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The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
Soon as McAdoo Can Get
Around to 1t, He Will
Fix Wage Scale,
REVISION UPWARD,
DICTATOR'S PROGRAM
Adjustment Committee to
Be Named; Union Chiefs
Are Consulted.

Railroad employees will receive
an advance in wages just as soon
as he government can arrive at
what it considers fair rate of COM
pensation under existing circum-
stances.
This became definite last night
when Director General McAdoo an
nounced that he would name within
few days a wage adjustment COM
mittee of four to take up this mat
ter and determine the proper in
creases.
Betterment Put First.
The committee will investigate
the demands made by the four
brotherhoods upon the railroads and
will then make its own conclusions
upon the fairness or uL:airness Of
the various claims.
There must be an improvement
in railroad service, induced by TIE
square DEAL" said Mr.. McA doc. The
men Will get the square deal"
The Director General would not
venture a prediction on what the
advance would be, but very strong
ly hinted that it would not be any
thing like 80 to 40 per cent the
orotherhooGs are asking. The raise
VIII date from January !.
The Director General was in con-
! ference with the. brotherhood men
practically all day. There were
present w. G. Lee, president, and
w. N. DOak, vice president of the
brotherhood of Railroad Train
men; A. B. Garretson. president, and
/ W. NJ. Clark. vice president, of the
Order of Railway Conductors; w
5. Carter. president and p. J. Nc
Namara, vice president, Brotherhood
or Locomotive, Firemen and Engine
men. and H. L. Wells. assistant
grand chief of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
Looks for Loyalty.
After the conference, Mr.. McAdoo
said ne felt confident that an ad-
1ustment fair to the men as we'll as
10 the country will be reached"
Every eRploye affected by this
inquiry may devote himself unre-
servedly and periodically to his
work with the assurance that his
rights and interests will be Justly
dealt witbI he continued.
This is time of great stress. and
the attitude of every employe should
! De determined by the supreme need of
the hour-duty to his country first of
all. L cannot state too strongly the
necessity for devoted and loyal serv-
ice by every man in this emergencv
livery railroad empioye Is now In
enect a government empIoye and as
much in duty bound to give mis- most
service to his country as IL he ,vore
the uniform of the United States army
and occupied the trenches at the front
Every unnecessary delay in a train
movement yitally affects our so,diers
and sailors and seriously innpairs our
ability to defend our rights and
liberties.
Every man whose neglect or in
/ difference causes such DELAYS may bo
responsible for the loss of the son of
some noble American mother or
| father.
1t Is as serious to the country for
an employe to be Stacker in his work
as Tor a man to be a Stacker in the
| army.
In the name Of patriotism, there
lore for the protection of our sons
and for the safety of the nation I
nope that every man. wherever placed.
VIII do his level best Let us who
stay at home be ashamed not to be
willing to make sacrifices equally as
great as those our gallant -~ns are
CONTINUED FROM PACE nv
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
Sugar Urice Reduced
One Cent Per Pound

A reduction in the price of sugar
amounting to a cent a pound is
announced by the United States
Food Administration as follows:
The price of Cuban raw sugar
being six cents, dsty paid, as from
January at New York. the price
of refined sugar will be s7.45, less
per cent to wholesalers.
The Atlantic seaboard area thus
comes into. the interior price basis.
or reduction of about one cent a
pound. or $50 a ton"
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
lnterned German Held
In Norfolk Arson Case

Buffalo. Jay. 4.-suspected of having
been implicated in the arson plot
which resulted in the destructive fire
at Norfolk. Va. Wednesday. a Ger
man, giving his name as Richard r.
Baton, -. member of the crew of an
interned German liner, was arrested
late today by Department of Justice
officials. Maps of Norfolk were in his
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
FRENCH ENVOY
SEES VICTORY
OYER GERMANS
Capt. Tardieu Believes War
Will Soon Be Brought
to an End.

Capt. Andre Tardieu, French High
Commissioner. Is back in Washington.
He feels that the prospects of the
allies were never brighter than they
are now.
At the same time officials and diplo-
mats brand as German propaganda re-
ports spread throughout the United
States within the last forty-eight
hours attributing a pessimistic char
I aeter to the report of the House Mis-
sion.
There is no possibility that the Ger
mans will be able to break through
the allied line on the west The al
lies believe that the United States
has done and is doing all that can
be expected and. what is more impor-
tant, all that is needed
House Advice Approved.
There is no disposition to ignore
the recommendation of Col House
that American troops be sent over
seas as fast as possible. But the need
for speed is-due to no emergency
1t is merely that troops may be better
and faster trained right behind the
lines in France, in the atmosphere
Of actual combat, than they can be
in an American cantonment 5000 miles
away.
1T is certainly outside of all mill
tary rules to boast of an attack to
come said a French Official last
night. Therefore the boasting is
political 1t is desired to depress the
spirit Of the allies by these boyle
threats. To say that the United
States will not arrive in time is all
of piece with this campaign"
The high spirit and determination
of the French armies and people is
largely attributed to the revelations
of just how German peace offers work
out. as exemplified in the case Of
Russia.
"DOve" Proves VuIture.
Germany is still bent on con-
quest, despite her soft words" said
the Frenchman quoted above "She
talks largely of no annexations and
the self-determination of peoples
and then she endeavors to pocket
the fattest provinces of Russia. She
says Courland has determined to be
German because the Prussian bar
ons of that land have said so.
For the first time a German
peace offer has been brought to
earth-and the dove is found to be
a vulture."
AS the situation reveals itself to
men who know all the details, it is
as follows:
Under no circumstances can Ger
many muster the strength to smash
the Western line.
The forces of the United States,
adequately trained and equipped,
will reach that line in time to help
press it back.
In the meantime, all of the ad-
vantages Germany may gain from
Russia will insure to the benefit of
the junkers. This, and the growth
of class hatred in Germany due to
the pressure of the embargo of the
United States. only now beginning
to be felt. constantly tend TO weak
en- the German political and mill
tary structure.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
Germans Return for
Further Parleys But
Russians Are Absent
Outlook, for Separate Peace Dubious
Unless Teutons Back Down on Evac-
uation Issue = 'Trotzky Insistent-
Failure of Negotiations May Mean
German Drive on Russia and, Recog-
milton of Bolsheviki by Allies.

London JAM 4Gemanys peace delegation headed by Foreign
Minister Dr. Kuehmann back Brestovsk today when
Trozky's "utimatum" to the Allies expired
Up late this evening by the Russian
delegates had the peace paeys Trotzky
last accounts. regarded this a unlikely.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
Atlantic Coast Line R,,,ro.s.

On account Of changed conditions, Train No
81. reaching jacksonville and all Florida East
Coast points, formerly scheduled to leave Wash
inetol. elective January J, At as d. m. Nill
leave Washington at ! Is ?. m Information and
Pullman aceommodaticns. ips New rork svenns
The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
The WASHINGTON HERALD

= Is not party newspaper. II
is out to help the government WIN
the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

States Attorney ". G.. McLaren, of Sc
attle, prosecuting.
The governments contention was
that, since OLSON, in obtaining his
citizenship papers, had sworn adher-
ence to the Constitution and laws of
the United States, whereas in reality
he did not at that time believe in any
OF the property projections the Con-
stltutlon provides. he had been guilty
of obtaining citizenship by fraud.
At the trial the prisoner denied be-
ing an anarchist, denied being opposed
to organized government or in favor
of overthrowing this government by
force or violence; but he omitted to
make any declaration affirming his
loyalty to the Constitution, and on
cross-examination his answers to ques-
tlons on this subject were all
evasive." The court accordingly took
| away his American citizenship
Weapon to Curb Socialists
"'Why should we not now investigate
antl-war Socialist agitators on the
same ground" asked Mr.. Lynch.
"Ihat is the next proper step to
take said Maurice Leon, the nterna-
tional lawyer. "These men call them
selves 'internati onalists. That means
that having taken a natonalistic oath,
they. disregard it's obligations. In other
words, they are not, and never have
been, Americans in spirit. They give
without receiving. Action in the cases
OF such men has been deferred long
enough" 10
This decision of Judge Haight's
represents r.? p1. an important step in the
RIGHT ~
Wheeler, chairman of the executive
committee of the American Constitu-
tlonal League. Each nation is bound
to protect its citizenship. These
stealthy, silent German sympathizcrs
are traitors within the camp, whether
they resort to open deeds of traitor
Gus nature or not. For the health of
the nation, of American life as a
whole. they should be eliminated This
step brings their ultimate, complete
elimination nearer"
Henry N. Tiff, Assistant Attorney
General under President Cleveland,
pronounced Judge Haight's decision le
gally sound. He was merely one of a
large company who were inclined to
dismiss any suggestion that the higher
courts may reverse the judgment on
the appeal which Wursterbarth's at
torney declares he will take.
" HSiA AIdl ldEeS OUT ClLlZenShlD
papers," said Mr.. Tiff, "he enters into
q contract under definite stipulations.
One OF those is to uphold the Consti-
tuition and adhere to it. If at the time
he does not adhere to it, if he has
some mental reservation, his whole ac-
tlon is rooted in fraud. 1t is as if q
married man took some job where the
specifications called for a single man,
ne swearing that he was such. There.
after he might fulfil his lob very we'll
and do nothing actively Objectionable
But his status would be fraudulent
none the less, and if he were discoy-
cred he would have to go. The case is
exactly parallel"
Charles Stewart Dawson, trustee Of
the American Defence Society, declared
that all naturalization proceedings
were ,.' essentially in the nature of a
is dead, he holds. it is perfectly repmla y
to set the original trial decision aside
once 1t is proved wrong.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Engineer Is Blamed
For Central Wreck
That Cost 4 Lives

No official explanation was forth
coming yesterday of the cause Of the
wrecking of the Buffalo Special on the
New York Central Railroad at Scho-
dack Landing, twelve miles south of
Albany, late on Monday night. Repre-
sentatives of the road, however. de-
clared thorough investigation was be-
ing made.
The final toll of dead and injured
placed the former at four and the lat
ter at fifteen in the hospitals at AL
bany. Several other passengers who
suffered only from shock or slight
bruises were able to continue their
journeys.
The corrected list of dead follows:
GEORGE w. DRUMMOND, passenger.
ton Avenue. Brooklyn.
BENSON HUGHES. passenger sales.
man, of 1876 East 138th Street
r. SHERWOOD, engineer, Rensselaer,,
ALBERT JosLYN. fireman. Rensselaer,.
All of those in the Albany hospitals
are expected to recover.
The Investigations of the cause of
the wreck centre chiefly on the condi-
tion of a switch short distance from
Sch hodack Landing station. According
to the testimony OF railroad men. the
crew of freight train which passed
over the switch few hours before
the accident found it could not be
locked. A series of block signals, how
ever, was believed to be sufficient to
guard trains following from the danger
of running over the switch at too high
a rate of speed and two other trains
did pass the switch before the special
without any difficulty.
TIE wreck is believed to have been
due to the engineer, who was killed,
running past signal to slow down.
When the engine of the special reached
the unlocked switch it left the main
tracks and started over to the siding.
It's speed was too great, however, and
after travelling few feet the heavy
engine left the rails and turned COM
pletely over.
The first car of the train was a Pull
man horse car, in which there were
thirty-three animals. Several were so
badly injured they had to be shot.
Drummond and Hughes, the dead
passengers, were sitting in the smok-
ing car, which turned over as it jumped
the track They lived only a short
time after reaching the Albany Hos
pital.
OF the six Pullman sleepers, five left
tae track. but none turned over and
their occupants, with few exceptions,
escaped practically unscathed.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Jersey Ruling Opens Way
To Crush Proc 1ermanism
Lawyers See in Revocation of Disoyalists Citizenship
Powerful Weapon to Stamp Out Disloyalty Hidden
Under Cloak of Amercanism

A weapon that will strike at the root
of proGermanism in this country and
should result in elimination of every
form of disloyalty from the American
body politic-such was the construction
eminent jurists and lawyers in this city
yesterday put on the decision whereby
Judge Thomas G. Haight on Monday re-
voked the citizenship of Frederick w.
Wursterbarth, naturalized German, for
mer postmaster of Lakeview. N. j., and
for thirty-ive years a voter under the
protection Of the Stars and Stripes.
N& since the big trust case decisions
came up from the Supreme Court has
such interest been manifested in legal
circles here.
This" said Assistant United States
Attorney John E. Walker, "is the thing
we have been waiting for. The prece-
dent is invaluable. We have numerous
cases that have long been under in
vcstigation which we shall now push
to the uttermost."
Affects Many Under Suspicion
At the Department. of Justice, too,
the indications are that from to-day
onward full speed is to be the watch
word in a wholesale roundup of OBJ
jectonable citizens who have hereto
fore been able to cloak their prof. Ger
manism under the mantle of natural
ization certificates. The case of
Johannes Herman Martin Augustus
Won Thing, the physician from Riga
who is said to belong to the notorious
group of Poughkeepsie pro- German
sympathizers, will be the first of these
to come up for hearing. At the same
time Charles De Woody, in charge of
the Department of Justices bureau of
investigation here, said that investiga-
tions into long list of naturalized
enemy aliens who are downlon the sus-
pecteG list will be vigorously followed
up.
In legal circles particular stress was
laid upon the fact that, according to the
precedent Judge Haight has established
in the Wursterbarth case, it is not nee
essary to show any overt act in order to
prove man unfit for American citizen
ship. A demonstrated sympathy for the
enemy, thing of purely mental quail
ity, is hereby, it is held. sufficient to
place him beyond the pale.
Precedent In Seattle Case
"The case that we cited as prece-
dent at the Wursterbarth trial" said
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles j. Lynch, of the prosecu-
tion.. "did not strictly apply, perhaps,
in the action in question. But the
fact that the whole decision in that in.
stance, the entire reason for the rev.
ocation of the mans citizenship,
rested upon the fact that he was an
avowed Socialist, is extremely signiti-
cant. 1t might conceivably form basis
for action against number of Social
ist agitators."
The man in question was one Leon
ard OLSON, who obtained his citizen
ship certificate in the State of Wash
ington on January 10, 1910. Almost
immediately thereafter he began pub
| licly to advocate Socialist principles of
the most rabid sort. On May II, 1912,
he was brought to trial before District
Judge Hanford, Assistant United
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Study of German
To End in Schools
OF Philadelphia
Board of Education Finally
Indorses Patriotic
Demands
By BRIGGS
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)


PHILADELPHIA, May ID. - The
Board of Education to-day eliminated
the German language as a study in the
high schools. This action was taken in
response to demands made by citizens,
patriotic societies and newspapers. The
agitation against the study of German
had been going on several months.
The resolution, which the board
adopted unanimously, read:
Resolved, That at the close of the
term ending next month the study of
the German language be discontinued
in all the high schools under the charge
and control of the board"
Members of the various patriotic So
cieties demanding the elimination of
German were present at the meeting.
The petitions We're from the Fraternal
Patriotic Americans, Improved Order
of Red Men, Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, Order of Indepen-
dent Americans, Rotary Club, Society
of the Sons of st. George, United Span
ish War Veterans and the PHILADELPHIA
County branch of the Woman's Suffrage
party ol IeHHSylVanla 1ney nad come
expecting to hear the matter debated,
but were disappointed. Even Vice
President Simon Gratz voted for the
resolution. He was the official charged
by other members of the board with
failure to call a meeting to authorize
the censoring from German textbooks
of portions lauding the Kaiser.
superintendent of Schools John P.
CARRIER and Gratz at the last meeting
Of the board were both outspoken
against doing away with German lam
guage study, and in this they were up
held by the other members.
Two weeks ago both branches of CITY
Councils passed resolutions rebuking
the school board for its failure to act.
The board tried to get from under by
Immediately calling melting, but on
account of the illness of a member it
had to carry the rebuke burden until
TODAY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Mt. Vernon Bars
Hearst, s Papers
For Disloyalty
Continued from page 1

cam and The New York Evening Jour-
Gil properly to be classified as news
papers and publications harmful to the
best interests of this nation in the
prosecution of the war; now, there
fore, be it ordained and enacted as
follows:
at shall be unlawful when this ordi-
nance takes effect and until the end Of
the present war within the City of
Mount Vernon for any person, firm,
corporation or association to print,
publish, circulate, sell or distribute or
cause to be printed. published circu
lated, sold or distributed. any news
paper or publication printed in the Ger
man languages:
"And it shall further be unlawful
within the City Of Mount Vernon for
any person, firm, corporation or asso-
citation to print. publish, circulate, sell
or distribute, or cause to be printed,
published, circulated, sold or distrb-
uted. certain newspapers or publlca-
tions or any copy or issue thereof
l
designated as The New York Ameri-
cam and The New York Evening Jour
nal"
Before the measure was put 10 a
vote Alderman Carey moved that it be
laid on the table.
81 am convinced" he said. chat
Hearst is the most monumental faker
of the age, but believe that we should
go slow in this matter"
The motion was put to the board and
was voted down amid loud applause.
A man who styled himself "repre-
sentative of Mr.. Hearst" called Mr..
Caygill up at his Office yesterday, the
Alderman said last night, and urged
him to vote against the ordinance.
"He offered to put me in touch with
the chief editor" said Mr.. Caygill,
"and said that the fault was due to a
printers error in setting up the Presi-
dents message. I told him that that
was a pretty flimsy excuse, and too
thin to hold water with me-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Soldiers Relatives
Can Get Free Trips
To Yaphank Sunday

Do you need lift to Camp Upton
Sunday? If you are the relative OF
q fighting man at Yaphank and can
not afford the expense Of trip
there, here is your chance.
James A. Hemstreet, New York
touring manager Of the American
Automobile Association and director
of the Yaphank transportation ser
vice, announced last light that he
will be able to carry 200 persons to
camp on Sunday.
Thus far applications for only 125
seats have been received. So there
is room for just seventy-fve more.
If you want to be one If the seventy
five send your application at once to
Mr.. Hemstreet at the headquarters
of the A. A. A., sol Fifth Avenue. 1t
must be in by noon tomorrow.
Motor car owners who wish to
register their machines for these
runs also may communicate with Mr..
Hemstreet. Contributions to the
American Defence Society's bus
fund, used for hiring motor buses
for the runs, may be sent to William
Guggenheim. chairman of the soci-
ety's army and navy committee, AZ
Twenty third Street
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Calls on House
To Punish CrceL
For Slurring 1t
Continued from page 1

would show finally toward the mistakes
of government in making war.
"They will cay VIC could not get ready
in minute, VIC had to have experience,
we had to have preparation, we were
not ready, and there was not any of
them, so far as know, thank God, ex-
cept Crcel--and if wanted to give any
advice to this Administration | would
say take Creel by the seat of the
brecches and the nape Of the neck and
throw him into space"
If "The Record" truthfully records
what happened at that point, when it
appears tomorrow, it will say ZAP
plause and laughter" The Congress-
man from Illinois punctuated that part
of his address by remarking, $50 much
for that" at which there wass renewed
chuckling.
Senator Smoot promises to take up
Creel in more serious light shortly
chiefly from the standpoint Of the en-
pendtures Of tho Creel bureau and a
measure Of its accomplishments.
George Creel takes himself alto
gether too seriously" said Senator
Smoot. Before long he will learn that
he isn't the government of the United
States"
Congressman Borand said to the
Tribune representative that. "if what
Creel is reported TO have said is true
it is absolutely indefensble If he
said it in intended pleasantly he ought
to apologize. | don't think the House
will take any notice of it.
Senator Wolcott said:
"If Creel said what the papers re-
port him as having said about slum-
ming in the hearts of Congress, he is
guilty of an insulting and unpardon-
able reference to the Congress of the
United States. 1t seems inconceivable
that he should have said such thing"
May Investigate Creel
Congressman allow themselves a
little greater latitude in talking about
Creel when they know they will not be
quoted. Most of them display rich
and unexpected powers of expression.
There seems to be general agreement,
however, that Creel's position as
spokesman for the Administration puts
him into place of authority from
which it is difficult to dislodge him.
Congress has no authority over the
Presidents contingency fund. Con-
gress can investigate, however, and
there are indications that after the
other Investigations have been put
away on the shelf, Congress may find
time for it,
AS Tor prosecution, unless the De-
partment of Justice undertakes it vol
UNFAIRLY, Congress might bring press
ure only by an investigation and en-
posure of CreePs attitude toward the
government. Some members realize
the case involves perplexities and con-
tradictions. Creel is employed by the
President and speaks for him. How
can he be convicted of insulting the
government?
One Senator from the Pacific Coast
remarked that he thought too much at
tention had been paid to Creel, any
way.
1T gives him an Importance in the
public mind that actually he hasn't
and never could command by his own
efforts"