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FOOD CONSERVATION SHOOED BE DELAYED NO LONMLSON President in Letter-to Hoover, Calls Attention to Approach ing Harvests—Urges Wom en to Co-operate WASHINGTON. June - IS.—National mobilization of the volunteer food con trol forces of the country must not wait further on congress. Ih-esident Wilson declared in a letter tonight to Herbert Hoover. Realizing that it probably may be necessary to depend on patriotism and public opinion alone instead of con gressional action to back Mr. Hoover, during the early harvests, the presi dent writes that the situation "admits of no further delay.” The president’s letter follows: My I'ear Mr. Hoover: It seems to me that the inauguration of that portion of the plan for food administration which contemplates a national mobilization of the great voluntary forces of the country which are ready to work towards saving food and eliminating waste admits of no further delay. The approaching harvesting, the immediate necessity of wise use and saving not only in food but in all other expenditures, the many un directed and overlapping efforts being made towards this end, all press for national direction and in spiration. While it would in many ways be desirable to complete leg islation establishing the food ad ministration. it appears to me that so far as voluntary effort can be assembled, we should not wait any longer, and therefore I would be very glad if you would proceed in those directions at once. The women of the nation are al ready earnestly seeking to do their part in this, our greatest struggle for the maintenance of our national ideals, and in no direction can they so greatly assist us as by enlist ing in the service of the food ad ministration and cheerfully accept ing its direction and advice. By so doing they will increase the surplus of food available for our own army and for the export to the allies. To provide adequate supplies for the coming year is of absolute vital im portance to the conduct of the war. and without a very conscientious elimination of and very strict economy in our'food consumption, we cannot hope to fulfill this pri mary duty. I trust therefore that the women of the country will not only respond to your appeal and accept the pledge to the food administration which.you are proposing, but that all men also who are engaged in the personal distribution of foods will co-operate with the same ear nestness and in the same spirit I give you full authority to undertake any steps-necessary for the proper organization and stimulation of their efforts. SENATOR HARDWICK’S OBJECTION. The food situation must be in hand before America’s army can go into the field.” is the governmc”' contention. "Families must not robbed by high prices while father.' .. e fighting.” is the order. “Labor must be content or the whole military establishment will crumble." As a result, while preparations go forward toward selecting the first of 450.000 of America's citizen army, the president and his officials are center ing their drive on food control. The bill will come.up in the house Monday. At the same time Senator Gore, chairman of the senate agricul tural committee, will recommend that it be made the business of the day in the senate Being out of sympathy with its provisions, he will then turn the measure over to Senator Chamber lain for guidance through the upper branch. There will be a fight on it at once— along two lines. First. Senator Hardwick. Georgia, will contend that the senate should not take it up until after the house has acted on it because It is an appropriation meas .re authorizing $152,000,000 for admin istering food control. Secondly, opponents will try to force it back into committee. It now carries no report and no recommendation and the demand will be made that the ogri culture committee put it into definite shape before the senate begins.lts strug gle. Owing to the divergence of opinion on certain phases of the bill it Is probable President Wilson will be called upon soon to define exactly what portions he thinks are vital at this time. There is no opposition either to provisions for a common purchasing agent for all the al lies or for legislation designed to pre vent hoarding of necessaries. There Is little opposition to minimum price fix ing But the bill as it stands is so compre hensive—including control of feed, fuel and clothing as well as foodstuffs—that there must be modification by executive sanction or it can never be pressed to passage before July 1. To clear the way for the struggle, the senate passed the administration prefer ential routing bill today It prevents Interference with Interstate and foreign commerce, authorized the president to di rect what supplies shall receive priority shipment on rail and water lines dur ing the war. authorizes him to permit ra'lroads to pool earnings and gives the Interstate commerce commission author ity take drastic steps to relieve car shortage when such occurs Boy Scouts, who have started nearly two million home gardens for the “food war" against Germany, must rally to the protection of those gardens. * Carl Vroomzn. assistant secretary of agriculture. Issued a statement today urging them to organize "garden pa trols” to keep petty thieves from raid ing the back yard plantations. Vroo man declared thievery of this kind was one of the greatest hindrances to suc cessful home gardening, and emphasized that such thieves aided the enemy. Tn response to the department of agriculture's request for 1.000,000- homo gardens. Vrooman declared the number already reported was rapidly nearing the 2.000.000 mark. Miss Marion Cleveland To Wed Newspaper Man NEW YORK. June 14.—The engage ment of Miss Marion Cleveland, young est daughter of Grover Cleveland, to William Stanley Dell, of this city, was . announced at Princeton, N. J., today by Mrs. Thomas J. Preston. Jr., who was the wife of the late president. Mr. Dell Is connected with the editorial staff of The New York Evening Sun. AMERICA READY TO PAY THE COST, LANSING STATES “We Have Cast Our Lot,” Secretary Says at Princeton Commencement, Where De grees Are Conferred PRINCETON. N. J.. June 16. —America has counted the cost in entering the war and is ready to pay the price, no matter how great the sacrifice, to se cure world triumph of democracy over absolutism and the crushing of Prussian despotism. Secretary of State Lansing said today at the one hundred seventieth commencement of Princeton university, at which Mr. Lansing was one of those upon whom the honorary degree of doc tor of laws was conferred, including ambassadors and ministers of the al lied countries at war with Germany, Herbert C. Hoover and others, as a part of a patriotic demonstration on the steps of historic Nassau hall. “We have cast our lot with the brave nations which are fighting for democra cy." he said. "We have taken up the sword and will not lay It down until Prussian despotism has yielded to the united democracies of the world, and the liberty of America with Europe and Asia is made sure for all time.” M. Jusserand. French ambassador to the United States, who also received a degree, who acted as spokesman for the allied diplomats, in acknowledging the honor, said the French people had been revived by the action of America. "We have faith in omens,” he said, "and we remember that America has never lost a war.” War conditions cut deep into the pro gram and many degrees were conferred in absentia as the recipients are in train ing camps or already in war service abroad. Seniors who obtained furloughs were in miltary uniform when they re ceived their degrees, conferred in Alex ander hall. Secretary Lansing said in part: "This war in which we are engaged is a war for democracy. It is a war of free, self-governing peoples against the despotic rulers of Germany who want to enslave the world as they have enslaved their own people and their unfortunate allies. The Imperial German govern ment is possessed and has long been possessed by the lust of world dominion. "We have taken up the sword and, with God’s help, we will not lay it down until Prussian despotism has yielded to the united democracies of the world, and the liberty of Europe, the liberty of America, the liberty of Asia is made sure for aIL time. No sacrifice is too great to accomplish this great purpose. We entered the war deliberately. We have counted the cost, and we are ready to pay the price. There can be but one end to this titanic struggle, the triumph of democracy over absolutism. STAKE IS FREEDOM. “One hundred and forty years ago American freedom was at stake. Today the stake is the freedom of the world. As we won then, so will we win now. It cannot be otherwise, for the peoples who love liberty have determined that in the years to come justice and righteousness shall be supreme on earth.” Ambassador Jusserand said in part: “In behalf of my colleagues, all of us ’representing countries where the allies pf the United States are fighting for liberty against depotism- This honor is particularly dear to our hearts, coming from this illustrious and historical uni versity of Princeton, one of the oldest, one of the greatest, one of the most fa mous. whose very life is a sort of em blem and part of the life of your great country. Its splendid present promises an euen more splendid future, and its past is dotted with famous names in American history. You have Woodrow Wilson, whose day has now come, and who in his turn has pronounced words which have been heard around the world. "France you honor not because of me, but because of the battle of the Marne, Verdun and Joffre, and England be cause of Bagdad. Vimy Ridge and Ypres, and only yesterday of Messines; Italy for Carso and Trentino; Japan for Kiau- Chiau and Portugal, who has entered the war and will risk everything and join in the fight for liberty. "We are in this war, we shall con tinue until the end. We did not lose so many of our kin not to continue it until the enemy is vanquished. We fight that nations, large and small, may be given a free government. We fight in order that the* world in the future will not know the sufferings of Poland, Bohemia or Syria or Alsace-Lorraine suffering under the heat of a hated enemy, that such things may exist no more. "The best proof of the future is the past. We accept the omen, America has never lost a war." Men Too Young for Army Will Serve as Workers on Munitions WASHINGTON. June 16.—Men too young for the army will do their bit in the war by serving as munitions inspec tors and technical experts, according to plans being worked out today by Sec retary of Commerce Redfield. He sent a letter to President Wilson today urging that all vocational schools in the United States be kept open con tinuously to train these youths for war service. Men who are engaged in fac tories would also be given an oppor tunity to attend these schools during the summer. The suggestion was made by James F. Monroe, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moral Dangers Taboo At All Training Gimps, War Department Says WASHINGTON, June 14.—The war department’s committee on training camp activities, headed by Raymond B. Fosdick. has begun to show the first re sults of its work of safeguarding the health and morals of officers and men of the new army. Under the terms of the new army law. the war department is clothed with broad authority to take drastic action to rid the vicinity of the training campe of moral dangers unless local authorities working in co-operation with the com mittees do it voluntarily. Wilson Fills Vacancies In Civil Engineers WASHINGTON. June 16. —President Wilson today sent to the senate twenty five nominations to fill existing vacan cies in the grade of assistant civil en gineer. U. S. N. The successful candi dates represent forty-seven colleges and twenty-nine states. The men will be ordered to the naval academy at An napolis for a period of about one month. THE ATLANTA SEMLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917. ROOT'S MESSAGE TD RUSSIA IS RECEIVED WITH ENTHUSIASM “Russian People Consider War Inevitable and Will Continue It,” Foreign Minister De clares in Speech PETROGRAD, June 16, Via London, June 17.—A stirring proclamation plac ing the Council of Workmen’s and Sol diers' delegates on record as irrevo cably opposed to a separate peace was adopted today by the council. The proclamation was prompted by Austrian efforts to lure Russia into a separate peace. PETROGRAD, June 15, Via London, June 16.—“ The Russian people consider war inevitable and will continue it. The Russians have no imperalistic wishes. We know that you have none. We shall fight together to secure liberty, freedom and happiness for all the world. I am happy to say that I do not see any moral idea or factor between America and Russia to divide us. We two peo ples—Russia fighting tyranny, and America standing as the oldest democ racy—hand in hand will show the way of happiness to nations great and small." These ringing words, expressing the attitude of the Russian government to ward America and the American mis sion headed by Elihu Root, were voic ed tonight by M. Tereschtenko, minister of foreign affairs, responding for the council of ministers to Mr. Root’s ad dress of sympathy and good will on the part of the American government. American ambassador Francis pre sented the Root mission, explaining that it had come to Russia to discover how America can best co-operate with its ally in forwarding the fight against !he common enemy. The presentation was very Informal, only a few Russian officials and the members of the Amer ican embassy attending. M. Kerensky, the youthful minister of war. just back from the front, wore the khaki blouse of a common soldier. The ministers listened with rapt at tention to Mr. Root’s address, which was an impressive utterance, both In substance and manner. M. Tereschtenko rose from a sick bed to attend the presentation and respond ed without notes, expressing great joy in welcoming the commission from America. He said that Russia's rev-« olution was based on the wonderful words uttered by America in 1776. He read part of the declaration of inde pendence and exclaimed: “Russia holds with the United States that all men are created free and equal.” M. Tereschtenko sketched the history of the Russian revolution briefly, say ing that the Russians, enslaved for centuries, threw all the old order just as the wind blows autumn leaves from the forest. Russia now faces two prob lems, said the minister, the necessity of creating a strong democratic force within its boundaries and the fighting of an external foe. Then he declared for war and expressed unbounded con fidence in the power of Russia to meet the situation. ROOT’S SPEECH. Mr. Root spoke as follows: Mr. President and Members of the Council of Ministers: The mission for which I have the honor to speak is charged by the government and people of the United States of America with a message to the government and people of Russia. The mission comes from u democratic republic. Its mem bers are comissioned and instruct ed by a president who holds his high office as chief executive of more than one hundred million free people by virtue of popular elec tion, in which more than eighteen million votes were freely cast, and fairly counted pursuant to law, by universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage. For one hundred and forty years our people have been struggling with the hard problems of self government. With many shortcom ings. many mistakes, many imperfec tions, we still have maintained or der and respect for law, individual freedom and national independence. Under the security of our own laws we have grown in strength and prosperity. But we value our free dom more than wealth. We love liberty and we cherish above all our possessions, the ideals for which our fathers fought and suf fered and that America might be free. We believe in the competence of the power of democracy and in our hearts abides faith in the coming of a better world in which the hum ble and oppressed of all lands may be lifted up by freedom to a herit age of justice and equal opportun ity. The news of Russia's new found freedom brought to America uni versal satisfaction and joy. From all the land sympathy and hope went out to the new sister in the circle of democracies. And the mission is sent to express that feel ing. SENDS A MESSAGE. The American democracy sends to the democracy of Russia a greet ing of sympathy, friendship, broth erhood, godspeed. Distant America knows little of the special condi tions of Russian life which must give form to the government, and laws which you are about to cre ate. As we have developed our in stitutions to serve the needs of our national character and life, so, we assume, you will develop your institutions to serve the needs of Russian character and life. As we look across the sea we dis tinguish no party, no class. We see great Russia as a whole, as one mighty, striving, aspiring democ racy. We know the self-control, es sential kindliness, strong common sense, courage and noble idealism of the Russian character. • We have faith in you all. We pray for God’s blessing upon you all. We believe you will solve your prob lems, that you will maintain your liberty and that our two great na tions will march side by side in the triumphant progress of democracy until the old order everywhere has passed away and the world is free. DANGER THREATENS NATIONS. One fearful danger threatens the liberty of both nations. The armed forces of a military autocracy are at the gates of Russia and the al lies. The triumph of German arms will mean the death of liberty in Russia. No enemy Is at the gates of America, but America has come to realize that the triumph of Ger man arms means ttje death of liber ty in the world; that we who love liberty and would keep it must fight for it, and fight for it now when the free democracies of the world may be strong in union, and not delay until they may be beaten LITE UIRGESUBSGRiPTIONS TO BONOS TO BE REJECTED They Will Be Accepted Later. SmaH Investors Get First Allotments WASHINGTON. June 16—So heavily is the Liberty Loan oversubscribed that those who made heavy investments in it will receive only a portion of the bonds for which they applied. The gov ernment will not accept the money rep resented by the surplus subscription which amounts to nearly a billion dol lars. This was the decision of Secre tary McAdoo today. Small subscriptions are not affected by the ruling. The government will ex pect those whose heavy subscriptions are not accepted at this time to renew them when the next war bond issue ia opened. Treasury officials estimated tonight that definite totals would not be avail able until Wednesday. No official to tals whatever had been received from any of the federal reserve districts to night. THANKS PAPERS. McAdoo gave credit to the newspapers for the loan’s great success, in a state ment issued tonight. He said; “The Liberty Loan campaign was es sentially one of education and without the generous and patriotic support of the nation, the hope of those in charge that it would be a popular loan would not have been realized. The untiring ef forts of the newspapers throughout the campaign were a constant inspiration to the various other groups of workers. At a time when news space was at a pre mium, the Liberty Loan was featured at length. "The foreign language press in thir ty-six languages gave daily proox of the undoubted loyalty of peoples of'for eign birth. “It was done without thought of re turn, simply to aid the government I shall be most grateful to the press If this acknowledgement is given wide publicity." STATEMENT OF ALLOTMENTS. In his statement upon the allotments to be made, Secretary McAdoo said: “I have asked the reserve banks to tabulate separately and on supplmentary lists the subscriptions received yester day, June 15, after noon, in order that I may be In a position to consider, in making allotment of the two billion dol lars of bonds, those applications which through no fault of the subscriber were not recorded on time. "I shall avail myself of the right re served in the circular offering the bonds, to allot in full upon applications for larger amounts, as such action- will be clearly in the public interest.” It is estimated that over 3,000,000 subscribers took up the loan. England’s first loan of over $2,000,000,300 was tak en by only 100,000 persons. Germany’s first loan was taken by 1,177,235 people. Only in those banks subscribing for more than SIOO,OOO of bonds will the funds raised by the loan be deposited. However, banks may pool their sub scriptions to total SIOO,OOO and thus re ceive the funds. down separately in succession. So, America sends another mes sage to Russia —that we are going to fight, and have already begun to fight for your freedom equally with our own, and we ask you to tight for our freedom equally with yours. We would make our cause yours and with a common purpose from an al liance which would make sure of victory over our common foe. You will recognize your own sen timents and purposes in the words of President Wilson to the Ameri can congress, when on the second of April last he advised a declaration of war against Germany. He said: ‘We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government (the Ger man government) following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that ip the presence of its or ganized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured se curity for the democratic govern ments of the world. We are now about to accept the gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty, and shall, if necessary, spend «the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its pow er. We are glad, now, that we see the facts with no veil of false pre tense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for thq liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations, great and small, and the privilege of men ev erywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. ’The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no ma terial compensation for the sacri fices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when* those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.* And you will see the feeling to ward Russia with which America has entered the great war in an other clause of the same address. President Wilson further declared: "Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew her best to have been always in fact demo cratic at heart in all the vital hab its of her thought. In all the inti mate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude toward life. “The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of Its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, char acter or purpose, and now it has * been shaken off and the great, gen erous Russian people have been » added, in all their native majesty and might, to the force that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a league of honor.’ That partnership of honor in the great struggle for human freedom the oldest of the great democracies now seeks in fraternal union with the youngest. Practical and spe cific methods and the possibilities of our allies' co-operation, the mem bers of the mission would be glad to discuss with the members of the government of Russia.” CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears BODY OF CRUGER GIRL UNEARTHED IN DINGY CELLAR ———— Ghastly Find Clears Up a Baffling New York Mystery. Ring Leads to Identification of Decomposed Body NEW YORK, June 16.—Discovery to day of the body of 18-year-old Ruth Cruger, the missing Wadleigh High school student who had been murder ed and then buried six feet under the •cellar of a shop occupied by a bicycle dealer who fled to Italy after she dis appeared, cleared a mystery which had baffled the police for months. The girl’s skull had been crushed. Miss Cruger’s parents identified the body. The police late today took into custody several persons who were ques tioned closely. The bicycle shop to which the girl went to have her skates sharpened the day she disappeared was conducted by Alfredo Cocchi, who fled from New York after the girl’s absence from home was reported to the police. He is now being held at Bologna, Italy, and an effort will be made to extradite him. Recently when detectives tried to dig up the cellar in a search for the body, Mrs. Cocchi refused to permit it. Today after she had left the place, de tectives entered and solved the mys tery. The finding of the body is due chiefly the tireless work of Mrs. Grace Humiston, attorney for the Cruger fam ily. For the past week she had labor ers excavating under the sidewalk in front of the house, apparently convinc ed that the body would be found. A silk shirtwaist, a corset cover and a glove were found several days ago as a result of the digging but these could not be identified as belonging to Miss Cruger. Today when detectives entered the cellar and resumed the search over ground covered months ago, their at tention was attracted by Cocchi’s large work bench, resting against the wall at the extreme end pf the cellar. They moved the bench and walking over the spot their heels struck boards through a thin covering of earth. The detec tives cleared away the earth and found a wooden floor which they tore up and the form of the dead girl was disclos ed. A towel had been fastened around her neck and her body had been bound with ropes. On being told by Mrs. Humiston that a girl’s body had been dug up in Coc chi’s cellar, the father still skeptical, hurried to the squalid neighborhood of the repair shop, a few blocks across town from upper Riverside drive. Police opened the way for Cruger to enter the shop on his arrival. The crowd stepped back but the man hesitated stopped. "I do not want to go in, he said. "Send some one to tell me about it.” He stood in the street, staring at the garish red sign on the glass basement window. Police Inspector Cray came out from beside the body lying on the cellar floor and described it in detail to Cruger, who made no sign until the inspector men tioned the character of the clothing, the watch and the Wadleigh High school ring found on the left little finger. "Oh. my God! That’s my daughter.” he exclaimed as the inspector stopped. He started forward, reeled and would have collapsed had not the Inspector caught him. After he recovered, he would not look at the body and was taken home, where the girl’s mother waited. Singularly enough, John Spittle, the man who saw Cocchi coming out of the cellar shop about midnight of the day the Cruger girl disappeared was the man Who unearthed her body today. Ihe suspicion that the girl was buried be neath the shop has always been strong in his mind, he said. Discovery of the body was accidental. Police and priavte detectives had search ed every foot of the cellar over and over. They had dug it up in man! places. It remained for Inspector Cray to push the two chests out of the way and dis cover that the concrete flooring had been disturbed. Immediately upon being notified of the And, District Attorney Swann said ev ery effort would be made to have Cocchi returned to this country. HUGER NAMED COUNSEL TO THE SHIPPING BOARD WASHINGTON, June 15.—Alfred Hu ger. of Charleston. S. C., a lawyer, was today appointed admiralty counsel to the federal shipping board. Chairman Denman in announcing the appointment said it was another Instance of a man of large affairs putting aside personal Interest to serve the government. Hurrah! How’s This Cincinnati authority says corns dry up and lift out with fingers. 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Helping Ford create and develop his gigantic automobile business he considers child's play In comparison with his new job, police commissioner ship of Detroit. Now he has the underworld to fight, the grafting politicians and with these the courts. For Jim Couzens is on trial for contempt. The outcome may mean success or failure to his campaign for a clean city. “My short experience in this job has already taught me one big truth," Cou zens told me: "The wisest thing the Almighty ever did was to keep men from having too much foresight. If I had even half guessed what this job of ’cleaning up Detroit* was to be before I got into it. believe me, I would still be doing something simple—like or ganizing a bank, or running a factory, or just making money! “But this job! Why, it’s going to be nothing more nor less than trying to pry out the whole secret of humanity —to find out why wrong is in the world, and If it can be checked by well intentioned forces, and HOW. “Detroit has grown in the last decade almost unbelievably. Cheap music halls, saloons and dens of various kinds have sprung up until we really had here a huge mining camp for a city. The amount of patronage these low places got was appalling. “Something had to be done. I made up my mind that although human na ture could not be changed, it could be largely kept from bad influences. The law was with me. “Street walking was stopped at once. Music and drinking was forbidden in the houses. Rigid systems of medical examinations were instituted. “In this way we could limit the growth of the tenderloin. We could also find out whic hglrls wanted to get out of the life, and help them do so. "So far it was easy. But putting the method into practice I soon learned, was a far different matter. As in a single movement the entire underworld clicked together for defense. And every crooked politician began his secret wire pulling. “I have begun the first real fight of my life. For the firzt time in my life, I am dealing in those mysterious, dyna mic elements that makeup humanity. For every move I make I must expect a blow in return. But through it I am going to find out what life really is!” So Jim Couzins, the fifty-mllllon-dol lar chief of police followed ths trail of vice right into the courts, defied a judge’sr ullng, was thrown into jail and now must stand trial. "Jim Couzens is one of those lovable fools who move the world a little far ther on to something better,” said a prominent Detroit citizen. "Most of us give him credit for the famous welfare plan andflve-dollar-a-day wage scale in Henry Ford’s plant. All the jails in Michigan may yawn at him: he will never stop. He loves a principle more than Rockefeller loves a dollar!” DO you ever “cuss” the Weather Man? 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