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New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Girl Sues Aged
Employer for
Alleged Beating
Domestic Says Member of
Armour Family Injured
Her Severely
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

ELIZABETH, N. j., Sept. 7.--On a
motion for n rule to show cause why
Charles w. Armour. of Normandie
Heights, Morristown, N. j., member
of the Armour family of packers.
should not appear in court and give his
testimony before Justice Bergen in the
Supreme Court here, it was disclosed
to-day that Armour is being sued by
Miss Anna Dorothy, domestic, OF BIZ
Williamson Street, this city. for an al
legged beating sustained by her on Au-
gust at the home Of the defendant
Miss Dorothy asks $4,000 damages.
The complaint alleges that, as re-
suit OF an alleged beating at the hands
OF Armour, who is seventy years old,
Miss Dorothy suffered mental and
physical pain and spent some time in
| the Elizabeth General Hospital. She
also sues for alleged loss of wages
during the time she has been i'll and
unable to work.
Walter d. Barker, an attorney ap-
peared for Armour and objected to
subject!ng his client to an appearance
in court, claiming that Mr.. Armour was
IN no physical cONOlCiOn TO SIond Jne
ordeal. Mr.. Barker handed Justice Ber-
gen an affidavit by DR.. Henry Hen
riques, of Morristown, which said Ar
mour was suffering from Inflammation
of the liver and dropsy. 1t stated Mr..
Armour does not leave his homo, is
unable to get his shoes on and has to
be assisted in and out Of an automo-
bile on infrequent rides he takes.
jeremiah A Herman, who appears
for the plaintiff, said:
"Mr. Armour is member of the
famous Armours of tho beef industry,
and does not like to appear in court.
His present motion is to avoid the un-
pleasant notoriety of testifying. have
an affidavit in which Miss Dorothy
says chat up to the time Of the alleged
beating Mr.. Armour WAS able to walk
about the house, sign checks, take auto
rides unassisted and attend to bust
ness affairs. think he should be COM
pclled to appear at the trial of the ac-
ton, so his story can be told to the
jury"
Justice Bergen ordered Nicholas W.
Bindsell, of Newark, master in chan
Gerry, to take Armour's deposition Sep
tember 49,
According to the filing of the com
plant, the action is returnable to the
October session of the court, to be held
in this city.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Publicity TO Expose
w ar EProhteers i'm
Food Commodities
(.Spocial Dtspotch to The Trtbu,lc)


WASHINGTON, Sept. IA campaign
against prohteering in food commodl-
ties in the District of Columbia, which
will later be extended to every city and
town in the country, was lnaugurated
to-day by the food admin nistraton. IN
Washington the local Food Administra
tor has been directed to publish the
names OF all dealers who fail to con-
form to the daily fair price list In
addition TO this anti-prohteering meas
ure, the names OF firms who do not sell
;.t The minimum fair price" 70 all pur-
chasers who do not use delivery or
credit facilities Will be published as
unfair concerns.
BY this scheme of giving publicity to
firms which fail to comply with the
fair price lists" through newspapers
and circulars to be sent out to con-
sumers by local food administrators an
attempt will be made to drive the un-
fair dealers out of business
Discussing the new anti-profiteering
programme in connection with the food
price situation at the capital, the food
administration stated day:
at is clear that competitive condi-
tions have largely disappeared in the
city of Washington, due to the great
influx of population and the consc.
quent ability OF the retailer to sell his
stock without much regard to price.
While number OF dealers do follow
the fair price list published in the
press by the District food administra,
ton. large proportion OF them do not
conscientiously DO so.
at was therefore concluded to make
an endeavor to separate the sheep
from the goats by offering an author
lied certificate in the shape of
placard to all the retail dealers in
Washington. This placard will stats
that the dealer has agreed to abide by
The minimum list or alternatively. the
maximum list in the published fair
prices. In turn the District food ad
ministration viii publish in the press
the names Of those dealers who nav.
undertaken to do so, and will circulato,
in leatlet form. to the consumers in
Washington the names of those dealers
who have undertaken either one list or
the other.
at is felt by the District Food Ad
ministrator that there are sufficient
Of the dealers who ara prepared to
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Service Checks Satisfactory

CAMP DIX, New Jersey, Sept. T.
A system Of service checks in denomi-
nations of frances, which has been
adopted here, has emptied the pockets
Of practically every departing soldier
Of American cash before the arrival of
the sailing date. and the results have
been so excellent that it is believed the
plan will be extended to other camps.
The cooperation of certain New York
banks made the plan feasible, and it
became so popular that as much as
$4,000 worth Of checks had been
issued at the departure of single d.
vision. The issuance Of the checks re-
lieves the soldiers of the necessity of
paying commissions in foreign coun-
try to exchange their American money,
and obviate the possibility Of their be-
ing preyed upon by unscrupulous
money changers.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
What Is Going On To-day

address By O. II l. Mason on 's1sy Erperiuces
Overseas" New Ycrk Congrcgationalst Church
Address by DR. Fl. 81 Harris ''Reconstriction
After tho War" Temple Israel. o:So a. M
Address by Floyd Gibboss on Tho War" Car
neg!c Hall. afternoon and evening.
Ad iie ess by Dr. Charles S,elAle Tina Religion
OF Democracy" Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciaton. SlS West Fifty -sevsNh Street. p IN.
Address by tho Rev loh4 Roach strnon on
Americas Gambling Crate: should tho Gov
crnmeut Tolerate War Stamp GamblinG7" Cal
vary Baptist Church. Sixth Avenus and Fifty
seventh Street. p.
Block party for the benefit Of Flatbush Branch.
American Red Cross. Stephen Court TLathuSn
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

undertake this to give the necessary
service to the people in Washington,
and that the sooner tho other dealers
are put out Of business the better The
difference between the minimum and
the maximum prico lists to consumers
should be the difference between cash
and-carry and delivery -and-credt.
Those who wish to do their own shop
ping may. by this means. learn the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

list, the district food administration
has had numerous conferences with
the dealers, without, so far, construc-
tive results, and it is considering the
plan adopted In Erie, Penn, of Il clas-
sification of the different dealers with
respect to the quality and character
OF the meat in which they deal and
the publication of such classification
with an indication as to fair prices for
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

ment. 1t can be stated generally the
retail margins in the City of Washing
ton are lager than in practically an!
city in this section of the country. while
the wholes ale pricea on all of the gres
staples are practically the same, ant
the higher cost of living, as comparet
with Baltil nore Or New York, lies prac
tically altogether in the larger price
charged by the retail dealers here"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

different classes of meat. This system
is under consideration and will be de-
veioped during the coming week.
"The district food administration
finds that its inspectors have 81 great
deal of difficulty in obtaining true
prices, and they are. therefore, depend
ent upon the consumer to support the
administration by making to the ad
ministration complaints of unfair treat
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

points at which they can obtain the
lower price lists. Those who. on the
other hand, want the privilege Of credit
and delivery must expect to pay the
difference and will likewise receive in
dication of all the shops performing
tho service at the maximum prices pub
lished.
I'm the matter Of meat, which has
not yet entered upon the fair price
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Along the Enchanting Hanamichi

motley train continuously passes the
hanamch in the long theatre day-dancing
lions chasing butterflies, demons and
witches, foxes and badgers in disguise. SER
pent-princesses, spirits of the cherry tree,
wistara and even of such substantial things
as lanterns and umbrellas. Transformations
of human beings into weird and ghostly
shapes take place unexpectedly, with the as
sistance of the hanamichi's trap door. Mes
sengers Of buk-land-Kabuki, the beau
tfu old historic drama in which feudal
Japan can still be almost intact
scarce ever take different route than by
the tme-honored one Of the audience path.
"But it is when men in desperate fights
swarm over both audience paths and over
flow upon the stage that the players take
possession of the whole theatre and break
down all barriers between themselves ard
the onlookers from the world of reality. Or
when a grotesque spider in robes of gold,
scarlet and black throws it's fne-spun web
Of compressed paper spraying far out over
the people like a burst of day fireworks.
With rapid movements as it dances, it sends
the fragile strands flying into the boxes,
and old men we'll as women and children
reach out eagerly for the himsy stuff that
wanders gossamer-lke from Kabuk-land-a
tangible connection between the two init
mately established"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

may be lost upon the audience, a kurombo,
or black boy. prccedcs him along the hama
michi holding up candle on stick to
illuminate his face.
at is on the hanamichi that the actors
best effects are produced, and every mo-
mcnt spent the audience stage is care
fully calculated to bring certain results.
The Japanese love Of symbolic posturing,
when by dextcrous and graceful movement
and gesture an inner meaning is made clear,
here finds splendid opportunity for express
sion. No finer example of. this can be found
than in the character of Sukcroku, a valiant
man of the people, always ready to defend
the weak against the clustering two
sworded samurai of old Yedo. AS he poses
upon the hanamichi with his oiled paper
umbrella, he shadows forth his bravery and
fighting spirit by his dramatic confidence OF
manner, and makes it known that he has
secret plan to recover a sword that has been
stolen-pantomm perfectly Ineligible to
the Japanese audience, familiar with every
line and movement Of these old historic
plays.
"Another dramatic value of the hanamichi
is to put actors further along on journey;
or again it serves a means of disposing
Of them while the stage revolves for the
presentation of new scene.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

"But it is the picturesque side of the
Flower Path that perhaps serves the best
theatrical purpose. The pictures that are
formed upon it were once the inspiration Of
many of the great print artists Of Japan,
and to those who know the Japanese theatre
the print actors are in way distortions
of the truth, as they are sometimes consid-
cred. Grotesquc and exaggerated poses are
an integral part Of the Japanese stage con-
vention. Pageantry and ceremonial claim
the hanamichi as their own. Sweeping
over it come professions of women of the
old Yedo gay quarters. in dazzling robes of
gold and embroidery, all the rainbow tints
Of the East caught up from long forgotten
corners Of Asia to form the spcctacle;
priests in stiff brocades chant as they march
solemny through thes audience to some
ornate stage temple; daimo professions
here wind their way with all the pomp of
feudal days; lovers are carried off in palan
quns upon the two opposite ~hanamichi
casting despairing parting chances at each
other over the heads Of the spectators, ard
wonderful armor-cad fighters, perchcd high
upon black velvet stage horses, thrill the
audience by their nearness. Lost brothers
find each other the hanamichi with
carnations of joy, lovers are united. Spartan
mothers tearfully part with their children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

Zone great theatrical advantage which
the Flower Path gives in the presentation of
Japanese drama is the variety Of entrances
and exits which it allows the players. In
the familiar old plays a popular character
is expected and welcomed by shouts even
before he makes his appearance on the
hanamlchi, and there is great clamor and
turning Of heads to the back of the theatre
when the moment draws near for his en-
trance. One OF the most famous entrances
is that of Benkci, the warrior priest, in the
garb of yamabush, or mountain temple
attendant. Impressive as is Benkei's stately
and dignified entrance, his exit is one for
which, should the stages of all countries
be searched for something approaching it,
no parallel could be found; he simply clears
the entire length of the hanamchi IN three
gigantic running leaps. 1t is not difficult to
imagine the enthusiastic shouts tina. greet
this athletic feat.
"There is also the exit of Yuranosukc, the
leader of the Forty-seven Ronin, or Loyal
Retainers. After saying farewell to his
feudal lords castle that has been surrcn-
dercd to the enemy, in long wordlcss
scene the hero conveys to the audience as
he passes slowly along the hanamichi, by
facial expression alone, his bitter regret at
parting and his unqucnchable determina-
ton for revenge. That none Of the effect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Keeping Up ON the Magazines

SO bold as to fire between the two wooden
blades of the propeller, revolving at an ex-
act speed of 400 revolutions per minute
so as not to shatter the blades has excited
our hvellest admiration. 1t is a pity that
Nj. Verne could not have thought of it.
But when this war is done we NAV know
the arplane chiefly as an instrument of
observation; its peace value is unmistak-
able along these very lines, even in ths,
face of the crisis of the greatest war that
the world has ever known
The airplane has been called tho eve of
the army. May | venture then to suggest
that the camera which it carries on high is
the optic nerve of that eye? Nay, more; it
is the retina of the eye-a changing re-
tina, If you please, in which impressions
are not teeting as upon your eyes or mine.
but are recorded permanently. And there
are many such eyes; in the course of
single days fighting thousands and thou
sands Of such permanent retnas-each
little oblong of glass, four inches by five.
but each telling in its own exact and unmis
taxable way the work and progress of the
enemy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

three fingers of the bad man. the morn
1ng's morning Of the Irishman, the brace
OF the clubman, the shot of the barkeeper
Booze is through, and this is its vale
dictory.
The wholesale whiskey business ALREADY
has ceased to be a business. By Novem-
ber 1919, there will be no whiskey business
at all in the United States What whiskev
there is left will be in the hands of a few
ciuos, spectators, or hotels and saloons,
whose owners are even now storing un
supplies.
The saloon is disappearing automati
cally. In Chicago over four hundred sa-
looms, on an average, have dropped out at
every license period, which means eight
hundred year! The number of those
"hlch discontinued the business on Nav
broke all records for Chicago
In New York, where already the num-
per OF saloons was decreasing steadily, the
law forbiddng ownership of saloons bv
foreigners cuts the number existing in half.
BY the time this article is published every
saloon will be forced to charge TWENTY
llVe cents or more for whiskey, and more
than half will be closed
Inc saloon seems doomed to follow
"niskey out OF existence, regardless of pro-
"ioi.ioh ACTIVITIES The movement is auto
matte. AS rapidly as saloon ceases to
nave supply of whiskey, according to the
testimony If the saloon men, the profits
OF the business will be reduced so that
tne owner cannot pay the license and must
close Scotch, Irish and other British made
whlskles are almost extinct even now in tho
United States. Gin is extremely scarce, and
"hlskey is falling into the hands of hoard
ers and SPECTATORS
Inc course of the government after tho
war cannot be foretold, but it is incon-
ce'Vaole that, having made the whskey prob
ZEN solve itself to the satisfaction of the
s'e"' majority OF all classes. the govern
ment will permit the RESUMPTION Of d.
tllllng after the war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
he Camera in
XII aki
ONWARD HUNGERFORD has an
~ article in the July EVERY
k@ body's" on aerial photography.
A great airplane. he SAYS


goes skimming through the air mile or
more above the surface of the earth. The
folk of the little Belgian town go hurryine
to cover. They do not know that the in
sigma upon the under surface of the plane
the blue star in white circle within a rcd
circle-indcate that it is an American ma
chine and so does not drop bombs on houses
or hospitals or helpless people, They do not
know that It's business is not frng-not the
firing of explosives, at any rate The
Boches seem to scent it, and when they
hear of an enemy airplane 'on PHOTOGRAPHIC
mission lowering over their lines thew ret
out the fastest and the best of their scout
ing and fighting machines to beat off the
offender
Sometimes the machine which bears the
camera man and his tireless record maker
of details is not visible to the naked eyes
OF folk upon the ground. 1t is difficult to
observe an arplane, even on remarkably
clear day, much over 10000 feet aloft
And our big observation 'planes-like those
of the French and British-frequently 90
as high as 10000 feet, and--as we shall
presently see-take photographs from that
great elevation, photographs whose ability
to record infinite detail seemingly passes
the possibilities of science and enters the
realms OF the supernatural. The magma
ton of Jules Verne was sturdy; it would
go to the rear rank, however, when COM
pared with simple fact in the present war.
we nave been accustomed to regard the
alrplane purely as a fighting machine The
device by which the machine gun of the
scoutpIane, hring 700 times minute, was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
If1E SPY: A Story by Pierre Mile
T T RAINED. 1t rained atrociously,
necessarily. 1t rained cats and
DOGS as nv comrades of the Emo

a L RAINED. 1t rained atrociously
necessarily. 1t rained cats and
IA dogs, as my comrades of the Eng
lish army say in their language.
And they added, as though wounded in
their patriotic sensibilites, that they had
never seen it rain like that before, even
in their own country.
The fact is that meteorological records
prove what they said. Nowhere, even in
corners the most relentlessly watered by
the watery sky of England, does it rain
more implacably, more regularly, more
abundantly, more persistently and
more malciously than in that part of
French Flanders which our Allies have
defended against the German armies for
the last three years. Never, moreover
had one seen it rain in the little village
of H as it had raned in those drench-
ing last two weeks of October.
II must at least finish a SKETCH" said
Mervil, the illustrator, who was enraged
because he had not been able to put his
nose outside doors for eight days.
So we sat out courageously, wrapped
in our raincoats. But we had hardly
passed the last houses of the main street
when the downpour redoubled W.,
couldn't see two steps ahead of US The
raindrops pricked our eyes like needless
The mud was SO sticky that it literally
sucked the shoes off our feet We knew
that we were vanquished by the clements
So we turned and entered an inn-thc
last on the road to b, called the
White Bucket. The bucket is painted
above the door, and it is certainly white
Mervil gave his uninterrupted atten-
ton to brewing hot gin punch-of GIN
lemon, cloves and sugar with a match to
set it aflame-which we had ordered from
the proprietress, an apiable woman and
not too homely. Meanwhile | gazed out
of the window.
A detachment of twelve men, COM
manded by an old ergeant-Berkshire
Fusieers, as l could see from the mark
ings on their uniforms - passed by,
spashing the mud up on the sidewalk
In the m)~ It of the detachment walked
man, extraordinarily pale, dressed like
bourgeois in comfortable circumstances
His hands were bound behind his back
with the sort of handouts used by the
English military police.
Cheer up" said to Mervil "There's
your sketch"
"Jesus-Maria." exclaimed the pre-
prietress, folding her hands and than
making the sign of the cross. cts the
spy whom they are taking to B to
shoot"
So it was. We had forgotten. The
execution had been set for to-day-the
execution of the German spy who had
found a way to install himself for four
months at b as butter and milk
dealer He was an old hand at espionage.
After his first examination before the
court martial he no longer denied that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Diplomacy
This English Writer
Says the Widespread
Discomfort Seems Not
Adequately Grounded.
F. POLLARD, in 1.-THE Con-
temporary Review" dis
cusses "The Use and Abuse
of Diplomacy. and finds tint

the public generally criticises upon the
basis of misapprehension. He writes:
of the word 'abuse!proves war, war stimu-
lates the abuse of it in another; for war
abolishes diplomacy, and we naturally abuse
things for which we have no use But apcrt
from general disappointment with the pres
ent state Of affairs. our widespread discon-
tent with diplomacy seems to be based on
inadequate grounds Of course discomfort
will find an outlet, and public criticism Of
our tactics and strategy being taboo, and
ministerial congratulations having left US
in much the same state of expectancy as be-
fore, we are reduced to blaming our d;plo-
mats for the war and for the hopes deferred
Of victory Fortunately, perhaps, it is an
impersonal sort of censure; d plomacy has
long been removed from the sphere of party
recrimnaton; our diplomatists are not pol
or the lack of It,
"Whether our dissatisfaction is due to
the failure of diplomacy to prevent the war
or to its inability to end it is not quite clear.
Most Of US think that our own and other
Entente diplomatists went far enough in
their efforts to preserve the peace and that
their failure was due to the warlike deter
mination of our foes, and in that case our
diplomacy is uni Justly suspect It is. in
deed open TO the charges of facilitating the
war by making resistance to Germany pos
sible, and OF proionging it by preventing
German victory