New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-12
If Ames Is Crazy, 100 Fol
lowers Will Ask To Be
Put Up at Bellevue.
COLLECTION TO PAY
FOR FLAG BURNING
Union Seminary Student Tells
Revolutionists Melting Pot
Meant No Insult.

Unless the psychopathic staff at
Bellevue is looking for trouble, Ned
Ames, "drillmaster" of the Rev Bouck
Whites flock in the Church of the So
cial Revolution, probably will walk out
of the hospital observation ward few
days hence with diploma attesting
his complete sanity.
Should the verdict on Ames be differ
ent, a hundred Social Revolutionists
are pledged to drop in at Bellevue, in
sist they are sufferers from the same
species of craziness and demand &C
commodations.
The hundred, following the leader
ship of a brown-eyed girl, who seemed
to miss Ames even more than did the
rest of the flock, took their pledge yes
terday in Whites front parlor chapel,
at 1875 West Twenty-frst Street.
After it was taken letter was writ
ten to the "drllmaster,' promising
that if the brain doctors decided 70
hold him he would not be alone in their
clutches.
Burning Meant No Insult"
In Bouck Whites enforced absence
he being in the second week Of a
months stay in prson-the meeting
was led by Henry Babcock, a student
in the Union Theological Seminary.
Young Mr. Babcock, too, has suffered.
lie Is the same youth who tried to stop
the recent preparedness parade by
waving the red banner of the impend-
ing revolution in its patriotic face;
the same youth who landed that day in
a police station.
The boy preacher was more in his
element when he led the congregation
through the stirring measures of hymns
such as The Worlds Mammon Wor-
shipping Madness" an a Moral Issue
Neutrality Is Sim" death, Poverty
and Public Opinion" "Shame on the
Social Climbers" Shout with Lungs
of Leather" The Tough. Hard Tussle
Against Mammon" and God, Powerful
and Weird. in the Mysterious Realm
sociological
Introductory hymns were followed
by an address by Lawrence Plank, an
other youth from the seminary. lie
explained once more that when the
American flag was burned in the back
yard ceremonial Of June /, a desecra-
ton for which White and nine others
are now under indictment, no especial
disrespect to the Stars and Stripes was
intended.
Socialism Cure for tuberculosis"
eve tried to show in a way that
would command attention" he said,
chow much better il would be II we
had one flag for all nations. The
Melting Pot idea did get atten-
tion. II shocked hundreds of people
into thinking who had never thought
before. The cermony will be vindi-
Gated by time"
DR.. Simon Frucht, of Brooklyn, spoke
and recommended socialism as cure
for tuberculosis
at was when ! decided there was no
other way Of checking the ravages Of
the plague that | became a socialist"
he said. "The bacillus Of tuberculosis
cannot thrive in the systems Of people
who are strong and well fed. To make
them so I look TO socialism"
Some younger persons in the audi
ence who had followed the crowd from
the street meeting in Madison Square,
and who. it is to be feared, were not all
radicals, interrupted DR.. Frucht with
laughter several times. They were Of
ficially reproved.
The services concluded with taking
second collection. The first. young
Mr.. Babcock explained, was for current
expenses. The next was 70 pay what
ever fines follow the flag incident.