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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
Big Liner WITH MANY AMERICANS ABOARD SUM
Text of Wilson's Speech

necessary and adequate to protect
our ships and our people in their
legitimate and peaceful pursuits on
the seas.
l request also that you will grant
me at the same time, along with
the powers 1 ask, a sufficient credit
to enable me to provide adequate
means of protection where they are
lacking, including adequate insur-
ance against the present war risks.
1 have spoken OF our commerce
and of the legitimate errands of
our people on the seas, but you will
not be misled as to my main
thought the thought that lies be-
meath these phrases and gives them
dignity and weight. 1t is not of
national interests merely that we are
thinking. 1t is, rather, of funda-
mental human rights, chief of all
the right of life itself. ] am think
ing not only of the rights of Ameri-
cans to go and come about their
proper business by way of the sea,
but also of something much deep
er, much more fundamental than
that
1 am thinking of those rights of
humanity without which there is no
civilization. Ny theme is of those
principles Of compassion and of pro-
lection which, mankind has sought
to throw about human lives, the lives
of non-com batants, the lives of men
who are peacefully at work keeping
the industrial processes of the world
quick and vital, the lives of women
and children and of those who supply
the labor which ministers to their
sustenance.
We are speaking of no selfish ma
terial rights. but of rights which
our hearts support and whose foun-
dation is that righteous passion for
justice which all law, all structures
alike of family, of state, and of
mankind must rest, as upon the ul-
innate base of our existence and our
liberty. l cannot imagine any man
with American principles at his
heart hesitating to defend these
things.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
EAT RICE AND BREAK
BACK OF HIGH PRICES
Campaign of Education Begun
in New York by Food
Supply Committee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Appropria~
tion of $4,000, 900 for federal relief in
the food situation and for investigation
to devise better marketing and distri-
button methods was proposed in res
olution introduced today by Senator
Borah, of Idaho. Action was deferred.
NEW YORK, Feb. ga campaign or
education against high food prices was
extended today through several avenues.
This plan was adopted by the board OF
health after an investigation to ascer-
tain just how much suffering existed
among the poor, and by the mayors
food supply committee 1t was endorsed
by Governor whitman, who summed up
his view of the situation by saying the
people have simply got to eat what they
can affort to eat"
The food supply committee sent to
homes throughout the city by means OF
public school children one million cir
culars urging citizens to eat rice instead
of potatoes, onions and cabbage. George
w. Perkins, chairman of this committee,
asserted that New York City might ex-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27

"TASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Presi
wv dent Wilson arrived at the
capitol just before l O'Clock
and promptly at that hour stepped
up to the clerks desk in the hall %
the house where both branches o.
congress, meeting in special joint ses
sion, we're assembled before him. HI
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the congress:
/ have again asked the privilege
of addressing you because we are
moving through critical times during
which il seems to me to be my duty
to keep in close touch with the
house of congress so that neither
counsel nor action shall run at cross
purposes between US.
On the third of February / Of
ficially informed you of the sudden
and unexpected action of the inn
perial German government in de-
claring its intention to disregard
the promises IL had made to this
government in April last. and under
take immediate submarine operations
against all commerce, whether of
belligerents or of neutrals, that
should seek to approach Great
Britain and Ireland, the Atlantic
p coasts of Europe. or the harbors of
the eastern mediterranean, and to
conduct those operations without re-
gard to the established restrictions
of international practice, without re-
gard to any considerations of hu-
manity even which might interfere
with their object. That policy was
forthwith put into practice. 1t has
now been in active execution for
nearly four weeks.
Its practical results are not fully
disclosed.
The commerce of other neutral ma
lions is suffering severely but not,
perhaps, very much more severely
that 1T was already suffering before
the first of February, when the new
policy of the imperial government
was put into operation. We have
asked the cooperation of the other
neutral governments to prevent these
depredations, but l fear none of them
has thought it wise to join US in
any common course of action.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27

pect only slight reductions in food prices
unless the people made up their minds
to adopt substitutes for expensive food
stuffs. Enough rice Is available at a
low price, he said, to afford relief until
legislative action can be taken.
On Wednesday. it was announced puO-
lie hearings will begin at Albany on the
Wicks bill creating a state department
of foods and markets. Governor Whit
man, who has been here since Friday
night, devoting nearly all his time to the
food situation, said that while prices
were unquestionably high throughout the
state, he found no conditions elsewhere
resembling those in New York City.
The governor received personal proof
of advancing prices yesterday when he
found many dishes on the menu at the
hotel where he was staying cost 10 cents
more than on Saturday.
The department of health, in report
to the mayor, found that a marked in
crease in the export of staple foodstuffs
had a great influence in raising prices,
but declared nevertheless, that there was
less dependency and real need in the city
than had been common for many years
past. At the same time the department
reported that families whose incomes
were $500 a year or less would suffer
by their inability to buy sufficiently
nourishing food al the present prices.
The report urged that the poor be edu-
Gated to buy food more intelligently and
said that the well-to-do might contribute
toward this education by altering nab
it's of carelessness and extravaganza in
their homes"
A number of retail grocers today join
ed consumers in the boycott against po-
tatoes. onions and chickens. and agreed
not to sell these articles.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
Sailed From
New York February 10

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Twenty Ameri-
cans, all native born, were members of
the crew of the Laconia. With the ten
American passengers this makes a total
of thirty Americans aboard.
The Cunard liner Laconia sailed from
New York on February Is with 100 pas
sengers, among whom were ten or more
Americans.
First cabin passengers totalled SO and
second cabin AZ. The crew numbered
216. There were no steerage passen-
gers.
Five thousand sacks of United States
mail were carried by the Laconia-
The Cunard line received confirmation
from the British admiralty of the de-
struction of the Laconia. Americans
aboard were Miss Phyllis Barker, New
York; Arthur T. Kirby, cambridge, N.
j.; Mrs. F. Z. Harris, New York; F. P.
Gibbons, of the Chicago Tribune; Mrs.
Mary f. Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy,
of Chicago, and Rev. James Wareing, of
New York.
The Laconia was one of the largest
vessels of the Cunard fleet and the larg-
est thus far sunk since the new German
submarine warfare was commenced. She
registered 1909 tons, was 500 feet
long, II feet beam and 40 feet depth
She was built in 1911 at Newcastle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
HARD BLOW STRUCK
At GERMANY'S ALLIES
OH THE TIGRIS FRONT
Turks Pursued by Brit
ish CayaIy-AII Positions
From Sannaiyat to Kut-eI-
Amara Have Been Captured

LONDON. Feb. 26.-Kut-el-Amara has
been captured from the Turks by the
British forces. according TO a statement
iu the house OF commons today by An
drew Bonar Law
The TURKS on the Tigris river front
are in full retreat towards Baghaila,
rwentv-four miles TO the west of Kut-el-
Amara. saws an official statement issued
today by the British war department.
The fleeing Turks are being engaged by
pursuing British cavalry:
Mr. BOuar Law announced that as
result of the operations on the Tigris
river front all of the Turkish positions
from Sannaiyat TO Kut-el-Amara have
been secured and that the town Of kut-
-el-Amara automatically passed into the
hands 81 the British.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
Amor Plate Board to
Reach Rome Tuesday
tspec;sl Dispatch TO The Journal1

Especial Dispatch TO The Journall
ROME, Ga, Feb. 26.-The armor plate
plant board will reach Rome from Gads-
den at $40 Tuesday afternoon and will
remain here until 1925 Wednesday eve
ming, leaving at that time for Washing
ton. In accordance with the desire of
the board no formal entertainment will
be given them. Members of local COM
mittee will dine with the board Tues
day evening, sand the board will be
guests of the Rotary club at luncheon
Wednesday. Rome's claims will be pre-
scented at the hearing Wednesday after
noon at s o'clock. None of these affairs
will be public.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27

ought, in view of that fact, to OBJ
tain from you full and immediate
assurance of the authority which l
may need at any moment to exer-
else.
No doubt / already possess that
authority without special warrant
of law, by the plain implication of
my constitutional duties and powers;
but 1 prefer, in the present circum-
stances, not to act upon general
implication. l wish to feel that the
authority and the power of the con-
gress are behind me in whatever 1T
may become necessary for me to do.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
CUNARD LINER SUNK
WITHOUT WARNING.
So LONDON REPORTS
Consul Frost at Queenstown
Reports Some Are Known to
Be Missing and That One Is
Dead
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, Feb. 26.-It is stated au-
chemically that the Laconia was tor
pedoed without warning.
Wesley Frost, American consul at
Queenstown, telegraphed the American
embassy here today:
"Cunarder Laconia torpedoed 1850
Sunday night. Two hundred and sew
enty-eight survivors landed. Details
lacking, but known some missing, one
dead"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27

hands 6f the British.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
AUTHORITY Is ASKED
TO ARM STEAMERS.

You will understand why l can
make no definite proposals, or fore
casts. of action now and must ask
for your supporting authority in the
most general terms. The form in
which action may become necessary
cannot yet be foreseen. l believe
that the people will be willing to
trust me to act with restraint, with
prudence, and in the true spirit of
amity and good faith that they have
themselves displayed throughout
these trying months; and it is in
that belief that l request that you
will authorize me to supply our
merchant ships with defensive
arms, should that become necessary,
and with the means OF using them,
and to employ any other instru-
mentalities or methods that may be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
SITUATION Is FRAUGHT
WITH GRAvEsT DANGERS.

But while this is happily true, it
must De admitted that there have
been certain additional indications
and expressions of purpose on the
part of the German press and the
German authorities which have in
creased rather than lessened the
impression that, if our ships and
our people are spared it will be be-
cause of fortunate circumstances or
because the commanders of the Ger
man submarines which they may
happen to encounter exercise an un-
expected discretion and restraint
rather than because of the instruc-
tions under which those command
ers are acting.
II would be foolish to deny that
the situation is fraught with the
gravest possibilities and dangers.
No thoughtful man can fail to see
that the necessity for definite action
may come at any time, if we are in
fact. and not in word merely to
defend our elementary rights as a
neutral nation. 1t would be most
imprudent to be unprepared.
I cannot in such circumstances
BE unmindful of the fact that the
expiration of the term OF the pres
ent congress is Immediately at hand.
by constitutional limitation: and
that il would. i'm all likelihood, re-
quire an unusual length of time to
assemble and organize the congress
which is to succeed it. j feel that
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
Survivors of LaConia
Number 270, Is Report
CBy Associated Press.I

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 26.-The Cunard
line steamship Laconia, of 1909 tons
gross, which sailed from New York Feb
ruary is for Liverpool, has been sunk.
The survivors of the Laconia are said
to number 27O. They will be landed to-
night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
RECOURSE TO ARMED
NEUTRALITY rs FORCED.

rs FORCED.
We are jointly the servants of the
people and must act together and in
their spirit, so far as we can divine
and interpret it.
No one doubts what it is our duty
to do. We must defend our COM
merce and the lives of our people in
the midst of the present trying cir
cumstances., with discretion but
clear and steadfast purpose. Only
the method and the extent remain to
be chosen, upon the occasion, II oc-
casion should indeed arise.
Since it has unhappily proved i'm
possible to safeguard our neutral
rights by diplomatic means against
the unwarTanted infringements they
are suffering at the hands of Ger
many, there may be no RECOURSE but
to armed neutrality, which we shall
know how to maintain and for which
there is abundant American prece-
dent.
1t is devoutly to be hoped that it
will not be necessary to put armed
force anywhere into action. The
American people do not desire it,
and our desire is not different from
theirs / am sure that they will I'M
derstand the spirit in which l am
now acting, the purpose l hold near
est my heart and would wish to ex-
hibit in everything | do.
am anxious that the people of
the nations at war also should un-
derstand and not mistrust us. hope
that l need give no further proofs
and assurances that have already
given throughout nearly three years
of anxious patience that L am the
friend of peace and mean to pre-
serve it for America so long as L
am able.
l am not now proposing or con-
templating war or any steps that
need lead to it. | merely request
that you will accord me by your
own vote and definite bestowal the
means and the means and the au-
thority to safeguard in practice the
right of a great people who are at
peace and who are DESTROYS of ex-
ercising none but the rights of peace
to follow the pursuit of peace in
quietness and good will-rights rec
ognized time out of mind by all the
civilized nations of the world. No
course of my choosing or of theirs
will lead to war. War can come only
by the wilful acts and aggressions
of others.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
PRIDE" AND SHAME"
Fairbanks News-Miner)

Some time since a Puget Sound writer came to town to work for the Citizen editorial writer He the trail and, upon arriving here pro ceeded to "bawlou' that trail "the shame of Alas ka" It was his first trail trip, and was made under the auspices amateur driver To the day he left here maintained that the trail "the shame of Alaska" and during his stay here he spread that allegation and accusation broadcast over the world through the printed word
 Last Monday morning that writer left Fairbanks in an make the same trip, going out-through with the country. He travelled at Government ex pense and in stage auto with professional driver Wednesday night he at Chitina, having made the trip in B hours and 51 minutes travelling t1me all daylight travel (they turned lights once on the trip) He pauses in Chtna long enough to send the News-Miner 17S-word telegram retracting every word of disprase he has said about the trail He says all enjoyed the trp-that it was the trip of his fe'-and that the trail is the pride of Alaska instead of the shame" of Alaska and lays his first bad impressions to the driver who brought him into the country. ..
 We hope that his conversion regarding the trail is lasting, and that in his Outside writings he will tell of trail he found it on this weeks trip instead of as he first it. If future bad impress sions be avoided from that writer when he speaks of the trail that will help some-his past and con demnaory writings be effaced from the minds of the people who read his 'roasts' and who will his retractions.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19

Driving an ambulance under a hail of bullets fired from ma chine guns only three hundred yards away does not seem to take the nerve out of Sergeant of Police Martin s. Owens, who left the United States about two months ago to drive an ambulance on the French front. According to letters received by friends, Sergeant Owens was awakened from a nap at mid night by firing close at hand, and after Investigating the source of the bursting shells he turned over and resumed his nap, believing himself safer in his ambulance cot than outside watching the shells burst.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
ALASKAN PRODUCTS ARE RECEIVED IN SEATTLE
 AND CAUSE COMMENT

Turnips and potatoes from South western Alaska will help strengthen the hands of Herbedt c. Hoover in his job of conserving Americas food supply, says The Seattle Times.
 The steamship Crook, operated by the Alaskan Engineering Commits sion, is due in port late today with the first shipment of turnips ever sent out by Southwestern Alaska. It comes from the great Matanuska Valley and aggregates twelve tons. It is not only the first shipment of turnips but it is also the first ship ment of any kind of agricultural products ever sent out by South western Alaska.
 On her next voyage South, the Crook will bring large shipment of Matanuska potatoes. Farmers ot the Matanuska district estimat ted recently that they would have 1000 tons of potatoes to ship to Seattle this fall, but the tubers were in the ground when they made this fore cast. It is reported the tonnage will fall far below those figures.
 Two years ago Southwestern Alas ka had to get its potatoes and tur- aips from Seattle. Now the Matan- nska farmers have flooded the mar kets of Southwestern Alaska with those productA and have a lot left over to help Hooverize the markets in "the states.'
 At that, the Southwestern Alaska agriculturists would find themselves shut out of the markets down here f the Alaskan Engineering Con- mission had not made them a spe- cial low rate.
 Tt was necessary to give the low rate or the Southwestern Alaska products could not move to Seattle" 'aid H. P. Warren, the commission's engineering representative in Se- lttle, this morning. "The turnip I shipment arriving on the Crook [ will take its place in Northern his tory. Most of us down here think of minerals and fisheries when any, one mentions Southwestern Alaska Now. we have got to readjust our mental attitude and think of the North in terms of turnips and pota- toes as well as gold and copper and canned salmon"
 Southwestern Alaska has shipped turnips to Seattle for years and they sell rapidly in the Seattle mar kets. They are the equal of the famous Michigan turnips.
 Southwestern Alaska. however. al ways has loomed up in the public
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
BILL" HOLZHEIMER "JEDGE'
Steward GateWayl

Just to think, to have to call "Bill' Holzhemer This honor, the judge" For Bill" has been nomn- ated United States Federal Judge at Nome and the editor has known "Bill' for number of years, and it will strange to say His Honor but it has and here goes
 William A. Holzheimer is every inch cry inch attorney He has been known to do mean trick in his life. He is broadminded, capable energetic and possessed of the highest in tegrty He is to be congratulated upon receiving this high honor and the Department of Justice at Wash ngton, D. O.. has made mistake in selecting the
 
 Judge Holzhemer is honest. He is honest through and through He possesses qualifications that many know little of Not to know him is misfor- tune The editor of The Gateway. matter what his politics, matter what the politics of "Bi' Hozheimer predicts that he will be honorable Judge, credit to all Alaskans.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
 PATRONIZE THE HOME MAN
Steward Gateway

 Yesterday man in Seward asked for figures upon small job of printing You too high' said he, when the price quoted. q get 1t done cheaper in Seattle
 Very we'll MT. Seward Man. suppose every mem Der of the Gateway staff would adopt the pol icy, "get it in Seattle because is cheaper"
 We recognize you cant sell at Seattle prices, neither The in both instances is the
 But you not going to send your printing to Seattle anywhere else and the large family of the Gateway is not going to trade anywhere but in Sew ard. Reciprocation- it-and will join in and help another, thus helping our community, the land where live.
 Isn't this right?
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
Luke McLuke Says

A thin girl can give a man the inn presson that she is pining away when she does a lot of signing. But when fat girl does it she merely gives him the impression that her corsets are too tight
 A clock that isn't running is right once every 12 hours. And that is often- CT than some men are right.
 Another reason why you think you are superior to the other fellow is be- cause you can smell whiskey the other fellows breath when he is drink ing. but you can't smell whiskey on your own breath when you are drinking.
 The successful preacher is the one who breaches loud enough to keep the tve-cent contributions awake without disturbing the slumbers of the q, 900 contributors.
 What has become of the old fashioned man who thought more of the Monroe Doctrine than he did of the Ten Com mandments?
 Mother can take the screens off about this time of year and arrange then in the garret so that she knows which is which next spring. But if Father takes them off he will throw them in the cellar and Mother will have to hire professional puzzle solver next Spring to fit them back in the windows.
 thin girl thinks it is perfectly vul- gar the way a plump girl manages to fill sweater.
 Every man who finds himself in a jam In crowd imagines that he is the only one in the crowd who is in hur- ry.
 How soon the modern boy loses his faith in the things that make boyhood worth while. First. there ain't no East CT Rabbit. then there ain't no Santa Claus. and then there ain't no Stork. The impression gained by a man af- ter taking walk around town is that
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
Our Joe Miller Contest.

George Burford, of Burfords Corner. Is after Joe Miler's laurels. He claims that the oldest joke is the one about the English girl who saw an American naval vessel flying the Stars and Stripes after the War of 1872 had been decided. She said to the American naval ofii- cer who was standing at her side: What silly little thing the American flag it. Why, it suggests nothing but checkerberry candy" Yes" agreed the American. Tt suggests the kind of candy that makes other nations sick when they try to lick it."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19

eye as lonely, remote, isolated re- zion of fapjacks and canned milk where they raised only the old Harry.
 According to reports, the officers and crew of the Crook regard the Matanuska turnip shipment with mingled pride and awe, guarding it more carefully than they would guard twelve tons of gold. Capt. R. q. H. Johansen, master of the Crook, is said to have held inspec- -ions on the shipment.