egulations, which I find necessary in the
premises, and for the public safety:

1. No native, citizen, denizen or subject of
Austria-Hungary, being a male of the age of fourteen years
and upward and not actually naturalized, shall depart from
the United States until he shall have received such permit
as the President shall prescribe, or except under order of
a court, judge or justice, under Sections 4069 and 4070 of
the Revised Statutes.

2. No such person shall land or enter the United States
except under such restrictions and at such places as the
President may prescribe.

3. Every such person, of whom there may be reasonable
cause to believe that he is aiding or about to aid the
enemy, or who may be at large to the danger of the public
peace or safety, or who violates or attempts to violate,
or of whom there is reasonable ground to believe that he
is about to violate any regulation duly promulgated by the
President, or any criminal law of the United States, or of
the States or Territories thereof, will be subject to
summary arrest by the United States Marshal or his deputy,
or such other officers as the President shall designate,
and to confinement in such penitentiary, prison, jail,
military camp or other place of detention as may be
directed by the President.

This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall extend
and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way
within the jurisdiction of the United States.

XIX

THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER THE RAILROADS

(_A Statement by the President, December 26, 1917_)

I have exercised the powers over the transportation systems of the
country which were granted me by the Act of Congress of August, 1916,
because it has become imperatively necessary for me to do so.

This is a war of resources no less than of men, perhaps even more
than of men, and it is necessary for the complete mobilization of our
resources that the transportation systems of the country should be
organized and employed under a single authority and a simplified
method of co-ordination which have not proved possible under private
management and control.

The committee of railway executives who have been co-operating with
the Government in this all-important matter have done the utmost that
it was possible for them to do; have done it with patriotic zeal and
with great