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THE ,3IORXI2fG OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1914. 2 MAP SHOWING PROBLEMS GERMANY MUST SOLVE. 1 NOT TO TAKE SIDES Statement Urges Restraint in Discussions of War and Points Out Dangers. THEATER ACTIONS MUST BE CURBED PRESIDEN WARNS X namus r"A 4S 61CONDA0Y OVEXM 'JrV T vv!xb JLr EACH SlOE o e M7 TA - I g Vs Hf nrvER naiSEiTwOoff I C NAMlIfiK WWi w sted I cry Nation Should Exhibit Poise of Un disturbed Judgment and Effi ciency of Dispassionate Ac tion, 6ajs Wilson. WASHINGTON. Aug;. IS. President Wilson today issued a statement warn- In citizens of the United States against taking- sides in the European war in public discussions in the United states. Th- effect of the war on the United States, he said, depends on what Ameri cans say and do. The President is understood to he deeply concerned because naturalized Americans who came from countries now at war have taken sides. On previous occasions he has publicly spoken against what he termed "hyphen ated Americans," declaring that citizens of the United States should be Americans only, not Irish-Americans, German-Americans or other classifica tions of the sort. ( Effects Held Wttfcfc Choice. The President's statement follows: "My fellow countrymen, I suppose that every thoughtful man In America has asked himself during the last troubled weeks what influence the Eu ropean war may exert on the United States, and I take the liberty of ad dressing a few words to you in order to point out that it is entirely within our own choice what its effects on us will be and to urge very earnestly upon you the sort of speech and conduct which will best safeguard the Nation against distress and disaster. "The effect of the war on the United States will depend on what American citizens say and do. Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality, which is the spirit of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned. The spirit of the Nation in this critical matter will determined largely by what individuals and society and those gathered in public meetings do and say, on what newspapers and maga zines contain, on what our ministers utter in their pulpits and men proclaim as their opinions on the streets. Variety of Sympathy Inevitable. "The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. It is nat ural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and lies-ire among them with regard to the issues and circumstances of the con flict Some will wish one nation, oth ers another, to succeed in the moment ous struggle. "It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible for it will assume a. heavy responsibil ity, responsibility for not less a thing than that the people of the United States, whose love of their country and whose loyalty to its Government should unite them as Americans, all bound In honor and affection to think first of her and Jier interests, may be divided in camps of hostile opinions, hot against each other, involved in the war itself in impulse and opinion, if not in action. Solemn WarnlnsT SpoKn. "I venture, therefore, my fellow coun trymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deeptft, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality, which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately tak ing sides. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name dur ing these days that are to try men's souls. We must be in thought as well as in action: must put a curb on our sentiments, as well as on every trans action that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another. "My thought is of America. I am speaking, I feel sure, the earnest wish and purpose of every thoughtful Amer ican, that this great country of ours, which is, of course, the first in our thoughts and In our hearts, should show herself in this time of peculiar trial a Nation fit beyond others to ex hibit the fine poise of undisturbed Judgment, the dignity of self-control, the efficiency of dispassionate action: a Nation that neither sits In Judgment on others nor is disturbed in her own counsels, and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and dis interested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world. Restraint la Urjred. "Shall we not resolve to put on our selves the restraint which will bring to our people the happiness and the great and lasting influence for peace we covet for them?" Before the issuance, of the statement, officials close to the President made it clear that Mr. Wilson was fully deter mined to take no part In the dispute between Japan and Germany over the situation in the Far East. While the German-Japanese question was not re ferred to In the statement, it became known that the. President regarded with disfavor efforts he believed were being made to embroil the United States in the controversy in the Far East or in Europe. Mann Warns caint Hysteria. In the House, Republican Leader Mann voiced sentiments similar to those expressed by the President. "It seems to me that in this country at this time It is extremely important that everyone in official life, as well s those in private life, resolve firmly not to be carried away by any hysteri cal emotion or any partisan feeling for or against either side in this con flict abroad." he said. "The great powers abroad are in deadly conflict. There will be many times when complications wil arise af fecting our interests and our policies. When men are engaged In a life strug gle they are not careful or too par ticular about the interests of outsiders or about observing the ordinary cour testies or amentles laid down in ad vance for the control of conflicts. When these occasions arise, where we were tempted to become partisans for or against, where we are tempted in order to preserve what we may call our honor, to engage in the conflict, lefs make up our minds now to keep our minds firm in the determination that this country shall not become, under any circumstances, engaged in the war on either side." Oersaan Chargr Commends Wilson. Hanlel von Haimhausen, charge of the German embassy here, commenting tonight on the President's appeal to his fellow countrymen for absolute neu trality toward the European conflict, said: "I suppose one of the President's rea sons was the anti-German feeling which has been shown In some of the papers. I think It is a good expression and a right one." The Japanese Ambassador and Charge Barclay, of the British embassy, de clined to make any comment. No of ficials are at the Austrian, Russian or French embassies now. 2 it Tfl w PARIS V W V M r JSP XL K f - ' I ' J LANQBZS V. f Y SWTTZERLAM&v J UPTON SINCLAIR'S GREAT PLAY v 4 The Jungle which is playing to crowded houses will continue to be shown until Thursday night, Aug. 21 Beginning Friday Morning, 11 A. M., an Entire New Bill Will Be Presented, Including SCENES IN BELGIUM AND PROVINCES OF FRANCE IS NOW RAGING WHERE WAR DEFEASES ABOVE LIEGE AND BETWEEN THERE AND PARIS, WITH TIFIED TOWNS INDICATED. DISTANCES AND PRINCIPAL, FOR- WAR FIELD BL OODY Old Belgium Prolific of Battlegrounds. ALL BEGAN WITH CEASAR Xo. Less Than Six Times Maastricht, in Llinbiirg, Close bj JAege, Has Been Scene of Fierce Battles. Xauiur Scene of Caesar's. this pleasant. busy land Is the upper and The German army. Invading Belgium and the adjoining Dutcn . province of Limburg. is "traveling in the print of olden wars"; it is wading through wheat fields that grow deep with man waterings of blood. No land on earth has been so prolific of battlefields; for modern Belgium, the older Flanders lies and always has lain between the motions of Europe; and when these nations n?"L peaceful, green and crushed as between nether millstones. Historically, it all began with Caesar, but who can tell how many uncnron Icled and unremembered battles or savage warriors were fought in the deep and mysterious xoresis dawn of civilization? Caesar, at any rate, found the Belgae aireaaj bravest of all the people of Gaul ; and every schooiDoy nas lenium bitter pains the tioman vrvii on this very ground. In later ages the struggles of east and- west were fought out nere. ou. witnessed the awful slaughter of the French when, in 1302. the Flemings hurled them, horse ana men, who a canal and butchered them there with- nut m f. rr- V No less than six times the town of Maastricht, in Limburg. close by Liege, in Belgium, has been the scene of desperate battles in 1579, in 1632, in 1673, in 1748, in 1794 clear down to 1830. when the Dutch fought with the Belgians there. Namur. a little farther south, which began its recorded bat tlings when the Aduatici withstood Cae sar there, has seen battles tfetween the forces of almost all the neighboring powers. Roulers, Hasselt, Turnhout, Wavre. Arlon, Dinant these and other places ' have listened to the clash of arms through the centruies, and many times known the welter of blood. Last of all, in 1815, the great and final struggle between the warring power of Napoleon and the allied pow ers of Europe, under Wellington and Blucher, was fought out on this dark and bloody ground at Wavre. at Quatre Bras, at Waterloo. More souls than all those who march with the In vading Germans, or the defending Bel gians, British or French, will swing across these historic fields: the wraiths of ancient thousands will envelop them. Strangest of all things' is the fact that. In this gentler age of the world, the deep-growing corn on the Belgian fields again will be trampled by the feet of armed and fighting men. and the red current once more will fertil ize the dark soil. In this 20th century of higher enlightenment the 'old, un happy, far off things and battles long ago" are called into a new and stiil more terrible being by the ambitions of men and nations. GERMAN SOCIETY APPEALS Deutsche Bund Asks Chamberlain to Oppose Japau's Entering War. Senator Chamberlain was addressed yesterday by Der Deutsche Bund, one of the leading German societies, ask ing that he exert all his influence in Washington in protest against the par ticipation of Japan in the present gen eral European war. "Joseph Woerndle and C. T. Haas, president and secre tary of the Bund, signed the telegram, which read, in part, as follows: "We call upon you in the name of the German-speaking people of Oregon to use your good offices in protesting to the proper officials against the pro posed plan of Japan in entering the present European war. We call upon you for the reason that the only ex cuse that Japan has is faulty and that the proposed measure of theirs is simply to enrich themselves at the ex pense of a friendly nation and our selves. There is no doubt that in the event Japan, as an sflly of Erifeland, attacks Germany in the Far East, and that if ever we become involved in war with Japan, then England will be obliged to reciprocate and assist Japan against us. "We ask in the name of humanity and justice that you do what you can, not only to preserve a friendly na tion and give it an even chance, but to preserve our own peace and dignity in not permitting Japan, a yellow race, to attack Germany, when we have a pros pect that in the near future they and their allies must combine against us in case of trouble with us. "Show the German-speaking popula tion of Oregon that they made no mis take in indorsing you unanimously at the last primaries." AFRICAN TROOPS CLASH GERMANS AND BRITISH IN TOGO LAND IS SKIRMISHES. 7 GROUPS NVOLVED Germany's Islands in Pacific Have 96,160-Mile Area. POPULATION IS 357,800 Kalwer'a Men Are Prisoners and Two Army Trains Are Taken After Brush, Says Report. LONDON. Aug. 18. News from the British Gold Coast of Africa says the British forces of that colony, whose capital is Accra, have had some brushes with the German troops in Togoland. They have taken some Ger man prisoners and captured two trains. The German military force in the colony is small and scattered over six (40,050,000 DAILY COST OF WAR. t With the present situation in J Europe in mind, Professor T Charles Richet. of the University I of Paris, two years ago compiled I a table of the daily expenditures !in a general European war. Esti mating that 21,000,000 men would be put in the field by the fighting t powers. Professor Richet's esti t mate of the daily cost of such a ! struggle follows: Feed of men 12. 600,000 Feed or horses i-00'!!2? T Pay (European rates) 4,250,000 ? Pay of workmen in ar- t senals and ports (100 f per day) 1,000,000 f Transportation (60 t miles, ten days) 2,100,000 I Transportation of pro- visions 4.200,000 Munitions Infantry, ten cart ridges a day 4,200.000 Artillerv, ten shots a T day 1,200,000 I Marine, two shots a T inn nnn Equipment 4,200.000 A m b u 1 a n ces. 500,000 wounded or ill 11 per day) 500,000 Armature 500.000 Reduction of imports.. 5,000.000 i Help to the poor tau 4 c ents a day to one in len ) D.auv.uuu Destruction of towns, e.tc. . 2,000,000 Total 49,950,000 I ....... or seven stations. The white German population of - the colony in 1913 was only 320. There are, however, some native troops under German officers. The British Gold Coast, which ad joins Togoland, has a military police tone of 14 English officers and 102 non-commissioned officers and men. with a native force of about 10,000 men. In the neighboring British colony ot Nigeria, however, there is a large na tive force under a very strong body of British officers. The force comprises infantry, mounted rifles and artillery. Grain Burns Near La Center. , LA CENTER. Wash., Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) The barn, 28 tons of hay and two stacks of grain containing about 300 bushels, were burned in a fire at the place of James Reed, Ihi miles east of hero Sunday afternoon. A slashing near by was set on fire by the owner and from this the wind carried live cinders which fired the barn and grain. Kiau-Citau. Chinese Protectorate, Also Threatened by Japan, Has Area of 200 Miles and Population of 168,900. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. Germany's colonies and dependencies in China and the Pacific, threatened by Japan's ulti matum, consist of Kiau-Chau, a pro tectorate in Northeastern China on the Yellow Sea; and in the Pacific, Ger man New Guinea, composed of Kaiser Wilhelm's land, the Bismarck Archi pelago, the Caroline Islands, the Palau Islands, the Marianne Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Samoan Islands of Savaii and Upolu. These Pacific islands have an esti mated area of 96, ISO square miles and a population of 357,800. Kiau-Chau has an estimated area of 200 square miles. This is exclusive of the bay with an area of about 200 square miles and the neutral zone of about 2500 square miles, having a population of 1,200,000. Klan-Cnau Population 168,000. The estimated population of Kiau Chau is 168,900, of which the whites number 3896, almost exclusively Ger mans and including the garrison on peace footing. Germany's Pacific possessions, the first of which was acquired in 1884, and the last in 1899, are administered by an imperial governor. Kaiser Wil helm's land on which sago, copra and precious woods abound, has a popula tion of about 700 white men, virtually all Germans. In the Bismarck Archi pelago, composed of eight principal islands, Herber'tshohe, the seat of gov ernment of the Pacific possessions, is located. The Solomo'n Islands are owned in part by Germany, smaller ones to the east of Bougari'nville having been transferred to Great Britain in 1899. Ladrone Inlands Included. The Caroline, Palau and Marianne, the latter sometimes known as the Ladrone Islands, all form part of the German New Guinea protectorate. They were acquired from Spain in 1899 for about $4,000,000. The native popula tion is 55,000 with about 200 Germans. The Marshall Islands are two chains of lagoon islands, several uninhabited, and have been German since 1885. In a population estimated at 15,000 fewer than 200 are European, nearly all Ger mans. The chief export is phosphate. The Samoan Islands belonging to Germany are Savaii and Upolu, with an area of 1000 square miles. They are paramount among Germany's Pacific possessions for their strategic import ance and are fertile and well watered. Apia, the principal port, has regular steam communication with New Zea land and Canada, a wireless station has been erected and others are under con struction on other islands. A BIT OF HUMAN DRIFTWOOD Biograph Drama 2 Parts HEARST SELIG WEEKLY Latest War News THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S BURGLAR Drama A GAME OF FREEZE OUT Comedy Coming Sunday "Men and Women" Klaw & Erlanger Drama Admission lOc Box Seats 25c this respect are improving. Some of the subway lines now are permitted to run until 8:30 P. M., and the tramways until 10 P. M. In the daytime the streets of the capital are quieter; such tranquillity has not been known before in years. The reason is that more than one-half of the vehicular traffic has disappeared. The Governor of the city has reiter ated his Instructions to tho effect that no one may keep a stock of absinthe in his residence. Any one suspected of drinking absinthe in secret is liable to have his domicile searched. The military law, as it is adminis tered In Paris, is much more severe in its ethical judgments than is cus tomary in the gay city. The military censors, besides preventing the sale of drinks In bars, also have issued an order against gambling, while the pro grammes of the moving-picture thea ters must be submitted in advance, and pictures of doubtful morals are care fully excised. The great park at St. Cloud, which was the scene of a German bombard ment in 1871, has been turned into a pasture by the military authorities, and 20,000 or 30.000 cattle and sheep are to graze in the historic grounds. PARIS IS SERENE AGAIN I.H.-K iiv rPiTti. NOW MORE PEACK-Ltinns. and KUL THAN BEFORE WAR. Disappearance of Vehicular Traffic and Order Banning: Liquor and (Gam bling; Bring; Quiet. PAKIS. Aug. 18. Paris is beginning to accept the conditions of living that have come into being since war was declared, and, in some respects, life in the city is today more comfortable than it was during the first days of mobili zation. While there is still little movement on tlit streets after dark, conditions in opera' singers are taxed Department Rules Those Who Derive Incomes Here Must Pay. WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. Opera sing ers and other artists who come to the United States and later return to their foreign homes hereafter will have to pay income tax the same as American citizens. The Treasury Department today is sued Instructions to internal revenue collectors providing for collection of v innmp. on non-resident aliens derived from trades or professions in I the United States. It affects many per sons living just across the Canadian border who work on the American side of the boundary. SWEDES AWAIT CHANCE STROMi HOPES TO REUM.X LOOT PROVINCES ARE HELD. Entente With Norm; Considered Bit Against Attack, and Nation Are Determined to Stay Neutral. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 18, via London. The situation in the Scandinavian Peninsula is quiet, and there is mutual determination, for the present, to main tain neutrality. The entente between Norway and Sweden Is considered an effective bar against attack. There Is, however, a strong belief In Sweden that an opportunity may come, with the territorial readjustments after the war. for Sweden to regain her former Finnish provinces. The latest German newspapers re ceived here carry appeals for subscrip tions for the maintenance of families bereft of their breadwinners by the war. These papers show also that various German municipalities are spending large sums for food and in providing work for the unemployed. Nearly all the German trades unions are giving up one-fourth of their subscrip tions for the benefit of the needy. The Berliner Morgen Post, on August 15, says that the Russian aoviinmant officials In Poland abandoned their posts August 3, and that executive com mittees composed of all parties have been formed In every village of Kusslsn Poland to carry on local government and supervise measures of relief for the destitute. PRIZE MONEY TO BE PAID Cigar Healer to ltet-olvp $4onn a Share of SpanNh War Ilxt. RICHMOND. CI.. Aug. IK. tKpeclal.) James Keleher, a cigar dealer here and formerly a gunner on the I'nltnl States ship Iowa during the Spunlsh Amerlcan war. has received word from tho War Department that he Is to re ceive $4000 as his share of awarded prize money. Keleher previously received $500 for his part in the unaided rupture of the Spanish ship San Pedro, near Havanii. by the Iowa. Ageti Man lilt k Auln. CENTRAI.IA. Wash.. Aug. 18 (Spe cial.) S. E. Wheeler, 80. of Pe Ell. was run down by an automobile. His nephew, S. I.'. Davis, Lewis County Assessor, was called from C'entralla, but the Injured man was up and around again on his arrival. BRITISH ARMYIS LANDED Continued From First Page.) British army depends on your individual conduct. "It will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire, but also to main tain the most friendly relations with those whom you are helping in this struggle. "The operations in which you will be engaged will for the most part take place in a friendly country, and you can do your own country no better service than in showing yourself in France and Belgium in the true charac ter of a British soldier by being in variably courteous, considerate and kind. Temptation to Be Resisted. "Never do anything likely to injure or destroy property and always look on rioting as a disgraceful act. . "You are sure to meet with a wel come and to be trusted. Tour conduct must justify that welcome and that trust. , "Your duty cannot be done unless your health Is sound, so keep constantly on your guard against any excesses. "In this new experience you may find temptation both in wine and women, vnn must entirely resist both tempta- while treating an women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy. "Do your duty bravely. Fear God and honor the King." Standard Oil Buys In Hood River. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Aug. 18. (Spe cial ) The Standard Oil Company today clos'ed a deal with J. H. Heilbbronner, a real estate dealer here, for a lot 200 by 100 feet, on the F. II. Button tract, just east of this city, where it plans to construct a warehouse and tanks and install a local delivery service. rtlflclal limbs were used in Egypt at early as 700 B. c. 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