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New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Hawley Assails Padgett
Demands He Cease Opposing
Increase i'm Navy Personnel

Alan R. Hawley, president of the
Aero Club of America, 297 Madison
Avenue, yesterday made public pro-
test which he had sent to Congressman
Lemuel r. Padgett, chairman of the
Committee on Naval Affairs, against
the latter's "persistent efforts to pre-
vent the expansion of the personnel Of
the navy"
"You are assuming now, while the
country is facing the greatest of dan
gers, the same attitude which you as
sumed 1916 toward the bill to pro-
vide for the establishment of an aerial
coast patrol" wrote Mr.. Hawley. "Be-
cause of your opposition the country
was deprived of an efficient aerial coast
patrol, which could in the Intervening
two years have been developed to such
a point Of efficiency that no U-boats
could operate with impunity in Ameri-
can waters"
Mr.. Hawley urges that "steps be
taken Immediately not only to grant
the absolute minimum number Of Of
hcers which the navy may get along
with, but to grant the maximum re-
quired."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Germany Belieued
America Soulzess.
Says DR.. Hadley

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 16.-Ger-
many drove us into the ranks of her
enemies because she believed we had
no national soul. She now recognizes
and deplores her mistake.
This, in effect, was the message .
President Arthur Twinng Hadley, of
iaie University, delivered 10 the gra d.
aatlng class here to-day in his BAG
eaiaureate sermon at Woolsey Hall.
Germany" he said, "whatever her
faults, mas her ideals as a nation and
mas shown the power to pursue them
consistently in the face of adverse cir
eumstances. / we are to win this war
we must not only feel them with equal
intensity, but pursue them with more
tnan equal constancy.
IT was because Germany thought
that we mad no national soul that She
invited US to enter the ranks of her
enemies. 1t is because she finds that
we have a national soul that she now
recognizes and deplores her mistake. !"
Russia.
There is. suppose. in the whole
wofsd. no more idealistics people than
she Russians" he said, land none more
feaoy to bear physical hardship for
.he sake of goals which they have set
themselves. What they could not bear
WIS change of circumstances We are
aot likely TO lose our own bearings,
pu' we are likely. nay, we are certain.
.e y, meet alterations of hope and of
pre.n A"'i
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Nine Firms Accused
Of "Trade Bribery
Money, Cigars and Dinners
Said to Have Been Given
to Gain Contracts

WASHINGTON, June 1e. Com
plants were issued to-day by the Fed
eral Trade Commission against nine
more companies manufacturing and
selling paints. varnishes and kindred
products, charging them with the prac-
tice which is becoming known as com
mercial bribery" and which the COM
mission ho.ds to be unfair mpetition.
The Twin City Vsrnish Company, of
St Paul, Mimi, is charged with giving
money to employees of customers and
prospective customers TO obtain their
influence with their employers to deal
with the defendant.
The same practice. and in addition
the giving of cigars, meals, liquors and
entertainment was charged to the Acme
White Lead and Color Company. De-
troit; the American Varnish Company,
the Chicago Varnish Company, James
B. Day & Co. the Wheeler Varnish
Company and the G. J. Leibich Com
pany, Chicago; S. c. Johnson & Son,
Racine, Wis, and the Royal yarnish
Company, Toledo.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund begins
Its forty-second annual campaign to-
day to provide country VACATIONS for
the children of the poor of New York.
In forty-one consecutive summers of
work the fund has given fortnight out
ings to $4,000 boys and girls at an
expense of $1,l00O0o, the whole of
which sum has been contributed by
the public for this specific purpose.
Tomorrow morning the first vaca-
ton party of the forty-second season
will be sent to the funds Dcvereux
Home. at Deposit, N. Y. 1t will be made
up of eighty crippled children selected
by various city organizations for the
care and cure of cripples. Each child
in the party will have three weeks
vacation in the Catskill Mountains near
the headwaters of the Delaware River.
Letters from some of the friends of
the fund give evidence of fear that
the work might be discontinued this
year because of the war. But the war.
II 1t has any bearing on the work, only
adds to the need for it; and there has
been greater number of appeals to
the fund for assistance this year than
ever before.
Many Went Cold and Hungry
For the children to whom the fund
reaches out friendly hand the winter
Just past was terrible one Most of
them had to shiver in homes that were
practically heatless during the coldest
weather New York has in many years
known: And the cost of food was so
cat regularly. An investigation by the
city Department of Health during the
winter showed that there were 100000
undernourished boys and girls in the
public schools of New York
For these undernourished young
sters, for these boys and girls who
went cold and hungry during a terrible
winter, for the children who live in
the clty's awful tenements, a change,
respite from the gruelling conditions
cf their home life is a vital need, if
strength before another winter. which
may be as coalless and as foodless as
tho last, arrives to try them.
The fund, therefore, instead of
abandoning Or curtailing it's activities,
has planned the years campaign on a
greater scale than ever. The campaign
has as its objective the providing of
from 10000 to $4,000 vacations.
Thirteen Homes and Farms
The years plans provide for the
maintenance of thirteen Fresh Air
homes and farms, where 1900 children
at a time will enjoy vacations. These
places will make possible between 5000
and 1000 vacations during the summer.
Preparations for the arrival of the
funds guests have been under way at
most of the homes for many weeks.
One of them. as indicated above, opens
it's doors tomorrow to it's first party
All of the others will be filled with
children by June 20.
The other part Of the seasons plans,
as far as providing outing places for
children is concerned, aims at obtain
ing hospitality in the homes of individ-
uals in the country for from 5000 to
1000 more youngsters. The funds
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Loyalty of Jews
Highly Praised at
Asylum Dedication
Gerard, Calder and Straus
Pay Tributes to Patriotic
Spirit in New York

Many warm tributes to the patriotic
spirit and efforts of the Jews of this
city during the present conflict were
paid by men of national note yesterday
afternoon at the dedicatory exercises
Oh the Israel Orphan Asylum, at 274
Second Street
More than five thousand persons
throngcd the street in front of the in
stltutlon and filled the windows, fire es-
capes and roofs of the surrounding
houses to witness the ceremonies,
winch included addresses by former
Ambassador James W. Gerard, Senator
William M. Calder, Nathan Straus. for
mer Governor William Sulzer and
Helen Varck Boswell. Additional in
terest attached TO the formalities by the
appearance of many film stars and sing
ing by the famous cantor, Joseph
Rosenblatt Gifts to the asylum to-
falling $4,000 were announced at the
close of the exercises.
Mr.. Gerard cautioned the people of
the country to eschew All extremely
radical ideas of government at this
time, pointing to the ptiable situation
now existing in Russia.
Inc one great lesson we all can take
from the Russian revelation is the fail
ure OF socialism" he said "There is a
practical reason for avoiding socialism
and Boshevism, which have brought
Russia under the German yoke. When
you come to a new country don't waste
you'd time talking, but go out and take
advantage of it's opportunities"
Tie added that only a short time ago
IN Prussia it was q crime for Jews to
worship in any place but back rooms
or Tor them to marry Christians, and
1ewlsh travellers were taxed by all the
cities they passed through. The Ger
mans, too, he said, were responsible
Tor their persecution in Russia, where
they wanted the Jew suppressed be-
cause he was their rival in business.
senator Calder said that he has OBJ
served in the East Side as fine a spirit
OF loyalty as can be found anywhere
throughout the nation, adding that he
has voted for liberal immigration laws
because of the dependability Of the
Jew as a patriot
Snort addresses were also made bv
Virginia Pearson and former Judre
Gustave Hartman, who is president of
the asylum and who presided at the
ceremonies.
The institution was three and half
years In building, now caring for forty
pa5'es, with accommodations for about
iVo, the expenses Of erection and up-
keep being betrayed by contributions
mainly from Jews Of the East Side.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Mrs. Gould Some Waitress
Wins the Admiration of Even
Hungry Soldiers

Mrs. Jay Gould, it was announced
yesterday, has developed into one of
the best mattresses at the American
Eagle Hut in Bryant Park and has been
promoted to the "late trick" That is
accorded to be the busiest time of the
day. On Mondays she is to work from
p. m to p. m and on Wednesdays
from 1870 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Mrs. Gould is becoming SC expert
that her associates expect any Monday
or Wednesday to discover that some
spendthrift sailor or soldier has left
nickel under the butter plate for her.
Mrs. Gould is the granddaughter of
Princess Kaikilani of Hawaii and the
daughter of Mrs. Herbert Vos, wife of
the portrait painter, but she accepts
with perfect equanimity the order:
Ham sandwich, jelly-roll, coffee-don't
slop it an get move on cause |
gotta catch train!"
Mentally unmoved, she proceeds to
"get a move on" that wins from the
soldier the admiring comment: "Some
waitressi"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Glee Club Holds Outing

BRIARCLIFF LODGE, Briarcliff Man
or, N. Y, June 16.-Thirty members of
the Metropolitan Life Glee Club, of
New York, enjoyed an outing at Briar-
cliff Lodge yesterday and in the even
ing gave a concert in the ballroom un-
der the direction of DR.. Ion jackson,
with John Gushing. accompanist. The
concert drew a large audience from
guests of the hotel and from the cot
tages in the neighborhood.
Mrs. William l. Parsons and family.
en- route to the Adirondacks, are at
the Lodge for few days stay. Mrs.
William II. Hurlbut and Miss Margaret
Hurlbut are at the Lodge for a week,
while their country home at Lenox is
being opened. Mr.. and Mrs. F. W.
Annes. of Jersey City, have Joined the
ali-summer colony at Briarcliff Lodge,
as have also Mr.. and Mrs. r. ID. Brixey
and Miss Doris Brixey, Mrs. William
Barclay Parsons, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
J. Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. C. c.
Overton, all of New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Claire Murnford
Amplihes Pages
Patriotic Greed
Terms American Citizen
ship fortunate Estate
and Sacred"

A "new citizens" confession OF
faith, answering and amplifying Will
lam Tyler Pages $1,000 prizewinnine
creed of patriotism, was made public
yesterday by its author, Claire Dana
Mumford.
Like Mr. Page. Miss Mumford is q
descendant of signer of the Declare.
tion of Independence. She is a well
known writer and feminist. Her creed
follows:
81 believe that to be an American
citizen is u fortunate estate and q
sacred obligation. :.
81 believe that the American spirit
is benevolent purpose. at work in
the world toward the fulfilment OF
gave birth to the nation.
81 believe that because America is
the heir of all races and all ages, en-
riched by stores of wisdom her adopt
ed children have brought to her treas
ury, she is the foremost nation in
progress and responsibility to all man
kind for pattern and exemplar.
II believe that America shall per
suade the nations to the principles OF
justice, of honorable independence and
mutual service which has been hel
practice and tradition abroad.
81 believe that civilization can be s
erned, self-ennobled peoples dwelling ir
peace, and that Americans, if need be
will give their lives to the establish
ment by arms Of such peace in order
that the world may pursue in tranquil
lity the ends Of progress.
81 believe in the enduring and tri
umph ant vitality of this Republic
81 know that all earthly beauty, fer
tility and grandeur are between hel
borders.
~ believe that here the commc,
aspirations Of humanity-right conduct
a stable life and noble death-may frs
come to pass.
81 believe that there is no East ane
the United States of America ma
tion whose past We reverence, whose
present is filled with high courage
whose future shall be glorious"
Mr.. Pages creed, chosen in the ma
tion-wide contest es the best summar,
of political faith, read:
81 believe in the United States O.
America as government of the people
by the people, for the people, who's,
just powers are derived from the con
sent of the governed; a democracy in {
republic; a sovereign nation of many
sovereign states; perfect Union, on,
and inseparable, established upon tn,
principles of freedom, equality, jus
tice and humanity, for which American
patriots sacrificed their lives and for
tunes.
"I therefore believe it is my duty t,
my country to love it, to support it.
Constitution, to ooey its laws, to re
spect its flag and to defend it agains
all enemies"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17

the unknown waters, trusting to find
land at the other side. BY faith the
Pilgrim Fathers migrated to the New
World, seeking a home for free exer-
else of their religion. By faith the
'front.' ersmen penetrated deeper and
deeper into the wilderness until the
whole continent was opened to civiliza-
tion.
"l3y faith Washington endured the
and independent nation might survive.
BY faith the trainers of the Constitu-
ton devised O. form Of government that
this nation might be united, prosperous
and permanent. By faith Lincoln per-
severed through the dark days of the
Civil War that the unity of the nation
might be preserved and slavery abol-
isred. By faith Fulton invented the
steamboat and Morse the telegraph. By
human suffering, relieved pain through
anasthesia and made modern surgery
possible. By faith DR.. Carroll offered
himself up for exposure and died to
take away the scource of yellow fever.
"Some one may suppose that these
things do not come to a soldier in war.
Yet in camp and in the field there is
drudgery disappointment and a sense
of poor success. There is indeed no
poSslplllty OF turning PACK, put 1T Is
easy to lose enthusiasm and energy, to
fail to keep oneself at the top notch,
although this is needed for the best
achievement on ones own part and on
that of the unit to which he belongs
The all important thing is the morale
of the troops, and this depends upon
the living faith of the men and espe-
cially Of the officers; the faith that
never falters or slackeps and that is
ever freshly contagious, whether work
is stimulating or dull, in the exhaus-
ton following victory or in the gloom
of repulse."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
l,5O0 Policemen
Pay Tribute to
S Slain ON Duty
"As Great Heroes as Those
Over There >" Declares
Monsignor Lavelle

The annual memorial service for
members of the Police Department who
died during the year in performance
of their duty was attended by 1900
policemen yesterday in St. Patrick's
Cathedral. The column formed at Lex
ington Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street
and marched north to Fifty-sixth
Street, across to Fifth, Avenue and
down to the cathedral. 1t was led by
the police band, Chief Inspector DAILY
and other inspectors
Death is ever facing every man who
is sent out on tour from a station
house." said Monsignor Lavelle. "The
dead we honor are heroes as great as
those who go over the top on the
other side of the ocean, and we revere
and praise them as worthy members
of the blue and gold. While we have
the bravest of the brave across the
water, we have men equally as brave in
the police in New York City. who face
death daily regardless of the form in
winch 1t may come.
Never before have We had SO fine a
Poilce Department as we have now.
Let the death of those we honor be a.
stimulus to you to lead irreproachable
ilves, to be exemplary before the peo-
pie OF this great city that their respect
may be forever retained"
Inc men who were honored yester-
day were James Cunningham. John
Flood, Robert Holmes, Henry Schwartz
and Samuel Rosenfeld. The Rev. Ber-
nard +. McQuade, of the cathedral. con-
Quoted the vesper service. A memo
rial service was conducted by John ].
Coogan, police chaplain. The music
was wa BY the cathedral choir, the Police
Glee Club and the police band.
Among those at the service were Com
missioner Enright, First Deputy Com
missioner Leach, Second Deputy Com
missioner Lahey, Grover A. Whaien.
the Mayors secretary; the Rev. John
A. Wade, Episcopal chaplain of the de-
partment; Rabbi A. Blum, Jewish chap
lam, and DR.. Charles E. Nammack, no
lice surgeon.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Fight Sunday Ball Games
Washington Heights Metho-
dists Make Formal Protest

The congregation of the Washington
Heights Church. DR.. J E. Price, pastor,
protested last night against legalizing
paid admission to baseball games on
Sunday. An ordinance with this pro-
vision is about to be acted upon by the
Board Of Aldermen. The following
resolution was adopted:
"We earnestly protest against the pas
sage by our Board of Aldermen of the
proposed ordinance legalizing paid ad-
mission to games of ball on Sunday. We
believe the patriotism of the American
people can be relied upon to furnish
funds for the Red Cross and Y. NJ
c. A. work without commercializing the
Lords Day
1--WE further believe the American
people still regard the day as a holy
DAY and not u holiday We want
neither the Puritanic Sabbath nor the
German Sabbath, but will continue to
respect and practise the traditions of
our fathers in preserving the Ameri-
can Sabbath"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Polo at Gedney Farms

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, June 49,
Polo at Gedney Farm Hotel is meetine
with great success and practise games
are being played regularly on Tuesday
and Saturday afternoons. Forty pole
ponies arc now stabbed at Gedney anc
every day additional strings OF
schooled horses are arriving from New
Jersey and Long Island.
Yesterday afternoon fast practise
game was played. Earl w. Hopping
said to-day that on Saturday next al
the close of the Westchester COUNTY
Horse Show at Gedney regular game
will be played at 5:45. Rcgulal
match games are now being arranged
for the summer for the benefit of the
Red Cross and the Red Star.
An unusual musical programme has
been arranged for to-night's concert al
Gedney. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the
blind singer and composer, will give
two groups of her compositions,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17

field agents have been busy for weeks
| organizing the country committees
through which this hospitality is to be
obtained.
The country residents are respond
ing generously and doing their bit in
the war against disease and want.
They are cooperating heartily in the
entertain Fresh Air guests. Some of
the committees have already made
their returns and have fixed the date
on which the parties of children for
their localities are to be sent to them.
That no part of the vacation season is
70 be lost in this direction is proven
by the fact that several villages are to
begin entertaining their guests on
July /.
Friends Send in Contributions
Although no appeal has been made to
them, some friends Of the Fresh Air
Fund anticipated the beginning of the
summers campaign and have already
sent in their annual contributions. The
acknowledgment of these contributions,
which total S567.67, is made below.
To carry through the plans for the
season the fund will need from $4,000
has ever been contributed in support
of the work before, and it might seem
an extravagant hope that, it will be
realized under the present disturbed
conditions. But conditions were en-
traordinary in 1917, yet the fund re-
ceived greater total of contributions
than ever before in its history.
There are two reasons for asking
more generous contributions in 1918.
In the first place greater number Of
ildren need vacations. In the sec
ond place it will, of course, cost much
more to provide each outing this year
than in other years. Railroad rates
have been radically increased. Help,
food supples-everything that must
be paid for to make the children happy
and comfortable will cost much more
in 1918 than in times before the war.
Funds First Appeal
This is the funds first appeal to the
friends of the children of the poor to
support the vacation campaign this
year. To those who have supported the
work in the past the appeal is: "Give
more than in the past" To new friends
of the work-may they be many!--
"Give all you can. Give what you
think children are worth"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Heartaches Healed
By Upton Auto Trips

The American Automobile Associa-
tlon's free transportation service to
camp Upton yesterday healed many
heartaches caused by the upward sweep
IN round-trip railway fare from S2.7O
to $4.16.
:. Instead of two buses, as hitherto
three rolling grandstands" were en-
pioyed, and previous f1otillas of loaned
cars were dwarfed by the assortm ent
of machines which made the trim w;th
patriotic but modestly situated rela-
tlves OF the new National Army men
Mothers, wives and sisters. who nre ;.
vlously had been able to scrape TO-
gether the. $2.70, found themselves
practically barred from the camp bv
inc higher fare. They appealed in rec
ora numbers to James A. Hemstreet. in
charge of the American Automobile a a.
sociation's service. T''
New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
Former Claasrn of
F. j. Shepard, Jr.,
Dead From Poison,
Boys Foraging in Hospital
Believed to Have Swal-
lowed Wintergreen Oil

DOBBS FERRY, N. Y, June 10
Coroner George Engle started an in
vestigation to-day into the death of
Stanley Owen, six years old, former
playmate in St. Christopher's Home
here of the boy who is now Finley J.
Shepard, jr, adopted son of the former
Helen M. Gould. The youngster is be-
lieved to have died as the result of a
foraging and exploring expedition
which he and two other boys made in
the hospital of the institution.
His fellow explorers were Raymond
Haggerty and George Curry. They got
into The building Friday afternoon and
helped themselves, according to their
story, to such refreshments as struck
their fancy and were within their
reach. The Owen boy died last night
in the Dobbs Ferry hospital and the
Haggerty boy was IN a serious condi-
ton Tor several hours. They are be-
lieved to have been poisoned by oil of
wlnJergreen.
That was the label on two-ounce
bottle which they said they had drained
after partaking literally OF the con-
tents of jug of mOlasses. Only a
little of the tiery fluid with the en-
trancing fragrance was drunk by Ray
mond Haggerty and still less by
George Curry, but Stanley, they said,
took all that remained in the bottle at
one gulp.
Soon afterward Burdette B. Brown,
superintendent of the place, discovered
two of his charges in misery and a
third, the Curry boy, suffering almost
equally from fright. DR.. Robert Den
nlStOn WAS summoned hut Stan law cy, -
cumbed despite his efforts.
An autopsy performed to- day showed
death was caused by an irritant poi
son, but did not determine the poison.
A New York bacteriologist has been
asked to make more intensive exam
ination: 1t was said at the Dobbs
Ferry hospital that the symptoms of
oil of wintergreen poisoning would be
similar to those of carbolic acid poi
sonlng and that those were not present
Mr.. Brown was of the opinion there
might have been cheap grade of oil
of wintergreen in the bottle in which
carbolic acid was used.