Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1914 — Page 8

SEN. RANSDELL JOLTS I WATER BILL CRITICS

Declares Attacks on Rivers and Har)jors Measure Were Without Merit and Lacking Truth.

WASHINGTON, Deo. 9.—The National Rivers and Harbors congress began its annual convention here today with a large attendance of delegates from throughout the country. Many prominent speakers are on the program for addresses during the three days' sessions.

The convention w^s opened with an address by Secretary Bryan. A feature was the annual address of Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana, president of congress in which he vigorously denounced recent attacks on the river ar.d harbor bill passed at the last session of congress and the filibuster which resulted in the practical defeat of the measure. "Attacks on rivers and harbor leg lsl^tion, "declared Senator Ransdell," are unfounded, practically without merit and many of them devoid of even a veetige of truth."

Critics of the legislation, he added, had been unable to suggest a better system than the one they criticise. "To assert that river and harbor bills are full of 'pork' graft and corrupt items," he declared, "is to charge that the senators and representatives who advocate these measures are guilty of fraud, corruption, graft and plain stealing. Such an accusation 13 false."

Senator Ransdall concluded with an fcppeal to the convention to insist that J**under no circumstance should any 'water course be improved unless it has reaii, genuine merit back of it."

CIVILIZATION BUT PROGRESS.

ILHerary Club Holds Interesting Meeting and Discussion.

discussion of the European war followed the reading of the paper, "Is Civilization a Failure?** by J. S. Starbuck, of St. Louis, before the Terre Haute Literary club at the Chamber of .Commerce rooms Tuesday night, in which a number of members particitpeted. Mr. Starbuck described civiljlsation as nothing more nor less than progress, and said that while we are progressing we have come but a little way on the road to real civilization. The discussion was participated in by Dr. J. A. Cooper, Dr. Walker Schell and others. Dr. Schell expressed the opinion that there always would be war, and that every nation should be prepared for it In the discussion the general hope was expressed that something would grow out of the conflict in Europe that would tend to advance the interests of civilization. The paper for next week's meeting was announced as "Edicts of Normal Life," by Rev. O. E. Mark, of Centenary M. E. church.

GAINS THIRTY CONVERTS.

The revival meetings at the Pentacost church, Sixth and Edwards streets, "West Terre Haute, are growing in interest and attendance. The meetings are being conducted by Rev. F. A. Callahan, of Pittsboro, Ind., and have been in progress for the past two weeks. Thirty conversions have been made. Services will be held every night for probably another week.

MERCHANTS TO MEET.

Members of the Retail Merchants' association have been called in special session for 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night to consider the resolution adopted by the Chamber of Commerce endorsing the movement for clean elections. The meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms.

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On the morning of December 7 the Turkish cruiser Breslau was discovered near Sebastopol. Our cruisers and hydroplanes started in pursuit but before an attack could be made the Breslau disappeared out to sea."

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HELEN LOUISE HOFFJIA.V,

Helen Louise Hoffman is the one- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hoffman of 78 South Eighteenth street. She ig shown In the attitude ot delivering a speech on woman's suffrage.

REPORTS

ON EAST LINE

Says Battle to Southeast of Cracow on Dec. 6 Developed In Favor of Russians.

PETROGRAD, Dec. 8.—(Delayed.)— An official communication given out by the general office tonight says: "Engagements which had developed in the region of Przasnyza and Ciechanow (east of the East Prussian border and Mlawa) have not terminated. "In the fighting which took place in the region of Pictkrow we were only partially successful. "The battle which commenced December 6, southeast of Cracow, in the region of Wieliczka on the river Deriuty, has developed in our favor. After having courageously forced the passage of the Dounaetz river in the vicinity of Nowy Zanec our reinforcements pursued the offensive and inflicted a serious defeat on the German troops which had formed in the valley of Losozsnya. The German light wing, which pursued, was turned. "Thfe Twenty-fourth German corps, transported here from Belgium, opened this combat with an automobile battery in its advance, which was partly disabled and partly put to flight without striking a blow. Following this, we successfully put out of action several pieces of heavy artillery, silenced five field batteries and captured several cannon. 'The German prisoners affirm that their units sustained enormous losses, some of the companies being reduced to forty men. We are pursuing the offensive.

20 NATIONS RIGHTS AS

Band Together Against Operations By Belligerents In Waters of' North and South America.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Informal conferences were begun here today by the special committee of the gov erning board of the Pan-American union, with a view to working out plans for the solution of problems arising from the operatons of belligerent warships in North and South American waters.

The commission was appointed at a conference here yesterday of diplomatic representatives of the twenty nations of the western hemisphere, when resolutions were adoptfed expressing disapproval of operations of the belligerent nations in American waters. Authority was given the commission to study problems presented by the European war with a view to formulating practical steps having as their object a more vigorous assertion of the rights of neutrals. It consists of Secretary Bryan of the state department as chairman ex-officio, the ambassadors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the ministers from Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras and Cuba.

LAUDS AMERICAN GUNS.

Army Officer Says They Are As Good As Any in World. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Lessons drawn from the European war were discussed before the house military and naval committees yesterday by Briga-diei-General Crozier, chief of ordnance cf *he army, and Rear Admiral Badser, of the navy's general staff. General Crozier said the United States never would have use for guns similar to the great howitzers with which the Germans demolished Belgium's forts and asserted that the American field guns were as good as any in the \vorld.

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CENSOR VICE REPORT EOR PUBLIC READING

Wisconsin Commission Goes Into Detail on Social Evil and Other City Problems.

MADISON, Wis., Dec. 9.—That censorship of the description of revolting vice conditions found by the legislative anti-vice commission in Wisconsin was necessary is embdied in a preface to the recent report turned in by that body.

Anticipating that the report would be criticised if it revealed in detail too suggestive conditions for public reading, the inquisitors carefully selected their words and explained their action in the following note: "This report presents to a limited extent the conditions found to exist in this state. In many instances the facts disclosed to the committee are of such astounding and sensational nature that their publication herein would "oe unwise. In order to make the report as free from suggestiveness as possible, and still present to adults the deplorable conditions found to exist, the language used by the investigators and witnesses has been carefully censored."

Disease a Heavy Tax

From what it believes are authentic figures the committee computes the loss from venereal disease as equivalent to a tax upon the people of the state of $7,500,000. Dr. Howard Kelly is quoted as declaring that this loss throughout the United States is $3,000,000,000 annually.

As one of the means of exterminating the social plague, the committee suggests that when the women's reformatory is opened at Taycheedah, a department for the care of unfortunate women be provided. From this home they might be paroled as soon as their improved condition warrants it.

Without waiting for laws to be enacted by the legislature, the committee suggests that municipalities should pass ordinances prohibiting idle loittering around depots, restaurants, and other public places.

Suggests Social Centers.

"Some cities have provided recreation centers and amusement resorts under strict municipal control," the report continues. "The extension of the neighborhood social center, the use of school houses and churches as social centers would undoubtedly have a beneficial effect. "The chance of such enterprises for success would be more than doubly increased if parents would take an active and co-operative interest In securing the legitimate opportunities for the exercise of the social Instincts of young people in every city. "The attention of churches and philanthropic organizations and public schools Is called to the necessity of providing wholesome amusement and entertainment under safe auspices to counteract the evil influences and dan gerous attractions of the streets."

Dodges Sex Hygiene Question. The committee does not approve or disapprove of the teaching of sex hygiene in the public schools, but 'akes the stand that teachers and ministers of the gospel should be instructed in the deeper fundamentals of life in order to exercise a wholesome influence in training the young to lead moral lives. ...

ADDS COHESION TO STEEL.

New Treatment Said to Have Unlimited Possibilities. CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—War may be ended, skyscrapers may pierce the clouds to heights never attempted and all manner of structures may be undertaken on a grander scale than ever before by means of a new steel of tensile strength many times greater than that of the present product, it is said here. Prof. A. A. MIchelson, winner in 1912 of the Nobel prize for physical research, exhibited before the National Academy of Sciences, In session here, a bar of the new steel and subjected it to torsion tests which, he said proved that continuation of the treatment might produce a metal of unlimited cohesion.

Fortifications built of that metal, he said, might be made indestructible, so that it would be useless to bombard them, thus achieving a long step toward the elimination of warfare.

Peaceful projects might be carried far beyond the scope within which they are held now by the limit of the resistance of steel.

Santa Claus Mail Box

DEAR SANTA, care Tribune:—My rame is Kathryn Himmelbauer and I want to tell you what I want for Christmas. I want a little stove, a doll, some books, a velvet dress, that Mg lamb in Herz's, white gloves with black stitching, size 6, a game and a Christmas tree, some paper doiis, a little school ilolJ. Don't forget the little poor children, grandmother, Nell, Ann. Arthur. Kit. mother and father, Elf-a and Mary Weldele. Mrs. Vincent, Mrr. Riddell. That is all for this time. Tour little friend. KATHRYN.

DEAR SANTA:—I am a little girl just rive years old. I would like for you to bring nie a big doll, a little doll, piano and furniture, and please bring me a little doll bed and a little doll for it. and candy and nuts, and a doll machine and some other toys if you have any. Ton't forget the poor children. Tour little friend.

ELSIE AI.BKRTA RUTHERFORD, 1718 South Fourth Street.

North Terre Haute. Ind., Dec. 7. 1914. DEAR SANTA CLAUS:--I am a little girl four years old. I "n%ve a little sistrr, Dorothy. She is two years old. I have a nice mamma and papa, I have been a nice girl and for Christmas I would like a little wagon, a doll and a broom. Your little girl.

OPAL ASHTON.

DEAR SANTA:—I don't want much for this Christmas but a set. of furs find a ?led. I am a Mttle girl and live a+ 1122 Mulberry street.

MARY OCONNF.LL.

DL'AK SANTA, care Tribune:—Please bring me some skates, an erector's outfit. a pair of riijreons and some books.

HAROLD CKABtl Atherton, Ind.

DEAR SANTA, care Tribune:—Father wrote this for me. If you can spare them, bring me a suit of c'.othes, a tool chest and pair of fur gloves. Ae-

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WORK Of RED CROSS WIDENED BY BIG WAR

Calls for Active Service Many and Far Beaching—180 Surgeons and Nurses In Europe, a

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.— The American Red Cross society today opened its tenth annual meeting here with President Wilson, its active head, designated as the presiding1 officer of the afternoon session. Reviews of the relief work accomplished by the society during the past year and proposed for the future, with special reference vo the European war, stirred the delegates to a. high state of enthusiasm.

At the morning session Counsellor Lansing, of the state department, presented the report of the international relief board, of which he Is chairman. After touching upon the general work of prevention of famine in China, Japan, Mexico, the Balkans and Korea, including references to the world wide cataertrophies to which the Red Cross had without exception extended aid, Mr. Lansing said: "Never since the creation of this board have calls for active aid been so many and so far reaching. For the first time, and we may hope the last time, the misfortune of war rather than those of disaster, have occupied moat of its activities."

The report showed that more than 180 surgeons and nurses have so far been sent to Europe, and said that more were greatly needed. "So great are the numbers of wounded," It said, "that there are constantly being received reports of the need of vast quantities of surgical anrf hospital supplies. To these needs the Red Cross is responding as rapidly as possible. It is a satisfaction amid so much misery and distress to know .that through the medium of the Red Cross and with the spirit of neutrality and humanity we are enabled to aid in the relief of untold sufferings caused by this world-wide tragedy."

The constantly increasing requests for nurses on the part of American communities was considered by the convention in a report presented by Miss Fannie F. Clement, superintendent of the Town and County Nursing Service. Brigadier General William Gorgas. surgeon general of the army, delivered a report from the war relief board. It reviewed elaborately the organization of the Red Cross, field hospital and field work.

Miss Belle Boardman, chairman of the national' board, spoke on organization work with a view to enlarging the scope of the Red Cross work.

SAMMY GOT THE "DOPE."

Calls on Tumulty for Fact* About President's Message. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—''Sammy" April, the small boy who supplies president Wilson *ith newspapers, called on Secretary Tumulty today and asked him what he thought of Mr. Wilson's message to congress. Mr. 'luwuity immediately launched into a laudatory discussion of the subject. When he had talked a few minutes he paused and asked: 'But why do you ask, Sammy?" 'I have to write a composition on it in school tomorrow and I thought 1 would come to headquarters for the information."

ROADS FILE INCREASES.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Advances in freight rates ranging from 5 to 15 per cent have been filed with the interstate commerce commission by the railroad? of the southwestern territory. If not suspended the increases will become effective on Jan. 5.

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