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New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Powers's S Parodies
Coax 1891, $50
From Produce Men
Comedians Persuasive Eff
forts Raise Exchange Loan
Total to $5, ,6S3, $50

James /. Powers, comedian, who many
years ago lost a fine Job as a mes.
senger boy in the New York Produce
| Exchange, yesterday returned to the
grain trading centre for the first time
and with his serio-comic songs and
speech induced the members to sub
scribe 1891 $50 to the Liberty Loan.
This brought the aggregate for the
Produce Exchange committee up to S.
oo3,'50, which is almost as much as it
raised during the entire second drive.
In two weeks Of campaigning for the
loan in the theatres of the citv Mr.
Powers developed fixed technique for
enlisting dollars. AS is his custom. he
began yesterday by asking fer a "nice,
blg SUBSCRIPTION" TO start it off, and
then "Ill ask some one to double it,"
ne hrst pledge announced was a ST.
Ooo,ooU SUBSCRIPTION from the Corn EX-
change National Bank. Mr.. Powers.
, somewhat nonplussed, withdrew his re-
, guest for pledge double this size, and
'hen discarded his regular bond talk.
HIS Liberty bond parodies, however.
were just as taking at the Produce EN-
change as IN vaudeville house. To
the tune OF the song "Only One Girl
In the World for Me-" Mr.. Powers per.
suaded the Produce brokers to sing this
ditty: '7 WAC
Only Only one bond in the world for me,
Only one bond has my sympathy
we've got to get the billions
AND it's up to you and me,
For there's only one bond,
And that's the Liberty
Another parody which won hearty
applause from the grain brokers was
written to the music of "Comine
Through the Rye" 1t follows:
If the Germans meet Yankee coming
through the sky;
II the Germans down the Yankee should tho
nation cry?
!B3ut But if the Germans kill IA Yankee
There's something wrong, say l.
Wen buy the bonds,
GIVE the boys the planes,
Why should a Yankee die?
Besides the Corn Exchange National
Bank, the other large subscribers at
this meeting were: Funch, Edge e. Co.,
100000; Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany, Sl50,000; Baker Castor Oil Com
pany. Sl00,000; John Melady, $4,000;
pynchon & Co., $4,000; Dickerson {,
Gaskill, Inc. s25,00O, ard Bowlcs- Wat
son g. Co., $4,000.
After the bidding began to sag, Mr..
Powers offered to subscribe 81 900 if
nine other men would do the same.
The $4,000 block was soon taken, and
then Mr. Powers repeated his offer.
Members Of the exchange followed Mr..
Powcrss example in Offering to buy if
nine others would, and in this way
$4,000 OF subscriptions was pledged.
Mrs. Powers, who was present, made
the same proposition, on a $500 basis,
and the nine other subscriptions were
promptly forthcoming.
Captain Arthur Hunt Chute, of the
Canadian forces, stirred the audience
deeply with his analysis of tho issues
Of the war.
Charles Evans Hughes will speak on
the floor Of the exchange Tuesday af-
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
The Rainbow Division, which covers
the industrial side of the city in the
Liberty Loan campaign, yesterday an.
nouncod that twelve of it's committees
had filled their entire quotas. Follow
ing are the twelve:
Hardware metals. ETC.. committee. Georo.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Swindlers Appear Before
Grand Jury; Prosecutions
May Follow
Brogan Leads Crusade
Attorney for One Shark To Be
Reported to the Bar
Association

Liberty bond scalpers Of Manhattan
have closed their shops, withdrawn
their advertisements from the few
daily papers that accepted them, and
agreed to ply their trade no more, as
the result of short campaign by AS
sistant District Attorney Edward S.
Brogan.
Following the publication of two
articles in The Tribune exposing the
Liberty bond scalpers, Mr.. Brogan
cited the ones doing business in Man
haitian to appear before the Grand
Jury. They did so and prosecution
may follow In the meantime all the
scalpers pledged themselves to discon-
tinue their business.
In dealing with the scalpers, who
were in a fair way to reap fortunes by
purchasing at abnormal discounts re-
ceipts for Liberty bond payments from
persons who could not continue their
irstalments and were in need of i'm
mediate cash. Mr.. Brogan was assisted
by the United States Treasury Depart
ment, the Federal Reserve Bank and
the Liberty Loan Committee.
Thousands of Investors Fleeced
The latter found that the activities
of the scalpcrs had riscouraging eff
feet on the third Liberty Loan. Thou
sands Of persons who either had been
induced to sell their receipts on for
mer loans at so per cent discount or
had heard Of others who had done so
looked upon Liberty bonds as bad in
vestments. AS result of this lesson
the Liberty Loan Committee has estab-
lished central station wnere persons
not able to carry their obligations can
redeem their receipts. Patriotic brok-
ers have volunteered to purchase re-
ceipts at prices based on the face
value of the bond, plus so cents as
brokerage fee.
At least one attorney, representing a
bond scalper, will be reported to the
Bar Association, according to Mr. Bro
gan. Several scalpers face prosecution
for having induced holders of wac
stamps and war savings certificates to
sell at cut rates. The Treasury De-
partment has issued warnings that the
purchase of war stamps and war saw
ings certificates at any figure below
their face value Is violation of the
law
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Fourteen Pledge Support Of
Members of Their
Organization

Radical organizations in rev York
arc rallying to the support of war saw
ings, according to the w. S. S. Com
mittee, with headquarters in 81 Cham
bers Street After a meeting in Bee
thoven Hall yesterday, called by the
Jewish Socialist League, fourteen lead
ers of radical East Side organizations
formed a ''Win the War" savings So
ciety to show their full support for the
government in its war programme.
The fourteen leaders not only
pledged their personal aid in the cam
paign, but promised to urge all men,
bers of their organizations to purchase
thrift stamps and Liberty bonds.
This Beethoven Hall meeting" read
the w. 5. S. announcement, "is the last
cf a series of steps taken by the Jew
ish Socialist League to bring the vari-
GUS Socialist organizations on the East
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
II ailor~Made Man. Out Of Style;
Liberty Loan Starts New Fashion

The latest thing in spring styles for
men 10 row Of red, white and blue
buttons, extending up and down the
coat lapels. This fashion hint was
revealed yesterday afternoon at the
Liberty Theatre at the Public Library
by Grant Mitchell, of "The Tailor
Made Man."
"'The Tailor-Made Man is not in
style any more," shouted Mr.. Mitchell.
cts the Liberty-Loving Man that
makes hit to-day. Uncle Sans tc
best tailor living. However, for those
who can't wear 'army-made' l may say
that the best style In 'tailor-made' is
long row Of Liberty buttons on the
coat lapel"
1t was mans day ct the women's
Liberty Theatre, and members of the
Lambs Club made up the programme
No woman was asked to buy bond
until every man had given an account
Of himself to the deputies who bur
rowed in and out of the crowd with
subscription blanks. The men showed
they were interested in millinery as
we'll as fashion hints, for they snapped
up bargain In headgear from Edward
Milton Royle.
This hat which I wear isn't worth
much to any one but me-" he cried
twrling brand new straw, "but I will
sell 1t for fifty cents to any one in this
crowd who will buy flfty-dollar Lib
erty bond Then I will WALL hara
headed from here to the Lambs Club
and whit there until somebody comes
in wearing a hat that will fiji my head
The offer was taken up immediately
and Mr.. Royle started off to fulfil his
pledge amid app,ause from the crowd
a. T. Parker bought an autographed
copy OF "Thc Squaw Man" with Ave.
hundred dollar bond.
Latest STYLES in walking sticks. also
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

One brought back from No Mans Land,
German swaggcr stick" an iron
knobbed club used by The Germans in
their trench raids on British trenches
vas exhibited by Harry Stubb A dozen
men paid deposits on Liberty bonds
to get a closeup view of it.
Lambs Club, told the crowd that $780,
600 worth of Liberty bonds had been
sold in the club.
s held t6e ns centre 0+y Of the Ha pars
most of the day. Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt offered to pay the first S.
on each one of l 900 Liberty bonds. In
the. first fifteen minutes 200 persons
had taken advantage of Mrs. Wander
bits offer. Each buyer pledged him
self to pay the remaining instruments
and secure the bond
Miss Helen Taft, dean of Bryn Mawr
College, and daughter Of former Presi-
dent Taft, was one of the speakers at
the Liberty Bell Others w,rc Mrs.
James w. Gerard, Miss Emma Dunn.
Bird 5. Coler and Congressman George
Lunn.
Miss Leonorc Adler invested $500
IN bonds, her entire life savings, she
said.
man who said he had son and
seven nephews in the Austrian army
and had himself just landed in this
country from the Ukraine. bought two
bonds from the Liberty Loan wagon in
Times Square. He said he would give
the interest on the bonds to the Amer
lean Red Cross.
The Cross of the Legion of Honor,
the highest gift in the power Of the
French government, will be on exhihi-
tion at Liberty Land at the Goth Regl-
mcnt Armory to-day. The medal has
been loaned by the French government
on condition that it be kept under close
guard. There are several replicas of
the Croix de Guerrc, such as have al
ready been presented to members of
the old Goth Regiment and other Amer
ican soldiers. W
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
The Loan Programme

y a. m. = Liberty Ball and Liberty
Coach leave Schenectady for AL
bany.
II a. m.-Liberty Land, at the 69th
Regiment Armory, opens for the day.
Admission free. Evening - Mass
meeting of Mems Neckwear Com
mittee.
IL m.-Martin w. Littleton, Frederi
r. Coudert and George W. Wicker
sham will speak from the steps of
the SubTreasury Building.
II m.-Loan rallies at the Liberty
Bell, the Liberty Bell Park, the
Liberty Theatre and the Liberty
Bank.
1890 p. NJ Labor Bureau Booth
opens at Bowling Green. Music and
speeches.
$3.50 p. m.-Spanish War Veterans
will attend patriotic exercises at
the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

H. Richards. chairman; pianos. talking ma
chimes, etc, committee. j. T. Meyer, chair
man; belt, suspender and garter committee
a. a c: knothe chairman; theatrical and al.
lied interests committee, Edward f. Albee
chairman; electrical committee. Theodore
Beran. chairman; wholesale grocers' commit
tee. i. H. Sayre, chairman; women's dress
and waist committee. Alfred Son, chairman
sehildren's, dress. etc. committee, l.. S. Gold
W Decker. chairman; poultry committee,
August Silz, chairman: mining industries
committee. Charles Hayden, chairman; Mer-
chants Ladies Garments Association com
mttec, Jacob Sperber, chairman.
In the totals, the Insurance Commit
tee leads the field. with subscriptions
of 43,530,000. The Theatrical Com
mittec is ahead in Class B, with total
Of S7,5o8,3o0. Glass B includes com
mittces whose quotas range from ST.
100000 to S10.O00,000. In Glass C.
which includes trades with quotas up
to $2,oo0,0oo, the Waste Material Com
mittee holds first place, with sub
scription of S1,695,200.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
General Market Conditions

The vegetables that rather scarce are cc1mber
toes celery and asparagus The is still coming
California the Carolnas, Georgia. Maryand and little
When the New Jersey stock arrives larger quantities. the
price will go down. Even spinach and kale only moderately
IN supply and the best sellers onions potatoes cabbage
Strawberries lettuce string BEANS eggplants peppers
10 talk OF fish one must deal largely in futures Small
amounts OF sfad are coming in from North Carolina Cali
fornla Croakers and founders PLENTIFUL the
hope that the next two weeks will bring large quantities
porges macerel and buesh Steel rawers that have
hbernang in the ice at the Great Lakes due aw
out after May and will be after codsh haddock and
pollock The fish in the hard Better beef
and lamb and veal while it is allowed the weather cool
Saving Aprl's Eggs for January
Do remember what you paid for eggs last January
Seventy and so cents for eggs out of cold sorage
extra quality eggs for Al Dozen Why not get
era dozen Of them and put them down glass next
winter to that you not too proud to be prepared
Telephone Morningside 7795
and the Tribune Institute Consumers Clubs Service Station
will be glad to cooperate with you to this end.
quality canded eggs Al cen seconds 81 cents and our
second thousand pounds of California pink beans are still sell
ing for vepound package l3 cents for SIN
gle sample pound.
An increase in demand doesn't put lp the price CO.
operative club Neither YOU paying interest on
other peoples credit for the many clerks necessary 20
handle small ORDERS delivery charges small carelessy M
honed demands overhead and high rentals You pa
Just the wholesale cost OF the eggs plus cents per dozen anu
round for handling and profit.
There 180 clubs ordering 5000 pounds and dozens 9
butter and eggs week, who see the point. Do you?
LThis colunn appears on Wednesdov aud SatuYtd xx6
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Treasury Opposes
Instalment Taxes
Financial Needs Won't Permit
Extension of Bond Buying
Plan, 1t Is Announced

WASHINGTON, April 23-Hopes of
business interests that the Treasury
might indorse pending legislation pro-
viding for instalment payments of in
come and excess profits taxes were
dimmed to-day by an announcement
that the governments finances will not
permit instalment payments on both
taxes and Liberty bonds.
Referring to reports that corpora
tions and other big business interests
were withholding Liberty loan sub
scriptions because of the necessity Of
using all their cash resources to meet
tax payments on June Is, Treasury
statement said:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Gen. Pershing's Home Town
Trebles Its Loan Quota

BROOKFIELD, Mo-, April 19-Gen-
cral John J. Pershing's native county,
Linn, with quota for the third Lib
crty Loan of sas5,65o, will at least
double it, the subscriptions to date
being $614,95O, according to figures an.
nounced to-day
Laclede, the town which claims to be
General Pershing's birthplace, has
trebled it's quota of S22,4OO.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

paigns the tendency was to concentrate
their subscriptions here.
Against the amount the people of
the Second District already have
pledged, the present total ought to be
S504, 100000 to attain the official min
imum Of $900.000,00 and S840,00000
to raise the goal Of $1,500,000 900.
With the same herculean task before
them at this period of the second loan,
the residents of the New York district
rose up in their financial might and
carried the subscriptions over the max
imum goal.
Sub-District Over Quota
Statistics announced yesterday showed
Sub District No. 6, which includes
Richmond and Long Island, except
Brooklyn, is the first in the Second
District to surpass it's quota. 1t has
filled 108 per cent of its minimum
Queens leads, having subscribed 12F
per cent of it's allotment; Nassau Coun-
ty is second, with 121 per cent; Rich
mond comes next, with 83 per cent, and
Suffolk County follows, with rs per
cent.
The analysis of the tabulation in this
district follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
Hertling Meets Falkenhauser

AMSTERDAM, April 23.-Chancellor
Won Hertling, according to a Berlin dis
patch, has received General Won Falken-
hausen, the Governor General Of Bel
GUM, at Main Headquarters.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

Observation-Disclosures
' S' 9' ''
fish, poultry - - ' ~f'
SCkCE-Asparagus
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

Total outside
N. Y. c.. $8,973,300 $li6,326,350 SO
Total for dis
trict ..... 26,071,350 416,6S3,950 46
New-York tribune., 1918-04-24
NEW YORK CITY
Subscriptions Received

New York City.s17 ,09S.o50 $30o,357,6o0
UB-D1STRICTS
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-01-29
$4,000 Carpenters and Mechanics
WaBted

Beginning January 2Sth for a two
week period the United States Ship
ping Board desires to enroll Reserve
Army of 100000 carpenters, black
smiths, riveters and boiler-makers,
who may be useful in doing work in
the ship building yards of the coun-
try, as and when their services may be
needed
There are now $4,000 men engaged
in this work. We must have ships,
ships and more ships, and this Reserve
Army of workers, when enrolled, can
be utilized to furnish additional men
to this all-important work as needed.
Wages are good and working condi-
lions are good, but this appeal is made
to the patriotism of workers rather
than their selfshness. To drive rivet
in ship means to help win the war,
for we must have ships otherwise we
cannot transport more men to France
or feed and munition to those already
there. Are you a carpenter or me-
chanic? Do you want to join this
Reserve Army of workers? Offer
your services in helping to win the
war, in an absolutely imperative work.
If so notify F. S. Harrison, Halltown,
Chairman of the County Council of
Defense for jefferson County, or ]. ".
Sullivan, Secretary State Council Of
Defense, Charleston, West Virginia,
and an application blank will be sent
you to fill up and sign.
Many men are saying and writing
to me that they want to help. To the
man who is carpenter or mechanic
here is real opportunity.
JOHN J. CORNWELL,
Governor and Chairman
State Council of Defense.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-01-29
Enemy Aliens To Be REGISTERED.

The registration of alien enemies
will be made in this county during the
period from February 4th to 9th in
elusive. This work will be extremely
light in Jefferson County owing to the
very limited number of enemy aliens.
Most of our aliens are of the friendly
kind, being natives of Italy, and win
not be required to register.
Persons required to register should
understand thatsin so doing they are
giving proof of their peaceful DISPOSE
tons and of their intention to conform
to the laws of the United States.
Each registrant is required to fur
nish four unmounted photographs of
himself, not larger than 3x3 inches in
size, on thin paper, with light back
ground. All four photographs should
be signed by the registrant across the
face of the photographs, so as not to
obscure the features, if the applicant
is able to write
The finger printing is a method of
Identification and follows the practice
observed in the military and naval
service of the United States.
The registrant is hereby informed
that he must again present himself be-
fore the registration officer who took
his oath after 10 days but before Is
days from the last day fixed for reg
istration in his registration district to
obtain a registration card, upon which
he must sign his name, or make his
mark, and place his left thumb print
in the presence of the registration of
ficer.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-01-29
The State SenatQIship.

Jefferson and Berkeley counties are
each contending for the privilege of
naming the state senator from this
district to succeed Judge Frank Beck
with, of Charles Town, who has de-
clined to again be a candidate. The
Jefferson newspapers claim that as it
has been the custom for a senator to
succeed himself at least once, and that
as Judge Beckwith has served only one
term, that county is entitled to name
the Judges successor, and puts Milton
Burr, who has represented the county
in the house of delegates for several
terms past, in nomination. The
Berkeley papers claim that as Judge
Beckwith has declined the nomina-
ton it is that county's time to name
the senator, and has fixed on Lewis
II. Thompson as the candidate. The
papers of both counties speak in the
highest terms of both aspirants.
Regardless of the claims of either
county, we think it is misfortune
that the district is to be deprived OF
The services of Judge Beckwith, who
has made an ideal official, and think
he should be persuaded, if possible
TO again represent the district in the
upper legislative house.-Hampshlrt
Review
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-01-29

Prof. Archibald Magill Smith, form
erlv of Winchester, where he was prln-
cipal of the Episcopal Female lnsti-
tute for some years, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Carllouet,
in Bonnie Terre Parish, louisiana, on
Tuesday, in the Saith year of his age.
News of his death was received here
by his son, Mr.. John A. Smith. He
IS survived by his wife, who was Miss
Mary Boiling Meredith and seven chill
dren: VIM. M. Smith, of Fauquier;
Tohn Augustine, of Charles Town;
Charles Magill, U. S. Army; Mrs. Wal
ter Suthor, of New Orleans, La; Mrs.
Carroll Todd, of Washington; Mrs.
Boyd, of Virginia, and Mrs. Cailouet,
of La. During the Civil War Mr..
Smith was acting Captain of Topo-
graphical Engineers in the Confeder-
ate service and was fearless and eff
ficient officer. Was founder and prin-
cipal of the Shenandoah Valley Acad-
emy at Winchester, Va, and after
wards principal of the Episcopal Fe-
male Institute, conducting it success
fully for many years. Mr.. Smith was
the son of Col. Chas. nj. Smith, and
grandson of Genl. John Smith, of Rev.
dictionary fame. He was the uncle OF
Mr.. A. NJ. S. Morgan and Mrs. H. G.
Gctzendanner, of Charles Town. The
funeral was held on Saturday in Win
chester, Va.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-01-29
JUDGE For Yourself.
Which is Better-Try an Experiment
or Profit by Charles Town Citi-
zen's Experience.

Which is Better-Try an Experiment
or Profit by Charles Town Citi-
zen's Experience.
Something new is an experiment.
Must be proved to be as represent
ed.
The statement of manufacturer Is
not convincing proof of merit.
But the endorsement of friends IS.
Now supposing you had bad back,
A lame, weak, or aching one,
Would you experiment on it!
You will read of many so-called
cures.
Endorsed by strangers from far
away places.
It's different when the endorsement
comes from home.
Easy to prove local testimony.
Read this Charles Town case:
7. NJ. Baker, picture Trainer, 300 +.
Liberty St., says: Il suffered with
my kidneys, but my back was the
worst source of the complaint. 1t
ached steadily. The kidney secretlons
weres too frequent in passage and
highly colored. | used Doan's Kidney
Pills, as l had heard them so highly
recommended and a few boxes, procur-
ed from Brown & Hooff's Drug Store.
relieved the complaint and made my
kidneys strong"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same thai
Mr.. Baker had. Milburn Co.
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.