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New-York tribune., 1918-06-20

Whether S. Stanwood Menken retires
as president of the National Security
League rests with Mr.. Menken. This
has been decided by tacit agreement
among the members of the executive
committee of the league. Mr.. Menken
was reported to be out Of the city yes
terday, and in his absence no one in
his Office or in the offices Of the league
was in position to speak for him.
"The league has acted and is now
standing pat," said Colonel Charles E.
Lydecker, chairman of the sub-com-
mittee appointed to handle any devel-
opments following the reputation by
the league of Mr.. Menkcn's statement
praising William r. Hearst and de-
nouncing the wrong and shameful pol
icy of the Hearst newspapers I
should think Mr.. Menken is the one to
say whether or not he shall retire.
so far as l can see. there is no need
for any further Immediate action.
Hearst is rapidly digging his own
grave, and I for one am perfectly con-
tCHC ~ lct uliI continue QOlng So"
Hearst Forced League Ac,.uu
According to Colonel Lydecker, the
only effect oe Hearst's action in at
tempting to use Mr.. NJ Manken's state
1ment as a loyalty bill Of health has
Leen to force the league to take action
that has long been under contem-
plation.
"From time to time the question of
condemning .he Hearst papers has come
up before the executive committee" !"
said Mr.. Lyoecker, "and each time it
has been put over, the committee feel
ing that it was matter the branches IS
and the members could take care of,
were taking care of, without any action
on the part IF the parent body. When,
however, Mr.. Hearst attempted to make
it appear that he and mis- papers had
the Endorsement of the league, action
was forced. And as l ahev said, we just
knocked him into the gutter.
Among the officers Of the league
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20

olutionary overthrow of their govern
ments."
Mr. Spargo said:
The London conference proposes to
consider the admission at the Berne
conference of Socialists of all the bellig-
erent countries on a pre-war basis.
The German and Austrian Socialists.
except for small groups, have forfeited
thelr right to be called Socialists and
M, 70 De admitted to the International.
ihey have identified themselves with
the crimes of their governments. Thev
nave not scrupled to use their position
IN the International to serve military
| aosolutism and to betray their com
rades of other lands.
1T is the position of the Social
Democratic League that the German
and Austrian Socialists are such in
name only. They are not our com
faoes. lhey are traitors to our cause"
Futile Says Hillquit
Morris Hillquit, member of the ex-
ecutlve committee of the Socialist
party, when informed yesterday of the
departure Of the delegates, said:
The mission will be futile. Mr.
! opargo and his associates do not repre-.
sent the Socialist party. They do not
represent anybody. Their position. as
result of their having left the party.
Is wen understood in Europe and they
wlil be treated accordingly. The dele
gates are going abroad on exactly the
same mission as did the mission sent
ny the American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Gompers's mission was coldly re-
ceived and accomplished nothing.
The American government is the
only Allied government which will not
permit Socialists to attend an interna-
tional conference. Italy and France
are sending Socialist delegates
There is a strong disposition in the
Aiiied countries to permit the holding
OF an international conference in q
neutral country. Such conference
could do no harm. 1t might do much
good. 1t might encourage the Austrian
and German delegates in any incipient
revolt against autoc-acy in those coun-
tries: 1t might lead to a discussion
which would arouse a democratic spirit
among the Germans. 1t might even
open q way for peace favorable to
world democracy"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax

"Up near the cd grist mill on Dell
Creek there used to be an oak tree
against which, in its youth, some one
had leaned part of broken millstone.
Perhaps the edge of it had cut into
the tree when it was tossed there. At
any rate, the bark had parted an
grown out along either side until, when
a foot or so Of the stone was embedded
in the wood. the tree had lifted it Off
the ground. The last time was out
there / thought for a moment that the
oak had gotten rid of the incumbus.
And then, running my eyes up the
smooth trunk, saw that the stone sit
must weight couple Of hundred) was
three feet above the ground."-J. b.
Kecfoot, in Life"
Scientists say that trees grow up
ward only from the tips OF their
believe that Why, out in Pompton, N
j., though we haven't stone lifting
trees, they do say that there is one
which grows so fast that squirrels get
apop cxy trying to run up it's trunk.
And we know of a farmer who tried
to fence in piece of wood land and
nailed the wire to the trees at its edge.
Every few years he had to build new
fence, for the growing trees had l'ft"d
the last one four or five feet clear OF
the ground.
We've never seen this ourselves. but
we have seen squirrels that looked ap-
| oplectic.
She was stout and Celtic Of counte-
nance and tongue, despite her German
name, bestowed upon her before the
war by her Teutonic husband, and when
! she entered the Jamaica Town Hall to
register under the enemy alien ac'
there was wrath in her eye.
"Himself is German, l know" she
announced. "But I'm American and
l amt goin' to register at all. I'm
goin' to stand guard over me husband
| ends And if he as much as looks Ger
MAXWELL, 1've got broom, and wash.
| ing clothes does give you muscle"
it took considerable diplomacy or
the part of the registrars to get hel
signature, and she departed vowine
vengeance on her unfortunate spouse
who had given her an enemy alien
name.
There IS much excitement IN lover
N. J A man who says he is Ormar
Purhm is under arrest, charged with
attacking Patrolman Henry F. Reeves
Of Kenville. taking his nightstick, re-
yolver, police whistle, star and keys
and then trying to hold up trolley
car.
There is one gang the "Gints" car
, wa op in every inning.
If you don't believe this. sad-eyet
fans, 60 to East Eighty-eighth Stree
and see the story Of the punishment
that Muggsy McGraw's heroes met.s
out to the enemy each day after school
written in shining letters of chalk al
over the asphalt pavement. The ten.
year-old pinch hitters have German
blood in their veins-East Eighty
eighth Stret is the heart of the largest
German community in New York. Theil
fathers have long been listed under the
enemy alien act, and their mothers ant
grard dmothers may at the very momen
of the home run be havirg their finger
prints taken in the Yorkville olic'
Station.
However. it is the children that tel
the story of neighborhood feeling, ant
prints taken in the Yorkville police
station.
Kiser.. o 0 0 o o o.
Gints.. s 8 9 4 2 9 6 8-5'
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Newsprint Paper Price. Set

WASHINGTON, June 1s-Maximum
rewsprint paper prices were fixed to-
day by TIE Fedora Trade Commission
in accordance with an agreement be.
tween the Attorney General and manu-
facturers Of tle United States and
Canada. as follows:
Roll news in car lots 1910 per 1OC
pourds; Roll news in less t. an car lots
s3.22H; sheet news in car lots. $3.50;
sHeet news in less than car lots
$3.621x
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Security League Must
"Ciean House" in Opinion
OF Montclair Editor

MoNTCLAIR, N. j.. June l9.-As .
result Of the Hearst -Menken affair
CHARLES Henry Kinney. editor OF "The
sMontciair Herald" wired the National
print no more of the leagues pub.
licity matter until he had assurance
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
LasU to Curb Press
Disloyalty Urged BY
Bronxuille League

A resolution adopted by the execu.
5seag ie.es,v !. considered to b The
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20

platform took UP the plan of sending
delegates the government agreed to
| issue passports. The Social Democratic
/ League, of which j. G. Phelps Stokes
is treasurer and William English Wal
ling is secretary, is financing the dele
CATION.
Statement of Purposes
Before sailing the delegates left a
statement of their purposes. This was
Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 81
i Chambers Street. which is backed by
the American Federation of Labor. The
(, statement said
1--WE are going to London to present
I to the Socialists of Europe the Ameri-
lean Interpretation of democratic in
ternationalism. We are still opposed
to the whole Stockholm conference
scheme, root and branch. But as So
J not opposed to the right kind of a
conference. We do not think anything
can be gained even by conversations
about peace at the present time, if
we may use an expression of Arthur
! Henderson. But we do not believe anv
possible harm could result from a
: meeting of genuine Democrats and in
ternationalists when the proper time ar
rives, but the conditions of this meet
ing would have to be laid down with
! absolute clearness in advance. These
! conditions, as already decided upon by
the present delegation, are:
The unconditional acceptance by
each and every delegate attending the
conference of. the peace terms Of de-
mocracy, as formulated by President
Wilson on January 8 and the Entente
Socialists in London on February %.
These terms are not to be regarded
as a basis of negotiation or converse
tion, but as an absolute minimum, to
be accepted by every delegate in ad-
vance.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Must Back Democracy

"No delegates can be admitted who
are not lending their whole power to
democracy in its present warfare
against autocraey.
"All delegations from autocratic
countries must consist exclusively Of
those who are actively engaged in an
effort to bring about An Immediate rev.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
President Speeds
Socialist On
Way to Londor,

Continued from page 1
The sun., 1918-07-08
GEORGE V. DE MOTT.

George V, De Mott. in point Of years
the Oldest resident OF Passaic county,
New Jersey. and one OF the pioneers IN
the upbuilding OF that community. died
yesterday in his home. 10 Hadley ave-
nue., Clifton. He was Sc years old. hav-
ing been born on April 81, 1922. in North
Bergen. His ancestors were French
Huguenots who came to this country
In 1889 and settled on the shores of the
Hudson River
When IS years old Mr.. De Mott Joined
party of settlers bound for the West
After months of travelling through couu-
try which at that time was a wilderness
he reached place where now stands the
city OF Cincinnati There he became i'll
and being advised by a physician that
he had only few months to live, no
made his way back to Jersey where he
since had made his home
Mr.. De Mott was in the soda boiling
business in Passaic for many years, re-
firing In 1870. Soon after he bought
tract of about eighty acres OF land in
what is now the heart OF Clifton He
was active in local politics. was a Re-
publican leader in Passaic county and
was member OF the Passaic County
Board OF Freeholders for fifteen years
Surviving him are his wife and a son,
John De Mott, who Is treasurer of the
city OF Clifton. The funeral will be held
on Wednesday at $3.50 O'Clock. when
services will be conducted In the home.
The sun., 1918-07-08
HORSE SHOW TO AID CHARITY.
Monmouth County Association to
Help Memorial Hospital.

Arrangements have bean completed
by which. for the first time In the his
tory of the show, the entire proceeds of
the twenty-fifth annual exhibition Of the
Monmouth County Horse Show Associa-
ton. which will be held at the Holly
wood grounds Of the association, at West
End. Long Branch. n. j., will be de-
voted to the Monmouth Memorial Hospi-
tai. an institution W, ich has enlisted the
support Of most Of the summer residents
OF the watering places IN that section OF
the Jersey coast.
The show will open this year on July
rs and continue through the two follow
Ing days. An atmosphere of war will
run through this years show, since
many Of the exhibitors and judges whose
interest in the affair in past years has
made II one OF the notable social events
at the shore, already are in service
Gov. Walter E. Edge and his military
star will motor from the State camp at
Sea G!rt to attend the opening session.
The Governor will be accompanied also
by the Colonies and their STATS OF the
New Jersey Guard units. and many Off
GERS from Camps Alfred Vail. Dix and
Upton and the Sandy Hook reservation
also will be In attendance. A large en-
try of officers mounts will add to the
military setting.
Prizes have been offered by J. Horace
Harding. Reginald C. Vanderbilt. Jacob
Wertheim. Charles A. Baudouine, the
Hollywood Hotel. Frank v. Storrs,
James c. Brady. William II. Moore. JEFF
ferson Sellgman. Rufus C. Finch, Mar
tin Beck. Harry Content. Stuart Hollis.
S. r. Guggenheim. A. W. Atkinson. WILL
lam Ziegler. Jr., John NICE. Bowman.
Felix NJ. Wsrburg, Adolph Lewisohn
and George @. Rohlig.
The sun., 1918-07-08
INDUSTRIAL BOARD ANNOUNCED
Prominent Men Named for Zone 3,
Including New York City.

The membership OF the Regional In
dustrial Commission for Zone 8 of the
War Industries Board was announced
yesterday by William Fellowes Morgan
of the Merchants Association. The zone
includes Columbia and Greene counties
in the Hudson valley Rock;and and Or
ange counties. all the counties below
Columbia on the east bank. New York
city. Long Island and northern New Jer-
sey.
Among the appointees are Richard r.
Aldcroft of the Bronx Board of Trade.
Chauncey c. Baldwin OF Perth Amboy.
vice-president of the Standard Under
ground Gable Company; W. d.
Baldwin OF New York. president
OF the Otis Elevator Company:
William Hamlin Childs, president OF the
Barrett Company: James Eastwood of
Paterson. william Goldman OF Cohen.
Goldman & Co. Charles Hayden of
Hayden. Stone & Co, A. II. Jameson of
Bayonne. Charles +. II. Johnson OF the
Passaic Board of Trade. Warren c.
King. president OF the Manufacturers
Council Of New York State; John w.
Lieb. Jr.. vice-presldent of the New
York Edison Company; Mr.. Morgan.
Clarence NJ. Owens of Hoboken. Ray
Palmer of the Queens Chamber of Com
merce and Louis B. Schram OF the Mer-
chants Association.
The sun., 1918-07-08
SEES GERMAN RUSH
TO US. AFTER WAR
DR.. Sturgeon Of London Be-
lieves Kaiser's Subjects Will
Seek Full Liberty.

The Rev. DR.. william Spurgeon OF
London, England brother Of the famous
preacher and lecturer Charles Spurgeon.
speaking at the West End Presbyterian
Church last night praised America as a
liberty loving land in such high terms
that he ventured to say that he believed
in few years the nations population
would be increased by an influx of hun
dreds Of thousands OF Germans, who,
learning the facts of the case, will want
to get to the land of liberty"
There Is no place on this earth where
n clean young man has such possibili-
ties" he said. "where so much money
can be made and saved. The desecra-
ton of your Sabbath liz something to be
deplored and Sunday baseball is not
going to maintain the high standard of
efficiency you have attained. More than
half of your country is free from the
damnable saloon and the prohibition
banner will wave over this country be-
fore you and ! are much older"
Or. Spurgeon said that he had been
royalty entertained in every State he
had visited.
you are cosmopolitan nation" he
said. land while your laws are built on
an Old World basis your failure to APP
ply it is unfortunate. Be true to. your
ancestors, to whom YOU owe so much.
You are enjoying to-day the heritage
they left you--a national. God given
liberty
Dir, Sturgeon opened his speech by re-
marking humorously that the Colonies
never defeated Great Britain In the War
of the Revolution
You were, including George Wash
ington. n number of British subjects on
American SOIL" he said. land because
you wouldn't tolerate the tyranny OF a
lunatic German King YOU broke loose.
Relieve me. II had been around ut
the time | would have been with you.
1.-The best proof OF the good feeling
between England and this country is
that although Canada Is 5000 miles
away from the mother country not a
soldier nor a gun has been found on
the northern frontier. while on the south
of II are 100000 600 people. and not n
pro-German or anti-American dares
raise his voice or hand against the
greatest freedom loving people on Gods
good earth. And that's pretty good for
an Englishman."
The sun., 1918-07-08
DANIELS COMING TO
AID Y. M. G. A. DRIVE
Navy Secretary to Speak at
Mass Meeting at Carnegie
Hall Tonight.

Secretary Daniels will come to town
tonight to give aid to the campaign that
opens to-day to recruit 1000 Y. NJ. c. A
secretaries for service in France. He
Will speak at a mass meeting in Car
negie Hall tonight MS the representative
OF President Wilson TO explain why he
thinks the Y. NJ. C. A. Is the biggest
thing we have"
Herbert l.. Pratt, vice-president of
the Standard OIL Company and chair
man Of the recruiting committee, will
preside. Admission Is free. There will
be special music.
The mass meeting will close a busy
day Meetings In Wall steet, Madison
Square. the Public Library steps and
other points will be held at 1880, At
1850 Winthrop Ames. director of the
Little Theatre. who has recently re-
turned from the front. will address a
meeting in the auditorium OF the John
Wanamaker store.
At the same time a parade from the
shington arch to Fifth avenue and
Fifty-seventh street will be held, with
the Keith theatres boys band playing.
replica of the Eagle Hut In Bryant
Park will be carried
An Endorsement of the campaign was
given yesterday by Lord Bryce, former
British Ambassador. In which he said
he knew the value of Y. NJ C. A. work
with the soldiers TO be tremendous
Knowing Of what immense service
our British association has been to our
men, he said. Il am sure the American
association with its matured experience
and splendid zeal will do no less for
the gallant men who march under the
Stars and Stripes
There are 10000 workers in the
British association" Mr.. Pratt said,
land not quite 1000 American Y. NJ. c.
A. men In France. 1t Is a great oppor-
tunity for men above the draft age to
stand by our young men and represent
America to them as they face the crisis
OF their lives on foreign fields Many
Of our workers have been forced to re-
turn for recuperation Amba ssador Sharp
has cabled that they are breaking under
the terrific strain.
If the men Of America could have
seen what / saw on the western front
they would not hesitate to answer this
call to the service of their country. It
demands the biggest men We have.
There is no room for the Stacker or the
pacifst in the uniform of the Red
Triangle. 1t is a great opportunity,
and more. an Obligation
In addition TO Secretary Daniels Mrs
F. Louis Slade OF the canteen service
and Fred b. Smith of the H. w. Johns
Manville Company will speak tonight
The Pelham Bay naval band and the
University Glee Club will furnish music
The sun., 1918-07-08
WALLACE REID IS
STAR IN WAR FILM
"The FREELY Of France" at
Rialto Portrays Rout Of
German Spies.
GIRL EMISSARY AIDED
Madge Kennedy Carries "The
Service STAR to Success at
Strand Theatre.

Some of the films with war as the
motif are handled intelligently, and
under this classification comes THE
FREELY OF France" the attraction at
the Rialto this week. with Wallace Reid
as the star. The cinema In made over
Tor the screen from a magazine story
with not too improbable plot. with
results that are satisfactory and some-
what convincing
The picture portrays an American
whose cleverness routs German spies
and aids a girl In succeeding with the
mission entrusted TO her by the French
Government.
Along with the Reid Aim Director
Rothapfel has provided Fatty and
Mabel Adrift," an old but favorite re-
issue OF the days when Roscoe Arbuckle
and Mabel Normand got parts that they
could do. 1t is a delightful picture.
Another war picture Is 1.-THE Service
Star" At the Strand Madge Kennedy
10 the star In this bit OF Aim industry
and although the story IL based on 4
trick. as was her last Aim, Miss Ken
nedy appears to advantage as a girl
who adopted an aviator as her husban nd
Just because she was teased for not hav-
Ing a sweetheart at the front Miss
Kennedy carries the Aim through to a
Elsie Ferguson essays another psy-
geological role in The Danger Mark"
In which abe appears at the Rivoli Her
last picture, "A Dolls House." also dealt
with woman's reactions and her sue
cess In that perhaps inspired her to try
once more. She Is excellent again as
the Robert Chambers heroine who has
Inherited a weakness for alcoholic stimu-
lants and who battles against II.
The Rlalto. Rivoli and the Strand
have their weekly musical programmes
that are worthy OF note and they aieo
show new pictorials in which war pic
lures make up the most interesting
scenes.
Bill Hart Is the cinema star at Aubrey
Kennedy's Symphony this week in Stalk
ing His Life" ITO He'll With the
Kaiser" the weird war. picture at the
Broadway. is held over for a second
week. while Stolen ORDERS" William
A. Brady's melodramatic Aim success
continues at the Lyric, and d. w. Grif-
fth's Hearts Of tho World' runs on at
the Forty-fourth Street.
The sun., 1918-07-08
NOTES OF THE THEATRES.

BETTY Hale returns TO the cast of the
"Midnight Frolic" tonight. succeeding
Ethel Davies
Arthur Hammerstein will produce n
new musical play. Somebody's Sweet
heart" in the early fan,
Raymond Hitchcock's "Hltchy- Koo''
company will give its field day exercises
tomorrow at Luna Park for the benent
OF tho Stage Women's War Relief
An extensive tour Is being arranged
by the Shuberts for John Charles Thoma 3
In "Maytime." present plans calling for
a coast to coast journey.
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. wired from
Yonkers yesterday afternoon the latest
news from the battlefront. Tho wire ran
thus: "Speculat orsdefeat edmrzieg ldsfo!l
ies-plAyed toseventythousn nd ixh undredei X
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est receipts In history Of amsterdamthe atrefor
thetimea ndeverysea tsoId-a tboNO fficeprices
nOtsseHt placedinhot"ls gencysfziegfeldjr."
The sun., 1918-07-08
GOLF TOURNEY POSTPONED.
Hea Cross Affair at Breton Woods
May he Held July I5.
Special D>snofrh IN r,x o..

BRETON WOODS, n. H, July The
Liberty golf tournament for the Red
cross at the Bethlehem Country Club.
winch was to have been held yesterday.
mas been postponed until a date TO be
announced, probably July 10. A medal
mas been donated by the Red Cross and
certincates will be given by the U. g.
u. A. under whose auspices the tourna-
ment VIII be held. The arrival of sew
erel members OF the cottage colony, who
are among the crack golfers OF the club.
Is expected in the next ten DAYS.
The Mount Washington Hotel at Bret
ton Woods, the Balsams at Dixy,lle
Notch, and Upland Terrace at Bethle-
mem will open tomorrow. The usual
salute OF thirteen guns will not be heard
at Breton Woods. as conservation of
explosives Is required this year, and the
dynamite usually used will be diverted
TO war purposes.
Following closely upon the trap shoot
ing tourney which finished at Maplewood
Yesterday. will be the initial event of
the Maplewood Golf Club, which has an
interesting programme for the season.
More permits than ever before have
been issued by the Mount Washington
Carriage Road Company, for the ascent
over the nine mile climb to the clouds OF
Mount Washington by motorists The
road through the glen to the summit
mas been put In excellent condition. As
there are $50. water bars in this road
1t calls for careful driving. but thus far
no mishap has ever occurred
All roads leading into the White
Mountains are in fine condition. and the
Mohawk trail thus far seems the IA
vorite route for the journey mountain
ward. Many parties with but two weeks
to spare this summer. are planning TO
motor to the White Mountains, playing
all the important golf courses en- route
and making a tour Of the hills plavinp
foursomes over the leading courses here.
The Notch canteen at the Crawford
Golf Club Is now open. Polly's Place
at Coiebrook opens tomorrow.