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New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
40 Autos a Week
Needed toCo11tira.le
Free Upton rips
j. A. Hemstreet Issaes AID.
peal to Car Owners to
Increase Service

New York City motor car owners
must give a minimum of forty auto
mobiles every Sunday for the Amer
ican Automobile Associations free
transportation service to Camp Upton.
James A. Hemstreet. New York touring
manager for the A. A. A., who directs
the New York to Yaphank service, said
last night that this number of cars
would be required beginning next SUM-
day to care for the relatives of fighting
men at the Long Island cantonment
who want to see their soldier kin but
are unable to pay the railroad fare to
camp.
These forty cars, said Mr.. Hemstreet,
are needed for each of the Sunday
trips in addition to the two sightseeing
buses donated weekly by the American
Defence Society Mr.. Hemstreet de-
clared that the A. A. A. was being
called upon to care for an average of 800
to Yaphank service would continue to
be successful only if greater city ma
chine owners come forward in answer
to his appeal.
"We have not been able to carry
more than $50 or 200 persons on the
rul.s." he said. Demands on our SER
vice are increasing every day and New
York motorists must come to our aid in
increasing numbers.
"There are in this city and vicinity
thousands of car owners who l know,
would give their machines for these
Sunday runs if they knew the genuine
need for this service and the fine
friendly service they are able to per-
form through this medium for the kin
OF our fighting men,"
Motorists who wish to register their
machines for the service should COM
municate with the A. A. g. Offices at
bC1 Fifth Avenue. Murray Hill 473 is
the telenhone number
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Mrs. Castle, Proud I
OF Husband, Spurs
Liberty L4oa1, Rally
A Bone Seems Small, She
Says, When One Gives
Everything

At spirited Liberty Loan meeting
at Tammany Hall last night slight
figure in a widows veil rose to make
her plea for Liberty bonds. 1t was
Mrs. Vernon Castle, TO whom the Four
teenth Street crowd gave a tumultuous
welcome.
II don't know anything about speech
making" said Mrs. Castle, "but I do
know that we Mat be victorious, for
the sake of those VINO have gone be-
fore, as we'll as for those who are to
come. II you were all on a sinking
ship and money would save our lives
you'd buy quickly enough.
II know you all want to know what
Pve done about the Liberty Loan. Well,
I'm not asking you to do anything /
haven't done myself. I've bought more
bonds than l could afford. I'm not
working now. The war has taken away
all that | had to lean upon and even
the ambition to work. But | was glad
when the day came that took all the
sunshine out of my life to be able to
say that | wouldn't have had him do
now, when one has given everything, a
mere bond seems so small.
but we've got to raise the money.
"The government does not spend it for
luxuries or even comforts, but just the
big necessities. And l hope you'll all
get together every cent you can and
hand it over for just these few years
until the war is over"
Mrs. Castles impromptu speech was
preceded by another that set the Tam
many Hall crowd to roaring it's ap-
proval. 1t was made by Jean Leroy,
father of an American boy who died
in service in France in July, 1917.
I'm an old man." he said, "too old
to fight, no teeth even. I told 'em
didn't need to bite the Germans in or
der to shoot 'em, but they turned me
down and took my son instead. Well,
he did his part, and am proud he was
my son. Some German soldiers on
unter den Linden, in Berlin, once told
me to get into the gutter, and | cussed
'em from head to foot and back again.
I'm cussin 'em now, too. I've heard
too much 'hoch der Kaiser l say hook
your shirt an&buy Liberty bonds"
Bonds went Quickly after that. James
I. Powers took the stage as chief sales
man, and, with revolver in his hand,
held the audience up for nearly $780,
600. The meeting was held under the
direction Of the Waste Material Trade.
with Joe Humphreys as master of cere-
monies.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Twenty New Workers
Get Commissions
John S. Roberts, of Brooklyn,
Made Captain at
Spartanburp

WASHINGTON, April 30-Twenty
New York residents were to-day COM
missioned in the National Army and
officers reserve corps by the War De-
partment as follows:
Ordnance Reserve Corps-John H. Wat.
kins, Wall Street, major; Alexander j.
Frazer. 146th Street and Gerard Avenue, cap
tain.
Engineer Reserve Corps-Walter G. Abriel,
Grand Central Terminal second lieutenant
Signal Reserve Corps-Francis r Mack,
care Sperry Gyroscope Company, Brooklyn.
second lieutenant
Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps
Philip Frank Cabel, 1877 East Sixty-sixth
Street. and Henry Bennett Eccleston, rs
North Main Street, Cortland. second lieu
tenants.
Medical Reserve Corps William Miller
Ford. Is West Fifty-fourth Street. major
Frank George Schaible, 2l5 West Ninety first
Street, captain. Warren Watson Bell. Belle.
vue Hospital; Charles Henry Brush, Long
Island Edward Joseph Hyland, 1856 Shelton
Avenue, JAMAICA; Bernard Richard Kelly.
metropolitan Hospital. Blackwell's Island
Lyman Alexander Levin. Bellevue Hospital
Lawrence Daniel Roche. 326 East Eighty
seventh Street, first eutenants.
Quartermaster Corps, National Arrny-Ed-
ward H. Arne, 20 College Place. Brooklyn ;
Anthony Martin Farrell. 325 West 12sth
street; Joseph L. Freeman, 13 First Place,
Grasmere. Stapleton. and Raymond j. Bushey,
zl4 Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn. first lieu.
tenants. Thomas f. Layden, 654 Carroll
Street. Brooklyn, second lieutenant
The War Department to-day an
nounced the following promotions in
| the New York National Guerd division
at Spartanburg, S. c.:
To be captain.-Frst Lieutenant John S,
Roberts, 5 Tennis Court Brooklyn.
To be first lieutenants-Se Second Lieutenants
Franklin J. Jackson, sos Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn; Walter L. Glass As Green Street
Ogdensburg, and Roger II. Wellington, Roch.
ester.
Leon Alvarez. an enlisted man with sup
ply company, 107th Infantry Regiment at
Camp Wadsworth. was to-day commissioned
second lieutenant of the Quartermaster
Corps.
Lieutenant Colonel William l. Terry of
Memphis, Tenn, was to-day assigned to the
army corps troops at Spartanburg.
The Rev Lucke White, chaplain at Camp
Green, North Carolina, has been transferred
to Camp Wadsworth for assignment with the
army corps troops.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
1918 Rockies Go to Upton

John F. Sinnott, executive secretary
to Mayor Hyllan. left yesterday morn
ing, with batch of New York CITY
drafted men for Camp Upton. Sinnott
started for the National Army canton
ment with the men from Local Board
33, Brooklyn, from the Carlton Ave
nue. yards of the Long Island Railroad
at 10:90.
One thousand, six hundred and
eighteen men went to camp yesterday.
This ended a four-day draft movement
during which a total of 5,932 rockies
left this. city for Yaphank. Included
among them yesterday were 548 ne
groes, drafted by local boards
throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and
'Ihe Bronx. These men left from
Carlton Avenue, and got fine recep-
tion as they headed for the station.
Manhattan and The Bronx quotas
moblllzed at their local boards, at
1880 a. M, and headed for the camp by
way of the East Thirty fourth Street
1errles and Long Island City. The
10 O'Clock.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Crowder Requests
Amendment of Bill
Drafting Youths Fl
Opposed to Placing New
Registrants at Bottom of
Eligible List

WASHINGTON, April 3o-Provost
Marshal General Crowder to-day re-
quested Congress to eliminate from the
bill extending the draft to youths now
twenty-one years of age the amend
ment putting at the bottom of rhe
eligible list those who would register
under the measure. He asked that ths
bill basng draft quotas on the number
Of men in Glass l be amended to make
its operation retroactive.
Representative Fields, of Kentucky,
member Of the Military Committee,
called at the White House tonight to
discuss the legislation with President
Wilson. He said later the President
was opposed to the proposal to give
credits on quotas fer enlistments since
the enactment Of the draft law.
General Crowder made his request in
letters to the chairmen Of the Senate
and House Military committees.
Of the proposal to put the new regis
trants at the bottom of the list Of
eligibles General Crowder SAID:
"The plan proposed by this office
would result in these regjstrants being
given order numbers scattered through
out the entire list Of order numbers.
This seems to be fairer than the plan
proposed by the amendment. The re-
suit of the House amendment in many
jurisdictions will be to delay the CALI
ing of these young men for consider
able time. In the meantime their status
will have changed; they will have mar
rled or become integrated with the in
dustries of the country.
Moreover, it establishes a precedent
which may be appealed to, provided
aliens are registered under the pro-
visions of the DOW legislation based
upon treaties TO be negotiated"
The plan to make the quota law retro
active would apply it 20 men of the
new draft called while the legislation
IS pending. Delay in enactment of the
legislation, General Crowder wrote,
necess ieates the retroactive feature.
During the last few weeks" General
Crowder stated, "the camps have be-
come filled to capacity, and the impera-
tive needs of General Pershing's forces
have led to the rapid dispatch Of more
troops overseas and the issuance Of
relatively small calls, by authority Of
the President, to fill the organizations
in training at cantonments. The result
of these calls spread over the past few
weeks has been not only to exhaust
practically all the deferred percentages
of the quotas on the first general call
duly ~, 1910, but to add still further
quantities of men in the excess Of the
first quotas
Obvior y, General Crowder added, to
insure far treatment for all the states,
the new quota plan should be applied to
men called on the second draft.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
New Hampshire Dry
Again Under New Law

CONCORD, N. H., April ao.-Tbe
sale of liquor in New Hampshire, af-
ter having been legalized for fifteen
years, ceased tonight. In 1908 the
Legislature enacted an amendment to
the prohibition law, which had been in
effect for generation, permitting
towns and cities by local option elec-
tons to authorize the sale of intoxi-
cants within their limits. The Legis-
lature of 1917 repealed this amend
ment, thus placing the whole state un-
der prohibition again.
1t was stipulated that by midnight
OF April 80 all alcoholic beverages
must have been removed from saloons
and that those who had held licenses 8
should not store within the state any
remaining stocks.
enforcement of the new law has
been placed in the hands of the Rev.
Jonathan Lewis, of Amherst, author of
the bill for the repeal of the local on
ton amendment. municipalities under
the law may issue licenses to drug
glsts to sell alcohol for medicinal.
mechanical and sacramental purposes s
only.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Moonshine Would
Aid Prohibition

Imagine urging upon your friends
another round of homemade whis-
key! The vile product of the kitchen
still would be a great stimulant tow
ard temperance, suggests Charles e..
Manierre, who sees in possible home
manufacturing of liquor no argu-
ment against national prohibition.
He writes:
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Ottinger, in your forum re.
specting prohibition, has recently
stated the matter very truly in saw
ing that moderate users would doubt
less be eliminated entirely, but that
chronic and heavy drinkers, of whom
there are many, would use every means
of obtaining alcohol, or, failing that.
would doubtless turn to other substi-
tutes. He is also quite correct in
saying that, after fashion, alcoholic
be readily produced by the amateur.
These admitted facts do not in the
least argue against the advisability of
the prohibition amendment.
one, OF the most prominently ap-
proved steps for temperance in Eng
land, and one to which a great diminu-
tion of drinking has been attributed
was the effective prevention of treat,
ing. Treating as it Is usually carried
on would be quite out of the question
ON any large scale with the secret and
iilegai production OF liquor above men
toned.
The aaSo Snitb x,,d;.L .
alcoholic drink can be produced "a
illustrated by the Alaskan Indian.
Flour, sugar and yeast, an old kero-
sene cans gun barrel tin cup and a
ilre are all that he requires. But no
man would begin on such stuff. nor
would he dream of treating any one
else to a part of his villanous concoc-
tion. Whiskey, after fashion, has
been constructed out of potato peel
ings by convicts in the penitentiary.
put that does not, argue for the open.
ing, of the saloon within it's limits.
Much OF the, work of o-day is of a
nature which does not permit of drink
ing, at least to any extent. As a single
example, the old-fashioned coachman
who nearly always drank to excess. has
been replaced by the chauffeur, whose
drinking must be much curtaiied and
whose value is vastly increased il he
does not drink at all. Other things
have followed along somewhat IT,
same line. The intense rivalry in
business and the high speed not only
on the highways but In other directions
have made necessary the sober man.
Day by day the door is shut in ono
occupation after another against the
drinker.
It would seem the height of absurdi-
" 70 forego ths general and personal
Dement'S OF prohibition in order to save
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Sale of Liquor Ceased
In Michigan at Midnight

DETROIT, Mich, April 3O.-Capacity
business in retail houses dealing in
package goods, famine prices for wines
and whiskey in cafes and barrooms,
and "no beer" signs in many of them
marked the last day of the legal sale
day.
The constitutional amendment max
ing Michigan a prohibition state be-
came operative at midnight By the
terms of the amendment the sale or
manufacture of alcoholic beverages is
restricted to that required for medi-
cinal, mechanical and sacramental pur-
poses.
1t is estimated that approximately SO
per cent of the saloons in Detroit,
which after midnight becomes the larg-
est city in the United States dry by
the vote of it's citizens, went out of
business for good last Saturday night.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01

from drugs the existing heavy drink
ers, while we continue to raise new
crops of them through indefinite years.
Last, but not least, the education of
the young unconsciously given through
the granting by the state of licenses
to the saloon to carry on business in
herent!y evil, would be at last done
doctrine, that the state is outside of
moral law, would disappear from our
country. CHARLES z. MANIERRE.
A Word From Canada
For DR.. Edison
To the author of "Is Drink a Soul
Hunger?" and to others who are in
clined to condone it's use beQause the
question may be answered affirma-
lively, Margaret Worth, writing
from Nova Scotia, suggests enforced
residence with a drunkard.
TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your page, as Drink q Soul
Hunger?" is interesting. AT the same
time it is mostly absolute rot l
should dearly love to take D. O. Edison,
M. d., by the back of his neck and make
him live with a drunkard or drinking
man for about ten years Also, since
l can't do that, should recommend he
attend for month or more the even
ing prayer meetings of the missions on
Catharine Street, New York.
A psychologist is about the worst
sort of human being to work on facts.
10 begin with, this one knows abso-
Ntely nothing about the case in point
have recently been working in an in
dustrial centres with the labor agitator
very much agitated. This head of the
labor party is man who is never
him are men who are "sucking" bottle
nearly every day. On your page" the
only man who talks at all az though he
really knew the shocking effects Of al
cohol is Andrew B. Wood.
| If you wish to attempt to decide
whether alcohol should be prohibited
or not first of all adopt drinking man
or woman and live with him for a year
the shortest perod), or as an alterna-
| tive take a room on Catharine Street
or any similar locality for the summer
months. Either method would soon
convince one that the person who did
not drink at all was preferable.
What is it that makes the deepest
heartaches of the world? The sight of
some one beloved degraded with alco-
hol What gives filthy dirty neigh
borhoods? The use of alcohol by the
people who live there. The other day
came in a streetcar (the day follow
ing payday) from the living centre Of
our industrial workers, and how did
every man in that car look? Unshaven,
unwashed. unclean and all smelling Of
alcohol. Lovely sight!
Oh, you psychologist! Oh, you snug
editor of "Is Drink a Soul Hunger?"
get out and find your answer. Never
can "soul hunger" if it is drink, be
satisfied with alcohol, that filthy wrong
thing which destroys all desire to be
clean and pure and right. Go find
yourselves, sirs, the cure for "soul
hunger" and then teach it unto others.
Only as this world takes God into it's
life, and remembers the "Man of Sor-
rows" can happiness and liberty Of
soul be found. And the world is going
to be dreadfully sick for a while in it's
process of getting strong and we'll
MARGARET WORTH.
New GLASGOW, N. S., Canada.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
c. M. Strauss Acquitted

Judge Malone, in General Sessions.
yesterday. directed an acquittal for
of the Department of Licenses. who.
after an investigation started by for
mer Commissioner of Accounts Leon
ard Wallstein, was indicted for accent
ing money from pickpockets. It was
alleged that Strauss permitted the
pickpockets to operate among the
crowds that stood in line in the de-
partment offices. Judge Malone decid-
ed the evidence was insufficient.
During the city election campaign
District Attorney Swami was severely
criticised by Commissioner Wallstein
tor alleged delay in taking the Strauss
case before the grand jury.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
To Try War Directors

- CAMP UPTON, N. Y, April 30
Drastic treatment of conscientious
oblectors whose attitude is sullen or
defiant has been ordered here by the
War Department. Such objectors will
be court martialled under the Goth ar
,ticle OF war on charges of conduct
preJudicial to good order and military
dlsclpllne. No limitation is placed on
the powers ofsa court martial in fixing
the number of years Imprisonment as
punishment.
The 9,l07 men assigned here from the
present increment of the draft are all
IN camp. To-day 1913 white men and
o46 negroes arrived. They are being
mustered in at the rate of 1000 day
and 200 extra clerks are assisting the
personnel officer. CAPTAIN ". y Heuer
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Prohibition Is Kaiserism in Worst
Form, Declares Dr.. I Ienry S. Williams

fering the life-blood of the nation to
oppose. 1t would be long step back
ward from democracy in the direction
Of autocracy. TO me, that is the sig
nificant feature of the entire question.
Compared with this. the question as
to whether alcohol is good or bad for
the race sinks to gniticance, and the
question as to whether national pro-
hibition would really prohibit has
little more than academic interest.
That national prohibition secured in
this way would launch us toward
paternalism otherwise known as
kaiserism-is, to my mind, the thing
that condemns the movement absolute
ly The entire prohibition propaganda,
as usually conducted, is essentially in
temperate, and should be abhorrent to
the friends of temperance.
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, NJ. D.
Urges Century
Ban on Liquor
We now have meatless days for
the sake of conservation For the
conservation Of morality and eff
cheney let us have a century of
liquorless days, writes William West
from Crawford, N. J..
To the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir: The mooted question of national
prohibition is one in which the abso~
lutte right is not mere matter of
opinion.
Vodka was made taboo in Russia only
to insure greater degree of military
efficiency, which was rendered. nil by
the pro-liouor Socialists Trotzky and
Lenine when they restored vodka and
installed the impotent Socialist regime.
England placed an embargo upon liquor
in 1916 for like purpose. For the
sake Of efficiency and common decency
the United States now prohibits the
sale of liquor within certain military
zones. Despite these facts DR.. Edison
evidently believes that in order to
"achieve" certain people must imbibe
Intoxicating liquor.
If the liquor business is helpful to
the people in general, then it should
not be hampered in any manner, but
should be as free as groceries or dry
, goods stores are now On the other
hand. if the sale and use of liquor as
a beverage impairs efficiency, promotes
immortality and crime, then no valid
reason can be assigned against its be-
ing placed in the category of demoral-
izing agencies to be prohibited.
Crawford, N. ]. WILLIAM WEST.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Industrial Draft Not
Planned at Present

WASHINGTON. April s0.-The War
Department, Acting Secretary Crowell,
advised the Senate Military Committee
to-day, is not prepared at this time
to pass On the question of universal
liability to industrial service Other
government departments. he said. in
letter referring to bill by Senator
McCumber, of North Dakota. to draft
all male citizens of military age for
industrial purposes, are more concerned
in the labor problem.
Isl Eould the need for the conscrip-
ton of labor become pressing" Mr..
Crowell said, "the sWar Department
would not hesitate to request the as
sistance of Congress. bur for the pres
ent it prefers to await the recommen-
dations of other departments"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Philadelphia Cuts Out
"Ads" in German Paners

PHILADELPHIA, April 30.-Heads Of
all departments of the city government
were yesterday directed by Mayor
Smith to cease furnishing public ad-
vertisements to German-language
newspapers in Philadelphia. The Mayor
took this action in accordance with a
resolution passed by City Councils
after the City Solicitor had declared
the resolution to be legal.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Stanch Advocate of Temper.
ance Denounces Pater-
nalism of Amendment
Liquorless Days for
Military Efficiency
Lively Discussion Brings Out
New Suggestions Regard
ing Demon Rum

To-day, in the eleventh install
ment, The Tribune presents addi-
tional opinions on the value of pro-
hibition as remedy for the ex-
ccssive use of liquor.
Prohibition is kaiserism, because
it is autocratic interference with
personal liberty, is the way DR..
Henry Smith Williams feels about
the proposed Federal amendment.
The entire prohibition propaganda
is essentially Incorporate, accord
ing to his way of thinking, and, be-
ing temperate man, he condemns it
therefore.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In response to your request,
very willingly state my views on the
question of national prohibition.
Every one familiar with my writings
knows that am and always have been
stanch advocate of temperance.
From this it is sometimes inferred that
| must also be an advocate of prohi-
bition, and unauthorized use of my
name has on occasion been made in
that connection.
Let me state, then, that in my opin-
ion there is no necessary association
between temperance and prohibition.
My observations and studies of the
subject. extending over about a third
of century. have convinced me that,
except in very local and restricted
areas, prohibition does not prohibit
the use of alcohol or its substitutes,
nor does it lessen the evil consequences
that result from the abuse of these
substances.
My studies of conditions in Maine,
in several Southern states and in Kan
sas have convinced me that where
liquor is under a statewide ban the
prominent effects are to restrict the
use of the less harmful fermented bev-
erages and to substitute in consider
able measure distilled liquors of poor
quality, and narcotics that are even
worse. including opium products and
cocaine.
have made somewhat comprehen-
sive studies of comparative statistics
as to arrests for drunkenness and dis
order, prison commitments, dependen-
ey and insanity as between groups of
dry" and groups of "wet" cities and
states, with results in the main un-
favorable to the communities from
which alcohol is supposed to be ban
isheA.