New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Col. McIntyre's Statement
Rouses Rotarians at
Weekly Luncheon
Support Is Pledged
Ex.Commissioner of Markets
J. C. Day Talks of |. w. w.
Menace

4 new romance of the great war was
unfolded yesterday to the members of
the Rotary Club at their weekly
luncheon at the Hotel McAlpin.
1t was the romance of those street
orators whom New Workers. have seen
for years, standing on the corners
rarbed in the uniform of the Salvation
Army, crying out the tale of their re-
generation, sounding along the high
wavs the call to the better life. Forty
thousand of these men, Colonel Will
lam A. Mcintyre, of Salvation Army
Headquarters, told his audience yester-
day. are at this moment doing their
bit in the armies that are upholding
civilization along the Western front
"When the call came," said he, "they
we're not found wanting. Once again
they proved the reality of their desire
to serve humanity"
Again and again as he elaborated the
picture of how these men who used to
minister to the poor and serve at
Christmas time in Santa Claus regalia
have been absorbed in the big task Of
the Allied forces, the $50 Rotarians
gathered there burst forth into pro-
longed applause.
Promises to Aid Fund
And when, at the end of his talk,
Colonel Mcintyre asked for the Ro-
tarians' assistance in the Salvation
Army's campaign to raise a million dol
lars for it's work overseas. one men,
q
pledge to enlist the support of twenty
seven clubs.
Great enthusiasm also greeted CO.
lionel McIntyre's tribute to the morals
of the troops. He was telling Of the
part played by the Salvation Army
girls who have gone abroad and seen
to it that our boys are not altogether
without such delicacies as good old
fashioned Yankee pie.
"And although these girls have been
working nearer the actual battlefront
than any other women in France" said
ne. "never has breath Of scandal been
tell of a single insult being offered
them.''
Commissioner of Markets Jonathan
C. Day followed Colonel Mcintyre. His
was very different tale. The problem
of socialism and the T. W. W. was his
topic, and, in the course of it, he re-
called the l. w. w. uprising in this
city few years ago, when mob Of
jobless men under the leadership Of
Frank Tannenbaum invaded his Labor
Temple church with demands for food
and shelter.
Tells of Church Raid
"Tannenbaum," said he, "announced
that the crowd was made up of men
who believed they had right to ask
Tor these things-that society owed
them as much. And he added that
they had come in force because they
"Just then I received word from the
Police Commissioner that there were
l0,500 patrolmen outside at my dis
posal. But when l informed Tannen-
baum of this and suggested that it was
a good time to see if he really did be-
ieve that might makes right, he re-
piled he had not looked at it just that
way"
Former Commissioner Day affirmed
his belief that all men have right to
their own opinions, and declared that
gether to destroy the spirit of social
ism and anarchism in our midst, but
at time like this, he said, people
with these views should be locked up,
and not permitted to talk SO long their
doctrines may impair national unity
and efficiency.
An impressive moment occurred
when, at the beginning of the lunch
con, the company, standing, paid silent
tribute to the memory of the late
Captain r. Hugh Knyvett. Shortly
guest Of the club and, brief as his
stay among them was, he had particu-
larly endeared himself to the members.
The climax of the proceedings yes
terday was reached in the. unloosing of
sudden Liberty Loan drive, in the
course of which the Rotarians, al
though they had already subscribed a
total of $4,000, raised an additional
$4,000 in almost as brief time as it
takes to write that figure.