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front from the area included within the
chapter.
They must keep posted on the number
of these men who have been killed or in
jured or partially or totally disabled;
who are on furlough; who are listed as
deserters, missing, &c. They must keep in
touch with local Industrial conditions in
so far as they affect the possibilities Of
employment. They must ascertain how
many Of the former employers of the
soldiers and sailors will be willing and
able to furnish suitable employment to
their former employees, and put them on
record to that effect. They must keep a
close watch on all local industrial condi-
tions with a view to coping with the in
evitable confusion that will follow
period of such intense activity and in
hated economic conditions as exist at
present.
Following the cessation of hostilities,
what is to become of the overgrown war
industries, their subsidiaries, and, above
all, of the hundreds of thousands of men
and women who are employed in them7
When the present tension rela1es, fol
lowing the triumph of American arms,
another abnormal condition will imme-
diately set in. We are pledged to pol
icy of no territorial acquisition and no
indemnity. One of the prime objects of
the Liberty League will be to see in the
State of New York that there is no hiatus
between the cessation of hostilities and
the work of reconstruction and readjust
ment of the political and economic phases
of our country to post bellum conditions.
The provefb, "In time of peace pre-
pare for war;" in the present instance
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must be transposed. We must read in
stead, SIN time of war prepare for
peace" for We are fighting a wal. Of
idealism, and we shall have no tithes to
collect, no tribute to lay, after the war to
compensate for our. actual financial losses
nor for our economic losses in men ana
time.
After the termination of hostilities We
shall have to face the most ard1bus and
irving of tasks, that of rebuilding that
which has been wrecked, physically, finan-
cially and morally. To persons of weak
moral fibre no toll is more repulsive, no
effort more loathsome, than to be forced
to do work which they have already done
well.
The gangster, gunman, dope fiend and
parasite who have been rehabilitated by
military training, and experiences that
will bring manliness to the surface, if the
faintest spark of it exists, will be once
more thrown into environments, following
the end of the war, that formerly insured
their debauehery. 1t is unthinkable that
society should, from sheer lack of fore
handedness, not only lose the value Of
these men as good citizens, but permit
them to become tax and burden, in their
original characters, upon it.
. Nothing is more pressingly necessary
than to prepare the people at large for the
realization that the cheerful, courageous
and energetic attacking of this task is
vitality necessary for the continuation of
our national ideals and very existence
after the war. Nothing is more pressingly
necessary, in furtherance of TINS plan,
than that a concerted ORGANIZED and in
telligent effort should be made to provide
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IS League to Provide Jobs for Soldiers After t

the man power of the nation with chan
mel through which their efforts can meet
with proper and immediate recognition
when they return and take their places
once more in civil life.
II called it Liberty League" says the
Commissioner, "for want of time to think
of a better name, and because Liberty
things are popular and appropriate just
now. But don't care what it's called,
so long as it is created"
Both locally and nationally, be be-
Geves, the league should be entirely I'M
official, a patriotic structure of private
citizens. 1t would be, in effect, clear
ing house for employment, countrywide
or Statewide chain of employment bu-
reaus, and its work would be to ask
every employer, "What jobs have you
open?" and every returned soldier, "What
did you do before you went into the
army' What else can you do, and what
work do you now prefer, if you can get
it ~ and then to bring the two together.
The project wants father, one more
appropriately situated and less crowded
with routine work than Commissioner En-
right He has been leaving it on door
steps in basket, so to speak, and finding
it rejected with admiring thanks, until he
despairs of having it adopted in that way.
A public statement, he hopes, will be more
successful
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Canadian West in a month. And ths
may yet be done.
No adequate history of this famous force
will ever be written. The material for
such history has passed away with the
men who won for the mounted police their
merited fame thirty to forty years ago.
But some day will surely arise writer
who can give life to the dry bones of the
annual official reports and will find there
the romantic material for stories whose
life and popularity will not be fleeing.
In the early seventies the newly formed
Canadian Confederation became ambitious
to surpass in area its big and expanding
neighbor to the south. The Northwestern
prairies and British Columbia were added
to the new Dominion. A new territory of
nearly 100000 square miles had to be
governed and policed.
1t was at that time that Uncle Sam was
engaged in a prolonged and rather aeri
monious dispute with a citizen rejoicing
in the picturesque name of Sitting Bull.
That gentleman's Sioux relatives and re-
tainers knew little of international boun-
Diary lines and cared less. When things
became too hot for them south of the
forty ninth parallel of latitude they had
an annoying habit of travelling north.
Their visits were not welcome; but what
could be done about themf The white
settlers were alarmed and Ottawa feared
that 70, 900 well behaved Canadian Indians
might learn bad habits. There was also
danger from the visits of enterprising
American traders engaged in the snug
Cling of fire water.
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followed the civil war, such as the null
titudes of tramps who swarmed over the
whole country, you'll agree, 1 believe, that
l am not unduly anxious"
The Commissioner himself did not en-
large upon this anxiety. Men with whom
he has discussed the subject say he is
keenly interested and exclusively in
formed on the plans of the 1. W. W.
luminaries and the like to take advantage
Of the situation, especially as to labor,
that may follow peace and raise the red
flag in an effort to out-Bolshevik the Boil
sheviki. Also that he doesn't consider
these gentry too unimportant for serious
attention.
In May he wrote his Liberty League
memorandum Copies of it have gone
to the men whom he has tried to persuade
TO father the movement. Here it is:
In every community upstate, in every
election or Assembly district in the larger
towns and cities, a prominent citizen
either man or a woman, and preferably
one engaged in permanent business en-
terprise-must be approached and the OBJ
jects of the league explained.
They must be instructed to form
chapter, its numerical strength depending
on the size of the community. When
formed this chapter must ascertain the
number III men who have gone to the
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"They Always Get
Their Man, ribute
to the Corps for
Forty Years, Omi-
nous for the Hun

CANADA'S scarlet riders are off to
~ the war. With them is lost one of
the few remaining links with the roman
tic past of the Canadian West. The
Royal Northwest Mounted Police have
been permitted to enlist as body to "get
the Kaiser" and it is unlikely that the old
organization will be revived after the war.
For "the old order changeth, giving place
to new and there is no longer the old
imperative need for the services of~this
wonderfully capable body of men. The
Canadian West has grown up.
"They always get their man." For more
than forty years this has been said in the
Canadian West of the Canadian "Moun-
ties" Not by the men themselves, for
they have the proverbial modesty of the
really brave. Not in the dry and laconic
official reports which give scarcely hint
of the stirring romantic stories of which
they are the uninteresting graveyard But
it has been said by the early settlers who
owed to the Mounted Police their immu-
nifty from raids by Indians and bad men.
1t has been the unwilling tribute of the
Indians and the lawbreaking element
among the whites. If not literally true,
it has for so long been so nearly true
that the saying many years ago became
proverb among Canadians, "They always
get their man." Therefore if there be
any truth in proverbs, let the Kaiser be-
ware! The "Mounties" are on his trail!
1t was not until the spring of this year
that permission was given the "Moun-
ties" to enlist for overseas. The Canadian
Government was loath to lose their SER
vices at home; and moreover, there was
little demand for cavalry in France But
many a scarlet rider deserted that he
might join an infantry battalion, and In
the offence.
Officers and men felt that the historic
force had passed its years of usefulness
in Canada, that nothing more than the
provincial police was needed now, and
constant pressure was exerted at Ottawa
TO secure permission for the Riders Of the
Plains to enlist as body for service in
the Great Adventure overseas. In April
that permission was given.
AS there were less than 600 men on the
roll of the force, permission was also
given to recruit to the full strength of
battalion. So the call went forth for men
who could shoot and ride, and withiP q
few days applications had to be refused.
Such is the glamour Of connection with
this famous force that cavalry brigade
of "Mounties' could be recruited in the
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Police Force Til at
Kept Ord er Over
Vast Territory En-
lists as a Body for
Duty Overseas 7

its steel more than half way across the
prairies when these warlike chiefs en-
camped on the line of survey. Fire water
and firearms they had in sufficient supply
to make them dangerous Construction
stopped. Word was sent eastward.
Mounted police headquarters at Regina
telegraphed to the post at Maple Creek
that the Indians must be made to move on.
Two men, 2 sergeant and constable,
:, undertook the task.
They found Chief Pie-a-Pot and his
braves in belligerent and stubborn mood.
The braves backed their ponies against the
police horses, fred their guns in the arr
and refused to obey the order to move.
The sergeant pulled out his watch.
.I'u give you fifteen minutes If you
don't 60 then I shall force you to CO."
Pie-a-Pot grunted and smoked his pipe.
The fifteen minutes passed and nothing
happened.
Five minutes later several things had
happened. The sergeant and constable
had advanced on the chiefs tepee and
kicked out the key pole. They did the
same for the other tepees- They made .
thorough job of it.
-"Now move on and save US the trouble
of moving you"
They moved on. The prestige Of the
force was such that very rarely did an
Indian persist il, open defiance. Behind
those two "Mounties" was band Of scarlet
coated riders of whom it was said then, as
it is still said, "They always get their
man."
There is some doubt whether the
Mounted Police will be permitted, when
they go overseas, to retain their identity.
1t is said that they are to be broken up
and used as reinforcement drafts for
other bodies OF Canadian cavalry now on
the western front Such fate would be
a sad anti-climax to their long and glo-
riously romantic career.
The force has history all its own. Il
has reputation as band Of wonderful
horsemen unsurpassed in any part of the
world. If the military authorities have
spark of sentiment or imagination they
will permit these men to remain together
that they may add in France and Flan-
ders to the laurels of their romantic and
glorious force.
The whole North American Continent
knows something of the reputation and
the history of the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police. On both side of the in
ternational boundary line there are many
who will follow with a special interest
their exploits of the great war.
"They always get their man." Here's
hoping they may get Kaiser Bill.
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New Norworth Theatre
Opens Tomorrow

Tomorrow evening tho Norworth
Theatre must be added to the list Of
places of entertainment in New York.
ms house, erected by Edward +. Rush
from plans made by Messrs. De Rosa
and Pereira, is especially adapted for
the class OF work which Messrs. Nor.
worth and Shannon have in mind.
The building, which seats only GOO
people, 800 on each floor, including
eight boxes, is costly decorated. The
seats, upholstered in blue velvet and
rich mulberry carpet, give to the house
an effect Of warmth which the old oak
walls accentuate
O. ii. Bauer, who is responsible for
the scheme of decoration, has also de-
signed the heavily embroidered curtain
which is in the period of the Italian
Renaissance. The whole effect when
lighted up gives an impression of
warmth and intimacy seldom associ-
ated with n metropolitan playhouse.
With the presentation Of odds and
Ends" at the Norworth Theatre to-mor-
row night Jack Norworth attaius
the happy distinction Of being the only
actormanager in New York appearing
in his own house,
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War Lecture Tonight
at the French Theatre

NJ GerFas Courtellcmont, the famous
French explorer and Officer Of The
Legion Of Honor, will give an illus
trated lecture, with screen pictures. on
"Thc Battlefclds of France" at the
Theatre du Vieux Colomber tonight
at $3.50.
The lecture Will be under tho ans.
pices of the French Theatre Commit.
tee, OF which Otto II. Kahn is a mem.
Der, and will cover the battles of the
Marine, 1915 Verdun, 1916; Rheims
Arras and the regions devastated by
the Germans in 1917.
M. Gervais Courtellemont is y
French explorer Of note. In 1894 he
iourneyed to Mecca and won the cross
OF "Chevaler" of the Legion of Honor.
After that he undertook geographical
surveys in Asia and Africa, spending a
great deal OF time in Egypt, the Turk
ish Empire, the Balkan States. China
and Japan. He has cooperated with
the most eminent psychologists of
France in connection with his work.
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haven't been singing lately. I've beer
sick I've been in the hospital.
Peter-What arc you doing up here ?
Gina--Oh, I'm not what YOU think.
Not what you think.
Peter---Oh, Gina, there is so much /
could do noW--so much I'd like to do
Gina--That's what Goring said.
Peter-Don't think all men are like
h'm. Gina, I want to see you as Won
were. You've changed outwardly, but I
believe you are the same girl within.
No, come let me take you home. I
found you now and I'm not going to
lose you again.
Gina-What do you mean?
Peter-l mean there is still lot of
happiness in store for both of us.
Gina-Happiness for mc-for me .
Pm tired, Peter, I'm tired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
In Vaudeville

PALACE-Annctte Kellermann: Thco
dorc Koslofr and his Russian Rallc..
Edwin Arden and company; Courtena.
Sisters; Swor and Alvey; Mullen ane
Coogan; Dciro; Rostock's Riding School
ALHAMBRA-"Bonfirc of Old En-
pires"; Ben Ryan and Harriette Lee;
dc Wolf Sisters; Ed Flanagan and
Nicely Edwards; Sylvia Clarke; Burns
aud Frabito; Parrish and Peru; the
Hennings and Maximiian's Educated
Canine Pupils.
COLONIAL-Three Doolcys; Welling-
ton Cross; Cameron Sisters; Bert Mel
rose; Dorothy Toye; Austin Webb and
company; Thomas r. Swift and Mar,
Kelley; Ruby Raymond and Charles
O'Connor and Juno Saline.
RIVERSlDE--Elizab Murray; En-
nett Corrigan; Florric Millership and
AL Girard; Arthur Mellinger and George
". Myer; James c. Morton; Alfred
Bergen; Ortiz and Cody; Mcmahon,
Diamond and Chaplow, and Nine. II.
Cronin's Electrical Novelty.
RoYAL--Robert 7. Haines; Gus Van
and Joe Schenck; WI. Kelley, U. S. NJ;
j. Francis Doolcy and Corinne Sayles;
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Gina Looks Into the CRYSTAL

Gina (Marjorie Rambeau) looks into
| tho crystal and beholds the tragic end
ing Of a lovelcss life. Al the depth @.
her misery she sees in the crysta
vision Peter, the man Of her choice
The following scene ensues, in the
street directly in front Of q Broadwa,
lobster palace, whence Peter has lust
issued with merry party. Dick is c
plainclothes man who has been observ
ing Gina at first with suspicion, Their
with friendliness:
Peter-Pardon me, but have YOU seer
anything of gold mesh bag? A lady
dropped it here.
Dick (showing him the mesh bagl-
Is this it"
Petcr-Ycs, that's it.
Dick Ito Gina)-Wait a minute.
Dick (to Peter)-Shc picked it up. !
guess she's deserving a reward.
Pcter-Of course,
Dich-Be as generous rs YOU can,
Peter-Madane, want to thank YOU,
and offer ycd (rccognizes her)-my
God, Gina!
Gina thought you were in South
Africa.
Peter--l've been back for over year.
l heard about the divorce, and I asked
what became of you--nobody seemed to
be able to tell me. But have always
hoped some day to find you.
Gina-Find me? What for?
Peter-Don't you know? Can't Won
guess? Think back!
Gina-No, no, I don't want to think
back. I don't want to think back.
There's your wife's purse, she'll be
anxious about it.
Peter-I'm not married, Gina. It's
just friend that took to the theatre.
Can't | take you home with her?
Gina-Ha! What would she saw
about it?
Peter-It doesn't matter what she
would say. Where do you live?
Glna-Down in Centre Street.
Peter-How do you live?
Gina-1 sing once in a while, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
"The Love Mill" to Open
at the 48th Street Theatre

The Alfred Francis musical comedy,
The Love Mill" will open New York
engagement Thursday evening, Febru-
airy 7, at the Forty-cighth Street The
atre. The company Will begin a brief
preliminary tour at the Shubert, New
Haven, Monday.
"The Love Mill" it is promised, will
be one of the most elaborate musica,
shows in New York. George Sidney.
Harry Tighe, Victor Morley, Al Rob
erts, Emile Lea, Jeanette Lovrie
and Louise Kelly have been engaged
for the cast. Mr.. Francis is the com
poser Earl Carroll wrote the book and
lyrics. A number of unusual electrical
effects have been devised for the show.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
Polini Doesn't
Want To Be
Drab Always
No Fun Subjugating Ones
Self to Others in
the Cast

Emile Polini. one Of the principals
in eyes or No" at the Longacre Thea
ire, is going to quit playing drab roles.
for she fears her name may become 50
associated with parts Of this kind tina,
producers will get the notion that she
can't do anything else. AS Minnie, t. 4,
wife Of the poor man who stands ths
"gaf" in eyes or No." Miss Polini has
a drab role, but she does it so well thai
she figures the time to stop play:n-
characters Of this kind is when 20.
arc success.
Minnie is one Of the most importan.
roles in eyes or No." for the story o
Arthur Goodrich's popular drama Is
built primarily around the struggle.
of poor family, with the hardest par
Of the struggle falling on the shoulder
Of the wife. When Mr.. Goodrich wrote
his play he had just such woman ir.
mind as Miss Polini has made the
character. The only fly in the oil of
her contentment is that the part is a
drab one.
"And l mean by a drab role one that
requires repression and the subjugat-
ing of your mood to the stronger will
Of another she said yesterday. "No
actress could wish for a better role
than Minnie. But when I am done with
Minnie am through with drab roles.
The public is tickle, and if it gets
used to seeing you always in certain
klnd of part it soon begins to suspect
that your ability is so limited that you
can't play anything else. Managers are
apt to think the same after awhile.
"Cnquestionally the constant playing
OF drab roles affects ones sense of
humor, at least when you arc on the
stage Some folks seem to be sur
prsed that it dcesL't affect you off
stage. Which reminds me that 7 was
at an afternoon tea not long ago, ana
some one wanted 20 know when ss.
heard my name if was a relative of
the actress of that name. When toll
her that / was an actress and the ONLY
one know bearing the name of Polin;
she expressed great surprise.
"Why. | didn't know you were so
young and would never suspect Won
could be so Jolly after seeing YOU act
she said.
Now that remark set ME THINKING
Why should l continue to let peopln
believe l am dour-visaged female II,
real life even if I do depict suci.
women on the stage? So / am, in the
vernacular. off the drab ladies when
get through with Yes or No
i want to play lively parts and wea.
good clothes on the stage. ! don't wan
to always wear black or old duds. and
am thoroughly sick of wearing bingham
aprons before an audience. have
never yet found out why poor woman
is always depicted wearing a bingham
apron on the stage. I have seen NAM
poor women who did not even own one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
In BROOKLYN

BCSHWICK-Julian Eltinge; Emmett
Dewey; George Bancroft and Octavie
broske; Nat Navarro and company;
Caliste Conant NJ. and Nine. A. W.
Loyal's Dogs, and Taylor Trio
ORPHEUM-Elsc Janis; Lew Dock
stader; Joe jackson; josie Heather;
The Corridors of Time; Lowell Drew
and Nesta Wallace; Kay and Bell; vir-
glnla Lewis and May White, and Jack
and Cora Williams.
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Bob Matthews and company; Josephine
Bernard; Dorothy Bremen; the Will
sons; Aubrey Trio and Mystic Hanson
Trio
LoEW's Willie Solar:
Melody Land; Regal and Mack; Jones
and Sylvester; Davies and Mann: Scan
Ion, and others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
"Pippa Passes"

Al the Neighborhood Playhouse to-
h'sht and the following week end The
Nelghborhood Players will present
'fowning's "Pippa Passes" This play
was done last November by them as q
memorial to Sarah Covell lie Moyne,
out 1t has proved to be the most popu-
ar play of their season, and these four
additional performances are being
given in response to the demand for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
Edgar Allan Woolf and the music by

Edgar Allan Woolf and the music by
Jerome KerR-
"Rock-a-Bye Baby" is an adaptation
from Baby Nine" the comedy, by Mar
garct Mayo. Selwyn & Co. plan to put
the new play into rehearsal in two
weeks. The present plan is to have
the next piece ready to open the new
Selwyn Theatre, now in the course of
construction on West Forty-second
Street, and which will be completed
and ready to open in March.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
MERCHANT of Venice"

"The Merchant of Venice" with
Edith Wynne Matthison as Portia, will
be repeated Friday afternoon and Sat
urday morning of this week at the
Cort Theatre. Albert Bruning will
again play Shylock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
"Rock-a-Bye Baby

Sewyn e. Co. have arranged to make
their first musical production since they
entered the field of producing man
ayers. The piece is called "Rocl1 "a Bye
Baby" the book by Margaret Mayo and