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New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Wilson Speech Hurtful,
Says Yale Professor
Allies Cause Set Back, He De-
clares, by Endorsement Of
Bolsheviki

NEW HAVEN, Jan. 13.-Prcsidcnt
Wilson, by announcing in his recent
address to Congress that the govern
ment Of Russia was honest in its de
sure for peace, has done grave harm tc
the Allied cause in Russia in the belief
of Professor Alexander Petrunkovitch,
of Yale, who spoke to-day before the
Political Science Club in Trinity COL
lege.
The speaker praised the Presidents
message highly for the most part. bu,
added: "ln it he MADE one very grave
mistake. When he said that the Rus.
sian government is honest in its desire
for peace, he is liable to arouse almost
all Of the Russian people. The Rus
slams think they are imposed upon by
the Bolsheviki government They hate
the Bolsheviki worse than the people
in this country hate the Kaiser.
when President Wilson speaks Of
the sincerity of this government, and
even goes so far as to talk of reccg.
nizing this band of hoodlums, he is
doing something which more than any
thing else will give the Russian peop!c
away from the Allies into the hands Of
GERMANY"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Bishop Lawrence
Pleads for Chaplains
Tells Episcopalians $500,O00
Must Be Raised for
Men Abroad

The Right Rev William Lawrence,
Bishop Of Massachusetts and head of
the war commission OF the Episcopal
Church, preached yesterday in St. Bar
tholomews Church and urged the
necessity of obtaining s5o0,Ooo this
month for the wartime activities Of
the Church.
"The United States government" he
said, "equi ps its surgeons and pay
masters, but does not appropriate 4
dollar for tho equipment Of its chap
lains. The Church must do it. Our
chaplans have nothing but a comsnis
sion. They need service books and al
tars. In France chaplain's regiment
of $500 men is billeted in villages five,
ten or fifteen miles apart. He needs u
Ford car or motorcycle. He needs tents,
talking machines, film machines"
The commission will have as its
guest in March the Most Rev. Cosmo
Gordon Lang, Arch bishop Of York. He
will speak in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine on March and at MONDAY
services at Trinity during the week Of
his arrival On Easter Sunday he viii
preach in Washington. He will also
visit Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, st. Louis and Baltimore.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Plans Drawn to Halt
Prohteers in Food
Two Organizations join Forces
to Make Prices More
Reasonable

Working machinery that will get
right down TO the housekeeper and the
various butchers and bakers ard can
dlestick makers in her neighborhood
has been Planned by the General Food
Council, a state commission. and the
Patriotic Service League, to meet the
food and fuel shortages in New York
City
The work will be OF five kinds-the
circulation of prices fixed By food and
fuel administrators &c oe posted as
daily bulletins in public buildings
and apartment house halls; the inspec-
tion of shops and markets and investi-
CATION of specific complaints as to
quality, price, or weight; collection OF
information as to shortages and Of
cases of boarding or profitcerng, dis
tribution of information among house
keepers and servants of possible
shortages before they materia.ize; ac-
tual demonstration of food prepara-
ton to effect practical economies.
If the government foresees another
shortage Of sugar or eggs or butter
the General Food Council and the
Patriotic Service League Will warn
housekeepcrs, demonstrate new meth
DDS of cooking without those articles
and thus anticipate the shortage and
prevent famine.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Food Exports Gain
$4,000, 900 in Month

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.~-Exports Of
foodstuffs increased from $4,000, 900 in
October to $1o6,00OOOO in November,
figures made public to-day by the Blu
reau Of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce show. For the first eleven
months of 1917 foodstuffs exports were
valued at $l,108, ,459 ,65s, compared with
1864, ,O0O, 900 in the corresponding period
Of 1916. Imports Of foodstuffs for the
eleven months totailed s692,00O,O0O.
Exports of manufactured goods
amounted to 1927, 100000 in November
decrease of $45,00O,0OO from the pre-
ceding month. The value Of such goods
exported in the first eleven months of
the year were $4,000 100000, an in.
crease of S335,000,00O over the CORE
spending period the year before
Crude materials exported in the eleven
months period totallcd $6S7 ,O0O, 900.
Legislation to extend further the
Presidents powers to enforce the con.
servation Of food was considered at
conference to-day between Senator
Pomerene, Representative Lever ant
Food Administrator Hoover Among
the subjects discussed was Legislation
to compel public eating houses to OBJ
serve wheatlcss and mcatless days.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14

Al n campaign meeting called by the
Young Womcn's Christian Association
yesterday AFTERNOON at the Colony
Club, Sixty-second Street and Park
Avenue. the call was sounded that to-
day will greet thousands Of New York
crs all over the city: "Stand behind
the girls that stand behind the men
and help win the war"
For to-day is the last day of the
associations campaign to raise $1,750,-
900 from New York City for war work
among women and girls, and finds the
organization with round 100000 to
raise before tonight. The workers
plan therefor q whirlwind tour Of the
city all day in order to realize the
goal and, perhaps, few extra thou
sand
Speakers ut the meeting yesterday
were James A. Whitmore, Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary, just returned from the
Rainbow Division in France; Miss
Sarah Wells, metropolitan secretary
for Now York City Y. W. &. A., and
Miss Harriet Taylor, Of the Assoca-
ton National Rcard.
Predicts Years Of War
ave who come back from the wal
zone return to ind ourselves shocked
at our own people," said Mr.. Whitmorc
"How soon Will America really know
what we're in? How soon will they
realize that this is to he a war, not oil
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
"Stand Behind the Girls That
Stand Behind the Men /" Is Slogan
Y. W. A. Workers Will Scour the City To-day, the Last
of Campaign, to Raise Final $400,0 600 OF
$l750OO0 War Fund

months, but Of years They don
know, as we do. that France is just
waiting for Americas men ana
Americas moncv France is so tired
and she has Just strength enough 10
keen steady untl2we come.
"But if Frances soldiers are tired
her women are more than exhausted.
Whatever the Y. w. c. A. does for the
women Of the warning countries to keep
them cheered, to keep them safe. Will
he direct contribution to the war.
Whatever the Y. w. G.. 4. does Tor
American women will be direct means
of sustaining the morale Of the Amerl-
can arm.y abroad.
"Our soldiers worry over their fam
lilies when they've left them not TOO
we'll fixed Take care Of the families
and watch the soldiers brace up and
smile"
Problems More Acute Now
Miss Wells and Miss Upton made
brief talks on the war work Of the as
sociation in New York City and IN
camps and cantonments.
"This is all var work. said Miss
Upton, "but a good deal Of it should
have been peace worl: We've had the
housing problem long time, and we've
had the problem Of social morality; but
the war makes therl acute, and drives
us to all these emergency treasures IN
order to keep our national life up tc
its highest standards dun ing time OF
crisis But we'll go on now after the
war, for our woman power will have
been modified and organized"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Medical Boards
To Decide Draft
Appeals To-day
Will Pass on Doubtful
Cases of Physical Quail
fcations Here

The medical advisory boards here,
organized by Major Charles North
Dowd, medical aid Of the state, will
begin to sit to-day on medical appeals.
Doubtful cases Of physical qualiica-
ton for military service may be re-
ferrcd to the medical advisory boards
either by the rcsistrant or by the local
board.
In Manhattan all medical appeals of
local exemption boards Joy, 1oS, 100,
l12, 113, Ia, III. 118, 119, 1922, 1913 and
1877 will be referred to the medical
board situated at the Cornell Univer-
sity Medical School, First Avenue and
Twentysixth Street Appeals from
local boards 1871, 1872, 1873. 1873, l42, 143
$50, 1852. 160, 161 and 1872 will be sent
to the medical board at Flower Hos
pital, in East Sixty-third Street,
Those from local boards 1874, 1856, 1875,
14l, 145, 146, 117, 14S. 149, 1865, l66
and 40 will be considered at st. Lukc's
Hospital, Amstel dam Avenue and 18th
Street, and those from local boards o2,
93, 94, 116, 1870. 121. 1924, 1925, 1876, 129, 1870
and 1863 will be taken care of at the
Vanderbilt Clinic. Amsterdam Avenue
and Sixty-Grst Street The medical
group at New York Hospital, s West
Sixteenth Street. will reGXaminc in all
doubtful eases flom local boards 95, 96,
81, 100. 101, lO5, 106, 40, III, l15, 153
and 1874. and the medical advisory
boards at the Post Graduate Medical
School, 303 East Twentieth Street, will
handle appeals from local boards 80,
90, 81, SO, 80, Io2, 103, l39 14O, 1853 and
1853. Appeals from local boards 1O4
l27, l2s, 144, 155 1856, 1877, 159. 164, 167
and 1873 will 20 to Bellevue Hospital l.
First Avenue and Twentv-sixth Street
The Brooklyn medical appeals will b.
acted on at the Norwegian Hospital
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, St Cath
arine's Hospital. Brooklyn Hospital ane
Grcenpont Hospital. In The Bron,
the medical advisory boards will b,
clustered at Lincoln Hospital, Fordhan
Hospital and Trinity Hospital. Grac,
Church Parish, in Jamaica, will hous,
the medical advisory boards for Queen
and the headquarters of the mcdica
board for Richmond will be at 81 Bar,
! Avenue, New Brighton.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Leaders Likely to Take
Sides on Lewis lndorse-
ment Resolution
Suffrage to Wait
No Move Will Be Made to
Hurry Action in Upper
House

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-With vir-
tually all important legislation still IN
formative stages, Congress plans this
week to keep its committees steadily
at work on tic Administration rail-
road bill and other pending measures
and with war preparation invcst'ga-
tions.
Neither Senate nor House has an
important Legislative programme Tor
the week other than committee nc
tivity. Senator Lcwiss resolution for
formal Endorsement Of the Presidents
peace programme, however, may 3e the
vehicle for extensive Senate debate by
leaders of both parties.
On Tuesday the Senate will dispose
of the resolution proposing to give the
President power to control tho print
paper industry. Some Senators think
it socialistic and unnecessary, and
considerable opposition has developed
since the measure has been under de-
bate.
In the House, work on huge appro-
priaton bills is proceeding rapidly
with disposal Of the annual Indian
budget set for Tuesday.
Suffrage to Wait
frage constitutional amendment, APP
proved BY the House last week, is ex-
pected for at least a fortnight in the
Senate, although, its opponents, bcllcv-
ing they now have enough votes to
4 fcr pn I.
vote.
With Secretary Bakers examination
in the Senate Military Committee s
war inquiry concluded, the comm ttee
will resume tomorrow further inquiry
into the proposal to establish new
department of mun't' ons, which Prcsi-
dent Wilson and 81 'etary Baker op-
pose Daniel Willaro chairman; Ber-
nard Baruch and oths members of the
War Industries Board :.nd members of
the CouLcil of National fence, pos
sibly including Secretary ->an!els, arc
to be examined during the " lex.
The committee plans tempo ~arly tc
suspend it's hearings this week and
take up the question of creating a mu
nitions director, proceeding afterward
with investigation of other War Dc
partment activities.
To Resume Road Hearing
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Anderson will resume his explanation
of the railroad legislation tomorrow
before the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee, ard the similar House
committee will hear railroad cxecu
tives
With its sugar shortage investiga
tion virtually concluded, the Senat,
Manufactures Committee, in pursun,
its inquiry Of the coal shortage, viii
hear Secretary Lane tomorrow, AM
afterward Francis S. Peabody, Goa
production director of the Council o
National Defence
Inquiry into delay Of the shipbuild
ing programme also will be continue,
tomorrow by he Senate Commerc
Committee.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Dutch Predict Hard
ask for Envoy Here

AMSTERDAM. Jan. l3.-The new
Dutch Minister to the United States.
Augustus Phillips. who is soon to sail
on his mission, is receiving y ercnt
deal of advice and many suggestions
and requests from persons and mer-
camille institutions with interests in
America.
THE new minister goes to confront
"n oncrous and somewhat thanklcss
task says Professor j. A. van Hamcl.
4 legal authority, in the "Amsterdam-
mcr Weekblad. at will tax severely
his capabilities as u negotiator There
has been much bungling in America
on account Of our clumsy and fiaccid
diplomacy. and we arc rcaping the bit
ter fruits of the total neglect of Amer.
lean public opinion"
I he writer advises the minister to
make tour Of the United States. to
acquaint the people with Hollands DO
sition
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Daniels Praises
Hero of Boat Fire
Sailor Descended Into the
Hold After Others Had
Fled Blazing Gasolene
I.Stnf Corresrondenccl

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The hero
ism of Frank Marsh, machinist's mate,
second class, of the Naval Reserve, who
extinguished a gasolene fire on sub
marine chaser which threatened to de-
stroy four vessels to day was specially
commended by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels.
Marsh, who enlisted at Boston. Octo-
Der 19, 1917, and whose wife. Mrs. Mary
Marsh, lives at Winthrop, Mass. was
not attached to the vessel on which the
fire occurred. but was serving on an
other submarine chaser in the same
group.
g. After the engine room force had been
forced to fight by the dense gas fumes
Marsh descended into the hold and
threw several cans Of an extinguishing
preparation on to the fire. A little
later volumes Of dense black smoke
arose. causing by burning oil in the
base of the starboard engine. This fire
could not be reached from the port
holes or skyights. and Marsh again de
scended to the engine room with salt
Secretary Daniels also sent letters OF
commendaton to the following enlisted
men of the Jacob Jones for heroisn
following the torpedoing of that vesse
on December 6:
Charles Charlesworth boatsmain's
mate, first cclass; wife, Anna c
Charlesworth, 4O1 West Twenty ninth
Street, New York.
Philip j. Burger, seaman. secon,
class; mother, Elizabeth Burger, Ian
singburg, n Y.
l.. j. Kelly, chief electrician; addres
not given.
Howard U. Chase, quartermaste,
third class; father, George c. Chase
Nantucket, Mass.
Harry L. Gibson. chief boatswain'
mate; wife, Susan G. Gibson. Philadel
phia.
Edward Meier, water tender; next O
kin, Mrs. Mary Meier. Bay City. Mich.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Of 100000 American Sol
diers Examined Only / PC.
Actually Consumptive
No Cause for Fear
Inspection of Men Most Thor.
ough in Worlds History,
Asserts Col. Bushnell

OF 100000 American soldiers exam
med for tuberculosis since the United
States threw it's lot with the Allies
less than per cent were found to be
actively consumptivc. Colonel G. f..
Bushnell, of the Surgeon Generals Dc
partment. L. S. A., said yesterday ct
the Hotel Savoy. Colonel Bushnell
came from Washington to speak at q
conference on "Tuberculosis and the
War" held at the Savoy under the
auspices of The National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptivcs, located at
Denver.
al give these figures continued the
no justification for any fear that con-
sumption may make any considerable
inroad into our army. On the other
bard, VIC can afford to be quite happy
about the health OF our men.
"The 100000 mon examined included
soldiers in all branches of the service.
except tic Coast Artillery regulars,
National Guardsmcn and men In the
National Army cantonments.
Soldiers Thoroughly Examined
"Our army is being examined for all
diseases more thoroughly than any
body of men in the history of the
world As to tuberculosis there is no
reason to think it viii get hold in
our forces.
"Thc army, now. is free Of consump-
tives. Every precaution is being taken
FOR keeping the tuberculous from enter
ing the fighting forces from every
sourco. We ought to do what we can
20 spread q healthy spirit OF optimism
concerning the health Of our men here
at home
"Statistics on tuberculosis sent from
France after the first year of the war
were incorrect. We were Informed that
$4,000 men we're discharged from the
army IN that period because OF con
sumption. Later figures showed that
this early estimate was really about 50
per cent too high. This revised number
is not surprising in view of the fact
that the French forces had been COM
pelled to mobilize hurriedly to stop
the invader and the men had not the
advantages Of the thorough examina-
lions our men are getting
Stories from France Exaggerated
Colonel c. L. Dercle. of the medical
department of the French government
declared that "al the stories which
nave been circulated picturing France
"A a nation ravaged by this dreadful
disease are highly exaggerated. They
are legends which arose from figures
published in December 1915, at tht
French Academy of Medicine and later
corrected"
Other speakers at the conference in
cluded Jane Adams, of Hull House
Chicago, and DR.. Charles ii. Hatfield
of rho National Association for tho
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
Officers of the hospital announced tha
the institution stood ready to care TO
tuberculous soldiers invalided homo
along with its regular patients, to II
full capacity.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Blue Eyes Get Him Into
Draft After 2 Escapes

PAWLlNG, n. V, Jan. Sheriff
f. J. Conklin has at last Strengthened
out the cases of bluc-eyed Joseph
Chovins and brown-cyed Joseph
Chovins. which have been giving draft
officials Of Duchess County anxiety for
the last six months. Before the Sheriff
arrived at the solution. brown eyed Joe
had been drafted twice. and exempted
each time for feeble -mindcdness. while
bluc-eyed Joe had remained entirely
unscathed.
Both young men are similar in ap-
pearance, except for the color Of their
eyes. Brown-eyed Joe was called in
the first draft, AMI ran away. After a
lengthy pursuit, he was brought back
and then discharged for lacking mon
tality.
in the second draft he got his blue
eyed counterpart's questionnaire, an
swered it and was summoned for ex-
animation. only to have the Pawling
board discover that he had been drafted
before. Then the Sheriff intervened.
produced bluc-eycd Joe and solved the
problem
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Shoe Store Safe Robbed

Isaac Blyn. president of the Blyn
Shoe Company. one of whose stores at
l62 Bowery was robbed early yesterday
is eager to know what the patroman on
that beat was doing while yeggmen
rolled a 4-foot safe through the lighted
shop, threw it down into the cellar and
blew open the door with charge of
nitroglyccrinc.
"lt was cold" Mr. Blyn said yester-
DAY, "and guess some one must have
been asleep at his post"
Something frightened the men away
before they could wrench off the inner
Ioor of the safe, behind which lay
$4,000 in cash. They got only $3.50 in
small bills and change. The robbery
was not discovered until Yesterday
morning, when member Of the con
Germ entered the store and missed the
safe.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Exemption Board
Strikes for Pay
Oklahoma Members Refuse to
Serve Until Money Is
Forthcoming

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla Jan. 10. =
Major Eugene Kerr, of the Adjutant
Generals Department, stated TODAY
that the board Of cxcmptors in Grant
County had gone on strike, declaring
that unless they received pay for their
deliberations thay would not serve.
Major Kerr said: I'VE believe it may
be necessary to send men to that coun-
ty from outside it to sit on the eN-
emption board. The board has evolved
u policy Of no work no pay. do not
believe any local board cnn give good
service, telling certain men they shall
60 to war and others they need not, at
so much per tell. We do not intend to
pay the board members
"1 he members of the board have not
resigned, but | understand they have
quit work. We have been trying for
Gays to obtain other men to serve on
the board, but have failed
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Boy Soldiery of
N. Y. Reorganized
Cadet Commissioned Officers
Provided For in New
Military Orders

ALBANY, Jan ia complete plan
for regimental organization, affecting
every boy in the state subject to the
Slater-W compulsory military train
ing law, was announced to-day by the
State Military Commission. The plan
was contained in q series Of general
orders issued by the bureau of tech-
nical military training of the commits
sion, of which Colonel William A..
Chaplin is the head. The orders also
transmitted the authority for the ap-
pontment of cadet commissioned and
non-commissioncd officers, the first
time such designations have been
authorized since the establishment OF
the compulsory training system.
The orders provide that two squads
of cadets shall constitute a group con-
sistng of one corporal. one private,
first class, and six privates in each
squad. When an enrolment OF fou,
squads has been made, a platoon may
be organized with one second licuten-
ant and one sergeant Squads may be
added until eight are combined with
two lieutenants and two sergeants, and
when enrolment warrants companies
Will be formed. This will consist OF
scvcnty-two privates and the usual off
GERS.
Cadets enrolled for training through.
out the state according to the latest re-
port were 25,465. If completely organ
lzed this number would provide tol
more than nineteen regiments unde1
the plan outlined. According to zon,
enrolment the maximum number O
regiments which could be provided fo
IN each zone follows
New York, 6; Long Island 4; Hudso 0,
Valley. :; East central zone, .; Wes
central zone . and Mcstrrn .
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
4 American Ships, Icebound
In St. Lawrence, Released

SYnNEY. Y. S., Jan. 12.@Four Amer
lean lake steamers that have been ice
bound in the Gulf Of st. Lawrence for
two weeks have been released. One Of
the feet arrived here to-day and re-
ported that three other vessels were on
their way TO port.
The steamers encountered enormous
ice foes off Father Point, Quebec, but
sustained no serious damage. On two
of them the supply of provisions was
nearly exhausted before they were able
to break the ice blockade and reach
clear water.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Camp Upton Men Opposed to
Splitting of Their Division
Believe They Are Now Ponderous Batering Ram;
Per Cent of Privates Are College Men and Is
Per Cent From High Schools

CAMP UPTON. Jan. 13.The best
in this cantonment is not the austere
and forbidding looking general head
quarters, perched on the top Of knoll
that frowns down upon the soldier
from the centre of the post. Trying to
learn things there about the efficiency
of the 77th Division is a task almost
Herculean. All the headquarters OFF,
GERS are rcticent on the subject and
dismiss inquirers with the sole COM
ment:
"Walk around and see for yourself"
1t would appear on the face Of things
that the logical thing to do would be to
watch the men in action, undergoing
their rigorous intensive training. But
that is not so. To talk to the drafted
man during his recreation hour, when
the mantle of ferocity and the milf
taristic cloak have been removed, is a
revelation.
An Observers View
An observer who has spent days IN
another National Army cantonment
Somewhere in the United States" and
who while there associated with the
selected men who made up its various
units, wandered into one of the bar
racks of the 3O5th Infantry here this
afternoon and made the acquaintance
of soldier whose only claim to dis
tinction is that he is a first class pri-
vate.
1t doesn't require much association
with the men here to learn why their
officers say they are of an unusually
select type, that they have prepared
themselves for duty far ahead of