TITE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 5, 1919.
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President Pleads for Relief o
Europe's Destitute.
GERMANS NOT CONSIDERED
fcolicltnde Is for Peoples Made Help-
less by War; ling Appro
priation Is Asked.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. President
Wilson's first recommendations based
on his study In Europe look to the re
Ilef of distress of populations "outside
of Germany" which are threatened with
starvation.
Request for Immediate appropriation
of $100,000,000 to supply food to liber
ated peoples of Austria. Turkey, Poland
and Western Russia, who have no
recognized governments and are unable
to finance International obligations was
transmitted today to Congress by Sec
retary Glass on cabled Instructions
from the President. Mr. Glass went
personally to the Capitol for a long
conference with Democratic leaders of
the House, and legislation to carry out
the President's recommendations will
be Introduced by them after conferring
with Republican leaders.
Esirvpe'a Xeeds Eseraisaa.
The President's message said that
food shipments worth 11.50.000.000 must
b made from the C'nited States to
Kurope In the next seven months. An
international organization, directed by
Herbert C. Hoover, will supervise the
distribution of the supplies, most of
which will be paid for by persons able
to find the necessary resources.
The text of the President's message
follows:
"Extended Investigation and consid
eration of the food situation in certain
parts of Europe disclose that essen
tially the urban populations in certain
areas are not, only faced with absolute
starvation during the coming winter,
but that many of the populations are
unable to find immediate resources
with which to purchase their food.
These regions have been so subjected to
destruction by war. not only of their
foodstuffs, but of their financial re
sources and their power of production
and exports, that they are utterly in
capable of finding any resources that
ran be converted Into international ex
change for food purchases.
Many Peeple Are Helpless.
"While the Serretaryof the Treasury
ran accept obligations of certain gov
rrnments and through these measures
their situations can be cared for tem
porarily, there are still other areas
through Eastern and Southern Europe
where such arrangements cannot be
made. This applies more particularly
to the liberated peoples of Austria.
Turkey. Poland and Western Russia.
In these countries freedom and govern
ment will slowly emerge from chaos
and require our every assistance.
"The total shipments of foodstuffs
from the United States to all parts of
Europe during the next seven months
will be likely to exceed Il.5u0.000.000.
end from our abundance we can surely
afford to offer succor to these coun
tries destitute of resources and cred
its. The minimum sums upon which
this work can be carried on for the
next six months in tbs countries men
tioned will amount to at least llvO.000.
00 for auch services and supplies as
we can render and even this sum con
templates the finding of resources by
so much of the population as can do
so. and as much assistance as can be
given by the allied governments.
Liberal Aaaiataaee I'rged.
"The high mission of the American
people to find a remedy for starvation
and absolute anarchy, renders it nee
essary that we should undertake the
most liberal assistance to these des
titute regions.
"The situation Is one of extreme
urgency, for foodstuffs must be placed
in certain localities within the next IS
to 30 days if human life and order are
to be presedved. I. therefore, request
that you ask Congress to make avail
able to me an immediate appropriation
of 1 00.000.000 for the broad purpose
of providing for foodstuffs and urgent
supplies, for the transportation, dl
tributlon and administration thereof to
such populations in Europe. Outside of
Oermany. as may be determined upon
by me from time to time as necessary
"I wish to appeal to the great sense
of charity and good will of the Ameri
can people toward the suffering and
to place this act upon a primarily hu
manltarian basis of the first magnl
tude. While the sum of money is in
itself large. It is so small compared to
the expenditures we have undertake
In the hope of bettering the world that
1t becomes a mere pittance compared
to the results that will be obtaine
from It and the tastinir effect that will
remain tn the United States through an
act of such broad humanity and states'
manlike influence.
Speedy Aetlea Is Asked.
After Secretary Glass had trans
mltted the President's message to Con
Kress. Chairman Sherley called a meet
ing of the House appropriations com
mittee for Monday to consider It. Mr.
Sherley said, if the committees, ap
proved the request for funds it would
be Incorporated in a seperate appro
prlation measure and presented forth
with to the House.
Officials of the Food Administration,
In discussing the situation Informally
with members of the appropriations
committees, urged speedy action, de
daring that their advices showed the
same conditions as those outlined by
the President.
ITALY AND AMERICA UNITED
IN FIGHT FOR COMMON IDEALS
Kin; Victor Emmanuel Welcomes President Wilson and Anew Pledges:
Nation to Support of Cause of Libert; and Justice.
ROME.
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Hood River Skater Injured.
HOOD RIVER. Or., January 4. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Fred Rand, known as one
of the best skaters in the valley, suf
fered a broken wrist last night, when
he fell on one of the Columbia sloughs
north of the city. Her skates struck
some unseen obstruction on the ice sur
face, throwing her violently. A num
ber of minor accidents have been re
ported. Hundreds of residents of both
city and valley have been participating
In the skating.
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OME, Friday, Jan. J. President
son was the guest of honor
an official dinner given at the
Qulrinal tonight. There were only
two address, by King Victor Emmanuel
and by Mr. Wilson. The King said: '
"Tou. yourself. Mr. President, have
become our welcome and pleasing guest
only today, b.ut in the conscience of our
people your personality already for a
long time has inscribed Itself In an
Ineffaceable way. It is that which in
itself gathers all the powers which go
to stimulate a will bent on liberty and
Justice and gives Inspiration toward
the highest conception of the destinies
of humanity.
The enormous salutations wnicn
have accompanied your passage
through the streets of Rome today are
attestations of sentiments of admin
tion and rcognition that your own
name and labor and the name ana
labor of the United States stir in the
Italian people. The principles in which
you in magnificent synthesis bsve
summed up the ideal reasons of the
war for liberty find, resonance In
Italian hearts.
Xatleaa Kaltted Together.
"The best traditions of Italian cul
ture, the liveliest currents of our Na
tlonal thoughts, have constantly aimed
at the same ideal goal, toward the es
abllshment.of the International peace
for which you have with tenacious faith
tood. Already before the vicissitudes
of war and the fraternity of armies
had established today's admirable com
munion of intentions and purposes be
ween our two countries, legions of
our workers had emigrated to your
great republic They had knitted Amer
nd Italy together with strong
cords of relationship and these be
came reinforced by the spiritual affin-
ty between both peoples who had a
common faith in the virtue ot tree
political government.
"When Italy entered Into the war a
breath, a precursor of the American
soul, penetrated into the rank and file
of our Army through the means of
our workers who returned to the
fatherland from America and brought
into Italy an echo of their second
Patria. So. correspondingly, the Italian
soul vibrated In the hearts of our
emigrants enrolled under your banners
when the American Nation under your
guidance threw itself into the fight
against the common enemy.
Cs-operatlea la Assured.
"It was natural that your visit
awaited with a most earnest desire.
should now give form and expression
slmost tangible to this fervid agree
ment of spirits to this happy com
munion of Intentions and of ideals,
forming themselves between the two
peoples and which are employed in a
union always more Intimate and a co
operation always more cordial in the
face of the grave duties imposed by
the common viotory. Italy, having
now gathered to her own bosom those
brothers so long sorrowing under for
eign oppression and having recon
quered the confines which alone can
give her security and true independ
ence, la preparing nerseu to co-oper
ate with you in the most cordial man
ner to reach the most practical mean
for drawing Into a single circle th
civilized nations for the purpose
creating in the supreme form of
league of nations the conditions most
fitted to safegurad and protect eacn
one a rights.
Italy and America, entered together
Into the war through a rare act o
will; they were moved by the purpose
to concur with all their energies In
an effort to prevent the domination
of the cult of force In the world: they
were moved by the purpose to reaffirm
Lb the scale ot human values the prin
ciples of liberty snd Justice. They
entered into war to conquer the pow
ers of war. Their accomplishment is
still unfinished and the common work
must still be developed with fl
faith and with tenacious constancy for
the purpose of effecting the security
of Deace.
"I lift up my glass. Mr. President. In
your honor snd in the honor of Mrs.
Wilson, whose gentle presence adds
charm to your visit; I drink to the
prosperity and to the continued and in
creasing prestige of the great Ameri
can Nation.
President WUsoa Iteapoada.
In reply President Wilson spoke as
follows:
"Your Majesty: I have been very
much touched by the generous terms
of the address you have Just read. I
feel that it would be difficult for me
to make a worthy reply, and yet if
could speak simply the things that are
In my heart I am sure they would
constitute an adequate reply.
"I had occasion at the Parliament
this afternoon to speak of the strong
sympathy that had sprung up between
the United States and Italy during the
terrible years of the war. but perhaps
here I can speak more intimately and
say how sincerely the people of the
United States had admired your own
course and your own constant associa
tion with the armies of Italy, and the
gracious and generous and serving as
sociation of Her Majesty, the Queen.
It has been a matter of pride with
us that so many Italians, so many men
of Italian origin, were in our own Ar
mies and associated with their brethren
in Italy Itself in the great enterprise of
freedom. These are no small matters
and they complete that process of the
welding together of the sympathies of
nations which has been going on so
long between our peoples.
Italians? Coarse Commended.
The Italians In the United States
have excited a particular degree of ad
miration. They. I believe, are the only
people of a given nationality who have
been careful to organize themselves
to see that their compatriots coming
to America were from month to month
and year to year guided to places in
ndustries most suitable to their pre
vious habits. No other nationality has
taken such pains as that, and In serv
ing their fellow-countrymen they have
served the United Slates, because these
people have found places where they
would be most useful and would most
mmedlately earn their own living and
add to the prosperity of the country
itself.
"In every way we have been happy
n our association at home and abroad
with the people of this great state,
was saying playfvlly to Premier Or
lando and Baron Sonnlno this after
noon that in trying to put the people
of the world under their proper sov
ereignties we would not be willing
to part with the Italians In the United
States because we too much value the
contribution they have made, not only
to the industry of the United States,
but to its thoughts and to many ele
ments ot its life.
Aid Is. Gladly Gives.
"This Is. therefore, a very welcome
occasion upon which to express a feei
ng that goes very deep. I was touched
the other day to have an Italian, a very
plain man. say to me that we had
helped to feed Italy during the war.
nd It went to my heart because we
had been able to do so little. It was
necessary for us to use our tonnage so
xclusively for the handling of troops
nd of the supplies that had to follow
them from the United States that we
could not do half as much as it was
our desire to do to supply grain to this
country, or coal, or any of the supplies
hich lt so much needed during the
progress of the war.
And knowing as we Old la 4? la-
direct way the needs of the country,
you will not wonder that we were
moved by its steadfastness. My heart
goes out to the little, poor families all
over this great kingdom who stood the
brunt and strain of the war and gave
their men gladly to make other men
free and other women and children
free. These are the people and many
like them to whom after all we owe
the glory of this great achievement,
and I want to Join with you. for I am
sure of Joining with you, in expressing
not only my profound sympathy, but
my very profound admiration as welL
"It Is my privilege and honor to pro
pose the health of his majesty, the
King, and her majesty, the Queen, and
long prosperity to Ifaly."
seemed to elude them, that seemed to
run before them as they advanced, but
never have they flagged in their pur
pose to achieve it, and I believe I am
not deceived in supposing that in this
age of ours they are nearer to it than
they ever were before.
Masklad Hu New Hope,
"The light that shoe upon the sum
mlt now seems to shine almost at our
feet and if we lose it, it will only be
because we have lost faith. A breath
of hope and of confidence has come into
the hearts and minds of men.
"I would not have felt at liberty to
come away from America if I had not
felt that the time had arrived when,
forgetting local interests and local ties
and local purposes, men should unite in
this great enterprise that will ever
tie free men together as a body of
brethren and a body of free spirits.
"I am honored, sir, to be taken into
this ancient comradeship of the Citizen
ship of Rome."
PRESIDENT CITIZEX OF ROME
Past and Present Brought Together
In Historic Capital.
ROME, Friday, Jan. 4. President
Wilson became a citizen of Rome to
night. The ceremony took- place In
the historic capltoL. designed by Michael
Angelo. and redolent with suggestions
of ancient and mediaeval Rome. As
sistlng in the services were King Vic
tor Emmanuel and Queen Helena, mem
bers of the Italian Cabinet, members of
the diplomatic corps, including Ambas
rador and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page
and municipal and military authorities.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, accompanied
by the King and Queen, drove to the
capitol after the dinner at the QuirinaL
At the conclusion of the ceremony in
which he became a citizen of Rome,
Mr. Wilson spoke as follows:
You have done me a very great
honor. Perhaps you can imagine what
feeling it is for a citizen of one
of the newest of the great nations to
be made a citizen of this ancient city.
It is a distinction which I am sure
you are conferring upon me as a rep
resentative of the great people for
whom I speak. One who has been a
student of history cannot accept an
honor of the sort without having his
memory run back to the extraordinary
series of events which have centered in
this place.
Great Past la Recalled.
But as I have thought today. I have
been impressed by the contrast between
emporary and permanent things. Many
political changes have centered about
Rome, from the time when from a little
ity she grew to be mistress of a great
empire. Change after change has swept
away many things, altering the very
form of her affairs, but the thing that
has remained permanent has been the
spirit of Rome and the Italian people.
That spirit seems to have caught with
each age the characteristic purpose of
the age.
"This imperial people now gladly rep
resents the freedom of nations. This
people which at one time seemed to
conceive the purpose of governing the
world, now takes part in the liberal
enterprise of offering the world its
own government. Can there be a finer
or more impressive illustration of the
Indestructible human spirit and of the
unconquerable spirit of liberty?
Germaay's Chance Forfeited.
"I have been reflecting in these re
cent days about a colossal blunder
which has been made the blunder of
force by the central empires. If Ger
many had waited a single generation
she would have had a commercial em
pire of the world. She was not will
ing to conquer by skill, by enterprise,
by commercial success. She must needs
attempt to conquer the world by arms
and the world will always acclaim the
fact that it is Impossible to conquer
by arms; that the only thing that
conquers it is the sort of service which
can be rendered in trade, in intercourse.
in friendship, and that there is no con
quering power which can suppress the
freedom of the human spirit.
"I have rejoiced personally in the
parnership of the Italian and Ameri
can people, because it is a new partner
ship in an old enterprise, an enter
prise predestined to succeed wherever
It is undertaken the enterprise which
has always borne that handsome name
which we call 'liberty.' Men have pur
sued It sometimes like a mirage that
ROME PAYS ITS TRIBUTE
(Continued from First Page.)
gave the picture an international touch
Before going to the Vatican, the
President had his first real glimpse of
the Eternal City. An early visit was
paid to the Pantheon, where wreaths
were laid upon the tombs of King
Victor Emmanuel II and King Hum
bert there and then the Presidential
party motored up the great hill over
looking Rome, where stands the im
posing monument to Garibaldi.
The President alighted from his
motorcar, and, standing bareheaded
beside the statue ot the great Italian
and surrounded by the ruins of the
historic centuries, he looked over the
city lying below, crowned by the dome
St. Peter's and with the Vatican gar
dens spread out before him. In the
distance the broken, columns of the
old Forum and the tumbled walls of
the coliseum were visible.
Pope Receives President.,
President Wilson received the im
pressive scene silently for several
moments and then went on to the round
of his day's activities. Of these, his
attendance at a meeting of the Royal
Academy of Science and luncheon at
the American Embassy came before the
carrying out of the most important
part of the programme for today.
While these earner functions were
In progress Pope Benedict was giving
audience to a delegation of American
newspaper men, to wnom ne expressed
the greatest hopes for a lastlng peace,
his appreciation of the part America
was playing in the efforts to achieve
It and voicing his confidence in. the
continuing and increasing influence of
the United States in the world's affairs.
Reception Cordial One.
In his conversation with President
Wilson the Pontiff gave expression
to identical sentiments and enlarged
upon the themes. In view of the
President's rejection of the papal peace
offer months ago, the reception of the
American executive at the Vatican to
day was looked forward to with great
Interest in all official circles, and the
warm greetings exchanged by Presi
dent and Pontiff were commented upon
with much satisfaction here.
President Wilson left Rome for
Paris shortly after 9 o'clock tonight
with the cheers of the Roman throng
that had gathered to witness his de
parture ringing in his ears. His visit
to the Italian capital had proved the
busiest of his European trip, and it
was the most demonstrative.
Party to Reach Paris Tuesday.
The President's party is not expected
to reach Paris until Tuesday morning.
as the itinerary provides for stops at
Genoa, Milan and Turin.
The President Is represented as ex
pecting on his r turn to the trench
capital, to find the peace delegates up
to the point of deciding upon tne iirsi
nrlncinles of the proposed league of
nations thus paving the way to the dis
posal of what he regards as tne neces
sary preliminaries to the peace before
his return to the United States about
the middle of February.
Commander Freeman. Quits Service.
SEATTLE, Jan. 4. Commander Mil
ler Freeman, who has been tread of the
naval training station at the University
of Washington here since the United
States entered the war, is to be suc
ceeded by Commander O. A. Scott, it
was announced today. Commander
Freeman is to retire to his previous
work as a Seattle publisher.
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