Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-12-19

sNsssVssOSAs
FLAYS ENEMY FOR WRONGS
Executive Expects to Visit the Amer
lean Troops on Christmas and
Celebrate Day With Them
at Treves.
Paris, Dec. 17.-President Wilson
delivered an address at the city hall,
where ceremonies had been arranged
for. The president replied to the
greeting extended him.
'sYour greeting has raised many emo
tions within me-" the president began.
''It is with no ordinary sympathy
that the people Of the United States,
for whom l have the privilege Of
speaking, have viewed the sufferings
of the people of France. Many of our
own people have been themselves wit
nesses of those sufferings. We were
the more deeply moved by the wrongs
of the war because we knew the man
ner in which they were perpetrated.
II beg that you will not suppose that
because wide ocean separated us in
space we were not in effect eyewit-
nesses to the shameful ruin that was
wrought and the cruel and unnecessary
sufferings that were brought upon you.
These sufferings have filed our hearts
with Indignation. We know what they
signified, and our hearts were touched
to the quick by them, our imaginations
filled with the whole picture of what
France and Belgium in particular had
experienced. ars.sr
"Hearts Are Shocked"
''When the United States entered the
war, therefore, they entered it not only
because they were moved by a conyic-
ton that the purposes Of the central
empires was wrong and must be re-
sisted by men everywhere who loved
liberty and the right, but also because
the illicit ambitions which they were
entertaining and attempting to realize
had led to the practices which shocked
our hearts as much as they offended
our principles.
sour resolution was formed because
we knew how profoundly great prin-
ciples of right were affected, but our
hearts moved also with our resolution.
SsYou have been exceedingly gener-
GUS in what you have been gracious
enough to say about me, generous far
beyond my personal deserts, but you
have interpreted with real insight the
motives and resolutions Of the people
Of the United States. We have mere
ly established our right to the full fell
lOwship of those peoples here and
throughout the world who reverence
the right of genuine liberty and Justice.
Pleased by Welcome.
"You have made me feel very much
at home here, not merely by the de-
lightful warmth of your Welcomes but
also by the manner in which you have
made me realize to the utmost the in
Innate community Of thought and ideal
which characterizes your people and
the great nation which / have the hon
or for the time to represent. Your
welcome to Paris 1 shall always re-
member as one of the unique and in
spring experiences of my life, and
while feel that you are honoring the
people of the United States in my per-
son, shall nevertheless carry away
with me very personal qualification
in looking back upon these memorable
days.
Permit me to thank you from full
heart"
Pleased With Premier.
President Wilson and Premier Glenn
enceau touched in only the most gen.
eral manner the problems of the peace
conference In the course of CONVEX
sation they had at the Murat residence,
according to Marcel Hutin of the Echo
dc Paris.
Mr.. Wilson was most impressed with
the premier's personality and is report
ed to have expressed himself in the
uiOol NullSAlhS tcllnS, ISluhIhluS dc
is a most propossessing man."
Mr.. Wilson accompanied the premier
to the door, shook hands long and
heartily with him and said: THANK
you; thank you. Good-by till tomor-
row."
1t is understood that Mr.. Wilson may
visit the American troops on Christmas
and celebrate the day with them at
Treves.
Wilson to Give Banquet.
President Wilson on Thursday will
attend reception given in his honor
by the France America committee. He
will give banquet to President Poin-
care and eminent politicians and dip
lomats on Saturday evening. Covers
will be laid for seventy.
stefansson Wins Medal.
New York, Dec. 17.-yilhjalmur Stef-
ansson, discoverer of the blond ,Es-
kimo and Of several islands In the
Arctic archipelago Of British North
America, has been selected by the
council Of the American Geographical
society as the recipient Of the Charles
r. DAILY, medal.
Fehrenbach convokes Reichstaa.
Amsterdam. Dec. --Konstantin
Fahrpnh0ch nrpsidpnt Of tho roioh