The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-31

LdDefnucle tOIllSnt as tnlS Will
be C. II. Illusions last oppor-
tunity to thank the workers for
the splendid service they rem
| dered. [
| Paul j. Kruesi, chairman of
| the chorus chcir,' requests all
members of both choruses to
| be present at 1880 O'clock. He
has selected a leader and two
piano accompanies for the eve
ming and he expects to make
the music a special feature OF
the watch service.
| itus OF Harvard university: my pre-
dominant New Years wish Is that
the American people may resume
with all their might their undertake
ing of April. 1917, to defend liberty
against autocracy In Europe and to
make this world in the future safer,
wholesomer and happier for all peo-
pies"
Harvey s. Wiley, economist and
food expert: Il wish for martial and
industrial peace based on justice to
all nations and all people; a martial
peace which will insure the future,
and an industrial peace that will
keep the fingers OF both capital and
labor from the throat of the nation,
together with the choice of a presi-
dent next November with the cour-
age of a Coolidge and the sanity of
Solomon, and that anarchy and
bolshevism may perish from the
Garth"
Charles M. Schwab, financier: my
paramount New Year wish concern
ing public affairs is to see every in
fuence of the government, every
agency in our public life and every
energy of every citizen of the United
States directed toward the greatest
possible production of farms and
| factories and every other activity of
our national life. Through such eff
fort, united and unstinted,' alone can
we surmount our most serious and
| immediate difficulties. 1t is not, as
see it, a time for theorizing, but a
| time to get together and to get to
work"
| Gen. Leonard Wood, u. S. A., who
| is spoken of as presidential candl-
date: My predominant wish for the
new year is peace, law and order, in
creased production and good bust
ness"
| Former United States Senator
James Hamilton Lewis my wish is
that the United States shall be DEM
ocratic in it's practice, as well as in
name, and be republican in form, in
fact as well as in theory. | want
each citizen of proper intelligence
to vote. | want a law that makes it
an offense for qualified voter fail
ing TO vote,s / want thrse voters to
vote that Every resturcc nepdsifed BY
nature for the use of man and ad-
ministered by proper agencies for the
welfare of all the people--coal, oil as
fuel, railroads. ships and waterways
in addition to this the opportunity
given by the government for a home
| to be owned by every family. This
program will assure the year of hope
followed by the prosperity OF men
and loyalty to free government
Edward F.. Dunno, former governor
of Illinois, and member of the irish
freedom committee: my wish is
that some farseeing statesman can
provide a plan by which the differ
dnces between the workingman and
the employer can be solved with jus
| tice to BOTH
+. Ogden Armour, meat packer:
INV earnest wish for the new year
is that it will see the development OF
genuine understanding between the
various factions of our people and an
end to the chickering's between cap
ital, labor and the public, which To-
day are the chief obstacles in the
path to national prosperity and nap
piness."
Jack Dempsey, Los Angeles:
| "Greetings and thanks to thou-
sands who everywhere so loyally
gave me their support in the year
gone. May the new year bring eacn
and every one his greatest WISH
Personally, nothing could happen to
please me better in 1920 IMAM
match with Carpenter staged rlSh'
here in America"
Labor Leaders.
THOMAS Mooney, San Quentin pen
itentiary. California: Il hope that the
new vear will bring to the American
neonle and the people of all nations
n lxindljer appreciation of the hard
shin all labor under during this tense
neriod of world rebuilding, and that
= broad spirit of tolerance and tenn
perate Judgment may direct their al
fairs so that the league of nations
shall become not merely name pu'
in reality a bond of understandings
and brotherhood between all INC
peoples of all nations"
Statesmen.
| Ole Henson, Seattle, Wash;
wish our country prosperity, happl-
ness and above all, domestic peace
7 hone that our officials Will reaiize
that the United States of Amerlca
must he run for the United STATES
of America primarily. we are al
Interested in foreign affairs. we arr
much more interested in our own az
f.irs Let us have house cleaning a.
home and everything will come oh'
all right, but it will reach norma
much quicker il we realize that otl
own country and its prohlehs hee'
immediate attention -
president Venustiano Carranza' o
NIexico. "At the present time III!
hest wishes for the new year are y y
re-estabIish no complete tranquility II
tho renublic of Mexico, to hand owe
legally the position of first magis
trat, of the same, which ! now ho'u
and to tighten the bonds OF trlenu
shin with all nations WIN "no'i
Mexico has relations. thanN So'
for voI,r GOOD wishes for my happl
ness and / reciprocate them VIII
pleasure" ..or of Ore
ron: n while continued prosperity an an
,oe,,. pence is the wish of all for ne me, ne,
year. that path to dawn, u tbat nus disloya
by purging this nation OF thai u.s,o'
oy and P traitorous element which has
n,od desire TO undermine our Cohstl
tuition ti,ttT and our liberties. My hearties
New Years wish would be, the enn q
1920 see our flag floating over q couh'r
100 per cent. American.
Labor Leaders.
IL n,rir limited Mine .Workcr.