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THE BEE IS THE ONLY NEBRASKA PAPER WITH A ROTOGRAVURE PICTURE SECTION EACH SUNDAY, THE WEATHER: Fair Tuesday and probably Wednesday) warmer Wednesday and in northwest portion Tre day. Hour. Dig. llniir. ! .: a. m ... . . 1 i. m 1 1, in '.'I . m " t a. hi .H i S i. in '.I H ii. ni I . in 'M 9 . m ill ; ii. in 111 . in i; H p. in l' II a. m U I 1 i. m VI Km 17 li. m II H r I IT T M U n 1 E REEZY JLiV Omaha TPtS A -rr .Bee V BITS OF NEWS ' ' i ' 4" i .. I M if - YOUNG SOLDIERS TO BE SUPER-BUSINESS MEN. Albany. N. Y., Feb. 3. (By Uni versal Service.) The discipline taught the American youth in the American army and the hard knocks he received "over there" are des tined to produce a "race of super husiness men in the United States," the view of Lt. Col. Charles W. Berry, adjutant general of New York state. "The same something which has made a man go forward into a hell tf fire knowing that it meant death, will make him go forward again," said the colonel in decrying the oft-repeated assertion that the army life has destroyed many youthful Americans for business careers. "I don't care what line of business that men enters after his discharge from . military service," he added, "he has had an experience he will never outgrow and he wil lorge aneaa in civil life in exactly the same mannr as when he went over the top." SON OF FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR ASKS DIVORCE. Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 3. Frederick William Hohenzollern, eldest son of the former German emperor, according to a Berlin dis patch p the Munich Zeitung, has instituted proceedings for a di vorce. Frederick William now is an exile from Germany on the Dutch island of Weiringen. The family of the former crown prince, according to reports, has remained at Potsdam. Frederick William was married in Tune, 1905, to the Grand Duchess Cecile of Mecklenburg, a sister of the queen of Denmark. They have five ahildren, the youngest, Princess Alexandra, having been born in 4915. . A Zurich dispatch Sunday quoted the Tageblatt of Prague as authority for the statement that former Em peror Charles of Austria-Hungary intended to apply for a divorce from his wife, who was Princess Zita of Bourbon and Parma. WOULD GIVE ENLISTED MEN PAY AND ALLOTMENT. Washington, Feb. 3. Secretary Baker today submitted to the house a bill providing that enlisted men of the regular army who were dis charged to accept commissions in the army during the war shall be ' given the retired pay and allotments of master signal electricians when mustered out of the service. Sec retary Baker said all of the en listed men who were commissioned had performed valuable service and that the proposed reward was no more than a just recognition of their services. - V mm never 4 RETIRE," SAYS COLJIAYVARD Don't Understand You," U. S. Officer Tells French General on Receiving Command to Retreat. From a Staff Correspondent. Washington, Feb. 3. A "hell rrian" Is what the members of the Three Hundred Sixty-ninth . regiment in which New York colored fighters of the old Fifteenth regiment were or ganized, call Col. Willia'm Hayward, their commander, according to an interview with Sergt. John Jamison, a member of Company, K of the regiment as detailed today by the Kew York World. In telling the story how Colonel Hayward, a Nebraska boy born and bred, who may yet turn out to be the Roosevelt of the empire state, ex posed himself while leading his men tmder a galling fire of the Germans. Sergeant Jamison says: "At Belleau Wood we were fight ing" with the French, and the Ger mens launched a counter-attack to our advance," he said. ' "It was getting hot for us. Colonel Hayward took the insignia of rank off his shoulders, and grab bing a rifle from a soldier, darted 'out ahead and led us through a storm of German artillery. "A French general ordered us to retire. Colonel Hayward. who was under his command, replied to the general,. 'I don't understand you. The general raised both his hands over his head and shouted 'retire. "Colonel Hayward came back wit.i 'My men never retire they go -forward or they die,' and we went for ward." ,r . Sergeant Jamison and 15 men ot the Three Hundred Sixty-ninth ar rived in New York Saturday from France on the battleship Connecti cut bringing all sorts of tales of how they "cut the Germans to pieces." Women of Nation Seek' to Punish Huns Who Ccmmitcd Sex Offenses Omaha women will sign a world- wide petition calling upon the league of nutions to enforce individual criminal prosecution of soldiers' of the central powers who comm'.ttcd sexual offenses during the war. The petition, which was endorsed and circulated for signatures at f a meeting, of the Omaha Woman's club Moiday, further ask; that the status of women'victims be declared by the Several governments to be that of "soldiers honorably wounded in the defense of their country." There shall be no stigma of dis grace attached to these women, ac cording to the petition. Mrs. A. P. Hanchett vl -Council Bluffs and Mrs. Fred Lomnis in troduced the petition at the club meeting. "One million French women call upon us to help put this movement through." -sa'd Mr. A. L. Feruald, president of the club. ' r. VnT A1 fCr 10.9. Intend V KJLi. 40. J. JO. omhi IITSU.S. Grain Dealers Ask Govern ment to Pay $2.26 and Sell to Consumer at World Market. By Associated Press. ; Washington, Feb. 3. Grain deal ers appearing today ' before the house agriculture committee pro posed that the government pay the guaranteed price of $2.26 a bushel for the 1919 wheat crop and sell it to the consumer at the world mar ket price, which they estimated would be about $1.25. The witness es generally believed this plan would cost -the government proba bly $1,250,000,000, but said this loss was preferable to any attempt on the part of the government to main tain an artifical price. 1 Representative Lever of South Carolina, suggested three other plans: That the wheat movement be entirely on the pre-war basis; that the movement possibly be re- civinteA K.r rrwrnmint hpincr authorized to sell or to buy so as . t I-.? I .L.i to prevent manipulation, anu uai the domestic movement be entirely on the pre-war basis with the ex port movement under federal con trol. The committee was holding hear ings on the bill prepared by A. W. Glasgow, counsel for the food ad ministration in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture. The dealers strongly opposed continua tion of the food administration's grain corporation as provided in the bill. They, however, urged con innat:nn of the corooration for buy ing and selling the crop. Powers too Broad. Chairman Lever, also announced his disapproval of the measure as drawn, declaring that it granted broader powers-than those "of the food control act. L. F. Gates of the Chicago Board of Trade, declar ed the proposal was "vicious," while grain dealers testified that Mr. Glas gow had disregarded their sugges t'ons and drafted a bill unnecessari ly broad and conferring too much power on one official. - riKirfnan T .ever announced that none of the committeemen "serious ly considered the building oi eieya fnr storms tors Ul wan-iiv"-"-- , - , , erain" and that this section of the P... " , , t -1: :.n.l (mm fits- bill COUIQ oe eiiiiwiaitu ..v.... cussion. - ... A -E. Reynolds of Crawfordsville, Ind., chairman of the legislative t iVio orain rlpalers Na- COIIlIlilllcc VI i"- 6-" . tion'al association, said a crop ot 1 250.000,000 bushels was in prosper and he with other dealers thought the world price would be about a bushel. ' - .. F. C. Van Dusen of Minneapolis t. ....oeor, Jc Inn farlv to make specific plans under which tjie grain (Contlnafd on Page Mne. Column Two., Attorneys Spend Day Reading "Bull" into Federal Court Record ! New York, Feb. 3. Two of last year's issues of Bull, a radical mag azine, formerly edited by Jeremiah A. O'Leary, occupied the entire at tention of judge, jury, attorneys and witnesses today at the trial in fed- -I ....t rf fYT.parv and three of cmi win i j . . his associates on charges of violat ing the espionage act. O'Leary's counsel insisted that v, ntir rnntcnte of the maiazines be-read and the lawyers, working in relays, spent the day rearling me contents of . the magazines into the record. One article written by O Leary declared the writer was "one of those unfortunate creatures who never could see the remotest chance for an allied victory and that I am pro-German as the newspaners con tinuously allege, but that I know a thing or two about conditions that exist in Getmany." Th;s article described the sending of American, so'diers overseas as "an act of madness, of national suicide." - Would Pay Bonus to Nebraska Fighters for War Services From a Staff Correspondent. -Lincoln. Feb. 3. (SneciaL) A cash bonus of $500 will be paid to .. every soldier and sailor who en tered miliary service, if the pro visions of a bill drawn by Senator T. E. Bradstreet of Grand Is land becoms a law. Senator Bradstreet announced he would intreduce the bill before the time limit expires Wednesday night i "Every man who gave up a lucrttive position in order to fight for his country Fhovld have some capital to start V)u-'nes wh on his return." said Senator Brad street. J m mIOLE AT AT PRICE WIIE Mcflnd-clan matter Miv S8. I SOS. tl P. 0. unur cl at Mire 3. 1879 w n nn French View Huge Mohammedan Empire Former Agreement Between France and Great Britain May Be Source of Trou ble in Settlement By NABOTH HEDIN Correspondent of Universal Staff Service (Special Cable Dispatch.) Paris, Feb. 3. French opinion now envisages with a certain dread the creation of an immense Moham medan empire covering parts of Af rica and Asia under British super vision and protection. It is well known here that the sultan of Egypt and the king of Hedaz are merely instruments for such a realization. The agreements of 1915 and 1916 di vided Asiatic Turkey between Rus sia, England and France, giving Russia Constantinople, France Syria and England Mesopotamia. Now the French regard that con tract as still binding between France and Britain, while England holds otherwise and therefore favors the Wilsonian plan which forecloses the first 'mortgage on . the Turks and wipes out the second and third mort gages held by the French on Syria, in view of French experts on, eastern affairs. BAIL HEAD TO CONSIDER HAT PUBLICWAflTS Director General Mines De clares He Does Not Believe in Government Owner " ' ship of Railroads. Washington, Feb. 3. Director General Hines, testifying today be fore the senate interstate commerce committee, declared he did not be lieve in government ownership, but in supervision of a few big railway companies subject to close govern ment supervision.- - "I do not believe there is any thing substantial in the argument thaf a five-year extension of govern ment operation would necessarily mean government ownership," Mr. Hines said. "I believe there can be a form of radically reconstructed private ownership with such close government supervision, including government representation on the boards of directors, as will give the public and labor all the benefits of government ownership and at the same time will preserve . the benefits ofp rivate'and self-interested initiat ive and will avoid the political dif ficulties which perhaps are iiuepara bl from government ownership. Moderate Guaranteed Returns. "I believe that all the objects which I think, must be achieved in order to obtain a permanent solution can be accomplished through the creation of a comparatively few ail road companies which will have cap italization equal only to the real value of the property and which will have a moderate guaranteed return with the right to participate mod erately in any additional profits." D. J. O'Brien Company Starts Damage Suit Agains inst New York Firm New' York, Feb. 3. Charging il legal combination in restraint of trade, by means of which a monop oly was effected in corn syrup and other ingredients used in the manu facture of candy and preserves, the D. J. O'Brien company of Omaha brought suit in federal court here to day against the Corn Products Re fining company and a score of other defendants for $172,799 damages. The complaint asserted that, in vi olation of the Sherman anti-trust act, tne defendants fixed prices and obtained rebates from railroads from 1905 to 1915. ik -i. ni imuu ru, ,nu iviayei 5 ruue vmii onui ui Body Left Open Temporarily The executive committee of the Omaha Church federation held a j meeting Monday atternoon to c J- Siaer me situation creaieu uy situation created by the resignation of Frank E. Mayer a executive secretary. After considerable discussion it was decided to take no immediate action on the resignation. The of fice of the federation in the Y. M. C. A. building will be kept open. Rev. Harry B. Foster, president, will have eeneral sunerviston and will give some time each day to the work j of the office. No meeting of the federation is to : be held soon, as the executive comT; fn ttee desires to have a definite plan j to lay uefore the members with . reference to tilling the vacancy caused by Mr. Mayer's resignation. The various committees, however, will continue their work. i Spandau Arsenal Closed. Berlin, Saturday, Feb. "l. (By Associated Press.) The stat ar senal at Spandau, employing 50.000 laborers, has be?n closed because i of the coal shortage,' I OMAHA, TUESDAY, With Alarm i- Shortest Speech ' Recorded at Paris Made by Frenchman Paris, Feb. 3. Louis L. Klotz, French minister of finance, was elected president of the peace conference committee on repara tion, rn the briefest speech yet delivered during the conference, M. Klotz invited the members to get to work. "Thank you," said M. Klotz. "Let us get to work for justice. That is our program." 1 Wednesday morning the com mittee will begin discussing the general principles of reparation. LONDON HOTEL WORKERS VOTE TO GO ON STRIKE Labor Situation in Great Brit ain Growing Worse; Large Bodies of Troops Are Held in Glasgow. London, Feb. 3. Late tonight no extension of the strike movement was reported except in South Wales, where the electrical trades union declared a strike for a 47-hour week. This strike would have involved the collieries and many other big under takings and on the representation that if the men were withdrawn the mines would become flooded and other serious damage would result, the strikers agreed to allow power for the mines. There was no change in the Lon don district tonight. London, Feb. 3. The seriousness of the strike situation in London was further increased late today when the hotel workers at a meet ing decided to go on a strike. About 8,000 men and women are involved. The presence of large bodies of troops in Glasgow is believed to in sure a continuance of the present state of order there, but at Belfast the second week o fthe strike begins with increased uneasiness, although there are no signs of any disposition on the part of the men to resort to further violence. . For eight days Belfast has been using candles for lighting and most of .the public services have been at a complete standstill. , The curtail ment o fthe fuel supply is causing considerable suffering and an in definite prolongation of these condi tions is considered impossible. The British cabinet held a session today to discuss the labor situation. It is said, however, that the govern ment is still against any interven tion. The parliamentary committee of the trades union congress decided today to summon a special 'meeting to consider the whole question of industrial unrest. The corporation of the city, of Belfast today asked the lord mayor to intervene in the strike. Londoners Forced to Walk. The central part of London pre sented an unusual spectacle this evening. City workers were walking in crowds over the bridges and along the thoroughfores which con nect central London with the sub urbs. There was great Congestion at all terminals -ef tram car and omnibus lines.- The discomfort of having to walk was increased by the slippery condi tion of roads and sidewalks, which, in the outlying districts of the city, were covered with show. J. W. Gamble Vice President Of First National Bank Prominent Business Man of Omaha Makes Rapid Rise During Residence -in Omaha. Tohn w Gambl. ores;dent of the Standard Chemical Manufacturing company of Omaha, has been elected v;ce president and member of the w q d;rectors of the ,?I, Na tional bank of Omaha. He will oc gin active duty in his position Tues day morning. While not severing his connec tion with the Standard Chemical company, Mr. Gamble will take up u-nrW in the- hanlf in hi6", new of. fiJnl Mmntn Omaha knows Mr. . Gamble also ' w president of the Chamber of Coin- nlerce and a member of the Athletic cub, Field club, University club, Seymour Lake c'.nb and Sales Managers' association. He has mp.de his home in this city for the past eight years and is prominent in business circles. L V Mr. Gamble has made remarkable progress in the commercial world in the few years following his grad uation from the University1 of Ne braska. He is 39 years old. '; He was assistant superintendent of large department store in Seat- tie for one ear, and resigned that ' - ' FEBRUARY 4, 1919. 9 Briggs and Wade to Appear Today Before City Fath ers as Will Franks " and Graham. John Briggs, suspended detective chief, and Leroy L. Wade, city de tective, will appear before the city council this morning to answer charges of misconduct in office. Briggs was suspended for signing the name of Judge C. W. Britt on a warrant. Charges against , Detectives Gra ham and Franks will also be aired before the city council this mor ning. The commission has set Fridav morning as the time when charges against Detective Bennie Danbaum for neglect of duty yill be heard. The big shakeup in the police de partment was the main topic at the cify'hall yesterday. With Chief of Detectives' Briggs suspended on a charge of miscon duct in office, Detective L. L. Wade on the same charge and Detective Ben Danbaum on the charge of gross neglect of duty and with charges pending against Detectives J. H. Graham and Fred Franks for kicking and cuffing a prisoner with out apparent reason, the troubles of the police department assumed proportions which presage such a cleaning as it has never seen before. What Detectives Say. ' In defense of their action against John Aytch, 1717 Burt street, Detectives Graham- and Fraiiks,"who are diarged by Commissioner- L're with beatiog Aytch, said: "We struck him when he kicked at us and attempted to es cape when we arrested him." ' Aytch was arrested Friday night for breaking a plate glass in Hay den's store. Commissioner Ure complained to the city council of a beating given Aytch by the detec tives. Detective Graham said: "I will not hold a piece of sugar in my hand, coaxing prisoners to come to jail. I've tried that kindness stunt too many times. I've never struck a man unless he came at me first." "Aytch Kicked Me." Graham has a'prominent scar on his chin which is a result of a kick given him a year ago when he sought to arrest a man by asking him to accompany him to the sta tion. Detective Franks said: "I never struck Aych until he kicked me in the stomach." The detectives recovered an over coat which Aytch is accused of stealing a month ago from W. M. Snell. Merchants hotel. Thirty elec tric light globes, which Aytch con fessed to stealing, were also recov ered by the detectives. The hearing of the case "of De tectives Franks and Graham conies before the city council this morn ing. Failed to Make Arrest. 'The specific, charge against De tective Danbaum is that on Novem ber 11 he failed to arrest Meyer (Continued on Tag Nine, Column Three) JobnW. Gamble rJn rnolo. position to act as salesmanagw tor a New York merchandise house. In 1909-10 he was superintendent , of pufjlic schools at Plattsmouth, Neb., and on June 1. 1919. he. came to j. , ... , , rf v f . f ' ' ' 1 1 ..... i '- J Omaha as a stockholder in the Standard Chemical company, v Dll in Sua,.. 15.50: oulilc! Nat. tut itr TWO f!F!!CTS B Mill l ir. Dill,. I4.M; Sundu. J.'.JU: "u 1 0. Police Arrest Spellman Under Charges in Auto Case Just After Knocks Out Man "Much Wanted" Man Accused of Larceny of Richard . son Motor Car and "Hunted" for Three Weeks Nabbed Just as He is Victor in Prize Fight at Fort Omaha; Makes Run for Freedom, But is Stopped. i Ralph Spellman, 18, 2420 Ames avenue, for whom detectives under John Briggs, while chief of de tectives, have been searching for three weeks in connection with the theft of J. H. Richardson's automo bile, was arrested last night by De tectives Toland and Baughman shortly after he had knocked put Roscoe, the fighting medic, in a four-round bout at the Fort Omaha boxing carnival. Edward McDennott. drug clerk, 1020 Park avenue, Spellman's sec ond, wafi also arrested and booked with j aiding and abetting a fugitive from justice. . Grand Larceny Charge. Spellman is booked for grand lar ceny in connection with the theft of an automobile from J. H. Richard son, real estate man, staying at the Her Grand hotel. Spellman laughed when he entered the police station last night. "Well, they got me at last," he said. "I don't know Why they're book ing, me for grand larceny. I was never neaf the automobile I am ac cused of stealing. I knew the dicks were after me, and I've been having lots of fun passing some of them on the street and watching them laying for me out home." Greenberg First Held. The recovery of Richardson's car in some weeds in East Omaha led to the arrest of Meyr Greenberg and Don Chrisman and the filing of charges against Detective Bennie Danbaum. A warrant was sworn out for young Spellman's arrest by Briggs when Greenberg declared that "Spellman stole the car." Acting upon the warrant, three weeks old, Acting Chief of Detectives A. P. Haze detailed Detectives To land arid Baughman en the -case. REVENUE BILL IS : RAPPED BY MANY 1EBUA m Fear Deadlock Between Buy ers and Sellers Will Cause National Idleness and Unemployment. By a Staff Correspondent. Washington, Feb. 3. Business men of Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, Grand Island, Hastings, Superior and, other Nebraska cities kept the wires busX today with telegrams, to the Nebraska delegation protest ing against the war revenue bill, which will be reported this week. The objection to the bill from the business man's point of' view is found in . the following, telegram from T. C. Byrne, and is a fail sample of the protests being re ceived: , "If commercial interests of the country are compelled to pay taxes amounting to almost what profits of last year's bus iness have- appeared to be, the shrinkage in the value of mer chandise commodities and oth er assets will be disastrous to merchants and manufacturers. Forms, a Deadlock.! "The fear of this legislation is now causing the distributing trade of, the coifntry to refuse to make contracts and commit ments, with the result that this is a deadlock between buyers and sellers. Consequently we arc confronted with idle ma chinery, unemployed labor and business stagnation. It is im perative that the proposed bill, which was designed when the country was preparing 5,000,000 men for war, should either be defeated or greatly modified." , Ukrainian Troops to Attack Roumania, Says Copenhagen Advices London, Feb. . 3,-r-Ukrainian troops are preparing p attack Rou mania, which is said to have mobil ized its forces to meet the assault according to Copenhagen advices to the Mail. Secure Writ of Habeas Corpus in Rumely Case New York, Feb. 3. A writ of habeas corpus, obtained to prevent the removal to Washington, D.. of Dr. Edward A. Rumely, former ly publisher of the New York Even ing Mail, to plead to an indictment charging failure to report property alleged to be owned by the German government, was dismissed in fed eral district court here today by Judge Mayer. Dr. Rumely also is under indictment in this city on t similar charge and is at liberty on ?36,000 bail. The city detectives learned that Spellman was scheduled to enter the fighting ring at Fort Omaha last night, and planted there for him. Boys Make Sneak. McDennott spied Detective To land liear the ringside and "tipped" young Spellman after the entree had knocked out Roscoe, hir opponent, in the fourth round. Wild applause and cheering met Spellman's vic tory. Pursuant to McDermott's ti; that detectives were waiting for Spellipan, both boys sneaked from the army post by way of a west road and started for Omaha along the Missouri Pacific tracks. Detectives Toland and Baughman caught sight of them passing Thir tieth and Boyd streets, and hid be hind a house when tliey saw the boys turn back and cut across a vacant lot near Thirtieth and Fort streets. When the detectives 'sought to arrest Spellman and McDermott on Thirtieth street, they did not at tempt escape, . Say Will Clear Himself. While city detectives under the direction of Briggs were scouting Omaha to arrest Spellman, the j yOjUiig pugilist kept up his daily work with no apparent worry as to j his probable arrest. ; A Bee reporter talked with him j at Seventeenth and Harney three i nights ago. "The dicks want me," j Spellman said, "but they've got me j wrong. They know where I am if they want me very badly. It is the opinion at the detective department that Spellman will clear up matters pertaining to the theft and recovery of Richardson's car, which 'wafe the basis of the recent charges filed against Detective Dan baum. . WOMEN OPPOSE COOPER CIVIL SERVICE BILL Club Members Want Five of Number Appointed to State Food Commission by N- Governor McKelvie. The Omaha Woman's club is op posed to Senate File No. 9, 'a civil service bill affecting city of Omaha employes introduced in the state legislature by Senator Cooper. "This is a civil service bill in name only," said Mrs. Lee Edwards. Members of the civil service re form committee of the club, headed by Mrs. Edwards, declined to appear in favor .of the bill at a municipal affairs committee hearing, on invita tion of the author, Senator Cooper. BilT Offers No Protection. ."The only purpose of this bill is to 'blanket' into office for the rest of their life, employes whe have served the city for five years," said Mrs. Edwards, former civil service em ploye in Chicago. "There is no pro vision for a competitive examination for appointments and. no protection to ,an employe against losing his job with a new incoming political ad mininstcaton. It would be very bad for such a . haphazard bill to- go through." The club went on record as op posed to the bill, at a meeting held Monday afternoon in the Young Women's Christian association. Want Women on Food Board. Omaha club women will also pe tition Governor McKelvie to appoint at least five women oh the state food commission. The home economics department, led by Mrs. R. L. Frantz, is behind the movement. When the food inspection was or ganized with six members, there was one woman appointed at the sugges tion of the Omaha club. Now there are 30 appointees but only one wa man, it was stated. The club endorsed the proposal of one of its members, Mrs. E. Allen to the Chamber of Commerce, for the election of a memorial building to Omaha's dead soldiers. Rev. Titus Lowe spoke on "Side lights of the War." Liberty Motor Test ts Completed at Houston Houston, Tex., Feb. 3. The Lib erty motor test flight from Ellington field to Detroit and return was com pleted this afternoon when the air plane handled by Capt. L. J. Robin son and Lieut. A. A. Adams landed at the home field. Captain Robin son estimated the distance covered between 4,000 and 5,000 miles, giving the flying time as 1.650 minutes. The average speed was 110 miles an hour for the entire distance and the maxi mum 125 miles. The entire trip was devoid of engine trouble. The fliers kit Ellington field December 21, J3 (5) M . PRESIDENT Memorable Scene in Chamber When Wilson Appears to Deliver Address on Amer- ' ica's Part in War. French Deputies Insist , on Standing While Wilson Talks By Associated Press. Paris. Feb. 3. President Wil son this evening delivered ait ad dress in the chamber of deputies, having as auditors President Poincare, the presidents of the chamber and the senate and larg? numbers of members of both houses of parliament and the per sonnel of the French cabinet. The audience insisted on hear ing the president's address stand ing. M. Poincare, C'lemenceau and Dubose also stood. This seemed to embarrass President Wilson, who made gestures that the deputies remain seated, but they shouted: "Standing, will hear you standing." President Wilson turned, to M. Deschanel, begging him to request that the deputies be seated, but the president of the chamber shrugged his shoulders, as if helpless! Enthusiasm did not break out until the interpre ter translated the speech. Then deputies and senators gave full vent to their feelings. ' Paris, Feb. 3. President Wilson spoke as follows before the chain, ber of deputies todajv. I'residcut Poincare of France fteing present: "I am keenly aware of the un usual and distinguished honor yoi: are paying me by permitting .r.c" U meet you in this place and to ad dress you from this historic plat form. "Indeed, sir, as day has followed day and week has followed week in this hospitable land of France! I have felt the sense of comrade ship ever become more and more in timate and it has seemed to me thai the making of history was becomine singularly clear. "We knew before tin's war began that France and America were unit ed in affection. We knew the oc- , casions which drew the two nations together in those years, which now seem so far' away, when the work was first beginning Jo thrill with tin impulse of human liberty, when the soldiers of France came to help th.' struggling little republic of Ame ica to get on its feet and prockM one of the first victories of free dom. "We have never forgotten that but we did not see the full meaning of it. A hundred years arrd more went by and the spindles were slow- ly weaving the web of history. We did not see it to be complete, tin whole of the design to be made plain. . Linked With Great Britain. "Now look what has happened. In that far-off day when France came to the assistance of America. America was fighting Great Britain. And now she is linked as closely to Gceat Britain as she is io France. We sec now how these apparently diverging lines of history are com ing together. The nations which once stood in battle array against one another are' now shoulder tc shoulder, fighting a common enemy "It was a long time before we saw that, and in the last four years some thing has happened that is unprece dented in -the history of mankind It is nothing less than ' this that bodies of men on both sides of tin sea and in all parts of the worlt have come to realize their comrade ship of freedom. - . "France, in the meantime, as v; have so often said, stood at th frontier of freedom. Her lines lav along the very lines that divided th'.: home of freedom from the home oi military despotism. Hers was the immediate peril. Hers was the con stant dread. Hers was the most pressing necessity of preparation: and "she had constantly to ask her self this question: "If the blow falls, who will come to our assistance?" "And the question was answerec in the most unexpected way. Her allies come to her assistance, but many more than her allies. The frcs people of the world came to hci assistance. Paid Debt to France. . "And in this way America' paid her debt of gratitude to France by sending her sons to fight upon the soil of France. She did more. She assisted in drawing the forces of the world together in order that France might never again feel her isolation in order that France might nevei, feel that hers was a lonely peril and " would never again have to ask the question who would come to her as sistance. ' "For the alternative is a terribU (CuutlnufU on fn;; Nine, Ci'luuin SU4 i
