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Eli c Mhuiht niHihtklfi Souriuil VOLUME XX. WILSON FORMALLY ANNOUNCES TRIP ABROAD* HE WILL KEEP CONGRESS FULLY INFORMED; HIS MIND IS OPEN ON THE RAILROAD OUESTIOI PLOT TO RESTORE WILLIAM TO THWE OOICKLIWTOITED Mackensen, Born and Arnim Mentioned Among Leaders. Many Arrests Made —Long 1 List of Suspects LONDON, Dec. 2.—A plot to re store Imperialism end secure the re- 1 turn of Emperor William has been discovered in Berlin, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to The Express. According to the dispatch, which was ffled at Amsterdam on Friday, the chief men behind the plot were Field Marshal von Mackensen. Gen eral von Born and General Count Sixt von Arnim. said they in structed the Prussian officers* corps to carry on a pro-emperor agitation, beginning immediately after the de mobilisation of the troops was com pleted. Large sums of money are said to have been placed at the dis posal of the leaders by munition makers. The plot collapsed, owing to the fact that a secret service agent over heard a telephone conversation. Many arrests hare been made in Berlin and other cities, while the govern ment has long lists of suspects, who had planned to seise members of the present government. No direct evidence of William Ho henxoliern’s connection with the plot Has been found, it is said, but it is believed the outline of the plan was brought to Berlin by two of his suite, who recently went to the Ger • man capital fbr tire ostensible pur pose df/taking the wife of the for mer egjperor to Amerongen. Holland. Lieutenant Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen is said to hare been tn con trol of the financial arrangements. Field Marshal ven Mackensen is re ported to have attempted to induce Field Marshal von Hindenburg to join, but the latter refused, saying he intended to retire after the de j mobilization of the army. The whole Prussian court, it is stated, was In symnathv with the plotters, and it fs said that Prince von Buelow and Dr. Georg Michaelis, former imperial chancellor, nad promised to help. The plan was to organize a provisional government under Field Marshal von Mackensen or some other military leader, and then urge William Hohenzollern to j return. COUP D’ETAT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISING TO PARIS BY WILLIAM PKXLXP SIMMS PARIS. Dec. 2.—A coup d etat is; not regarded as improbable. The ex-kaiser's decree of abdication is not satisfactory. Many believe it is only a bluff for the benefit of the rabble. The Junkers and workmen and sol diers are fighting among themselves, and Berlin idmits there are no mas ters of the situation. An authority declared todav that the United States, must stand by the allies—that Eu ropeans never needed America mote than now. while anything is liable to happen in Germany. ‘The role of the United States, which was decisive in the war. ts equally important in preparations for peace," deciares the Temps. “Nothing can be done until Presi dent Wilson arrives. The present conversations In London are not dip , lomatic. Proof of this can be found ‘ in the fact that Marshal Foch and not Foreign Minister Pichon accam-j panled l-remier Clemenceau. *’ KING NICHOLAS, OF MONTENEGRO, DEI*OSED LONDON. Dec. 2. —King Mctwbs of Montenegro, has been deposed by the Skupshtina, the Montenegrin na-| tional assembly, according to a mes- I sage received here from Prague to- i day. The dispatch was sent from Prague by the Czecho-Slovak press bureau byway of Copenhagen, it says that the Skupshtina voted the deposition on Friday last and declared for a •union of Montenegro with Serbia under King Peter. The family of the kin? was includ ed in the act of deposition. Beats Gas or Electricity New Lemp Has No Wick. No Chim ney. No Odor. Most Brilliant Light Known, A new lamp which experts agree . gives the most powerful home light in the world, is the latest achieve ment of W. >l. Hofistot. #l3 Factory ; Bldg.. Kansas City. Mo. This re markable new lamp beats gas or lee tricity—gives more light than three hundred candles, eighteen ordinary lamps or ten brilliant electric lights, and costs only one cent a night, a blessing to every home on farm cr in . small town. It fs absolutely safe I and gives universal satisfaction. A i child can carry it. It is the ambition of Mr. Hoffstot to have every home, I store, hall or church enjoy the in- i creased comfort of this powerful. . pleasing, brilliant, white light and lie will send one of his new lamps on free trial to any reader of the Journal who writes him. He wants one person in each locality to whom he can refer new customers. Take advantage of his free offer. Agents wanted. Write him ttffiay.— tAdvt.) COTTON GOING TO I FORTY-FIVE CENTS IA POUND NEXT YEAR So Says Norman H. John son, Secretary of National Wholesale Dry Goods As sociation Norman H. Johnson, of Richmond, 1 Va-. secretary of the National Whole- I sale Dry Goods association; a mem ber of the price-fixing committee of j the War Industries Board and by all • odds a man who should have a pret ty keen Insight into business condi tions. predicted Monday that cotton is going to forty-five cents a pound next year and to forty cents early *n the year. Cotton, he asserted, is just as good as meney itself and a commodity ev ery merchant should hold to. He himself, he confided, had just put 13.000 Into the staple. Decline in Prices Gradual Further, said Mr. Johnson, who Is just completing a tour which is put ting him in touch with practically every big dry goods jobber in the south, the price of merchandise is not going to drop back to normal suddenly just because the war is over. As a matter of fact, he pre dicted. prices of many lines have not yet reached their maximum. The <ie cline he predicted. Will begin some think like eighteen months from now and will be very gradual. The economic effect of too sudden a de cline. he pointed out. would be dis aster. To the south, he said, should belong more optimism than to any other part of the country. The south, be said, is a section that will fnd its ev ery product fn dexpand with conse quent prosperity. Cotton Mow Biggest Asset Mr. Johnson came to Atlanta from Savannah where, on Saturday, he ad dressed division three of the South ern Wholesale Dry Goods associa tion, of which Walter C. Barnwell, ot Atlanta, is the president. He leaves Monday night for San Antonio, Tex. "For eight years," he said, "1 have advised people to sell cotton. Now 1 say hold. It's the biggest asset tn the United States, and the crop is short. •The reason? It's perfectly logi cal. Nor.e of the European countries has cotton. It is certain theat a line l of credit will be established soon and we ll have ships to send it over 1 I’ll stake anything on the prediction , that cotton will go to 45 cents." Everything. Mr. Johnson predicted. I will be in demand and mills will find : It hard to supply the demand even ’ with the big number of mills that have been manufacturing war goods going back to a peace basis. There Is no surplus of merchandise, he said • Naturally, said Mr. Johnson, prices now from 300 to 700 per cent above normal, will stay up for quite a while. Then Yhey will gradually drop to normal, he predicted. Sverythlng, however, he asserted, points to most prosperous times in the south, a section where every product is in world-wide demand. He also gave the gratifying in formation that speculators in mer chandise are dwindling and arc rap idly being frozen out, a long step to ward reconstruction. “Food Conservation Week for World Relief” Is Observed WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—The food | administration’s "conservation week for world relief" campaign got into J full swing today over the country It opened yesterday with the reading in all the churches of a message from Food Administrator Hoover, whico outlined the nation’s opportunity for renewed sacrifice in feeding the mil lions of peoples In Europe released from German domination. Meetings of fraternal and other or- I I ganizations. under the auspices of state and county bodies, began today ; and will continue throughout the [ week. The need for the fulfillment ot , America’s food pledge for this year of 20.000,000 tons will be dwelt upon Every possible avenue of reaching the public, it was announced, will be -utilized during the week. Two Postal Officials | Dismissed by Burleson NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Postmaster i General Burleson has dismissed from government service Edward Key , no)ds. vice president and general manager of the Postal Telegraph Ca- i ble company, and A. B. Richards, j general superintendent of the com-; pan.<s Pacific coast division, for al-I leged insubordination against the , government’s plans to amalgamate ! the Postal with the Western Union Telegraph company. * iFIRSTYANKSFROM OVERSEASARRIVEIN new yim harbor Four Thousand Men, Mostly. 1 Non-Combatant Troops From England Are Greeted by Mayor of City NEW YORK. Dec. 2.—Bearing the first load of American troops to come ~ home from Europe since the war i • ended, the big Cunard liner Maure- ; I tania emerged from the fogs that j shrouded the lower bay today, re -1 ceived a vociferous welcome, and i docked at her Fourteenth street pier. . I There the 4,000 troops, mostly aviation units that had been train- _ > ing in England, were transferred to ferry boats and taken around the lov.er end of Manhattan to Long Is land City, wherb they entrained for Camp Mills. New York greeted the first home- j i bound transport with a New Year’s eve uproar of whistles and sirens, i a fluttering of scraps of paper from roofs of skyscrapers, and a cheering and flourishing of handkerchiefs' from ferry boats and windows of I buildings as the ship, in her check- ] erboard camouflage, her upper decks ; a mass of khaki-uniformed men. I moved majestically up the river. Tne 1 ferries carrying the boys to Long Island City received similar greet ings all along the way. Shortly before the Mauretania dropped anchor.the hospital ship Northern Pacific, with 1,100 wound ed soldiers and marines aboard, passed up the bay unheralded and docked at Hoboken. Nearly half of the heroes aboard were badly wound ed. one section being given over to • men who have lost legs and another ' to those who have had arms ampu- j tated. Red Cross nurses supervised i the work of removing the men to nearby army hospitals today. i The Mauretania passed quarantine and proceeded up the harbor past the battery, and into the North River, where she was to dock shortly after 10 a. m. Her decks were crowded with the khaki clad home-coming j Yankees. A great tooting of whistles : greeted her. Many harbor ciaft un-1 loosened their sirens. Passengers tn ■ ferry boats lined the rail to cheer: the troops. Some persons sought ; vantage points in upper windows of j skyscrapers commanding a view of; I the bav and a crowd gathered tn Eat-' ' tery Park to veil their welcome. Three ether large vessels loaded with American troops probably win i arrive today and tomorrow. They I are the Lapland, the Cretlc and the I Minnekahda. These three had a two day start over the Mauretania which arrived last evening and anchored until early today in Gravesend Bay Most of the men arriving on the. Mauretania have been stationed in England. They are for tne most • part from the air service and from i the construction and radia branches of the army. Troops aboard the Mauretania, . numbering 4,205, according to a : statement by tho military author!- j ties, included 150 wounded men from the battlefields of France. When the big liner left Gravesend bay for her North river pier Mayor Hylan and Ills party were aboard. The mayor announced that Secretary Raker had denied his request that the troops be paraded in New York before going to camp. The cheering doughboys were hi a | gay mood. They were frivolous and' were most interested in what ar-! : rangements had been made to satisfy ! , their appetites. Often and anxious was the query: "Has New York gone dry yet?” "New York Is proud of every one of you.” was the first wireless gieet ing of Mayor Hylan to the soldiers, ’’and welcomes you with its warmest welcome.” And then came the reply, the first ' message of returning American troops ■ to the folks at home: •’When do we eat?” j Almost coincident with the first : f was the second answer with enthus- i j iasm: “Oh. how dry we are!’’ As the police boat drew near to the big liner the doughooj-s hung; over the rail shoutihg greetings to. ' the mayor's party. Intermingling . cries for “chow’’ and thirst quench-1 I ers. . Mayor Hylan and city officials went aboard the ship and extended a iiear i ty welcome to Colonel H. C. Pratt, of the air service, senior American officer on board, and Captain A. H. Rostron. commander of the Maure tania. The boys also went wild i shaking hands with the mayor'* I party. GRAY HAIR BAN ISHED , Kolur-Bnk positively guurantecd to restore I jour grey bair to its original color. Not a I dye cr stain. Cures dniMlruff in 2 applies j tions-, stops falling hair. Harmless, color less. stainless. Pay notblng if it fails. I Write K< !or-Bak Products Co., 6b Wost i I Washington st.. Dept. 1266, Chicago, for | * free bock an<l positive proof.—(Advt.) Vi LANTA, GA.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918. THE TEX7 OF WILSON’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The presi dent’s address to congress follows: Gentlement of the Congress: The year that has elapsed since I last stood before you to ful fill my constitutional duty to give to the congress from time to time information on the state of the union lias been so crowded witn great events, and great results J that 1 cannot hope to give you I an adequate picture of its trans actions or of the far-reaching changes which have been wrought in the life of our na tion and of the world. You have ; yourselves witnessed these things j as I have. It ts too soon to assess them: and we who stand in the midst of them and are part of them are less qualified than men of another generation will be to say what they mean or even what they have been. But some great outstanding , facts are unmistakable and con stitute in a sense part of the public business with which it is our duty to deal. To state them is to set the stage for the legis lative and executive action which must grow out o fthem and which we have yet to shape and determine. Troop Movement A year ago we had sent 145,918 men overseas. Since then we have sent 1,950,513, an average of 162,542 each month, the number tn fact rising in May last to 245,951, in June to 278,760, in July to 307,182, and continuing to reach similar figures in Au gust and September—in August 289,570 and in September 257,438. No such movement of troops ever took place before, across three thousand miles of sea, followed by adequate equipment and sup plies and carried safely through extraordinary dangers of attack —dangers which were alike strange and infinitely difficult to guard against. In all this move ment only seven hundred and fifty men were lost by enemy at tack—six hundred and thirty of whom were upon a single English transnort which was sunk near the Orkney Islands. I need not tell you what lay back of this great movement of me and material. It is not in vidious to say that back of it lava supporting organization of the industries of the country and of all its productive activities more complete, more thorough in method and effective in re sult, more spirited and unani mous in purpose and effort than any other great belligerent had been able to effect. We profited ’ greatly by the experience of the nations which alreadj- had been engaged for nearly three years in the exigent and exacting busi ness, their every resource and every executive proficiency taxed to the utmost. We were their pupils. But we learned quickly and acted with a promptness and a readiness of co-operation that justify our great prido that, we were able to serve the world with unparalleled energy and quick accomplishment. But it is not tne physical scale and executive efficiency of prep aration, supply, equipment and dispatch that I would dwell ; upon, but the mettle and quality of the officers and men we sent over and of the sailors who Kept the seas, and the spirit of the nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved themselves more quickly ready for the test of battle or acquit ted themselves with more splen- ' did courage and achievement when put to the test. Those of us who played some part in di recting tha great processes by which the war was pushed ir resistibly forward to the final triumph may now forget all that and delight cur thoughts with the story of what our men did. Praises Men's Bravery Their officers understood the grim and exacting task they had undertaken and performed it ■ with an audacity, efficiency, and unhesitating courage that touch i the story of convoy and battle with imperisaable distinction at every turn, whether the enter prise were great or small —from their great chiefs, Pershing and ! Sims, down to the youngest j lieutenant; and their men were worthy of them—such mtn as j hardly need to be commanded, and go to their teriib'e adventure | blythely and with the quick in- i telltgence of those who know lust . what it is they would accom plish. I atn proud to be the fellow- i countryman of men of such stuff and valor. Those of us who Stayed at home did our duty; tlie war could not have been won or the gallant men who fought it given their opportunity to win it otherwise, but for many a i long day we shall think our selves “accursed we were not there, and hold our inanheods cheap while any speaks that fought ” with these at St. Mihlel or Thierry. The memory of those ( days of triumphant battle will i go with thesj fortunate men to their graves; ard each will have his favorite memory. “Old p.cn forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember with arvan- I tages what feats he did that day!” Turned the Tide TVhat wc all thank God for with deepest gratitude Is that I our men went in force into the I line of battle lust at the critical i moment yhcu the whole late of the world seemed to hang in the balance and threw their fresh strength into the ranks ot free dom in time to turn the whole tide and sweep of tho fateful struggle—turn it once for all. so | that henceforth it waz back, i back, back for their enemies, al- ■ I ways back, never again forward! After that it was only a scant lour months before the com manders of the central empires knew themselves beaten, and now their very empires are in liquidation! And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was, what unity of purpose, wnat un tiring zeal! What elexation of purpose ran through all 113 splendid display of strength, its untiring accomplishment. 1 have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of or ganization and supply will al ways wish that we had been with the men whom we sustained by 1 our labour; but we can net er be ashamed. It has ben an inspiring thing to be here in tho midst of fine men who had turned aside from every private interest of their own and devoted the whole of their trained capacity to the tasks that supplied the sinews Os the whole great undertaking! The patriotism, the unselfishness the thorough-going devotion and distinguished capacity that marked their toilsome labors, day after day, month after month, have made them fit mates and comrades of the men in the trenches and on the sea. And not the men here in Wash ington only. They have but directed the vast achievement. Throughout innumerable factor ies, upon innumerable farms. In the depths of coal mines and copper mines, wherever tho stuffs of industry were to be ob tained and prepared, in the ship yards, on the railways, at the docks, on the sea in every la bor that was needed to sustain the battle lines, men have vied with each other to do their part and do it well. They can look any man-at-arms in the face, and i say, “We also strove to win and gave the best that was in us to make our fleets and armies sure of their triumphs!” Tribute to Women And what shall we say of the women—of their instant intelli gence, quickening every task that they touched: their capacity for organization and co-operation, which gave their action discip line and enhanced the effective ness of everything they attempt ed; their aptitude at tasks to which they had never before set their hands: their utter self-sac rifice alike in what they did and In what they gave? Their con tribution to the great result is beyond appraisal. They have added a new luster to the annals I of American womanhood. Pleads for Suffrage The least tribute wc can pay them is to make them the equals of men in political rights as they have proved themselves their equals in every field ot practical work they have entered, whether for themselves or for their country. These great days ot completed achievement would be sadly marred were we to omit that act of justice. Besides the immense practical services they have rendered, the womep of the country have been the moving spirts in the systematic econom ics by which our people‘have vol untarily assisted to supply the suffering peoples of the world and the armies unpon every front with food and everything else that we had that might serve the common cause. The details of such a story can never be fully written, but we carry them at our hearts and thank God that , wc can say that wc are the kins- i men of such. ' Ard now we are sure of the < great triumph for which every 1 sacrifice was made, tt lias come. ‘ come in its completeness, and < witli tho pride and inspintatioi! 1 of these days of achievement ‘ quick within us wc turn to the j tasks of peace again—a peace sc- t cure against the violence of ir- ’ responsible monarchs and ambi- j tious military made i | ready for a new order, for ntw foundations of justice and fair j dealing. We are about to give order i and organization to thise peace i not only for ourselves, but for I the other peoples of the world as well, so far as they will suffer us to serve them. It is interna tional justice that we seek, net domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have dwelt of Jate upon Europe, upon Asia, upon the near and the far East, very little upon the acts of peace and accommo dation that wait to be perform ed at our own doors. tVh.le we are adjusting our relations with the rest of the world is it not of capital importance that we should clear away all grounds cf misunderstanding with our im . mediate neighbors and give proof of the friendship we really feel? I hope that the members of the senate will permit me to speak once more cf tho unratlfled treaty of friendship and adjust ment with the republic of Colom bia. I very earnestly urge yoon them an early and favorable ac tion upon that vita! matter. I believe that they will feel, with me. that the stage of affair* ts now set for such action as will bo not only just but generous and in the spirit of the new age upon which we have so happily entered. So far as our domestic affairs are 'concerned the problem of our eturu to peace is a problem of economic and industrial read justment. That problem is less serioas for us than it may turn out to be for the nations which have suffered the disarrange ments and the losses of war longer than we. Our people, moreover, do not wait to be coached and led. They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every read justment, definite in purpose, and self-reliant in action. Any lead ing strings we might seek to put them in would speedily bcnine hopelessly tangled because they would pay no attention to them and go their own way. All that we can do as their legislative and executive servants is to me diate the process of change here, there and elsewhere as we may. I have heard much counsel as to the plans that should be formed and personally conducted to a happy consummation, but from no quarter have 1 seen any gen eral scheme of “reconstruction” emerge which I thought-it likely we could force our spirited bus iness men and self-reliant labor ers to accept with due pliancy and obedience. Industrial Word While the war lasted we set up many agencies by which to ( direct the industries of the coun try in the services it was neces- • sary for them to render, by which to make sure of an abun- j dant supply of the materials needed, by which to check under takings that could for the time be dispensed with and stimulate those that were most serviceable in war, by which to gain for the purchasing departments of the government a certain control over the prices of essential arti cles and materials, by which to restrain trade with alien ene mies, make the most of the avail able shipping, and systematize financial transactions, both pub lic and private, so that there would be no unnecessary conflict or confusion —by which, in short, to put every material energy of the country in harness to draw the common load and make of us one team in the accomplishment of a great task. But the moment we knew the armistice to have been signed we took tho harness off. Raw materials upon which the gov ernment had kept its hand for fear there should not be enougii for the industries that supplied the armies have been released and put into tho general market again. Great industrial plants whose whole output and machin ery had been taken over for the uses of the government have ben set free to return to the uses to which thy were put before the war. It has not been possible to remove so readily or so quickly the control of foodstuffs and of shipping, because the world has still to be fed from our grana ries and the ships are still need- Makes Fords Start Easy A new Gas Generator, which heats the manifold vaporizes the gas and makes instant ignition possible has been invented by the Bear Mfg. Co , 117 Bear Bldg.. Rock Island. 111. This simple and inexpensive device docs away with hot water makeshifts, etc., and gives you a "ready to start motor in the coldest weather. It also saves 10 cents a gallon on gasoline because with It you can use the cheapest gasoline all winter. If you want to try this great trouble and money saver send them $1.50 and they will send you one of these re markable devices postpaid under a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Write them today. Salesmen wanted.—( Advt.) t ed to send supplies to our men overseas and to bring the men back as fast as the disturbed conditions on the other side of the war permit; but even there restraints are being relaxed as i much as possible and more and more as the weeks go by. Never before have there been agencies in existence in this , country which knew so much of the field of supply, of labor and of industry as the war indus tries board, ths war trade board, the labor department, the food j administration and the fuel ad ministration have known since their labors became thoroughly syqstematizcd; and they have not been isolated agencies; they have been directed by men who rep resented the permanent depart ments of the government and so have been tlie centers of unified and co-operative action. It has • been the policy of the executive, therefore, since the armistice was assured (which is in effect a complete submission of the enemy to put the knowledge of these bodies at the disposal of the business men of the country and to offer their intelligent me diation at every point and in every matter where it was de sired. It is surprising how fast the process of return tq a peace footing lias moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped. It promises to outrun any inqui ry that may be instituted and any aid that may be offered. It will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. The American business man Is of quick initiative. The ordinary and normal of .private initiative will not, however, pro vide Immediate employment for all of the men of our returning armies. Those who are of trained capacity, those who are skilled workmen, those who have acquired familiarity with established busi nesses, those who are ready and willing to go to the farms, all those whose aptitudes are known or will be sought out by employ ers will find no difficulty, it is safe to say, in finding place and employment. But there will be others who will be at a loss Where to gain a livelihood unless pains are taken to guide them and put them in the way of work. There will be a large floating residuum of labor which should not be left wholly to shift for itself. It seems to me Important, therefore, that the development of public works of every sort should be promptly resumed, in order that opportunities should be created for unskilled labor in particular, and that plans should be made for such developments of our unused lands and our nat (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) Bolshevists Take Swiss Documents From Legation LONDON, Dec. 2.—Bolshevists have entered the Norwegian lega tion at Petrograd and removed doc uments belonging to Switzerland, whose interests <re under the pro tection of Norway, according to • Copenhagen dispatch to the Mail. The Norwegian minister has pro tested in vain, and the newspapers of the country are demanding that Norway break relations with the soviet government. Discharged Soldiers Get Meals Cheaper WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. Dis charged soldiers, sailors and ma , rines were given tho benefit of an i ether reduction in traveling ex penses by the railroad administ»a 1 tion tonight. Director General Me I Adoo issued instructions to furnisn the discharged men with meals on ; diners at a standard price of 75 j cents. This, together with a fare ’ of two-thirds the normal coach fare, was believed by railroad administra- I tion officials to provide ample as- : sistance to men discharged from the ' service while they are traveling. he me ward. Edmond Rostand, Dramatist, Dead PARIS. Dec. 2.—Edmond Fostand, famous French dramatist, died of pneumonia at 1:30 p. m. today. MENLO HAS EKJOM FACTORY LYERLY, Ga., Dec. 3. —H. E. i Thomas, a prominent citizen of Chat tooga county, has engaged in a new enterprise at Menlo, having recently established a broom factory at that place, tl is stated that the plant Is : well equipped and is turning out large quantities of brooms daily. REICHSTAG TO MEET PARIS. Dec. 2.—The German reich stag will be convoked shortly, ac cording to newspapers in south Ger many, says a Zurich dispatch to L’lnformation. NUMBER 12' .n -U. wffiimnii TORN LINES BICM IT THE BIGHT TIM ■ Expects Peace by Sprinl Praises Soldiers and Won! en Republicans Silenl but Don’t Interrupt Speak! WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—ln an J dress to congress in joint session ll j day President Wilson formally al nounced his intention to go to PaiM j for the peace conference, saying til allied governments have accepts principles enunciated by him fl peace and it is his paramount dul to be present. I The president said he will be I close touch by cable and wireleS and that congress will know all till he does on the other side. ■ Referring to his announcemeS that tho French and British goverl ments had removed all cable restril tions upon the transmission of nexS of the conference to America, tl president said he had taken over tB American cable systems on expfl advice so as to make a unified syl tem available. I He expressed the hope that ■ would have the co-operation of til public and of congress, sayiil through the cables and wireless coB stant counsel and advice would fl possible. I Much of the address was devo J to the railroad problem, for whifl the president said he now had no (fl lution to offer He fill study by congress, saying ■ would be a disservice to the count® and to the railroads to permit a jfl turn to old conditions under privaß management without modicaJon*. B Eezdy to Release Beads The president declared ne *<ofl ready to release the railroads fiM government control whenever a satfl factory plan of readjustment co J be worked out. I Paying tribute to the people's cofl duct in war he spoke particularly fl women and again appealed for wom an suffrage by federal amendment.® The president said he hoped to ss a formal declaration of peace ■ treaty “by the time spring has com<® No definite program of reconstrufl tion can be outlined no.*, Mr. Wilsfl said, but as soon as the armistice wfl signed government control of bufl ness and Industry was released fl far as possible. He expressed tfl hope that congress would not obj®® to conferring upon the war trafl j board or some other agency the rigfl of fixing export priorities to assufl shipment of food to starving peopfl ‘ abroad. ■ As to taxation, the president tfl , dorsed the plan for levying six bfl lion.dollars in 1919, and for notify!fl the public in advance that the isfl levy will be four billion dollars. 1® The new three year naval buildtfl i program .was indorsed because, tfl president said, it would be unwise fl ! attempt to adjust the American plfl gram to a future world policy as yfl unletermincd. ■ Declaring he had no “privafl though or purpose" in going to Bfl rope, but that lie regarded it as bfl highest duty, the president added: fl “It is now my duty to play my fufl part in making good what thfl (America’s soldiers) offered thjfl life's blood to obtain.” ® Democrats Applaud ■ Democratic representatives arofl and applauded vociferously when tfl president announced his intention fl going in person to the peace confefl enee The Republican side was silefl and so were many senators on bofl sides of the chamber. ® The president concluded aftfl I speaking forty-two minutes, and lefl the chamber amidst applause limitfl to the Democratic side. 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