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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07

and of God. God is no longer police
die"
By way Of explanation Of is work
or the fighting lines, the man who has
been preaching since he was sixteen
says:
Il wanted to co something for the
boys over there. I'd rather clean their
boots or carry their kits than to
preach the best sermon in the world
iust wanted TO serve them, and !
didn't care whether l did it washing
cups or scrubb;ng floors OF handing
out chocolate or preaching.'
Three Years on Fighting Lines
Ever since the war began he has been
doing something. Most of three years
has been spent on the fighting lines
and the rest of the time he has been
back in England telling the folks at
homc how the boys at the front are
getting along
So important was his message and
sc effective his delivery that tn:
roaming gypsy. almost ga man without
a ,@un r.; was welcomed last month
1T buckingham Palace. Express ;rg his
persona +nan,,s fer The splendid ser
vices rcaG,re& British troops on thu
firing INC and ior cons p:cuous SERVICES
20 the British people. King George
pinned upon the khaki uniform worn
by this gypsy" the medal which pro-
GAINS his membership in the Order of
the British Empire.
After two addresses in BROOKLYN
Sunday. Gypsy Smith leaves on a two
months tour of the South and West
as far as Kansas City, to bring home
to Americans something of the spirit
q n,
fight in France. And his story. told
with simplicity and a seriousness bred
in the face Of death and suffering. is
getting across to American audiences
qaite as effectively as to the throngs
who have heard him speak in England.
He Tells His Story
But let the evangelist speak for him.
self, as he is so ernently qualified to
do
Its the biggest bit of worl, God ever
gave me to dog They've got my heart,
those boys Of ours and of yours over
there, who are fighting without thought
Of being heroes. Fer months at a time
I've lived with them under shell Ire
A whole month l was never further
than ITO yards from the Germans. Nv
mustachc froze to my blankets every
night. My boots froze to the floor. T.
was the coolest time of my life. and
the most hungry. 1t was also the han
piest. was doing something for the
boys. They never let me go out of
my cellar without my gas mask, which
saved me four times.
"Whenever have spoken to the bows
cut there | have had German cannon
as rival orators. | have spoken in c.m-
petition with motion picture shows and
fashionable concert parties. In an
Australian camp where I arrived IN
:Xpected]y one day the boys POSTPONED
boxing tournament in order 20 urn
out en- macse to hear me.
cts pretty fine to hear the chaps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Socialist Party
Here German Ally.
Ex-Merrlbers Saw

Socialists Of Germany are blamed for
stimulating pacifsm in the United
States and American Socialists are at
tackled Cor helping to support that
pacfist propaganda in statement is
sued yesterday by the Social Demo-
cratic League, 100 William Street, and
the Jewish Socialist League, 3O2 Broad
way
Fifty thousand copies of the state
nent are to be circulated among So
ciailsts in this country and in Europe
in an effort to induce them to come out
strongly in support of the Allies
After branding as "absurd' the posi-
ton Of the Socialist party that the war
yves caused by the conflict of the CAPT
tallst interests in the European coun-
tries" the statement. which is signed
by John Spa1go, J. G. Phelps Stokes,
William Edlin and Henry l.. Slobodin,
purports to show that pacifst propa-
ganda in this country is in the interest
Of Germany.
The German Socialist David is quot
ed as having said in the Reichstag:
Germany must squeeze her enemies
with pair of pincers, namely, the
military pincer and the pacitist pin
Ger. The German armies must con-
tinue to fight vigorously. while the
German Socialists encourage and
slim ulate pacifism among Germany's
enemies"
The two leagues, whose members
Socialist pa1ty's anti-war platform,
have this to say in their statement:
I'm every country the German So
cialist propagandsts have gone, insid-
iously serving military absoutism
There is little reason, to doubt that
the visit of Scheidemann to this coun-
try the year before the war began had
for its real object an understanding
with prominent members of the Social
list party on the subject of the atti-
tude to be taken by the party in the
event of a war in which Germany
would be engaged"
The statement then says:
"The Socialist party of the United
States has, from the beginning Of the
great world war, sometimes openly
and more often covertly, condoned and
defended the betrayal of Internation-
alism bv the German Social Democracy.
with degree of uniformity as
significant as it is remarkable. it has
supported every contention Of the Ger
man imperial government, every mis-
cradle evasion and excuse of the Ger
man Socialist majority, and has been
slient concerning the outrases COM
mitted by the German barbarians. No
single contention of German diplomats
has failed to receive the support II
the Socialist party of America What
ever their intent the responsible
spokesmen of the Socialist party of
America have been in fact the allies
Of German militarism and autocrecy.
because of these things many
thousands of sincere Socialists have
been compelled to withdraw from The
party and to establish new orgariza-
tons. They cannot and will not as
knowledge the Socialist party as rep
rescnting their views, Their ideals and
their faith."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Effort Made TO Tamper
With Prospective Jurors
in Conspiracy Trial
Defence Admits
Socialist Help
Taiesmen TellJudge Lands
They Were Approached
on Political Belief
iStdf Corvespordencel

CHICAGO. April 6.-Judee Lands
dismissed to-day the entire vcnirc OF
two hundred mea from which jury
was being selected TO try i12 mcmbers
% tha |. w. w. on the charge OF
ssdi.seus conspiracy. This action. BIT
sssts opposed by the defence, followed
tho production by the government Of
pseA approached By individuals. claim
ing TO represent the |. W. W.. who
sought te learn the views Of the venire-
iAsn on the !. w, ". cause and who
volunteered te supply them with Social
iss literature,
Attorney George +, Vanderveer, chief
Was pc secret that his clients had en-
lisssd the aid of the Socialist party to
investigate the prospective jurymen.
lie said he had in his office ii war"
nap of Illinois, stuck full Of pins to
saew where Socialists some 1900
we're prepared to investigate veniremen
III this ease,
."i1us." he added, IT can't imagine
who, unless some fool friend or some
.eei enemy directly approached any of
the Ten.ps."
Attorney Nehexsr, Of Salt Lake City,
=. special assistant attorney general In
e:,aTge Of the governmental case, asked:
''1s.'t it true that the man directing
Nh. ~esl of investigation for the I.
W. n: is a nan named Carpenter7"
"Ies,' replied Mr.. Vanderveer, II be-
Carpenter Under Indictment
we'll aver;ed Mr.. Nebeker "isn't
j. $50 true that this man Carpenter is
ph4sa. Indictment In Idaho, charged
vita jury ts:ArerIng ~and in an l. w.
W: casa aso7"
After hesitation, MIR. Vandeveer re-
r:ied;
Yes, saess ridiculous charge, too"
We ought 10 have new panel"
a:'eae IA United States District At
tsiHoy Ghas.eG Clyaa. II began to
,:eaF aba-;. these things last Thursday.
lFa rave bsa;. .nYestigating it, Wives
Q: Tsni#eAsa.' wore terrified They
i:'eWeas taei, husbands were under in.
issiisst.eii By tho government as
sa;es:"
III: Var. .siveer explained that the
''NtF5ss ST the /. W. W. leaders in
s',.ist'ssg ia aid of Socialists was to
pss .sfos.'at. ton about the prospective
jassss: Judge Lands said he could
quite understand that and agreed tSat
i. was Ba*isetly proper for the de-
ssa:ss sad the government both to ~.
Gu:ss about the yeniremen and their
Z" SUE; sts.sd tins Judge, "direct con.
esct ;iitn prospective Juror is oh
H;o%si:' iss5seper.'' W.
tRrss Of the iaaa in the box undcr
asssf:ehise BY III. Clync had said
vac. "sd aaea approached by persons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Y. Nj. C. A. Hut Is Soldiers
Cathedral, Says Gypsy Smith
1T Is Need Not Creed Evangelist Says-"God
Is Not Policeman but a Chum
He Declares
By Glendon Allvine

cure Tot an American, are you?'
inquired Mr.. w. Gordon Sprigg the
day he arrived from England with
Gypsy Smith, the evangelist.
Then it occurred to RE that l had
neG'le to slap him on the back and
70 wiring his hand vigorously, making
the hotel lobby echo meanwhile with
tle bnlsterou5 double narreilcl adjec-
tives without which native Of these
United States is likely to &c mistaken
Ter a Britisher.
1t is to bring about better under
standing between the two great Eng
ish-speaking peoples that the King of
England decorated Gypsy Smith and
sent him 10 America with a message
Of goodwill For, though the war has
had its unifying effects, misconccp-
tons still exist on both sides. Of the
worlds public speakers no one is more
1T than GipSs Smith % mou,d the null
titude with emotional @ppea.. Count
less lives have been Swaycd by his mag
retic pleas.
u.{ When - "1h Is. cIpsy;' as Ny: sgs,sg
at once sought his opinion Of the
DOUBLE ointed, gh-provoking, hand
grenading, fear-inspring, hyphenated-
polysyllabic pcrversion of the Kings
English expounded by his dynamic
American contemporary, Billy Sunday.
ITO begin with" he said, they
wouldn't understand slang in England.
! never use word of it. My notion
is that the best work is done with the
purest language"
Forty years of speaking in public
has been a constant refining process
for the English the mctheress gypsy
boy picked up without teacher while
following his father on horse-trading
roamings. Almost illiterate at six
teen. few persons to day speak a purer,
more effective English than he does.
He feels that there Is far too little
reverence in the world, and that
slang applied to religion cheapens it
detracts from the reverence due things
divine.
He Is Not Bigot
But he added:
cat the same time. I should be very
slow to say one word against any one
who is doing good, whether he does it
in my way OR not"
There is nothing bigoted about Gypsy
Smith: A layman Of the Methodist
Church, he is tolerant of any mans
sincere convictions. At the YIN. c. A.
huts he has preached the spiritual
fundamentals on which most men can
agree.
"The Y. NJ. c. A. hut is the soldiers
cathedral" he says. at is need; not
a creed. The soldier comes there for
e'verythlng-rest, reading and recrea-
ton
"A new brotherhood has been born
out there he says. "The boys have
got new conception of comradeship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07

their trial. Government attorneys are
agreed that the case cannot be COM
plcted under month.
The campaign for defence funds is
gong steadily ahead in |. W. W.
circles. Il was learned that /. ". W.
literature has been distributed in all
Aecn Elada to the pupils to contribute
their Denni"s FOR the defence of the
men. This literature bears the picture
OF I. man behind iron bars. Beneath is
thc inscriptions:
I'VE are in here for you; YOU are
cut there Tor us"
The defence stamps Of the organiza-
ton bearing this same picture are
being offered for sale to the school
pupils. The local authorities are con-
siderlng means of preventing this
practice, at least within the confines
Of the school property.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Senas:e. Fails TO
PASS Spy Bill on
" ar Azalliv CT ss.ry

WASHINGTON. April G.-Adminis-
tration leaders OF the Senate failed
to-day to realize hopes Of passing. on
the ilrsc anniversary Of the nations
entry into the war the sedition bill.
with It's drastic penalties for disloyal
utteraNces and distractions of the
Liberty Loan ard army draft The bill
was before the Senate again all day,
but no progress was made, and discus
sions will be resumed Monday
The House, however, approved CON
ference reports on the woman spy bill,
extending espionage laws to enemy
alien women, and also on the compre-
hcnsive measure with drastic penalties
for the destruction of war materials.
The Senate probably will act Monday
on the conference reports.
Most of to-day's Souata debate re-
ferred to criticism, by former President
Roosevelt OF tho godit;on lcgislat.on
An editoria. by COL Roosevelt publish.
ed to-day, rtatod thne q provision OF
tho pending bill would renaliso critic.
ism OF tho President. Declaring tho
statement FALSE" Senator Overman, IN
charge Of the measure, said that whiio
1T was not made deliberately, Col.
Roosevelt should apologize to tho coun-
try,
Defending Col. Roosevelt, Senator
Smoot Of Utah explained that the Col
onePs statement was based ON the
text OF tho bin esnt out By tho Aa-
sociated rross before tho provision
arvn a.
eliminated BY tno committee IN the
naRl drsit.
VI fad il v-aa sont hy The hasoc .atod
Press ind giVon them by como eae
cleris~-ot The Judiciary Comm stee,"
said Senator Smoot.
Then ny lunguaEe ;-egar;iin. Colo.
mol Roosevelt npplea 20 Tho Associated
Prose- or any ether newspaper publiah-
Ing this" setorted sionatop Ovefman,
Ihe language Need ~ The Asaacsah-
en frahs Is exactly Tho !&NlUago o. tho
Pill an reported 10 ihr senate. except
tor tho words the pfenident OF tho
United Statos.'" replied Senator Smoot.
Senator Ovorman said she commit
tees chief clerk denied giving our the
language.
suggoeting that ,'eaatos oversaan
cintcd PrcaA, Senator Kellogg, or Min
noxota, said;
"lt's surprising thas thia created 10
sensation until Colonel Roosevelt wrote
ABOUT It,"
Tho words "tho Preaidsns Of tina
United States" appeared In the drnPt
given to The Associated Press, but did
not appear when the measure WIS |
printed for consideration. Apparently
they had been eliminted,
An attack upon "The kaaeea c;sv
Star" wna made by Senator Reed, q.
Missouri. who declared no thought 'tho
attitude of chat paper toward thu roy
eminent ought 10 30 consider red at this =
time"
piselninne thnt Ia ,4aa defending
tho formcr i'Heaisisn!. 9eaAtes yer,la
nan. Of mississippi. DECLARED Caloae!
Roonn"olt "haa nnld soma sh.Ags that
every citizen should mako para OF hia
noltica, creed"
During tho debate. rorounhinf. WITH
donnnciation OF German apioa snd dia.
loyslt.os, Gevornl Sonntorn presented
kilograms calling upon Connress for
legislation sovcrely publishing peraona
making dislcyal statomentn. Among
Soas"y,fHlloS's TY1n ff t2s M ssS ss@e
asaeh!ng Thursday n!sht.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Don't Care 10 Get Mixed
Up in Matter" One
Declares
State Ready to Act
Governor Issues Warning
That Martial Law May
Be Proclaimed

COLLiNSNIDLE, H.. ALL THE
Coroncr Of Madison County today ap-
piled for warrants for the arrest Of
five men whom, he had been informed
were in the mob that lynched Robert
Prayer early Friday morning. Four
justices of the peace refused to issue
warrants. They gave as reason that
they didn't care to get mixed up in
the matter"
Ono OF the justices yesterday was
surrounded by men in q saloon and
asked to sign a pledge Of loyalty. II
compiled.
Coroner Lowe SAID he would ask the
states attorney ii issue the warrants
and that ne Thought the five men would
soon be under arrest.
William r. TraUtmann, first assistant
to Attorney General Brundage, of Hi
nois, ind Colonel Claude l.. Ryman,
representing the adjutant generals Of
flee, began an investigation here to-day
Of the events leading u, TO the hanging
Of Prayer This followed q declara-
ton by Governor Lowden that members
Of the mob must be prosecuted
Inquest over the body Of Prayer is
set for next Monday, jury for that
purpose having been obtained yester-
day. At that time report of all in
vcstigations now under way by Fede raj,
state and county authorities will be
made.
Nose Johnson, district board member
Of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, has promised that sat the proper
moment" he viii issue q statement to
show thnt mcmbars OF the MOB were in
possession CT certai: informatio that
caused them to take drastic action.
Prayer came to this district year ago
and obtained work in the mines at
Maryville. \ month awo his pro-
nounced socialistic views are said to
have bordcred on the disloysl, and he
was threatened with violence at that
time by the miners.
Continued advocacy OF radical social
istic doctrine is said to have led to his
arrest Thursday night, which was fol-
lowed BY his being dragged from the
City He'll md hanged.
Governor Lowden has issued a warn
ing TO officials in this district, IN which
he states that recurrence OF the
bTa"cr tragedy probably will result in
e. proclamation of martial Law. In an
pW2: to this warning, several cities
h~Vc taken precautions to curb demon
STATIONS against alleged disloya! per
ron". Mayor Hot, OF t.dwardsvillc, the
county scat Of Madison County, de-
clared he knew personally that an or
Canization in his city intended 10 tar
and fenther alleged pro-Germans dur
ing u Liberty Loan celebration to- day,
but asserted be had sworn in fifty
deputies to maintain order.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
singing, while the shells are bursti,s
all around them:

singing, while the shells are bursting
all around them:
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wings
II was trying to get impressions =,
the way the men felt when they went
over the top.
Sonny. what struck you .irst when
you went ever the top?' asked one n
them.
a bit of shrarnel, SIR he said
Il never see lad in khaki that 7
cont feel what debt l owe him
debt l can never repay.
I've always believed in men. Pc
believed in the men of the five cont.
nents where I've preached. But TODAY
| believe more IN manhood than | eve,
did" s'''
"kaiser's God a Devil
Excepting, possibly, the Germans. a
said, and especially a certain German
For this is what he thinks Of them:
"I've been loving people all my life
but I could shoot the Kaiser and feel
that | was doing favor to God The
kaiser's God is my devil. The Kaisar
is beast. His people for forty wear.
have been fed on the belief that tbav
must first crush the British Emn;rs
and then 'England's spawn. the Amer,
cans The war must be fought Tn
finish. We've got to put the Germans
where they are in no position to do tbs
world further harm. The German
Kaiser has perpetrated deeds that that
would make an honest savape bow hi.
head with shame Germany has
shamed the soul Of the whole world
Ihat is the gospel he is preaching
on his twelfth visit to the Initial
States. He is making no appeal for
converts. His appeals are for workers
to fight the Hun, especially in thu
ranks of the Y. NJ. c. A. On his "a.
turn to New York in about two months
ne will 20 back with a message Of
cheer to the lighting mon in France.
Going back ?" he repeated. a0f
course. In a hospital in England
talked with mere boy who had been
wounded four times He was all shot
to pieces. When was leaving. I said
Well. sonny. where viii we meet
he said. va
".surely you don't want 10 go back
to france?' I asked h!n.
All, don't L. he said 'Wha. else
is there for man these DAYS %,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Cotton Shortage in Spain
Forces Many Mills to Close

BARCELONA. April 6.--Thc supply
OF cotton IN Spain is sufficient for onlv
one months requirements of the mills
Some mills already have been closed
Representatives of the Chamber of
commerce and various industries held
a meeting here to-day to consider the
SITUATION. Great anxiety is felt lest
me delay in ratification of the finan-
cal agreement between Spain and
France results in the stoppagc of ship
tmentS o. cotton from America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Z. G. Riggs Is Honor Guest
At Newspapernen's Dime,

Newspaper men and other old friends
gave q dinner last night in honor Of
Edward G. Riggs, for thirty years
political writer on the "Sun" and in
recent years executive assistant Of the
New York, New Haven g. Hartford
Railroad Louis Sobold Ct the
wv ord' was toastn.astcr AT tho din
ner, held at Andiron Club. 1872 West
SoNcrt y-second Street
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-23
Easter Dresses Were Never So
Charming

The slender silhouette still dominates, but this is
sometimes relieved by pleasing effects of sash and
girdlc together with TUNES, pIcatcd or gathered,
long or short, occasionally displaying the usc of side
drapcS.
Materials favored are t%affctaS, foulard>, ScrgcS, CAB
ardincS and Jerseys in blue, gray, tan and ether
Spring shades. PlaidS and mystic designs appear
in many of the silks. Combinations of color and
fabric are very prominently displayed.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-23
Footwear Women Will Wear
for Easter

Smart New Styles and Quite Moderately Priced
style counts for but little unless backed 10y quail
ity. For the workmanship and the material used
determine the pcrmancncy of the trimncSN and
shapclincSs of the boot. Well indeed may women
count upon the quality of Roscnwald', footwear
at all times.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-23
RoSenwaIdS Easter Coats Are More
y Than Merely Smart
OF exceptional quality and worth are these Easter Coats.
been ion the past because of the conservation orders Of the day. The silhouette
is q straight line effect and in the majority Of models the length is designed
to leave several inches of the skirt in view. Most al are gathered somewhat
at the watluc using M of varied types of belts
Serge. gabardnes, vcIours ticotucs aud other good coatines are Il bc seen
in tan. beige, gray. blue and many other contrasting and plaiu shades
Exquisite New BIouses

Exquisite New BIouSes
Pretty enough to be worn with the
handsomest suits on Easter Sunday.
Women who seek the distinctive. one-of-a-kind
blouscs, true style gems, will be delighted with the
little treasures they II find here tomorrow.
Fashion showers new favors upon separate skirts.
\ new beauty, and dash, and smartncss is character
istic Of the skirt fashions for Spring and summer,
and one may choose between silks or light wool.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-23

Creations! You'll marvel that
81 much beauty and style and chic
'ould he fashioned into ucckwcar.
-Organdic, georgette. laccs. nets,
,atins, piquc. corded silk, vcstccs,
tuxcdoS, military, collars, chic
sets.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-07-25
Dealing with the Occult.

An astonishing number of books on
occult subjects are being published In
these days, especially on lines relating
to the future life, the theme taking
on new interest because Of the war
and Its losses. One writer, Prof. w. J.
Crawford of Belfast, Is dealing with
so-called spirit manifestations In a
new way. For one thing, he has tried
seating the medium on weighing ma
chine while the manifestations are
going on and watching the varying
record Of her weight. He has found
that where chair or table was levi
tated an Increase in her weight almost
corresponding to the weight of the
piece of furniture was noted. When
there were rappings her weight les
sened, the amount lost varying with
the intensity Of the sounds. What
these phenomena indicate to his mind
or what he expects to prove by them
does not appear.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-07-25
Larger Implemen. Increases Work One Man Can Do.

come exceedingly abundant and de-
structive. Rats migrate from places
where food Is scarce to places where
1t Is plentiful. Abundant food in the
new locality causes abnormal repro
duction. the effect of which in a short
time Is that of sudden invasion by
a vast horde of rats.
Other movements of rats are local
and seasonal In occurrence. An exo-
dus takes place every spring from
cities and villages to river banks and
farmsteads In the surrounding coun-
try, and Is followed by return NIL
grafton in the autumn. This phenom-
enon, which has been observed almost
everywhere, explains why rats are
more abundant In towns during the
cold season and in larger numbers In
the country during the summer.
That all rodent destruction is prop
erly the business of the community.
and that this must be recognized be-
fore substantial progress is made, Is
asserted by the department investiga-
tors.