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Evening star., 1918-01-13
Desperate in Southwest.

Throughout the southwest traffic
conditions are reported desperate. The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway is
making no effort to operate regular
trains, but is attempting to get relief
trains through to those stalled along
the line in Oklahoma and Kansas. The
Missouri Pacific and other roads have
either annulled all trains or are only
running in certain divisions.
The Chicago. North Shore and Mil
waukee, an electric line, has abandon
ed all trains except between Evanston
and Waukegan, approximately thirty
five miles.
No mail from any direction has been
received in Chicago since early this
morning, post Office officials report, and
none is going out.
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below zero. a drop Of forty-three de-
grees in eight hours. Street car tranc
was seriously crippled by the blizxard
and steam road service was almost
paralyzed. Wire communication held
up well. Two persons were found
frozen to death in Detroit and local
hospitals treated more than 1000 suf-
ferers.
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due yesterday, are reported somewhere
along the line
A through train for the west on the
Rock Island has been stalled all day
in the switchyards on the outskirts
Of the city. The Rock Island reports
that many of its trains are tied up
between the Mississippi river and the
Rocky mountains. but that efforts to
locate them have failed. Traffic in this
section is said to be the worst in his
tory. Many trains on all roads in this
section have not been heard from for
twelve to twenty-four hours. The
Golden State Limited. an east-bound
Rock Island train from the Pacific
coast, was released from drifts in Kis-
met, Kan. last night. after being
stalled ten hours. but has not arrived
Evening star., 1918-01-13
WAVE cENTERs OVER OHIO.
Thousands of Homes and Offices
Have Practically No Heat.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. January 12.-The
center of one of the coldest waves the
country has ever experienced tonight
centered over Ohio. paralyzing railroad
transportation and causing great suffer-
is reported to be the most serious ever
known.
Ohians this morning awoke to find the
thermometer registering many points
below zero. and the weather prediction
was for even colder weather tonight and
tomorrow. No let-up is in sight until
Monday the weather man said.
With sixteen degrees below zero, Gin
cinnau and Dayton were the coolest
places in Ohio today. Columbus had the
coldest weater in nineteen years. with
thirteen below. Cleveland registered
nine below. Accompanying the bitter
cold weather was high wind which
made the suffering more acute. The cold
wave practically caused a general sus-
pension of business everywhere in the
state. In many towns and cities the
stores closed late this afternoon and did
not stay open for the usual Saturday
night business. Few people were seen
on the streets.
To make the situation worse, the
natural gas supply in several cities be-
came low, leaving thousands of homes
and business houses with little or prac-
tribution along rural routes was sus-
pended today for the first time in the
history of the Newark post office.
Never before has railroad traffic been
SO demoralized. Many trains were en-
tire]y annulled and those that did sue
ceed in getting through were hours late.
Freight transportation was practically
at a standstill.
The office Of the state fuel adminis-
traitor here was literally syamped to-
day with appeals from suffering COM
munities for coal. The fuel administra-
tion was able to give but little help,
however. as practically no coal trains
are able to move
Evening star., 1918-01-13
LENINE CALLS MESSAGE
BIG MOVE TOWARD PEACE
Cablexram to The Sunday Star and Ne-
York World. Copyright, 1918,

"oFiu. C0Pyr1Eht, 1918.
PEI RoGRAD. January IL. via Lon.
don. January 12.-"It is a great move
toward peace said Nikolai Lenina
head of the bolshevik government.
when handed a complete copy of Presi-
dent Wilson's address in Russian this
afternoon. Not waiting for particu-
lars. he ran down the hall of Smolny
Institute and handed the Presidents
war message to an operator. sending
direct wire messages to Foreign Min
lister Trotzky at Brest-Litovsk, with
orders to send it Immediately
Evening star., 1918-01-13

the cold wave, reports to the weather
bureau showed, but temperatures there
were falling rapidly and much colder
weather was forecast for tomorrow. In
the south the cold extended far into
Florida and the cold along the gulf
coast was severe. The thermometer
registering Is below freezing at Mo-
bile and 20 below freezing at New Or
leans.
The minimum Temperature reported
today at Chicago was II below zero.
with colder weather expected tonight.
1t was 20 degrees below at Fort Wayne.
16 below at ST. Louis and even be-
low at Memphis. At Birmingham. Ala.
it was above.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
COLD KILLS TWO AT DETROIT.
City's Hospitals Treat More Than
1000 Sufferers.

DETROIT. Mich. January 12-The
official temperature in Detroit at $3.50
o'clock this forenoon was 1S degrees
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Passengers Arrive on Sleds.

WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, Ohio,
January ia westbound passenger
train on the Detroit, Toledo and IRON
ton railroad is snowbound at Boyds
sengers were brought to this city on
sleds this afternoon. Snow drifts, it is
said, have, almost covered the train.
Thermometers registered 20 degrees be-
low zero here today.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES.
Corrected to the Close of Bushes. January IL,
at the Office of The Evening Star.
Railway and Miscellaneous Share.

closing
of
the to date
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WAR MUST GO ON, =
SAYS Mr.. LANSING
IN THRILLING PLEA

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Playing German Game.

ITO permit them to go uncorrected." I"
he said. ''is to play the German game in
the most effective manner possible.
1t is no mere accident that has made
all the pro-German organs in the press
clamor against the men who dare to
point out our shortceming: for the
pro-Germans know well that the ruth
less enemies of this country, whom they
serve as far as they dare. desire moth
ing so much as to see this country
afraid to acknowledge and make good
Its shortcomings: and these pro-Ger-
mans cloak their traitorous aid to
Germany under the camoufiage of pre-
tended zeal to save American officials
from just criticism"
Col. Roosevelt said America would
be wise to make it's ultimate aim
such military and industrial pre-
paredness as shall save us from ever
again being caught in such shape as
to be helpless to protect ourselves"
In this connection. he reiterated his
advocacy Of universal military train
ing. The training camps of to-
day." he said. ARE huge universities
of American citizenship: and it will
be a crime if they are ever discon-
tinued."
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NATIONS COOLEST WAVE
SMASHES RAIL TRAFFIC

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Days Work Unfinished.

AT the Bar Association dinner Jules
J. Jusserand, the French ambassador
to the United States, said it was not
the word peace but the word Con
ditions" to which attention should be
paid at this time. for it is the condi-
tions which must be won by Germany's
enemies.
Conditions will not be offered us
as gift" he said. The days work is
not finished. though the dawn of the
to the sea, the watch is kept; the Bel
gian, the British. the French, the
American armies are not only unde-
feated. but on the move. While the
enemy f1atters himself. in his lust of
destruction, that he may have bled
white one or the other of us, it turns
out that we have extra divisions to
spare and we can offer a helping hand
to a dear friend. south of US, undergo
Ing temporary troubles. But we have
to finish our work. and to finish it WELL
SO that it ned never be done again."
Pays President Tribute.
The ambassador paid a tribute to
President Wilson's allusion to Americas S
determination that the wrong done
to France by Prussia in 1871 in the mat
ter of Alsace-Lorraine shouht be right
ed"
mo day of my long diplomatic ca
reer," the speaker said. has been
happier one thanThat, when the success
sor of Washington. speaking as Wash
ington himself would have spoken, de-
livered a statement which will be en-
grared till the end of time in every
French heart"
The ambassador said 1917 would be
memorable always because of that
unique move of the President, an act
unexampled in the history of this coun-
try and of the world. bringing to bear
the forces and resources of the New
World on the settlement of a conflict
in the old, a conflict on which depends
the future of mankind"
Raps Lack of Efficiency.
One of the greatest weaknesses of
government in this country is lack OF
efficiency due to failure to place au-
thority and responsibility upon special
individuals. it was declared by Orriu
N. Carter. chief justice of the Illinois
supreme court, in an address before the
New York State Bar Association, This
criticism, he said, applies especially to
the organization of the courts, adding
that there ought to be unified organi-
zation in such way as to place re-
sponsibility on some individual or some
few individuals"
"A mere form or organization cannot
give us efficient courts" he went on.
I'VE must have men of character ex-
perience and training in order to en-
force and carry on successfully apy or
ganization of any court of govern
ment.'
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is the highest honor that any countr,
can ask.
Italv's Position in War.

"Italy's position in this war has beer
perverted by clever propaganda OF oul
common enemy into an accusation o.
faithlessness," declared Ambassador d
Cellere of Italy. fortunately, however
your great President and the people Of
the United States have come to recog
nize that this accusation is hideouslS
false.
This German propaganda has cen
tered around two points-that we were
traitors to the triple alliance; that we
entered the war only for selfish ends
Italy did not betray her former allies
she was brutally and repeatedly be-
trayed by them.
"Never was Italy so great as the day
she transformed what appeared to be one
of the greatest defeats known in military
annals into a victorious rally of all heI
forces at the Piave. which, mentioned in
a halo of glory the greatest episodes in
the history of those nations which are
shedding their blood in the cause of civili-
zation."
single message. MY message is: Let
us all have courage. We are going on
with this war We must win 1t for the
sake of humanity. and we Will win 1t.
The duke of Devonshire. governor
general of Canada, spoke briefly. Re-
Britain and the United States, he said:
Connected as we are by close asso-
citation and ties we have special rea-
son to greet you as comrades in arms
Sincerely as we appreciate the inval-
liable assistance you have given in all
material directions, what we really
value to the highest degree is the
knowledge that you have made our
cause your own.
Much has been done, but we all rec
ognize that still further and more
strenuous efforts are needed, and hope
you will accept the assurances from
me that we in Canada are in to the
finish"
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Chicago's Big Department
Stores Closed by Storm;
All Industries ParaIyZed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 12.-Chicago took
over a sector of the Arctic circle today.
Its commercial and industrial blood was
frozen in it's veins. The city had so per
cent recovered from the blizzard of last
Sunday when the new storm. with the
added cruelty of mercury drop to
minus IA, came upon it.
No storm 50 far reaching in it's effects
ever before afflicted the city. Fire Mar
shall O'Connor. speaking of snow-buried
hydrants and impassableAstreets, issued
statement calling on the public for cid
and asserted that the menace of a con-
1agration was the greatest since 1871.
Fine snow fell all last night and all to-
day. and while the column in the official
thermometer rose slowly to zero as the
day wore on, the industrial mercury
sank.
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COOLEST BLAST OF
WINTER DUE IN D. C.

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Only One Peace.

America must accept no peace ex-
cept "the peace of overwhelming VIC
tory" said Theodore Roosevelt. ITO
accept an inconclusive peace would
mean that the whole war would have
to be fought over again by ourselves
and our children. Those who now de-
mand such a peace are not only the enc
mics of America but of democracy
throughout the world, and stand on the
level of the bolsheviki. who have be-
trayed both Russia and her allies to
the militaristic and capitalistic autoc-
racy of the Hohenzo1lerns.''
Unless both Belgium and France are
restored and Unidentified. Col. Roosevelt
said, justice will not have prevailed
The expediting of war preparations
was urged by the speaker, who declared
that to refuse to see and to point out
the country's failure in this respect "is
both silly and unpatriotic"
Evening star., 1918-01-13
The Question of Labor.

The question of labor is still domi-
pant one with banks and in many other
lines of commercial business.
Women are making their appearance
in larger numbers around the banks
than ever before, while they may even
be found at windows, assuming the du-
ties of tellers.
Further calls to service from among
the young men are likely within the next
few weeks.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-18
4 Great Southern Achievement.

In recording the fact that upwards of four hun
dred million dollars worth of steel and wooden
ships are now under construction contract along
the South Atlantic and the Gulf coast, the Manu-
facturers' Record observes:
Georgia furnishes its quota at the ports OF
Savannah and Brunswick, the former having
three plants with contracts for thirty ships
valued at thirty million dollars and the latter
six yards, five of which have been established
during the past year.
Georgia's seaports are destined to a more and
more important part in the material interests OF
the State both matters Of transportation and in
dustry Their excellent harbors, their ample rail
and ship connections their proximity to great fields
of iron and coal and also to the interior points
from which lumber, cement and kindred supplies
are drawn all go to make these ports capital ship
building centers.
They thus will play a continually more i'm
portant part in the affairs of the Nation as we'll
as of the State. Shipbuilding on unexampled pro
portions and at an unprecedented rate of speed is
essential to the winning of the war. Without ade-
quate ocean shipping facilities we cannot main
tain our troops in France even transport them
thither much less send sufficient stores of food to
our low-rationed Allies. Regardless of the sub
marine menace, we must have more ships and still
more ships to make our military and economic
resources effective 1t is indeed gratifying that
the South is contributing so richly to this end
Along the entire Atlantic and Gulf coast from
Maryland to Texas, there is not single port which
is not producing ships in one or more yards; and
vast deal, if not most of this enterprise and ac-
tivity have developed within the last twelvemonth.
The capital and energy and constructive thought
thus invested will serve, not for the war period
alone. but on through the stirring years of COM
mercial contest and expansion that will mark our
national history when peace returns. There is
son to believe that American dependence in mat
tiers of high-sea shipping will be shaken off and
that as in the days of old our merchant flag will
star every ocean path and revive our countrys sea
traditions the world around We dare not let the
years ahead find us as miserably provided with
shipping as we we're at the outbreak Of the pres
ent war when more than ninety per cent of our
oversee trade was carried in foreign bottoms. An
adequate merchant fleet Of our own is vital a
matter OF preparedness as is the building of an
invincible navy. Otherwise we shall never be able
to play prosperous worthy serviceable part in
the world development that will begin with peace.
Happily. preparations of a most vigorous and far
reaching character going forward TO that end,
with Georgia and the South in the full swing of
the vast labor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-18
Advantages and Needs Of South
eastern Ports. g

In view of the great congestion prevailing in
ne ports of the East and the struggle OF the gov
eminent railroad administration with this prob
lem, the wisdom OF diverting much of the Eu-
ropean export business through the southern and
southeastern ports becomes more and more ap-
parent.
1t appears that heretofore nearly all the ship
ping of the country was routed through eastern
ports. 1t can be readily how this brought
about the conditions which resulted in overflow
ing warehouses and docks and delayed shipments
10 our allies. Commenting upon the subject the
Manufacturers Record says,
s 1T. seemed difficult to awaken the ship
pers and the railroads and the financial pow
ers controlling the situation to the fact that
endless confusion certain to come about
J by reason of the effort to drive the entire
trade of this mighty country. crowded to the
limit with the production of munitions for
the allies, through the narrow throat of the
funnel of New York and other North At
Iantic ports. Stretched out a great funnel
into which was being poured the vast traffic
of the North and West and Northwest, and
indeed Of portions of the Southwest, the
funnel ended at New York City, and yet rail-
road men, bankers, government officials, and
shippers generally, tried to ram through a
small funnel, throat neck, volume OF
traffic which filed the entire funnel to over
flowing"
Che Record also calls attention to the fact that
ar E. Clarke or the Interstate Commerce Com
lsion in his testimony before the Senate in
sestigating committee, took the ground very in
istentIy that exports must be sent from
outhen and southeastern ports to relieve the
Dntinued congestion at New York and New Eng
md ports"
The advantages OF the southeastern ports in
is situation are obvious They possess good
rbors, and excellent dock and wharf facilities
the government, that it has control Of the
roads. will undoubtedly find that it make
alter and greater use OF them in getting ship
hts to Europe.
Great grain shipments from the west will be-
to flow through these ports, too as as
ain elevator facilities have been constructed in
adequate volume. Due to the fact that the grain
shipments have Heretofore been routed to north
ern ports, southern ports for the most part have
not been equipped for shipping grain in large
quantities. More bulk grain elevators are the
present need OF these ports, and will undoubtedly
be forthcoming the great advantages of the
southeastern outlets recognized and they
become more and the means of relieving
the heavy strain put by the upon the export
facilities OF the east.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-18
The Nitrate Problem.

Georgia cotton growers and the numerous in
dustries dependent them will be greatly relieved
by the announcement that the Government has per
fected plans for supplying Southern farmers with
nitrate of soda in quantities sufficient for the pro-
duction of next seasons crop. Mr. Nell r. Will
knson, who is rendering the country invaluable
service as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in
charge of the distribution fertilizers is quoted
by The Journals Washington correspondent to the
effect that within the next fortnight or so ship
Chile will dock at Savannah with some
eighteen thousand tons nitrate for SALE at cost
plus freight charges, to the farmers of this State
II appears in this connection that. pursuant to
ten million dollar appropriation made for the pur-
pose at the preceding session of Congress,
The government has purchased, all told.
100000 tons OF Chilean nitrates for the use
Of American farmers in the production os
their next crop. While it is probable that in
ordinary times the farmers use in excess of
this quantity of fertilizer. the government
hopes to make the 100000 tons meet the re
quirement by rigidly regulating its distribu-
ton That is one of the why the
governments nitrate importation will be sold
only to individual farmers on the recommen-
dation of county agents. In no circumstances
will the government permit any one farmer
to secure a larger quantity OF fertilizer than
he actually requires. ..- ~.
1t IS fortunate indeed that the present emer-
gency is to be met by the Government in so thor
oughgoing manner. But this does not solve the
basic problem concerned Nor will that problem
be solved until means provided. through the
development of the country's water power re-
sources for the production of nitrates from the
air For military well agricultural reasons
the United States cannot afford to remain de-
pendent on a far distant, oversee source of sup
DIV for an element without which not round of
ammunition or a bushel of wheat could be pro-
duced Furthermore, the excessive cost of the i'm
ported nitrate places heavy and really needless
burden on our farmers. and Government alike
On every dollars worth of this commodity which
we buy from Chile, pay the Chilean Govern
ment an export duty of sixty cents-a tax runs
into the millions What this means to the farm
ers of Georgia may be inferred from the fact that
this State together with South Carolina. uses al
most as much fertilizer all the rest of the South
and together with North Carolina, nearly as much
as all the rest of the Union. The development of
this regions water power resources by making pos
sfble the cheap and abundant production of nitrate
in the heart of the farming territory where it is
most in demand, would solve of the Nations
largest problems both of agriculture and Of ma
tional defense.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-18
The Wolf at Germany'S Door.

While the food problem is admittedly serious
with Allies, we may gather reinsurance from
the fact that it is more serious in Germany.
Hollander direct from a sojourn in that wolf
haunted land is quoted by the Berne correspondent
of the New York World as saying "Only the very
rich can stave off the pangs of hunger" Other
reports do not that far, but all agree that civil
ian Germany is feeling the pinch of extreme priva-
ton.
The Kaisers subjects still may be a long way
from actual starving, but it is evident from all
accounts that they are succumbng physically if
not otherwise to the effects g-contnued under
nourishment. Herbert Corey described the situa-
ton conservativey when he wrote earlier in the
winter in one of his highly interesting war letters
to The Journal, that while perhaps no one in Ger
many was dying from hunger, no one had enough
to eat--enough, that is. to meet minimum require
nents for bodily strength and health This con-
dition of affairs could be borne for weeks and
months with forttude and without threatening
disaster But when it is prolonged for years, dis
ease and general impairment of national efficiency
are inevitable.
The situation is chiefly significant showing
that in the endurance test which is important
a phase of the Germany is bound to lose if
we do our duty in sending food to Allies. Each
winter has told more keenly on her il-fed millions
until this, the fourth and grimmest, finds them
approaching desperate straits. The effect upon
the outcome of the war, however, depends in large
measure on how well America performs her duty
of helping to provision low-rationed Allies
We must keep them in supplies if the odds against
Germany are to be duly effective and the endur-
ance test is to continue in favor. Every pound
of food that we save to pour into the balance on
the side of our friends in battle is bolt against
Prussianism. .'.~..