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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-06, Page 7HEROIC DEEDS BY CANADIANS ARE RECORDED mr..• Gallantry and Brains Won Honors in the Fighting at Lens. - AMATEUR SURGEON Wound.ed Gunner Ampu- tates Another's Leg to Save Latter's Life. (By Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press CorreSpondent with the -Canadian Forces.) , Canadian Army Headqttarters, Cable —During the operations which culminated in the capture of Hill 70 and the pressing of the enemy back- wards into the centre of Lens many heroic deeds were performed by Cana &an officers and men. A list of men who have been decorated for ex- ceptional action durtng this fighting was given out to -day, Here is a story of heroism and re- sourcefulness that is not often par- alleled. A battery pf 'Canadian lield artillery was under a concentrated fire from tlie enemy guns, Gunner William MacLean was in an old Ger. man gun pit during the bombardment when a direct hit caused twelve castle alties, Wounded in the chest and hand, AlecLean turned at once to the deity of rescuing those who were in a worse ease than binoself. One of the victims was pinned down beneath heavy debris, and there was a danger that if leftin the position in which he was he could not survive long. A medical officer, who could not natal the spot because of the needs of other wounded, was consulted, and lerradvieed amputation et the shatter- ▪ ed deg so that the victim might be releaee,d. With great nerve in the smoke-filled gun -pit elachean perform. ed. the amputation, thus showing what the official report records as a splen. did 'example of bravery, determina- . tkeeeand devotion to duty, for whicle lheeelilitary Medal has been awarded. Gunner Gilbert Leslie Waters, of the heavy .artillery, has been awarded tbo Militare Medal because, during the attack on Hill 70, he maintained com- munications cep pavt of the captured ground threinesiout the day, under ex- treme difteeelty and clanger. This he did, although nainfully wounded in the hand at 11ce,,eeeock in the morning. It was not untir'7 in the evening that he :wait relieved and had his wound dressed, Lance -Corp. Weisel Ross Zincle, of a Nova Scotia Battalion, has received ,the Military Medal for conspicuous /gallantry while operating a Lewis gun near Avion. The patrol to which lie was attached was surprised by an enemy party,which opened fire at a - range of only five yards. Zinck was • wounded in four places, two of the ; e•ounds being severe, but he at once opened firewith his Lewis gun and O 'Continued firing eintil the enemy was despersed, leaving one dead and sev- • eral wounded behind, one of whom was afterwards captured, Zinck's great coutege and coolness .are officially recognized as having •-▪ laved Part of his patrol from disaster. leeivate Ieilbourne, of a e Western Ontario Battalion, received the Military Medal fot displaying ' great coolness and daring during a raid on. an enemy trench. His section ▪ commanderwas hit and lay wounded .ht the 'German wire. Kilbourne, al- , though wounded himself, assumed command, carried his section forward, 'personally bombed .along the enemy -.;"trench ' for a considerable distance, and while •our men were returning to our own lines stayed to disentangle the section commander from the ene- eny wire and bring him in. 'Corp. Daniel MacLean, of a Central Ontario battalion, is awarded the Mili- • tary Medal for capturing stnglehand ▪ ad, while bombing an enemy trench near Avion, a German of fieer and five 'Men, whom he safely delivered at • battalion headquarters, passing en e. route 'through an area in which gas Shells were falling. Privates James Kissock and Her- bert George CannabY, of the same bat- talion, captured eighteen of the enemy . on the same occasion, fifteen with arms in their hands. Both got MM.- tagy ,Medals. • Private Charles Joseph Gagnon, of a Manitoba battalion, is given the Mil- itary Medal for fortitude under immin. ent peril. Gagnon was bringing up a limber full of bombs when a shell burst near by, shattering his right arm, which was afterwards amputated, and blowing away the tailboard of the lim- ber. The mules bolted, but Gagnon, knowing the highly dangerous nature Of the bombs he' was carrying, and realizing that the lives of many sol- diers in the vicinity depended on him, stuck to his post and with his unite. jived band brought his frightened teant to a standstill, Serge. Thomas Duncan Waldo Mac - Vicar, of a Manitoba battalion, is awarded the Military Medal for going forward alone, though wounded, into an enemy trench and 'killing two snipers v, -ho were harassing his pia. toon during an attack on elie enemy's frolat lines. Corporal Peter MaeVicar also en- tered art enemy treneh ahead of his men on the sante occasion and killed eight of the enemy, cleating the wily for those who came after. ife also reteived the Military Medal. Capt. Alexander Findlay, of a Que- bec battalion, got the Military Medal for easing the lives of three men of his battalion. under 'fire. Findlay, while at work during a heavy enemy bombardment of our front trenchee, embed that part of the ,trench had been blown In and three men buried. He at ones proceeded to dig them out, and with shells dropping all around him, rescued all of them. Pte. James Holly Leet, of a Que- bec battalion, receives a el Hilary Medal for exit caring enemy riugoitte alone during a raid and accounting for their occupants. lie alwcors volun• teered for any dangerous job, and his presenee with any party Menem in- vpired Lhe others with eonfid:neP. An instance in which thoughtful. ness and ceurage combined saved Many lives was that of Corp. Peed, Crick IltIrletota of Dm artillery. On a 'night in July viten the encin7,7 tan TOY shelling Loos heavily lie noticed that a house inwhich were stores of shells and treuch mortar bombs had. been set on fire. There were soldiers asleep in the 1 timing house. Ile warned them of their peril and then proceeded to warn all others billeted In the vicinity. Shortly afterwards the ammunition in the burning house exploded, completely wrecking it and the adjacent billets. Ilurlston gets the Military Medal for his prompt Action, which, it Is recorded, averted a considerable loss of lite. CAPTIVE AGAIN. Deposed Abyssinian Ruler is Prisoner Once More, 'London Cable — Diclj Jeassu, the deposed Emperor of Abeseinia, who escaped from Magdala, has been cap. tured, according to a despatch to the Daily Mail from Jubuti, French .Sama- Illand. . -- leidj•Peaseu is a grandson of the late King Menelik, whom he succeeded In 1912. He was dethroned in 1916 by his aunt, A London despatch of Aug. 26 reported that the deposed Emperor and his followers had defeated 300 of the Government forces, who had been try- ing to capture him for six months, BRITON, NOT JEW, Title of Jewish Regiment Dropped On Request, London Cable — A deputation or Prominent English Jews, headed by Lord Swaythling, visited the Earl of Derby, Secretary for War, yestee says the Daily Mail, and urged the abandonment of the title "Jewish Reg- iment," which had been adopted for the new Hebrew regiment recentey or- ganized. The deputation pleaded that 40,000 Jews 110W serving in the torny were fighting, not as Jews, but as British subjects, and wished to contin- ue to do so. Lord Derby agreed to the abandonment of. tht title, and pro- mised to give the regiment a new de- signation. The Daily Mail adds that the decis- ion was received with great regret by the promoters and organizers of the regiment. HUN PLOTTERS .44-******-+44.+4-***444-.++#41 The Passing of the Wheat Pit eae-e.alece+++++4-10-+-ea-e.+4.++•-•-ce..* Sic transit gloria taunt% The Chi- cago wheat pit is in twilight. In a few days it will be closed. Closed by • the iconoclastic activities of a person named Hoover, who thinks wheat is made to eat, not to serve US a• gam- bling counter. But, oh, the wall of the Chicagoesel Silence broods over that polygenal pit which long resounded with the cries of the giants in =Mat. The pallid ghost of "Old Hutch," of "Syd” Kent, of "Old Phil" ,A.rmotir and the astral bodies of "Joe" Leiter and "Jint" Patten, both still very much in the fleeh, may well haunt the ampha theatre In which M other days they Staked millions on their ability to Control the food of the world, and eumtled the bread tins oi nations that they might fill their pockets. Titanic were the struggles, Napoleonic the strategy, as when in 1898 Phil Armour blasted away the lee in the harbor of Duluth that he might release his ice -bound wheat ships and make due delivery in Chi. cargo to the undoing of "Young Joe" Leiter, most dashing epecuiator 01 all. "I could have cleaned up $3,000,- 000 on the deal at one time," said Leiter, after "Old Phil" had beaten him to his knees, "but that looked like 30 cents to me. I wanted some • real money." History records many corners engi- neered in the old wheat pit. Many a quaint character stood there defiant and bluffed the world to offer him more wheat than he could buy. "Old Hutch," le. P. Hutchison. who 111 1888 put wheat up to . two dollars, then an unheard-of price, was one ot the queerest fish in the pool. Han- dling millions as though they were coppers. he dressed like a country parson, lived mostly in a four -dollar - a -week furnished room, and lunched on an apple—a veritable Russell Sage of the pit. Tewnty years he dominated the activities of that arena, made and lost millions, and finally died In poverty after having been supported in old age by his son, Not the hazard but the game was "Old Hutch's" in- terest. Win or lose he was ahead bY the joy of the gamble. When things were dull he would pass cards around among a lot of brokers and ask them to write their bets on. the price of wheat on them. He took all bets on either side. John W. Gates, he of the "bet you a million" slogan, figured often in the pit. No man of his type coulil stay out. It was in 1905 when he acquired between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 bushels, The end of the Gates corner was enshrouded in mystery. Though prices broke heavily he was believ- ed to have got out whole. But getting out whole was not certain result of efforts to dictate wheat prices. A. E, Harper, president el the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, staked his depositors' money on his ability to conduct a corner, and ended a broken man in the penitentiary. Our own bygone fellow -townsman, Jaines R. Keene. could not mist try- ing so fascinating a sport. Having accumulated a vast stock he found he could not sell without breaking the price disastrously. The situation at- tracted the benevolent. attention ot Jay Gould; who used his Control oi the Western Union to circulate indus- triously so large a crop of bear ru- mors as to break prices and almost to break Mr, Keene—needless to say to the profit of•the then "Wizard 01 Wall street." But the only .corner that attained such proportions as to affect the price of food the world over, which sent up the price of the loaf in the United States almost as the world-wide war has elevated it, was that engineereo, by Joseph Leiter. He took wheat at 64% cents and sold his last for $1.75. Yet he lost millions. The farmers profited hugely, and '98 being the day of Populistic strength the name ol Leiter was much applauded in Kan- sas and Nebraska politics. Though in later days Leiter ascribed his failure to the treachery of an associate, it was rather the wealth, resourcefulness and pertinacity of his antagonistie P. D, Arinour that proved his undoing. That leviathan of pork and beef em- ployed. his agencies all over the • wheat belt to detect and 'commandeer unsure pected stores of wheat. He engaged special trains and fast boats to bring it for delivery, aud poured out upon the luckless Joseph such a store of wheat as the earlier Joseph who engi- neered the Successful corner in Egypt never could have imagined. But now the pit is closed—dark as the pit from pole to pole. It will be a sorrow to Chicago, for a "little flier in wheat" has been almost as common an amusement there as patronizing a handbook is in New York, 'since betting on horse racing has been "rig- idly suppressed." The great figures of the wheat pit.will in due time be- come as legendary as George Hank- ins, Mike McDonald and the oth.er light-fingered gentry of the •Clark street card palates. Romance recedes Realty and Hpover rule. It's a. different Chicago, It's a dif- ferent world. We Wonder whether this initial Success means that Mr. Hoover is really going to get for us sonte actually different—and lov-er— food prices.—New York Sun, Interned at 'Frisco for Plots Against India. San Francisca Despatch—Captain Heinrich Eelbo and Edwin Deinst, oi German merchant vessels seized by the United States at the outbreak of the war, were to -day taken from the coun- ty jail here and interned at Angel Island, on order of the Attorney -Gen- eral, Thomas W. Gregory. The order was issued at the request of the United States District Attorney John W. Preston, who obtained a presidential warrant charging them with being aliens and blocked their at- tempts to secure their release on bail. Both are under indictments on charges of attempting to conspire to overthrow British rule in India. • ITALIANS DRIVING TOWARD TRIESTE Washington Report.---Nieord reached. Washington through diplomatic chan- nels to -day that the successful pro- gress of the Italian offensive against the Austrian front had forced Em- peror Charles of Austria-Hungary to abandon his intention of visiting Trieste. After witnessing the rout of his forces along the Bainsizza Plateau, the Austrian King hastened to Vienna without visiting the queen city at the head of the Adriatic, which is the ob- jective of the Italian offensive. Trieste is being -threatened by the fire of Italian and British •war vessel's, which are attacking the fortifications in the Gulf or Trieste. These vessel e have also been attacking the Hermada front, which lia,s been one of the main obsta- cles to the advance ot the Italians towards Trieste. WILL SAVE TOLMINO. A military authority at the Italia Embassy expressed the <opinion to -day that Santo Gabriele and Santo Daniele can be occupied by the Italian forces at any time now,as both Maces are dominated by the Italian guns on the Bainsizza Plateau, which is held se- curely by the Italian forces. Tohnino is now in danger of being destroyed, but this will be avoided by the Ital- ians if possible. Gen. Cadornee is try- ing to deal with Tolmino as he did with Gorizia—invest the place and force its evacuation with as little damage to the city as possible. ITALIAN REPORT. • Rome Cable.—Thursday's Office report said: "On the 13ainsizza Plateau and east a Gorizia, the enemy attempted, by counter -attacking in force, to retake Positions recently captured. He was driven back everywhere. Our lineS were held firmly and advanced at some points. We captured. 560 pris- oners. "Our aircraft successfully renewed bombardment of enemy batteries in Panovizza Wood, on the Carer), on Tuesday evening. An enemy attack between the Vippacco and DOsso Fait' Was broken by our troops. "On the Trentino front, from Stelvio to Carafe, concentrated fire and num. eroas reconnoitring actions kept the enemy busy. In the Tofane region the enemy, after intense artillery prepare- titni, attatked our positions at the Mouth of the Travenanzes Valley three tittles and With great violence, but Was repulsed completely. THE VERDI SUNK. War British Ship Lost Six of Her Crew. citizen* tO a high Pitelt ineetilige were held during 2110 day, the common council passed an order forbidding the holding of the conven- tion, and at a mass Meeting itt the evening resolutions were adopted. pro- testing against the convention, and calling upon Governor Philipp to stop it. Excitement ran high, and from an orderly meeting there developed an unorganized mob, which went to the hotel, where the pacifist delegates were stopping, hustled them into an automobile and took them to the de- pot, where they were put aboard a train for Minneapolis, with orders nev- er to return. Shortly after the pacifists were driv- en from the city a truckload of peace literature for the meeting arrived, and it was at once Made the object of an. other attack, • The driver, innocent Of the situation, tried to make terms witb tee crowd, but quickly learning its temper, wheeled the truck bound and started at break -neck speed for the in. ter -state bridge, followed by a hooting crowd until it reached the Minnesota side, An Atlantic Port De:match—Word has been received here indicating that the British 7,000 -tori steamship Verdi line been amilr with the lou of rex of her clew. The Verdi left hero for tin Ienglieh port on August 12 'With n par. go, but net pasoengerm Her crew num- bered 112. A Cable messrtge to UM owners of Dm Verdi referred to all the ineenbers Of her exenc having boon saved With the exception of slk, but gives no de- tails. The message indicates, the Own. ere retel, the veercel with clink about nee da e3 ego. A MAXIMALIST WIN. Prophesied by Bulgar Soc. -ialist in Berlin, PEACE DOVE SEES NO OLIVE BRANCH ,1••••••••••• 'Copenhagen Cable — Anohter at. tempt at revolt by the Maximalist fac tion in Russia, which will bring them into power, is prophesied by M. Kirk - off, a Bulgarian Socialist, in an inter- view in the Vossische Zeitung, of Kirkoff recently returned to Berlin from Stockholm, where he had been associated closely with the Rus- sian Maximalists there. The signal for the revolt, he says, wile be given from Kronstadt, which, as well as the Russian fleet in the Bal- tic, is under the influence of Nikolai Lenine and his adherents. Freaks in U..8. Cannot Meet Anywhere, GERMAN SPIES Given Stiff Terms by Nor- way Justice. Christiania. Cable — Three German doles have been convicted at Bergen for supplying information to eeornaa- ines regarding the sailing time of ves- sels, whic hlater were torpedoed. Cap- tain Leven and Officer Schwartz, Ger- man citizens, and Thorsen, a Norweee tan. all were given terms in the pent- tentiarY. Laren was sentenced to five years, Schwarz to four, and Tt ex - sen to ten years' imprisonment. Captain Leven admitted that he worked under instructions from the German authorities. He said that. German subjects were fore el to obey such orders. Norwegian newspapers, in comirent- ing on the trial, emphasize that the country must take note of the fact that German subjects must obey orders from their home country. Roughly Ousted Prom Place After Place, RECONSTRUCTION IN GT. BRITAiN Great Task for After -war Already Entered On. Promise to Trades Unions Must Be Kept. *lt**4.,++4+1,,t+++++*+t 11r44+*** Why It Failed (Neer York Tribune.) The failuro Of the Pope' 3 Wee IMO- posal—there can be no Mistaking tint fact that it has failed—IS not difficult to explain. It hae failed beciturre lt sought to prepare the way for a dis- cussion between two sots of ;melons which are fighting a war on a wholly different basis, It fallea beyond all else because the alliance against Ger, many is primarily aa alliance to pre-. vent the destruction of civilization by force, it failed because while the force to destroy it remained in exist- ence and the German will to Use that force endured unshaleon peace bY ne- gotiation, was necessarily impossible. If Great Britain were figliting ooly to possess German colonies; If France had entered the war simply to regain Alsace-Lorraine; if Russia were ani- mated merely by territorial ambition; if the 'United. States had material ob- jectives, then, on the present situation In the war, this would be an appropri- ate moment for discussion. But Bas- sin, entered the war to save Serbia, as- sailed by Austria; Franco entered the war because France was threatened with destruction and Belgium was in- vaded. The chief purpose of the leng- lisle and tho French and the Russians was to prevent Germany from donene. ating Europe by means that were ab- horrent and. for purposes destructive of European liberty. • The nations fighting Napoleon often made peace with their groat enemy during the period in. which Napoleonic ambition did not seek a Continental mastery, but when the nations of Ewa ope recognized that only temporary truces with Napoleon only invited new attacks, then they banded together, and adopted as a platform the elimin- ation of Napoleon as the necessary condition of peace. They proclaimed that they had no intention to dismem- ber France, and at the end of a long war they left France substantially with the boundaries of 1879. Now the situation as to Germany is not differ- ent. It is Impossible to mahe peace with a nation which regards war as an extension of policy and affirms the right to use military efficiency to pro- inote national aspirations -at the ex- pense of neighbors. It is impossible to make peace when peace with such a nation means but a period in which new efficiency will be sought to make successful a now attack. The difficulty with all negotiations and all proposals for peace now grows out of the fact that the real issue of the war is not concerned with terri- tory, with colonies, with "places in the sun." The world has taken arms against Germany because the Ger- mans have adopted a faith and a pol- icy perilous to all the nations of tho world and destined to remain perilous as long as it holds the Gorman people and the German mind in thrall. It is amazing to see how completely this condition has embodied itself in the minds of all the people of all the nations as war with Germany. No war weariness, no disappointment, no suf- fering, has failed to obscure the vision of the simple and plain people of the nations at war of this fact. If the Germans can do in Belgium what they have done and escape the -consequen- ces, then militarism is fastened upon the world, then we shall ale have to take arms against the morrow when the German will conie again, and, without having conquered us, yet will have in fact conquered the worfd te adopt the German system and to live under German conditions. The Germans entered this war as a man embarks upon an investment. A short fight, a speedy victory, a vast in- demnity, new possessions—these were the lures that led the German on with 1870 fresh in his mind. Already the investment has proven a fatal error. Whatever happens, Germany can only harvest loss and she may be ruined. She will be ruined if she is not able now to escape a protraction of the, war. She will be ruined more com- pletely than any of the nations which are now fighting her, because greater burdens are laid upon her in propor- tion to her resources than on other na- tion, and her resources are absurdly disproportionate to the collective re- sources of the other nations. But so far as the Allies are concerned, they must fight until that ruin is achieved, unless the German renounces his p01 - ie --renounces his belief that war is an extension of policy defensible whenever it satisfies a German appe- tite. There is not one single convincing sign that Germany has renounced her, doctrines which precipitated this war, just as there is every possible evi- dence that she continues to employ the methods which made the war what it Is. The Guinan effort to seize Euro- pean domination and world power has failed. The Germans are quiteas well aware of this fact as their enemies. Bat they are very far from being con- vinced that it cannot succeed, and they are still able, as the published state- ments of German statesmen indicate, to cherish the idea that where thera was failure this time there may be success again if mistakes made in 1914 are not repeated. "next time." The real obstacle to peace is Ger- many as she lute revealed herself in thie war. At the present moment and ander the existing conditions it is iardly too much to say that this ob- elacle is insuperable. Were this war a war of the character of many of those conteets of the past there le no ria- itt lfumrlti for eeace without lave heeded the Pope's proposal to open negotiations the world which would not bloodshed, But this war is tO- tally different from most, if not all, of the wars in the paet, in that Ger. many precipitated it to seize tontrol If the world and then pursued it with remorseiesenees and inhuman effie Money which have threatened the life, the liberty and the safety of all her enemies, not alone through Methods or civilized wailer°, but by every me- thod known to barbarism as well. And the word has quite unconeciottely fixed upon one thing as the Inevitable • rrodelateloe.ieanteeedent any diecussion o tie fleet clear revelation of tbe Ger. man policy and purpose cam in Bel- gium. As long ae tile Germans eon thine to argue about holding Belgium and refuse eeen to consiaer indemni- fying and restoring Belgian, tire whole &milled woria has dernonetrat- ed that it eannot, both wite 'regard to lie moral obligations and its nation- al wifely, discues pew with the Get- man nimble It the Mennen govern- ment ehmild to morrow •. propme 10 metre peace willt the praiminere pee. , I ecol t i et acetate Bele:Mtn and to re. store it, in diernsic cattertione Of Al. , sate.Lorreine and Italia irtederittel with a rteognition that there Meet be territorial tenceeelorie to Oen the centuries of tie alry; Auetria chould Loudon Cable says — (Correspon- dence of the Associated Press).'— A vast sphere of work lies before the dew British Minister of Reconstruc- tion, whose office has just been added to those included in the British Cab. net. Premier Lloyd George is firmly eonvinced that the foundation for the eomplex work of reconstruction after dm war ought to be begun at once, even if it lee at firet confined to mat- ters of .inquilm and. investigation. The largest queetion before the new ministry will be the question of carry. tying out the government's pledges to the labor unions that their pre-war eosition will be restored to them. Em- eloyers frequently have argued that <hie will be imirceeible. Union leaders .nsiet that the government has given its pledge and must fulfill it. Diecuesing this phase of .postewar eonclitions, Professor L. T. Hobhousee aead of the department of sociology in London University, and one of the tee _vilearyn.:neent's advisers on labor, said "The business of the Minister of Eeconetruction is to think out the beet methods by which the half -for- mulated, half-underetood imputsee of -he Biasses of people can get them - elves expressed in a reasonable man- ner. The flnst problem with which We ItaU be faced is that of reconstruct - :ng treat) union conditions. I eay re- constructing advisedly, because if we wore to speak of restoration there xould be those who would say at once that it is impossible in view of the total change, in conditionwhich the war has brought about. "But this is a problem In which the good faith of the Government is Involved. Nothing' could be more def. Mite than the pledge to trade union- Ists that the alterations involved in dilution of labor and the suspension of 'customs of the trade' should hold only for the period of the evar. If this pledge id not fulfilled it will be a fatal blow to the confidence ot the public in the good faith of govern- ments. If it is shown that It Menet be fulfilled because circumstances have altered, the answer mast be that we can only vary a pledge with the con- sent of the persons to whom the pledge was made. "If it is true that old labor condi. dons cannot be restored, thee it will be for the trade unionists to determine what arrangements they woald accept as a substitute for the old conditione, The reeonstruction committee has already taken a step in this direction by suggesting the formation of indus- trial councils in which both employer and etnployd shall be represented and have considerable powers itt shaping the course of each iredustry„ Ili each councils it will be possible for trade aniorasts and empleyers to discuss frankly and fully the hest methods of meeting the new eituation, so as to secure a renewed progress of British industry with fair itonditions for the worker, Any syetem 10 which • Ilte trade onion meinbere cif emelt mince,: ;me0 might, for that. indlietrt , 11" taken as the fair cquiealent Of tient restoration Of eenditiOne which we pelged. "Meth Of the unrest in the labor - St, Paul, Minn, Despatch --Barred front Minnesota by proclannetion of Governor Ilurnquist on Tuesday; told that they would be unwelcome In Fargo, N. D., on 'Wednesday, and un- ceremoniously escorted from iludson, Wis., on ThArsclaY, the arrangenteut coMniittee of the Peoplea Conference of America` for DeMOcracy and Peace, headed by Louis F. Lochner, executive secretary, was uneertain eatly to -day as to where the national convention would be held, 12 orld today, attributed to 4021112.4 as Ing hope of the restoration of peace by negotiation. But the world has palpably made up its mind that the first step in the res- toration ef peac0,. if it is to come otherwhie than by victory on the bat. tlefield, intuit be a Gern1an proposal that, with respect to lielgiuni at leaet carriee with it a plain reeeelletion ot guilt for the past and to this extent at least a renunciation of that polleY and those methods which have roused the world agaiteet Germarly; To -day Germany twee the dilentlea Of renouneing the policy and the faith which have brought the world in arine against her, or 0:00 of seeing lier fieture ruined, by the terrible burden 02 the next year or two of war. And thie is Precisely the dilemma that the Allies have fought to put Germane' in, and this is; precisely the moment when for all future eatety in, the world the deeision Aimee be made by Germany, and peace negotiations can only fol- low Ouch a clecielon as eliminated Ger• man pithy. • We have come to one of the most in- teresting and critleal momenta of the whole war, Thoee in this country who are most ardently seeking to save Ger- many are most eager to,aesert that Germany Is defeated and to argue that the defeat that site has suffered will cure her of the errors of the pacee. This is a pleasant but a specious ar- gument. It kr not to the German-Am- oricane or to the •Gorman sympathize ors in this country that Mr. Wilson and the government must turn for en- lightenment, Peace is possible only when Germany herself takes the step which bringe her back under the do- main cif civilization and international law and out of the utter darkness in which for three years Gho has travel- ed from crime to crime and from wrong to wrong. The Pope's proposal has been one of tbe beet things that have happened since the war began, because it has Gemoneerated the solidarity of the pee - 018 allied against Germany so far as the eeeential principle at stake is cola cerned. They have declined to discuss peace because they have recognized that the war is not over and cannot be over until Germany has made that surrender, not of territory rightfully asked, not of colonies conquered by war, not even of provinces acquired by vieious methods in other times, but that snrrencler on the vital que•Ation of Goemaa neeessity which led her into 13elgium and into submarine war —the queetion of the higher law invoked by the German whenever he had the pow- er to eeize and the appetite to deeare that which belonged to his imighbor. CANADA BACON • UNDER THE BAN 'Can Go • to Britain Only Under License. a Butter, Hams and Lard On Same Basis. WILSON NOTE STATES VIEWS OF WHITE Response to Pope's Appeal Acceptable to All Allied Nations. London -Cable.—The King to -day sigued a proclamation prohibiting the importation of bacon, butter, hame and lard except under license. The object of this action is to en- able the Government to take over the entire purchase of the import ar- teciee enumerated and concentrate the purchase in various countries into a single arganizatieria The Food Minis- try is establishing in the Gaited States a single buying agency, and will make all purchases through the, ageney, beginning September 3td. Al) boldere at the present time of c.i.f. and f.o,b. contracts in bacon ane lard With American shippers are required to furnieh to the Food iMinietry full information immediately. FOR GERMAN PEOPLE DIFFICULTIES OF AIR -BOMBING Again Goes Over Hohenzol. lern Heads to Reason With Subjects. PUT SON'S FAILURE AT PARENTS' 00 OR Latter Try to Mould. Life of Their Children Huegos Ayres, .Cable.—Germany's Wilson's rejeetton of the Pope's peace Proposals ie regarded here as the eiglowater mark of the war. Further. mote, et Is indicative of the virtual era .ection of the President by the allies as their spokeeman. Ihe now comes ai a climax to the ecraarkable series .of State documente which Preeident Wilson bas argued he cause of world democracy against autocracy in the high eourt of public pinion, and accepted more and more ay the people of all the allied coin - mica as expressing their ideate. NO FAITH IN KAISER1SM. The general tenor of the Preeidentai .eply lute been anticipated every- ,vhere, but there was no inkling of the forceful terms lie would employ to say that the world can have no faith .n the autocratic ,Goveenment of Ger. many, Students of diplomacy Geo in leis de- aunciatiou of the military autocracy a freeh appeal to the war -ridden Ger- man. people to throw off their military maeters and join democracy with a eovernment fit to deal with the re- mainder of the world. For thicr reason the President was aot to be led into any discussion of :he peace eonditions detailed by Pope Benedict, though the field was made alluring by the Pontiff's adoption of some of the proposale laid down bY President Wilson himself early ut- ;cream. On the other hand. there ,vas no effort to evade responsibility ez)r au expression of view as to the easis of aound and enduring peace, for President' e rceponee In its con - =ding paragraphs restates the pur- poses for which America entered the great war. Marksmanship from planes depends upon wind and speed as the diagram lines of fall indicate. It is especially difficult for ,aviators at 12,000 feet tb guage speeds of wind at various heights below them, even with wonderfully contrived instruments. Thus Gemmel raiders against London would have no assurance of missing homes and hitting railway stations or munitions plants, even if they cared. HUN GIVES WAY. agree to evacuate tottl The appearance of the arrangement to the fulfilment of thee piedae, might ee cAprhiti ii. 0011412100 prelintillarY connuittch of the peace touneil •he mc:reoute If such a method of lc in p clieemelon cif wetted pe Itudeon W4 ttlstsielat% strutted the desmintt the pledee 'acre adopttd.. and thoh, Ivottid. there be a dee 11 - • op To Modify Blockade to Sat- isfy Argentina, Washington report says—President reply to Argentina's note embodying demands in connection with the sub- marine campaign as electing Argen- tine shippine• has been received. In Oficial circles it was stated that the reply was satisfactory. According to the newspaper La Ra - eon, the Gorman note meets all the domande' of A rgeu Una. The note says that Germany, "In order to maintain friendly relations with Argentina, is willing to modify her bleckade of enemy coasts, allow- ing freedom of .the seas to vessels un- der the Argentine fIng carrying food." The note also promises the pnymeat of .an indelunity for the sinking of the Argentine steamer Toro by a German stthitarine. FAILED TO AGREE. Inter -Allied Socialist Con- ference at London Ends, IA011(1014, 1.inh14.,--1he so-ealird inter- pni,d speipliat cootwenee conclo.led a iwn.(loy pe;::410a this evening, lt fail- ed in repeh imainimity of m11111011 of itie 1.(1.1.11(.e, Si illl 9j111 ti,atil Arii,..in dote. el int icilic.„13 0811111\ 1 te.velii‘lroieltic04ti retivii..inAltit,r1,711::::!: it,111:1,:i. 1.1\:clx4,1,,tticitots..ltif;as..*.t111111111'11111.121v11 tl. It'C'etit'lln;:' vii(l'IT." tik':(111PYS IN.A•f':11;3"i'tlill ;110 Tilttpi)ritc..1 the bulk of Ilvittsli lnbor, bail ouly eight dckgates in attendaoco mod the Labor party twelve elelegatea ton Conareas, representing I WhOn a fellow Vale a ghee; 'heart 11 po.ortr tee ewe— e Olt but te !Aright thought, Imo heal1r. that beet 11,, a on. Without Ascertaining the Former's Abilities, l'eoplo are not so very different • in the days, perhaps, from what they were 000 years ago. And when we say "people" we are thinking particularlY of parents. Right here some one may suggest a query as to whether parents really aro people. There are times, undeubtedly, di the experience of most parents when they feel very hurable on Olio point. In subordinating their own interest to those of the children it must often seem to them that the chil- dren are the people. However, there are Certain respects In which the parents persistently act as if they were the pepole, and as said before, they were acting this way 200. years ago, and probably 2,000 years ago as well. For instance, some stu- dent of journalistic antiquities has dug out this illuminating extract from . the files of the London Spectator a 1710: "When .1 consider how each of these profeseions (divinity, law and physic) are crowded, with multitudes that seek their living in them, and how many men of merit there are in each of 'thein who may be eat& to be out of the science than tile profession, I verY much wonder at the humor of parents, who will rather chose to place their their sons in a way of life where an honest industry cannot but thrive, than in stations where the greatest probity, learning and good. sense may miscarry. How many men are coun- try curates that might have made themselves aldermen of London by a right haprovernent of a ,smaller sum of money than what is usually laid out upon a learned education? A sober, frugal person, of slender parts, and slow appreheusion, might have thr•iv- ed in trade though he starves upon Physic; as a men would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse. The misfortune is that parents take a liking to a particular profession, and therefore desire their sons may be of It; whereas, in so great an affair of life, they should consider the genius and abilities of their children, more than their own inclinations." We have no doubt that this was a parental idiosyncrasy even back in the days of Solomon, and it continues to be widely manifested. In some re- spects the conditions are more marked than they were two centuries ago, for the "teamed professions" have multi- plied. We see hundreds of doctors, lawyers, and ministers making a pre- carious livelihood and performing their duties in a perfunctory fashion who might have been both successful and efficient if they had followed oc- cupations for which they were better fitted by natural aptitude. It is the same in a thousand other lines. There la a vast multitude of round pegs in the square holes of about all indus- tries and callings. Of course, it would not bo fair to blame all these misfits upon parents. A good many of the victims are in the wren,' place because of their own stubrness, passing whims or lack of understanding of their real abilities. The early necessity of developing an earning capacity is responsible for putting many thousands into the wrong lines of work. However they may leave drifted or have been im- pelled into the wrong opcupations,• once there they are more than likely to stick, merely through inertia. . It takes a potent ambition and a vast amount of resolution and energy for a man to "pull up stakes" ahd start all over again in a new and strange field after following one lino of work for 10, 15 or 20 years. And yet by doing this innumerable mon have turned failure into modest suc- cess. Many a man has not found his work until comparatively late in life. Parents are still largely at fault In this matter of vocational misfits. Despite a widely accepted belief to tbe contrary, there is still a considerable amount of docility among children, and although they are over -independ- ent itt. some respects, there are sev- eral particulars in which as a rule they incline to follow the path of least resistance. "Parental pride," in one way of looking at it, is a curiously selfish in- stitution. Most parents conceive it to be their duty to quottld' their children They start in by wishing names upon them, often most ridiculous and in- congruous names, which the unforttie nate beings must bear through life, witty nilly. Many a promising boy bas been absolutely disqualified for the presidency right in the first stages of his career. Then the conselentioue father undortalces to impose DM own ethical, religious, social and po- litical beliefs upon his boy and more often than not seieets his life work for hint. The last probess might be all right if the father took any pains to discover the boy's natural abilities and vocationat tendenies, but he usually goes at it in a hit-or-miss fashion. Raising children and finding, jobs for them is about as unscientifie a pro- cess as can be nOtea he these days. It has always been so, but some • time within a hundred years or so there is likely to be a change for the better in this respect. The Spectator wonder- ed at the humor of parents, but there seems to be more reaeon to wonder at their lack of humor. — Providence Journal. AS a Child Interpreted It. A RADICAL DIFFERENCE. The radical difference that appears co exist between the Pope and the President touches this very matter of stable and enduring peace, The Pontiff looks to the reetoration ot conditions as they exited before tile war; the President turns his back' up - en these, convinced that a return to the status quo ante-bellum could [fever bring permanent peace, which can be secured. only by agreement be- tween free peoeles on both eides. As en official commenting, expreesed it, the President's response. reflecting as .t does the eiewe ot the Entente allies, sounds the doom of Hobenzollerniem and military domination of peoples. Phat this can and should be accom- plished without the destruction of the -lemma people ie one of the striking expreesions in the President's note. when he expresely disclaims any in- .ent to ramie punitive damages and the aismemberment of empires or even the punishment of the Central Powers after the war by gigantic economic combinations against them AMIN.) AT GERMAN PEOPLE. This shaft is aimed straight over .he heads of the army -controlled ierman Foreign Office at the under- standing and appreciation of the Ger- man people, already manifesting many signs of a determination to as. ert their right to govern themeelves • parliamentary methods. It is as- eumed her that there will follow a Cum burst, of denunciation against the attempt from the outside to dic- tate to the German people their form et Goeernment, But it ie also believ- ed that as the Intedehips of war and misgovernment bear with ever -in. creaeing severity upon the German people, they meet in the end throw off their military masters and take in their own hande through a repro. . entative Government the conduct of aegotiations looking to a fair and hon- orable and permanent Peace. A high official is authority for the statement that tire Prceicient's reply te "in line with the tillieca views." 6 BRITONS TO 1 OVERSEAS MAN London Cable — Major-General MaatriCc,' chief director of militarY op - rations, maid teeday: "In the valet month I have received a remarkable namber of letters ft om the United States showing how wide- epread is the belief that the Britieb dave Id the allied and colonial -troops do the most of their fighting. This is Lan t of tee German propaganda in the United States. I have prepared for you a few statieties to ehow how .far char is entrue. "At the preeent moment the Britieh troops in France are oix to one as compared With all overseas troops, and the total casualties le France throughout the war have been in pro- oortion of 0.5 Britath to 1 ovemeas. itt the Ypree-Leus fighting eince July 31 the caeualties have been nine Brit. eh to one 4.. SAVE COAL. e4o••••••••••,... U. S. Chamber of Commerce Appeals to People. Washington Despatche-An appeal to coal Users tl endeavor to reduce? consumption as a wartime measure wive isened to-d4y by the chmeher 1,1 t'..nitecrec of the rnitediet Ate.; through i14 commitice, ,hiult 1 co-oporatin, o 11 thp Connell of National Defence -tootle reed o Mame of wir." .1y.< ihe oppell. "mid hp wh'i 1111110'.N. r Ix l'ofhiee4 the $1111117.1i at ail tele :arra of 1 DV* curtail the nationet erteer..../ roe emegt indaetrial eon - Met, en the reat voncentration or The city's diners -out are hearing a new story this season, same The Balti- more Americen. Rabbi -Stephen S. Wise, of the Free Synagogue, says: • "Not long :ago a mother of one .ot my little pupae came to me and Mid:- " 'Doctor, how coald you speak to my tittle daughter so cruelly? eSbo came home from the synagogue in !etas, and never wants to go back.' " 'What did I' say to her?' I asked, 111 tretonisliment. " 'You told her if elm clichet e awe Oftener be would throe. her hi the turneeee tee :vette:we mother 0,J "1 !limerlit, ii 11', 4' morh pu'vled. ,•11(1 then 1 reeelled 11111 what 1 reallv d 4:13 V as thie: 11; 11 ,14,- ,1 111in ;:11. from the re eist Kereneky ie the nearest to 'a Na- poleon that the Rimetan revoilition Mee weevil energy toward. Prnsoolliwz produced. 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