New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Poster Winners
I'm Thrift Drive
Are Announced
Help Stop This!" by
AdoIph Treidler, Gets
Award of $1,000

Help Stop This a poster by
Adolph Treidler. took the $1,000 first
prize in the $4,000 competition for the
best posters and advertisements for
war savings stamps, held under the
auspices of the New York War Savings
Committee and the American Institute
Of Graphic Arts.
Treider carried off first honors in a
field of 1900 The $50 best posters and
ads have been selected for exhibition
at the Public Library next week.
Treidler's poster shows giant Ger
man, in field gray uniform, dragging
his gun through ruined French viii
lage. He carries a knife, red with the
gore of his victims and between his
feet is tho prostrate form of a dead
ground. In the background is a
church, but the figure of the Hun
towers over all. The sky is deep
blue. Treidler has executed the poster
in tempera.
Coles Phillips was the other prize
winner in. the general poster class. He
got $500 for q poster entitled "Money
or Life" In the car and window card
class G. B. Inwood took $3.50, the first
prize. The second card prize went to
Mrs. L. NJ. Rudge for card she called
got $100. Among the advertisement
and cartoon entrants M. Leone Bracker
got $3.50 for "Behold Your Enemy"
Hal Marchbanks won the second prize
of S1o0 in this class.
The Judges were Charles Dana Glib
son, Frederic w. Allen, director Of war
savings for New York City; Ernest
Elmo Calkins, Heyworth Campbell, of
Vogue. and "Vanity Fair; j. H.
Chaplin. of "Scribner's Magazine; Ar
thur w. Dow, of Teachers College;
Greenleaf, Matlack Prince, Adolph
Treidler and Clarence H. White
Artists Work Appreciated
The number Of angles from which the
thrift idea was treated was a revelation
issued a statement in which he thanked
the artists. The entries, according to
Mr.. Gibson were judged from the hu
man appeal they made for thrift.
One hundred thousand volunteers
were out again yesterday, talking thrift
everywhere.
The days drive brought excellent re-
suits. Last night the War Savings
Committee announced that the receipts
brought the total sales from May l up
to S1,112,000. Plans for further thrift
celebrations and drives are being de-
veloped by the War Savings Committee
and will be announced shortly
The thrift stamp drive in the caba-
rets and restaurants is going on full
tilt. Billy" Gibson's squadron Of war
savings stamp sellers hit the Biltmore
at tea time yesterday afternoon and
pried loose several thousand dollars
worth of quarters.
After Gibson had every cent he rea-
soncd the crowd ought to produce, he
brought on Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor
and Frisco, the Jazz dancer, who en-
tertained. Cheers and applause greeted
the arrival of the thrift workers at
Murray's during the dinner hour last
night. In a short time $4,000 worth of
stamps had been sold
There were similar scenes last night
at the Clarendon, where Jean Schwartz
and Joe Young appeared. Tonight
Harry Fox and Harry Carroll are
scheduled to go on at the Claridgc at
dinner time, while at midnight Guy
Empey, Clifton Crawford and Ray
Raymond will entertain at the Palais
Royal after the throng there has aided
the drive.
Movie Drive Raises Thousands
The campaign in the motion picture
houses, which began Monday night, is
bringing i'll thousands of dollars
Charles Haring, secretary and treas
urer of "The Exchange Trade Review, us
chairman of the campaign committee of
the Motion Picture Exhibitors League
in Manhattan, and has twelve district
sub-chairmen working under his direc.
tion.
Teams of "four minute men" arc
making the rounds of the movie houses
soldiers, sailors and marines sell
stamps during periods allotted to them
Oh the various programmes. Even the