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New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
1880 Selected Men
Go From City to
Southern Camp
With Flags Flying and
Crowds Cheering Men Bid
New York Goodby

BY truck loads and tonneau loads.
with flags flying and handkerchiefs
waving, New York continued Yesterday
to pour forth new blood for the Ma
tional Army. Through streets thronged
with holiday crowds passed one cheer
ing, singing procession after another
until more than seventeen hundred Sc
lected Soldiers of Freedom had been
started on the road to training camp.
There was something final about the
leavetaking of these men. 1t wasn't
like the partings of last fall, when the
soldiers from the city were going no
further than Camp Upton and were to
be there for months and months before
sailing for France. Nowadays Uncle
Sam isn't taking the time to put such a
high military polish on his brand new
regiments. Getting Americans over
seas has become game of touch and
go, and it is safe to say that the bows
who left town yesterday were a good
deal closer to the troopship stage than
were their predecessors of the first
contingent after months of training.
The seventeen hundred-precisely
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27

sons book, "The New Freedom" had
been compiled by William Bayard Hale
from speeches delivered by Mr.. Wilson
in his campaign in 1912, and that it Is
therefore, not work containing SEN
tlments expressed since Americas en-
try into the war. Mr.. Erwin said if 4.
had become reasonable to quote from
a book by the President, what could
the readers of The CALI expect him n
do" He asked his readers not to he
too severe in their criticism if "Tha
Call" was not as radical as they might
wish.
Reed declared paper which he held
IN his hand was copy Of secret
treaty made between Russia and Janan
IN June, 1915. The treaty, Mr.. Reed
said. ccmented an alliance between
those countries for the prevention of
any interference by a third nation in
the affairs of China
"lll leave it to your imagination az
to what was the third nation JapaIl
and Russia were trying to keep out
of China" said Mr. Reed.
Music was rendered by Adamo Didur
and Rafaelo Diaz, of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, and by Miss Eva
Didur.
Chairman Block announced "a testi.
monial dinner" to be given at the Cen
tral Opera House, Sixry-seventh Street
and Third Avenue, tomorrow night in
honor of Scott Nearing, chairman Of
the Peoples Council, who is under in
dictment on charge of violating the
ESPIONAGE act
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Plans Completed
To Establish Camp
For Training Boys
Especial Dispatch to The Tribume)

ALBANY, May 26.-The State Mill
tary Training Commission to-day off,
cially announced that it has completed
arrangements for a training camp for
boys from all parts of the state. 1t
will be located at the state rifle range
at Blauvelt, Rockland County, and will
be known as Camp Bluefelds. 1t will
be similar to the training camp con-
Quoted by the commission last sum-
mer at the old state camp ground at
Peekskill. The camp is authorized
under the Slater-Welsh compulsory
military training law.
The selection of the new camp site,
which is expected to be permanent in
character, was made possible by an
agreement entered into some time ago
by the Military Training Commission
and the commissioners of the Pali-
sades Interstate Park, under whose
control the Blauvelt rifle range now is.
DR.. Fisher acted in the negotiations
for the Military Training Commission
and George W. Perkins, president of
the New York commission of the Pali-
sades Park Commission, for that de-
partment.
The camp will be opened to 1900
boys, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen
years of age, during July, of whom
100 will compose the band and field
music detachment. The 300 boys will
be selected from all parts of the state.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27

there were 1,730 Of then--were bound.
in the first place. for camps in the
South, Instead of the Long Island Rail
road it was the Pennsylvania and Jer-
sey Central lines which carried them
away. Chances we're their last glimpse
of the home town for many long day
was that which they got from the upper
decks Of the ferryboats.
Local Board 153, which has within
It's jurisdiction good share of Green
wich Village and the Washington
Square neighborhood, had boiled down
the significance Of this present troop
movement Cor rookie movement) to q
matter of three letters, plus one word.
The board in addition to stirring up a
band for the occasion, had supplied a
baggage truck Into the truck were
piled suit cases and valses of the
Greenwich Village contingent. And
triumphant above the luggage stood
the paoard, "F. o. b. Berlin
Six hundred men were in the first
batch to leave the city, representing
six New York boards-Nos. 10, 20, 21
and 22, in The Bronx. and Nos. % and
"a, in Brooklyn. They left aboard
Pennsylvania fer1yboats between 8 and
10 O'Clock in the morning. Before leav-
ing The Bronx the Catholics of the con-
tingents of Local Boards 81 and o.,
which have neighboring headquarters
in Public School SO, at Jerome Avenue
and Fordham Road, attended a special
mass. Later the full ccntingehts were
addressed by Henry Bruckner, presi-
dent of Bronx Borough
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Plea by Hoover
Conserve Food
Read in Churches
New Campaign for Re-
duced Consumption to Last
Until Harvest Time

Opening new food conservation
drive, that is to continue until harvest
time, a message from Herbert Hoover,
setting forth the immediate problems
of the food administration and how
the people may help, was read yester-
day in every pulpit in New York.
Emphasis was laid upon the neces-
sity for conserving meat, meat prod
ucts, sugar and wheat Mr.. Hoover
pointed out that whereas the consump
tion of meat in Allied countries has
been reduced to an average of ia
pounds a person each week, Americans
are eating 3A pounds week. He
asked that the consumption of all
meats, including poultry, be reduced
as nearly as possible to two pounds a
week for each person over four years
of age.
AS for sugar, Mr.. Hoover explained
that the principal difficulty is the mat
ter of shipment. He asked that as
much sugar as possible be saved in or
der to assure an adequate supply for
canning.
He declared that the wheat situation
was most serious.
wheat requirements of our armies and
the Allies, and the suffering millions
in the Allied countries, our consump-
ton of wheat in the United States
until the next harvest must be re-
duced to approximately one-third of
normal" the message read. 1t was
pointed out that there are many who
cannot carry out this request, and that
this makes the responsibility heavier
upon those who can.
"The confidence of the United States
Food Administration that the people
would respond enthusiastically and
wholeheartedly upon presentation of
the facts to any necessary requests for
reduction in consumption in food has
been fully justified" Mr.. Hoover said
1--WE have demonstrated our ability
not only to think together, but to act
together. This response of the people
is the reason for the present appeal
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Baker to Root Out
Army Enemciency
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribnne)
WASHINGTON, May Efficiency
methods are to be installed in every
bureau of the War Department as the
result of an investigation Of the Office
personnel and methods Of the army
establishment now being conducted
under the direction of Assistant Secre-
tary Of War Crowell, the War Depart
ment announced to-day.
The survey, which already has re-
suited in the elimination of many
Square pegs in round holes" in the
department, is directed by Colonel Ira
L. Reeve, an infantry officer, who has u
special staff of efficiency experts and
business economists aiding him.
The inspection will include personal
observation Of the work of every one
Of the $4,000 employees on duty in the
War Department branches in Washing
ton, and where ineficiency is found
recommendation will be made to apply
corrective measures
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Socialists See
Natural Drift
Toward cause"
Evening Call" Party Is
Made Occasion for Boil
shevik Demonstration
Editor Is Hopeful
John Reed, Abraham Cahan
and Miss Bloch Talk to
Socialists
Editor Is Hopeful

Fifteen hundred friends of "The
Evening Call" Socialist daily news
paper, held celebration of it's tenth
anniversary yesterday afternoon at
Carnegie Hall. Although "The Call"
had been thrown out of the mails
twenty-one times since last December
and had been denied its mailing privi-
leges at newspaper rates by Postmaster
General Burleson, Charles w. Erwin, its
editor and publisher. declared it "was
still going strong" and he intended to
continue it's circulation "to protect the
interests of the workers" The occasion
was made a genuine pro- Bolshevik
demonstration.
John Reed, Abraham Cahan, editor
of "The Forward; Ludwig Lore, asso
ciate editor Of the "Volkszeitung," and
Anita c. Block spoke. Lore said "The
Call" was destined to become "the or
gan of the proletarian government of
the United States" Cahan declared
that president Wilson is becoming a
Socialist more rapidly than he is
aware of"
'Nation Safe for Socialism"
"The railroad presidents have been
taken from their jobs and will now be-
come the servants of the people," said
Block. "And now we have an order
that men must do only necessary work.
1t means that we are rapidly making
this country safe for socialism,"
Cahan told of the struggles OF
radical newspapers to keep alive these
days. He said he sometimes had to
induce people to give UP their watches
and rings to support his paper But
he saw hope, he said, in President Will
sons attitude toward the Bolsheviki.
Miss Block praised "The Call" for
having been the champion of birth con-
troll among TIE poor classes.
Denounces The Tribune
Mr.. Erwin denounced The Tribune for
an editorial published on Saturday
which pointed out that President VIII
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Autos and Cycles Kill
One, Injure Several
Police Search for Minister
Who Ran Down Red Cross
Solicitor

Automobiles and motorcycles were
responsible for the death of one boy
and the injury of several persons in
and about greater New York yester-
day.
William Brown, seventeen years old,
of Red Bank, N. j., was killed at
Eatontown, N. j., when he was run
down by an automobile driven by the
Rev. George Brown, of Brooklyn. The
boy was soliciting subscriptions for
the Red Cross and stepped out in front
of the evangelist's machine. Instead
of stopping, the car ran directly into
the boy, knocking him several feet
away. The police are looking for the
preacher, who sped away after the ac-
cident.
Tony Presetti, ten years DID, of 1865
Fifty-seventh Street, Brooklyn, was
struck by machine while playing in
front of his home. He was taken to
the Clinton Avenue Hospital, where it
was said he would die.
James Shaver, eighteen, of 100 Har-
rison Street, Brooklyn, and his mother,
who was riding in the side car of his
motorcycle, were badly hurt when an
automobile driven by Henry Hoffman,
of 286 Prospect Park, southwest, ran
them down. They were taken to the
Norwegian Hospital.
A Culver line train near Coney Isl
and ran into motorcycle ridden by
Justin Rosencrans, of Is West Nine
teenth Street, Manhattan, and on the
rear seat of which Peter Gaffney, a
sailor, of 700 Maddox Street, Brook
lyn, was riding. The two men were
thrown a considerable distance, but es-
capped with bruises.
Five persons were injured when q
touring car in which they were riding
smashed into heavy motor truck at
West Fourth and West Tenth Streets
Angelo Scalise, nineteen, of IS
Grand Street, the driver of the tour
ing car, and Henry ]. Deering, of 354
Ogden Street, Jersey City, who was
driving the truck, were arrested.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Trade Commission Issues
Complaints Against
Morris and Wilson
Most of 1t Detected
indictments Were Obtained in
Texas, but Drop, as PEN
atty Was Lacking

ASHINGTON. May 26.-Sale of
sroilcd meat and other food products
to the army with the knowledge that
the food was "unfit for human con-
sumption" is charged in complaints
issued to-day by the Federal Trade
Commission against Morris & Co. and
Wilson & Co., two of the five great
packing corporations.
1t is alleged that thousands OF
pounds of unfit meat and chicken were
sold to Camp Travis, Tex. Most of it
was detected and condemned, but 1T IS
said some of it may have been passed
and consumed.
Details of the information upon
which the action is based were with
held by the commission. The an
nouncement and correspondence given
out with it, however, show that the
alleged offences occurred last Decem-
ber and are the same upon which IN
6ictments were obtained In Texas by
the Department of Justice after an
investigation of reports by the food
administration. The indictments were
dropped because they were returned
under Section of the food law, which
carries no penalty.
Inquiry Continued
Since then both the food admins
tration and the Trade Commission
have continued their Investigations.
If the complaint now announced should
be sustained the commission could
do no more than order the packers to
"cease and desist" from the practices.
Upon repetition offenders may be
hailed into Federal court.
A further report to the food ad-
ministration from E. A. Peden, Federal
Administrator for Texas, is expected
this week. Officials of the admins
tration say they probably will find
some penalty to fit the cases, even II
only on the ground of food wastage.
Lacked Facilities
Correspondence between Peden and
ment division of the food admins
tration, shows that Mr.. Peden reported
his belief that the basic trouble in the
case was the attempt of the packers to
do business without proper facilities.
Unfit chickens, it is charged, were
prepared in unclean surroundings by
barefoot Mexicans in an unscreened
room and shipped partly cleaned.
Mr.. Peden recently gave his view Of
the matter in letter suggesting that
hearings should be held at San Anto-
MO. He wrote:
"The basic trouble in this case is
evidently the attempt of the concerns
to do business in San Antonio without
proper storage facilities for their meat
Coupled with this was their failure to
take the precautions necessary in view
of the inadequate storage facilities
My guess is that there was good deal
of rush and confusion at this time
and that the whole thing was due to
neglect rather than intention"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Expect Wilson
To Oppose Ban ON
Grains for Beer
Would Aid Whiskey Men,
President Said to
Believe
May Make Statement
Hope Expressed That House
Amendment Will Be Killed
in Senate
May Make Statement
Especial Dispatch to The Trsbune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tr,bune)
WASHINGTON, May 26-Both Pres
ident Wilson and Herbert c. Hoover
are reported to be opposed to the Ran
dali amendment to the agricultural
production bill, which directs that the
President must prohibit the use of both
grains and fruits in the manufacture
OF beer and wines before the $6,000,-
600 appropriation in the measure for
increasing production is available. 1t
is anticipated that a statement regard
from the White House during the next
few days.
Under legislation passed last year
the President is authorized to prohibit
the use of food materials in the manu-
facture of alcoholic beverages. He has,
however, declined to exercise this au-
thorization on the ground that to pro-
hibit the manufacture of beers and
wine would tend to place the country
on a whskey basis. and that this would
defeat the temperance aims of the leg
islation. Food Administrator Hoover
has concurred with the President in
this view.
The food administration has reduced
the alcoholic content of beers to a
maximum of 2.75 per cent, which places
such beverages, it is pointed out, very
close to the category of temperance
drinks. From the temperance stana-
point. it is therefore contended, the
food administration has acted to meet
the intent of the legislation.
While officials of the food admins
tration decline to comment on the stu
alton presented by the Randall amend
ment, it is known that they hope that
the proposal will be stricken from the
L.
proposal law would not be in the in
terest of war efficiency, it is contended,
so long as saloons in many states are
Still privileged to sell whiskeY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Upton Auto Service
Establishes Record
Nearly 100 Machines Above
Average Make Sunday Trip
to Camp

Memorial Sunday took on added sig
nifcance at Camp Upton yesterday
when the American Automobile Asso-
cations free transportation service
was augmented by close to one hundred
machines above the average that have
oeen making the trip on past Sundays.
oihcers OF the association said that
tne owners of the machines seemed to
1eei that yesterday was one day at
ieast when their cars could be mt to
no better use than helping to make
the day memorable one for the bows
In camp.
incidentally. it proved decidedly
memorable for those who made the
.rip' largely through the activity Of
the ked Cross girls who lined the
route. AT each point where traffic po-
ncemen were on guard was a band of
the Red Cross workers.
AS each car came rolling along the
ponceman would bring it to a halt
Win MS ked Cross fan held up in
MaIning, ana then, Just as the occu-
pants were wondering if thew were n
have the not altogether pleasant ex.
perience OF being summoned to traffic
court, the car would Se surrounded hv
me white-robed girls. Few. indeed
were the appeals to 60 unanswered
and the day netted comfortable SIM
70 help IN putting Queens we'll beyond
While no statistics were available. II
was estimated that yesterday topped
all previous Sundays as visitors dav
al the camp since the first month Il
was opened. The automobile associa-
1aon representatives said the rides
we're growing more a..d more popular,
het oniy with the relatives and friends
of the men, but with owners of cars
as well. By june they expect rare
than 1000 cars to make the trim each
Sunday. S"~'
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Calls Babylon Less
Brutal Than Germany

PROVIDENCE, May 26.-The synth-
etic e hellishness of Germany, DR.. W. FL
P. Faunce, president of Brown Uni
verslty, declared to-day in his bac-
calaureate address, is more unforgiv-
able than the cruelties of the Assyrians,
the Babylonians or the American Ind
ians.
"The cruelties practced in warfare
by the American Indians were many,
but they were not scientifc," he said.
THE ruthlessncss of the Assyria and
Babylonia was terrible, but it was
mere excess of passion and thoughtless
anger. Now we are contending with
cruelty that is thoughtful and delib-
crate, a frightfulness planned and
printed in war manuals, with atrocities
coolly wrought out in laboratories and
with the murder of the wounded by
strictly scientific methods.
"Those facts should be remembered
by those who say that after the war
is oter our schools and colleges will
become simply technical schools. Sci
ence gives us marvellous and indis-
pcnsable tools to work WITH but It
gives no hint as to how or why we
shall use them''
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Research Bureau
Urges Permanent
Market Council
1t Recommends Prompt
Food Survey and Termi-
nal Distribution Plan

The appointment of permanent and
unofficial market council representing
CIVIC and labor bodies. an immediate
survey of food distribution in New
York and the construction of at least
one terminal market with facilities for
preventing the enormous waste which
occurs under the present system of
handling food-these are three recon-
mendations made yesterday by the Bu-
reau of Municipal Research, through
its director, Charles A. Beard, in a
letter to DR.. Jonathan c. Day, Com
missioner of Markets for New York
City.
The letter refers to various investi-
cations that have been made into New
York's food problem, adding:
"All of them agree that the facilities
Tor handling foodstuffs in New York
are wastctul, inefficient and COSTLY in
tune and money. All Of them lay
stress on the fact that nearly all Of
the billion dollars worth of food con-
sumed annually in the Metropolitan
district comes in over railway and
steamship lines and that terminal and
distribution methods are therefore vi
ia elements in the market problem.
The letter points out that the au-
thority given to DR.. Day to buy and
sell inc Ice IN the city is frankly a
war power, intended for use in emer-
gency only.
ut is conceded on every hand" it
continued, Chat it would be econoni-
cally unsound for the city to embark
on the general policy of selling goods
at prices which do not take into ac-
count overhead expenses, salaries,
rent, taxes and other charges which
the merchant must meet. Judiciouslv
undertaken, and confined to a limited
variety of commodities, this expedient
should operate to check the tendency
to exorhitant prices
Regarding the ice situation the letter
says:
"In the present war emergency the
people have the right to expect that
the government of the municipality
will omit no acts calculated to meet
the coming crisis in the ice supply
this summer and in the coal supply
next winter. We have confidence that
you will use all powers at your com
mand to prevent the rise Of our death
rate this summer through the high cost
of ice and an inadequate supply for
small consumers"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Meat Losses Caused
By Train Changes
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tyibune)
WASHINGTON, May 26.-Extension
and rigid enforcement of meat inspec-
ton regulations of the, Department of
Agriculture will be necessary, it is
stated, on account of the increasing
percentage Of meats condemned dur
ng recent weeks on account of disar-
rangement of the packers refrigerator
service under the modified train sched-
ule, inaugurated by the railroad ad-
ministration.
During the last fifteen days twenty
six carloads of beef, aggregating over
1000 tons, have been condemned on
account of spoilage in transit. This
has been caused, it is said, by the
lengthening of runs by the railroad
administration without simultaneous
arrangements for re-icing cars in
transit.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Jewish Legion to Parade

Philadelphia and Baltimore units Of
the Jewish legion of the British army.
on arriving i'll New York this afternoon
to join the fifth contingent of the
legion, which will leave for Canada in
few days, will parade from Pennsyl-
vanla station to the headquarters of
the Jewish Palestine Legion Commit
tee. 169 Broadway. '
IN the evening they will join the
East Side to Beethoven Hall. Where a
banquet will be given by the Jewish
Actors Club. Joseph Barondess will
preside. and among the speakers will
be Nathan Strauss and Adolph Lew
lsohn. Members of the British Re-
cruiting Mission will attend the ban
quet, which will be followed by a dance
under the auspices of the Red Magen
legion. ''e
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Propeller rouble
Delays Stinson Trip

B1NGHAMTON, N. Y, May 26.-A
crowd at times reaching five thousand
persons to-day watched Katherine Stn-
son try out propellers sent from New
York and Elmira to replace the one
smashed in her fall when she arrived
here from Chicago last Thursday even
ing. When darkness arrived she was
not satisfied with the pulling power of
any of them, and it was doubtful to-
night whether she will be able to get
away in the morning.
Miss Stinson had hoped to complete
her flight to New York to-day Suffer
ing from severe cold the aviatrix has
been under the care of physician, but
she has been determined to complete
her trip as soon as the performance of
her machine is satisfactory to her.
Tomorrow if the machine works
properly she will make a test flight.
and If satisfied with the behavior of the
machine may continue to New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
WHEN, HOW AND WHERE MEN OF 21
MUST REGISTER

Who Must Register: All male be
Militia. while in
enlisted
When: Wednesday, 0
Where: At office local board
local board
to be absent from home
certified Mail the local
registration card for the return of
boardo
register
'
Penalty for Regsering Failure nsdemeanor
in
able rights privileges and immediate induction