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New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Women Seek | ,OOONew
Members for League
Organization Aims to Pro-
mote Intelligent Interest in.
Municipal Affairs

The Woman's Municipal League, at IL
East Fortysixth Street, is making a
drive for recruits. 1t wants 1000. but
has set 500 as a minimum.
All New York women intereste in
civic affairs are eligible. The league is
non-partsan.
The purpose of the league is to pro-
mote among women an intelligent in
terest in municipal affairs" said Miss
Martha Sufren, the leagues executive
secretary, "and since New York women
have become enfranchised the need for
such an agency is greatly emphasized.
One person alone is going to have diff
Guilty making herself force in the
community, no matter how worthy her
cause, but we'll organized unit rarely
fails to be effective
The league always has stood whole
heartedly behind good government, and
recently has been active in the inter
ests of child welfare, cooperating with
the Health Department.
All members are being asked to enlist
two members and send in five names of
prospective members. The membership
fee is 81.
League officers are: Mrs. Frederick
c. Hodgdon, president; Mrs. Howard
i, Meyers, secretary; Mrs. Gilbert
Montague, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Adrian Van S. Lambert, vice-pre
dent, and Mrs. Milton G. Starrett. mem
bership chairman.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Jews Plan Drive
To Raise S5,000,0O0
For War Sufferers
Four Organizations to Take
Part in Campaign During
Week of December |

Preliminary announcement was made
last night by Felix NJ. Warburg, chair
man of the Joint Distribution Com
rittee of the American Funds for Jew
ish War Sufferers, of plans for r Getting
with constructive relief the immediate
needs Of the Jewish populations of
Europe and Palestine
A campaign for $4,000, 900 will be con-
Quoted in New York City the week of
December to Is. The American, Cen
trail and Peoples Relief Committees,
whose funds are disbursed through the
Joint Committee, will participate.
The funds obtained will be disbursed
on information which Food Admins
traitor Hoover's Office is collecting. AS
1t was necessary to spend $4,000 in
the last month, a large emergency
fund is deemed necessary, says Mr..
Warburg'S report, for use in Poland,
Galicia. Roumania, Turkey, Syria and
Palestine.
The Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies in New
York City, which was planning a drive
for money, will cooperate in the larger
campaign and receive $50O,OO0 as its
share.
Mr.. Warburg will outline the plans
tonight at dinner at the Central
Opera House, 205 East Sixty seventh
Street, under the auspices of the
Peoples Relief Committee, which rep
resents the working classes
On next Tuesday evening. DR.. Solo
mon Lowenstein, superintendent of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum, who has just
returned from Palestine, where he went
as member of the Red Gross Commits
sion and representative Of the Joint
distribution Committee, will report to
the committee in the Hotel Biltmore on
conditions among the Jews in Pales-
tine. Abram l. Efkus has issued in
vations
On the advisory Council of the Cam
paign Committee with Mr.. Warburg
are Charles S. Ward, of the interna-
tional Y. M. c. A, who will be cam
paign director; Cyrus L. Sulzberger,
Dr. |. Edwin Goldwasser, Jacob Bill
kopf, DR.. Boris D. Bogen, LeonKamaiky,
Stanley Bero, Baruch Zuckerman, Har-
riet b. Lowenstein and Alexander
Kahn.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Drama


Walter Hampden appeared in spe-
cial matinee Of Hamlet" at the plym-
outh Theatre yesterday and strength
ened the excellent impression which
he made in the role couple of sea-
sons ago. The performances are again.
Under the auspices Of the Shakespeare
Playhouse, directed by Frank Nc
Entee. Hampden is fine figure of
Hamlet and reads with intelligence and
spirit. His is the. best performance of
the role which New York has seen
SINCE Forbes Robertson.
=, Mr.. Hampden is not unmindful of
the fact that Hamlet, among his other
accomplishments, was humorist. If
not fellow of infinite jest, he was at
least pretty wit Among the most
successful portions of yesterdays per.
1ormance were the verbal duels be-
tween Hamlet and Polonius. The give
and-take was at least as rapid as the
rapler play later on and much moro
successful for Hamlet. Albert Brun-
ing was an excellent Polonius, even if
his accent did suggest Schleswigs II oj.
stein: Charles Stevenson as the King
and Mary Moore as Ophera also con.
trlbuted largely to a thoroughly enjov-
able and finished performance n
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Victory
To Be Celebrated
To-day at CAPITAL
Irl6stNe Was{1innt0n Rna.ena,

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-woman
suffrage victories in Michigan. South
Dakota and Oklahoma will be cele-
brated tomorrow afternoon at the
Washington headquarters of the Ma
tlonal American Woman Suffrage AS
soclation. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
honorary president of the organization.
VIII preside at the meeting. which is
open to the public, and will speak on
now these state successes will affect
the national campaign.
Senator Townsend, Of Michigan, and
the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane will
tell OF the victory in Michigan. Michi-
gan has had Presidential suffrage for
women for several years. The recent
success is for full suffrage. Senator
Sterling will represent South Dakota
and Mrs. Frank j. Shuler, of New York,
Will tell of the campaign in Oklahoma,
in which she took part.
The three states that have just voted
for woman suffrage will make the num-
Der Of full suffrage states in the Union
fifteen. There are four others that
have Presidential suffrage and three
that have primary suffrage.
The addition of Michigan, South Da-
kota and Oklahoma to the ranks of
suffrage states probably will not add
any votes TO the number for the amend
ment because their Senators voted for
the Federal amendment in October.
However, the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association Will make this
victory celebration the opening of it's
campaign TO secure the one vote neces-
sary to pass the amendment before
March a. 1t is understood that Dr.
Shaw will outline in her address some
Of the plans for the campaign.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Opera
"Marouf," Presented at Met
ropolitan, Enchanting and
Cannot Fail of Appreciation

The story of Marouf, the cobbler Of
Cairo, with which Scheherazade be-
guiled her lord and king from the nine
hundred and ninety-cighth night to the
end of the thousand and first night,
was told in music, dance, pantomime
and picture at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night. Scheherazade lex
tolled be the excellence of her whom
the vicissitudes of time can neither de.
stroy nor marD was not present in the
body, but surely her spirit and that of
Haroun- -Raschid and the genii and
atrltes of lamp and ring and bottle per-
meate the book and score of this fasci-
mating opera. And her beauty shone
like the mood in the loveliness of Aida
and CALI
The music of the Orient saturated
the scenes, burdened the air, filtered
through the crevices of nature, foated
down from the minarets, throbbed in
the pulsng drums, walled in the voices
OF the sott-complaining flutes and the
cantlcles of the singers from the
mosques, with their strange and haunt
ing intervals and cadences.
The glory of song seems to be de-
parting from our gorgeous lyric tenn
pie, but in it's place there is another
glory-the glory of apparel, of adorn-
ments adorning the bodies of singing
men and women, and a chief glory Of
dancing women. Of costly stuffs are
their garments, from the looms of
Hind and Sinde and the uttermost parts
of Arabia. costing many thousand
pieces of gold. 0 delight of the eyel
Allah blacken the face of him who is
not content with this delectation and
make the breadth of him to be as his
length A play of cobbler and king,
cadi and caravan, memlooks and
marids and muezzins, vizier and yiands.
And the music! 0 rapture of the ear
and the fancy-this outgush of the
genius of Rabaud!
"Marouf" is a marvellous opera, en-
chanting, work of bewildering skill
and fecund fancy. 1t cannot fail Of
appreciation and understanding, if ap-
probation and understanding still sur
vive among the opera lovers Of New
York. The performance was admirable
throughout. noteworthy in the imper-.
sonations of Mr.. De Luca, Mr.. Chalmers.
Mr. Rothier and Nine. Aida. Thrice
noteworthy is the work of the
orchestra and Mr. Monteux.
n. E: X.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

way, the simple power of the Greek
vase painters. His craftsmanship
mas repute due as much to the en-
gravers who interpreted him as to his
own merits. His line is good, but not
magicai, not the line of great mas
Yer. Ingres, who admired him, was in
hhlteiy hia superior in drawing. These
pale, delicate illustrations are some
What cloy1ng when sixty or seventy of
them are shown together, as in this in
stance. But the single drawing. iso-
lated, offers to the amateur of the
graphic arts a welcome sensation
The American Society of Miniature
Painters makes at the Arden gallery
us twentieth annual appearance, cx-
hiblting eighty portraits 1t maintains
US nigh standard as an organization.
There is scarce 81 trace Of amateurish
work in the collection. But it intro
duces this year no new talents. Miss
Hills, as always, leads the company.
After her brillisnce the rank and file
convey satisfactory enough impress
sion---without anywhere quite match
ing the pace she sets. All these ar
fists, Miss Hills as much as any Of
the others, cannot but suffer from the
proximity of the pottery from the
Durant Kilns which Is also displayed
at the Arden gallery. Mrs. Rice and
Mr.. Volkmar have attained to wonder
full beauty of color in their jars and
bowls. Their resonant blues. greens
and yeilows fairly overwhelm the frag-
lie tints of the miniaturists. The blues
especially register an enviable triumph.
The second instalment Of the late
Thomas +. Curtis's art collection is
on view at the Anderson galleries,
where it will be dispersed in four ses-
sions, beginning next Tuesday after
noon. This part consists of Greek and
Roman antiquities, bronzes, potteries
and statuary. There are also old neck
laces and other articles of jewelry. The
miscellany Of over eight hundred num-
for the modest collector. The paint
which are to be sold next Tuesday
evening, mostly of the modern Euro
pean schools, embrace some capital
sketches by Boudin, Rico, Casanova
and similar types.
Household embellishments continue
to hold the field at the American Art
Galleries. A sale is completed there
this afternoon of objects from a Fifth
Avenue residence and other sources,
with some additions from the Isaac
D. Fletcher collection. On Monday
and Tuesday afternoons Mrs Charles
H. Miller's old English china and glass
will be sold, with her old Dutch brass
and copper and other objects.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Mrs. Ballington Booth Going to
France to Cheer Up Our Soldiers
Little Mother" of the VOL
unteers of America Is En-
listed With Y. NJ. c. A. FOR
Work With A. E. F.

AT the request of the Y M. C. A. in
Paris Mrs. 5a!ington Booth, wife Of
Heaeral baliington Booth, president of
the Volunteers Of America, has gone to
spend the winter with the A. E. r. =,
France
The work she will undertake Is mar
ticuiariy well suited to her, for. as the
Little Mother" of thousands of prison
erS, she has been talking to men for the
iast twenty-five years and has brought
cheer and sympathy to many lonely
hearts. '''s''
Mrs. Booth has made close study of
.eftaln war time questions, particularly
1he aiiilatlons of prison labor with the
manufacture of war munitions and the
Ilght OF qualified prisoners to fight for
thelr country. Early in the war she
mace tour of the prisons of the
united States, winning over manv state
governors and prison wardens to her
views. which she later submitted TO
president Wilson, who also exnressed
his warm sympathy.
1T IS said that before the draft laws
were introduced over five hundred Of
hcr boys went from prison to en1;st
with Canadian battalions.
unoer the auspices of tie entertain
meht committee of the Y. M. C. A. Mrs
booth will probably speak at n different
-, nut every night. Before leaving
u am not going to talk to the bovs
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
State Wide Conference
Will Have Representatives
From Each County
.
'----
Message From Hoover
Campaign for Next Year VIII
... Be Mapped Out at
Meetings

Women delegates from each county
in the state will be b resent at q con
terence of county food administrators
at the Hotel Plaza tomorrow. They.
will cooperate with the administrators
IN formulating a conservation pro-
gramme for the coming year.
Fred c. Walcott, of the food admin
lstratlon, will convey Mr.. Hoover's per
sonal message to the conference, as
the Federal Food Administrators is now
in Europe. Charles e. fireman, Fed
eral Food Administrator for New York
State outside of the metropolitan dis
trict, will be chairman of the meeting.
Some of the women delegates and
the county they represent tol.ow:
Mrs. Joseph c. White, Mrs. Alice j.
Moynihan and Miss Claribel Nye,
Chantaudua County; Mrs. f. L. Baker
Genesee County; Miss Katherine Roy,
Steuben County; Mrs. Willis G.
Mitchell, Washington County; Mrs. w.
3. Gere, ,,Onondaga County; Miss Laura
q. Ketchum, Yates County: Mrs. A.
NJ. Curtis, Ostego County; Mrs. W.
Fl. Hearn, Columbia County; Miss
Afngeline Wood, Allegany County; Miss
Elma Becker, Tioga County; Mrs.
George II. Smith, Essex County; Miss
Sophie Hurdt Madison County; Mrs.
4. f. Neild, Erie. County; Mrs. William
5. Ostrander, Saratoga County; Mrs.
Walter j. Lawton, Warren County;
Mrs: Henry F. Burton, Monroe County.
Miss Madge Bloodgood, Albany Coun-
ty; Mrs. Alma W. McMillen, Orleans
County; Miss Eulalie C. McGovern,
Lewis County; Mrs. Herbert f. Roy,
Rensselaer, County; Mrs Platt os-
borne, Oneida County; Mrs. Donald
Grant, Fulton County; Miss Hanna
Connolly, Schuyler County; Miss Ada
Michael, Onondaga County; Mrs. F. r.
Alexander, Oswego County; Mrs. Lewis
Seymour, Broome County; Mrs. A. f..
Brigden, Cortland County; Miss Doris
Schumacher, Jefferson County.
Miss NJ. A. Waite. Dutchess County;
Dr.. j. Garlock, Montgomery County;
Mrs. Henry Moench, Cattaragus Coun-
ty; Mrs. H. B. Knight, Seneca County;
Miss Anna l. Leggett, Chemung Coun-
ty; Miss Bertha F. Yerke, Niagara
County; Mrs. Amy Beaks, Sullivan
County; Mrs. Frederick G. Paddock,
Franklin County; Mrs. Bertha Palmer
Wilson, Greene County; Miss Gene
We've A. Hageman, Schoharie County;
Mrs. William A. Warren, Ulster Coun-
ty; Mrs. f. c. Wixom, Cayuga County;
Mrs. F. E. Bates, Tompkins County;
Mrs. Frederick Eccleston, Chenango
County; Mrs. John H. Booth, Clinton
County; Mrs A. w. North, Delaware
County,; Mrs. James Catchell, Wayne
County,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Work Moving From Overseas Back Home

last few years by the insistent and
dramatic demands of winning the war.
Nurses and physicians have beer called
to the front. This has complicated
matters. The army and navy have
called out young fathers, and some
times the government al,ctments Nave
peen slow in coming, while war prices
rave worked their havoc in many
enbv's home on the East Side.
These arc. conditions which have
made the work OF the Ladies' Auxiliary
Increasingly important dur!ng tie last
six months. The auxiliary has cared
Tor 500 war babies during that time.
1t has been problem which must be
met IN spite of war conditions because
o' It's Great Importance as a national
issue. The auxiliary has done every
thing possible to help the bctser
baby movement which is now being
conducted IN this country as a chill
dren's year campaign. This campaign
Is being carried out by the United
states Children's Bureau cooperating
with the Child Welfare Department
OF the Woman's Committee Of the
Council Of National Defence.
No Loss in Epidemic
During the recent influenza cpi-
dcmic the auxiliary did not lose
S:n% = moShcr or haoy The staff main
tanned by the auxiliary of three visit
ing nurses and three cleaning women,
a. welt as the admirable work main
tanned in the baby clinic of the Lying
In Hospital, was responsible for this
unusual record. The epidemic made it
harder for many mothers on the East
Side to get along without the paid
women" These women were USUALLY
neighbors who would come in for a few
hours each day to help over an emer
geency., Owing to the great demand
of such services during the epidemic
an added burden fell upon the visiting
staff of the auxiliary"
lne oNcers Of the Ladies' Auxiliary
OF the Lying-ln Hospital include Mrs.
Willard Parker, ir., presidents; Mrs. J.
Turner Atterbury. first vice president;
Mrs. Morton S. Patton, second vice
president; Mrs. bingham Lawrence.
treasurer; Mrs. Townsend Lawrence,
assistant treasurer; Mrs Charles
Steele. corresponding secretary. and
Mrs. William Picrson Hamilton, re-
cording secretary.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

clans tried to take hand to the ex-
tent OF counting mutilated ballots as
Fart of the silent vote. '''' "'
Had Votes to Spare.
Oklah homa's highest yoteAtba+ cast
for governor-was 17S.963 Win N"7, 20
counties out of II heard from The
suffrage amendment had to poll a ma
orlty OF the total highest vote cast or
e9'4s2; The yes vote on the SUFFRAGE
in these same 73 counties
was 9s,465. The amendment was.
theretore. swept to victory with an,
OK 5000 votes to spare.
4 ne total vote on the amendment
lIsel1 IN the 73 counties was, yes 9s.-
4eo, no 74,5aS, a total of 173,o63 The
plurality on its own vote
was approximately 24OO0.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Alaska's College
Near Arctic Circle
F Fairbanks Is Seat of Agricult-
ural and Mining School
of Great Promise

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 23.-The
new Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines under construction
here, about 15O miles from the Arctic
Circle, is believed. to be further, north
than any other institution of higher
learning in the world. 1t will train it's
graduates to help develop Alaska along
its two main es-agricultural and
mining. Authorities assert this north
ern soil holds big thingsNin both food
and metals.
Both United States government and
Alaska territorial funds are being used
by the college. Congress in 1915
designated site for the school and set
aside agricultural and mining lands in
the Tanana Valley for the support of
the institution. Last year the Alaska
Territorial Legislature voted 100000
for the construction and purchase of
appropriation of $4,000 is expected to
help maintain the school.
The Fairbanks United States Gov
ernment Agricultural Station, now To-
Gated on the college site, will become
part OF the new institution and will
continue to draw its revenue for sun
port from the FEDERAL government.
The college cornerstone was laid
July 4, 1915. The site is high on
hlH, overlooking the city of Fairbanks.
the Ianana River and the railroad tho
united States government is buildinp
between Seward and Fairbanks. The
concrete walls are completed and work
VIII continue as long as the weather
permits.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Youth Now National Asset
in Replacement of the
Slain Soldiers
Britain Finances Work
Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.,
Points Out Need for
Public's Support

New York will care for its babies as
ono Of the first great reconstruction
tasks which will follow the end of the
war Mrs. Willard Parker, jr,, presi-
dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the So
ciety of the Lying-in- Hospital, an
nounced yesterday there was an im-
mediate need for greater effort in safe
guarding the babies Of New York.
Babies are a primary national as
set" Mrs. Parker declared
For more than twenty two years our
auxiliary has built up its traditions on
this fundamental principle Now the
end of the war has suddenly added an
even greater emphasis to the vast i'm
portance of very small persons in our
community.
Every warning country has lost
lives in two ways during the last few
terrible years of bloodshed and
suffering. These losses have been on
the battlefield and in the inevitable
and enormous decline in birth rates
and the increase in infant mortality.
There is just one way for nation to
counteract such losses.
Life Saving Big Issue
"Thc saving of life among the babies
of a country is really the only point at
which a great economy of life is pos
sble. New York must do its bit in the
reconstruction days we are facing to
see to it that this economy in prevent
ing wastage of life is proportionate to
other vital losses suffered during the
war.
ain all the warning countries this
idea is taking definite form. 1t would
seem that realization has suddenly
crystalized that of all the people in
the country the children counted the
most. Ii isGi
"Take England as an example.
During the second year of the war
England reduced her infant mortality
rato to the lowest point in her history.
This was not lucky accident; for
by that time even the War Office was
ready TO bow before the imperative
needs of the very smallest members of
the community. In spite of the demand
for nurses for military service, it was
announced that the War Office, fully
realizing the value of the national work
Nasncted by trained women who gave
INSTRUCTION to mothers in their own
hon}es on the care of babies, was not
prepared TO accept those who were act
ing in this capacity.
England Provides Money
The government in England gives
grants Of money through the local gov
ernment boards to local authorities and
various agencies for carrying on child
welfare work. The budgets expended
on the babies of the United Kingdom
are significant of their Importance in
the eyes of the government.
"In 19f7-'1S the budget for this grant
was 100000. In 191819 the grant
was increased to S1,150,000. There
were 500 Health Visitors for babies
IN March, 1914, and by February. 1917,
the number had been increased to
1,445.
Fundamentally, this is the idea for
which the great war was fought. The
children must not suffer too much be-
cause Of the war, and, they must have
future which will bring better con-
ditions for them than the past did.
Popular interest has been turned aside
from child welfare work during the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Women Won Vote
I'm Oklahoma Onlv
After Hard Fight
Mrs. Schuler Returns to Suf-
frage Headquarters With
Report on Campaign

The winning of suffrage in Okla
homa was the result of hard fight
according to Mrs. Frank ]. Shuler
corresponding Secretary of the Ma
tlonal Woman's Suffrage Association,
Mrsf. Shuler had charge of the Okla
homa suffrage campaign, as a result
of which the Oklahoma Constitution
stands amended for the first time bv
a majority vote of general election.
I'm Oklahoma, all who do not cast
any vote for a constitutional amend
ment are considered to have voted
against it, and the political ring op-
posing us counted on this silent vote
to beat u.s." Mrs. huler said. eve com
batted this by having women stationed
at the polls to distribute slips stating
that man failing to cast vote would
go down as voting against us, And we
Won"
Had Many Obstacles.
Mrs. Shuler was sent to Oklahoma
by the National Association, and she
conducted vigorous campaign, speak
ing to oil magnates as we'll as cow
boys, cotton buyers. and Indians ac-
companied by their squaws--the first
families of Oklahoma.
The hazards the workers had to COM
bat were many. First, an attempt was
made to keep the amendment off the
ballot on the ground that the exact
wordink had not been supplied to the
Board of Elections by the Secretary of
State.
Second, the amendment ballot was
not sent to the soldiers in seven camps
alcng with the candidates. ballot This
meant that soldiers who had no chance
to vote on the amendment at all were
counted as voting no.
Third, an organized roup of politi-