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New-York tribune., 1917-08-16

By Ralph Block

Abe and Mawruss-the old ABB and
Mawruss We used to know--cams back
last night, and the audience that might
have been forgiven a bit Of previous
skspticism Of thrice-turned trick
opened its arms wide in welcome once
it set eyes on them. II Is to be hoped
that they brought their cold weather
garments with them, for even though
last night at the Eltinge Theatre was
warm in temptraturs as well in enthu-
siasm the quality of their reception
portends a stay long into the winter
months and through to spring again.
Last nights play gives promise OF
an endless vista Of Abe and Mawruss,
a new frame each year. each more de-
lightful than the one that went be-
fore. IL is only a short step from the
suit and cloak business TO the motion
picture game these days, s3d who
knows but what next year we may see
tho Damon and Pythias Of modern New
York pickering over a partnership In
aeroplanes or munitions.
IL is the films that concerns "Busi-
ness Before Pleasure" but the pictures
themselves have never had anything
half so funny as the adventures of
these two in chasing the elusive spirit
of Fortune through the mazes Of the
motion picture business. True, not a
little of the original Potash and PERL
mutter flavor survives, but the pattern
is a good one, and can serve any num-
Der Of times If it presents such copi-
Gus opportunities for laughter, The
constant qusrrelling, the pretty new lady
employe-this time a film vampirs-the
jealous wife, the soft-hearted but i'm
petuous self-sacrifce Of the two, the
impending business ruin, and the final
resurrection of their fortunes-sll this
is quite familiar, but for once set in
a mould that repetition makes no less
acceptable.
What the newest volume Of Potash
and Perlmutter ought to do is to pretty
we'll establish in sverybody's mind the
almost unbelievable good fortune for
the stage in bringing together within
reach of each other three such people
as Montague Glass, Barney Bernard
and Alexander Carr. Jules Eckert
Goodman is mentioned on the pro-
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Dawson Explains
Red Cross Titles
Emphasizes That Military
Rank Doesn't Change Non.
Combatant Status

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Hsnry P.
Dawson, chairman Of the American Red
Cross War Council, issued a statement
tonight emphasizing that the decision
Of the War Department to authorize
the use Of military titles by Red Cross
officers while on active duty in the war
zone was adopted only as an emergency
measure TO give Red Cross officers in
effect exceptional passports and free
dom of action.
Nothing in this plan changes the
character or status of the American
Red Cross, its officers or any Of its
members" Mr.. DAWSON said. THE
American Red Cross is distinctly non
combstant, civilian organization. Its
character as such will be jeslously
guarded as one of its greatest assets,
and it is the policy Of the Red Cross
10 discourage assumption by its rep
resentatives OF any relationship or ac-
tivity which does not harmonic abso-
lutely with its distinctively civilian
character"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Sailors Attack
Sufragists; Defy
Daniels's Order
Men in Uniform Moving
Spirits in Crowd at
White House

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-In spite of
, an order issued by Secretary Daniels
forbidding any one connected with the
| navy in any capacity" to take part in
attacks on the sufragists at the White
House gates or elsewhere, sailors in
uniform were moving spirits in crowd
which from noon until after 8 o'clock
tonight attacked women who appeared
on the streets with suffrage banners.
This order was posted by the Secre-
tary to-day:
at has been stated in the papers that
men in the naval service have taken
part in tearing down banners which
have been carried in front of the White
House and have been seen in the crowds
in front of the Cameron House, where
the suffragists have their headquarters.
81 have no specific information of any
one connected with tho naval service
actually taking part in these demon
strations, but desire to enjoin on any
and every person connected with the
navy in any capacity that IL is their
duty to be law abiding and to take no
part In any gathering for the purpose Of
taking tho law into their own hands or
participating in these demonstrations.
"The chiefs of bureaus and officers
will see that this is posted In such 8
way that all persons connected with
the department may have knowledge
Of the departments attitude in the
matter before they leave this after
noon"
OF the fifty banners destroyed to-
day, only two bore inscriptions. One
was the Kaiser Wilson" banner, which
started yesterdays riot, and the other
a banner calling on the President to
"Do his bit for democracy at home"
Aroused at the sight of man tear
| ing banner from girl and then trip
ping her TO the pavement, William Bay
ard Hale, who had just left the Exec
| utive Offices, paused at the west gate
of the White House and helped Miss
Katherine Morey, of Massachusetts, to
her feet. Mr. Hale, who was one Of
President Wilson's special envoys -
Mexico, turned Indignantly on the
! crowd, with the remark that only cow
ards attacked women. -.
Hes a German! String him up!
came the answer, and for the next few
minutes Mr.. Hale was showered with
spitballs and paper pellets.
At the east gate of the White House
Miss Alice Paul, of Philadelphia, was
dragged for twenty feet along the
muddy sidewalk. A sailor in uniform
threw her to the ground in a vain at
tempt to tear away her satin shoulder
sash of purple, white and gold
More than a dozen women were
roughly handled by the crowd. Late in
the afternoon policemen appeared and
kept the crowd in check.
A policeman at the east gate cleared
the driveway without difficulty when
the President departed for his drive
shortly before o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
u. S. Judge Refuses
B. r. T. Car Injunction
Special Court to Hear Com
pany's Appeal from Com
missions Order

Judge Veeder in the Federal Court,
Brooklyn, yesterday declined to issue
a temporary restraining order against
the Public Service Commission, as re-
quested by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, to prevent the commission
from taking steps to carry out its order
directing the company to purchase 25O
cars for operation upon its lines. The
Judge announced that he would order
the case before a specially constituted
court in Brooklyn, consisting of one
Circuit Court judge and two District
Court judges, on next Tuesday, at
which time the argument Of the COM
psny for an injunction against the
commission will be heard.
It is the first time that such court
has been constituted in this state, and
is organized under the Federal statute
which makes it necessary for two Dis
trict Court judges and one Circuit
Court Judge TO hear any application
for an injunction against state COM
mission or against the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Ex-Justice
William l.. Ransom, counsel TO the
Public Service Commission, will take
no action In this case against the
Brooklyn company before next Tues
day.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Son Visits Mrs. De Saulles
Toys Amuse Boy in Mothers
Cell in Mineola

MINEOLA, n. Y. Aug. 15.-Jack De
Saulles visited his mother, Blanca De
Saulles, in the county Jail here to-day.
The little boy came to Mineola, ac-
comDaniedby Mrs. G. NJ. Heckscher, OF
Westbury; Mrs. Caroline Degener. sis
ter TO his father, and q private detee-
tive.
The automobile which brought them
drove up TO rear entrance OF the Jail,
and both women remained In it while
the child went to his mother. The de-
tective accompanied him.
For three-quarters Of an hour moth
or and son were together. The un-
happy woman had been told OF the visit
beforehand and had sent out for sew
eral little toys for Jacks amusement.
When the lad reappesred he clutched
tightly tey bird in a resplendent
brass cage.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Enemies Within
Attempt to Stir Class Hatred the Basis for
Anti-War Propaganda
rcUpynsh. 1917. BY n. TnSuH. A.ea.t!onl
Anti-War Propaganda

government, accepting half OF a con-
ditional pledge and refusing TO ac-
cept half; and that when the Ger
man government determined to abide
by the integrity of its own pledge,
and not by his mutilsted version.
he declared this sufficient cause
for war"
After this there is return TO clas
hatred and more of the familiar Nor
gan charges, as follows:
1--WE assert that the actual base
OF our entry into the war is not
democracy, but finance; that the ad-
mitted bankruptcy Of Great Britain
threatened the collapse of the power
Of the House of Morgan, the financial
agent in this country of the Allied
Powers; and the facts indicate that
il was in order 10 place all the re-
sources of this country at the dis
posal Of Morgan that we have en-
tered the war.
eve charge that the British For
eign Minister, Arthur j. Balfour, on
his return to England from this
country stated publicly and solemn
ly that this country is now in al
lance with Great Britain, which
statement, if true, Is based upon
secret alliance unknown to the
Senate and people Of the United
States, and is therefore in viola
tion of the Constitution"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Plays and Players

The next engagement at the Booth,
following the two weeks engagement
OF Adolf Bolm's ballet. will be Arthur
Hammerstein's production Of "De Luxe
Annie" The new piece is mystery
play and is based upon a short story
which lately appeared in one OF the
special dramatic numbers Of "The Sat-
urday Evening Post" The dramatiza-
ton has been made by Edward Clark,
Mr.. Hammerstein's own wireless con-
trolled playwright. 80
In the cast of "De Luxe Annie will
be Willette Kershaw, Vincent Serrano,
Albert Bruning, Mary Hall, Minnie
Milne, Thurlow Bergen, Walter Wilson,
Percy Pollock, Edward Mackay and
Jrck MacBryde. The new play will
open here on September 3.
After all, the theatre which Rush and
Andrews are constructing next to the
Cort, on Forty-eighth Street, will not
be known as the Stuyvessnt. IL Will,
instead, be called the Vanderbilt.
Anna Case, of the Metropolitan, is
about to enter the hlms for limited
period. She will be under the direc-
tion of Julius Stsger and Joseph M.
Schenck.
The YorIVille Theatre, on East Eigh-
ty-sixth Street, will begin another sea
son on September IL. Adolf Philip,
who was elected for a four-year term,
will again be present as manager, di-
rector, author, composer and actor, but
during the season ahead he will intro
duce something Of an innovation by
producing several plays not from his
own pen. The opening production will
be musical comedy entitled "The
Landlady," by and with Mr.. Philip.
Jeanne Eagels. with George Arliss
last season in "Disraeli" and "The Pro-
fessor's Love Story" will again be his
leading woman this season in the forth
coming production of Hamilton"
George Broadhurst's revival Of What
Happened to Jones" will open at the
Forty eighth Street, on August 80.
Formal announcement Is made by the
Shuberts that both the Forty second
and Forty-third Street entrances OF the
Lyric Theatre will remain open until
the advent Of cool weather A supple
mentary statement Is expected in day
or two. q. ). n.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16

TN THE instructions for forming So
/ cialist local or branch, the literature
sent out by the national headquarters
in Chicago says that all new members
Of the party must sign pledge "reeog-
mixing the class struggle between the
capitalist class and tho working class
The "class struggle" and the endeavor
to stir up dissension, bitterness and
hatred among the people is the whole
basis OF their propaganda. 1t is this
upon which they work in their cam
paign to hamper tn. government in the
prosecution Of the war.
"The American Socialist" the ma
tional organ of the party, issued In
Chicago, carries in it's number for June
30 what it calls an appeal to the Presi-
dent, but what is in fact only an ILL
concealed effort 20 create class hatred.
The appeal" says:
"The net result Of your activities
thus far has been that beneath the
cover of a how of eloquence un-
paralleled in history there has been
fastened upon the American people
the rule of hereditary financial
master. the House Of Morgan, which
is even less intelligent and far less
considerste of the rights OF its sub
iects than either the House Of Hohen-
zollern or the House OF Hapsburg.
You have also largely abrogated the
functions of Congress, and conferred
them upon an irresponsible commlt-
tee known as the Committee OF Ma
tional Defence, composed OF heredit-
ary junkers controlling the great com,
munities Of coal, steel, copper, oil and
land. Every move made by semi-re-
sponsible officers of the government,
such as the Federal Trade Commits,
sion and the Secretaries of War and
the Navy. in the direction of ending
the criminal extortions OF these
enemies Of the people has been de-
feated by them.
at Is questionable whether Ger
|. man junkerdom, with all its stupid
ity. could be as insanely foolish as
are the industrial overlords whom
you have placed in supreme power
over the nation"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Threatens Strike
OF Three Million

At the head of this issue OF tho
american Socialist" is threat OF a
strike Of 100000 workingmen all over
the country to paralyze all the national
industries, accompanied by the menace
that labor "has sounded its warning"
This issue also carries what is called
an accurate recital Of events that
plunged US into wsr-Read and Con-
sider!" According to this recital,
"These facts constitute evidence
that Woodrow Wilson, now President
of the United States, has by the ex-
ercise of an autocratic, unconstitu-
tional and inconsistent power driven
us into war against our will, and Is
now engaged in forcing our young
men to cross the seas to tight on
foreign soil in the face of grave
constitutional doubts, and by the
claim to an authority greater than
that enjoyed by the German Kaiser.
"These facts further indicate that
these things have been done TO re-
tain in power the financial autoc-
racy which is now the ruling world
power, namely, the House of Morgan.
And we ask the President TO answer;
"'The House of Hohenzollern must
fall in order that the House OF
Morgan may rule; is this the essence
and secret OF our war;"
Then the anti-American, pro-German
control injects itself. For the "Ameri-
can Socialist" charges against the
President:
THAT he meanwhile mutilated an
official communication of the German
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund

must court injury and death. They
must play, vet there is no place for
them to play in but the streets.
Do you, Mr.. Reader, in view Of these
facts, wonder that the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund entreats you, day in, day
out, to help il get these play driven
Youngsters of the streets and out into
the country where they may In Sc
curity play and play and play?
Aside from the question OF making
them secure in the following out OF
childhood's instincts thousands and
thousands of the children need coun-
try vacation because they are run down
physically, impoverished in blood, back
ward in mental development. Here is
a happy coincidence: By helping the
Fund give them country vacations you
will not only be snstching them from
the hazards Of the streets, but also
putting them within reach OF health
both physical and mental.
Summer Time Of Danger
The summer Is the time Of greatest
danger for the children who play in
the streets. In February traffic was
lighter, and the youngsters did more OF
their playing indoors because Of the
cold. In June to the workaday traffic
of February was added the pleasure
trafic of the summer. while the boys
and girls sought the open air. In Feb
ruary only 2S9 children came to grief
through playing in the streets; in June
play casualties reached the shocking
figure of s66. The figure for July was
almost exactly the same as that for
June. In other words, for these two
months an average OF almost thirty
children a day was MANNED or killed
on the city's Fairgrounds.
So far this week the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund has taken more than 1000
lads and lassies on the streets and
sent them to country Fairgrounds,
there To be without fear Of truck ard
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
No Regard for
American Rights

Tho regard Of the Socialists for
American rights is shown by the fol
lowing passage:
"'The American Socialist charges
that the Administration was chiefly
interested in protecting the safety
of British munition shipments by the
shield of American lives.
"The whip was cracked and the
Gore and McLemore resolutions
withdrawn because Great Brtain
and the other Allies were using the
lives of American men, women and
children as q mask and shield for
their dynamite and shrapnel.
"With that protection withdrawn
the munition manufacturers would
have lost the cheapest and best in
surance that could be devised for
their wares, and the war brides
would have declined inNyalue.
"These shipments were paid for
before they left our shores. The
risk was assumed by the purchasing
government, not by the manufactur-
ers.
"We criticise the German govern
ment for the destruction of the lives
Of women and children in this war,
and rightly so.
What shall be said of our own
government, which would go to war
rather than restrain the use of the
lives of American men, women and
children to mask and protect the
shipments of another government?
what shall be said OF such a gov
ernment as thisP
This was not printed while the ques-
tion OF whether America would inter
vene in the war was in process Of de-
termination. 1t was printed June 80
1917, three months after America had
entered the war. II formed no part of
an argument to keep America out Of
the war. II was simply one in a long
and continuing series Of violent en-
deavors to create internal dissension
within a country already at war. II
was an attempt to place the enemy in
a favorable light before the American
people and the United States govern
ment in the most unfavorable light
possible.
The German government Is placed
on a plane of high honor and the
American President is charged with
deliberate dishonesty.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Gust A WORD,

TFrom the Congressional
M SHAFROTH Mr. President, should like to say word
in reply to the Senator from Washington.
The PRESIDENT pro npore The Senator from Wisconsin
has the floor yield the Senator from Colorado?
Mr. HUsTING. l should like to the Senator How
and after that should like to say few woro
Mr. SHAFRoTH / should like to just word with reia-
ton to the policy which the Senator has referred
am in the theory that competition will bring down
the price of coal the past and except in this war
period the history of the United States the lowest
priced production Of country the world When coal
a. the mouth of the mine Virginia at 90 cents ton and
Pennsylvania readily see that 1t is not IN
Ii. operation mine that monopoly exists 1t Is this
competition between mines Of the various states that has
brought price of COAL and ships from all over hs
try get Hampton Roads for the purpose OF getting the
vpeed which has existed there Now there is war; and
conditions have arisen made the price higher but not
vandng that ordinary conditions conditions that nave
existed this country for 80 years that competition mas orouen'
down the price of the coal to point lower than IN any oef e
Try In the world.
Mr. PoINDEXTER Mr. President hope the Senator from
Wisconsin will pardon just word w
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the senator from WI"
sorIn yield 10 the Senator from Washington!
Mr. HUSTING. yield to the Senator
Mr. POINDEXTER. As understand the Senator ne argues
hat competition will take care situation That the whole
argument and yet il the Senator is entirely consist
ca, claiming competition all that is necessary Is que
strange that he voting here for the last two or
i bills unfair competition TO put in the HANDS OF INC
gsment power prices create food and fuel com
mission establish Federal Trade Commission, the passage Vi
hs Clayton Antitrust addition to all the provisions OF e
Sherman Antitrust Act and forth. ~ the Senator THINKS tha
o. Of competition all that Is necessary and they
m now operation why II that we hear this outcry 'hroush
M length breadth the land for fuel at reasonable prces
Nor we forget 10 mention in the Conrbs ocer' pv
'"h Major Bozeman Bulger
Bsts VIII Be Boles; Senator from Penssyhsns
VIII Have His Little Joke
tE,,m the congsssionsi Record
W. PESkogE rad hoped speak the bill That the rsssn
w asked
~ sEED. expect 70 be very brief
NJ FENRosE All right The Senator always Is
Working hours day doesn't 90 much 70 MAKE
'@ssraek trolley system safe for democracy
ss'uss 70 Administrator Hoover, by the dehynrauhs hou's
!, WI We who are about 70 dry ssutsIyou.
F.p.A.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
sramms as one Of the eo-authors. How

sramme as one Of the eo-suthors. How
ever, the lines continue to carry the
same crisp and rscy quality that showed
in the Montague Glass stories, a quail
ity that it would be easy enough TO
lose in other hands. A different Abe
ard Mawruss than the ones two prin-
cipals have created couldn't even be
imagined.
In all Of this Clara Joel mustn't be
forgotten. 1t is fairly long step from
the wronged innocence of Common
Clay" TO the brilliant vampiring of
Business Before Pleasure" but Miss
Joel manages il without slip. A num-
ber of film directors could be spotted
about the theatre last night, and it
might even be believed when Miss Joel
began 10 act the part that their atten-
tion, too, momentarily was turned TO
business before pleasure.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
ters matron of honor and only attend

ter's matron of honor and only attend
ant Sanford Bennett, of Brooklyn, was
test man, and the ushers were Lieu
tenant Frederick Underwood Connerd,
Curtis Snooks, Harold williams, Ar
thur de Young, Walter T. Burns and J.
Renwick Dimond.
Lieutenant Snooks and his bride left
the city last night for New Windsor
N. Y, where they will spend q part OF
their honeymoon. Later they will go To
Atlantic City and then TO Columbia
s. c., where Lieutenant Snooks hs;
been ordered for duty in the United
States army.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Miss Jane Poultney Bigelow
Bride of Lieutenant Elicit

HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 10
The marriage of Miss Jane Poultney
Bigelow, daughter of Major John Bige.-
low, u. S. A., and granddaughter OF
the late John Blgelow, publicist and
Diplomat, to Lieutenant Thomas n.
Hllett, Of New York City, took place at
4 D. m. to-day in the hons Of the
brides parents here.
The oficisting clergyman was the
Rev. J. MscVickar Haight, rector Of
the Church of the Holy Innocents, of
Highlands Falls. The guests were con-
fined TO relatives and a few intimate
friends of the family.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Gas Company Not Crippled
Only Third of Consolidated's s
Repair Men on Strike

About one-third of the force Of TOO
repair men in the Manhattan and
Bronx shops of the Consolidated Gas
Company are now on strike.
The strikers, who are for the most
part new employees hired to take the
place of men called to the colors, are
asking 81 day. The men who read
meters and make repairs have been
paid from 1925 to S3.25 a day. The
strikers succeeded in winning over O
little under 200 other employees.
if some of our clients find that their
requests for repairs are. not tmmedi-
ately complied with, it is because of
this little difficulty"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16

automobile for the next two weeks.
To-day 1875 more are to be removed
from danger. Tomorrow still others
are to go away. Saturday the outgoing
stream will continue.
Don't you want to join tho rescue
corps by making the vacation of at
least one child possible-at cost
of Sc?
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TRIBUNE FRESH
AIR FIND
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Miss Wright Weds Officer

The marriage Of Miss Virginia Dab
ney Wright, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Alfred Joseph Wright. Of 40 West End
Avenue, to Lieutenant Thomas Edward
Snooks, Officers Reserve Corps, U. s
A., took place yesterday afternoon in
All Angels. Church. The Rev. DR.
Isaac c. Sturgis, assisted by the Rev
Percival Mcintyre, officiated, and a re-
ception followed at the Plaza.
Mrs. J. Renwick Dimond was her sis
New-York tribune., 1917-08-16
Drama

Business Before Pleasure" COM
edy in three acts, by Montague Glass
and Jules Eckert Goodman. Produced
by A. H. Woods at the Eltinge Theatre