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New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Plays and Players

Lionel Atwill, an actor of excellence,
who has been giving Nine. Nazimova
splendid support during her Ibsen sea-
son, will be featured next month in
"Another Mans Shoes" when this play
begins preliminary season in Wash
lngton. Frederick Mckay is the pro-
ducer and the playwrights are Laura
M. Hinckley and Mabel Ferris, rival
team of Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin.
"The Liberty Cum" new shubert
play, is now in rehearsal. Robert Ede-
son, Katherine Grey, Henry Kolker an d
Millicent Evans are in the cast, Robert
Mears Mackay and Victor Mapes wrote
the play, which presumably has some
thing to do with the war.
. Monday night "The Melting of
Molly" also Shubert show, will have
its premiere in Wilmington. Break
ing the jump by a week in Newark, it
VIII reach New York about fortnight
later. Dorothy Donnelly wrote the
book and lyrics; Harold Orlob and Sig
mund Romberg set them to music. In
the cast are Florence Nash, Helen
Tracy and Harry Davenport.
War appears not to retard the mush-
room growth of movie theatres. Now
it's the Dixon Third Avenue Family
Theatre which will open Saturday
afternoon under the management Of
the Vesey Amusement Corporation.
which promises only "high class
photoplay policy"
The Stage Women's War Relief is
to have benefit concert Thursday
evening, May 16, in the ballroom Of
the Ritz at o'clock. Nine. Schumann-
Heink and Maggie Teyte will be on the
programme.
Jack Farrell has been taken away
from his post as treasurer of the
Harris Theatre to the more energetic
task of responding to those .Hep.
heps!" at Yaphank, and his going-to-
bed hour has become the time he arises
to greet another day.
Adolph Klauber yesterday completed
arrangements with Selwyn & Co. bv
which he will enter the theatrical field
as an Independent producer, and also
DO number of plays in conjunction
with that firm. He will make several
preliminary productions this summer
Of plays ultimately designed for New
York City hearing. The first of these
will be comedy by Arnold Bennett,
which IS to be seen in July at the
Belasco Theatre, Washington, prepara-
tory to opening in New York in the
fall
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Bang! Goes the Thrift Stamp Hammer
On Kaiser's Coffin; Sales Mountinq Ur

tall, black coated, white -gloved
stranger bought two Thrift Stamps at
the booth in the shadow Of the Frank
AN statue on Park Row yesterday
afternoon, thereby earning the right to
hammer nails into the Kaiser's coffin.
lie shifted audibly as he glanced
around the crepe hung chamber. 1t
was evident that all was not to his
liking.
You know" he said, posing the
hammer to strike, eff all funerals
(bang) were like this one (bang) my
business (bang) would go on the
blink" (bang, bang).
us that so? Then you are perhaps
an undcrtaker?" 2" asked C. N. Webb
custodian of the corpse, in a respectful
tone.
Wrong" said the stranger, carefully
choosing another nail. 81 am a florist
"a most vicious bang.)
That's all right" said Mr.. Webb
cheerfully. "Send US big pot of
poison ivy"
If the thrift stamp boom continues at
It's present rate, the Kaiser's coffin
must have new lid soon, or stamp buy
ers must knock nails in the sides
There is no room for more nails over
the heart and other vulnerable spots,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Committee Decides A. /.
Namm & Sons Originated
Cleverest Selling Appeal
Other Prizes Awarded
New York City Postal EN-
ployes Have Sold $2,565, 900
Worth of Stickers

The result of the competition among
the stores of New York City to produce
the best window devoted to war saw
ings stamps was announced last night.
The competition concentrated the
genius of the cleverest window dress
ers in America upon the war savings
stamps campaign. The first prize was
awarded to Brooklyn store, that of
A. l. Namm & Sons.
Two second prizes of $3.50 were
awarded to Franklin Simon g. Co., and
Bloomingdale Brothers; three prizes Of
500 to james McCreery & CO., Open
helm, Collins & Co., and James A.
Hearn, and five prizes Of $50 TO Saks d
Co., Best & Co, K. H. Macy & Co,
Abraham & Straus and Gimbel Broth
erS.
In the Namm window was a model
of a wrecked Belgian home. Amid the
charred sticks sat an old woman,
shawl over her head and her hand
pointing TO a sign:
"Unless you would see this in Amer
ica, buy war savings stamps"
Some stores which produced effects
beautiful from an aesthetic viewpoint
were disqualified because mere beauty
was not selling argument; others
lost prizes because other patriotic ap-
peals shared prominence in the same
windows with the war savings stamps.
Lord d Taylor are given special men,
tlon for window depicting a trench
IN Flanders. Bloomingdale Brothers
had living figures in their window,
Uncle Sam and Columbia offering
stamps to the crowd James McCreery
d Co.'S window represented school
room scene, with the teacher giving
lesson in the value of thrift stamps.
The stores have been doing their bit
in other ways than in window COM
petition. The employees of Blumstein
Co. in upper Manhattan and The
Bronx have sold stamps amounting to
$500.
The cabarets are continuing their
drive. Last night Billy Gibson and his
troupe of artistes visited the Claridge,
while at midnight Clifton Crawford,
Harry Fox and Harry Carroll dropped
IN. AT Churchill's there were Frisco"
and the Brooklyn Navy Yard jazz band.
New York City postal employees have
sold $2565,000 worth of war stamps
since March 8. Max H. Shivitz, clerk
at Station B, holds the clerks record
marcke, Station P, holds the carriers
championship with $S,030.
Fifty-five hundred Washington Irv-
ing High School girls, clad in white
MILDLY blouses and blue skirts, will
hold war savings parade this after
noon. Leaving the school at 440. they
will march to Union Square. where one
OF the Anzacs and number of the La
fayette Escadrille will speak from the
u. S. S. Recruit.
One thousand girls, whose brothers
or fathers are in service, will march
at the head of the parade. carrying
service flags. Afterward they will re-
turn to the school, where a service
flag, bearing a star for each girls rel
ative at the front, will be unfurled
The girls of Washington Irving
High School are conducting an active
stamp selling campaign. Before they
began the campaign they were selling
500 worth of stamps day, but now
they are selling $1,000 worth.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Urges Wine to
Promote Temperance

The present agitation and propa-
anda for prohibition, instead Of tenn
Nrance has done much to educate and
all the attention OF the public to the
Iaue and use of light wines as con-
tucive to temperance. All students of
hs so-called drink question" agree
hat there is an almost universal de-
IRE for some kind of stimulating bev-
rage, whether ii be coffee, tea or wine.
10 eliminate the desire is impossible;
y prohibit the use of such beverages
swrong and impracticable. Therefore,
temperance is best promoted by provid-
hg the people with a beverage which
theap, pleasant to the taste, and
hImess unless used in excess.
sueh beverage is light wine. 1t is
hs Juice of the grape, palatable and
nifsshlng, and the small amount of
.sehol acts as gentle stimulant and
etle; 1t would be a great thing for
Asai'h and temperance If the Amer
san people better understood the food
mae and proper use of wine, as it is
lmly, France and Spain, where prac
.saay Isaily every one, men, women and
.aasaren. s.s drink wine every day at table
sha tnelr meals, and they are the most
"mpefate people in the world.
1ae agltators for prohibition claim,
~I Wy OF all, to be against the saloon.
.aey say the saloon should go. Ad-
s,slng for sake of argument that some
Tioons are not conducted as they
saoald be. and thus bring discred:t
spos oil the others which are properly
whaaeted If the saloon should go,
ssst =, Is to take its place?
me correct answer, l think, will be
.a .Iuna In having in this country places
similar to those which are so popular
saa 90 successful all over Europe. In
= S''sI, what We need and should have
satae ave United States are places like the
Sn'es and gardens of France and Italy.
Mss Msasss are established institutions in
H. sssse countries. ana they are enjoyed
svery one, from the Mayor of the
.a or city to the humblest citizen.
ss.y are rendezvous for whole families
~ and have bite to eat, sip their
sssss OF wine or beer. and pass an
-! or more listening to the music or
.ne and visiting with their friends
,s sM people require relaxation and
i.sssment. The Young Mems Christian
s.sse'aucn - has enrolled thousands Of
~. A Aad women for the benefit of en-
{ xshlng our soldiers at our camps
u asslca as we'll as in France. Some
IL. WI pest talented singers and actors
ps,s. sniisted their services for this
msMy0se; . M; Our working classes as we'll
s.ss wae better classes crave this same
e,ss e,ssse'aent together with these inno-
saa heaithful beverages. such as
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Makes Plea for Temperance
through Use of Light Wines

pends on the outcome whether we shall
thereafter have anything to saw about
Soclal restraints. The butchers of
berlin arc not distinguished teetotal-
lers. 'ee''''''-
o. ms nation has managed along soma
3uo years on the fundamentals nIant-
ed at Plymouth and Jamestown and
puilt upon them material and spirit
ual dimensions envied by rivals and
feared by autocrats who would rule
the whole world. And prohibition can
hardly be considered any contributing
factor IN the sum Of this national
greatness, whatever its refining vir-
tues.
Would it not be better to put by
THIS reform, along with woman suf-
irage and the thousand and one other
lsms" and hobbies and nostrums, un-
III the war is won or lost? If lost the
Kaiser will fix our laws and social
virtues without consulting you or me,
Are we helping to win the war by
agitation of these non-essentials-
veXing the people, dividing them, ex-
pending time and thought and energy
upon them when we should bend heart
and soul on smashing for all time the
helllsh plans of Prussia? We want a
new world, free. from this age-long
- 10y 'e>A ma ~, poi u ucIilOIi,
part human, part brute. The fires kin,
died by that race have already con-
sumed. most of what stood for civiliza-
ton in Europe. 1t is due to our val
liant sailors and soldiers and their
brothers in arms of the Allied nations
that we shall stand united and indi-
visible with all our might Of men and
means.
Whatever intrudes to divide. evade.
vex or impair this unity and weaken
our part in the conflict is so much for
the enemy. And does it not seem
strange that since the war began, in
1914, these side issues have become
loud and louder and clamorous and
more aggressive? Are not worthy peo-
pie unwittingly serving the enemy?
Indeed, it requires great patience de-
Gently to characterize these things
without offence. I believe this most
natural and loyal protest is the sum
of Mr.. Lanyon's SHINING. In loyalty to
our cause, in sacred regard for our
glorious soldiers, among them his own
son. he might be called fanatical, but
not disloyal Oh, for unified action
and the tabling of vexing nostrums
till the world shall be freed from it's
overwhelming menace!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Ladies Auxiliary Will Give
Garden Party Thursday at 70,

The annual garden party of the La
dies Auxiliary of the New York Zoo
logical Society will be held Thursday
afternoon at Geological Park Tea will
be served in the administration build
ing, and Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn,
whose husband, Professor Osborn, is
president of the board of managers of
the society, will be one of the host
esses.
Among the members of the auxili-
ary are Mrs. j. Pierpont Morgan, Miss
Anne Morgan, Mrs. Stephen H. Olin,
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, Mrs. Walter
E. Maynard, Mrs. Richard Irwin, Mrs.
Thomas Hastings. Mrs. George c..
Clark, Mrs. w. Pierson Hamilton. Mrs.
Richard Stevens, Mrs. Arthur Iselin,
Mrs. Austen Gray Mrs. j. Francis A.
Clark, Mrs. Percy r. Pyne, Mrs. Fin
ley j. Shepard, Mrs Levi P. Morton
and Mrs. Alexander S. Webb.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Strong Drink
AS a Natural Impulse

Notwithstanding those who differ
with him, Mr.. Lanyon, of CHICAGO.
stands pat on his previous remarks
on lighting men and alcoholic bev-
erages. He writes:
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Judging by letter you print
IN The Tribune of May 2. my letter in
your issue Of April "a about how the
Russian soldiers, after about two years.
experience on the "water wagon" were
human, and therefore easy victims for
the kaiser's soldiers to bribe with
aicohoilc beverages, seems to have
stirred up the dry leaves and caused a
commotion in "De Forest" notwith-
standing his front name (Lee) ought to
have shown him the wisdom of seeking
shelter from "trade winds" that blow
true to nature, as my letter did.
he tMr. De Forest) seeks to parry
my thrust by. assuming that I have
cast great slur and insult" on Amer
lean soldiers abroad, etc.
>. Well, let US see what this assumptive
line OF reasoning will lead us into. If
our average American soldier is such a
superman, or paralytic, as to be i'm
mune from alcoholic and sexual tempta-
tons, why is there so much time, labor
and money spent by the United States
government, the Y. NJ c.. A. and many
women's societies, in all possible wavs,
to keep alcoholic beverages and women
so distant from and unreachable bv
United States soldiers and their va
rious camps and recruiting stations i?
According to De Forest reasoning. all
these expensive and elaborate efforts
to lnsulate and isolate the American
soldier from these temptations that
influence all virile men are "slurs"
and ",nsults.' The truth is that the
male human animal is naturally sus-
ceptible to alcoholic beverages. as he is
also to sex impulse. Both being natu-
raj, 1t is equally difficult to eradicate
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
p~.s;dent of American Wine
Growers Tells Experience
of Europe
Would Give Exemption
To Cafes and Gardens
IJrges Retention of Substi-
tutes for Saloon That Pro-
mote Real Sobriety

The discussion Of prohibition
,ov in its twentieth instalment
has brought out statements by
brewers, liquor dealers, saloonkeep-
.rs and champions of prohibition,
,epulation and local option. To-
asv there is plea for temperance
through the use of light wines.
The following statement of the
.sse for wine is from the American
Wine Growers Association and is
coatributed by its president, Hiram
S. Dewey.
N the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The series of articles appearing
in The Tribune on the subject of prohi-
a;.ion tempts ME to express some facts
esthered from personal experience as
an American wine maker for over half
century.
There are many good reasons why
osr country should take direct in
t,,est in the grape industry, which is
sneh an important branch of agricult-
.,,s. And upon agriculture, as we all
kpow, rests largely the progress and
prosperity ef our state and nation.
The truth is, viticulture is the most
ANCIENT branch of agriculture, for vines
we're planted, grapes grown and wine
nade at the beginning of civilization,
and the three great staple foods in the
Old Testament days were: Corn, oil and
vine. This has continued right down
10 the present time, so that to-day wine
ia necessary part of the daily food
oi over hundred millions of people in
Europe.
As showing the importance and ap-
probation Of the food value of wine,
It is interesting to note that wine is
Fart of the daily rations of the Euro
pean soldiers. France alone thus far
This year has requisitioned 100000
gsllons Of wine for the use of her army
and navy. The men ere allowed little
over pint Of wine each day with their
rstions, and the dietary experts have
reported that this quantity of wine
is indispensable for the soldiers who
undergo the tremendous pnyslcal ana
mental strain which comes in the
trenches and on the firing line.
As have said our country should
take direct interest in the viticultural
industry. This industry comprises hun
dreds Of thousands acres of land, gives
employment to many thousands of peo-
pie and represents millions of capital
invested. There has been steady growth
and progress Of the industry which is
now an important asset Of the states.
In addition, l need only refer to the
large fore gn-born or descendants of
fsreign-born citizens, who want and use
vine as a part of their daily food.
Many Of the industrious people have
planted vineyards all over America and
they deserve to be encouraged in their
splendid work of improving what were
once unproductive or barren lands.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
High Rental in 5th Avenue
National City Co. to Pay $780,
900 a Year for Small Store

The national City Company, sub
sidiary of the National City Bank,
will pay yearly rental of $4,000 for
the corner store in the remodelled
office building at Forty third Street
and Fifth Avenue, formerly the Hotel
Renaissance. The store is "a by 100
feet, and the square foot rate a year is
about 1910, one of the highest rentals
in Fifth Avenue. The lease was made
yesterday, and for twenty-one years,
the toal rental being 100000.
The hotel was recently purchased
from the Hoffman and King estates by
William Ziegler. He was represented
in the lease by his father-in-law, j.
Curry Watson.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Lemon Extract
By the Carload

Here is concrete example: Thirty
years ago, when the Indian Territory
was under United states prohibition
law (for the protection of the Indians
there) so drastic and comprehensive
that it really did make this Indian
reservation "bone dry" l learned from
"drummers" who travelled into that
territory for Kansas City and st. Louis
grocery houses that their business in
Lemon extract" was enormous. They
sold it by the carload in the largest
size bottles in which it was bottled by
the manufacturers. In Kentucky have
been in counties where prohibition was
supposed to reign under their "local
option" laws and found drunkenness of
drunks" and "Peruna drunks.'
During my forty-fve years of life
since was fifteen I have lived in Wis
consin, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and
Kentucky, and have mixed with their
people and met United States soldiers
there, and know how human all of them
are.
On June 27, 1917, heard Private
Peat say in an address to the Chicago
Association of Commerce when recount
ing his experiences in the trenches dur
ing the winters of 1914'15 and 1915-'16:
"In the morning we get little
rum as medicine. We don't use
drunken men; we use sober men to
do the fighting. We take that rum
to warm us up after standing twenty
four hours in water, ice and blood.
Doctors order this, so why should any
one criticise or object?"
Also on May / Lieutenant Arnold
JOernS. of Chicapo returned from COW
vice at the front in France, said to our
Association of Commerce at the Hotel
La Sale when describing his expert
ences on the Tuscania when it was tor
pedoed and he, with others, was res
cued by British sailors:
aboard the British destroyer that
picked US up we were given hot tea
and sea biscuits, and us officers taken
below to the officers quarters of the
destroyer and given the finest hot
toddy that was ever mixed. We need
ed it that night"
Our lily-white, bone dry prohibition
lists, if allowed to rule, would make
such incidents of cheer impossible and
prohibit these bits of comfort and help,
all because of pet theory CT their own,
q mistaken idea of patriotism and an
insane ambition to force this total alb
stinence on all the people, regardless s
of those who honestly differ and re-
gardless of consequences.
ROBERT II. LANYON.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Colonel Luigi Lonia

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, May O.
Colonel Luigi Lonia, U. S. A. (retired)
q veteran of the Spanish h-Americar
War and instructor in military sci
ence and tactics in the universities OF
Ohio and Wisconsin, died here yes
terday at his home, 172 Woodland Ave
nue.. of Bright's disease.
Colonel Lonia was born in Italy
and came to this country with his par
@ ents WI when m. ne wa. was twelyei wv C After he
City of New York. in 1865. he entered
West Point, and on his graduation was
assigned to the 9th Field Artillery. He
served as captain with General Miles
during the Porto Rican campaign.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Philippine Subscription
To Loan Tops $4,000. 900

MANILA, May 9.-The subscriptions
to the Liberty Loan at the closing hour
reached total of 9,5O0,o00 pesos, ex-
elusive of the allotment of the Philip
pine department of the army, which
brings the amount up to 100000 900
pesos approximately s5,000,oOO).
Belated returns are expected to in
crease the purely Philippine subscrip-
ton to 100000 pesos.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Wants Words of "America"
To Be National Anthem

WASHINGTON, May GA joint res
olution to make the words of "Amer-
ica," as written by Samuel Francis
Smith and set to the music of "God
Save the King" the official national
anthem of che United States, was in
troduced to-day by Representative
Bankhead.
Representative McFadden introduced
resolution recently to make "The
Star-Spanglcd Banner" the national
anthem
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Soldiers Liquor Law
Attacked AS Invalid

WASHINGTON, May 9.--Constitu-
tionality of the Federal act prohibit
ing. the sale of liquors to soldiers in
uniform was attacked in proceedings
filed to-day seeking to have the Su.
preme Court review the conviction of
Cornelius O'Sullivan, q hotel proprietor
Of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, for violating
the law
0'Su!livan claims the statute is void
because it extends Federal jurisdiction
to business whose licensing and con-
troll Is left to the states.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Goldwin Starrett

Glen Ridge. N. j., May Goodwin
Starrett, senior member of Starrett g.
Van Week, architects, 8 West Fortieth
Street, Manhattan, died from pneu-
monia to-day in his home here. He is
survived by his wife and two daugh-
ters and two brothers, Paul, pres-
dent of the Fuller Construction Com
pany, and Major William, architect of
the army cantonments.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Lane-Baldwin Engagement

Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Cornelia Thayer
Baldwin, daughter of the late DR.. and
Mrs. William Wilberforce Baldwin, of
Florence, Italy, to Arthur Bliss Lane,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Warren
Lane, of 40 East Fifty-second Street,
and St. James, Long Island. The we'd
ding will take place in Florence on
June 10. Mr.. Lane is a graduate of
Yale. class of '16, and for the last two
years has been secretary of the Amer
lean Embassy in Rome.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Attention of
Messrs. Lanyon and De Forest

Why should sides be taken on
such "non-essentials" as prohibition
when eve should bend heart and
soul on smashing for all time the
hellish plans of Prussia?" inquiries
S. w. Vim, of 149 Broadway, who
writes:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having read the article of r. II.
Lanyon and its denunciaton by Lee Dc
Forest and believing in the good pur-
pose OF both, l fail to find even pos
siblc slip of pen giving plausible excuse
for his critics invective. National pro
hibition in itself belongs to academies
and equally good people divide upon it.
Prohibition was once the all-absorb-
ing question. the very acme of social
and moral issues in my state. Kansas,
forever free from the demon rum,
would Immediately become the hub Of
the nation, around which all the Union,
il not the world, would soon revolve
in one stupendous revolution. In my
zeal as a boy of nineteen believed and
wrote such stuff almost verbatim. |
lived there long afterward and took
part in the solution of many hard prob
lens which beset that state. have
seen her made centre around which
revolved every sort Of financial, eco
nomic and communal vagary which of
and on beset the nation. Those were
growing pains. Her people have out
lived them. To-day she stands proudly
and Loyalty with the other states.
strong and mighty. Whether this is
because of or despite her prohibition
is debatable. but does not matter just
now.
Thank God, after so long, this ma
ton stands with the Allies at Arma-
geddon. pledged to save civilization
from the damnation of a debasing
thing called "German Kultur." It de-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Jared Peck

GREENWICH, Conn, May 9.-Jared
Peck, lifelong resident of this town,
died at his home here to-day. aged
eighty years. He is survived by one
son. He was the oldest member Of the
North Greenwich Congregational
Church.