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THE 31'ORXIXG QREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2T. 1918. MOVE TO PERPETUATE 1 IY Friends of Deposed Officers Demand Fair Play. ' WOOD INCIDENT RECALLED Si?ns Indicate That Measure May Become Vehicle for Airing of Army Politics. TVASHIXGTOX, Dec. 2S.-(Special.) The War Department's recommendation to confer the rank of General for life upon General Pershing, and the rank of Lieutenant-General in a similar lasting manner .upon those high American of ficers now in possession of that rank, is going to meet opposition in Congress. In addition to the American Commander-in-Chief those affected are J.Jenerals March and Bliss and Lieutenant-Generals Liggett and Bullard. They are holding their present ranks only temporarily and the purpose of the proposed legislation is to extend to them recognition for their services dur ing the -war. Wood Incident Itecalled. "While at present, the opposition is neither concentrated, nor outspoken, it is brewing steadfastly, and there have been a number of signs indicating that the measure may become the vehicle for the airing of Army politics kept well under cover during the -war. Jt was suggested that it might furnish an ipportunityfor bringing out the facts about keeping Major-General Leonard Wood at home and the reason for the mysterious Recall of Major-General Clarence Kdwards, -while under fire with his division at the front. There are many other high Army officers smarting over the treatment tliey have received during the war and their cases may be held before the spotlight when the measure comes up in the House or Senate. Ktitral Pernhlnic Blamed. ' General Pershing, as Commander in Chief of the expeditionary forces, is responsible, of course, for the removal of officers from command at the front, it has never been officially stated that :t nas he who brought about, the re moval of General Wood from command of the SOtli LMvision on the eve of its Failing for France, but unofficially, the responsibility lias been laid at his door. The friends of General Wood, Gen eral Kdwards and others may regard the presentation of the proposed legis lation as a timely occasion for calling for a clearing up of the mystery sur rounding the shelving and ditching of prominent officers. There is another phase to the opposition. There is some difference of opinion over an equitable division of honor among the high com manding officers of the Army. Kqnal Recognition Sought. Some Senators insist they can see no reason for bestowing such high rank upon General Bliss. Some think it would be unfair to confer higher honors upon Generals Bliss and March than upon Lieutenant-Generals Liggett and Bullard, the leaders of the first and Second Armies, which did the bulk of the fighting. Others are of the opinion That in annortioninr the honors Gen eral Crowder, Provost Marshal-General, who so successfully administered the draft, should not be left out. Whan an effort was made some months ago to make General Crowder a Ueutenant-General in recognitino of his services, the proposal kicked up such a fuss that General Crowder was compelled to write a letter asking Con gress to drop it. In the end it is feared the measure will become loaded to the gunwales with riders conferring honors upon every Army officer who happens to have a friend or group of friends in. Congress. SOLDIERS' PARTY IS TREAT FIGHTING MEN ENTERTAINED AT B'XAI B'KITH CLUB. Dancing, Music, Games and Other Features Serve to Delight Khaki-Clad Guests.. -A merry party was that given Wednes day night to 250 eoldiers at the B'nai B'ritlf Club, now devoted to War Camp Community Service purposes. -by the en tertainment division of this organiza tion, headed by "Major" Naomi Swett. Both gymnasium and ballroom were beautifully decorated and were spacious enough that all could participate in the dance at one time. Before the dancing began there were games and a general frolic. Presents and souvenirs, with greeting in origi nal verse, were given each enlisted man. Cider and doughnuts in abund ance constituted the refreshments. The "captains" erving under Miss Swett in arranging and staging the event were the Misses Gussie Weiser, Hannah Le bow, Tillie Spellman, Fannie Perlham. Dorothy Weiser, Rachel Swett, Debo rah Swett, Betty Michael. Molly Segal and Pearl Lei bo. BISHOP NICHOLS TO RETIRE Increased Duties and Advancing Age Given- as Reasons. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26. Bishop William Ford Nichols, head of the dio cese of San Francisco, will retire in 1919 from active duty, according to an announcement in the Pacific Church man, official publication of the coast lor the Episcopal Church. Increased duties of the office, to gether with advancing "age, are given by Bi3hop Nichols, who is 72 years old, as his reasons. He accepted his present post in 1890. TREE SET UP IN, CAPITOL Children of Soldiers Given Unique Cliri5tmas Entertainment. WASHINGTON. Deo. 2S. Children of Washington whose fathers are serving in the Nations fighting forces were guests of the War Camp Community service today at what was said to have been the first Christmas celebration of its kind ever held in the rotunda of the Capitol. A large tree from Mount "Vernon was set up in the rotunda and Secretary of AVar Baker distributed the gifts and made an address to the little guests. Welfare Operations Expand. NEW ' YORK, Dec. 26. The Jewish Welfare Board has issued a Nation wide appeal for njen and women wel fare workers, teachers and entertainers to serve American troops not only at camps here and abroad, but on the. transports and trains bringing them home. The workers will undergo a brief period of training here. m RANK OPPOSED POTASH AND PERLMUTTER IN NEW SHOW AT HEILIG THEATER High Financing in Motion Picture World Causes No End of Entertainment, and Every Line Carries Hearty Laugh Surprise Features Pleasing. BT LEONE CASS BAERj WHATEVER Abie ancj Mawruss, the W. JC firm of Potash and Perlmutter, place their sign and seal upon seems to automatically have a Jinx of woe placed thereto and upon. Always, too. when they have had their season of loud lamentation and per sonal pleasantries and accusations and reconciliations, and dragged in all of Abie's relations and Rosie's relations and aired everybody's grievances to high heaven, some woman with, as Ring Lardrer says, "that lcok in her eye," comes along and to the rescue. She saves Abie's and Mawruss" business and domesticity and the other men's money and the day and everything and invariably saves something 'for her self. When Abie and Mawruss ran their cloak and suit business into the ground trying to fly high, it was Miss Ruth, you remember, who came along and saved "em and incidentally saved Maw russ for herself. When, in the next play of this interesting pair, Abie and Mawruss burst more or less into so ciety, it was Ruthie, then Mrs. Maw russ Perlmutter, who sraelled the ro dents and rescued her husband and the gentle Abie from a set of parasites and other unpleasant things. In their latest adventure Messrs. Pot ash and Perlmutter ore high financing on the seas of the motion picture world and. as usual, they come to grief. As usual, too, a woman, but not Ruthie Perlmutter, lifts them high and dry above the wreckage, after Rosie and Kuthie and a villain have rocked the boat. It might have been expected that Abie and Mawruss would embark ir$ a venture that offered, according to their hearsay, such amazing returns for so little. Abie and Mawruss not only en tered the game, but put in motion a host of new and original ideas in the art.- Vor instance, the two keen business men decide to eliminate altogether a payroll for actors in their company and use instead Abie's fat and com fortable wife, Rosie, and Mawruss' wife, Ruth, who is no longer statuesque nor interesting, being merely a wife. For extra characters they use the employes in their cloak and suit store for, as Abie says, "Every day now a man has wo businesses, one a regular business and one a movie pictures." Later, Mawruss. says that "running a film factory is not a business, it's a dissipation." Now Rosie was a thing of beauty and a joy forever, presiding over the kitchen stove making noodle soupT but she fell several miles short, of beins a riot on the screon. The tailor's as LONDON RESIDENTS PASS WEEK AFTER ARMISTICE IN REVELRY For Six Days and Nights People Have One Long, Joyous Carnival and Celebrations at All Other Big Cities Are Put in Shade. (Copyrilht, 1018, by the Press Publish ins Company, the New York World. Pub lished by arrangement.) LONDON, Nov. i7. Armistice week in London is destined to be handed down in legendary form as one long-drawn-out period of unpre cedented public delirium. The whole town went mad at noon on Monday, November 11, and tonight, six days later, it Is still in a state of unbal anced emotion. The phlegmatic Eng lish, after a period of four years of compression, have frankly exploded, and in their joy-making have left every other allied capital Rome, Paris, and the rest completely in the shade. Of the many phenomena associated with what may now be termed the "late war," not the least remarkable has been its one-sided nature in the matter of festive celebrations. Up to tho bitter end it was Germany and her satellites who were doing all tho shouting and flagwagging and "maf ficking." They yelled after the crush ing of Russia at Tannenberg and' Tar nov; they screamed deliriously at the overrunning of Belgium and Serbia and Roumanla; out came the bunting again when Italy staggered back all but knocked out at Caporetto. The sea battle of Jutland, the peace of Brest Litovsk, the Zeppelin raids, the great Kaiser-battle smash through at St. Quentin last March all these were made the occasion for further rejoic ing in the Fatherland. Meanwhile, for four long years, not an answering cheer arose from th allies, for the very good reason that they did not win a single resounding; victory in that period, and in fact seemed to be steadily losing the war. The swift crumbling of Germany's allies in October left London breath less, but well on her guard against any premature rejoicing. Not a cheer or a flag marked the successive sur renders of Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria-Hungary. England, in her heart of hearts, was silently paraphrasing the Hymn of Hate: "We have one foe, and one "alone Ger many!" Then came the wonderful end! Week: Is Wonderful. Such an outburst of spontaneous en thusiasm marked Armistice day, No vember 11. as made up for all Ger many's shouting during the war. The joymaking has gone on ever since, day after day, night after night, and to day, as these lines are being written, six days after the feigning of the ar mistice, the festive rejoicings hava reached their climax. The beflagged and brightly lit streets of London are congested with a dense, cheering crowd, bands are playing, processions forming, all the premonitory symptoms of a. final "joy night" on the tapis. It has been a very wonderful week a week in which every class of the community has formed up, as it were, in one delirious ring, a ring o' roses. Gorgeously gowned women in silks and satins have linked up in the street revelry with Australian private sol diers, and stern and bedecorated Gen erals have tripped the light fantastic down Piccadilly arm in arm with shell girls and bun conductorettes. It- has been a veritable apotheosis of democ racy. To understand what has occurred here distant friends must, first picture to themselves the London war-types who have participated in the revelry as hectic a pageant of humanity as ever a revue producer could well con ceive stately, khaki-bloused Austra lians and New Zealanders; land girls in smock, field boots and breeches; convalescent wounded in bright blue uniforms and garish red ties; pretty lady motor drivers of the Army Service Corps; officers and men home from France, piled up with all their kit: munitionettes, special constables, naval officers and men of the grand fleet; French and Belgian poilu.4, quaintly capped American seamen; tall, deter mined "Tanks"; Canadians, cavalry, V. A. D. girls in dark blue or gray, red tabbed and gold-laced staff officers; tube girls and bus conductorettes in trim and dainty uniforms; "Waacs" (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) in khaki and wearing wound stripes and service chevrons: "Wrens" (Women's Royal Naval Service), dressed like naval officers and ratings: "Penguins" a.nd "Wj-afs" (Royal Air Force Girls). One could go on ad lib, enumerating sistant mad - excellent button holes, but he scintillated like a lump of pig iron in the role of a screen hero. There was no market for the miles of films Abe and Mawruss manufactured with help and ruin threatened. Then help arrived in the form and other accessories of a gorgeous vam pire a delectable person who would allow herself to be featured for so much per feat and do no vamping out side of her studio engagements. Rosie Potash, wedded to Abie for over a fourth of a century, grew green with jealousy, viewing the vampire in the light of a competitor. Ruth Perlmut ter, too, viewed the vampire not as bread and butter for herself, but as a possible rival. The delicious bit of it all, too, was that while outwardly a vision that possibly has caused Cleo patra and the Queen of Sheba to turn restlessly In their graves, the vampire was at heart only a. home-loving little girl, saving her money for the day she and the scenario writer could have a modest little bungalow somewhere away from stupid old men .like Abe and Mawruss. Rosie and Ruth and a wealthy villain who wanted the vampire to wear on his sleeve as a conquest almost wrecked and ruined the film company and their own domesticity before everybody got settled in his proper rut. Theplay is a rare company, one filled with the gentle grotesqueness of Jew ish business traditions and holding as well a fine flavor of sentiment and faith. Coupled with the excellent act ing of the two quarreling "potners" it brings the inarticulate joys and idio syncrasies of an impulsive and Romance-loving people home to us. It reacnes our heart as well as our sense of humor and sorter makes us go on loving amiable, gentle old Abe and the more brilliant, hard-headed Mawruss. "There is so much to laugh at in the play. Every line has a laugh at its end. The acting is of a uniform ex cellence and the surprise element en ters often as for instance the many introductions of movie pictures. Helen Gill is the vampire and she cannot be improved upon physically or dramatic ally. She is lithe as a young tigress, voluptuously dark and gorgeously ar rayed. I didn't blame Rosio or Ruth one bit. The play will continue the rest of this week with a matinee to morrow. The cast: A b To t a . h Mawruss I'erlmutler Kosie Potash Ruth Perlmutter .... Keith Macdonald .... Mfss Cohen .......4. ..... .Tulrs Jordan .... Charles I.ipson . .... l.izzto Wiluon . .... Lottie Vernon . .. Murray Phillips Doris Kelly Kobcrt lllanchard William Macaulry Sain Pcmberton ......... Richard Barrows Mone! Brandon Jules 11. Unscr Vietor Ourion Harold Skinnwr Ralph Nevill Harry Ilaramlll lata fiismondl Helen dill this amazing London potpourri of the times. No carnival ever equaled it in life or color. This past week it has been as if all had crowded on to the stage at the end of the last act and had proceeded to go mad. Dancing, cheering, frolicking, waving flags, letting off fireworks, operating on every manner of instru ment from trumpet to squeaker, bang ing drums, blowing horns and sirens, ringing bells and whirling round nerve racking rattles all this in the sober, sedate West End, hour after hour, da after day, night after night. The ball was started rolling toward midday on the 11th. when the guns of the anti-aircraft defenses thundered the great news east and west, south and north. Instantly London, as one man and woman, rose from its desk and pro ceeded to forget that such a thing as work existed. Out into the streets surged hundreds of thousands. Flags appeared as if by magic on every house and office. People in the street, -complete strangers, cheered one another as they made their way toward the West End all roads led to that square mile inclosed by Piccadilly, Regent street and the Strand. Here, toward 2 o'clock, the scene baffled description. Not an inch of sidewalk or roadway could be seen. Simply one vast, multi-colored human throng, all cheering, screaming, yelling; every motor car, taxi or lorry or bus that passed was commandeered by hundreds who clambered up, men, women and children, old and young, and proceeded to set off on a trium phant, cheering joy ride. One counted as many as 30 on a taxi cab and 50 on a private car. ' Girls sat astride the bonnet, others hung peril ously onto the mudguards. All cheered and went on cheering. The speed of the "joy chariots" averaged perhaps ,a quarter of a mile an hour through the continuous sea jf humanity. Sometimes an army lorry would com- by com pletely smothered by clinging forms, not even the wheels visible. In the midst of it all. while the Kaiser was sneaking into Holland, ap peared the King and Queen, joyriding through the dense mass like everyone else. Their Majestic will live to be very old before they ever hear such cheers again as on that Monday after noon in the Strand. Every now and then one could dis tinguish signs of a procession surging through the throng. Such processions were usually headed by an Australian holding up an effigy of the Kaiser, and an American soldier by his side trum peting "Over There!" Following came thousands' arm in arm, six abreast. Waacs and wounded, land girls and of ficers, costers and noblemen, east-end-ers and west-enders, all singing, shout ing, skipping, waving flags and blow ing carnival "squeakers." Now and then such a procession would break up and hurst into wild dancing, fox-trotting down Whitehall in one vast whirl pool, or pirouetting in coster step, hun dreds abreast in one long-drawn-out hopping line, wp Piccadilly. Such scenes have gone on all the week a week of smiles, and nothing but smiles. The person who ventured abroad with a long face was promptly mobbed. "Is the war over?" shouts a soldier from the plinth of the Nelson Column. "Yes," roar back a hundred thousand throats. "What price Kaiser Bill now?" And the revelers roar back again something anything. And the carnival goes on. Star shells and Very lights, no longer needed "over there."- pierce the sky; the searchlights write strange sentences on the clouds, minor bombs explode; we are dazzled by street lamps and theaters and hotels all lighting up once more Bonfire Is Unique. One r.lght a rush was made for the Mall, where 400 German guns were lined up. Dozens were trundled out and. through the west end. officers su perintending operations from the lim bers. In Trafalgar Square a huge bon fire was made of captured guns, board ings, chairs and useless motorcycles anything to hand. And when the fire brigade arrived the Australians calmly cut the hosepipes and proceeded to dance madly round the flames, mount ing 50 feet high. The Australians and American troops and the shell girls have been the life and soul of the rev elry, during which, of course, all traf fic has been completely at a standstill. Pickpockets have had a record week, second only to the hawkers and street vendors selling the flags and favors of all nations and picture postcards of the Kaiser behind prison bars. Paper hats have also had a great vogue a strange phase of the city's delirum, in fact, has been the orgy and interchange of head gear. Pretty girls paraded v wearing shrapnel helmets and officers countered by donning dainty toques and bonnets. An atmosphere of perfect good humor has pervaded all; the police have had nothing to do save stand about and re ceive the plaudits of the multitude. Someone very high up must have said, "Let them carry on; they deserve it. For all restrictions as known under D. O. R. A. (Defense of the Realm Act) have been thrown to the winds. People have fairly done things that a week be fore would have earned them six months' imprisonment. When the crowd wasn't cheering it was singing. And the din created by tens of thousands singing different tunes in the same street is best left to the imagination. "Af res las guerre finit," "Tipperary;" "Take Me Back to Blighty," "The Bells Are Ringing," "Good-bye-ee," all being shouted at top-voice. But the most popular have undoubtedly been "Over There" and "Land of Hope and Glory," which has come to be recognized as Britain's true national anthem. So much for outside in the streets. We will leave amazing London of a hundred uniforms and types, skipping, hopping and never stopping, dancing, singing, cheering, smiling all the time, sometimes through tears of joy. It has differed radically, this jollif ication, from all previous "mafficking," in that sobriety,- owing to the continued drink restrictions, has been the hard and fixed rule. It has been as If some one had taken their fist off Niagara ' after having plugged it up for four long years. Hotels and Iteatnuranta Merry. ' In the hotels' and restaurants the scenes have been just as unrestrained. Not a seat has been available the whole week, while the obtaining of food has been a farce. People didn't go to the restaurants to dine this week. They went to revel. Tho or chestras largely controlled operations'. They played every popular tune from the "Marseillaise" to "Auld Lang Syno" over and over again, the diners shouting in chorus at the tops of their voices. Proceedings would bo punc tuated by cheers for war celebrities such as WilRon, Lloyd George, Foch, Haig and Clemenceau, and by groans and hisses for the Kaiser and Crown Prince and Ludendorff. "Or people would make speeches in articular va porings drowned in applause. A toast to the Czecho-SIovaks would produce a tremendous outburst of enthusiasm, though half tho assembly had but the vaguest notion who the Szecho-Slovaks were. Pretty women and gallant of ficers mounted tables and, standing amid their dinners, waved champagne bottles on high and culled for cheers for anybody, anything. And the re sponse would bo deafening. To wavo a- Belgian or a British or n. French or American flag was to bring down the house. After the hors d'oeuvres, dancing usually broke out, and soon the whole room at the Savoy or Romano's or the Carlton would be fox trotting and prancing up and down, in and out of the tables; no such person as a stranger in the room, all one brother and sisterhood welded together by the wonderful occasion. Men who nor mally would have been madly jealous of handing their wives, and others over to complete strangers promptly gripped hold of tho complete stran ger's wife. Sedate uncles and aunts donned paper caps and blew tin whistles. Guests Serve Themsel rn. Every now and then the room would resound to tho National anthem and the "Marseillaise," this latter a long way the most popular. Few knew the words, but all shouted the intoxicating ajr. And meanwhile champagne corks popped, and diners danced with the staff, and more speeches , were made, and more cheers for favorites, called for and thundered forth. Sometimes the guests waited on themselves, ging even down to the kitchen; at the restaurants giant "bowls" were made of every conceivable wine and liquor, and ladled around like soup to all and sundry. The celebrity of social life, such as a., politician or an actress, would be hoisted bodily onto the table and forced to address the room. One beautiful young actress astonished people on such an occasion ty solemnly declaim ing: "I'm going to give you an entirely new toast. 'England! We've done more and said less than anybody else.' " It has been the same in every hotel and restaurant and cafe, from Claridge's to the meanest fish shop. Occasionally rough horseplay inter fered as at one big hotft, whose closed entrance was burst through with Ger man guns used as battering rams, but the general rule has been just bolster "bus, good-tempered hilarity. After dinner fashionable parties re paired to dances held Into the small hours in every corner of the town; others, not so particular, joined in at the nearest "hop" going on at the cor ner of the street to the strains of a soli tary cornet. Theaters Also Celebrate. In the theaters it has been the same. No one went to see the show, but just to cheer, dance and sing, and at many of the music halls the artists gave it up after the opening few minutes and mingled with the audience, who, in turn, proceeded to mount the stage and prance about, carnival-like, with the chorus. In the middle of such a scene the King arrived at the Alhambra he has been deliberately going everywhere into the heat of the revel. Such has been Armistice week in London a week that will never recur. The nightmare of slaughter and agony, suddenly wafted away as if by magic, the town has frankly gone quite mad. the uniforms of men and -women add ing zest and "go" to the revelry that no carnival could ever give. It has been an unexampled blending of the masses and the classes of happy augury tnese tsoisnevikist times. Take a last couple of snapshots- Peer and a Colonel, a land girl and a white-capped American seaman pranc ing round a policeman in Piccadilly circus. Again, the spectacle of a dozen one legged men clambering onto a com mandeered milk cart and waving their crutches all the way down the Strand. Such scenes have littered the town a hoarse, tired town tonight, after a whole week's amazing jollification, but still carrying on at the same pressure as last Monday. People are asking. "When is it going to ena . ARMY MEN VISIT RHINE Excursion Trips Planned for Offl. ' cers on Leave. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE RHINE. Dec. 26. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Excursion trips on the Rhine, requiring three to five days, have been planned by the American Third .' -my for officers and men on leave. Arrangements are complete for requisitioning three large river boats. eacn witn accommodation lor sou to 400 men. The plans also provide for short rec reation trips, and for this purpose a fleet -of from .10 to 15 steamers has been requisitioned. Crews of the Norwegian state whal ing stations have been ordered to salt down intestines of all whales taken, as it is intended to use them for making gloves. The material is said to be soft, pliable and exceptionally strong. 1CLE SI URGED TO STAY IN' GRAIN TRADE Secretary Houston Would Con tinue Price Guarantee. CONGRESS ASKED TO ACT Rights of Farmers and Government, It Is Said, Demand Provision for Care bt 19J9 Crop. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. Legislation to make effective the wheat price guar antee for the 1913 crop and at the same time to safeguard the Government against losses was recommended to Congress today by the Department of Agriculture and the Food Administra tion. A memorandum sent to Representa tive Lever, of South Carolina, chairman of the House agricultural committee, made the following recommendations: First Extension by Congress beyond June 1. 190, of the date for the Gov ernment purchase of the 1919 crop. Buyers to Be Protected. Second Continuance of the Food Ad ministration's grain corporation, or cre ation of a new agency to buy, store and sell 1919 wheat that may bo olTered to tho Government, and; Third Possible legislative provisions to protect the Government against wheat or, flour brought in from other countries during the period of effective ness of the guaranteed price and aluo to protect buyers of such wheat as long as the wheat is in this country and not consumed. Tho memorandum was compiled with the approval of President Wilson and Secretary Houston, in submitting, it said: Inflective Aetiou Irgrd. "The Government has made a guar antee and it goes without eaying that it must be made effective." Regarding extension of the date of Government purchase, the memorandum said : "it would bo impossible to carry out the guarantee as it is intended by June 1. 1920, and if producers cannot Bell their wheat to the ITnitcd States beforo that date and are left with wheat on hand, it will be felt that the obligation of the United States has nut been car ried out in good faith. "The Government purchasing agency must have ample funds to at all times purchase throughout tho United States at the guaranteed price such wheat of tho 1919 crop as may bo offeree to it and also to provide storage facilities to take care of the same by lease or purchaso of facilities now in existence or by building additional facilities or both. Price Maintenance NeceMory. "The appropriation will have to be on a basis to enable the guarantee lriceto be maintained at all times by purchase of wheat with funds provided by the Government and without relying on outside credit." The Food Administration Grain Cor poration is maintaining the price for the 1918 crop with its capital of 150. 000,000 and its credits, combined with the export demand for wheat. The 1918 crop is estimated at 917.100,000 bushels and on November 0 last the movement from the farms amounted to C88.00U.0O0 bushels, o'f which 254,000,000 was in storage. "It will be observed," said the memo randum, "that there is a very hurce amount of the 1918 crop yet to bo moved from the farms, anil it will take all the resources of the Grain Corporation and the most careful attention to every de tail to carry out the guaranteed price for the crop of 1918. In fact, if the ex port demand should diminish, it may be necessary mat tnere be a further ap proprlation by Congress." NATIONAL PARTY IS ACTIVE SPOKANE TO GET INLAND EM PIRE HEADQUARTERS. National Chairman Coatcs Says Campaign Vill lie Made for President la Year 102 0. SPOKANE. Wash., Dec. 25 (Spe cial.) The National Party willestab lish an Inland Kmplre headquarters in Spokano next year and maintain it un til after the presidential election in 1920. From here organization work in .Eastern Washington and Oregon. West ern Montana and Northern Idaho will be conducted. The foregoing announcement was made today by David C. Coates. former City- Commissioner and now National Chairman of the National Party with headquarters in Chicago, who arrived in town Tuesday for a holiday visit with his family. Mr. Coates will go to Seattle before returning to Chicago, in order to con fer with party members as to a state chairman for Washington. Since Will Kverett resigned aa btute chairman the National party has been without a State head here. "The National party everywhere la branching out and getting organized said Mr. Coates. "We are doing much preparation work in anticipation of active participation in the Presidential election two years hence. BRITONS' HOLIDAY IS COT i VISIT OF WILSON FORCES STAY IX LONDON. Statesmen Afraid to Leave Metropo lis" for Fear They May Miss President on Arrival. BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG. (Copyright by the New York World, pub liihud by arrangement.) LONDON, Dec, 26. (Special cable.) Not many British statesmen got far away from London Wednesday for the celebration of the first un warlike Christ mas since 1914, oecause President Wil son's arrival tomorrow spelled a deb acle for the usual out-of-town Christ mas festivities of royalty and the many leading men who will partici pate tomorrow in. the welcome. Some members of the government with homes near London were enabled to get away because of their possible return tomorrow morning, but many others who intended to spend several days in remoter parts of the country remained In London and in so doing found lime to apportion a part of their Christmas for informal discussions. Tonight there Is a trend Londonward of hundreds of persons 'who are un willing to postpone until tomorrow their journey because of the possibil ity of missing President Wilson's tri- umphant entry into the British metrop olis. Already, "standing room' only" would be a. good motto at most hotels, for the metropolis is bulging with an unprecedented population. Dover, where President Wilson will land at noon tomorrow, likewise is filled up. If the weather holds good the President will have the biggest aerial escort across the chann? any visitor to England ever hart. Many air squadrons will accompany his spe- f cial train as far as London. Along tne whole route from Dover It promises to be a triumphant journey, because the populace of all the town lining the railroad will hall him with flags and shouts. From well-informed quarters tonight it was learned that the Presi dent in all probability will be informed of the full scope of the British league of nations plans during Thursday's in formal discussions. Southern European issues as well as the Russian situation are expected to call for prolonged discussion on the following day. It is believed, that President Wilson already has made clear in Paris conversations that he is against military intervention in Russian affairs and those who believe this point to his Mexican policy. There is much speculation about any remarks on Ireland which the President may make in the event the Mayor of Dub lin and the Irish committee come here during his visit to present an address and an invitation to visit Ireland. His answer to labor's address is being eagerly awaited by the labor leaders. YANKS OBSERVE HOLIDAY CHRISTMAS AT HOME IN 1919 IS 0 HOPE OF TROOPS. Dougliboja Have Regulation Trees and Plenty of Girts, but Some thing Seems to Re Lacking. BT CYRIL BROWN. tCopyright by th New "York "World. Pub lished by arrangement.) COBLKNZ, Dec. 26. (Special cable.) Americans at homo may well thrill with patriotic pride over tiie lirst Christmas of American soldiers in enemy land. Tho world never saw more modest visitors or more human conquerors than the American dough boys, who are making the best they can of their armistice Christmas, and getting all the fun out of It possible Yet tho common thought of tho boys Is .to finish the job in hand and get home. "Next Christmas home," is the universal sentiment of tho American Army of occupation, from, the dough boy to the tieneral. In the frowning fortret-s of Coblene and throughout the trans-Rhine bridge head district, the Christmas spirit is exhuberant. The Third Army boasts of 500 large and Ingeniously decorated trees and thousands of individual tree lets, many of them donated by the mu nicipality in gratitude for the good treatment from the Army. Tliero are gifts for everyone. with plenty of chocolates, cigarettes and cigars. ithout neglecting their military duties, tho boys are having real holi day pleasures. Tho bauds are play ing liom j tunes, ami amateur theatri cals and other entertainments hava been arranged for the day. For tho benefit of troops in transit, the largest Christmas treo obtaiuablo in Coblcnx has been set up in the biggest hall in the place, and it has been hung with oOOO gifts for the boys who blow In. The entertainers include a full-blooded Indian Princess. Unfortunately, the day Is turkeyless, but the boys are cheerfully eating erssta (substitute food). HARMONY HELD ASSURED President IJuiler Sends Message to Columbia Students. NEW YORK. Pec. 2fi. A Christmas message. was sent to all Columbia Uni versity men In France by Nicholas But- 264 Alder St, Near REMEMBER During Shop will exchange all if not satisfied. G EXTRAORDINARY SALE ! 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