Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-21

TO comprehend the necessity Tor 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-
tense 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
rails If necessary and to begin expen-
diture of the $750OOO,OOO fund for the
construction Of a merchant marine.
The board has adopted the policy Of
building as many steel ships as posi-
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-
tons 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 10,5OO,OOO 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 long
as more are needed.
Yet another step In the making of
the great national army was taken last
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 by
August 5. This legalizes the sending
of the Guard outside the boundaries of
the nation.
Various occurrences, more or less
unimportant in themselves, have
aroused our more than lenient govern
ment to the danger Of permitting leu
tons and their friends full liberty in
this country, and number Of German
employees Of the diplomats in Wash
1ngton have been deported. Every day,
too, German agents and spies in other |
parts of the country are being gathered
in and put where they can do no harm.
There is even some talk of legislation |
for the regulation Of newspapers print
ed In the German language. This |
called forth a protest from the New
Yorker Herold and a covert threat OF
disorders II 1t is carried out. The Ger
press continues to at
tack our governments conduct Of the
war, to ''strafe" Great Britain and to
sheer at Russia.
Getting After the I. w. w.
The Industrial Workers of the
World, generally disreputable organ
lzation that is openly opposed to the
war, is making all the trouble for the
country that 1t can by fomenting
strikes and riots in those parts of the
West where 1t Is strong. 1t is accused
Of being wholly pro-German and it's do
ngs are certainly treacherous and re-
oellious. The war department has an
nounced that 1t Is ready to do it's part
n suppressing these disorders, and va.
'ious Western communities are taking
steps to rid themselves Of the men who
stir them up. Bisbee, Ariz., was the
irst town to act. The decent citizens
If that mining center rounded I'D L.
L97 l. w. W. members and sympathi-
'ers, loaded them on cattle train and
leported them. Such mild treatment
elps the town that applies it, but the