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PUBLIrHED DAZLY ander order of THE PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES by COMMITTEE an PUBLIC INFORMATION GEORGE CREEL, Chairman * * COMPLETE Record ofU. GOVERNMENT Activities Voi. 2 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918. No. 477 PRESIDENT WILSON ASKS UNITED SUPPORT OF CONGRESS ON PEACE MISSION TO PARIS; GOES AS THE "SERVANT OF THE NATION" WILL KEEP "INCLOSE TOUCH" PLAN FOR THE ADJUSTMENT Counts Upon "Friendly Countenance and En- OF TERMINATED CONTRACTS couragement" at Peace Conference---Cables EXPLAINED INSTATEMENT Taken Over to Insure the Freest Communica- BY DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS tion---Absence to be Brief as Possible---Fi- nances, Railroads, Employment, and Other CONTRACTORS FIRST Problems Discussed in Annual Address. TO MAKE INVENTORY At a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, convened to-day This, After Being Checked shortly after the third session of the Sixty-fifth Congress began, the by Accountants of the War President delivered the following address: Department, to Be Pre- GEN-TLEMEN OF THE CoNGEss: The year that has elapsed since I last stood before sented to District Boards. you to fulfill ray constitutional duty to give to the Congress from time to time in- formation on the state of the Union has been so crowded with great events, great Repayments, where Neces- processes, and great results that I cannot hope to give you an adequate picture of sary to Relieve Working its transactions or of the far-reaching changes which have been wrought in the life Capital to Enable Plants of our nation .and of the world. You have yourselves witnessed these things,. as I have. It is too soon to assess them; and we who stand in the midst of them and to Resume Commercial are part of them are less qualified than men of another generation will be to say Output, Pending F i n a 1 what they mean, or even what they have been. But some great outstanding facts are unmistakable and constitute, in a sense, part of the public business N ith which Settlement. it is our duty to deal. To state them is to set the stage for the legislative and The War Department authorizes the executive action which must grow out of them and which we have yet to shape following statement by Benedict Crowell, and determine. director of munitions, as to methods of Vast Army Transported Overseas in a Year. contract adjustment: The armistice has come when Ameri- A year ago we had sent 145,918 men overseas. Since then we have sent 1,950,513, can industry was reaching the peak of an average of 162,542 each month, the number in fact rising, in May last to 245,951, its production. There are, therefore, on in June to 278,760, in July to 307,182, and continuing to reach similar figures in thousands of contracts outtanding which commitments for raw material for August and September,-in August 289,570 and in September 257,438. No such the future have been made, on which movement of troops ever took place before, across three thousand miles of sea, fol- much raw material has been received, on lowed by adequate equipment and supplies, and corried safely through extraordinary which there is a large amount of work in dangers of attack,-dangers which were alike strange and infinitely difficult to guard various stages of completion on its way through the shops. against. In all this movement only seven hundred and fifty-eight men were lost by enemy attack;- six hundred and thirty of whom were upon a single English trans- Points for Determination. port which was sunk near the Orkney Islands. The department has first to determine as to each of these contracts whether it Profited by Experience of Other Nations. is to be carried through, whether the rate of amount of production is to be so re- I need not tell you what lay back of this great movement of men and material. duced that the manufacturer can gradu- It. is not invidious to say that back of it lay a supporting organization of the ally taper of and ret into his accustomed industifes of the country and of all its productive activities more complete, more civilian work, or whether the contract is thorough in method and effeethe in result, more spirited and unanimous in purpose to lie terminated at once. These ques- tions have to be decided with due regard and effort than any other great belligerent had been able to effect. We profited to the conditions of the particular In- greatly by the experience of the nations which had already been engaged for nearly dustry and the huportance of preserving three years in the exigent and exacting business, thcir every resource and every ex- the continuous employment of labor, (Continued on page 5.) (Continued on page 9.) 2 TIE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN: MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918. LOSSES BY U. S. CITIZENS DUE WEARING OF UNIFORMS ORDNANCE COMMITTEES NAMED TO U-BOAT WARFARE SHOULD BE BY ARMY RESERVE OFFICERS TO PLAN WORK AT ARSENALS REPORTED DURING THIS MONTH The War Department authorizes the The War Department authorizes the following circular: following from the Ordnance Bureau: NOTICE BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE WEHRING OF UNiromrs BY RESERVE Further developing the plans for con- OFFICERS. sideration of arsenal facilities hereafter Information Concerning Losses of to be required for the work of manufac- The provision of section 125, national ture and repair which should be directly Cargoes or Other Property of defense act, approved June 3, 1916 (Bull. performed by the Ordnance Department, No. 16, W. D., 1916), which permits any Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams, Chief of Ord- Americans Should Be Submitted person who has been honorably dis- nance, has appointed three committees charged from the United States Army, charged with consideration of three Only When Uninsured or But Navy, or Marine Corps, Regular or Volun- branches of this work. These committees PartiallyInsured. teers, to wear his uniform from the place will report to the previously-appointed of discharge to his home, within three board of ordnance officers, of which Brig. months after date of such discharge, is Gen. John T. Thompson is senior member. In order that American citizens and held to apply to reserve officers when concerns may be per.mitted to cooperate transferred from the active to the inactive Committees and Subjects. of State in the fully with the Department list. Reserve officers, therefore, will be The committees and and accurate ascertainment of the subjects as- complete permitted to wear their uniforms from signed their consideration are: the losses sustained by them as a result the place of last duty to their homes of German submarine warfare, both be- Col. John W. Joyes, Col. Charles T. within three months of the date on which Harris, jr., and Col. James H. Burnes. fore and after the United States entered they were transferred to the inactive list. has des- All plants engaged in the manufacture of the war, the Secretary of State By order of the Secretary of War. explosives and all loading days, dating from plants. ignated a period of 30 PEYTON C. MARCH, Col. Earle McFarland and December 1, 1918, in which such informa- Lieut. Col. General, Chief of Staff. J. S. Hatcher: Tihe establishment of a tion may be filed with the department. Government to losses of Official: plant for the manufacture Information with respect P. C. HAnts, of machine guns, pistols, and automatic cargoes or other personal property or The Adjutant General. rifles. should be effects owned by Americans Col. G. H. Stewart, Col. H. B. Hunt, submitted only where the same were un- and Lieut. Col. R. A. Bruce: Manufacture insured or only partially insured, and was REDUCED CHARGE FOR MEALS and development of ammunition. regardless of whether the property The arsenal vessels facklities and ordnance carried in American or foreign manufacture and where the loss oc- SERVED SOLDIERS ON TRAINS repair board, named and of the locality some days ago, after investigating and curred or of the destination of the vessel. Instructions have been issued by Di- considering the whole subject, covered by in- is to pre- In case of losses partially rector General of Railroads McAdoo to pare and submit a project showing the surance the total value and the amount furnish discharged soldiers and sailors distribution of the work, the capacity to should be given. To the of the in4urance traveling to their points of enlistment, be provided, and the manner and location original invoice or actual value of unin- with so-called military meals at the spe- of the arsenals proposed. sured property should be added all ex- cial rate of 75 cents as granted to men in penses incurred in connection therewith. the service under an arrangement made Board of Review. The name and address of the owner with the several military departments Gen. Williams has also announced the should be given in every instance. sometime ago. appointment of a board of officers to re- Statements by Insurance Companies. Special reduced fares accorded dis- view the general subject of ordnance American insurance companies who charged soldiers and sailors are on the proving grounds. This board, consisting have paid, or have pending for settle- basis of two-thirds of the normal coach of Col. C. B. Gatewood, Lieut. Col. C. J. ment, cargo and other personal property fare applying via route traveled, or 2 Browne, and Lieut. Col. B. W. Simpson, losses of Americans, in both American cents per mile, except that the rate per will make recommendations for postwir and foreign bottoms, may submit state- mile would, of course, be higher in those requirements along this line.