Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-03
PRESIDENT REGARDS (continued from Page One)

country and to the owners of the rail- roads to return to the old conditions unmodified. Those are conditions of restraint without development. There is nothing affirmative or helpful about them. What the country chiefly needs is that all it's means of transportation should be developed, it's railways, it's waterways, it's highways, and it's countryside roads. Some new element of policy, therefore, is absolutely neces- sary-necessary for the service of the public, necessary for the release of credit to those who are administering tfe railways. necessary for the protec- tion of their security holders. The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely be left as it was.
 I hope that the congress will have a complete and impartial study of the whole problem instituted at once and prosecuted as rapidly as possible. l stand ready and anxious to release the roads from the present control, and I must do so at a very early date if by. waiting until the statutory limit of longing the period of doubt and un- certainty which is hurtful to every in- terest concerned.
 l welcome this occasion to announce to the congress my purpose to join in Paris the representatives of the gov- ernments with which we have been associated in the war against the cen tral empire for the purpose of discuss ing with them the main features of the treaty of peace. I realize the great inconveniences that will attend my leaving the country, particularly at this time, but the conclusion that it v1r0es 5,,fxr 4o forced upon me by considerations whitE I hope will seem as conclusive to you 6s tlIey have seemed to me. The a1-e1: governments have accept ed the basis of peace which I outlined to the congress on the Sth of January last, as the central empires also have, and very reasonably desire my per sonal counsel in their interpretation and application, and it is highly de- sirable that I should give. it in order that the sincere desire of our govern ment to contribute without selfish pur- | pose of any kind of settlements that will be of common benefit to all the nations concerned may be made fully manifest. The peace settlements which are now to be agreed upon are of transcendent importance both to us i and to the rest of the world, and
 know of no business or interest which should take precedence of them.
 l The gallant men of our armed forces
 on land and on sea have consciously fought for the ideals which they knew
 to be the ideals of their country.
 have. sought to express those ideals;
 they have accepted my statements of
 them as the substance of their own thought and purpose, as the associated governments have accepted them;
 owe it to them to see to it, so far as
 in me lies; that no false or mistaken interpretation is put upon them, and mo possible effort omitted to realize
 them. It is now my duty to play my full part in making good what they
 offered their life's blood to obtain l can think of no call to service which
 could transcend this.
 l shall be- in close touch with you
 and with affairs on this side the water, land you will know all that I do. At lmy request the French and English governments have absolutely raised the
 censorship of cable news which until
 within fortnight they had maintained
 and there is now no censorship what ever exercised at this end except upon