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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Gliding at the +
Wall Street Monster

At a meeting at Newark on June
Nearing spoke, saying that the United
States had loaned $1,000, 100000 to the
Allies for the benefit of j. p. Morgan
In pamphlet since published, entitled
'Thc Great Madness: A Victory for
the American Plutocracy," Nearing
similarly ignored the crimes of Ger
many as a cause for Americas going to
war, blaming Wall Street, "big inter
csts," american plutocracy" and "the.
wealth lords" for the declaration. In
the leading article Of Bulletin Of the
Peoples Council he also wrote:
II will tell you, sir, the evidence
is overwhelming that you and your
masters want the war to continue so
that ten billions of fabulousy profit.
able war contracts may be given out"
1t should be noted that Nearing by
these utterances has laid himself liable
to punishment under the trading with
the enemy act, under which, according
to Postmaster General Burleson, news
papers in this country "that go so far
as to impugn the motives OF the gov
eminent and thus encourage insubordl-
nation will be dealt with severely. For
instance, newspapers may not say mat
the government is controlled by wall
Street or munitions manufacturers or
any other special interests"
Mr.. Burlcson has also said: 1--WE Will
not permit the publication or circula-
ton of anything hampering the wars
prosecution" Yet Nearing and the
Peoples Council have done and said
many things calculated to retard the
prosecution Of the war Nearing took a
leading part in the meeting OF the
American Conference for Democracy
and Terms of Peace, which on May 80
denounced the draft act as unconstitu-
tional and immoral, a violation of the
Thirteenth Amendment. and agitated
for its repcal-all less than week be-
fore the day of registration for the
draft-thus indirectly tending to incltc
resistance to registration.
The convention also indirectly en-
couraged resistance to registration by
suggesting what no one else in this
country except pro-German propagan-
dists have suggested-that the draft
law would possibly force drafted men to
"work without the protection of labor
laws under any conditions which the
military executive may force upon
them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Mayor Orders All to Remain
at Work Until 5 O'clock,
and Stays in His Own
Office Until $40 P. M.

Mayor Hylan has more than ngura-
lively taken time by the forelock in
the first week Of his administration in
office. His order Tuesday that all
commissioners and employees should i'm
mediatcly join the 80 to s Club" put a
premium on alarm clocks. and caused
many hasty breakfasts and hurried de-
partures from the homes of the thou
sands of city employees. It was par
ticularly trying during the extremely
cold weather.
Time order No. went out from the
Mayors Office yesterday and spoiled the
luncheon appetite of all the civil SER
vice employees in the city. An hour be-
fore the usual knocking off time at
noon on Saturdays, the telephones rang
in the Offices of the heads Of all the
city departments and in the borough
Offices, and the word was passed by the
Mayors secretary that every employe
would be expected to remain at work
until 5 p. m.
Order Upsets Employees
The order created Juror in all the
departments, and many prearranged en-
gagemcnts for the afternoon and even
ing had to be broken. Matinee tickets
had to be hastily disposed Of, and those
who had purchased railroad tickets for
out-of-town points will try to get their
money refunded. 1t upset the working
force Of the city completely and de-
vcloped storm Of protest. The un-
certainty as to whether the Saturday
half-holiday is to be taken from them
permanently is one of the greatest
present sources of worry to the en-
ployes.
The Mayor remained at his Office in
the City Hall last night until $500
o'clock, thus setting a good example to
the thousands of employees under him.
They will be expected to take the
"busy bee' orders philosophca]y in
view of the Mayors personal record on
the time clock. He was at his Office
ahead of time yesterday and the day
before, arriving at 1855 Friday and
1852 yesterday. Owing to delays on
the Broadway elevated line, which the
Mayor used as an ultra democratic
means of travel each morning, he was
three minutes late Wednesday, his first
active day in office, and six minutes
late Thursday
Mayor Critic;scs s. r. r.
The truth, which has long been sus
pected. that the new Mayor never did
feel cordially disposed toward the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company,
leaked out yesterday when he wrote a
sharp letter to Chairman Oscar S.
Straus, Of the Public Service Commits
sion, complaining Of the demoralized
transit conditions on the Brooklyn cle-
waited lines and demanding that some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Socialists to Plav
important Part i'm
Alderrnanic Board
Will Introduce Legislation
Calling for Selling of
Coal by the City

The seven Socialist aldermen elected
IN November will play an important
part IN the future deliberations of
the new Board of Aldermen. which
meets Tor the first time tomorrow.
1t is understood that Alfred e. Smith
president Of the board, intends to
assign The Socialist members to i'm
portant committees. Algernon Loo
the leader of the Socialist group. is
expected to get a place on the all
important finance committee.
Inc &. o. p. members of the board
although only sixteen in number. will
Ho' looH with favor upon the appoint
ment of the Socialists to committees
as it will effect their strength most
Inc forty four Tammany aldermen in
the board held their organization eau
Gus at the City Hall yesterday and
planned to elect Francis p. Kenny Of
brooklyn. as floor leader. Alderman
Kenny was chairman of the finance
committee of the old board and viii
probably retain the place in the new
board. 81"
Tho Socialist aldermen have organ
1zed for concentrated action. witt,
WORKING headquarters in "The Peoples
'A""SN, I1ttS r II leenln street. which
was the headquarters Of Morris Uill-
quit during the recent mayoralty cam
paign. They announced yesterday some
OF their plans for the first nicotine
OF the board vas
According to Mr.. Lee. chairman of
the delegation, they will introduce two
coal resolutions, one demanding that
the city purchase coal immediately
through the Mayors Central Purchas
ing Committee for sale to consumers.
and the other calling upon the Leg
lslature to empower the City Of New
York to permanently trade in coal
resolution will also be introduced
urging the State Food Commission 10
declare ice necessity and to immedi-
ately take such steps as will insure
for the poor OF the city an ADEQUATE
supply of that commodity at reasona-
bic prices. The lee resolution antjci-
pates the usual summer ice famine
which brings much suffering to the
inhabitants Of the city's congested
DISTRICTS
Measures dealing with milk the trac-
ton situation, the schools and the feed
ing Of school children will be intro
duced by the Socialist aldermen at an
early date
The Republican members Of the
board have chosen Alderman John S.
Gaynor of Brooklyn, as minority floor
leader.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
United States should lag doavm her
arms and refuse to fight"
And Such Is the
Company He Keeps

Finally, Nearing is disclosed as a
German aid by the company he keeps.
Associated with him in the Peoples
Council are Fola La Toilette, Max East.
man, Thomas Van Lear, Mayor Of Min
neapolis. and Morris Hilquit, leader Of
the perverted American Socialist party
When Hillquit received a large vote
in the New York Mayoralty contest
Nearing said, in rejoicing over the re-
turns:
"The issues Of the election were
the issues that the Peoples Council
has been trying to get before the
public. In New York the campaign
made by Mr.. Mitchell placed the ques-
ton squarely before the voters:
"'Are you for militarism and the
continuance of the WARP
There has been an immense in-
crease in the Socialist vote. This in
crease we regard as a protest against
the continuance of the war
How Nearing trains with La Toilette
is shown by Nearing's presence when
on September 90 La Toilette in Glove
land attacked the American press, de-
claring that American newspapers are
for the most part controlled by the
"war party" the financial interests of
the countrya familiar Nearing reason
for this country's entrance into the
war, rather than Germany's actions.
SO, fitting against the windmills of
"American plutocracy," Scott Nearing,
QuiXotic American Bolshevik, closes
his eyes to the cry of world democracy,
denies any suspicion Of pro- German
ism, actually holds meetings in secret
to avoid possible arrest, and spreads
the Kalser's message of an immediate
peace for the German machine to cna~
bic 1T to rest up for a final attempt for
world poWer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Officer Sues for $4,000
Navy Lieutenant, Married d
Months, Charges Alienation

Married less than four months ago
Lieutenant William +. Commerford
U. S. N, brought suit in the Supreme
Court yesterday demanding $50 900
damages for the alienation of the afrec.
tons of his wife, Mrs. May CONNER.
ford. DR.. Charles A. Renouard. tho
defendant, is the head of an embalm.
ing school at 381 Fourth Avenue.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Commerford
were married on September Is last.
The lieutenant says that at the tins
his wife told him that she was y
widow with an income of $500 a month
from her first husband His naval
duties called him to Newport News
Va. and it was during his absence
there, he alleges, that DR.. Renouard
alienated the affections of Mrs. Com.
merford. Dr. Ronouard denies the
charge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
A.spersing the Motives
Of u. S. Government

Nearing and the PEOPLES Council arc
and have been conspicuously silent on
German outrages in Belgium and
France, German intrigues in the United
States and similar news regarding the
German side.'
A third way in which Nearing helps
Germany is to question the motives of
the American government in entering
the war. completely ignoring the prov
ocatlon given by Germany, and as
sorting that this country went to war
to protect "big business" He began
developing this idea in 1916, when he
said in Germs of War" an anti
preparedness pamphlets:
WAR business or business war?
There is nothing in Il name, but
there is a great deal in the connec-
tion that exists between war and
modern business. The modern war
is a business propositions"
Speaking in Philadelphia on March
Is, 1917, Nearing said:
'Your real enemy is not in Berlin.
He's in New York. He's not in the
Wilhelmstrasse, but in Wall Street"
Addressing the American Confer
ence for Democracy and Terms of
Peace (the forerunner of the Peoples
CounciD, Nearing said on May so:
"The present war is a war by the
intelligent, educated. enlightened
part of the community against the
wishes and judgment of the ignorant
part of the community"
A day later, before the same body.
Nearing amplifed his argument that
the United States went into the war
for predatory reasons took advant-
age of the world war to raise big
army TO be used fer commercial con-
quest in South America. He said:
zone Of the great avenues of pluto
cratic activity has been the invest
ment of billions of dollars in Mexico,
Central America, the West Indies and
South America. Those huge invest
ments must be protected against the
aggressions Of other capitalists from
Belgium, France, Germany, England,
Russia and the other foreign surplus
investing nations.
Silence. there arose the demand
for q 0redt American drn,y aud q
Qreat American .7adUN to back 7tD
qoiat ave. pleased to call the eco
aon,ic Monroe Doctrine. which /
take to mean that no foreign nation
the South American people. We re-
served that right exclusively for our
selves.
"'rhe great navy and army were
necessary. You cannot maintain a
great army in a democracy without
universal military service, and
therefore universal military service
was necessary. You cannot get uni
versal military ervce across in a
democracy without war, and there
fore q acdr tros necessd,u. Very
few people in the United States
wanted war, excluding the capitalist
interests. They wanted their foreign
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

investments protected. They needed
a military establishment to protect
them. They required consumption to
back their military establishment,
and the onln possible ayuu to Qet
conscriDtson 1Uas through AGAR 1vith
MeTico--,'yith Japa't-toith Eng
land-,pith Gernpanv-,vith anu-
bodn, that Would Nicld the desired
results.
"Now we have tho war--our par
ticipation in tho worlds struggle.
The American people did not want
the war. The American business in
terests did want tho war, and they
spent three years telling us that
through their subsidized, owned.
kept press, and at tho end Of that
three years they got their war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

thing should be done to prevent the
"disgraceful overcrowding" of the peo-
pie in the trains.
The Mayors letter follows:
~ take the liberty to call to your at
tention dcmoralizng condition that
exists upon the elevated lines in the
borough of Brooklyn. Young women
are crowded in the cars in the most
disgraccful manner and grossly in
suited
"a girl, seventeen years of age, with
her father, called personally and made
Il statement Of tho disgraceful manner
in which she was treated in one of the
cars.
at is common practice on the
lines in Brooklyn to overcrowd the
cars, which IS caused by the neglect
to run sufficient cars to carry the pas
scngers.
'Short Runs Nuisance"
"Short runs on the different lines
where the people are obliged to get out
OF the train and wait for the next are
getting to be a Public nuisance. There
is no reason for the trains to be
crowded during the middle Of the day
or after the rush hours.
There are now thirty-two less cars
on all the lines in Brooklyn, both ele-
waited and surface, than there were in
1907 excepting the new Concy Island
rcutc), notwithstanding the fact that
the population of Brooklyn has in
creased by several hundred thousand,
several Of the lines extended, and the
Public Service Commission costing the
people over'$l0,c00,090.
Something car be done and must be
done to put an end to the disgraceful
overcrowding of the people in the
trains"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Who's Who
Against America

Previously Mentioned:
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
ABRAHAM CAHAN
WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON
NEWS GARBLER HEARST
MORRIS HILLQUIT, OF RIGA
VICTOR l.. BERGER
ROBERT M. LA TOILETTE
HEARST, THE ENEMY'S HERO
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Arrest of Men Is Asked for
Burning kaiser's Picture

MOORHEAD, Mimi. Jan. because
thirty young men last night broke into
his house and took a picture of the
German Emperor, which was hanging
on the wall, and threw it on a bonfire
in the street at Hawley. Mimi, George
H. Peters asked c. G. Dosland, County
Attorney here, to-day to start criminal
action against the men,
Peters in an affidavit said he valued
the picture at $500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Hylan's Brother-in-Lav
Is Made His Bodvguard

Patrolman Irving O'Hara was yester-
day promoted to a first grade detective
with an annual salary increase of $500
and assigned as bodyguard to his broth
er-in-law, Mayor Hylan.
POLICE Commissioner Bugher, in an
nouncing the promotion, said that De-
tective John j. Phelan, who had acted
as bodyguard to ex-Mayor Mitchell, had
been reduced to second grade and as
signed to the First Branch Detective
Bureau at Police Headquarters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

game. The Bolshe-
wiki are playing it
in Russia-dividing
up the land, putting
down "capitalism,"
talking peace with
the Hohenzollerns,
" h i ! o German
troops are with
drawn to assault
the Western front
and, if possible,
France be-
fore America can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
BY Herbert Flint

THO DISTRACT the people at home
with c, 'es about domestic con-
ditions while Germany strikes
at the foundations of world safety is
the latest way to play the German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
in Line With
The Bolsheviki

When the Bolsheviki came into power
in Russia on a wave Of IL demand for
peace at any price, Nearing promptly
fell INTO line. Speaking ir Chicago on
November 10, he suggested that Amer
ica Join the Russian Bolshevik Cabi-
ret in asking for an armistice to see
if the ideas of the national leaders
were not close enough together to ne
gotiate peace. Americans. he added,
likcning them to the Bolsheviki, are
"sick of the war"
The Bolshevik character of Nearing s
Propaganda is further illustrated by
the similarity of the schemes proposed
for the actual peace conference. In Il
statement made to the Associated Press
in Petrograd on November 8, Nikolai
Lenine. Bolshevik leader, said:
1.-The question of peace is burn
ing one to-day. . Such peace
is to be concluded, not by diplomacy,
but, by the representatives of tho
people"
The Peoples Council Bulletin of
October 10 says:
eve must see to it that the peace
when it comes is peoples peace,
not diplomats peace"
In short, Nearing is ready to make
reace tomorrow with an undefeated,
irresponsible Hohenzollern brutism. He
considers peace now-at once-quickly
preferable to anything else. In Bull
lctin VI the Peoples Council he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

make her presence felt
Scott Nearing, pacihst, head of the
Peoples Council, is playing the Boil
shevik game in America. His past
record furnishes excellent camoufage
ousted from two American universitie,
because of talking reform" too freely,
author of texts on economies and
sociology, possessor of youthful
frankness and vigor not usually as.
ISOLATED with pro,German agents, with
his title of professor" he makes an
unusually attractive disciple of simon
pure pacifism, under which many other
things may be masked. So, under cover
mocracy" at home, Nearing emulates
the Bolsheviki by ignoring the enemy
of world democracy and demands an
immediate or German peace. Among
his activities against united Entente
may be numbered the following:
He urges America to join with
the Bolsheviki in an armistce with
Germany, echoing the demand for
an immediate compromise peace.
= He praises things German,
throwing d cloak of silence over
German crimes.
- He attemps to discredit the mo-
ment in the war
He indirectly incites opposition
4 to American war measures, max
ing and approving statements
calculated to lower the morale of
American soldiers. Workmcn and other
civilians.
Tie ascribes low motives to the
teaching of patriotism in Amer
lean schools, and lbels the pa
triotism of British and French soldiers
who fell in defence of Belgium.
lie associates with men and
II organizations known to be OPP
~ posed to American participation
in and prosecution of the war.
The most dangerous of Nearings ac
tivities, now that the German peace
drive is on, are those connected with
his Peoples Council demand for an i'm
mediate negotiated peace with Ger
many, following an armstce-a pro-
gramme identical with that Of the Boil
sheviki. Indeed, one of the first things
Nearing did when he took charge of the
Peoples Council in September, 1917.
was to print and circulate thousands of
handbills carrying the following plea,
headed Germany Wants Peace:
Did you sec what II. &. Wells said
in The New Republic? (September
L. 1910: why does waste and kill
ing go on? Why is not peace con-
ference sitting now? Manifestly be-
cause d small minority of persons in
positions of peculiar advantage, i'll
positions of trust and authority, pre-
vent or delay its assembling
Germany wants peace and disar-
mament. She says SO in her reply to
the Pope. Everybody wants peace
and disarmament, except the jingoes
and the profiteers. Peace
eventually not now"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Total overtime

The overtime yesterday includes
Saturday afternoon, which it has not
been customary to employ in previous
administrations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Hylan Abohshes Half Holiday
On Saturday for City Employees
Hylan Works 13 Hours
Overtime in q DAYS

Mayor Hylan's workaday time SEIZED
ulc for his first four days in Office, in
hours and minutes, is as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

January Sale SPECIALS
Bargains Every One
Women's Serge Dresss
Box pleated model with embroiivN
belt and white collar-navy, bHsS
Cdben. green and brown-sizes mi
women and misses
our reg. 1915. Sale Ga
Wonen's Silk Blouses
Of crepe de. chine and cred
Georgette in flesh or white
daintily tucked or embroid-
ered-our reg. $494. Sale Z 7;
Crepe de Chine BIouses
Also tailored styles of silk Whit
flesh Or navy
our reg. 1924. Sale . "A
White BIouses
Wolfe and Organdie- pretty styles
lace trimmed or tucked
Val. $l.95 Sale I'm
Wolfe Blouses
Tailored or fussy effects
all white or with colored
stripes-our reg. so Sale ~
Brassieres
Firm material, combined with heavy
1aces sizes 81 to 4S-
: our reg. $l.00 ........ .60
Fine Corsets
White or pink coutil-medium and
low bust-sizes 10 to 80
our reg. $500 and $3.50. ...2.10I
Coutii Corsets
Medium or low bust daintil!
trimmed tops sizes ~ 10
30-our reg. $500 .......1.A
Girls MILDLY Blouses
All white linene, or with colored
collar and CUFFS 10 IS yr.
5izes-our reg. $1.is. ...... 81
Girls Repp Frocks
Pretty models, in white, pink OF
cadet blue to IA years
our reg. $l.3S 90
Girls Tub Dresses
Excellent bingham large or small
pialds also chambray
e to IA years our reg. sl.94. ~
Girls White Frocks
OF sheer white fabric very daintily
trimmed with lace and en-
broidery-6 to il yrs I'll
our reg. $I94 81
Girls Fine White Dresses
Sheer lingerie deliberately trim
with dainty laces and einb'les-
white ribbon sashes IS TO II
IA years our rec. s194 3.U
Fancy Cotton Lace
Dozens of choice patterns IN i
desirable widths value go. d
Cluny Laces
Good widths and patterns for scars
centrepieces and other trimming
purposes
Our reg. pa .............. .lol
Oar reg. .12i2 ......... =
Embroidery Flouncmgs
26 10 40 large selection o
patterns, including dainty ruh nS
ehects our reg. .A7......... 81
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

Nearing and the Peoples Council arc
and have been conspicuously silent on
German outrages in Belgium and
France, German intrigues in the United
States and similar news Regarding the
German side"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Scott
Bolsheviik
Nearing

Prophet of the People s
Council, Emulator
and Exponent Of
Lenineism and Past
Master at the Latest
German Game of Stir
ring Up Dissension at
Home With Cries
About Domestic Con-
ditions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

thing should be done to prevent the
"dsgraceful overcrowding" Of the peo-
pie in the trains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

ENTHUSIASTICALLY tending to weaken
morale at home this winter:
"ln every countrv--warring and
neutral alike, including the United
mon, women and children, will be the
victims Of war want during the COM
ing. months: WW anything be
gained bu This east sacrificed Val
dnV. one be happier, or uiser. or
Mo6ter? is 1t 1'ealu necessary?
Win not stop now?"
Praises GERMANY