The sun., 1918-10-12
Wv Burnett, Former Lord
Fauntleroy, Sends Hurry
Call for Smashers.
AFTER STACKER RECORDS
What Are They? Those Lying
Idle, Owners Too Lazy to
Hand Them In.

pealmel with heluva yell yesterday
afternoon as a great thought flashed
upon him.
For Pete's sweet sake, will you please
tell me-" Wv demanded Of himself true
ulently all over the offices Of the Ma
tional Photograph Records Recruiting
Corps. 81 East Fortieth street, why
the Health Department plasters posters
all over town demanding the use of
the handkerchief when coughing and
sneezing, but never urges similar pre-
cautions on the part of singers who
while making Photographic grand opera
records gargle in the German lam
guage?
WELL you can search me-" Wv an
swered himself no one else being pres
ent at the moment to reply. IF mad
my way i should change the subway
posters to read, To Prevent the Spread
OF Influenza. Cough, Sneeze. Spit and
Talk German tif you must) in your
Handkerchief But even that Wv.
would not altogether prevent the
A. ID. T. Cherub interrupts.
A fair haired, sweet faced messenger
smoking a cigarette. interrupted here to
the extent of staggering into the office
with great bundle of Stacker phono-
graph records In his arms. Stacker
records are discs which lazy persons
permit to lie unused around the apart
ment because the owner is too all fired
lackadaisical and fat headed to turn
them over to Vivian Burnett's society
for use among the soldiers and sailors
here. on the high seas and in the bill
let's and huts OF France.
Wv tore OF the wrapping and looked
at the title Of the top record OF the
pile. II was dirty little ditty entitled
Die Wacht Am Rhein." as played by
Klinchenfoos's Hoboken Turn verein
Imperial German Band. a saengerbund
gargling the German words all through
the uproar. In a fash Wv Burnett was
at his desk telephone and conversng
with the switchboard operator at the
outer door.
Drop all other work. miss =" hollered
Wv Give me Immediately Miss Doro-
thy Nash. chairman of the scavenger
committee. And as soon as have nm
ished talking with Miss Nash give me
In turn all the rest OF the young ladies
Of the scavenger committee-the Misses
Mabel Garrison, Sydney Thompson. Mar
editt MTe. MOTkenInAu,
Jr.. Mrs. Charles Greene Smith, Mrs.
Truman Handy. Mrs Edmund F. Burton,
Mrs. Donald Cowl. and the Misses Al
berta Burton. Ruth Rhein. Katharine
Petersen, Charlotte Rudyard Halloweil
and Maud Powell, the violinist."
Name Is Herewith Explained.
The scavenger committee. 1t should be
explained. Is q body of bloomingly beau
tiful young ladies who despite the ter
rors OF their duties arm themselves with
tongs each day and draw gingerly from
the pile of photograph discs received at
headquarters the records OF 'Hi-lee,
Hi-lo!" as sung by Siegfried Won Bung-
stardter; die Wacht Am Rhein," as
sung by anybody; the Schubert Taussig
Military March, which the Germans
played as they marched into Paris al
hear on French soil again the Teutonic
masterpiece known as "Ach, Du Lieber
Augustine" and similar junk
only fancy" Wv pointed out to him.
self between rapid fire telephone calls a $
he surveyed the title OF a record begin
ming with "Ach !''-'.just fancy permit
ting any one to use a language with a
word like 'ach' in It during epidemic
times like these, handkerchief or no
handkerchief"
,-Sn anu clusters the
go 81 80 N., W me SaVehseI cum
- g y. o -' @,N hotos aph VS.
- -, 1890 Pc .a',e nu.'erins nito
VIC o,S' .en s,ree, neaoauartefs IN
IT,, III, nsii MAJ" Durhett
Burnett pointed muteiy to the pile OF
discs. not trusting himself to break into
language while ladies were present
airau even 10 say Faruoh me. girls,
Ior po1n'is' pecause OF ms mortal ter
ror ,ha' u ne SPOKE ABOUT tne records at
an ne would ue'ohate with language
Which apsoiuteiy would destroy all tllu-
sions that sun remain about the sweet
sehtiiity OF Ltt'ie LORD FduHfleroy.
o-.~.
W oo"s ShshteS.
Miss Dorothv Mash ma cbo;-,ra, -, a..
scavenger committee reached yor ,i,s
tongs she carries In her kni,tinS ha1 anS
drew one ~ tha racord, ,r.,,'as ae ana
sran, "p.rsi,aIa W, pp ;,,. nl'ie SKI
containing the great Baldwin Looomo-
tive Works Aria" from ''Gotterdamme-
rung," which the First Rhinernatde,,
sings while sneaking under water to tor
pedo a barge containing the boys and
girls OF Public School 1919 as they are
lowed down the river on their annual
school picnic And finally Miss Kath-
arine Petersen OF the scayeneer commit
tee clicked her tongs onto what was lie .,
of die wacht Am Rhein" after Wv bad
placed the record back on his desk
Girls" commanded Chairman Doro-
thy Nash in tones low and tense. '.eet
ready for the full arm golf swing
Ready? Smash !"
Out at the Fifth avenue end of thu
block eleven stories below sopa oraN