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FORTJETH YEAR NO. 208
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY,-SEPTEMBER 1, 1917
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EIGHTY PERCENT
AMENDMENT LOST
VOTE WAS 17 TO 62
This Indicates Finance Com
mittee Has Support of
Southern Members
FIGHT HOWEVER IS ONLY
IN ITS FIRST STAGES
Amendments Will Be Offered
in Turn Down to Minimum
of50PerCert
Washington, Sept. 1. Wealth con
scription forces lost their first big bat
tle in the senate today. An amendment
by Senator Johnson, California, to the
revenue bill, providing an eighty per
cent tax ou war profits, was defeated
17 to 62,
The fight, however, has only begun.
The determined group is intent upon
making the rich pay their fair dues in
the war. There still remain amendments
sealing down to fifty per cent of war
profits to be fought for by Johnson.
The small vote following Johnson in
dicates the success of the finance com
mittee in ranging behind it many of the
southern senators who oppose the com
mittee bill, but are afraid of the wealth
Konscriptiouistsr
Those voting for the big profits tax
were:
Ashurst, Borah, Brady, Gore, Oronna,
Hollis, Hustiug, Johnson, California,
Johnson, South Dakota; Jones, Wash
ington; Kenyon, Kirby, LaFolletto, Mc
Nary j orris, Thompson and Vardaman.
After defeat - of Johnson's amend
ment, Senator Kenvota of Iowa, said:
Did Not Expect to Win.
"We did as well as we expected on
the eighty percent amendment. We
will.go ahead plugging away with other
amendments providing somewhat lower
rates. No matter whether these arc ad
opted or not, we have forced the finance
committee to increase profits taxes half
& billion dollars."
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, de
fended the finance committee's amend
ment. "It did not result from yielding to
stump speakers, campaign orators orj
radical enthusiasts," he said. "It was
the result of calm and deliberate inves
tigation and appreciation of the situa
tion." Senator Lodge of Massachusetts said:
"If we hit business any harder in this
bill, we '11 find it necessary next year
to raise a billion dollars in consumption
taxes. My only nim is to keep business
active and progressive, We must do that
and at the same time get the largest
possible amount of taxation and keep
in getting it.
' ' We can 't do anything to impair the
credit of tho United States which is the
mightiest single weapon in the war."
Johnson's Big Tight.
Washington, Sept. 1. In a scathing
ettaek on the senate finance committee
Senator .Johnson, California, today de
clared plans of computing war profits
"will put a premium on the ability of
great corporations to hoodwink and ex
ploit the government."
He spoke on his amendment taxing
war profits 80 per cent.
"The committee has said to us 'wait,
pause, hesitate, before taking so much
of the war profits of the country's
(Continued on page six.)
ABE MARTIN S
TV sympathy o' th' entire commu
nity gotfs out t' Stew Xugeut's mother,
who suffered a nervous breakdown ;
whtn h' failed to git drafted. Miss ;
Ta?.Tif-y Apple ha a beautiful new fiber j
f.r;atir in on o' th' pop'lar f liver bus
tones.
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MADE RED CROSS OFFICIAL
. Washington, Sept. 1 The ap
pointment of Edgar H. Wells,
Cleveland, formerly dean of
Harvard college, as deputy Red
Cross commissioner for "Europe,
was announced today by Hen
ry Davison, chairman - of the
Red Cross war council. Wells
will be stationed in London for
.the present.
BILL IS PRESENTED
Washii
ity Lea So
to the 1
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measure j . j-i
Sept. 1. Major
tehin presented
today the $11,
t bond revenue
t in the worlds
unanimous bi
f or its immedi
u ml 8 from the
rd loans to the
:ing this ba
es in the war.
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ALLIED OFFENSIVE
TMIOAY'S REST
Italians Keep Busy, Fate of
Austrian Fleet Trapped at
Pola Is Unknown
London, Sept. 1, Except for Gener
al Cordona's drive across the Biansiz
za plateau and toward Trieste, there
was a letup today in the great allied
offensive on all European fronts. Paris
reports a local attack along the Chem
in Des Dames, which gained a fifth of
mile over a little less than a mile
front. Field Marshal Haig had only
enemy artillery fire to report
JNo additional news came regarding
the Gorman preparations apparently
centering on Higa. Petrograd reported
repulse or attacks on the .Rumanian
front- -
Italians Advance
London, Sept. 1. The Italian of
fensive continues in full force along
the seventy mile front, according to
Rome cables received today. General
Cordona reported:
"The battle of the last eleven days
is the greatest war action developed on
any front in Europe "
The Italians continue their attack on
Hermada, while the fate of tho Aus
trian fleet trapped at Pola is still un
known here.
French Make Gains
Paris, Sept. 1. French attacks on
the Aisne, along the Chemin Des Dames
carried all objectives on a one mile
front, today's official statement said.
The attack was made after a heavy
bombardment. Violent counter attacks
were repulsed. French aviators cooper
ated brilliantly, living low and rak
insr the enemy trench batteries with
machine gun fire
Only artillery exchanges were re
ported in Belgium.
The German Version
ncrlin, via London, Sept. 1. Strong
French attacks near Hurtebise farm
along- the Chemin Des Dames were re
ported by the war office today. Tho
French wore thrown back by counter
attacks, the statement said. Desperate
fighting continued throughout the'
night. A number of prisoners were
taken.
Fighting South of Lens
London, Sept. 1. South of Lens and
in the neighborhood of the coast the
enemy's e.rti'lery was active during
he nigh ,' ' Field Marshal Haig report
ed i.ku iiij xJriiish front today.
T3S 27,000 Prisoners
Tome, ti;p.. 1. The Italians have
taken t!u c i.an 27,000 prisoners since
She Lit,'1111'".? i-' their big offensive
el. ng Uu Ai.trian front, the war
titKu -ii..o i t. today. The prioners
incr..dj i-o ciiieers and 26,581 men.
Had W quarts of
4 0ki (j.a dad" Booze
--has 60 Days in Jail
Because he had 120 quarts of
Old
Grandad" wiiik"y ia his possession uS
ins minim lii a t.j-juourn noiei yester
day vii ii,l;ict Attorney GeUhar
made a raid on the room, C. J. Thomas,
of Woodburn, is in the countv jail doiuv
a sixty day term. Besides this he was
fined $300. He nlended i7iiiltv in thp'Qoo .0fa ni blazin?
justice court at Woodburn, and was
brought to this city and placed
charge of Sheriff Needham.
Thomas Kennedy, also of Woodburn,
who is held as being implicated in the
smuggling of the liquor into the state,
was bound over yesterday to the grand
jury in the sum of 1700, which he fur
nished. He pleaded not guiltv to the
charge of unlawfully transporting liquor
when the room was raided ten cases
with a dozen bottlc9 in each case was
found. The liquor came from Sisson, Cal
ifornia. According to the story told
bv the officers, it . is believed that
Thomas -arrived Thurs'av night from J
California with the liquor and that Ken-1
nedy met him at Salem and went down i
the line as far as Hubbard with him.
There they eot off and were met bv
in automobile and the goods taken to
Voodburn.
GIVEN
I01G
QWOJOLDIERS
President Will March at Head
of Ranks In Parade at
Washington
LIBERTY BELL WAS RUNG
THIS TIME FOR WORLD
Cities and Hamlets Alike Are
Paying Homage While
Saying Good Bye
New York, Sept. 1. America today
began . honoring her Bons drafted for
the army of democracy.
For the next four days the nation will
pay homage to the flower of her youth
called forth to battle under the select
ive service law. Celebrations of all
sorts, banquets, parades, patriotic meet
iugs, will mark the "send off" day
hundreds of cities, reports to the
United Press show. Many occurred to-
day. All will be concluded by Tuesday
at the latest. ,
President Wilson is to take his place
in. the ranks of the new national army
men and march with them m .Washing
ton, It was the president's own idea of
the homage he should pay to the men
who will back his wards with fighting.
In Philadelphia the Liberty Bell will
be taken briefly from it wrappings and
its ancient, hallowed metal tapped, that
an echo of tho clang which once her
alded Ainesica democracy, might once
again start a parade symbolical tnat
America has not forgotten those ideals.
It will give the signal for Philadelphia's
marchers.
The- City's Guests.
In New York, the greatest city's 38,
G21 men of the draft army will be the
neonle's guests. There will be a par
ade, speeches, drills, entertainments
and every man or. tne uauuwu nimj
will find his insiimia his admission to
baseball parks and many theatres. This
will be on 'lucsday.
Throughout the nation, tomorrow will
be commemoration day. No religious or
ganizations suggested solemn consecra
tion, but nevertheless churches in every
city will offer special prayers for the
youth now called upon in the nation's
cause.
( Continued on page nine.)
FIRES AROUND HOOD
SEND EMBODY OUT
Ranchers and Campers Flee
for Safety-Fire Is Near
Government Camp
Portland, Or. Sept. 1. Menacing fires
on the western slopes of Mount irioou
almost at the outskirts of Portland
today threaten a number of the
coast 's" best known mountain resorts.
Vacationists, homesteaders and ranch
ers are fleeing from the woods. Parties
of rescuers aie hunting for a party of
nine men believed to be surrounded by
fire.
Reports early today said that one fire
had burned within 4U0 yards of Govern
ment. Camp, 'high on the slopes of the
mountain. Other resorts and hundreds
of summer cottages are threatened.
City and countv officials with a
large number of fire fighters rushed to
tiie'district this morning.
One fire is headed toward the Bull
Ran reserve from which Portland gets
its water. Although the timber in the
water shed is not yet in danger, every
effort will be made to check this fire
at once. . .
The principal fire burning in tne
Mount Hood district was discovered last
LSaturdntf ov a guide on the top ot tne
urouirtaT f it nan uumeu ..
. T i . i ml.A f , an vmw.
acres ot umocr men. iut
ed from the mountain today is
square miles of almost solid flame.
Three men wno nau u
the blaze and had
cut their way mm
forest, reached
Portland today. They are uninjured.
frt. firA nitnation elsewhere in
the northwest today showed consider
able improvement. Kastern Oregon fires
are under control.
Bad In Washington.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 1. Warmer
weather and a brisk northeasterly wind
in the eastern part of the state made
fire fighters redouble their efforts last
nizht to subdue numerous fires which
ere burning in logged-off lands and
in commercial timber.
!! Vir Warden G. S. Joy, Of the
state Forest Fire association said today
that the situation was more serious now
than it had been in several weeks and
that he feared that before Sunday some
nf th fires which were announced tra
der control several days ago would j
break out again.
FOUR DAYS
0VERT0H0
PEACE COUNCIL IS
TOLD "SCAT" AND
SOlTSCATTED"
Denied Meeting Place In
Three States It Lighted
Finally in Chicago
POLICE TOOK CHARGE
ON GOVERNOR'S ORDERS
Sole Business Was Election
of Committee to Elect
Another One
Chicago, Sopt. 1. The People 's Peace
Council's conference was broken up by
the police at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
Deputy Superintendent of Police
Westbrook, followed by two dozen pd
licemen, marched down the aisle to the
platform of the West Side auditorium
and declared "that acting on orders
of Governor Lowden, I am requested to
tell you to disperse."
They dispersed. " '-"
Seymour Stedman, general counsl of
the socialistic party, acting as tempor
ary chairman, was in the chair when
Westbrook entered. ,
As Westbrook was making his state
ment, dispersing the meeting. Stedman
interrupted with "just a minute, please,
I'd like to make a motion to, adjourn."
"You'll do nothing," shouted West-
DrooK. I
"But" ;
"Another word out of you and you'll
be under arrest."
Stedman subsided and the delegates
filed out of the hall.
Before the meeting was stopped, Sted
man was made permanent chairman
and Louis P. Lochner, permanent sec
retary. A committee of nine was ap
pointed to nominate eleven members for
a permanent executive committee.
No Publicity.
Several of the delegates insisted after
the meeting dispersed, on being arrest-
ted vto make a tost case", but West
brook wouldn't permit it.
"Leave 'em alone, don't give 'cm
any publicity," he directed.
"But I insist on being arrested,"
cried Miss Rebecca Shelley, of Chesan
ing, Mich.
"I'm sorry madame, but it can't be
done," declared a huge sergeant.
Stedman also tried to force himself
into jail as did Miss Sarah Bard Field
of San Francisco.
Stedman was so insistent that a po
liceman obligingly called a patrol wag
on, but Westbrook arrived in time to
prevent it.
Tho nominating committee which will
select a permanent executive committee,
will meet with Stedman and Lochner
at the Fort Dearborn hotel this after
noon. It comprises: Clore Warne, St.
Louis: Miss Field. Emily G. Baleh, Wel-
lesley College; Florence Stevens, Ar-
rten, Del.; Victor Bcrger, MinvauKee; ij.
Mavbrick, San Antonio, Texas; J. A.
Salutsky, New York; Mary Windsor,
Philadelphia and Dean R. M. Lovett,
University of Chicago.
A resolution was hurriedly introduc
ed, and as hurrietlly adopted, declaring
that "should this meeting be dissolv
ed, prohibited, interrupted or abandon
ed as the result of action by the au
thorities, then the chairman, secretary
and organizing committee shall consti
tute an executive committee with full
power to act."
Stedman read to the meeting a Fnit-j
ed Press dispatch from Springfield that -Governor
Lowden had stated he would!
stop the meeting and "would call outj
troops to do it, if necessary."
"This means we'll have to act
fast," ho shouted.
A. W. flicker, of New York, publish
er of Pearson's -Magazine, immediate
ly offered a resolution: "That the con
ference remain in continuous session
until we are put out or are ready to get
out." It was adopted iinanirnojisly.
Charged With Assault
: With Deadly Weapon
M 11IIUI1I iJlugw, Milti,u ......
with a danirerous weapon against the 1
person of Charles M. Conrad, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon at Sydney
bv Constable Varnev and is now in the
county jail. His bail was set at $250
which he failed to furnish. The com
plaint against Bingo was sworn out yes
terday morning and yesterday after
noon the constable went out to Sydney.
Bingo pleaded not guilty to the charge.
It is said the trouble began over the
delivery of wood. Conrad stntes that
when he attempted to prevent Bingo
from assaulting another man that Bingo
attacked him with a pocket knife, and
that he slashed him so severely the ser
vices of a physician were needed. His
wounds were not serious, however.
LINER SUNK IN COLLISION
Marseilles. Sept. 1 The liner Natal,
was sunk in a collision todny. Five,
hundred and twenty persons from the
vessel have been safely landed. There,
was no panic when the vessel collided
Wlin another snip ana weni aowii.
PRICES OF BREAD
WILL iT BE FIXED
BY COMMiSSH
People Must War On Bakers'
Trust to Secure Fire Cent
War Loaves
SIXTEEN OUNCE LOAF
AND PRICE-EIGHT CENTS
Is the Most Consumers Can
Hope for Says Master
Baker Associationv
Washington, Sept. 1. Tho five cent
war loaf is up to tho people.
They are forced to buck tremendous
organizations organized by the master
bakers. The people have experts on
their side. The bakers appear to hove
the food administration on theirs.
But tho food administration will help
to this extent" pitiless publicity" of
actual costs of bread production. Bak
ers' profits are not to be fixed by Hoo
ver for the present, at least. The food
administration's bakers committee has
announced that the best the 'housewife
can hope for is a Bixteen nunco loaf
for eight cents. Master bakers here, con
ducting the fight agaiust the cheaper
loaf , 'declare "thre is absolutely no
chance of a five cent loaf with wheat
at $2.20." -
Agricultural experts and consumers'1
representatives on the wheat price fix
ing committee say that they agreed to
the $2.20 price only upon assurance of
farmers' representatives that a 14 ounce
loaf is practicable with wheat at that
figuro. They were joined by the two or
ganized labor representatives, who bat
tled against a $2.30 priee set by pro
ducers. It Two Assured. .
The case of the five cent 14 ounce
loaf was fully discussed by the price
committee whose story is here told for
the first time. At the beginning of the
discussions, it developed that the $2.50
members were Charles J. Barrett of the
Farmers Union, . Georgia; Edward F.
Ladd, president of the North Dakota
Agricultural college; J. W. Short hill,
secretary of the National Council of
Farmers' Cooperative association, Ne
braska and N. J. Waters, president Kan
sas State Agricultural college.
(Continued on page eight.)
Predict the German Defeat
Daring Coming Year of War
There aro increasing evidences of a
growing belief among close observers. In a published letter to Secretary
of tho war situation that Germany can Baker ,tlie French ,Iigh Commissioner,
be defeated before the ond of 1918, Andrio Hardieu, f yt that France has
provided America puts tho full power 3,000,000 men Jw front, an increase
ofits strength into tho conflict. A few'cf a million' '. the war began, that
view the matter pessimistically and Btill reserve resources 'are sufficient to eu
maintain. that Germany will prove in- i-.blo her "to maintain that number up
vincible on their own soil. These evi- to its present -level for a long timo to
dently overlook the steady advance of come," and that tho percentage of
tho allies on the western front, having ' casualties is constantly decreasing,
in a number of instances taken posi-' French troops, we learn, hold 383 miles
tious that were deemed by the Ger- on tho western front to 92 held by the
ma is tc be absolutely impregnable. It British and 27 by the L. iians. At the
l as thus been demonstrated that Ger-j beginning of the wur j .u.iu had 300
many is no mi ni invincible in military heavy guns; it nmv uUo ujjii. Yhu mu
matte's than it is iiidasliially or coni-1 nitions output in Au, st, 1!I4, was ar
mcrcially. How the latter misconcep- ranged for 13,000 shots if " .is" per
tions have ben wiped out was shown in day; "it is now n limited for 2,j0,000
an p rack- from tho Popular Mechanics shots of 75s and lou.uoi . Ii. nvy
magazine quoted in these columns a few guns. " Besides thus providing f ir her
days ago. own forces, France, ac,eort.iiig to Mr.
Secretary or War linker asserts that
officers rcnortini!' to him have not been
most optimistic and believe that the
German lines can be not only bent, but
broken. The success of Field Marshal
Huig's drives in Flanders convince ob-
servers on both sides of the water that
the British forces have a definite su-
I pcriority over the enemy they face. Vic- will help to strike the lust m.,v at the status quo.
tory, says the editor of the London odversnrv, they will find in x iuiuo "a! "On the contrary, he proposes rna
iPost, is certain, because "scientific country which today, as w.dl as d" ii g teal changes, especially as to 1 omntf,
urminration. wonderful staff work.' the last three vearB. bears tho principal Armenia, the Balkans, etc.
great artillery predominance, and an in- maximum of her power, wimoui m-nuii- "Wo do not wish to
comparable infantrv enable us to con- tion and without weakness, her strength substance of 1 r,,8l'''!; Jl' , " ,ot be
template without fear the undertaking her means, and her will. ft . f i7?h
of any enterprise." Sir William Bob-!vcro was the ordeal; stronger is tho na- obtained by viulen.e, but must beoa.
crtson, Chut of tho British licnerai tionnl energy."
Staff, reminded a New York Times in- This assures the New York Times' ex
terviewer recently of the difference be-1 pert military writer that "France is not
tween 191 and 1917. Instead of being yet exhausted, or anything like it." He
en the defensive within a few miles of i observes that "the number of men hold-
i'aris, the allies, now millions whero
before they were thousands, have been
driving the Germans before them. As
he said: " W? have taken .positions that
they regarded as matters of life and
death, and our ' guns are hammering
them now as they have never been ham
mered before." As General Maurice, the
spokesman for the British war office,
lias put it:
"Germany, whose whole military gos
pel was to prosecute a vigorous offen
sive, is reduced to a pitiful state of
military helplessness in which sho is
barely able to hang on, in the hope that
her submarines will force the people of
the entente powers to demand peace at
a time when Germany has the 'big
MAJOR ROBERTS SUICIDES
Vancouver,. Wash-, Sept. 1.
The body of Major Henry A.
Roberts, age 35, stationed here
with the Fourth regiment, Unit
ed States engineers, was found
in his room at the barracks here
today. He had shot himself
with his service revolver and
evidently died instantly.
Roberts came here a week
ago from Fort Riley, Kansas,
tiis suicide is attributed to ill
health. Fellow officers said
this afternoon that Roberts
had been mentally despondent
since his arrival.
Mrs. Roberts accompanied her
husband to the coast from Kan
sas and is now visiting her par
ents at The Dalles, Or.
TWO BOYS CONFESS
OF
Choked Her to Death. Threw
Body in Well and Then
Cooked Their Breakfast
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 1. Jimmy Fee,
ago 14, and Jeff Baker, age 17, were
charged today with murdering the aged'
Mrs. Emile Turner on her lonely ranch,
six milos from here.
The body of Mrs. Turner was romev-
ed today from an old well, whero, police
say the boys confessed they threw it
after choking their victim early Tues
day morning.
Two dayB the youths spent trying to
sell Mrs. Turner's eighteen head o;
cattle, Theu, late yesterday, the police
got on the trail when Baker and Fee
tried to sell the cattle to H. J. Hauey,
who happened to hold a mortgage on
tne cows.
Baker worked for Mrs. Turner. Wed
nesday night, he told the police, he and
Jimmy Fee planned to murder Mrs. Tur
ner, take what money she had and sell
the cattle. - -
We got up at four o'clock," said
Baker's statement to the police. "I cur
ried a lamp and told Jimmy to throw a
pillow over Mrs. Turner's fatfo while
she was asleep. He did, but she woke
up and I began choking her with my
hands. She cried, but 1 soon made an
ond of her. Then wo put the body in
n bed quilt and took it to the well and
threw it in."
After that, said the youth, they got
breakfast, milked the cows and went to
town to,sell tho cattle.
Deer appear to be numerous near the
town of Gardner, and the Courier has
heard of three -bucks being killed by
lucky .hunters almost in sight of tho
town.
pawns' with which to make a bargain."
Taruiuu, completely ru-uquij ped and
re-nrmed tha Br'lir (i i - andioKlo thnt the holv see will answer the
Greek armies," and gave more than .
800 heavy guns to her a;.i s. All this ro-;
quired the making over vt o.u a..d the ,
creating of new iudu.,ui ex-;
penditure of more than ,,.,oj,jjj,JoO.
in three vears. While Ameiimu s idiois
ing the French front in the west is al-."T
; most as great as is the entire German
'force on that front." The size of thej
British force at the front has not been
given out, but it is generally under
stood tnat liruain nas uimer arms, m-
eluding reserves, 5,000,000 men
Recent figuies given out in Washing
ton bIiow that our regular army has been
recruited up to its full war strength of
300,000 men, and the 400,000 men of the
rational guard regiments are being mo
bilized. As the Brooklyn Citizen notes:
"Hero we have 700,000 soldiers, ex
clusive of the 087,000 called to tho e )1
ors by the first draft. Of these 1,400,000
(Continued on ppge three)
POPE TO LAUNCH
FORMAL FEELERS
FOR PEACE BASIS
Outline of the New Proposal
Shows Plan Still Favorable
to Germany
FINDS ENCOURAGEIENT
IN PRESIDENTS STAND
Wilson's Distinction Befcweca
German Government and
People Angers
By John H. Hearley
(United Press staff correspondent)
Rome, Sept. 1. Pope Benedict is still
hopeful that peace may come, perhaps
soon, on President Wilson's own terms
democratization of Germany.
An exclusive epitome, of the vati-
can's view of the president's note, as
given the United Press todnv. contain.
ed this significant expression of optim-
The initial disappointment of the Am
erican reply has been dissipated in part
me uniiea rresa . was inrormed, by
careful weighing of the president's)
words. .. . '
The pope now sees the note as hold
ing promise and not as a cold, abso
lute rejection, either diplomatically or
psychologically.
He is hopoful that President Wil
son 's attitude ' ' eventually, perhaps
soon, will cause the creation of a Ger
man chancellory responsible to tha
people," said one of the United Press
informants. -
Pope la Cheered
itrTt -tm- sta'toij "on the highest au
tbority that the pope has been cheered
by some features of the president's
note. The holy lather believes that the
president's persistent and insistent dis
. luictiou i drawn , between the Gorman
people and the German government,
and what certain Vatican officials call
his "fixed genius of direction" ia
changing tho whole philosophy of tha
allied war.
At the same time the pope regards
the president as the most insistent of
all the heads of belligerent nations on
continuance of the war to a decision.
A careful reading of bis note, coupled
with such expressions of America's
aims as the president made before con
gress in December, however, convinces
tho Vatican that there Is a common
ground of opinion between the Vatican
and Washington.
The "just christian peace" which
Pope - Benedict proposed in his appeal
was regarded as entirely harmonious)
with the American president's policies.
Those policies, as the Vatican saw them
todnv, were in the main:
The Main Contentions
No punitive damages.
No dismemberment oi' empires. .
No exclusive economic leagues.
ino implied, direct or indirect restric- .
tions as to the seas-
As bearing with special significance
on tho pope's reported view that de
mocratization of Germany might yet
come about, officials today recalled the
l-nited Press' exclusive information of
two days ago reporting that not only
F.niperor Karl of Austria, but Kaiser
Wilhclm himself had written tho pope
indicating a pledge to the widest dem
ocratization. in Home diplomatic circles today, the
view was expressed that tho American
note by its specific strictures against
dismemberment of nations, had destroy
ed the probability of a declaration of
war against America by Austria- Hun
gary or at least hud postponed such a
s:ep for some time.
May Meet Objections
An evidently inspired editorial to
dav in the Corriere D 'Italia declared:
It is not impossible, but very proo-
objections of President Wilson auU
others after receiving all replies. Thus,
fresh discussions, leadun? to further
results, will be provoked. The prcsi-
dent is mistuken in assorting thut the.
pone advised reestablishment of tho
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