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New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
None More Loyal or Patr;.
otto, He Says, After Tour
of Yards
Hearst Paper Kissed
Canadian Society Guests Sho,x
Resentment When Gamer.
lean" Is Mentioned

The nations destinies can rest in ma
more faithful or loyal hands thar
those of the rank and file in Americas
shipyards, DR.. Charles A. Eaton. for.
mer president of the Canadian Socie.v
Of New York, declared last night in an
address before that society at the Bill
more, following tour Of the shin
building plants Of the Pacific Coast
Before the United States entered
the war" said DR.. Eaton, "the shin.
builders were simply class of workers
with their own class traditions. fasl.s
and virtues and interested only in thc,r
own welfare. To-day these men havs
made themselves the backbone ~
Americas industrial life. Thev srs
patriots of the first water, and the dos
TIMES Of the nation are safe in their
hands"
DR.. Eaton was one Of four speasers
st the patriotic dinner given bv fhs
society. The other three were Ste.
phane Lausanne, member OF ths
French High Commission; ]. 8. "
Gardiner, expert on military affairs
and Lieutenant j. Harvey Douglas
Canadian veteran, who told OF his ex.
perlences as a prisoner in Germany.
Hearst Paper Kissed
The big dining room of the Biltmo,.
was filled, and the audience was on
thusiastic. A feature of the eveninc
was the adverse reception given to Or
Eaton's mention of The New York
American" and the Hearst influence in
America. The audience Kissed roundlv
at the mention OF the newspaper. On
this subject DR.. Eaton said:
People in America who have on.
posed every thought, word and action
toward preparedness in this country.
even to the extent of throwing out Of
their homes all newspapers except
The New York American are fully
converted now and crying against M
preparedness
Stephane Lauzanne, of the French
Commission, declared the war would
continue until Germany was beaten
and that there would be no compromise
on the part of France. He read ex-
cerpts from the codes of war of France
and Germany, including the rules gov
erning the treatment of prisoners. The
French manual reads, he explained,
that prisoners shall at all times be
treated humanely. The German man.
ual reads simply:
prisoners may be killed when neces-
sary.'
Germany Wars for Profit
J. B. w. Gardiner explained the
psychological reasons why anv COM
promise with Germany was impossible.
Germany is a nation Of brutal ma
terialists,' he said, which went into
this war for profit. 1t is absurd to
think any compromise can be made
with her. The example of Russia is
sufficient
Lieutenant ]. Harvey Douglass told
IN matter-of-fact but inspiring man.
ner Of his experiences in the trenches
and IN Germany as a prisoner.
TIE gathering gave its heartiest
cheer of the evening to statement
by DR.. Eaton that America was now
turning out ships at the rate of 10000
tons day.
Thomas N. Jarvis. president Of the
Society, presided. Toasts were given
President Wilson. King George and the
Allies. The guests of honor included
the great-grandson of the Duke Of
Wellington, Colonel Lord George Well
esley, ranking officer of the British
air force in the United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
War Savings Drive Puts People
Back Of Army, Says Roosevelt
National Thrift Is Road to Victory, He Declares anc
Treasury Department Offers All Chance to
Save and Aid Government

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 27.-In an
editorial in "The Kansas City STAR
entitled "The War Savings Campaign
to be published tomorrow, Theodore
Roosevelt will say:
"Of course, the primary factor in de-
Gliding this war is and will be the army
But there can be no great army in wal
to-day unless great nation stands
back of it. The most important of all
our needs is immensely to strengthen
the fighting line at the front But it
cannot be permanently strengthened I'd
unless the whole nation is organized
back of the front. We need increased
production by all. We need thrift and
the avoidance of extravaganza and OF
waste OF money upon non-essentials by
all. We need the investment of ou1
money in government securities by
all of US.
"Thc government, through the war
savings campaign, offers the opportu-
nifty to every individual in the nation
to join in great national movement to
secure these ends. The Treasury De-
partment. proposes as means to
etSHiCNC IiCSc CIQS CIldL Gll OuE people
form themselves into thrift clubs OF
war savings societies. This is the
peoples war.
Responsibility With People
"The responsibility for the govern
ment rests on the people as whole.
The army is the peoples army. 1t can
be supported only if the people invest
in securities of the government. And
this investment by the people should
be, as nearly universal as possible. All
the men and the women and half the
children of the land should be active
members of Uncle Sans team. The
war savings campaign offers them the
chance to be active members. This
campaign means the encouragement of
thrift and production. But it means
much more than this. 1t also means
to make our people realize their solid
arity and mutual interdependence and
TO make them understand that the
government is really theirs. There
fore it is movement for genuine
Americanization of all our people. 1t
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Wealthy Woman, 55,
Adopts Youth of Fl
Mime. Blanca de Belmont
Lonely, Makes Victor Gomez
Xelasauez Her Son

Victor NJ. Gomez Velasouez, a Colon
bian, twenty-one years old, was adopted
yesterday by Nine. Blanca de Belmont
Frenchwoman, fifty-fve years old
who lives at 81 West Ninety first Street
Surrogate Fowler signed the order OF
adoption, and henceforth Valasquez
will be known as Gomez-Belmont.
Mrs. de Belmont, a member of an old
French family, is woman Of wealth,
and most of her property will go to her
foster son on her death. The young
man is employed by the Gold Seligman
Company, at 33 Union Square, as buyer
and Spanish correspondent. His
mother died when he was five years
old. At eleven he was soldier in the
Colombian army and six years later
he was in business for himself in his
native country.
II am ffty-hvc years Of age" said
Mrs. de Belmont. "My husband and
only child-a boy-long since died, and
my nearest relatives are my sisters
and their children, in France. Since
| have been in this country | have been
only in casual touch with them. have
few friends here, with the result that
my interest has become altogether too
self-centred, and, in consequence, my
life is extremely lonely.
II have known Victor NJ. Gomez
Velasquez for about q year, dur
ing the last two months of which
he has resided in my home. We have
found ourselves congenial and strong
affection exists between us. 1t would,
l believe, be to his temporal and moral
advantage to be adopted, because I in
tend to be fully helpful to him in a
material and every other way, as would
a mother toward her SON."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Dooling, ON Trail
Of F axe Blakelocks,
To Question Artist
Famous Painter to Exam
inc Alleged Spurious Cam
vases Bearing His Name

Ralph Albert Blakelock, the land
scape painter who acquired fame as
an artist after he had spent seventeen
years in the Middletown Insane Asy-
lum, will be questioned to-day by AS
sistant District Attorney John 7. Dool-
ing, who is conducting an investigation
into an alleged conspiracy to food the
art market with spurious Blakelocks.
Three of these spurious canvasses
have been rounded up by Mr.. Dooling
and the artist will be asked to examine
them.
Although Mr.. Blakelock, through the
efforts of Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Adams
and other friends, was removed from
the Middletown Asylum two years ago,
it was learned yesterday on good au-
thority that the artist has not COM
pletely recovered his sanity. His con-
ditlon is such as to compel his friends
to keep him in private sanitarium
in New York. 1t is hoped, however,
that he may be of assistance in estab-
fishing legal. evidence of the falsity
Of the paintings which Mr. Dooling has
rounded up.
Harry W. Watrous, secretary of the
National Academy Of Design and a
lifelong friend OF Blakelock, told Mr..
Dooling yesterday that thirty spurious
canvasses bearing Blakelock's name
had been handed to MIN for certifica-
ton, and one of them came from the
Corcoran Galleries, in Washington.
II am not certain whether many of
th,se fake paintings have reached the
collections OF genuine ones yet" said
Mr.. Dooling. "My information. how
ever, indicates that there is a factory
somewhere in Brooklyn where clever
artists are turning out scores of Blake
locks. These painters can turn out
copies which defy detection by all but
experts. They are incapable though
Of earning their own living by original
work"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Public Urged to Buy
Coal During Summer
Fuel Administration Warns
of Prospect of Shortage
During the Year

WASHINGTON, May 27-"The fuel
administration does not make any
concealment of the prospect that there
will be coal shortage during the pres.
ent coal year." said a statement to-
night, in which the public was urged
to order coal for next winter during
the summer.
The requirements for the year for
bituminous coal, as ascertained by the
administration experts" said the
statement, indicate that the produc-
tion will fall considerably short Of
the necessary amount The fuel ad-
mlnistration is devoting its efforts
toward removing as far as possible the
deliveries of coal for domestic pur-
poses and essential war industries
from the freight congestions on the
railroads that are sure to come with
the winter season."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Designs on Trans-Caucasia
Proposed Peace Would Give
Central Powers Control

WASHINGTON, May 27.-A dispatch
from Constantlnople reaching here
through German channels from Am
sterdam states that the aim of the
peace negotiations at Batoum between
Turkey and the Caucasus is the sub
lection of Trans-Caucasia to the Quad
ruple Entente, as was the case with
Lkrainia, Poland and Rumania. The
dispatch continues:
at is necessary that Trans Caucasia
should become entirely independent OF
Russia and that she should form close
relations with Turkey"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Held for Calling u. S.
Catspaw of England

Thomas Carter, forty-two years old.
of 800 East Thirty seventh Street. went
into restaurant at 5S4 Ninth Avenue
night before last and ordered a meal.
He protested when he was served with
bread made of war -four ard announced
that the government was "only cats
paw for England"
The proprietor of the restaurant
caused his. arrest Carter was locked
up, charged with disorderly conduct and
reviling the United States government.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Hays To Be Honor Guest
Republican Club Dinner for
National Committee Head

The Republican Club of the City of
New York will give dianer for Will
n. Hays, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, at the clubhouse,
81 West Fortieth Street, on Wednesday
evening, June s, at 1880 o'clock. Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and Governor
Charles S. Whitman have accepted in
vitations and it is expected that Sem
ators Wadsworth and Calder and all
the Republican state officers will be
present as guests.
President Robert w. Bonynge will
preside: James r.. Sheffield is chair
man Of. the dinner committee. 1t is
hoped that ex-President Taft also will
be present. The dinner committee is
in correspondence with him.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28

which he made two speeches to Of
hcers ana men at Camp Dodge and
conferred with many Of the leading
citizens of Iowa. He was the guest
OF Henry c. Wallace. publisher of ono
the country. and conferred with Gov
crnor Harding, Leslie M. Shaw, ex-
Governor Of Iowa and Secretary Of the
Treasury in his administration. Ex-
Senator Lafayette Gleason was an
other caller, as was the Rev. DR.. Mat
thews, just back from France, who was
with Captain Archie Roosevelt the day
utter he was wounded
Colonel Roosevelt left tonight for
Chicago en- route for Madison, Wis,
where he speaks tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
McAdoo Leaves for Rest
At White SULPHUR Springs

WASHINGTON, May 27.-secre.ary
McAdoo left Washington tonight for
Q weeks rest at White Sulphur
Springs. w. Va. Since a recent attack
Of tonsillitis Mr. McAdoo's throat Mas
not entirely recovered and his physi-
clan ordered him to abandon confer.
ences necessitating use of his voice.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Ukrainian Minister
And So. SOC. 600 Miss;no

AMSTERDAM, May 27.-The "Tage-
blatt," Of Berlin, says Kisv news
papers report that M. Koyaiovski, Min
istsr OF Agriculture In the ukrainian
Cabinet. which was overthrown recent
ly, has absconded with 5000 900 rubles,
about S2,500, 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Dernbr g for Reichstag

AMSTERDAM, May 27.-The German
Progressive party intends to nut up Dr..
Bernhard Dernburg. former Colonial
Secretary, as candidate for the
Reichstag in Dictrict No. / of Berlin,
tho "Neue aPreussischc Korrespondenz"
reports. The elction in this district
viii be to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of DR.. Johannes Kaempf, speaker
OF the Reichstag.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28

DR.. Dernburg travelled about the
United States for several months in the
early period of the war, giving lectures
and engaging otherwise in German
propaganda. His activities aroused OPP
position. and he left the country in
June, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
Make the Consequences Plain

How Germans devastate the territory
they are about to evacuate has been told
many times. They have turned parts of
France into wilderness. They have
deliberately razed towns and villages to
the ground in sheer revenge. Only those
who have witnessed their handiwork can
realize the full horror of it, The story
of Louvain and Rheims has been re-
peated hundred times. Nothing is
exempt from their fury-not even the
shrines of art and religion. What they
did the other day at Noyon they will do
at Laon when they are forced to leave it.
This is not war. There is no military
necessity to justify such barbarism. 1t
is the work of maddened savages.
Yet even maddened savages may be
frightened into some measure Of self
restraint. The Germans still have intel
hgence enough to reflect upon the con-
sequences of their fury if these are made
clear to them. The growing demand
that the Allies speak out, that they make
a formal declaration of their intention
to exact reparation for every act of van
dalism, might save what has not yet been
destroyed. Nothing less will serve In
the cathedrals already desecrated, in the
homes, high or low, wrecked and defiled,
there is a prophecy of equal ruin for
Brussels, Bruges, Lille, Mons, every cen
tre of civilization on which the Hun can
lay his dirty hands. The report that the
Belgian capital has been already mined,
that those noble monuments of archi-
lecture, the Palais de Justice and the
Cathedral of St. Gudule, will be laid
waste when the invaders depart, may or
may not be true; but it is not in the
least improbable. The Germans have not
spared Belgium even while they pos
sessed her. What may they not do when
they are forced to give her up?
The most hopeful way to spare the
world fresh agonies is to impress upon
the German mind the full meaning of
the old Italian proverb, "Who breaks,
pays" Could there be any better time
than the present to hammer the truth
into the German consciousness-tha
the terms of peace imposed upon Ger
many will be hard in proportion to the
offence, and that every addition to the
offence will make them harder? The
idea that soft words will convert her
was long ago exploded. "Force, force to
the limit" And one form of force would
be a distinct warning that each new act
of savagery would involve fresh retri-
button.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
The Convict's Chance

There are so many and such obvious
reasons for giving the convict a chance
to fight in the war that our slowness
in facing the question has been hard
to understand. We have the precedent
of France and England, and the heroic
story Of Lies Joyeux," the convict troops
of France, was printed on this page
recently. We have the urgent need of
men-it is estimated that 100000 male
prisoners can be drawn upon. Finally,
and most appeaiingy, is the good that
would be worked in the hearts and souls
of the convicts themselves, good that
means continuing dividends in peace and
good will toward society down the years.
Some excellent work has already been
done IN the navy prisons through the
efforts of Thomas Mott Osborne, now
lieutenant commander. Also, at last, the
War Department has authorized the
prison authorities of New JERSEY to
work out a test plan for the military use
OF its prisoners. If successful, the plan
will be extended to the entire country.
The tentative scheme, as announced
by Commissioner Lewis, seems wholly
sound and sensible. The male convicts
will be carefully classified, and those men
tally morally and physically fit can gain
the right to fight for their country in
separate units officered by regular army
officers. All will be utilized in some
sort OF war activity. Convicts who
earn the privilege of wearing their coun-
try's uniform will be released on parole,
and upon honorable discharge after the
war, or upon award for distinguished
service, will be Internationally pardoned
and restored to full citizenship
The immediate gain to the country is
obvious. Not less certain is the more
lasting benefit. The war offers an op-
portunity unknown in time of peace to
work out the salvation of convicts by
appealing to the best that is in them.
There is abundant testimony that con-
victs are eager and willing to risk their
lives for their country. The superb rec
ord of such body as "Les Joyeux"
shows how splendidly they can fight In
the furnace of war their souls are puri-
fled and tempered. Waste ore is trans
formed into true steel.
We are glad that the War Depart
ment has entered upon this work; and
we hope it will be pushed with all speed.
The needs of the country are, of course,
paramount. We shall be consulting
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
The EHeteless East

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: You New Workers. make me weary.
When you can't pick on the West in head
lines and reading matter, Mr.. Briggs tries
1t in pictures. You are regular Germans
know 1T all-have everything. If Z. H.
didn't have the luxuries and convenicnces
when in Michigan, Indiana, Colorado and
Nebraska, it was because she was too cheap
to pay for them which is characteristic of
New Workers touring the West. I've seen
dozens of them.
can match your E. H. picture with the
joke the other way. OF course, you wouldn't
permit it. New Yorker has only one
sense OF humor, that is to make fun of
some one or something not New York,
Turn the tables on him and he Is hot-cries
"Kamerad"
After living on the Pacific Coast, with
running hot and cold water in my room, a
bath with hot and cold water next door at
a reasonable price, I came East with nv
husband, New Yorker; bought some
new togs in Chicago on the way in
the best store in the United States of
America, Marshall Field & Co.; visited in
New York and saw horsecar for the first
time. The woman where l visited told me.
IN her New York good taste and politeness.
she had a room rented to man from
Nebraska, and she had to be careful to lock
up her silver, because "No one knew what
those Westerners would do.v She said it
to me, stranger, because she knew T was
from the West and she thought it would
hurt me. l asked my husband where one
could find the "effete and cultured Eastn
one reads about. We went to Long Island.
Among many other things, one young woman
said, I'VE often see you pass, and mother
says you aress just like we dol" judging
by the majority saw hoped not. New
York, or Long Island, was my husbands
home. came expecting to love it. One
might as we'll try to love Huns. EVERYTHING
they could think of that would hurt .
stranger they said
Before New Workers go poking fun or
criticising the mote in the Western eve lot
them look to the beam in their own. I for
got to say in Long Island we had to live in
a house with lamps, pump and no modern
conveniences of any kind
MARY c. STRICKLAND.
Westerner and glad Of it.
New Haven, Conn.,, Sept. IS, 1918,
(A1y address if you want to fieht)
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
Railroad Savings Under Govern
ment Operation

For the first time we have an esti
mate, in dollars, OF the economies which
will be attained under government op
Grafton of the railroads. Mr.. A. II.
Smith, Regional Director for the East
ern roads, has presented to the Director
General review of the work in his sec
ton to date. He sets forth, under twen-
ty heads, the effect of the new organiza-
ton, the routing of freight, the elimina-
tion of long cross-hauls, duplicate ticket
and freight Offices, the forwarding of
solid trains from the interior to the coast.
and various other savings of time. haul
age, trackage and the rest, which were
obviously practicable under a unified
management.
The result of all this is reduced,
so~far as possible, to money terms. The
estimate is that direct, calculable an
nual saving of $18,O0O,0O0 has already
been achieved; and the intangible or
incalculable savings would, in the judg-
ment of Director Smith, approximate
fully as much more" That would be
a total of $35,OO0,OOO or $40,0OO,OOO.
TO those who are watching this in
teresting experiment this report will
come with something of surprise The
economies planned and arranged are
many and varied; some of them seem
of farreaching effect. Yet the esti
mated measurable gain seems incom-
mensurate with the effort. Thirty or forty
millions is considerable sum, even in
these days of ballooning billions. But
measured against the gross receipts of
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
In Men7oria,11:
Donald Eduard Stone

lEntered the ambulance service Of the Frsncl
army November. 1916. Awarded CroiX de C,,,srra
IIpr 9xtraordnaIy bravtry under fire. Member Of
the Lafayette Escadrle ten months KiIIed ~
aerial combat April u. 1918 "
DIRE homeland pledged her righteous
IL might against the rape of truth.
You bore to Frances bleeding sod the
sacred gifts of youth.
Hope, freshness, faith aud ardor, love, cour-
age, cheer and skill,
eSprlngs whence flows immortal life into
mortal will.
Along the battles raw. red rim YOU took
your perilous part;
AZ hooding fords of pain you gave the
best bloom of your heart
When sight of lust and infamy had stcelcd
your soul to smite,
through azure leagues. gold spurred. Won
sped, knight errant of the right
ne victory won, the course you held
straight toward the morning star.
To the rendezvous in the infinite who're
happy heroes are
HARRY EARL TAYLOR.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-24

the Eastern roads this would be hardly
half of per cent.
Moreover, in the detailed figures as to
the freight movement Of the last six
months, now published, the effect of
unified management is yet to be clearly
shown. There has been slight gain
in car loading and slight decrease in
train miles, but at the cost of about
an equal slowing up of the whole freight
movement.
The truth appears to be that, as we
have pointed out, it is all too early to
form any definite judgments. It is diff
cult to realize what vast and intricate
transportation machine has been built
up in this country, and how hard it is,
even for managers and experts Of the
highest capability such as Secretary
McAdoo has gathered around him, to
make an appreciable dent in the output.
The current six months Of operation
may tell us more of the results Of the
broad scheme of reorganization which
Director Smith and his aids have car
ried out