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New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
"Save-the-Babies"
Campaign Starts

Yesterday marked the opening of the
"Save-the- Babies" movement, an or
ganized effort on the part of child well
fare organizations throughout the
country to savc the lives of at least
100000 children during the year. The
campaign has the backing Of the Fed
eral government.
The first step in the campaign is a
careful physical examination of every
baby in the country between the ages
of six months and six years. Greater
New York. it is estimated, has close to
100000 alone within those age limits,
Thirtyfive babies were examined at
tho Lenox Hill Settlement, GIL East
Sixty-ninth Street, yesterday. The
physicians reported remarkably high
percentage of the youngsters to be in
excellent physical condition. At the
New York Diet Kitchen Association, 487
West Forty-frst Street, where sixty
six babies were examined, the report
was not SO good, the doctors finding
fully so per cent of the babies to be
suffering from malnutrition, enlarged
tonsils or adenoids.
The examinations are being made
under the direction Of DR.. Josephine
baker OF the Health Department.. As
soon as completed Systematic treat
ment. will be given to the children
found to be in need Of attention.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
New York Men Win
Army Commissions
tSpec,nl pispntch to The Tyibune)

Especial pispatch to The Tribunel
WASHINGTON, June 12.-Eightcen
New Workers were commissioned to-day
by the War Department in the reserve
corps and National Army branches Of
the service, as follows:
Ordnance reserve corps-Marshall @. Bacon.
81 Nassau Street. and Onias s. Humphrey.
G1l West 136th Street, captains
Non-fying section, signal reserve CORPS
John Vincent Costello captain George Good
man Ernst, West Ninetieth Street; Rush
more shope, 40 Wall Street; Patrick Joseph
SSlattery,, az West Eightieth Street, and
Harry II. Steinhauser $50 East Twenty
sixth Street, Brooklyn, second lieutenants.
-. Aviation scction, signal reserve corps
Thomas Shirley buchanan. ATS Mclean Ave
nue. Yonkcrs. second lieutenant.
Medical reserve corps Raymond De wight
Baker. 40 East Forty-frst Street. and George
Wesley Beatty, 204 Hancock Street, Brook
!!yn, captains; Jacob Beckenstein, Lincoln
Hospital, Bronx; Nathaniel Samson Carin.
479 Vermont Avenue. Brooklyn, and Stanley
Theodore Fortune, Al East Seventeen Street,
first lieutenants.
Quartermaster corps, National Army
Sidney w. Wallace. 81 West Eleventh Street.
and Thomas J. Mclaughlin. jr., S45 Amster-
dam Avenue, first lieutenants: William p.
van den Dries. 1874 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica.
Long Island, and Frederick f. Long, S26
Castleton Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten
Island, second ieutenants
Sanitary corps, National Army-John B.
Frederick, 1858 Davidson Avenue. first leo
tenant.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Tax Exemption
Appeals Anger
House Members

WASHINGTON, June 12.AMembers
of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee gave expression to-day to grow
ing impatence in the committee over
the fact that most of the witnesses ap
pearing to discuss the new revenue
legislation have come with pleas for
exemption from war taxation.
The occasion for the incident was a
suggestion by Albert H. Reeves, of
Washington, representing the National
Automobile Chamber Of Commerce, that
new taxes be placed upon the automo-
bile owner instead of the manufact-
urer. Chairman Kitchin declared the
present 8 per cent tax on automobile
sales was passed to the consumer with
All added increase, while Representa-
tive Moore of Pennsylvania, and other
members remarked the committee was
creases and exemptions.
Representative Longworth, of Ohio,
declared he was getting impatient with
witnesses who talked about tax in
creases being a burden, when it was
the invariable rule of the interests
they represent to pass the tax along
to the consumer.
Mr.. Reeves told the committee the
margin of profit in automobile manu-
!aGCuIe iS SHlali. JoO r.. dedgeS, OF
New York, and Frederick G. Dunham,
formerly State Insurance Commission
er of New York, speaking for the As
sociation of Life Insurance Presidents,
urged the committee not to apply the
excess profits tax to. life insurance
companies, which already pay an in
come tax and a tax of 80 cents per
$1,000 on new business. They con-
tended incomes on investments which
earn from d "a to per cent, to which
the life insurance companies are re-
the excess profits tax aimed at war
business.
The Treasury ruling that the legal
reserve funds of the insurance com
panies are not capital, the witness
said, was unwarranted and if enforced
would make the companies paw an ex-
cess profits tax the same as corpora
tions of different character. which
are free from this tax up to per
cent Of their invested capital.
e. NJ. Nation, of Ottawa. represent
ing mutual assessment life insurance
companies, said these companies. which
are not operated for profit, should be
classed with fraternal societies and
savings banks, and should be exempt
from Federal income taxes. He sug-
gested tax, in lieu of all other taxes,
of an equivalent to one per cent of the
entire collection for expenses of each
company. He said the tax of so cents
per thousand dollars on new business
was burdensome.
Thomas W. Blackburn, of Omaha,
also declared the new business tax on
insurance very heavy and explained
that companies he represented instead
of passing the tax on pay it them
selves on the theory it is temporary.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
British Inspectors
Aid u. S. Spy Hunt
On Dutch Steamer

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 12.-The
most rigid investigation ever given the
passengers and cargo of vessel reach
ing here was begun to-day upon the ar
rival of large Holland-America liner
at an Atlantic port with 603 passengers.
squad of forty British customs in
spectors, sent by train from Halifax,
swarmed on board the vessel when it
reached the quarantine station This
IS the first time that British officials
have aided in searching a vessel, and
there was considerable speculation si
to the cause Of the unusual proceedings.
The British inspectors were accom-
panied by more than one hundred army
and navy intelligence officers and full
company Of the searching squad of the
Customs Intelligence Bureau. The
steamship was anchored in the harbor,
and no vessels, not even those carrying
proach while the examination con-
| tinued
The boarding officials brought with
them various acids for testing docu-
ments for invisible writing, while other
chemicals used in the "acd bath" to
reveal messages on the skin of sus-
poets were taken aboard.
All music rolls and phonograph rec
ords are to be seized, and it is re-
ported that even soap, tooth paste and
tooth powder will be confscated. to
prevent the bringing IN of deadly
germs. The search and examination
was kept up all last night, and the pas
sengers will not be brought to a pier
| until this morning.
The vessel will then be warped into
new dock, utilized under government
direction, for the first time. The pier
has been placed under control of the
Army and Navy Intelligence, and fifty
members of the Women's Motor Corps
of America will assist the customs
authorities in searching the women
passengers.
1t is reported that guarantees had
to be given the German government be-
fore the liner left Rotterdam on May
80. that no Americans would be among
the passengers. 1t is believed this act
aroused the suspicion OF the American
authorities, and, taken in conjunction
with U-boat depredations on the At
lantic coast, was hailed as a signal for
unusual vigilance in arresting any spy
who might try to make his way into
the country and intercepting any en-
! envy message which might be brought
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
British Organize
To Entertain u. S.
Troops in England
Sir Randolf Baker Heads
Committee to Extend
Hand of Fellowship"

LONDON, June 12.-Major Sir Ran
dolf Littlehales Baker, chairman of
the British committee for entertaining
American soldiers, explaining the plans
of his committee to British newspaper
representatives to-day, said:
"The presence of American soldiers
In our midst is a great opportunity.
We must make the most of it. If there
is any great good that has come out
of all the evils of this war it is in the
union for all the future of our two
great Anglo-Saxon nations. Extend
ing the right hand of fellowship to
these men is the finest thing we can
do toward breaking down any barriers
that may have existed in the past be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain.
at is the duty of every person in
the British Isles to do everything in
his power to assist"
After announcing the general scheme
OF public entertainment proposed Sir
Randolf outlined plan for private
hospitality for American wounded and
men on leave, who will be taken into
English homes for a period of three
days or more.
The committee, he said, already had
ali enormous number of offers of such
! hospitality, and local committees were
being organized to work out the details
il various centres, with the assistance
of committees from the American Red
Gross, the Young Mems Christian
Association, the army and navy.
1t is proposed tnas soldiers to be en-
teftained in private homes in England
shall be recommended oy their COM
manding officers.
The American representatives on Sir
Rardolf's committee include Colonel
Proctor for the United States army,
Colonel Morrow for the aviation SER
vice, Commander Blakeslas, represent
ing the navy; Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the
Red Cross, and delegates from the
Young Mems Christian Association and
the American Officers Club. The Eng
lish committee includes Lords Lonsdale,
Donoughmore and Fairfax, Countess
Northbrook, and Lady Swaythling. 4
The House of Commons has organ
lied a hospitality committee OF its
leading members, who will devote. one
afternoon each week to entertaining
American soldiers at the Houses OF
Parliament with tea, on the famous
terrace, overlooking the Thames.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Soldiers Bus Line
Appeals for Funds

The order of William G. McAdoo, Di-
rector General of Railroads, withdraw
ing all excursion rate privileges, has
pushed Camp Upton halfway across the
continent as far as hundreds of poor
relatives of training National Army men
arc concerned. The American Automo-
bile Associations free transportation
service, as result of the increase in
fare to and from Camp Upton on Sun
days from 1910 to s4.16, has suddenly
become popular among hundreds who
would be passengers.
james A. Hemstreet, of the touring
bureau of the A. A. A., announced yes
terday that scores of cars are neede d
to accommodate the soldiers, their
mothers, wives, sisters and sweet.
hearts Mr.. Hemstreet asks for contri-
buttons to hire buses.
William Guggenheim. of the Ameri
can Defence Society, who virtually has
supported the bus service himself.
terms contributions to the project a
type of war aid equivalent to anything
outside of actual conflict. Contribu-
tions should be sent to James A. Hem
street, 501 Fifth Avenue. Telephone
Murray Hill 473.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
IN Pounds a Week Allow.
ance a Person Prescribed
for Householders
Demands of Armies
Beyond Our Surplus
Observance of Edict Until
September Is To Be
Voluntary

WASHINGTON, June 12.-To meet
armies and the civilian populations of
France, Great Britain and Italy, the
American people were asked by the
food administration to-day to place
themselves on limited beef allowance
from now until next September Is.
Householders were requested not
"under any circumstances" to buy more
than one and one-quarter pounds Of
clear beef weekly, or one and onehalf
pounds, including the bone, for each
person in the household.
Hotels and restaurants we're asked
not to serve boiled beef more than two
meals weekly, beefsteak more than one
meal weekly and roast beef more than
one meal weekly.
"The demand for beef for our army,
the armies of the Allies and their civil
ian populations for this summer" said
the food administrations announce
ment, care beyond our present surplus.
Pork Substitutes Urged
"On the other hand, we have enough
increased supply of pork this summer
to permit economical expansion in it's
use. 1t, therefore, will be direct SER
vice to our armies and the Allies if our
fresh pork, bacon, ham and sausage for
beef products,
"The public will realize that the
changing conditions Of production from
season to season, the changing situa-
tion in shipping, and, therefore,, the
markets available to the Allies, and the
increasing demand for our growing
army, with the fuctuating supply of
local beef in France, all make it i'm
possible to determine policies for a
long period in advance.
owe have recently asked for econ
omy in all meat consumption, we wish
row to emphasize further reduction of
beet by the substitution of pork. 1t is
hold good until September is, and the
cooperation of the public is most earn
estly requested"
Price Fixed for Pruncs
Maximum prices of Sh cents per
pound net to prune growers and 51A
cents per pound to growers of raisins
for the 1918 crop were announced to-
night by the food administration.
The prices, recommended by the
growers of California, are higher than
had been expected, the administrat on's
announcement said, but they are justi-
fled by the labor situation, increased
costs and a probable prune shortage
Later conferences" said the an
announcement, "will determine the
margins to various handlers Of the
crops, after which retail prices can be
computed. This wil1' result in stabil-
lied prices to consumers. Future sell
ing and speculation, which caused high
prices in the past, thus will be elm
inatcdN -
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Class | of Draft Here
Is Almost Exhausted

The large contingents Of drafted
men which have been dispatched to
National Army training camps during
the last few weeks have drained New
York City's supply of Class Ia until
only $1,000 remain, excluding the
youths Of twenty-ore who registered
last week.
According to Martin Conboy, director
Of the draft for New York, $4,000 Of
the 5S9.31o men who registered on
June s. 1917, have been inducted into
service. More than $4,000 have en-
listed.
The new registrants will be called
upon to fill out questonnaires as soon
as their order numbers in Washington
have been drawn, MIR. Conboy said.
No single inductions into a branch Of
the service chosen by the new draftee
will be permitted, but enlstments in
the navy aud Marine Corps are per-
mssiblc
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Government Asks
For Tighter Grip
On Shipbuilding

WASHINGTON, June 12.-Congress
was asked by the Shipping Board to-
day to tighten the grasp of the gov
ernment upon the country's shipbuild-
ing industry by legislation forbidding
the building of new plants or the cx-
tension of old. except under license.
Chairman Hurley wrote Chairman
Alexander of thc house Merchant Ma
rine Committee that the legislation is
the boards building programme. Since
the world need for ships became acute
many yards have been started by pri-
vate persons, some Of whom sought
government contracts and credit as
soon as u beginning was made.
The board desires to prevent specu-
lation in shipbuilding and to stabilize
the supply Of labor and the market for
materials. 1t also is desired to obtain
greater control over the acceptance of
contracts by domestic yards for for
elgn account.
Shipbuildng facilities in the United
States are being increased rapidly. Mr.
hurley to-day drew distinction be-
tween possible ultimate capacity and
expected output.
Il have not predicted the tonnage
Tor l9l9," he said, "for the simple rea-
son that such predictions freqeuntly
give wrong impressions. Predictions
depend upon so many contingencies
that they are frequently misleading.
The point | have been making is that
we have available or under construc
ton ISL ways for cargo ships, and that
II speed of three ships a year can be
obtained from each shipway we will
be able to turn out 1a,518,000 tons in
single year after the peak of produc-
ton is reached.
- do not regard it as humanity DOS
sible to turn out any such tonnage in
1919. The facilities for such tom
mage are not yet available When we
were turning out tonnage at the rate
OF less than one million tons wear
the programme We SET for ourselyes s.
was six million.
'fhis year we hope to build at least
three million tons, which is more than
three times the output of last year,
Dut nave set out our programme up to
lS,5lS,oo0. When we plan SO large a
tonnage it means that we must i'm
mediately plan to enlarge our facilities.
a task to which Director General
schwab is giving his personal atten-
The total tonnage built next YEAR
doubtless will be held down to some
extent by the building of large mum
per OF transports, which require at
least eight months to complete as
compared with four months or less for
cargo vessels.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
American Red Cross
Takes Swiss Palace

GENEVA, June 12.-The American Red
Cross has taken over the Palais Eyn-
ard, one of the most historical and
beautiful buildings in Geneva, which
has been loaned to them by the local
authorities. The local committee of
Americans here will aid all sick and
wounded Allied soldiers and Swiss citi-
zens. and later American officers and
soldiers being repatriatcd will be cared
for.
The committee consists of prominent
American residents of Geneva. Ste
phen MacFadden is president. DR..
Charles Gumston is vice-pres dent, and
the Rev. c. Belden, of the. American
Church in Geneva, Ii treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
May Launch 20 Ships
July 4, Says Schwab

PHILADELPHIA, June l2.--Charle,
N. Schwab, Director General of tho
Emergency Flsst Corporation, in an
address at q patriotic rally at Willow
Grove Park tonight. said that from
kilograms he had received no would
not be surprised II between fifty and
seventy ships arc launched throughout
the country on independence Day. He
SAID ne had sent out an appeal to sree d
up and launch as many ships that day
as possible. wy
From 40 to As per. cent. of the sh;ns
being built under the Emergencv Flaat
corporation supervision are being CON
sStracted IN the Philadelphia district.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Demands Reason for
Keeping Wood Home

WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator
Johnson, Of California, in speech to-
day called upon the Administration to
explain why Major General Leonard
Wood is kept at home instead of be-
ing sent to France with his division.
He said the country was entitled to
know the reason for the step, adding,
there is not government in ths
world that dare turn from its ranking
general without an explanation to its
people,"
The Senator read extracts from var
ious newspaper editorials demanding
such AN explanation, saying the papers
represented various shades of political
opinion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Mail Filler Sets a Record
And Outraces Thunderstorm

BELMONT PARK, Long Island, June
12.-Lieutenant Culver, using Liberty
motor, broke the mailplane fight rec
ord between Philadelphia and New
York to-day. He left Philadelphia at
$3.50 p. m. and reached Belmont Park at
S:12, doing the eighty-seven miles at
the rate Of about 127 miles an hour.
Near Trenton he overlook a thunder
storm travelling in the same direction,
drove through it and reached the park
half an hour ahead Of it.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Envoy to Leave Argentina

BUENOS AYRES. Tuesday, June IL.
-Professor Frederic ]. Stimson, the
United States Ambassador to Argen
tina, will sail for America soon. He
has received a leave Of absence from
the State Department st Washington.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
No Expert Testimony

This commission added voluminously
to the literature Of the subject, which
already was prodigious, but in all its IN
vestigation it summoned not one postal
expert II employed Stone and Web
ster, Boston engineers, who seemed to
share the prejudice Of the commission
against postal experts.
A majority of the commissioners
reported fsyorably on the tube service,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
HOW 1T WORKS OUT

ID EPORTS from san Antonio, the prin.
~ cipal city in the Texas congressional
district represented by James f. Slayden
who was forced to withdraw from the
race for denomination because of the op-
position of the President, indicate the
issue Of loyalty is not yet disposed Of
The organization favored the nomina
ton of A. L. Barrett a wealthy San An.
tonian interested in moving picture houses,
who has been on both sides Of the proh.
hition question. He was opposed by
Carlos Bee a State Senator. Bee was
nominated at the primaries but the law
in Texas permits the congressional con-
ventions to reject primary nominee.
When the State Democratic Committee
met this week a resolution was offered
calling on the congressional convention to
rcpudiate Bee on the ground of disloyalty
Proof of his lack of loyalty was offered
in the form of a statement that he had
been nominated by the vote of Comal
County, which two years ago had poled
almost its entire vote for the Republican
presidential candidate after casting it's en-.
tire vote in the Democratic primaries
DisIoyalty seems to consist in voting for
Republican candidate.
There are some Texas Democrats who
suspect that it takes more than a will
ingncss to vote for a Republican to es-
tablish disloyalty, and they are attempt
ing to prove that Bee had the support of
every one with German name. And now
we are told that if the congressional con-
VentiOn does not repudiate Bee and name
Barrett the newspapers of the district are
likely to support the Republican nominee.
If they take this course they, too, are
liable to be charged with disoyalty by
the members of the State committee, who
accuse the Comal party voters with treason
to their country because they voted for
Democrats in the primaries and Repub-
leans at the polls As there are about
four times as many Democrats as Repub-
lCanS in the district, the election of a
Republican is unlikely but the injection
from Washington of the charge of dis
loyalty has produced a pretty mix-up, the
untangling of which the Republicans can
watch with complacency.
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ENCLAND'S NEW FERTILITY

TNHE spotless, greenhedged lawns Of
l. England have prompted many a favor
ite German day dream. The weakness of
a foe whose soil was mostly one vast park
was agreeable to contemplate. The Hun
saw England as a nation whose economic
structure was essentially artificial and
unsound a country of great, still undl-
vided and unproductive feudal estates; a
manufacturing and maritime country
forced to purchase its existence with
money. incapable of life by any otner
means than trade.
1t is undeniable that England before the
war presented certain defects of civiliza-
ton far advanced along some lines, ham
dcapped along others by ancient prece.
dent, prejudices and outmoded survivaIs
of the past. But like most of the weak
nesses of which Germany hoped to take
advantage in starting the war, the agri-
cultural nonproductiveness of England
becomes less and less alarming with each
days progress of the conflict.
Sir Charles Fielding, director of British
food production. announces that England
Ig,l have bumper grYin crops this year,
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the largest since 1868. Where were once
velvety swards are now hourishing fields
awaiting harvesting by city clerks, boy
scouts schoolboys, undergraduates, VII
lage and college women, Belgian and Ser
bian refugees, who have helped to make
this little world set in silver sea" per
haps less POLITICALLY beautiful, but to a
new degree self.supporting. German pris-
oners. too, have been drafted into the
work
Since the war began the liberty-loving
worlds appreciation of deficiencies which
Germany sought to capitalize as assets OF
victories has brought about many re-
forms by her foes. 1t is indeed the irony
of fate when the new England must thank
the Hun for encouraging her to till her
once inviolate parks.