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Examine Newspapermen

examine NeWSpapermen
Aside from Interrogation Of brokers TO.
day, the hearing was given over 10 M.
examination of newspaper men and en-
pioyes OF the government printing officc.
None of them gave information tending
to help locate the leak"
Eight newspaper men who were advised
confidentially by Secretary Lansing on
Dec. % of the coming OF what dcyelopca
TO be President Wilson's peace note told
or the circumstances surrounding the
conference and declared they did not VIC
late the secretary's confidence. They
were stephen T. Early and Arthur
Sweetser the Associated Press: g. p
Garvin and Richard Bueckel. tho Inter
national News Service: Carl y. Groa,
the United Fress; Aaron Essential. the
Milwaukee journal; A. j. Clark, tho
Washington Star: and Charles D. War
ner, the Christian Science Monitor.
Mr.. Clark was questioned closely re-
garding his statement that tho score
tary had said he did not want news OF
the statement to become public prema
turoly because of the effect II would
have on the stock market. This was I'm
'Oii'i ddiCtlOii VI testimony previously
given by the secretary. but IN corrob-
GRAFTON of the testimony Of another
reporter, A. l.. Jameson.
Leroy I. Vernon, Washington CORE
spondent Of the Chicago Daily News
and member Of the standing commit
tee of the Congressional Press Gallery
volunteered the statement that the
committee was anxious to cooperate
with Congress in making conditions in
the galleries more wholesome" Mr..
Verno was not at Secretary I.ansinE's
conference.
Jackson s. Elliott. head Of the Wash
ington Bureau of The Associated Press.
testified that his office had not violated
Secretary Lansing's confidence. and
that none of The Associated press
members was apprised OF the coming
Of the note until its text was trans
mitted to them in accordance with the
departments instructions.
Replying to questions by Rep. Har-
risan Of Mississippi Mr.. Elliott said
no one connected with The Associated
Press 10 permitted TO have any other
employment under any circumstances.
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Adjournment Until Tuesday

NdJournment OHtFF uSsuay
Adjournment was taken Friday
morning in both branches until 10
o'clock Tuesday morning, Feb. 49,
Continued on PAGE 10, Column g.
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Records with Committee

Most of the local brokers' records are
now In possession of tho committee
and supplemental accounts will be oh
tanned in New York when hearings arc
resumed there next week.
George b. Chapman. Washington
manager for Hartman &c Co. Now
YORK brokers. was the man who tcsti
ned that members of the House had
been trading with him. lie declared.
however. that most of the account.
were investments rather than spccu-
iatlons; that he did not think any rep
resentatives traded through him during
the peace note leak" period of tho
week of Dec. 20, and he was positIvr
mono OF them sold short" in that time
lie expressly stated that no senators
mad any accounts with him.
When w. b. Hbbs, another local bro-
ker. was asked II any members of CON-
sress had accounts with him. lie SAID
his full records would answer the uues-
ton. Eugene L. Thomson manager OF
the Crane, Harris & co. brokerage once.
denied that any members Of Congress
had accounts with his firm. None If tho
representatives of the remaining Wash
ington brokerage Offices examined was
asked regarding congressional accounts
put their records have been subpocnaed
Future activities Of the committee dc
pend largely on the results of InvcstIra
ton into congressional accounts Present
plans are to hold 10 more hearings here
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THE Austrian Situation

.l. explanation for the earnest
... 3 , Old tho apparently tncN itablc
.+t wtth Austria Hungary, IL was
To-day that IN that were done all
.Hutattuu between this country
' HaRarla and Turkey would hc
.Hl This would bc particularly Sc
'rr he american relief work IN
'N nnd Armenia and III ono thou
''i .t more Americans FOR whose dc
'"f'ur' from Asia Minor the state de-
rtmtut has succeeded IN arranging
ff'r Immense dinicuity only about
ta' n" much tonnage as during each
'h' past three days was reported
sunk IN Ltoyds' dispatches received at
'h' department today. whether the
sudden drop was due to better British
IRiroillng, armament or destruction Of
Continued on Page 5, Column y
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Washington British Subject

.H ucw development came today 20
rd'.Ntr That tho overt act w Ger
mnn. t,r1uird ng inevitable. was
1t.. rt hand. Fewer reports "t ships
Hk .lmr an. and none told officially
th. loss Of am American hto. Fur
N.I ufnrmatiun received about George
rnEfnn. mo Ncgro nr,mcn lost on
.. Turfeo Indicated that ne probably
Frtt.h subject.
f.r #tir,t w,f today with ~ Nom
u.t..nt except secretary MCAdoo.
... U.Iaft ite meeting the majority
.I. H,mr,la had attended a session
..ur,l for national defense call
E. wan department 10 discuss
.. .ft.n. wv the nations resources
at many offers from manu-
.u.s tu4 other companies 10 place
Is,. at .rc disposal of the gov
.n..t 4. '... won't Of trouble.
... fn... .H..r.,d included pro-
.," t. ...., legislation. steps for
...tt..r ...p.,tN. NATL problems.
.,.t.t t.. FL. thc failure at ships TO
NHftrlr ports ter Europe.
uea ana tho army and
.aatlun,
mcsttng II was auihollta-
..r. ..I.I tbut nothing had vet hap
E3nas the course pursued 10y
r...,ru,ut since the break IN re-
N.in Germany.
.laprrmcuts FOR thc depart
CONNER officials az the Scandi-
.... uet Fredcuk VII next Tues
..H %,w York Nia Halifax tor
...t.uIs were completed today by
t..I. the company and the state
.n"..at Tho United states at the
.5.u I'D both tho owners Of tho
Count Won liorustorn asked
...n thHt the trip ho made via
,H.N u order to avoid the German
y..e ga the route via Falmouth
kfkNaN and the British and
I..h eolcrumcnta. in granting safe
.nt.f fo tho coo former German OFF,
I'VE. rdrd in that request out o.
tu this country.
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American on Board
Baltimore, Feb. 9.-Dcputy Immigra-
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THE WEATHER: Cold
A Classified Ad

will sell anything on whseIs-
Auto, Bicycle, Motorcycle. Car
-,sae. Wagon, Cart OF Baby Car.
rage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-10

with the man who ought 10 buy
that property Of yours. Adver.
tise in the classified columns.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
The Necessity of
Feeding Our Allies

The chances are many Americans are
puzzled every time Food Controller
Hoover issues a statement urging Us to
cut out all waste. People are apt 70
think with the bountiful crops this year
we should nave EH abundance.
But one of the vital needs Of the
time is that America should provision
France and England. Even in normal
times England does not raise enough
food TO feed herself And these are far
from normal times. And large part
of the food-growing country Of France
has been temporarily taken away.
France and England need food and we
should furnish il. We can, if we use our
supplies here at home with reasonable
prudence.
Why is it our imperative duty to help
feed our allies? Because our allies are
holding the lines in France and Flanders
while we make ready 10 take UP the fight
for civilization and for liberty Only by
their work can we have the necessary
time to prepare Every battle they fight
is battle for America.
We are giving them all the money[hey
need to supply their armies. W9must
now give them food TO feed bfth the
armies and the folk back home.
The Germans and the Austrians are
rapidly approaching empty stomachs
We simply can't afford 10 let the English
and French have any starvation prob
lens on their hands.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Germany's Sin In
The Bible Lands

When the day of reckoning comes Tor
the kaiser and his advisers, not the ieaSt
of the sins charged up against them VIII
! be the woe they have permitted Ga come
I TO thousands, even millions, of Christian
men, women and children ia the Bible
lands
II will not DO for the PruSsians 20 seek
10 evade their blood-guilt by saying they
are not responsible for what the Moslem
Turks do The terrible record, Smeared
with the blood of the innocents, cannot
be explained away. Before the war there
were millions Of Armenian and Syrian
Christians thruout the Turkish posses
sions in Asia Minor. BY their industry,
their thrift. they We're the worthleSt
portion Of the population. The instant
Turkey was dragooned into the war Toy
the Prussians, q reign OF he'll unmiu-
gated began.
Thousands upon thousands OF Chris
tianS were masSacred. The women and
children were driven from their homes
and many Of the former were sold IN the
streets for As low Is s. apiece.
In one instance the Armenlans were
ably defending themselves when German
army officers brought up cannon and dis
lodged the unfortunateS. Doubtless m
stances could be multiplied. showing
German participation.
But even aside from this, much Of the
guilt rests upon German shoulders be
cause the servants of the kaiser have had
a finger in every Turkish pie. They have
dominated the Turkish government
This being the case, il is clear II the
Germans mad wiS-reu - S-zve TIT AZ
menians and Syrians. they could have
done so An order. or 70 put il more
mildly, a suggestion from them 70 the
Turks would have been sufficient. No
such hint was given. The Germans.
busily engaged in giving the Belgians
and the French taste OF ruthlessness,
had no objection to their Moslem friends
and allies inventing their own peculiar
brand of schrecklichkeit for the unfor-
tunates in the Bible lands
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Houses Job Does Not
Mean An Early Peace

When It was recently announced Col
onel Z. NJ. House had been delegated to
collect data in preparation for the event.
ual peace conference, every pro-German
pacifst, disloy alist in the land began
delighted cackle. But their noise was
confession of ignorance.
In time of peace prepare for war is
an old saying. The president is also con-
vinced that in time of war we must pre-
pare for peace.
1t simply means the president is wary,
alert, on the job.
Past peace congresses often caused
more misery than the wars they ended.
The seeds of the present world war were
laid in the cowardice of the Berlin con-
gress, when the Balkan question was
side-stepped. President Wilson, with
characteristic prudence, is trying TO
take time by the forelock, so when this
war ends it will end properly.
This means that not only will the
allies, fighting for democracy, win on the
battlefield, but that they will be pre-
pared. so that they will not be euchred,
cheated, tricked and hoodwinked by
slick, lying Teuton diplomats in the peace
conference.
We have big job. We have TO help
smash the most formidable war machine
the world has known. It is going to
take time and money. BY next spring
Uncle Sam will begin to make some of
his power felt in France BY next fall
he hopes to have a big army in the
trenches. The real energies Of the coun-
try will be absorbed in this. Within a
year we will be doing our manful part in
the work of freeing the world forever
from the menace of Prussianism.
But in the, meantime it will do no harm
to prepare the material our diplomats
will have to use when the war ends. Col.
onel House himself pointed out that he
will have to gather mass of historical
political and economic data. Then he
added this. which gives the rebuff TO all
who are spreading peace propaganda:
such a task as this could not even b,
well begun in less than years time
That it 10 being undertaken now may b,
taken as an indication that there are We
no signs of the ending of the conflict"
This, coming from the man charge,
with the work, is inside, AUTHORITATIVE,
news that our government expects I,
wage war for at least one more year an,
possibly for a longer period.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
BuU a Bond
BY sERroN eRALEY

n you hate opprc ion and lust and shame
n you hate fhe hond with his eyes ahame.
~ you burn with wrath af no word and deed
or crow of pirates whose only creed
D. tho Jaw OF mlgh' and fho rule ~ force
And death io al. who oppose their course;
~ au anger terrible sears your brain
~ chiidren murdered and women slain
AZ cr.msoncd Soas and a. blackcned sod
hli done in tho name Of a prussian God.
NJ sou hate these things and you cannot 20
q. lrht fhe cruel and ruthless Zoe
You cNN be- loyal, you CAN respond
You AS come forward and BUY BONDi"
n rou love your country. sour home. your flag.
Do .I wH.ll NOT witness thrf banner drag
Dol ..e fB.f nf fsilure. n sful YOU care
T.r uhIf a. igfrit and true and fair.
% isut gu empty word
Bl ff.r F0u love, N YOUR heart is rtirrcd
rs tar of world made safe and free
l. i ai common humanity
~ fHer fHhf efrm w0flA Ntilo 90 YOU.
Tl flr service chat you tan do.
Ttourr rou may NOT battle across the pond"
You CAS- save money aud BUY a BOND!-
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Pointed Paragraphs

t1 rious person seldom has
tongue
Le ~ mutton sell in Paris AZ a
aor pound
SUNDAY ri.tv vii not make up FOR
VASES depratify
-fm. mon arc known by ne
ir fail fo make
fH many wise things egt
0l The feet
Ihr Hesr place for "a man 20 has q
q boil 10 iu oS8e tea kettle
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
The Enemy
ny OR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright 1915. by- Frank Crane)

Whoever you are there's somebody
that doesn't like you.
/ The one constant figure on lifes stage
is the enemy He's always there, sitting
grim and silent, or busy with hostility.
BE thou as pure as ice, as chaste as
snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."
Gentle maiden. a good as fair. with
heart warm and kind TO all Gods crea-
lures, anxious TO spread happiness as
May 60 spread flowers, it seems incred-
lble, but there is some one to whom your
presence is odenSe, and to whom your
Isurcease would be pleaSingl
In the chemistry Of souls this repel-
lency is most curious, but undeniable. No
human force ever comes into the world
without its opposite. Every positive has
its negative. In every love is little spot
Of hate. Heaven and hell in their deep
er significance, touch every human heart
Caesar had his Brutus, Socrates his
Meletus, and Jesus the envious Phari-
sees.
When / read any book that pleases me,
human Dickens or quiet Wordsworth, the
exquisitely fooled woodcraft of Vernon
Lee or the smashing liveliness of Conan
Doyle, il often comes to me-somebody
doesn't like this.
Queer. isn't it? Sinister and strange,
but true. Little dove, the hawk scars
Silly watching, little fly, the spider
swings ready in his web; little doe, the
cougar crouches behind the BUSH little
soul, among the gods walks one who
looks darkly at you.
And the higher you climb, the bright
er you write your name upon flames
scroll, the louder your applause and the
more signal your triumph, the surer
there will be, somewhere >muffled in the
cheering crowd, the sombre figure OF
some "Mordecai sitting at the kings
gate"
Is not America a beloved countryl
There are those who loathe 1t unreserv-
.adly,-I Is aet- President Wilson fine fig
lure among statesmen? There are many
who would rejoice at his downfall who
watch eagerly to find his mistakes and
herald them.
In way the strength Of the enemy
is a reliable measure Of ones success.
The more you amount 20, the sharper the
Kisses. Many man has been elected to
congress by his enemies, and many
writer has been bounded to fame
The best way to meet the enemy Is
to let him see that you do not think II
worth while to fight him. Nothing so
Ienrages malice as TO discover that you
don't mind Nothing so disarms attack
as for you to 90 about your business as
usual. Such defense is more effective
than blows; kindness is the most en-
lasperating vengeance.
When in doubt, say nothing. Your
enemy can answer everything you can
possibly say. can retaliate against every
thing you can possibly do, except one
thing That is silence.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Anniversaries
roDAY,s ANNTvERsARIEs

i77s-The last colonial governor Of
Massachusefts. sailed Tor England.
l1s5--Carter Braxton, virginia
= gner * the declaration 81 lnfs-
pendence died in Richmond Born
in NeW uEt0n. Va. sept 10, 1875
isf5- Formal opening % the Unit
ed states naval ACADEMY.
tfsT--Irrome BonApArts returned
% France after having lived In exile
% years
is70- Bavarisns defeated part Of
the French army % the Loire near
1853 Two-csnt letter postage went
into eTec' In the United states
1889 SlNty-one persons were KILLED
IN railroad collision near Penn Ha-
t56t&A congress on German CO.
ioniai enterprise met IN Berlin.
1919 British air squadron bombed
- rfeiin hangar a. Dusseldorf.
1915 BllgerianB began their IN
varnn re serbia.
ONE NFAH AGO TO-DAY IN THE
WAR
British house Of commons sRrs.d
~ thirteenth war credit ~ $1,000
Washlngton Government rejected
Hriffet contention that submarines
were E0t entitled a. enter American
ports holding that they must BE-
treated fElctiy as other yarships.
TODAY's BIRTHDAYS
Br.v -gen George y Duncan. q g
who has been awarded The CrdlK
DO 'ilsrrc hy the French government,
born U kentucky - years ego TODAY.
MsItf,on John W hickman O..
a. WHO has been In command ~
fle south Atlantic coast artillery
fef-irt born ln Illinois % yoars agO
lay
i1r FiaI3f hansen. famous Arctic
rrDInref now head ~ The Nor Riau
o. tie United states. born
n"ar rFfff'fnia SIS gears aRo today.
i.r1 ftfsfInn. lord chief Justice u
'lraf Britain nov IN 70 special mis-.
.rt United -tafsa horn In
Irn earF ago TO-DAY.
HmrfI Edward won tapprllr. Ger
fr Hrlefer - marine and directing
HHrf ffr innrv's aunru -Irn war
frrr born % rrars ago today.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

NHis DEPARTMENT maintained 20 shed Of truth the
operations Of the Advertising aker the quaek and s"lnesr X
letters relating with advertisers who have
been unfair 70 their assertions Or nronses*ho have 's s Or
Users Dishonest advertisers who De found The Tines viii not %
spared Will deemed Of public Interest Advice NJ" also
os given invso Only signed letters gyns the writer's name arc
ADDRESS withheld preferred
address, The AdMrror, The Times Detroit Mich
o. tho
"a 10 bus
".
AdMo'has inquiries
announced
Rapids. AS
Understand they selling stock
old
under the
Everything would be the
exercise
before parting his tho with handling there may be
OF
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

He has described in detail the commits
sion of crimes against women and chill
dren so vile in character that the annals
of degeneracy scarcely furnish a parallel.
He backs his charges with evidence
sufficient to convict in any court OF law.
He deliberately accuses the German
government Of having carried out these
crimes with scientific throroness and &C
cording to prearranged schedule.
Whether or not DR.. HTtt1s Il JustT-
fed in his conclusion that these things
are done by advice and consent OF the
German government, he has convinced
all who heard him that the people OF the
conquered nations are grooming under
regime of barbaric cruelty unequaiec
since the days of Goth and Saracen.
His words should be pondered by those
who would make premature or incomplete
peace with the Teuton beast.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Less You Forget
Latest From the Front

Nothing but a miracle can save Detroit
from the ignominy Of another surrender.
BY 3:45 Thursday afternoon the Detroit
Automobile Club will have the city en-
tirely surrounded.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
From Another Pomtof Niew

Old Mother Hubbard
She went to the cellar
Her household froHn-cold to shield
But when she got there
The coal-bin was bare,
So she long-distanced Garfield.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

HeaIth Nut9tIohs EhsWeFcp.
T. r. asks what is agar and
what is q used for
Agar Is gelatin derived from
scaweed and has tho natural prop
er'y or absorbing water readily and
OF retaining lt II ga used often
in the treatment of chronic consti
patton
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
I he X eep Vel
{ oiunln
AeAoAcrE

II headaches are at All frequent
make an earnest EFFORT TO find and
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Singular or Plural

Singular or Plural
It's up to you, Kaiser Bill-peace or
pieces? And you better not prolong the
debate
There being no reason why everybody
should lay off, Gen. Hsig took advantage
of the world series postponement to 70
out and get Poelcapele
Is it fair to put up the Windsor ferry
rate just As a million and half Of us are
getting ready to 20 over?
Communique from Judge fuckers d.
vorce court makes it clear that many
couples have been fighting all thru the
war
Invest in a Liberty bond today. or All
the rest Of your life may be a dreary tale
Of the loansome pine.
Less You Forget
Tuesday-Meatless
Wednesday Wheatless.
War-Merciless.
In an air raid on the Austrian naval
base and feet the italian aviators made
/ Cattaro howl.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
DIR. Hills Insists the Shock
ing Ravages of Prussian
Soldiery Are Officially Incited

Those who heard Dr. Newell Dwight
Hills terrible indictment of the German
army at the Liberty loan mass meeting
were brought face 20 face with war AS
made in Berlin.
Stories there have been in plenty of
Teuton barbarism in Belgium, but, in
general they have been accepted at a
heavy discount.
1t was hard for Americans TO believe
that civilized men could be guilty Of the
shocking cruelties of which the Germans
stood accused.
Individuals, it was thought, might
have committed such excesses, but sure
" they were only isolated instances. The
Germans as a whole, it was believed. were
innocent of revolving crimes against non
combatants.
II has remained for DR.. Hills, who
went to Europe as a judge and returned
filed with burning Indignation against
all things German, to drive home the
fact that the German army has been
guilty of wholesale outrage on scale
unsurpassed in human history.
He has told in plain language the re-
voting truth concerning those Incidents
which have been spoken Of only in whls-
perS ---------
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

no those pacif.ai sentiments "
flaming judge Tor yourself;
after hc made thaf saccharine
parf ulk laTf night ho won't
home and pounded hIa car for
e'rhf hours. sos up and fore or
80 miles in DIS car, returned 90
dcmolsh "a huge breakfast.
whipped a stream fCr trout uu.
.fi neon. when Dee rH bed homo
and Doarr1 q fcw ma ~ mouth.
IMs billed "a rlm0r gardinS
beat hds wife al g0lf.-Puck
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Let the People
Rule and-Write
One Bond Buyer Who VIII No,

One Bond Buyer Who VIII Not
Repeat
To the Editor OF The Times.
So long as this nation urges is
citizens 20 USE less -four and sugar
than they need, and permits the
brewerios 20 use hundreds OF tons
20 make beer Tor this country and
England, I have no desire 20 sup
port Il by buying rs bonds as did
AZ the FIRST call. believing II would
protect the soldiers from debauch.
cry and destruction.
a l. DARLING
Milford. Mich. oct s. 1917.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10
Laugh With Us

81 am cautious man" said Mr. slowboy. land
rarely place myself In danger without taking
great precautions" and be lifted out OF his
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

Our deepest sympathy "a with The
man Of few words married 20 n wo.
man who does a continuous mono
logue.
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

WHEOU q ny bUuUa Uph dHu 4
brass kettle u came out here
20 see "A match three weeks
ago" the old man explained.
and during tho game red
hot ball. right from the bat,
struck me like n cannot shot
between the eyes. bent my
spectacles down. broke both
,,t...e..e dFaDrrauued my ideas
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

remove the cause
The great ma.
jority of head
aches are caused
by faulty eating
and drink king.
They are NOT TO
De taken lightly,
however. on that
account
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

one song in the heart ls worth
ton Ia the next fat
The Detroit times., 1917-10-10

for these small amounts" said
tho proprietor Sec. ! will
cross your account off the
book. and he drew pencil
across d.. There Is your re-
ceipt" he added.
DO you name that settles
IT," asked Pat