philadelphia. carries 14S pas
sengers, of whom thirty-five are
Americans. Among those on board
are Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Misses Helen
and Ethel Crocker of San Francisco.
Lieut.. John Eager. L. S. A.. and Capt.
Roald Amundsen, arctic explorer.
iDl @
from New York, is due to arrive at
Liverpool Sunday. Forty-six of her
III cabin passengers are Americans.
The Kroonland of this line left Liver
pool for New York Wednesday, with
19l passengers. 1t is believed that half
of these are Americans.
Other Ships Carrying Americans.
The French liner Chicago. which car
ries Il number of American passengers,
is thought to be due at Bordeaux today.
Another vessel on which Americans
sailed is the Baltic. of the White Star
line, which steamed from this port
Monday for Liverpool. She is due to
arrive Wednesday. The ST. Paul of the
American line. which left Liverpool last
Saturday and is due here Sunday. is be-
lieved to be outside the danger zone by
this time.
No passenger steamers have left New
York for Europe sinve the declaration
of the German blockade, but several
freight ships sailed yesterday and last
night The shipping embargo on this
port which at first was intended to con-
tinue every night until the situation
cleared, was modified last night and
several vessels were allowed to pass
out First, however, they were sub
iected to careful examination by the
United States destroyers stationed at
the Narrows to guard the neutrality of
the port.
\ number of American citizens are
here today anxious to sail for Europe
despite the dangers of submarine war
fare Most of them are buyers anxious
to get to Europe to prepare for the
summer trade. A few women who
wish TO serve in European war hospi-
tails also have booked passage on the
St I ntIiS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
j. s. TRIES TO HALT
ALIEN LAND BILLS
Japan's Protest Against Those
Pending in Idaho and Ore
gon Considered Serious.
STATES ARE APPEALED TO

SALEM. Ore, February ..--Ore-
CONS anti-alien land bill was with
drawn f.'Om the Legislature here to-
day by Senator George II. Wilbur,
democrat, who introduced 1t, be-
cause. he said, he did not want to
handicap President Wilson with pos
sible Japanese complications during
the present International crisis.
Representations made by Japan to
the United States against the anti
alien land bills pending in the Idaho
and Oregon legislatures. although
made informally through her embassy
here, are considered no less serious at
this critical juncture of international
affairs than her protests against the
California laws four years ago.
Absolutely nothing has been permit
ted by the administration to become
public, until the protest was disclosed
by appeals to the Oregon and Idaho dele
cations in Congress to use their influence
at home to prevent passage of the bills
at this time.
The state of feeling in Japan, prob
ably much disturbed by the recent crisis
in the government. has been represent
ed to the State Department as being so
serious that the Japanese statesmen
who wish to preserve friendly relations
with the United States fear the passage
of more legislation in this country di-
rected against their country may force
the situation at home beyond their con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
Other Neutrals Might Break.

But should Germany sink an Ameri-
can vessel it was the general opinion
that break would follow between this
country and Germany. 1t was the be-
lief of many of the senators that should
a break occur between this country and
Germany, and for this reason, other
neutral countries also would break
with Germany.
Some of the senators retained their
optimism, saying that they did not be-
1ieve that a break with Germany would
come. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska.
Senator Shafroth of Nebraska, Senator
Lewis of Illinois all expressed this hope.
They maintained that they would not
believe that Germany actually intended
to sink American merchant vessels
without warning and unless they car
ried contra band of war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
Many Counsel Delay.

Many of the senators counseled de-
lay in severing diplomatic relations with
Germany until it has been learned just
what she intends to do, and even until
an overt act upon the part of that's coun-
try. Little, they said. was to be accom-
plshed by severing diplomatic relations
with Germany unless such action was to
be followed by declaration of war.
That the President would be entirely
justified in severing diplomatic relations
with Germany in the event that she re-
sumed ruthless submarine warfare was
the general opinion of those who would
answer this question.
1.-The President would be entirely JUS
titled in such a course" said Senator
Walsh of Montana. but would it be
advisable to do so? 1t is a matter of vast
moment to this people. The breaking
Of diplomatic relations may he followed
by war. There is a question whether it
would not be better teTattempt to settle
channels"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
WEATHER.

Fair and colder tonight: tomorrow
fair and continued cold
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending PM: Highest. 81, at II noon
yesterday; lowest, 16, at AIN today
Full report on page 19.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-02
VOLUNTARY OR COMPULSORY?

VOLUNTARY OR COMPULSORY?
What kind of collective owner
ship of land and tools" do Socialists
want? Walter Higgins speaks for
them in The Day Book and mentions
the cooperative colony at Lano,
Cal, as an example.
But there are two kinds of "collec-
tive ownership" One method is vol
untary; the other, compulsory own
ership. The IanO colony is an ex-
pertinent in voluntary ownership.
Collective ownership of land and
tools in Cook county would be a COM
pulsOry ownership. All the land and
machinery of production and distri-
button would then be controlled by
the political majority. Just as our
system of education and other coun-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-02

ty institutions are controlled. Now,
the difference would be that the
working class would be supposed
to be the effective majority.
Socialism consequently means
compulsory cooperation and class
rule. Can any of our political Social
lists deny this lOgically?-C. c. Vim
cent.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-02

H. C. OF L. FACTS.-I have suf-
fered from the high cost of living in
remote parts Of the United States,
and wish to give a few points, per-
tanning to that subject, which have
come under my observation. In get
ting to the root of the high cost of
living problem, 1 find that the main
cause for it is scarcity, and two Of
it's contributing factors are non-pro-
duCtiOn and extravaganza.
NOn-prOdUCtiOn is caused by the
tiIers of the soil who devote them
selves to raising of commercial COM
mOdities instead of food cOnlmOdi-
ties. In Texas and Arizona I find
that farmers cultivate immense
areas of cotton for commercial pur-
poses and for ammunition, because
of the large financial returns. This
occurs in a part OF the country where
tillabIe soil is scarce and the prOduc-
ton of fOOdstuffs most essential, yet
utterly neglected, except to supply
the farmers individual needs. The
rest Of the people may exist on
canned goods. l find the western
people great consumers Of food in
tins.
Extravaganza, the second con-
tributing factor, occurs mostly in
large cities at the swell public eating
palaces, where stylish thrOngs de-
your choice viands, saved for them
at extOrtiOnist prices. To furnish
the many course dinners to their fas-
tidiOus patrons, these eating palaces
bring about the indiscrimlnate
slaughter of young fowl, sucking
calves and lamb, thus destroying
such life before they reach maturity
and before they reach their period of
reproductiveness. Thereby there is
a greater scarcity Of fowl and animal
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-02
BROWNIES ADDRESS. :

BROWNIES ADDRESS. - During
the debate on the referendum bill in
the legislature the other day the
most interesting address on the wet
side was probably made by Lee
O'Neil Browne. 1t was a matter of
great interest to me and will prOba-
bly, be of great interest to union la
Dor, as well as the Socialists, to know
that the principal objection Mr..
Browne gave for voting against the
referendum bill was that women
would be allowed to vote on the
question.
He stopped to make an eloquent
address against wOman's suffrage
and this part Of his speech was the
part which met with the greatest ap-
plause by the vets who were packed
on one side of the galleries. It is a
curious paradox that the saloon in
terests always pretend to be the
friend of the working men, and yet it
is from that source that greatest OPP
position to wOman's suffrage comes.
u. B. NJ.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-02

In conclusion, I would say that it
is the duty of the dispensaTy man
agement to advise the overtime
working doctor to mind his own bust
ness and not to NEEDLE with the pri-
vate life of the patients.-one of the
Patients.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
SLOGAN BECOMES POPULAR

Atlanta, Ga, April 2 Mail a
flag on your plow and serve your
country by helping to feed the world, .
slogan started by the farmers at a
mass meeting this week in South
Georgia, is spreading like wildhre
throughout the country.
Telegraphed far and wide by the
newspaper correspondents, it has
spread even into Canada and already
has been made the subject Of news
paper cartoons and editorials in a
number of cities. So well is the slo-
gan catching on that it will soon
spread to England and france where
It may become as famous as the
French slogan on the vefdun front;
"On les aura" which means in literal
American. well get 'enl yet"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
TO FURNISH 10000 TIN CANS

Savannah, Ga, April 24.-Savannah-
ians who wish to conserve foodstuffs
during the war time will not be with
out cans for the Savannah Rotary
club has made arrangements for sup
plying $4,000 cans at wholesale cost.
or free to those who cannot afford
them.
This arrangement has been made
by w. V. Davis, president Of the
club, J. P Wheless, C. G. Beck, and
c. B. Gibson, superintendent of the
schools, all of whom are Rotarians.
County Farm Demonstration Agent
Andrew Jackson and Miss Katherine
Lanier, in charge of canning clubs in
Chatham county, will be authorized
to distribute the cans which will be
stored in the. basement of the Chat
ham school
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
WEARING SANDALS

Atlanta, Ga, April 25.-At1anta men
are wearing sandals because the price
OF shoes has gone 50 high that none
but the rich and well-to-do can afford
the luxury of complete foot covering.
But The Lord tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb" and the advent Of
warm wethear has made the wearing
of sandals somfort instead of a hard
ship. :
OF course they have a tendency to
get filed with grit, rocks, glass, nails,
and other particles of trash that grind
INTO the flesh, but that is small mat
ter compared to the substantial saw
ing involved. One can get a good
pair OF sandals for So, whereas pair.
OF shoes costs him not less than So.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
STATE GETS APPROPRIATION
FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Atlanta, Ca, April ? The Geor-
gia Legislature at the regular session
next summer will have the distinct
ion of being the first IN the South
to provide the state machinery for re-
ceiving and disbursing Georgia's
share of the federal appropriation un-
der the Smith Hughes act for voca-
tional training
This act, which was carried through
the Senate by Senator Hoke Smith.
of Georgia, and through the House by
Congressman Dudley M. Hughes, of
this state, provides large appropria-
ton, which will increase from year
to year. to aid the states in vocation
al training.
/ In order for Georgia to secure her
share of the appropriation it will be
necessary for the Legislature to Gre
ate or designate board to receive
and disburse it. The amount to which
Georgia is entitled is one of the larg-
est of all the state in the South.
A modern trend in education i
devoting more and more attention tc
Vocational training, which fits the
young man and young woman fol
the work that suits them best.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
IS HEADQUARTERS
FOR SPoONERS

Atlanta, Ga, April 2 "A new
spooning place for loveIrorn couples
who can't sit at home in the parlor.
or on the boarding house verandah,
is about to be provided by an enter
prising Atlanta motion picture exhi-
bitor who got on the scheme in an
other city where it was mopping up
with other competing picture shows.
On the downstairs floor Of this
theater there will be the ordinary
single seats, but in the balcony there
will be cute little seats just big
enough for on-two. And the man
ager expects that the little audience
in the gallery will always be equally
divided, $3.50, as between the two
sexes.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
REV. ]. w. BLEKER OF THIS
CITY, WILL ATTEND
CONVENTION

Savannah, Ga, April 24-Seventy-
six delegates from the Episcopal Di-
ocese Of Georgia, which includes Au-
gusta and all of Georgia South of Ma
con and Columbus, will attend the
95th annual convention of the diocese
at St Paul's church in Savannah May
9 and 10.
Questions of Importance to the
church and diocese will be settled,
and there will be notable speakers.
The annual address Of Ri Rev. F. F.
Reese, D, D., Bishop of Georgia, will
be delivered on the opening Of the
convention.
Perhaps the most important bust
aess will be amending the canons OF
the diocese SO as to administer and
maintain the operation OF the pension
fund for Episcopal clergymen. To do
this, a new Office will have to be Gre
ated and an officer elected to have
charge Of collecting the pension pre-
miums and to be agent of the central
office in New York city.
The report of ]. Randolph Ander-
son, of Savannah, chairman of the
committee which had charge of rails
ing the diocese's share of pension
fund, will be read, The Diocese of
Georgia was asked to raise $4,000 of
this fund-it raised $33,90405, the re-
port will show. The amount aimed at
for the funds which provides for PEN
sions for Episcopal clergymen all
over the United States, was $5,O0O0O,.
The amount actually raised was So
100000. This money, Bishop Reese
pointed out, will not be used as a cap
ital fund to pay pensions from the
accrued interest thereof, but will be
used to provide for accrued liabilities
and for the pensions of older mem
bers Of the clergy from whose salaries
premiums have not been taken. The
whole $6,500,000 fund will. be used up
in a generation; the other pensions
after the fund is exhausted will be
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
COUNTRY GOING TO THE CATS

Atlanta, Ga, April 25-Here is
something new for excitable people to
worry about, instead of the war, for a
change. 1t is proclaimed that the un-
taxed increment of cats and kittnes
running into the millions annually
bids fair to threaten this fair republic.
Evidence has been discovered that
the great city of Memphis Egypt
not TENNESSEE went to its doom be-
cause of cats, and that Egypt itself
tottered because there were too many
untaxed felines.
This ancient catastrophe ca nbe ira
ced directly, it is said, to the time
when a Persian cat, the first ever seen
in the land of the Nile, was brought
to Memphis in 1870 B. c., by a rug
merchant named Abooba Khan. Evil
IDENTIFY he wasn't such boob as his
first name would imply, for he sold
the cat for an immense sum of money
and the Egyptians liked it so we'll that
they worshipped it as a god and later
declared all cats sacred and conse-
quently not subject to tax. with the
hnal result that cats literally ate the
Egyptians out of house and home.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25

paid indefinitely by being collected at
the rate of II per cent year from
the salaries of the clergy. It is to
collect these premiums in this diocese
that the new officer will be elected at
the convention.
The proposed amendments to the
Episcopal prayer book tentatively
adopted by the General Episcopal
Convention at St. Paul last October,
and to be finally acted upon by this
general convention in 1919, will come
up for adoption or rejection by the
diocese. Also, the proposed amend
nents to the cons titution of the gem
eral Episcopal committees will be
elected for the following year
There will be three notable speak
ers for the first hight Of the COM.
vention: Rev R. L. l-atton, D. D., of
Atlanta, provincial secretary of the
Board Of Missions and also agent for
the American church institute for me-
groes will outline the work of this in
stitute. This institute helps to main
tain the normal and industrial school
for negroes at Brunswick The sec
ond speaker will be Rev. Gardner L.
Tucker, of Houma, La, Secretary of
the Provincial Board of Religious
education. Rev. Charles L. Pardee.
D. D., of New York, secretary of the
American church building fund COM
mission, will speak on the work of
this commission.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
RUSSIA IS RESOLVED TO CON-
TINUE WAR TO END

Washington, April 23.-Further en-
lcouraging reports from Russia came
today in a dispatch to the state de-
tpartment telling of the effect of Pres
ident Wilson's war address and de-
claring that Russia under the new
democratic government is no more
likely to abandon the war without
achieving her object tina mis- the
United States.
Recalling that one of the impelling
causes for the overthrow of the i'm
perial regime was the belief that it
was planning seperate peace the dis
patch said the revolution would expe-
dite the defeat Of Germany and the
establishment of general peace.
Prompt recognition accorded the
new government by the United
States, gave encouragement and help
to the council Of ministers and their
supporters, the department was in
formed while President Wilson'S al
fusion to the Russian revolution in his
address to congress made deep, last
ing impression on the people. The
address has been translated together.
with other of the presidents utter
ances concerning American participa-
ton and are being given wide circula-
ton in a pamphlet freely distributed.
No people. according to the report,
50 circumstanced ever have made
greater sacrifices for freedom than
the Russians. and they fully realize
that a separate peace would jeopar-
die all they have gained. The Amer
lean form of government has been
taken as the model Of the Russian
people and the participation of the
United States has Infused in them a
confident spirit and imbued them with.
firm determination. They believe
they have an army unequaled in num-
Der, unexcelled in courage and led by
commanders Of ability and patriot
ism
If Americans arc iacensed at the in
intrigues and underhanded machina-
tons of Germany in their midst, and
on their borders, the message declares
the Russians have four-fold cause for
like resentment and will make any
sacrifice rather than conclude sep
arate peace
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
FIGHTING RATE INCREASE

Washington, D. c., April .23.-
Senator Hoke Smith offered in the
Senate today an amended resolution
to block the granting of the fifteen
pen cent. increase in freight rates ask
ed for by the railroad companies to
meet alleged increased cost of opera
ton due to the Adamsop act and in
creasing cost of materials.
4 The resolutions recites that if is the
wish of the Senate that the Inter
state Commerce Commission shall
suspend the advanced rates which
would otherwise become effective the
first of June, until it has had an oppor-
tunity Of making a full and detailed
investigation of the reasonabieness of
the increased rates, or until Congress
itself shall do so.
y think the proposed increases bv
the railroads in their freight tariffs IS
shocking" said Senator Smith.
They are earning more than ever
before in their history, and no worse
time could have been selected for
presenting their demands.
Let the railroads wait until after
the war or until there is real danger
ola deficit before asking to increase
rates. The seven per cent earnings
which they will show this year is the
aggregate for all the roads, the well
managed and the mismanaged.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-25
"SUBLIMEST EXPRESSION
OF AMERICAS IDEAL"

Atlanta, Ga, April 24-"The sub
FINEST expression of Americas ideal
that has ever been uttered" was the
Characterization yesterday of Pres
ident Wilson's address to congress by
DR. Ferdinand Buisson, The distin-
guished French educator and member
of the French Chamber of Deputies,
who addressed the Alliance Fran
.caise in this city. DR.. Buisson declar-
ed that the war viii forge new and
everlasting bond Of unity between
America and France, bond in which
the peoples of the two countries will
know and understand each other bet
ter.