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.
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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
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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
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if not satisfied.
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RETURNING
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world
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Washington
at Sixth
ler, president of Columbia University,
it was announced Wednesday.
"Those who have offered their lives
are now called upon to offer their
minds and souls," the message said in
part. "Tli a sacrifices of war are over,
but the sacrifices of neare are- only
uow to begin. Tl-eso vro sacrifices t- z.
will put behind us s' Ifishncst, greed
and willingness to exploit 'lie souls and
bodies of other men. Theso are sacri
fices thaV will turn our ininds away
from bigness, from unknown and from
accumulations, to character, to quality
and to spiritual power. We should no
longer think of large nations and small
nations, bjt only of free nations, joy
fully competing together in service to
mankind in revelation of new and un
biispected powers of helpfulness and
progress."
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