PEACEANDBREAD. PRESIDENTGREETS SENT HEAD OF ......Van Schaick In regard to the position of...

WEATHER.Fair tonight and tomorrow; llttla

change In temperature.Temperature for twenty-four hours

ending 2 p.m.: Highest. ,-"chesapeake and Potomac Telephone

Company's value is placed by the com¬mission at *6,783,932.48. This corpora¬tion had claimed a value of *7,784.67Where Heaviest Cuts Were Made.The biggest cuts were made in the rat-jings for the Potomac Electric Power and

the Washington Gas Light Companies.President Clarence P. King of the formercompany said this afternoon he could notstate what steps would be taken by thatcompany until he had opportunity to goover the report. That one or more com¬panies may protest the figures throughcourt proceedings is considered probable.In announcing its findings the commis¬sion stated that it would hand down anopinion in each case within a few days.With respect to the Potomac Electric

Power Company, the commission gavea rating of *10.250.000 as of July 1.1914. when the Investigation began,and allowed net additions to invest¬ment in company's property up to De¬cember 31, 1916, of *981.170.43. for atotal of *11,231.170.43. This amount In¬cludes some allowances for intangiblevalues, but does not include the com¬pany's claim of *1,000.000 for its GreatFalls water power site and numerousclaims for intangibles which in them¬selves totaled approximately *M#0,-000. bringing the total value assertedby the company up to the twenty-tbree-mlllion-dollar mane.

Gas light Companies.In .the case of the Washington Gas

Light Company the commission firstfinds a value as of December 31, 1914,amounting to *8,800,000 and allows ad¬ditions to December 31, 1916, of *297,-873.61, for a total of *9,097,873.31. Thiscompany likewise had made extensiveclaims for intangible values in report¬ing a total value of *18,015,094.The Georgetown Gas Light Company

was rated at *775,000 as of December31, 1915. and given additions amountingto' *54,886 up to December 31. 1916,for a total of *829,886.59. This com¬pany had sought an allowance of *200,-000 for franchises. Including going con¬cern and business values.For the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel¬

ephone Company the rating given. asof July 1. 1914. is *6,400,000. Additionsto December 31. 1916, amounting to1383 932.48. were allowed, the resultanttotal being *6,783.932.48. The commis¬sion made some allowances for in¬tangibles in this case, but they weremuch lower than the amounts soughtby the company.

READY FOR CONFEREESSenate Substitutes Its Measure for,

That Passed by House.Pointsof Difference.

The new army draft bill is now readyfor consideration by the conferees, theSenate having substituted its bill forthe measi^e passed by the House. Thereare but three essential points of dif¬ference between the House and Senate;first, the age limit of conscripts, theSenate fixing it between the ages oftwenty-one-and twenty-seven and theHouse twenty-one and forty; second,the Senate authorization for Col. Roose¬velt to raise four infantry divisions ofvolunteer troops for foreign service,and the Senate s provision as to prohi¬bition. both of which the House re¬jected.The bill probably will not go Into

conference, however, until the emer¬gency army appropriation bill hasbeen completed by the conferees, whichwill be toward the end of the week.Hefore substituting its bill for the

House measure the Senate voted down,68 to 4 Senator La Follette s proposi¬tion to submit the selective draft to areferendum of the people. It also re¬nted. without division, an amendmentoffered by Senator Gronna forbiddingthe manufacture of gram into Intoxi¬cant. The Senate likewise defeated.

vote of 54 to 17. benator Ale-Cumber's amendment, exempting thosewh^e religious belief .is opposed to war¬fare or military service.The conferees on the part of the

Senate will be Senators Chamberlain.» °rhcock and Warren.

Fire in Milling Plant.CHICAGO. May 2.Fire did *15,000

damage to the plant of the B. A. Eck-hart Milling Company here early todayand caused the fall of a 50.000-gallonwater tank, which gave rise to reportsthat the building had been bombed.There was no loss of life.

H. B. Wheatley, Author, Dies.LONDON. May 2..Henry BenjaminIWheatley. a well known British au¬

thor. died Monday. He was born ini»38 in Chelsea.

PEACE AND BREAD.PLEAOF WORKERS

Austrian and Hungarian Toil¬ers Glorify Russ Revolutionin May Day Demonstrations.

BERLIN REPORTS QUIET

By the Associated Press.LONDON, May 2..Work stopped com¬

pletely throughout Austria-Hungary onMay day, according to wireless dis¬patches from Bern. All of the Viennamunition factories were left Idle whilethe workers gathered at sixty massmeetings, where the food question andthe need of immediate peace were thechief topics.Identical resolutions were passed at

all the meetings demanding peacewithout annexations or indemnities.One resolution glorified the Russianrevolution, and appealed to socialists ofRussia to conclude peace with theirGerman and Austrian brothers.A procession of 100,000 men and wom¬

en marched along the Ringstrasse, andfrom there to the Prater, Vienna's greatpleasure park, where a fete was held.The dispatches say that there waa nodisorder throughout the day.

Work Halts in Hungary.In Hungary a holiday was observed

in all the towns. The socialists paradedin Budapest, singing labor songs, withfrequent shouts for peace and bread.A telegram from Budapest, Hungary,

today says:"Yesterday, being Labor day, there

was a cessation of work. All factoriesand business establishments wereclosed. No newspapers appeared. Thesocialists held a number of meetings,which passed appropriate resolutions.There were no disorders."

Great Swedish Demonstration.A Stockholm dispatch says that the

greatest spcialist demonstration everseen in Scandinavia was held through¬out Sweden May day. The demonstra¬tion was brought to a peaceful conclu¬sion, although ,the result had been an¬ticipated with anxiety and nervousness.Great crowds assembled in the streets

of Stockholm, carrying banners withinscriptions demanding more food andbetter conditions of life. Hundreds ofchildren with peace banners partici¬pated, and order was maintained byspecial police appointed by the work¬ers.The parade was headed by Hjalmar

Branting, the Swedish socialist leader;Fieter Troelstra, head of the socialistinternational bureau, and Camille Huys-mans, secretary of the international bu¬reau. The procession passed along themain streets, the enormous crowd* Hing¬ing "The Marseillaise" and "The Inter¬nationale." A mass meeting was heldoutside the city, where the leadingsocialists made speeches, stating thedemands of the working classes.

Order Is Maintained.At sunset thousands of workmen re¬

turned to the city, but no riots oc¬curred. The good order maintained iscredited to M. Branting, who promisedthe authorities that no disturbanceswould occur. M. Branting, commentingon the demonstration, said:"This May day will never be forgot¬

ten, for the overwhelming number ofdemonstrators indicated the peacefulattitude of the Swedish working classesand is a strong justification of theirdemands."While no trouble has so far been re¬

ported, the dispatch, which was datedearly Tuesday evening, said that dis¬turbances were feared in the night. Noreports have been received from thenorthern industrial districts, where thesituation was regarded as grave.At the Stockholm mass meeting, in

which 67,000 persons participated, aresolution was adopted declaring thatthe internationale had been resuscitat¬ed and that a durable peace was as¬sured. The resolution concluded withan indorsement of an eight-hour day,revision of the constitution and peaceon socialist terms.A Christiania dispatch says that the

usual May day demonstrations wereheld all over Norway and that no re¬ports of disorder have been received.The Norwegian newspapers report thatmuch dissatisfaction was expresed ev¬erywhere in consequence of the highprices of the necessaries of life.

No Strikes, Says Berlin.BERLIN, May 2, via London..Ef¬

forts of the radical socialists to cele¬brate May day by a holiday In the mu¬nition factories failed. No cessation ofwork is reported. No parades wereheld and no disturbances occurred.

In announcing the failure of theplans to create holiday strikes the Ber¬lin authorities have offered a rewardof 3,000 marks for the prosecution of"agitators in enemy service who aretrying to start dissension, especiallyin the labor ranks, in Germany."

Dutch Ask for Peace.AMSTERDAM, via London, May 2..

An orderly socialist May day proces¬sion was held. Banners carried by themarchers bore inscriptions calling forpeace and the maintenance of Holland'sneutrality. There also was a socialistMay day procession at Rotterdam, inwhich Russians. Poles, Germans andBelgians participated and sang songsin their respective languages. TheRussians carried red banners inscribed"Long Live the Russian Republic!"and "Long Live the Proletariat!"At The Hague, when the May day

Drocession passed the royal palace, themarchers intoned "The Internationale."the hymn of the international social¬ists. The police did not interfere.

Crisis in Governmentof Germany Reported;

Changes Are DemandedBy the Associated Pre.*.AMSTERDAM, via London, May 2..The Weber Zeitung of Bremen reportsthat Berlin Is filled with rumors of acrisis in high government quarters. Thenewspaper says that demands are beingmade that a strong man be placed atthe helm of the state.The Hamburger Fremdenblatt. at the

end of a three-column editorial, comesto the conclusion that the Germanpolitical system is a failure and mustbe changed. The paper says:"There Is no use theorizing. There is

something wrong with our govern¬mental system, as is clearly proved byGermany's political failures and. in fact,by the whole war. Fresh blood mustbe Infused in the government."The Fremdenblatt advocates the re¬

moval of the bureauatrlQ batteries, in

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR PATRIOTIC SERVICE.

MARKET ECONOMY.

order to allow the parliament and gov¬ernment to work in closer touch.

Masons Loyal to Kaiser.The Berlin Tageblatt takes up the

statement of Koelnische Volks Zeitungthat at a Freemasons' congress In ParisIt was decided to Instigate an anti-monarchical movement in Germany,with the chief aim of dethroning theemperor. The Tageblatt says thatleaders of German Freemasonry haveinformed it that they have absolutelynothing to do with such outgrowths ofso-called international Freemasonry.They stand on a strictly national basis,are determinedly loyal to the emperorand empire and, the paper says, do notconcern themselves with politicalmachinations.

Favor Democratization.LONDON. May 2..A dispatch to Ren¬

ter's Telegram Company from Amsterdamsays:" The regional organization In greater

Berlin of the socialist party, according tothe Berliner Tageblatt, has adopted a res¬olution. which say*:

** 'Since a liberal expansion of the Ger¬man constitution will facilitate the speedyinauguration of peace negotiations, werequest the socialist party committee tostrive for the supercesslon of the policyof promises of small concessions by athorough democratization of the Germanempire.'"Such action, according to the resolu¬

tion, would include equal suffrage andresponsible ministries for the empire andthe federal states."

Questions von Hindenburg.A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph

Company from Amsterdam says:"The Berliner Tageblatt asserts that

Dr. Cohn, socialist member of the reich-stag, proposes the appointment of a par¬liamentary committee to consider theGerman military leadership. The pan-German papers express profound indigna¬tion that a Jewish lawyer like Dr. Cohnshould wish to control Field Marshal vonHindenburg. but the extreme socialistsinsist .4m a discussion of his proposal,since von Hindenburg'h powers now farexceed those of a chief of staff."

PLACED AT U. S. DISPOSAL.

Industrial Plants With $500,000,-000 Capital for War Use.

PITTSBURGH. PS., May 2..Industrialplants in the Pittsburgh district repre¬senting capital estimated at $500,000,-000, and employing more than 100,000men are at the disposal of the UnitedStates government for war-time needs. IAnnouncement was made today thatmembers of the Employers Associationof Pittsburgh had ratified the actionof the association's directors in tender¬ing to the government the use of theirlands.A. L. Humphrey, president of the

Union Switch and Signal Company, ispresident of( the Employers' Associa¬tion. Many of the plants are alreadyequipped for munition making.

Fire Bouts Hotel Quests.CHICAGO, May 2..More than 200

guests were driven from their beds tothe street early today by a fire whichbroke out on the fifth floor of theVictoria Hotel, at the corner of Clarkand Van Buren streets. The damagewas small and no one was injured.Many guests in three other large hotelsnearby were aroused and much excite-ment prevailed until it was known the;fire had b'een extinguished. )

Stanley Washburn, FormerWar Correspondent, Regards

It as Vital Necessity.

WANTS U. S. STAND SPREAD

Somewhere on the eastern front 11,000Russian soldiers sat in a grove of treesand for two hours watched moving Pic¬tures showing the activities of Britishtroops In the far-off western theater ofwar. That performance gave most ofthem the first concrete and authorita¬tive news that the English were in thewar. Some of them had heard it, andprobably many doubted it; but on thatoccasion they had absolute visual proofand were elated accordingly.This story is told by Stanley Wash¬

burn, formerly war correspondent forthe London Times, who has been inthree belligerent countries since thebeginning of hostilities, and who urgesas an absolutely vital necessity in warwork a publicity campaign to spreadthroughout Russia the news thatAmerica is in the war; is in it "forkeeps" and, if only Russia will holdout, will assure victory for the allies.Mr. Washburn, who is now living in

Washington, told a reporter for TheStar today that England has alreadyseen and acted on the necessity for apublicity campaign in Russia; that shemaintains in Petrograd a huge oflicebuilding and a large staff for the pur¬pose, and has spent and will continueto spend any amount to make thiscampaign a success.

Now Greatest Factor in War."America must do likewise," says

the correspondent. "We have voted$7,000,000,000 to kill the Germans, butnone to inform the comparatively lowintelligence of the Russians of the factthat the economic and military sup¬port of the United States is lining upbehind them. The immediate effect ofa knowledge both by the Russians andthe Germans as to what we can andwill do will be amazing. America's in¬tention is now the greatest factor inthe war. The spending of a sum suf¬ficient to make that intention plainmay prevent the necessity for buryingon foreign soil a large portion of themillion men we intend to raise. Itwill give to Germany positive assurancethat her 'corner in men' is broken,just as the definite knowledge of anintention to plant additional grain willbreak a 'corner' in that grain, basedon the visible supply.

For Nation-Wide Campaign."Ours should be a nation-wide adver¬

tising campaign. If both Russia andGermany fail to appreciate our realintention; if Russia should relax orshould retire with an accompanyingfailure of discipline, or be conquered,and the Germans on the eastern frontbe released for western work, then thewar will revert to the status of beforethe battle of the Marne, and may lastthree years. If the reverse happens and

RECRUITS FOR NAVY EXPECTEDAT STAR MEETING TONIGHT

With facilities at hand to enlist any applicants thatmay come forward, many recruits for the United StatesNavy are expected to be obtained as the result of therecruiting meeting to be held in front of The Star build¬ing tonight. It will be the first recruiting meeting heldunder the auspices of The Star since the Senate andHouse voted for conscription for the army.

Addresses are to be made by Representative LemuelP. Padgett of Tennessee, chairman of the naval affairscommittee of the House; Lieut. S. F. Bryant of the May¬flower and Yeoman H. L. Thompson of the Mayflower.The band of the Mayflower is to give a concert beginningat 7:30 o'clock. .... . ,The motion picture program is to include a specialrecruiting reel made by the Herald Film Company, apatriotic Mutual film and the latest issue of the PatheNews.

America does her whole duty, I thinkthe war will be over within a year.*'Mr. Washburn compares the problemin hand with the advertising: campaignnepessary to the merchandising of newcommodity. Publicity is necessary tosafeguard the original investment andthe publicity should not be niggardlynor haphazard nor indefinite. It mustreach the ultimate consumer, who, inthis case, is represented primarily byRussia. He emphasizes the importanceor the work to be done by the Americanrailroad commission, an important partof whose labor should be the speedingup of traffic on the trans-Siberian roadover which our supplies must go. TheRussians are splendid people, he ex¬plains, but in the face of recent politi¬cal developments are likely to lackcohesion.

Should Profit by Mistake."I have been in three countries which

started in with the idea, later revised,that the war, to them, was not vitallyserious," concluded Mr. Washburn."These are Russia, England and Ru¬mania. I don't want to see Americapay for such a mistake as they havepaid. Financial errors cost money, butmistakes in war cost the blood of thou¬sands of Innocent people. The greatestthing for America is to realize that thiswar is a deadly serious one. It can bespelled victory for us only if each manrealizes his Individual responsibility,and if the whole nation realizes that acrisis in the war is imminent this sum¬mer and that, if we fail, it then maystart all over again. Failure to makeplain our intentions, however good,may prove not a mistake but a nationaltragedy. Success in making them plainwill result in a moral factor on whichI believe the outcome largely rests."

GERMAN CHANCELLOR'SPEACE TALK PUT OFF

Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg to Awaita "More Fitting

Occasion."

By the Associated Press.COPENHAGEN. May 2, via London,

4:01 p.m..The speech which was tohave been made in the reichstag by Dr.von Bethmann Hollweg, the Germanimperial chancellor, on peace and in¬ternal conditions has been postponed toa more fitting occasion, according toword received here.

According to the Berliner Tageblatt,as quoted in a dispatch from TheHague on Tuesday, Dr. von BethmannHollweg was to have made a peaceoffer in the reichstag on Thursday. Thespeech had betn awaited with thegreatest interest in view of the recentreports, of conditions in Germany, no¬tably in connection with labor and so¬cialism, and also because of an intima¬tion in one of the German newspapersthat the moderation of the Germanpeace terms would "astonish theworld."Authentic news from Germany has

been so meager of late that it is diffi¬cult to judge what developments,either internal or external, may haveinduced the chancellor to alter his re¬ported decision to make another an¬nouncement regarding Germany's in¬ternational relations and possibly herdefinite war aims.

URGES BAN ON GRAINS INALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Special Committee Makes Other Sug¬gestions .in Resolutions Pre¬

sented Federal Board.

Action by the proper authorities toprevent the use of grains in the manu¬facture of alcoholic beverages duringthe period of the war is recommendedas a vital step In the conservation ofthe nation's food supply, in resolu¬tions presented the federal trade, com¬mission today, and through the com¬mission to the nation, by a special com¬mittee appointed by the state repre¬sentatives who closed a two-day ses¬sion at the commission yesterday.Three other recommendations are

made by the committee which washeaded by Frank S. Lusk of Montana,chairman, and John Paul Lucas ofNorth Carolina, secretary. The com¬mittee held a meeting last night, anddrew up the resolution presented tothe commission today.Mobilization of the country's labor

forces for agricultural purposes onsome basis of federal enlistment andrecognition, speeding up transportationof foodstuffs throughout the nation,and federal limitation of the use oftin for containers other than foodswere the other threa recommendations.

PRESIDENT GREETSSTATE CONFEREES

Receives Delegates Here toPlan Co-Operation in De-

fense of Nation.

"DRY" QUESTION DEBATED

President Wilson today received atthe White House the representativesfrom every state in the Union. Includ¬ing at least ten governors, who wereInvited here to confer with the councilof national defense, for unification ofthe country's resources and energiesfor the war by closer co-operation be¬tween federal and state authorities.Secretary Lane told the conference

that this government had heard that400,000 tons of shipping had been sunkIn the last week by German sub¬marines."The United States must build ships

as. /aP'd'y as possible," Secretary Lanetold the delegates. "If we don't fight thewar on the other side," he said, "weshall have to fight it on this side ofthe Atlantic." The havoc wrought bythe Gej-man submarines he describedas threatening not only the existence ofEngland and France, but as alarmingthe United States. Study of Inventionsto combat the submarine menace isbeing diligently pursued by the InteriorDepartment, he said.

Secretary Baker's Views.Secretary Baker said: "Our part on

the other side once determined is sub¬ject to revision. No program can bemade up that will last beyond tomor¬row."The states, said Secretary Baker, can

assist the government in three ways inputting Into operation the draft lawfirst, by giving support to the draft:second, by aiding in recruiting, andthird, by seeing to it that proper ex¬emptions are enforced and that menneeded at home are not sent into thearmy.

are not going to make war,"said Secretary Baker, "with our righthand or our left hand, but with bothhands, and every man in the countrycan aid."

Secretary Daniels on Recruiting.Secretary Daniels announced that the

navy had been recruited to fullstrength, but he asked the aid of thestates in recruiting its personnel to150,000 men after the new navy bill Ispassed. He. too, talked frankly of thesubmarine menace. The danger of thesubmarine, he said, was not dreamed ofa year ago.Judge Advocate General Crowder out¬

lined to the representatives the gov¬ernment's plans for putting into oper¬ation the selective draft and asked fullco-operation of the states.The delegates, many of whom are

chairmen or member* of state councilsor defense, also heard addresses on thisneed of concentrated efforts made bySecretary Wilson of the Labor Depart-

^ Raymond A. Plerson. presidentof the Iowa State Agricultural College,who Is acting as assistant to Secretaryof Agriculture Houston, discussed foodproblems.

Speakers for Tomorrow.Other government officials to address

this delegation tomorrow will include:W. S. Gifford. director of the council

and advisory commission; members ofthe advisory commission; Dr. George E.Hale, chairman, national research coun¬cil; George Creel, chairman of the com¬mittee on public information, recentlycreated by the President; Secretary ofCommerce Redfield and Eliot Wads-worthy vice chairman of the AmericanRed Cross.The principal subjects under discus¬

sion are: Prohibition during the war toconserve the food materials ordinarilyused for liquor; encouragement of largecrop production and better marketingmethod; labor supply, particularly forshipbuilding and farm work: industrialconditions affecting the output of muni¬tions and other war supplies.Gov Nat Harris of Georgia Intro¬

duced the prohibition question and urgedthe other governors to recommend Itas a war measure to the President andto the people of their states A De¬partment of Agriculture report coveringan investigation made by Dr. AlonzoTaylor of the University of Pennsyl¬vania on the relation of the liquor ques¬tion to the grain supplv was citedshowing that In 1916 *143,000,000 worthof grain and other food materials wereconsumed In liquor manufacture in theUnited States. Fermented liquors took$101,000,000, and distilled liquors 144-000,000. The largest Items were $76-000,000 wortluof malt, 123.000,000 worthof corn and $18,000,000 of molasses.Administration Silent on Attitude.The administration has made no an¬

nouncement of its attitude on the ques¬tion of wartime prohibition, althoughsome cabinet members, it is known, arein favor of it. Other members'arebothered about finding sources of rev¬enue to take the place of liquor taxesIf a prohibition measure should bepassed.Agents of the Department of Agricul¬

ture explained to the state representa¬tives plans for organizing the UnitedBoys' Working Reserve for summerfarm work. City boys, particularly inthe east and middle west, would be em¬ployed in canning factories, and ar¬rangements already have been madewith the National Canners' Associationto ascertain what extra help will beneeded.Governors who responded to invita¬

tions to attend the conferences included-Harris of Georgia, Harding of IowaMllliken of Maine, Boyle of Nevada"Edge of New Jersey. Frazier of NorthDakota. Lister of Washington. Corn-well of West Virginia, Alexander ofIdaho and Manning of South CarolinaWilliam H. Baldwin is representing

the District of Columbia in these con¬ferences.

TURKISH MOVE F0K PEACE.

Interest in Visit of Grand Vizier tothe Central Powers.

LONDON. May 2, 12:55 p.m..Accord¬ing to Amsterdam dispatches con¬siderable importance is attached to thevisits that Talaat Pasha, the Turkishgrand vliier. Is paying the central pow¬ers. The correspondent say that afterseeing Emperor William and Field Mar¬shal von Hindenburg at German head¬quarters he went to Munich and con-fered with King Ludwig and theBavarian ministers. Later he went toVienna, where he Is said to have dis¬cussed the prospects of peace and con¬cessions regarding the Dardanelleswith Count Cxernin, the Austro-Hun-garlan foreign minister.The Turkish premier's visit to Vienna

at the moment when Count von Zeit-ling, the Bavarian prime minister, wasthere is considered to be especially sig¬nificant. ,

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TROOPS TD BE SENT 1U FRANCESOON ASOUR AEEIES ADVISE

United States Army to Go toFront When Food Ships Can

Be Diverted.

NATIONAL GUARD MAY BE 'FIRST FORCE TO EMBARK

French Million Believes These MenWith Border Training Are Beady, i

Peace Efforts Scouted. J

Members of the French waifcommission today had assurancethat the American government iswilling to send troops to Francawhen our allies believe they canspare ships necessary for trans¬porting an army and its equip*ment across the Atlantic.Such a course was one of th£

urgent recommendations thdFrench commissioners brought tothis country. The fact that thecommission is understood to hav^pointed out that the troops re*cently returned from the Mexicatfborder are fit to begin a five*week training "within sound ofthe cannon," resulted in specula*tion today about the possibilityof the National Guard being sen#into the trenches in France. j

Discussed at Luncheon. )Minister Vlvlani and Minister Hove*

lacque of the French commission toolcluncheon at the White House today;with President Wilson, when the sub*ject of such an expedition again cam#up for discussion, and it is presumedthat they again urged the project upo^the President.In spite of objections of the general

staff to putting any American foroeoathe firing line before the great wararmy has been raised and trained, th#administration has determined thtttN.mall contingent earnestly desired to?Pranoe for moral effect shall be sentas soon as possible. The general bo-lief here is that the way soon will KKIfound.Whether the force first to carry thd

Stars and Stripes into battle in Franosshall be made up of regulars or na-tional guardsmen, or both, has nogbeen worked out.State Department officials have urged

continuously the sending of an army,solely for its psychological effect, notonly in encouraging the allied troopfebut in discouraging the Germans. Cod*vinced that the diplomatic advantage^far outweighed the technical and train*ing difficulties advanced by the generalstaff, they have felt that such a stepwould consecrate the United States ada full member of the alliance entitledto a most honorable seat at the peaodconference.Some of those who have vigorously

opposed an early expeditionary force adinterfering with the training of a largo#army have modified their views as %result of the arguments advanced bythe military experts with the FreneHcommission that training can be muchbetter carried out in France within,sound of the guns. Nevertheless, th#opposition of the staff has not wavered*

Vast Tonnage Needed.The amount of tonnage that would

be required for transport is usually putat about twenty tons per man In %fully equipped force. For the regularAmerican unit of 24,000 men, nearlyhalf a million tons, therefore, wouldbe necessary. It remains for the allie#to figure out if they can afford tmdivert that amount of shipping.Little doubt exists that the FrencH

will gladly put up with any sacrificenecessary to have American troops inFrance, as the great plea of their mis¬sion has been for troops with th#American flag. They have pointed outthat this is needed to convince th#Germans beyond doubt that all the re*sources of the United States have beenlthrown into the battle.The British also are known to bd

anxious to have American troops inFrance as a final earnest of Americanparticipation, but there is reason t#believe that they have taken a some.what more detached view than th#French. Overcome by the whole-heart-edness of American co-operation in th#war, they believe that the one essentialis to marshal the common resources t