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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
12
The Washington Post outlines subscription prices for carrier and mail delivery, including daily and Sunday editions, with weekly and yearly options. It instructs subscribers to remit in advance, change addresses promptly, and renew before expiration, noting mail handling and foreign advertising reps.
A wartime assessment notes German reserves and allied pressure around the Marne area with uncertain outcomes. It argues Russia’s collapse altered the balance, praises American aid, warns against lenient peace terms, and urges relentless pursuit of victory to prevent a future war and disarmament pitfalls. The piece foresees intensified propaganda urging pacifism and outlines the stakes of a final crushing blow.
The State Department announces an American loan of about 50 million dollars to China to be shared by the United States Great Britain France and Japan with China to repay existing debts. The plan revives dollar diplomacy and aims to stabilize China’s finances and government while expanding American capital and influence.
The Saratoga Republican State convention leaders press Col. Theodore Roosevelt as a potential candidate for New York governor. Amid war sacrifice and personal loss, Roosevelt faces uncertainty about consent, yet party unity could push him to run if the rank and file rally behind him. A Roosevelt presidential bid for 1920 is also contemplated if he proves able to unite and lead the party to a decisive win.
The Oklahoma senator defends the agriculture bill and its $2.40 wheat price, claiming wisdom and justice, while opponents view the veto as saving the public from a $400 million tax. The piece argues the motive was political gain, not national interest, and predicts party shifts will hinge on broader public sentiment.
Gen Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien is appointed governor of Gibraltar with a £25,000 annual salary and state residences. The piece traces his career, connections to the Scilly Isles and Tresco Abbey, and notes prior service in India Africa and the Boer and Zulu wars, including a famed endurance run from Zulus and a notable boot kept from that pursuit.
Italy will acquire twelve American type submarine chasers built by Ford in Detroit as part of a naval deal with the United States. These 200 foot vessels, steel hulls designed for speed, are intended for Adriatic waters to improve Italy s anti submarine patrols and bolster efforts against the Austrian fleet. The agreement signals broader orders for similar craft as Italy expands its naval capacity with U S assistance.
American Latin American ambassadors and ministers will visit the Hog Island shipyard in Philadelphia next Friday. Edward N Hurley, head of the shipping board, invited them via the State Department to tour the yard in luncheon cars and inspect the 80 percent complete facility and the 50 warships under construction, with one to be launched August 5.
Director General McAdoo will authorize a high capacity rerouting plan converting parallel lines into double track systems. Robert G Lovett of the railroad administration surveys all lines to combine facilities further and will meet McAdoo in California to seek orders for initial links and rerouting of Pacific coast trains.
President Wilson heard from Representative Lever that government control or fixed pricing of the 1818 cotton crop is not feasible now. Lever, head of the House agriculture committee, met cotton leaders and bankers who favored a government acquisition through a cotton corporation, while small farmers opposed interference. He said the crop could be managed with slow marketing despite high prices and that advocates of government acquisition were convinced it was inadvisable.
Representatives of workers and employers from 28 states gathered to learn the central war labor recruiting program. They were briefed on forming state and local boards to run the program and prepare by Wednesday for government control of unskilled labor recruiting August 1. War industries face shortages of 500,000 unskilled workers and will need 2 to 3 million more. Nathan A Smyth announced these figures, and spokesmen pledged cooperation.
The US added 100 million for Italy and 9.06 million for Belgium, bringing Italy’s total loans to 760 million and Belgium’s to 240.25 million. All new loans amount to 46.38 million.
A Labor Department bulletin urges Americans to boost production and enterprise to aid the war effort. It critiques slack habits and emphasizes initiative and hustle as vital. The piece references a public ledger tax on spoofing and praises Dan Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio as the right man to set a rail schedule on track.
The following officers will proceed as follows Col W H Clopton Jr Maj W E Hobson Capt D B Hannan First Lieut r B Wilson Tobyhanna Pa Capt T Cunningham Fort Adams First Lieut B C Ericson Pompton Lakes N J Capt L H Moore Boston Capt N A Hadin Newport News Capt M Merrill Wort Warren and First Lieut W O McLelland this city
United States Treasury reports revenue receipts for the day and month, ordinary disbursements, and total assets in the general fund. It lists available gold and silver, various currency holdings, and balances in Federal Reserve banks and national banks, with year to date totals and liabilities subtraction.
Twenty one American Red Cross ambulance drivers received the Italian cross of war for bravery during the Austrian offensive. Rome cablegram from Coles Setley of Newark reports King Victor Emmanuel praised the American Red Cross work in Italy. Several drivers named include Askum Tedford J Keaton Raymond Hanks Willard H Ont George Noyes and others with full hometowns largely undisclosed.
The Camden yard of New York Shin building Company launched the 6540 ton collier Tuckahoe in 27 days and may go to the Pacific. Union Iron Works Alameda yard aims to complete a 12000 ton steel freighter in 23 working days. The Alameda yard previously launched four large steel vessels on the Fourth of July and seeks to beat the current championship with the Invincible.
A census report covers 219 U S cities with populations over 39 000 showing expenditures for government costs and improvements exceeded revenues in 1917 by 668 461 362 or 8 90 per person in 129 cities while 90 cities ran a surplus of 24 976 929 or 1 75 per capita Net city indebtedness totaled 2 567 042 507 averaging 77 78 per person New York led in per capita debt at 176 22.
Department of Agriculture forecasts large harvests this year with record peanut production up 13,590,000 bushels to 79,704,000. Dean crop rises to 19,791,000 bushels, sugar beet total 6,247,000 tons. Hop crop at 32,494,000 pounds, broom corn 70,600 tons, kafire 110,006,000 bushels, sorghum syrup 85,337,000 gallons.
Washington dispatch quotes former Ohio governor James E Campbell criticizing a possible third term for President Wilson. Campbell, now out of politics, backs the administration but opposes a third term except in extraordinary cases. He predicts heavy Republican and Prohibition tensions in Ohio and notes cross party stances on Cox and Wilson. The report also mentions Pogham Macdonald, a prominent Canadian veteran, visiting London after volunteering in WWI.
Representative Heflin rails against Democrats and Republicans in Congress accusing them of harassing the President and planning to mislead voters. He recalls a Georgia case where Bill Smyth fled a grand jury, then joined a church, and later resumed illegal activity after court proceedings. He argues pro-German elements must be weeded out.
The head of the United Mine Workers repudiates claims attributed to him that he urged national prohibition and that liquor trade curbs coal production. He states the supposed report is false and blames coal shortages on inadequate transportation, not dry laws.
McAdoo reports railroad administration moved 5,355,090 soldiers to and from camps between May 1, 1917 and July 1, 1914. Arrivals totaled 1,396,000 by special trains, 2,540,000 by regular trains, and 1,079,009 by other services, with many duplications covering multiple movements of the same men.
A dispatch reported by the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant states that mass deportations have begun within Kruistraat near the Dutch frontier after the killing of a German spy. Ages 16 to 60 were affected in the latest measure.
Ransford Stevens Miller United States consul general at Seoul is expected to become chief of the state department division of far eastern affairs to succeed Edward T Williams who will join the University of California faculty in September Miller previously led the division and is a veteran diplomat based in Asia
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