South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 112, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 April 1917 — Page 3

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

SU NDAY. AITin, 21. 11)17. AI I PfTrnn nniiT BALFOUR DUE HLLdL run r bn Here is Weather For This Week SERGE SKIRTS 300 Serge Skirts in black and blue plaids and fancy mixtures; all sizes. Monday SOUTH BEN Q& GREATEST BARGAIN GVERS SILK SKIRTS 300 Taffeta Skirts in plain, black and blue plaids and stripes; values to $10. Monday ALTODAY Aü-o iatI I'rs srvl-i : WASHINGTON, April 21. The weather bureau today issued the following forecast for next week: Keglon of Great lakes: Except for showers Tuesday or Wednesday the coming week will be one of generally fair weather, with temperature near the seasonal normal. House and Senate Military Committees Make Reports Battle Tomorrow. British Commission Expected to Meet With Americans in Day or Two.

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by enlistment or draft th cervices ff jiTsons needed in the industrial pursuits of the country." IiakT in Pinal I loa. Sec'y L'akcr's Inter included in the minority report, was written as a final niea from the military branch of the ko ernment in behalf of the administration hill. "I have a deep conviction that any (iiiiproml.se of the principles governing the bill .submitted by the department for the raisin of a new army would be attended by uhfortU'iate results," he wrote. "The bill as drawn preserves so much of the volunteer spirit as can be preserved without embarking on the experiment of a mixte? system of Ii aft and volunteering. It makes plate for several hundred thousand men above the ageTTF 25. who may b moved to volunteer, and be equalizing the terms and condition of .--rvice in the rerular army, national guard and Additional forces Rives Mich volunteers entire equality with all others in the national forces. System Is Just. "The drafting provision starts at (the outset a process by which the forces of the country can be called as they shall be needed, according to an equal and just system, and it has these merits: "It spreads the burden of military preparation equally throughout the United States. "It Is certain in its operation, so that if the registration is made every man in the country will know whether he la to he called and when he Is to be called upon, allowing those who are not to be called, or whose call Is postponed, to continue their normal pursuits undisturbed by uncertainty as to trTetr duty and unapltated by neighborhood pressure or misunderstanding. "It starts at the beginning of the accumulation of these new forces. and hns none of the character of .1 penalty which attaches to the draft when it Is used after volunteering has been tried and failed. "I have studied every report I can secure of the use of the volunteer system abroad and In our own country, and I believe If to be true that In every place where H has been tried, whatever success It has had has been due to .1 .system of ompulsjons more harrasslng, and almost as drastic as the previsions of a law itself. In the countries of Europe, where the volunteer system has obtained, those responsible for it were excused because they could not have foreseen at the beginning of the results, hut we have their experience to guide us. and I believe that those responsible in this country for repeating the costly errors which have 1een made abroad will noc be able to Tfiat explana tion. "With the greatest deference to the rights and independence of judgment of your committee and the house. I still feel obliged as Secretary of war, and therefore your responsible adiser on this subject, to urge the passage of the bill as drawn. This Is the greatest war In the history of the world." .Minority Import. Suppler enting Fec"y Baker's letter, the minority - report says the members of the cTTrrmittee are laymen and adds: "In this great crisis we deem It to be our patriotic duty In this matter of increasing temporarily the military establishment of the United States to follow the counsel of the commander-in-chief of our army and his expert advisers." Of the place for volunteers in the administration plan. the minority says: "Some of those who favor the volunteer system, point with pride to the fact thit 1.000 volunteers are rr.listing every day at the present fme. According to a letter from the secretary of war to the chairman of the committee, 7 2 4 . 7 1 S volunteers will be required for our regular army and the national guard organization". I would therefore take 72 1 das including Sundays, or about tw e:irs to g"t the volunteer forces required for these two branches alone i f our military establishment. Does that look very hopeful?" In conclusion the report says: "Of th eight members of the military affairs committee signing this minority report, four saw actual service in the volunteer army during the Spanish-American war and one of these saw additional service during the Mexican rder trouble. They have knowledge at first hand of the inetr.cienoy of the olunteer system and they all join In this r?port. protesting acrainst the evils of that system and In favor of a system ha?d on universal obligation to service."

nirrrnx ritoM cowirvnox. Judge Tvouis M. Ilammerschmidt. president of the municipal recreation committee. Mrs. Homer J. Mil!r and V. O. Manning, members of th committee, an! I I?. Harnes, director of municipal recreation, ha' e returned from the convention of Civic center workers, which wa in progress In Chicago during the crrater part of last week.

ii.w.vs Hi-:cm:.vnov ham.. Fifteen Tabic Itilllanl Parlor Now HM1. Gain's Recreation Hall, corner of M.chigTin and .TerTerson. in the new I'lron Tr-:st company's building. i ro.v open. Billiards and rocket Billiards exclusively. Soda fountain ft f r-hn'.ents and cigars. Ticker rvice. r .ulin ta'dos and a light omfortable place of recreation. Gentlmen are lnvitstl. Adv.

AMERICA WILL ASTOUND THE WORLD SAYS BALFOUR

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ly cruel of all wars. To name no other, the efforts of Mr. Gerard to alleviate the condition of British and other prisoners of war in Germany and the administrative penlus which Mr. Hoover has ungrudgingly devoted to the relief of the unhappy Belgians and French in the territories still in enemy occupation, will never be forgotten; while an inexhaustible stream of charitable efTort has supplied medical and nursing skill to the service of the wounded and the sick. "These are the memorable doings of a beneflclent neutrality. But the days of neutrality, I rejoice to think, are ?.t end, and the first page is being turned in a new chapter In the history of mankind. Your president in a most apt and vivid phrase, has proclaimed that the world must be made safe for democracy. Democracies, wherever they are to be found, and not least, the democracies of the British empire, will hail the pronouncement as a happy augury. That self governing communities are not in be treated as neglible simply because they are small; that the ruthless domination of one unscrupulous power imperils the future of civilization and the liberties of mankind are truths of political ethics which the bitter experience of war is burning Into the souls of all freedom-loving peoples. That this great people should have thrown themselves whole-heartedly into this mighty struggle, prepared for nil the efforts and sacrifices that may be required to win success fot this most righteous cause is an event at once so happy and so momentous that only the historian of the future will he able, as I believe, to measure its true proportions. "(Signed). "A. J. BALFOUR."

ALLIES LAUNCH DOUBLE DRIVE ON HINDENBURG

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The north end of the Hindenburfc line. It may be judged. Is abou to suffer another hammering, Brit!sh and French, indeed, may be ready to make a combined attack at each end of the line simultaneously in a determined effort to roll it up. British headquarters reports a movement toward Cambral, south of the Arras battlefield, in an action In which they captured the village of Gonelieu, scoring an advance of about a mile toward the German lines. Fighting east nt Courcy, the French continued their thrust toward the Brimont plateau, one of the chief obstacles in their advance. Two Destroyers Sunk. Two. possibly three, destroyers that attempted a raid on Dover, England, and upon British shipping there were sunk by two vessels of the British patrol on Friday night, the engagement lasting only five minutes. The British losses were slight. Two Belgian relief steamers, the Norwegian steamer Kongali and the Ringhorn, have been sunk. The Kongr.M carried 6,000 tons of wheat.

WHITL0CK BARES GERMAN BRUTALITY

(CONTENTED FROM TAGE ONE) Uhlans, all this made the scene a pitiable and distressing one. "The rage, the terror and the despair excited by this measure all over Belgium were beyond anything we had witnessed since the day the Germans poured into Brussels. The delegates of the commission for relief in Belgium, returning to Brussels, told the most distressing stories of the scenes of cruelty and sorrowattending the seizures. And daily, hourly almost, since that time appalling stories have been related by Belgians coming to the legation. It is impossible for us to verify them, first because it is necessary for us to exercise all possible tact in dealing with the subject at all. and secondly because there Is no means of communication between the occupations Gebiel and the Etappen Gebiel.

SEE GERMAN HANDS IN STRIKES OF MINERS

A si" l.i ted Prem Service: SIM:INGFII:ET. Til.. April 21. Relieving that agents of Germany are trying to foment strikes among miners to harass the United States government. Frank Farrlngton. president of the District of the United Mine Workers of America, has asked the federal government to make an investigation of the strike at Kincaid, Nokomis and Witt, near Springfield, where 2.500 miners are out of work because of the strike of ."0 motormen and trip riders, who are asking an advance of Jl a day over the Increase granted at the joint conference of operators and miners

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.ire (u-ti ry me i'eaooiiy mal ( o. f Chicaco of which Francis S. Fe.ibody is president.

AjifuviatM Pres Sfrvi: WASHINGTON, April 21. Fordern Minister Balfour-and the other members of the- commission sent to America by the government of Great Britain are expected to arrive in Washington "at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon on a special train. The landing of the distinguished party on this continent wa announced today by tne state department, and in a day or two, there will be a definite r-tatement concerning the series of great war conferences for which the commissioners have come, and of the entertainments arranged in their honor. Word was received today that ,ir George Foster, acting prime minister of Canada and Sir Joseph Pope, under-secretary of external affairs of the Dominion, would reach here tomorrow to meet and confer with the British officials. Iaiiiiu; Gets Telegram. Sec'y Lansing received tonight this telegram from Mr. Balfour sent In reply to a letter of greeting: "Allow me to thank you most cordially for the warm expressions of welcome from the government and people of the United States, eoneyed in the letter handed me by the American consul at (name of place deleted). Please convey to the president my deep appreciation of iheir friendly sentiments, and tell with what great pleasure I accept on behalf of my.self and my mission the generous offer of hospitality made by the president on behalf of the nation. "May I add an expression of the profound satisfaction with which I find myself 011 American soil, at thn crisis in the history of the world." There will be little ceremonial in the greeting of the visitors at the railroad station tomorrow. The presence of a cavalry escort will give the incident an official aspect, but it Is expected that the meeting of Great Britain's representatives arid those of the United States will be simple. iSec'y Irnsing will be on the platform to receive Mr. Balfour, and will be accompanied by Counsellor Polk, Assistant Sec'y Phillip?, Col. Harts, military aide to the president, and the officials who have been detailed to serve as aides to the nation's guests. Automobiles will be waiting at the private door of the presidential room. Two troops of the second cavalry will escort Mr. Balfour and his immediate party accompanied by Mr. Irnsing to the residence prepared for them. Members to bo Ilntcrtalncd. Those who will be entertained with the foreign minister at the residence are: Sir Eric Drummond, Ian Malcolm, member of parliament: C. F. J. Dormer, Geoffrey Butler, rear admiral; R. Dudley Dechair, fleet paymaster; Capt. H. H. Spender-Clay, member of parliament, and Ixrd Cunliffe of Huadley, governor of the Bank of England. Others with the commission who have been assigned to quarters at a town hotel, are: Maj. I,. W. B. Rees, Royal Flying corps; Maj. C. E. Dansoy, war office; Lord Eustace Percy and A. A. Paton of the foreign office; F. F. Robinson, S. McKenna, M. D. Peterson, Col. Heron. Maj. Puckle, Col. Goodwin. Col. Ianghorne, Capt. Deeming and Mr. Amos. Hugh Gibson, formerly first secretary of the American embassy in London, now of the state department staff, has been detailed to serve as aide to Mr. Balfour during his visit. Capt. George Quekemeyere. U. S. A., formerly assistant military attache, has been assigned as aide to Gen. Bridges.

RUSSIA WANTS MONEY AND AMMUNITION FROM U.S.

PETROGRAD. April 21, via London, April 22. 12:20 a. m. (delayed) Money, ammunition and railway rolling stock are the primary necessities for which Russia now is turning to America for assistance in obtaining. "If America can help supply us with these," said Paul N. MllukofT. the Russian foreign minister, to the Associated Press today, "'she will not only have added greatly to the services she already has extended to the allies, but will materially help Russia to defeat Germany on the eastern front. "Russia has been crippled during the entire war by lack of adequate facilities for transportation. If the United States can send us rolling stock it will immediately help us to mobilize the resources of the nation."

LEYLAND LINER SUNK

An;Hl Pre Service: RONTON. April 21. The torpedoing of the 0,00-ton Leyland line j steamer Georgian in the Meditera- j nean last month was reported by a 1 British steamship captain here today. Capt. Parry and the deck crew of the Georgian escaped: but all the ; engine room force were lost. I

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Our buyer, Mr. D. Friesem, just returned from New York with the greatest purchase of Coats, Suits, Dresses and Waists. This will be the greatest sale of Ladies' Ready-to-Wear ever held in South Bend AT PRICES UNBELIEVABLE.

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150 New Coats in serges, poplins, white chinchillas and checks all sizes. Values to $12.00. Monday

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100 poplin, taffeta, velours, poiret twills and gunnyburl, with large pockets, belted styles and flare models; all colors and sizes. Values to $20.00. Monday

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1,000 waists in Georgette crepe, pussy willow silks, crepe de chine arid tub silks; all sizes and colors; values to $4.00. Monday

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j for their appreciation shown in the j de.tth of their father. Wm. Iasor. I Also the many beautiful t'oral pieces.

MILS. WM. KEASOR Adv. AND CHLIDIUIX.

An especially interesting and enjoyable program has been planned for the re-nibir Sunday afternoon story hour at the Y. W. C. A. The board of directors of the association will be the hostesses for the afternoon and they have arranged for the South Bend High School (lle crutj to sins and Prof. Frederick H. Ingersoll will play. l n. Manning will talk on the "Extension of Suffrage to Human Heings". Following this tea will be served during the social hour.

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