g : THE 3IORNIXG OKEGONIAX, TUESDAY, APREL 3, 1917.
PRESIDENT ASKS
MR Ofl GERMANY
Congress Urged to Call at
Least 500,000 More Men
to Federal Service.
AID TO ALLIES ADVISED
Wax AVili Only Germany Advocated.
Universal Service Espoused.
Action Not Planned
Against Austria.
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United States Government . so far as
possible without borrowing and on the
basis of equitable taxation.
All preparation, the President urged,
should be made In such way as not to
check the flow of war supplies to the
nations already in the field against
Germany. " ..
Departments "Well Prepared.
Measures to accomplish all these
ends, the President told Congress,
would be presented with the best
thought of the executive departments
which will be charged with the conduct
of the war, and he besought considera
tion of them in that light.
Referring only briefly to the long
diplomatic correspondence with Ger
many in his effort to bring her back
to the bounds of the laws of humanity
and nations, the President launched
into his denunciation of the course of
the German government, which, he de
clared, had forced the United States to
become a belligerent.
Wrongs Not Common Wrongs.
"The wrongs against which we now
arm ourselves," be said, "are no com
mon wrongs. They cut to the very
roots of human life."
Disclaiming any quarrel with the
German people and anything but a feel
ing of friendship and sympathy for
them, the President declared their gov
ernment had not acted upon their im
pulses in entering the war nor with
their previous knowledge or approval.
"It was a war," he said, "determined
upon as wars used to be determined
upon in the old unhappy days when
peoples were nowhere consulted by
their rulers and wars were provoked
and waged in the interest of dynasties
or of little groups of ambitious men
who were accustomed to use their fel
low men as pawns and tools."
German Plots Bared.
In scathing terms the President re
ferred to German plots against the
United States.
"One of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian autoc
racy was not and never could be our
friend is that from the very outset of
the present war it has filled our unsus
pecting communities and even our of
fices of government with spies and set
criminal intrigues everywhere afoot
against our National unity of council,
our peace within and without, our in
dustries and our commerce."
It was evident, the President added,
that the spies were here even before
the war began. That the German gov
ernment means to stir up enemies at
the very doors of the United States
was eloquently proved, he said, by the
revelations of the plot to embroil Ja
pan and Mexico in war with the United
States.
German Challenge Accepted.
"We are accepting this challenge -of
the hostile purpose." said the Presi
dent, "because we know that in such
a government, following such methods,
we can never have a friendship and
that in the presence of its organized
power, always lying in wait, to ac
complish we know not what purpose,
there can be no assured security for
the democratitc governments of the
world.
"The whole forces of the Nation." if
necessary, the President declared,
would be spent against this "unnatural
foe to liberty and to check Its preten
sions and power."
War Not Waged on Austria.
Towards Germany's allies, the Presi
dent said, the United States was tak
ing no action at this time, because thev
were not engaged in warfare against
Americans on the seas.
The United States, he said, was mov
ing only against "an irresponsible gov
ernment which has thrown aside all
considerations of humanity and of
right and is running amuck."
The President expressed his confi
dence In the loyalty of naturalized cit
izens and declared that if disloyalty
rtid lift its head It would be only from
'"a lawless and malignant few" and
would be sternly suppressed.
With a renewed declaration that the
Nation must unselfishly act only for
freedom, peace and humanity, the Pres
ident left tha question with Congress.
Cabinet to Hold War Session.
While the President was speaking,
word of the torpedoing without warn
ing of the American steamer Aztec,
the first American armed ship to be
attacked in. the barred zone, was passed
from mouth to mouth, but the Presi
dent did not know of it until he had
finished.
While Congress works tomorrow on
the war resolution the Cabinet will
hold a war session to which Major
General Scott, chief of staff of the
Army, and Admiral Benson, bhlef of
operations -of the Navy, may be in
vited. Meanwhile, many days of hur
ried preparation for the eventuality
wtrich now confronts the Nation have
borne fruit and remain only to be car
ried further. . 0
Need of Urgency Recited.
President Wilson spoke as follows
-J have called the Congress into ex
traordinary session because there are
serious, very serious choices of policy
to be made, and made 1 immediately.
which It was neither right nor const!
tutionally permissible that I should
assume the responsibility of making,
"On February 3, last, I officially laid
before you the extraordinary announce
ment of the imperial German govern
ment that on and after the first day of
February it was Its purpose to put
aside all restraints of law or humanity
and use Its submarines to sink every
vessel that sought to approach either
the ports of Great Britain and Ireland
or the western coasts of Europe, or any
of Hbe ports controlled by enemies of
Germany within the Mediterranean.
German Pledges Recalled.
"That has seemed to be the object of
the German submarine warfare earlier
In the war, but since April of last year
the Imperial government had somewhat
restrained the commanders of Its under
sea craft in conformity with Its prom
ise then given to us that passenger
boats should not be sunk and that due
warning would be given to all other
vessels which Its submarines might
seek to destroy, when no resistance was
offered or escape attempted, and care
taken that their crews were given at
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in their open boats. '
"The precautions taken were mea
ger and haphazard enough, as was
proved in distressing Instance after In
stance in the progress of the cruel and
unmanly business, but a certain degree
of restraint was observed.
All Restrictions Swept Aside.
"The new policy has swept every re
striction aside. Vessels of every kind,
whatever their flag, their character,
their cargo, their destination, their er
rand, have been ruthlessly sent to the
bottom without warning and without
thought of help or mercy for those on
board, the vessels of friendly neutrals
along with belligerents.
"Even hospital ships and ships carry
ing relief to the sorely bereaved and
stricken people of Belgium, though
the latter were provided with safe con
duct through the proscribed areas by
the German government Itself, and were
distinguished by unmistakable marks
of identity, have been sunk with the
same reckless lack of compassion or
principle.
"I was for a little while unable to
believe that such things would, in fact,
be done by any government that had
hitherto subscribed to the humane prac
tices of civilized nations. International
law had its origin in the attempt to set
up some law which would be respected
and observed upon the seas where no
nation had right of. dominion and where
lay the free highways of th world.
"By painful stage after stage has
that law been built up with meager
enough results, indeed, after all was
accomplished that could be accom
plished, but always with a clear view
at least of the things which the heart
and conscience of mankind demanded.
Scruples of Humanity Disregarded.
"This minimum of right the Ger
man government has swept aside un
der the plea of retaliation and neces
sity and because It had no weapons
which it could use at sea except these.
which It is impossible to employ as
it is employing them without throw
ing to the winds all scruples of hu
manity or of respect for the under
standings that were supposed to un-
derly the intercourse of the world.
I am not now thinking of the loss
of property involved, immense and se
rious as that is, but only of the wan
ton and wholesale destruction of the
lives of non-combatants, men, women
and children, engaged in pursuits
which have always, even in the dark
est periods of modern history. - been
deemed Innocent and legitimate. Prop
erty can be paid for; the lives of
peaceful and innocent people cannot
be.
Warfare Against Mankind.
"The present German submarine war
fare against commerce is a warfare
against mankind. It is a war against
all nations. American ships have been
sunk, American lives taken, in ways
which it has stirred us very deeply to
learn of, but the ships and people of
other neutral and friendly nations have
been sunk and overwhelmed in the
waters in the same way. There has
been no discrimination. The challenge
is to all mankind.
"Kach nation must decide for Itself
how it will meet it. The choice we
make for ourselves must be made with
a moderation of counsel and a tem
perateness of Judgment befitting our
character and our motives as a Na
tion. We must put excited feeling
away. Our motive will not be revenge
or the vicarious assertion of the phys
ical might of the Nation, but only the
vindication of right, of human right,
of which we are only a single cham
pion. "When I addressed the Congress on
the 26th of February last, I thought
that it would suffice to assert our neu
tral rights with arms, our right to' use
the seas against unlawful Interference,
our right to keep our people safe
against unlawful violence. But armed
neutrality, it now appears, is imprac
ticable. Because submarines are in ef
fect outlaws when used as the German
submarines have been used against
merchant shipping, it Is impossible to
defend ships against their attacks as
the law of nations has assumed that
merchantmen would defend themselves
against privateers or cruisers, visible
craft giving chase upon the open sea
It is common prudence in such circum
stances, grim necessity Indeed, to en
deavor . to destroy them . before they
THE PRESIDENT.
WOODROW WILSON.
have shown their own intention. They
must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt
with at all.
"The German government denies the
right of neutrals to use arms at all
within the areas of the sea which it
has prescribed, even in the defense of
rights which no modern publicist has
ever before Questioned their right to
defend.
One Choice Impossible.
"The Intimation Is conveyed that the
armed guards which we have placed
on our merchant ships will be treated
as beyond the pale of law and subject
to be dealt with as pirates would be.
Armed neutrality is Ineffectual enough
at best; in such circumstances and in
the face of such pretensions It is
worse than ineffectual; it is likely once
to produce what It Was meant to pre
vent; it is practically certain to draw
us into the war without either the
rights or the effectiveness of belliger
ents. "There is one choice we cannot make,
we are incapable of making. We will
not choose the path of submission and
suffer the most sacred rights of our
Nation and our people to be ignored
or violated. The wrongs against -which
we now array ourselves are not com
mon wrongs; they cut to the very
soots of human life.
y
Use of All Resources Urged.
"With a profound sense of the sol
emn and even tragical charcater of the
step 1 am taking and of the grave
responsibilities which it involves, but
in unhesitating obedience to what I
deem my constitutional duty, I advise
that the Congress declare the recent
course of the imperial German govern
ment to be in fact nothing less than
war against the Govern m. and peo
ple of the United States; that It
formally accept 'the status cf belli
gerent which has thus been thrust
upon it, and that it take immediate
steps not only to put the country in a
more thorough state of defense, but
also to exert all its poweiand employ
all its resources to bring the govern
ment of the German empire to terms
and end the war.
What this will Involve is clear. It
will involve the utmost practicable co
operation in counsel and action which
the governments now at war with Ger
many, and, as Incident to that, the ex
tension to those governments of the
most liberal flancial credits, in order
that our resources may, so far as pos
sible, be added to theirs.
Use of All Resources.
"It will Involve the organization and
mobilization of all the material re
sources of the country to supply the
materials of war and serve the inci
dental heeds of the Nation in the most
abundant and yet the most economical
and efficient way possible. It will In
volve the Immediate full equipment of
the Navy in all respects, but particu
larly in supplying it with .the best
means of dealing with the enemy's
submarines. It will Involve the Imme
diate addition to the armed forces of
the United States, already provided for
by law In case of war, at least 600,
000 men, who should, in my opinion,
be chosen upon the principle of uni
versal liability to service, and also the
authorization of subsequent additional
Increments of equal force so soon as
they may be needed and can be handled
in training. c
"It will involve also, of course, the
granting of adequate credits to the
Government, sustained, I hope, so far
as they can equitably be sustained, by
the present generation by well con
ceived taxation. I say sustained so far
as may be equitable by taxation, be
cause it seems to me that it would be
most unwise to base the credits which
will now be necessary entirely on
money borrowed. It is our duty, I
most respectfully urge, to protect our
people as far as we may against the
very serious hardships and evils which
would be likely to arise out of the in
flation which would be produced by
vast loans.
"In carrying out the measures by
which these things are to be accom
plished, we should keep constantly in
mind the wisdom of Interfering as lit
tle as possible in our own preparation
and in the equipment of our own mili
tary forces with the duty for it will
be a very practical duty of supplying
the nations already at war with Ger
many with the materials which they
can obtain only from js or by our as-
sistance. They are In the f leld and we
should help them in every way to be
effective there.
"I shall take the liberty of suggest
ing, through the several executive de
partments of the Government, for the
consideration of your committees, for
the accomplishment of the several ob
jects I have mentioned. I hope that it
will be your pleasure' to deal with
them as having been framed after very
careful thought by the branch of the
Government upon which the responsi
bility of conducting the war and safe
guarding the Nation will most directly
fall.
Objects Are Outlined.
"While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
been driven from Its habitual and nor
mal course by the unhappy events of
me last two montns, ana I do not be
lieve that the thought of the Nation
has been altered or clouded by them.
"i nave exactly the same things In
mind now that I had In mind when I
addressed the Senate on the 22d of Jan
uary last, the same that I had In mind
when I addressed the Congress on the
3d of February and on the 26th of Feb
ruary. Our object now. as then. Is to
vindicate the principles of peace and
justice in tne uie of the world as
against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really free
and self-governed peoples of the world
such a concert of purpose and of ac
tion as will henceforth insure the ob
servance of those principles.
"Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable, where the peace of the world
Is Involved and the freedom of its peo
ples, and the menace to that peace and
freedom lies in th existnee of auto
cratic governments backed by organ
ized force, which is controlled wholly
by their will, not by the will of their
people. We have seen the last of neu
trality In such circumstances.
Quarrel Not With German People.
"We are at the beginning of an age
in which it will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and of re
sponsibility for wrong done shall be
observed among nations and their gov
ernments that are observed among the
Individual citizens of civilized states.
"We have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. -We have no feeling to
ward them but one of sympathy and
friendship. It was not upon, their im
pulse that their government acted In
entering this war. It was not with
their prevTous knowledge or approval.
"It was a war determined upon as
wars used to be determined on in the
old, unhappy days when peoples were
nowhere consulted by their rulers and
wars were provoked and waged in the
interest of dynasties or of little groups
of ambitious men who were accustomed
o't use their fellowmen as pawns and
toois.
"Self-governed nations do not fill
their neighbor states with spies, or set
the course of intrigue to bring about
some critical posture of affairs which
shall give them an opportunity to
strike and make conquest. Such de
signs can be successfully worked only
under cover and where no one has the
right to ask questions.
Russia's Example Cited.
"Cunningly contrived plans of de
ception or aggression, carried, it may
be, from generation to generation, can
be worked out and kept from the light
honly within the privacy of courts or
behind the carefully guarded confi
dences of a narrow and privileged
class. They are happily impossible
where public opinion commands and
Insists upon full information concern
ing all the Nation's affairs. -
"A. steadfast concert for peace cat.
never be maintained except by a part
nership of democratic nations. No au
tocratic government could be trusted
to keep faith within it or observe Its
covenants. It must be a league of
honor, a partnership of opinion. In
trigue would eat its vitals away; the
plottings of inner circles, who could
plan what they would and render ac
count to no one, would be a corruption
seated at its very heart- Only free
peoples can hold their purpose and
their honor steady to a common end
and prefer the interests of mankind
to any narrow Interest of their own.
"Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hope
for- the future peace of the world bs
the - wonderful and heartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks in Russia?
. Russia Naturally Democratic.
"Russia was known by those who
knew it best to have been always In
fact democratic at heart in all the vi
tal habits of her thought, in all the
Intimate relationships of her people
that spoke their natural instinct, their
habitual attitude towards life.
The autocracy that crowned the
summit .of her political structure, long
as It had stood and terrible as was
the reality of its power, was not in
fact Russian In origin, character or
purpose: and now it has been shaken
off, and the great, generous Russian
people have been added in all their
native majesty and might to the forces
that are fighting for freedom in the
world, for Justice and for peace. Hera
Is a fit partner for a league of honor.
One of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian au
tocracy was not and could never be
our friend is that from the very outset
of the present war it has filled our
unefispecting communities and even our
offices of Government with spies and
set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot
against our National unity of council.
our peace within and without, our
industries and our commerce.
Spies Here Before War.
"Indeed, it Is now evident that its
spies were hese even before the war
began: and it unhappily- is not a mat
ter of conjecture, but a fact proved
In our courts of justice, that the In
trigues which have more than once
coma perilously near to disturbing the
peace and disturbing the industries of
the country have been ea.ried on at the
Instigation, with the support, and even
under the personal direction of official
agents of the imperial government ac
credited to the Government oi tne
United States.
"Even in checking these things and
trying to extirpate them we have
sought to put the most generous Inter
pretations possible upon them because
we knew that their source lay, not m
any hostile feeling or purpose of the
German people towards us (who were.
no doubt, as Ignorant of them as we
ourselves were) but only in the selfish
designs of a government that did what
It pleased and told its people nothing.
But they have planned their part in
serving to convince us at last that that
government entertains no real friend
ship for us and means to act against
our peace aiad security at its con
venience. Tiuit It means to stir up ene
mies against us at our very doors, the
intercepted note to the German Min
ister at Mexico City s eloquent evi
dence. Gauge of Battle Accepted.
"We are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose because we know that
in such a government, following sucn
methods, we can never have a friend;
and that in the presence of its organ
ized power, always lying in wait to
accomplish we know not what purpose.
there can be no assured security for
the democratic governments of the
world. s ,
"We are now about to accept the
gauge of battle with this natural foe
to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend
the whole force of the Nation to cheok
and nullify Its pretentions and its
power. We are glad, now that we see
the facts with no veil of false pre
tense about them, to fight thus for the
ultimate peace of the world and for the
liberation of its peoples, the German
peoples included; for the rights of na
tions, great and small, and the privi
lege of men everywhere to choose their
way of life and of obedience. The world
must be made safe for democracy. Its
peace must be planted upon the trusted
foundations of political liberty.
Conquest Not Desired.
"We have no selfish ends to serve.
We desire no conquest, no dominion.
We seek no indemnities for ourselves,
no material compensation for the sacri
fices we shall freely make. We are but
one of the champions of the rights of
mankind. We shall be satisfied when
those rights have been as secure as the
faith and the freedom of the nations
can make them.
"Just because we fight without ran
cor and without selfish objects, seek
ing nothing for ourselves but what we
shall wish to share as free peoples, we
shall, I feel confident, conduct our op
erations as belligerents without passion
and ourselves observe with proud punc
tilio the principles of right and of fair
play we profess to be fighting for.
"I have said nothing of the govern
ments alliel with the imperial govern
ment of Germany because they have not
made war upon us or challenged us to
defend our right and our honor. The
Austro-Hungarian government has in
deed, avowed its unqualified indorse
ment and acceptance of the reckless
and lawless submarine warfare adopt
ed now without disguise by the Im
perial German government, and it has
therefore not been possible for this
Government to receive Count Tar
nowskt, the Ambassador recently ac
credited to this Government by the im
perial and royal government of Austria-Hungary;
but that government has
not actually engaged in warfare
against citizens of the United States
on the seas, and I take the liberty, for
the present at least, of postponing a
decision of our relations with the au
thorities at Vienna. We enter this
war only, where we are clearly forced
into it, because there are no other
means of defending our rights.
"It will be all the easier for us to
conduct ourselves as belligerents in a
high spirit of right and fairness be
cause we act without animus, not in
enmity towards a people or with the
desire to bring any injury or disad
vantage upon them, but only in armed
opposition to an irresponsible govern
ment which has thrown aside all con
siderations of humanity and of right
and is running amuck.
Much. Forbearance Shown.
"We are, let me say again, the sln
cerest friends of the German people,
and shall desire nothing' so much as
the early re-establishment of Intimate
relations of mutual advantage between
us however hard It may be for them,
for the time being, to believe that this
is spoken from our hearts. We have
borne with their present government
through all these bitter months be
cause' of that friendship exercising a
patience and forbearance which would
otherwise have been Impossible.
"We shall, happily, still have an op
portunity to prove that friendship in
our daily attitude and actions towards
the millions of men and women of
German birth and native sympathy who
live among us and share our life, and
we shall be proud to prove it towards
all who are in fact loyal to their neigh
bors and to the Government in the
hour of test. They are. most -of them,
as true and loyal Americans as if they
had never known any other fealty or
allegiance. They will be prompt to
stand with us In rebuking and re
straining the few who may be of a
different mind and purpose. If there
should be disloyalty. It will be dealt
with with a firm band of stern re
pression; but. if it lifts its head at all.
it will lift It only here and there and
without countenance except from a
lawless and malignant few.
Months of Sacrifice Ahead.
"It is a distressing Vnd oppressive
duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which
I have performed in thus addressing
you. mere are. it may be. , many
months of fiery trial and
sacrifice
ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to
lead this great peaceful country into
war, into the most terrible and disas
trous of all wars, civilisation itself
seeming to be in the balance. But the
right is more precious than peace,and
we shall fight for the things which we
have always carried nearest our hearts
for, democracy, for the right of those
who submit to authority to have a voice
in their own governments, for the
rights and liberties of small nations,
for a universal dominion of right by
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such a concert of free peoples as shall
bring peace and safety to all nations,
and make the world itself at last
free.
"To such a task we can dedicate
our Uvea and our fortunes, everything
that we are and everything that
we have with the pride of
those who know that the day has
come when America is privileged to
shed her blood and her might for the
principles that gave her birth and hap
piness and the peace which she has
treasured. God helping her, she can
do no other."
BAKER RISES TO CALL
BUSINESS MEN PLAN TO CAR El FOR
SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS.
Patriotic Stampede Has Dominant Note
of Sacrifice Recruiters Busy
With Applicants.
BAKER. Or., April 2. (Special.)
There Is a dominant note of sacrifice in
the patriotic stampede here as America
verges on the brink of war. While the
recruiting offices were busy answering
applicants and accepting the services of
five vouni men. the merchants of
Baker were busy arranging for a com
mittee to work out the details, of a
plan for -caring for ' the dependents of
those who enlist
Not a business man who was asked
what he would do for those In his em
ploy who might enlist but enthusias
tically responded to the spirit of co
operation. Every merchant interviewed
sK-reed to hold Jobs for those who en
list. Many voluntered to personally
care for the dependents. However, the
consensus of opinion was that there
should be an organization of the busi
ness interests, including professional
men. to shoulder the burden of provid
ing for the families of married men and
those dependent upon single men who
Join the Army or Navy.
The business man generally are in
favor of working out a plan so that the
cost will be distributed witiiout cer
tain Individuals or firms carrying an
unjust portion of the cost.
The patriotic wave that reached Its
climax at the meeting Saturday night
continued -in" effect today and yester
day. Corporal James Allen announces
the names of the following who have
enlisted: ,
George A. Pickett and Herbert Crans
ton. Two more enlisted in the Navy.
Corporal Allen says that Sergeant
Kennev. of the Portland recruiting oi
flee, will be in Baker In the near fu
ture and that within a few days a re
cruiting station also will be opened In
downtown quarters.
Naval recruiting officers will be here
tomorrow, according to a telegram re
ceived today.
MARSHFIELO RALLY BIG
ELKS PROMISE TO CARE FOR DE
PENDENTS OF SOLDIERS.
psrade Followed by Demonstration
Is Participated In by Nearly
Everyone In Entire City.
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MARSHFIELD, Or., April 2. (Spe
cial.) Everybody In the city is doing
something to forward the military
spirit.
The Marshfield Elks in special Sun
day session adopted resolutions approv
ing the President and promising loyalty
and care for families of soldiers and
denouncing people antagonistic to pre
paredness. '
The military leagues and fraternities
held a special gathering at the Chris
tlan Church, attended by the Coast
Artillery. Grand Army, Ppanish-Ameri
can War Veterans, Sons of Veterans
and Boy Scouts. Rev. Victor Morris
preached a sermon of military bearing
arid the church was too small for the
throng applying for admission.
The Daughters of the American Revo-.
lution. yet unorganized, are participat
ing in the patriotio demonstrations and
tonight the big mass meeting followed
a parade In which military and civic
organizations, with nearly everyone In
this city on foot and in automobiles,
made up the procession.
The theater holds 1200 persons and
was filled before the parade broke up.
many having to be turned away. Ar
rangements could not be made for an
overflow meeting. The demonstration
was o tne most interesting Kino, pic
tures of Washington, Lincoln, McKln
ley and Wilson being shown. The pro
gramme was made up of five-minute
speeches, patriotle songs and tableaux
of Liberty, Columbia and Revolutionary
soldiers.
Mayor Copple asked 4f the United
States was going to make it possible
for President Wilson, to make sood.
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From all parts of the theater came a
great roar of affirmation. Father Mc-
uevitt pronounced the invocation ana
said that the Catholics were back of
the Nation in its crisis.
R. O. Graves declared It had been
said that there is no patriotism on the
Pacific Coast and then said he hoped
there was as much over the country as
was shown here tonight. Mr. Graves
said the German people were all right,
but that their ideals were wrong.
J. Albert Matson classified patriots
into three groups those who go on
first call, business men of big corpo
rations and older ones who are unfit,
and fair-weather patriots.
Mel Ducan said Germany, had turned
the admiration of the world to disgust
in two and a half years, end where
their scientific aptness was the wonder
of the world, It had been applied wrong
fully, t
Women had prominent parts In the
meeting and saw to the ushering, tab
leaux and general interior arrange
ments. It was expected an enlistment
campaign would be opened at the close
of the meeting..
ASHLAND INDORSES BONDS
Commercial Clnb Meeting Is Large
ly Attended.
ASHLAND, Or., April 2. (Special.)
The Ashland Commercial Club tonight
indorsed the state road-bond measure
at the close of an excellent talk on the
proposed plan by Joint Representative
W. H. Gore, of Jackson and Josephine
counties.
A large crowd attende . the meeting.
Mayor C. E. Gates, of Medford. reported
that at Portland Saturday Chief For
ester Graves and Chairman S. Benson.
of the State Highway Commission, had
expressed themselves favorably ln re
gard to improving the Crater Lake
highway from joint Federal, state, for
est roads fund.
British Occupy Dely Abbas.
LONDON. April 2. The British troops
In Mesopotamia have occupied the town
of Dely Abbas, according to an unoffi
cial report Issued tonight. The cap
ture of the town took place on March
SI. Dely Abbas lies 13 miles to the
southwest of Klzll Robat.
A Pennsy lvanian has invented a port
able developing cabinet for photogra
phers which folds flat for carrying and
into which a man can Insert his arms
through light-tight sleeves.
For Eater-tide
Visitors to
CLATSOP
BEACH
Astoria Express will run
through to Beach Points on
Friday, April 6. Leave Port-
land 6:15 P. M.
Saturday trains 8:10 A. M.
and 6:15 P. M..
Metal Trades' Convention,
Seaside, Saturday, April 7.
North Bank Ticket Office
Fifth and Stark Sts.
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