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New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Briar Cliff Lodge
Opens 18th Season

Briar Cliff Lodge opened on Saturday
Tor the seventeenth season, and before
the close of the day arrivals for the
spring season had filled the house to
over half its capacity, the largest open
ing in the history of the hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien B. Chase, of New
York. had the honor of being the first
to register, and they will remain until
the close Of the hotel in November.
Mr.. and Mrs c. Vanderbilt Barton
motored up for luncheon on Saturday,
as did also Mrs. John P Duncan, Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh A Murray, Mr.. and
Mrs. James II. Benedict, Mr. and Mrs.
II. Moller and Mrs. Edwin c. Moller,
Mr. and Mrs. John Mcdonald, Mr.. and
Mrs. II. c. Breed, Mr. and Mrs. NJ. C.
Mastick and Mrs. John J. Cornin.
Among the season colony already
assembled were noted Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Spadone and Miss Blanche Spa
done, Mr.. and Mrs. Dwights Richard
son, Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Suver and Miss
]. A. Bayer, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas N.
Salt, Mrs. Lee Delafield, Mrs. William
L. Strong, the Misses E. H. and M. M.
Deland, Mrs. Charles Duggin, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. l.. Honnold, Mrs. G. F. Green
oo,ugh, Mrs. Meredith Bailey, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. N. Burns and Mrs. John De-
vinne. Mr.. A. F. D. Baker, Of Bridge
port, Conn, and his guests, Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. A. Bushnell and Mrs. B. F.
Bronson, are spending over the Sunday
al the lodre
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Elephants To Be
In Drive to Sell
War Stamps Here
Actresses to Ride Pachy-
derms Through Streets
Thrift Festival June 2

Actresses on elephants, with tickets
TO sell for New Ycrk's war -hrift
FESTIVAL, will add spectacular touch
this week to the renewed drive for war
savings stamps.
Inc war thrift festival at the Polo
Grounds June is planned as huge
open air entertainment to advertise the
need nee, OF saving and investing every pos
slble penny in stamps. "Thrift ticket
day" Wednesday, will be devoted to an
efort OF pcrsuading the greater part Of
the clty's millions to attend the patri-
otic gathering at the Polo Grounds.
tickets for the festival will be sold
at the box Offices Of the various the
atres, and hundreds OF performers, SOL
dlers, sailors, Boy Scouts and members
OF the Women's Motor Corps in their
automobiles will canvass the streets for
patrons to Uncle Sam's big show.
Actresses to Sell Tickets
The herd of Hippodrome elephants
Will receive a place IN the public ac
tlvltles. 1t was not stated just which
actress will ride which elephant. Among
tae we'll known stage women who will
help sell tickets arc Julia Arthur
Frances Starr, Lillian Russell, Mar
garet Anglln. Chrystal Hearn. Florence
Nash, Minnie Durree, Bilou Fernandez,
Mrs. Shelly Hull and Mrs. Elizabeth
Tyree Metcalf
1t was announced yesterday that a
chorus of 10000 voices will take part in
the June festival. Mendelssohn's ora
torio Elijah" will be sung, with ac-
companying music supplied by John
Philip Sousa and his Naval Reserve
Band
Other activities to boom the popu-
the international Pedlers' Association
this afternoon in Orchard Street; thrift
stamp day, at the Broadway Theatre
Wednesday, when stamps only will be
accepted as admission to the perform
ances; the opening of the War Savings
Metal Exchange, Thursday, at Fifth
Avenue and Fortieth Street; auto tag
day, Friday, when every loyal autoist
will be asked to attach the war saving
insignia to his car; the war savings
dance at the Ansonia Saturday evening
Political Parties Help
The Republican and Democratic or.
carnations and the various larger fra
ternal societies in the city will form
war savings committees and trv to
stimulate the purchase of stamps. The
hotels will open booths for the dis.
posal of stamps.
one hundred and fifty thousand blue
and white window cards for display by
stamp investors will be distributed to-
day. Several million other cards will he
sent out.
Shipments of buttons, to be awarded
patriots who join war savings societies
and pledge themselves to economy and
habitual investing, have been received
from Washington. The buttons show
the torch Of Liberty in a circle, with
the thrift insignia around the circum.
ference
The sale of stamps in the city since
the closing of the Liberty Loan cam.
first ten days of May the sales amount
ed to $1,53s,720. The total since the
opening of the campaign, December 8
is $12,695O99. "
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13

who surely is going to be movie star
II she isn't very careful, is Betty Ad-
ans, who undertakes to teach Hotfoot
the error of his ways. Hotfoot is the
ten..year-old protege of Yates, and ne
is following in his oenefactor's foot
steps as closely as may be.
Jane Novak, who is even more beauti-
tul tnan sne appeared last month as the
parsons wife, is Mary, the sister of
Betty, and the girl who effects the
reformation of Yates
There is a nice white horse who
plays an important part in the pict-
ure. We don't know his name. but he
looks exactly like the star. He has in
his eyes that same sad, reproachful,
almost apprehensive look which always
makes you sorry for him because he
has been so bad.
"Selfsh Yates" is more interesting
than anything Hart has done for
long time.
AT the Strand Madame Nazmova is
cavorting on the screen again in
picture called "Toys of Fate" As YOU
watch Nazimova wor., the thought
which is ever paramount is how can
she do 1t for seven reels. She has more
energy, mere power ard more mag
netism than any one whom we can call
to mind. She climbs trees, she leaps
IN the air, she dances, she flirts, she
stabs and she loves. all with the same
degree of wholeheartedness which
makes one feel always the super
abundance of emotion.
personally We like Nazimova much
better when she is planning something
than when she is doing it. We like her
when she is sensuous and insidious and
provocative. We do not like to see her
leap about and roll on the grass and
tell fortunes. We prefer seeing her
90 grand ladies, even if their morals
90 not match their manners; but this
IS "here ."1S we are quite wrong. Every
one one told US so, and every one who saw
loys OF Fate" said that it was the
best thing Nazimova had done on the
screen.
In the prologue the Russian actress
is seen as gypsy, Azah, and later she
appears as the daughter of Hagar
Hagar Is beloved of Henry Living
| sIon, Bruce Griswcld and Greggo
| There is no accounting for tastes, espe-
preferred Livingston, while we could
have chosen Greggo with our eyes
closed. Perhaps the fact that Living
ston was played by Charles Bryant
and that Irving Cummings played
Greggo had something to do with it.
Hagar chose neither, however She
TOOK Grlswold because she was grateful
to him for sending her away to school,
where she learned to be dissatisfied d
with her own people.
On the night of her wedding she dis
covered that the man she had married
was the man who had been responsible
for her mothers death.
She decides that he must die. but
fate takes hand in it here and Hagar
is denied the pleasure of avenging her
mothers death.
The most remarkable thing in the
picture, to our mind, was the work done
by Nazimova in depicting the VARYING
moods of the gypsy and of the half
civilized girl, her daughter.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Women Excel Men
In Business, Says
Successful Woman
Only They're Too. Modest
to Test Their Capacity,
Asserts Miss King

Miss Florence King, a leader in the
baking industry of Chicago and an
officer Of the Women's National Asso-
citation of Commerce of that city. said
yesterday that given an equal chance
in business or the professions women
excel men. She was speaking at the
closing session Of two-day conference
of business and professional women
cf the country and the National Board
of the Y. w. c. A., at the latter's head
quarters hc.e. The conference was
called to discuss the greater and more
effective participation of women in the
industries of the nation as the men are
withdrawn by the war.
Miss King added that the reason we
have not a larger number of successful
business women throughout the coun
try is because women are too modest
to test their business capacity with
men.
THE war, however" she added, sis
changing all that The men are being
taken away and the responsibility OF
continuing our industries devolves
upon the women here, as it did IN
France and England. I have observed,
strangely enough, that the business
men of the country are alarmed at the
appearance of women as competitors,
and my experience with them leads me
10 D2leVe InaL tney 1eel SO only De-
cause they know that working on the
same basis the woman will excel the
man. 1 myself brought the master
bakers of Chicago to my feet when /
demonstrated to them that ! could bake
bread cheaper and better than they
did"
Resolutions were adopted indorsing
the cooperation of all business women's
organizations with the Y. W. c. A. in
its war work to protect and promote
the interests of women in the indus
trial and commercial life of the nation.
A committee of fourteen women was
chosen to realize the aims of the con-
ference.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Miss Edith Miller, of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York: secre-
tarv and treasurer. Miss Mary Johns
Hopper, of the Provident Life In
surance Company, and Miss Lena M.
Phillips, an attorney of Lexington,
KY, and industrial secretary of the
Y. w. c. A., executive secretary.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
The Rock Upon Which
Lives Are Wrecked

For each word uttered in the de-
fence of liquor one young person
passes from the number of decent to
the number of ruined citizens. de-
clares Delmer F. Hubbell of Saranac
Lake, N. Y, who writes:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If all the young men and women
whose lives, in the next twenty-five
years, are to be ruined by the effects
of Intoxicating liquors-all who are to
diseases, endure poverty, commit crime,
become comparative failures, or act in
such way due to the influence of
liquor that their lives will be swept
clean of the value that might have ac-
crued to them-if these certain victims
of drink who are now untouched were
to be lined up shoulder to shoulder
they would reach from Chicago to New
York and part way back again.
If they were to march by the door Of
your Office they would be passing for
eight days and eight nights. and all the
discussion Of individual rights and tenn
perance that could be INDUCED in till
Kingdom Come would not drown out the
sound of their footsteps. The opponents
OF prohibition could theoriZe and rant
Tor thousand years, and that line of
young people would keep on it's steady
march to vertable hell without so
much as hating a step. They can dis
pute estimates of damage done, cite in
dlvidual cases of benefit resulting from
liquor, and with each futile word ut
tered in defence of LIQUOR one young
person passes from the number of de-
cent to the number of ruined citizens.
Every argument that prevails against
prohibition is rock upon which some
promising life will be wrecked
Percentages may be disputed The
TACT OF vast and terrible damage to
lives cannot be denied.
You cannot explain away the an
nual expenditure Of $4,000 ,00O, 900 or
more on drink that does more to
damn more people than any one agency
that the devil ever invented.
II IS impossible to deny the truth of
| the findings of the Committee of Fifty.
which thoroughly investigated the ef-
fects of liquor and reported such esti-
mates as the following as the result of
liquor:
Between 80 and 40 per cent of the
crime,
Half of the extreme poverty.
| twenty-five per cent Of the child
abandonments,
large percentage OF insanity,
And an untold. incalculable percent
age OF the human misery,
| And positive shortening Of AVERAGE
live,
You cannot explain away the effects
lscf the drunkard upon himself and upon
his family, and there are hundreds OF
thousands Of him -
You cannot explain away the effects
In lessened efficiency Of the hah;tms, II
| dvinker and of the moderate dr;nLsr
You cannot explain away the cmnty
jails and rapidly emptyinr ;nssns ;ers
asylums in communities where proh;h;.
tion has. been enforced to tie hest
ability of the local authorities, 's''
You cannot explain away tho count
less accidents that are caused by care :
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
What the Commission
Should Consider

Among the questions to be consid-
crcd by this commission will be the fol-
lowing:
l. Is light alcoholic beverage injuri-
Gus to the human system when taken
In moderation, or is not the weight of
scientific authority to the effect that it
is harmless and in many instances ben
cticial and of dietetic value
q. Does the temperate use of light
slcoholic beverages appreciably affect
the efficiency of labor, or is it any real
factor in industrial accidents?
). Is it the function of the govern
ment In democracy to attempt or has
1T the ability to make man 100 per cent
efficient by encroaching on his personal
liberty, or is that a matter which
should be allowed to rest with him and
which depends upon economic incentive
and necessity?
a. Are the records and reports of the
departments of Commerce and of In
ternal Revenue correct when they give
expression of the phenomenal growth
In The use of drugs and highly alcoholic
patent medicines and the illicit produc-
ton of hard liquors as the prohibition
ares is increased?
5. What have been the experience and
lesson of the countries in Europe dur
ing the present war with regard to the
use Of alcoholic beverages, both in the
army and among the industrial work
ers?
6. Was there ever in history for
midable and victorious army which was
restricted to an "absolute prohibition"
diet?
Z. Are crime, pauperism and insanity
cue lnltially or wholly to the temperate
use of alcoholic drink, or are not the
victims in most instances naturally of
subnormal mental condition? What
percentage of criminals, paupers and in
sane are such solely because of the
moderate use of beer and wine?
g. Is it not fact that the statistics
CT mortality ascribcd to alcoholic liquor
fail to make scientific discrimination
between the temperate use Of drinks of
hight alcoholic content and the eXces-
sive use Of drinks of high alcoholic con-
tent?
8. What percentage of those who
prescribe prohibition for the other fell
low are users Of alcoholic drink them
selves?
TO- If government sees fit to abol
ish and exterminatc business which it
has sanctioned and, in fact, encouraged,
and from which it has received and ac-
cepted billions of dollars of revenue,
should not the owners of that business
be compensated for the property and
investment destroyed and the value Of
the goodwill built UP by generations Of
effort and work?
Before the national prohibition
amendment is ratified and becomes a
permanent, fixed and irrevocable part of
our Federal Constitution, it seems most
sensible, plausible and imperative that
the matter be comprehensively and sci
cntifically examined into by a commits
SION, and that the people be allowed to
judge of the necessity or folly Of nro.
hibition in the light of what such a
commission develops BY all means let
there be light on any controversy be-
fore it is finally settled.
JACOB RUPERT,
President Of the New York State Brew
ers' Association.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Many Auto Parties
Attracted to Gedney

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May r.
Apple blossom time brought an un-
usually large number of parties 10
Westchester to-day, the Gedney Farm
Hotel being the luncheon rendezvous
Among the large dinner parties was
one in honor of Mr.. and Mrs Ery
Ketava, president of the Standard
Commercial Tobacco Company. who
have just returned from Japan There
given by Mr.. Ketava's business asso-
ciates
Polo is to be revived at Gedncy.
Earl w. Hopping, polo player and
other noted enthusiasts, were here,
completing the organization of the
Gedney Polo Club, and it is expected
the first of the regular games will be
played this month.
MI and Mrs. A. f. Hearne, of New
York City, are at Gedney for weeks
stay. Miss Margaret Meehan. of New
Britain. Conn, is the guest Of MIR. and
Mrs. II. c. Cole. Mrs. Thomas Han
sen. of Montclair, N. j., has joined the
all-summer colony. Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Dwight, Mr. and Mrs. r. +.
Reynolds, Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Van
sicklen and Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Whera
ham, of New York, made up a golfiug
weekend party
Miss M. Roberts, of New York. is
the weekend guest of Mrs. David
Scott. Mrs. John " Woodard and
MISS M. Frances Clark, of Boston. are
breaking motor tour with few deys'
stay here. The Rev and Mrs. F.. 8
Goodman, of New York, are here for
months stay. '0' q
- Other arrivals include Mr.. and Mrs.
= =. "a. stuart. of Albany; Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis c: Pratt, of Schenectady. and
MIR. and Mrs Frederick ]. Lancasser ,sr
and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McDougal1
of New York City. ''"'''
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Thursday Named Tag Day
For Animal Relief Fund

The New York Women's League for
Animals has arranged to make Thurs
day Tag Day" to raise funds to aid
it in providing comfort and relief
for animals in the city this summer.
The league has always done all it could
in this direction, but Mrs James Speyer,
president of the organization, in an
nouncing "Tag Day" yesterday, said
that more extensive plans than had
ever before been made had been laid
out for the coming summer.
The need Tor more funds than are
at the disposal of the league in con-
sequence. Mrs. Speyer said, was i'm
perative.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13

of the crimes that they are called
upon to consider result, directly or
indirectly, from drunkenness. The
community, therefore, finds itself
obliged in self defence to prohibit the
use of the drug that Injuries it thus.
Generally: A man must abide by the
moral standards of the community.
Ihls IS not necessarily imposed upon
nm, because he is perfectly free if
1T presses upon him with too great
burden to move to some other To-
Briefly, Dr.. Williams argues if man
wishes 70 ruin himself he may. In
reply, the present social conscience
says that no man may ruin another in
me qualification of his own tastes. and
II the rules adopted by the csmmu
hlty to prevent that result necessarily
nave the effect of preventing him from
running him self, he may even with pro-.
rrety be kept from that indulgence
also. HOWARD II. WILLIAMS.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Plays and Players

", Rose Stahl has been engaged bv
Wagenhals & Kemper for "The Drums. 3
new war play, in which Sergeant Guv
Empey is to star. This will bring Miss
Stahl out of long and unwilling re-
1lrement on Long Island, for It has
peen many, months since the whilom
ai seai OF Ihe Chorus Lady" went into
;seclusion to read what playwrights
iaoellea .sultable vehicles" when they
and it was not until Miss Stahl read
ihe part OF young Irish mother who
mas given her son to America that she
Son1tted seeing a raw of hope IN the
1ut'lfe OF our native stage. Miss Stab,
WILL co-star with Sergeant Empev. and
she may feel certain that the public
VIII be- glad to see her again-espe
claily If she hasn't forgotten that teary
Fancy Free" with Clifton Crawford
moves from the Astor to the Casino
next nc Monday to make room for the new
oelwyn hot weather production, Crock
a-bye BABY" by Margaret Mayo, Edgar
Allan Woolf and Herbert Reynolds.
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 is NOT
llHely to fall below it's usual standard
or excellence this season. Rennold
wolf and Gene Buck have Just been
commissioned to write the lines and
lyrics, Louis Hirsh and Dave Stamper
VIII set them to music and New Wav-
nurn VIII stage the show and see that
the chorus's aggregate toe points si-
multaneously to north by northwest
when the leaders baton so indicates.
Marie Cahill's new show. "Just
around the Corner" will come to the
Galety for its New York appearance.
Like Miss Stahl, Miss Cahill has not
Deen on Broadway for a long time
Dan v. Arthur is presenting the piece.
Whlch Is IN Detroit this week.
A war thrift festival at thrift nricos
OF 90 cents, 81 and $1.25 will be held
sunday, June 2, at the Polo Grounds.
Elijah" with chorus of 10000 voices,
Will be sung, Sousa and his band will
play and Nine. Schumann- Heink, Marie
Sundellus, Frances Aida, Oscar Seaglc,
Charles Harrison and Leon Rothicr
Will sing solos. Broadway's pretty
show girls will turn out and the Hin
podrome elephants and camels have all
volunteered to do their bit.
Gosh! We're All Friends" is the
name of the only performance to be
given of this revue next Sunday even
ing at the Morosco Theatre for the
benefit of the Stage Women's War Re-
lief. Stars of lombard, Ltd" and
$50 Long Letty' will take part. Oil
YER Morosco will play the lead, and as it
is his theatre no one could do anvthinp
about it.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Society Forced to Pay
For Alcoholic Excess

Personal liberty and free will
must yield to community welfare
and social conscience, is the reply
of Howard Hunter Williams, of 95
William Street, to the argument
against prohibition advanced by DR..
Henry Smith Williams.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The recent letter of Dr. Henry
Smith Williams argues the question
of prohibition upon lines SO much out
of date that it seems proper to call
attention 20 two fundamental errors !:
First: He looks at the issue from
the point Of view of an individual
rather than as member of Il highly
developed social organism. Perhaps it
is right to allow each person an OPP
portunity to do as he ploases in re-
gard to matters that affect himself
alone. but no individual has the right
to claim such liberty unless he is 50
located as to make the exercise of
that liberty i matter of indifference
to others. On desert island, or on
a remote mountain peak, a man may
indulge himself in alcoholic excess to
the utmost Of his inclination. and no
one else suffers. In the society OF to-
day If man INDUCES in alcoholic
excess he not only suffers IN the de-
terioration of his own capabilities, but
first his family, and then his neighbors
and the community, as whole. haye
to share that suffering and bear the
consequences of his evil doings. Per,
sonal liberty and free will must, yield
to community welfare and social con-
science.
Second: There can be no question
that in the experience of social work
ers alcohol and its injurious effects
are found to be responsible for the
majority of cases that require relief.
speak as an officer of charity or
ganization society having had some
years of actual contact with the prob
lem. The same information is given
by men who have served upon grand
juries, who aanoun@ that. us re-
suit of their observation. nine-tenths
New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Church of All Nations
Dedicated at Boston

BOSTON, May 12-The Collegiate
Church of All Nations, unique among
the religious institutions of the city as
place of worship for people of all
races and creeds, was dedicated to-day
by the Rev. Edwin II. Hughes, Metho-
dist Episcopal Bishop Of Boston
During the week Baptist, Congrega-
tional, Episcopal. Methodist, Presby-
terian, Swedenborgian, Unitarian and
Universalist clergymen will at different
times occupy the pulpit for special SER
vices.