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VOLUME XX.
PRESIDENT SPENDS
FIRST OH OUT ON
correspondence;
Party, Dining Quietly. Served
hy Ex-Kaiser’s Waiter.
Quarters in Paris Ready
for Delegates
ON BOARD U. S. S. GEORGE
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—(Morning
* By Wireless to the Associated
Press.) —President Wilson's ship this
morning was 430 miles out. steering
* , a steady course at a speed of 17
knots an hour.
The weather today was clear rnd :
cold, the pale making the
escort observable from the decks of
the president’s* steamer.
The president slept late and took
breakfast with Mrs. Wilson, no oth
er members of the party being pres
ent with them at this meal. After-
* ward the president worked with his
stenographer and examined the of
ficial wireless message which in
cluded several applications for clem
ency.
A pouch of official mail will be
put off at the Azores on Sunday and I
be carried back to the United States I
. an board a destroyer.
The president has his own type- ■
.* . writer on board xnd is using it at |
intervals in working upon the I
speeches he expects to deliver in '
France. No announcement was made i
on board today regarding appoint-1
meats to the oilices of the treasury .
or director of railroads. (The ap- !
pointment of Representative Glass as
. secretary of the treasury was an
nounced in Washington.)
President Wilson spent most of the
first day of the trip on this steam
ship working in his dffice, part of his
suite -After acknowledging from the
- bridge the greetings that were given
nim as the ship put to sea. he turned
to the pile of letters and telegrams
awaiting bin: and snent several hours
working with his stenographers.
In the afternoon, on the advice of
his physician. Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, he lay down and rested for
a time because of a slight cold that
was affecting his voice.
Later the president received calls
from officials on board, including the
Italian and French ambassadors. Fol
lowing this he took a walk on deck,
together with Mrs. Wilson.
The presidential party dined quiet-
S* ly in the evening, being served by a
waiter who claimed to have attended
Emperor William and the Empress
in tho same suite on the trial trip
as the George Washington.
The reports that the presidential
suite had been fitted up in a luxurf- ,
ous manner are untrue
In the dining hall musjc was fur
bished by the ship's band and a quar
tet of sailors.
The president is keeping in touch
with official business by wireless.
The escorting destroyers, with the'
battleship Pennsylvania leading the
column, are keeping in close touch
with the steamship carrying the •
president.
Mine sweepers are running betorc
the bow of the ship. They are loaded
with steel billets to insure their deep
draught.
The weaklier Is cold and misty, but'
the ses. is calm
In the evening Mrs. Wilson reieas- ,
ed from the George Washington car-I
rier pigeons bearing notes of thanks :
to Vice Admiral Cleaves for the sue- i
cess of the arrangemetns made for j
the departure.
Representatives of the Associated
Press, the United Press and the In
ternational News Service are accom
panying President Wilson and party
•to Europe aboard the U. S. S. George
Washington. .Arrangements were
made in advance to permit the corre
spondents to send brief individual
messages from the ship by wireless,
the first dispatch being released for
simultaneous publication at 11:70
>. Eastern time, today.
The George Washington will steam
byway of the Azores, but will not
aut in at those islands.
DELEGATES’ CARTERS
. IX PARIS ARE READY
, PARIS. Tuesday. Dec. 3.—Quar
ters for Secretary Lansing and the
other American delegates to the
oeace conference have been assigned
at the Crillon hotel, on the Place
le La Concorde. This large hotel
- has been divided up into suites of
rooms for the delegates. Each suite
will comiwiso living quartets and a
business office for each delegate and;
his immediate secretaries. The apart-!
ments overlook the Esnlanade of!
Place de La Concorde, which is now:
filled with war trophies and whete
stand the great statues ol Stras
bourg. Lille and Metz, each covered
with floral offerings and flags.
Each suite is handsomely furnish
ed and has paintings and tapestries.
There are commodious baths and:
deeping chambers. The delegatesl
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DAVID LAWRENCE, famous '
Washington correspondent of
the New York Evening Tost,
who has gone to Europe with
the president to write about the •
president andrthe great peace |
conferences for readers of The I
Atlanta Journal and the Eve- •
ntng Post. j
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David Lawrence
Will Cover Peace
Meet for Journal
As all eyes center upon tho peace
table in Europe and the momentous
transactions which will transpire
there. The Atlanta Journal has per
fected the most efficient possible
meant' of securing and presenting to
its readers these events and. in so far
as is possible for human judgment
to discern, their significance
In addition to its usual world-wide
news-supplying agencies, including
the Associated Press and the United
Press. The Journal will have as its
special representative David Law
rence, of the New York Evening
Post, who is without peer as a news
paper writer upon political events
of world significance.
Until assigned to France with
President Wilson Mr. Lawrence has
been the Washington correspondent
of the Post, and in the quality of tits
service he has stood pre-eminent in
the rank and file of Washington cor
respondents and has a following that
is nation-wide.
He adds to his capacity as one of
the most efficient reporters in Ameri
ca the rare ability to interpret events
political, legislative and diplomatic '
In the light of the history of all theso
fields. To these indispfensa'ole attri
butes he adds also a practical ideal
ism which gives strikingly human
color and quality to his work.
No correspondent has a wider ac
quaintance among the mtn who are
making and will make history, and
by them he is trusted implicitly. This
means an inexbaustible wealth of ac
curate information from authentic I
sources at the peace conference, it j
means actual participation in eoun- ;
cils of momentous importance and in- :
fluence; it means knowledge of what
is in preparation long before it finds
its way even into his own dispatches. (
Predicted Wilson’s Election
Although his influence and prestige •
had been steadily growing. Mr. Law- k
rence may be said to have made his
first real appearance in the national
limelight in the fall of 191 >1 when, i
after a nation-wide tour, he alone
predicted correctly the election of;
President Wilson without New York, i
New Jersey, Illinois and Indiana, but
with California. Washington, Mon- j
tana, etc.
Since then he has more than sus- .
tained the reputation previously won. 1
The accuracy and authoritativeness
with which he analyzes and explains
the purpose and views of President .
Wilson makes his work unique in i
journalism. In this field he has no ,
rival and his articles are therefore !
read with closett interest by states- '
men. editors and publicists in this I
and other countries. It gives Inval- !
uable advance information as to the i
trend of affairs.
Mr. Lawrence has scored so many j
bull’s-eyes by his predictions that i
tney are now accepted as a matter ot '
course. Among these were the tai;- ;
ing over of the railroads by the gov- ;
ernment, McAdoo’s appointment as :
director general, presidential Indorse
ment of woman suffrage, the Lan- i
sing-Ishjt agreement, licensing of ex
ports and imports and other de- I
velopments in rapid succession.
Two Press Services
Besides the special and Infinitely i
valuable service which Mr. Lawrence
will render the readers of The Jour
nal. they will have the news of the i
peace conference presented to them ■
by the greatest staffs of correspond- |
ents that the Associated Press and
the United Press hav- ever assem
bled for the handling of any new;>'
situation.
The staff of the Associated Press j
at the peace conference will be made j
up as follows:
Melville E. Stone, general man
ager; Elmer Roberts, chief of tho
Paris bureau: Robert M. Collins,
chief of the London bureau; Charles
T. Thompson. Charles E. Kloebe,
Salvatore Cortesi. chief of the Rome j
bureau: L. C. Probest, chief of the
Washington bureau; S. R. Conger,
former chief of the Berlin bureau;
Edwin M. Hood. Robert Berry. F. B.
Gyrndy. J. A. Bouman, Burge Mc-
Fall. James P. Howe. Philip M.
Powers. Stuart Marony. S. F. Wader
and T. T. Topping.
For the United Press, Ed L. Keen,
general European manager of the
service, will be In direct charge. As
sisting him directly will be Fred S.
Ferguson and Lowell Mellett. both
of whom have had wide experience
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PRESIDENT IMS
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iSenator Smith, of South Car
; olina, Favors Modifica
tions —Congress Will Have
to Work Out the Problem
j WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—Presi
i dent Wilson leans toward the "re
i gional director” plain of railroad
control as a solution ot the problem
he put up to congress in his message
Monday.
He will give congress ample time
to work out legislation sowing the
problem, and will not turn the roads
back to private control unless con-
I gress fails to move within die 21
i months after peace, fixed by law a*’
j the limit of government control.
These statements were made to
day by Senator Smith. South Caro
i lina, chairman of the senate .n.er
state commerce commission, follow
i ing a conference with President Wil
! son a few hours before the latter
I left Washington to go abroad.
Senator’s Plan
“It is my purpose,” said Senator
• Smith today, “to take steps to get
I the Newlands’ joint railroad con.
j mlttee together as soon as other
, pressing matters have been disposed
of. This committee Is peculiarly
| well equipped to tackle the railroad
’ problem Intelligently. It seems un
' likely to me that any congressional
i action can come at this session, but
as a result of my talk with the pres
ident, I do not believe he -will take
any action to turn the railroads back
unless congress fails to act. .rithin
tho 21-month period.
“The president’s ideas as convoy
ed to me are in the main just as he
expressed them to congress, but he
leans towards tho regional director
plan.
“Just at a glance I’m inclined to
th-nk that this plan would estab
lish a strong central control without
wholly destroying elements of local
control.”
The regional plan was sugg.wtcd
to the Newlands’ committee by law
yers for the railroads. Senator Smith
favors' some modifications of the
original plan, the essentials of which
are:
Federal control exercised by a
body sitting in Washington, sue!,
xs tho interstate commerce commis
sion for instance.
Formation of regional corpora
tions or appointment of regional di
rectors to regulate locally.
Private Ownership
Ownership and operation of the
, railroads to remain in private hands.
Central and regional federal con
trol to extend to rates, bond issues
and financing, but not to re-routing
or division of equipment.' 1
This outline of the plan contains
some elements of vital difference be
tween the railroads and members of
congress favoring! trfe strongest fed
eral control, but Smith indicated to
day that lie is inclined to adopt .ho
. principle of the regional plan as a
; basis from which to begin working.
The president in his message spoke
! specifically cf this plan as the “mid
die ground” between government
; ownership and returning ’he roads
outright to private ownership.
Strong opposition to it, if it is
, proposed, is expected from “states
( rights" congressmen, who declared
today, it would destroy the power of
I state railroad arid utilities commis
i sions to regulate the lines.
Whatever is done. Senator S th
said today, must be complete.
“There should be no piecemeal
legislation,” he said. He character
; ized Senator Hoke Smith’s bill re
storing to the interstate commerce
commission its full pre-war powers
l as piecemeal legislation. Many oth
er bills designed to solve separate
angles of the problem are expected.
Senator Smith will confer today
■ with Representative Esch, who after
■ March 4 will be chairman of the
house committee, and who with
I Smith is a member of the Nev lands'
' commute*.
Billion Dollars
Cut From Navy’s
Expense Estimate
WASHINGTON, Dec. .'.--More than
a billion dollars has been cut from
■.he navy’s estimates of expenditures
for the coming fiscal year. Secretary
Daniels disclosed today that the esti
mates sent to congress Monday were
based on the war program and that
i the reduction process that already
has eliminated over a fifth of the
' $2,G00,000,000 total is continuing.
Senate Committee
Against Sending
Senators to France
‘ WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—By unan
imous vote the senate loreign rela
tions '•ommitlee today disapproved
the resolution of Senator Cummins,
of lowa, Republican, proposing to
send a senate committee to Paris for
the peace conference.
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Secretary of Treasury
To Succeed McAdoo
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—Reprcscn
tative Carter Glass, of Virginia, was
nominated today by President Wil
son to be secretary of the treasury
of the United States.
Mr. Glass will go into office on
December 16 under an agreement
with Secretary McAdqo, whose resig
nation was accepted by the president
to take effect upon tiie appointment
and qualification of his successor.
'Before assuming his duties, Mr.
Glass will go to his home in Lynch
burg, to adjust business affairs to
which he said he cannot give as
much attention as he 'did when a
member of the house.
“It would be presumptions on my
nart to give out any statement be
fore the senate confirms my nomina
tion.” Mr. Glass said. He promised
a statement when his nomination is
confirmed, but said it would Contain
no outline of policy.
Mr. lHass’ friends said lie had
taken the position against his own
wishes. He himself showed little en
thusiasm when informed his nomina
tion had been sent to the senate.
"I expected it would be,” was his
only comment.
Mr. Glass explained that he had
just come from Europe and had been
out of touch with the treasury for
the past several weeks. Friends of
Mr. Glass say. however, that he is
fully alive to the vroldems that the
treasury must meet and it was the
belief that some one else ould han
dle them better than he that made
him reluctant to enter tiie cabinet.
Added to this is the fact that Mr.
Glass is one of the democratic lead
ers in the house and has been re
elected time after time without op
position. A few minutes after news
of his appointment was received on
the house side of the capitol, Mr.
Glass walked on the floor and an
swered to a roll call.
Three hundred representatives rose
and applauded him for several min
utes.
The nomination, which had been
prepared by President Wilson before
his departure Tuesday night, was
sent in from the White House upon
word from Mr. Glass that he would
accept the pest. Mr. Glass’ resig
nation a member of the house
within the next tew days, after
eighteen years of service, will cause
a special election to be held in his
district to choose a successor.
No changes in policy of the treas
ury are to be expected at present
if at all, Mr. Glass said today. His
relations with Secretary McAdoo
have been very close and he is fa
miliar generally with treasury af
fairs.
The principal task ahead relates
to the continued financing of the
war .and Mr. McAdoo already has
announced plans for at least one
more large bond Issue in the spring,
the bonds to be of short maturities
The floating of short-term certlfi
cates in preparation for this los
probably will continue.
The secretary of the treasury is a
member ex-officio of the federal re
serve board and has a large part in
guiding policies. Mr. McAdoo ia>
advocated the policy of allowing
banks a rather free hand in the con
duet of their ordinary business witn
a minimum of restrictions by the
federal reserve board. Mr. Glass, as
one of the originators of the federal
reserve system, has concurred gener
ally in this attitude,
Hohenzollern Must Be
Punished for Crimes,
Declares Morgenthau
William Hohenzollern must be ■
punished, says Henrv Morgenthau. j
It is necessary as a precedent for
the new international law of per-'
eonal responsibility for international;
crimes that will be established by the i
peace conference.
And not only William Hohenzol-'
lern, but also Von Hindenburg and
Von Ludendorf and others in Gov- 1
many too numerous to mention. Also
: the rulers of the Turkish govern
• ment who refused to stop the mas- '
i sacro of Armenians.
These and other subjects were
. briefly touched on by Mr. Morgen-
I thau in an interview with The Jour
nal while he was here in the inter
est ot’ the Jewish War Relief Fund.
i The distingushed former ambassador
to Turkey is one of tho highest au-i
i thoritles on German* intrigue. His I
books on the subject are being read i
j everywhere. He is a great lawyer, ■
a great business man, a great hu-1
! manitarian. He is treasurer of the!
j Democratic national committee and'
a very close friend of I’resident Wil-1
son. He speaks as one who knows.
Must Create Precedent
I “The men in Germany who are re-
I sponsible for the wholesale murders
of the war must be punished for
their crimes,” said Mr. Morgenthau.
“It must not be the punishment of I
mob violence, but the orderly pun
ishment imposed bj’ a court of jus
tice after they have received a fair 1
trial. If a government in the future j
j notifies a ruler that he will be neld
personally responsible for crimes be
ing committed with his consent, or
about to be committed with his con
sent, lie will not disregard such a
notice, as rulers have disregarded
them in the past. Inasmuch as a new
code of international law undoubted- j
ly will be established at the peace
! conference that will cover this uoint,
iit is well to base it upon prece
-1 dents which can now be created.
i “This applies also to the rulers ot
I the Turkish government who refused
i to put a stop to the wholesale mas- |
I sacres of Armenians and the cruel J
i mistreatment of Frfench and British :
’prisoners. As American ambassador,'
I served notice on Enver Pasha, Talat I
I’asha and the former grand vizier, |
Said Halim, that they would be held ,
! personally responsible.” /
They paid no attention to Mr. Mor- ;
ganthau, because they then thought !
Germany was going to win.
Huns Not Yet Democratic
Asked whether he thought the Ger-
I man people are really cured of au- !
j tocracy, whether the yare really de-
sirous of governing, themselves and ,
winning back, if possible, the respect ,
and confidence of the othir nations.*
Mr. Morganthau said:
“The Hindenburg-Ludendorff intlu- '
egee still controls the military in ;
Germany. Until that influence is
i gone, there can be no genuine Ger- |
! man democracy. The German peo- •
i pie cannot enter the family of de- '
j mocracy until they pull up the Hin- '
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Twenty Per Cent of
Navy s Personnel to
Be Released Soon
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—-Discharge
of 20 per cent of the navy’s war
time personnel, about 100,000 men,
has been authorized. Secretary Dan
iels said today the men would be re
leased as ■ quickly as possible with
due regard to the convenience of the
service.
I’riVate yachts, motor boats and
other craft taken over by the naiy
lor the war already are being turned
back to their owners. Mr. Daniels
said by February, 700 craft will have
been stricken from the navy list.
Members of naval units iu schools
and colleges will complete their
training and then stand discharged
In the cases of special student bod
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at Princeton and the ensigns' school
at Annapolis, students in tne ptes
ent classes, upon graduation, will pe
commissioned in the reserve.
The release of enlisted men is au
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joined for the war and who do not
intend to follow the sea.
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Ward Greene Across;
Watch for His Stories
Ward Greene, of The Journal's
reportorial staff, is in Europe to
write about the war ard the part
that Georgia and Uie south played
in the winning of it. He will send
back to The Journal intimate per
sonal stories that the families
and friends of the men who were
in the thick of the fight have been
waiting for. A cablegram reach
ed The Journal Wednesday afeer
i noon, announcing Mr. Greene’s
I safe arrival in Liverpool. His
first stories from over there will
i begin to reach The Journal in a
few weeks. Tfley will continue
; as long as Mr. Greene finds ma
terial that he feels is of partic
ular interest to the readcis of this
newspaper. The Eighty-second
division, the Dixie division, the
One Hundred and Fifty-first ma
chine gun battalion made up of
Georgia national guardsmen will
have Greene’s especial attention
But his field is without limit.
The Journal has sent him across
to write what he finds in his own
splendid way. And The Journal
predicts that no better stories of
the war will come out of Europe
than those to be written by Ward
Greene.
Navy Is Seeking to
Control Wireless;
Big Fight Coming
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A big bat
tle for navy control of wireless olants
in peace time is about to open. Hear
! ings will start December 12 oefore
the house merchant marine commit
, tee on a bill to take over all sta-
I tions. The fight lies largely between
! the navy department and the Amei •
! ican Marconi company.
But. behind the American cotupatiy
apparentlv stands the British Mar
coni company—subsidized by tlie
British government. The American
Marconi company hae sold the na<y
its sbip-to-shore stations, but re
tains ks grasp on four high powered
stations. Two of these on the At
lantic have not been used, but ap
parently are part of a plain to cre
ate a wireless link between England
United States so as to join
qp with wireless to the far east.
Captain Todd, head of naval com
munication. who will conduct Hie
main fight for the navy, believes it
I is absolutely essent.al that the navy
get control of all the stations, tn
eluding a dozen net under Marconi
control.
Else, ho maintains, the big mer
chant marine we are building will
suffer, along with commercial busi
ness. through tho "static interfer
encc” between competing, uncon
trolled stations.
Fourteen Women Seek
Seats in Parliament
LONDON. Wednesday, Dec. 4.
Among the candidates for parlia
inent nominated yesterday were four ,
teen women. They include Miss
Christabel Par.khurst, daughter of
Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst the suf
frage leader: Mrs. Frederick Pethick
Lawrence, joint editor of Votes for
Women; Miss Mary McArthur, secre
tary of the British Women’s Trades
union, and Countess Georgina Markie
vicz, of Dublin, the Sinn Fein leader
Three Ships on Way
To U. S. With Soldiers
PARIS. Dec. s.—ln addition to the
steamers Empress, of Britain, and
Adriatic bound for New York with
American soldiers aboard, the Cano
pic has left Liverpool for Boston
with forty officers and 1,052 men of
the air service, it was officially an
nounced today.
NUMBER 1251
EX-KAISER KNOWS
HE MUST INSWEII
CRIMINALCHABGEE
Knowledge Prevents Hk
Granting Interview, He
Says—German Delegation
to Ne itiate William’s Tria
AMERONGEN. Holland. Tuesday
Dec. 3. (By the Associated Press.)
“I am a private citizen and while li
Holland will not make any statemeir
whatever for publication."
This was the formed German em
peror’s message to the Associates
Press correspondent when h» callet
at Count von Bentinck's castle agati
today.
The German general acting as or
flerly. formerly governor of Met 4
brought the message direct from Wil
Ham Hoher.zollern, who last evening
was inclined to make a public decla
ration, but today changed his mind
The message continued: “You mus
fully realize my position. 1 am threat
ened on all sides with crimina
charges, which. If brought, I mus
face. Therefore, I must reserve an;
statement until charges arc actual?'
brought.
"Also I owe a certain loyalty t<
the present German government tiffi
cannot make a statement migk
compromise others."
The correspondent requested th<
general to ask the former emperoi
whether he would confirm the crowj
prince’s assertion regarding thi
Kruger telegram, and the genera
brought back the answer:
"The crown princo is absolute!’
correct in his facts. The telegram
already written, was laid before n?
for signature.
“I refused to sign it for three da; J
but finally did so under pressure o
the German diplomats and my pdlitj
cal advisers, who advanced many rca
sons for sending tiie dispatch.
course, having signed it. I take fuj
responsibility."
The former emperor and empres
are leading a very quiet life
table is of the .simplest; in fact v ?hei
have submltted'to . .gelations requi?
ing them to be rationed for bread an’
butter and other edibles just aq th,
ordinary country folk. Occasional!’
they walk in the surrounding woods
but recent days have been so
that it been almost impossibv
for them to go out except for a cM
riage drive.
“Kruger telegram* referred
by the former emperor was sent bj
him to “Ootn" Paul Kruger. preCi
dent of the Transvaal republic, oi
January 3, 1896. It was the outcoiw
of German “flirtations" with Us
Transvaal republic, during which tMi
intentions ot Germany toward Briti
leh influence in South Africa cause*
deep concern. f
This “flirtation” began in the earlji
nineties and was brought to the no ;
tice of the world by Presides,
Kruger in January, 1895, when, at i
banquet given in honor of Wllliapi’l
birthday at Pretoria, Kruger w ra,
ferred in glowing terms to Germany*,
friendship for the Transvaal, which
he said, would “in future be mor<
firmly established than ever.” /
The historic “Jameson raid" wai
made late in the same year and <d
Januaijy 2, 1896, Jameson found liimi
self surrounded by Boers at Door®
kop and surrendered. The next day;
the emperor’s telegram was sent. 11
congratulated Kruger that “withou'
appealing to the help of friendly
powers” he had repelled the
This act caused much surprise in
England, which called attention !<3
the London convention reserving th(
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