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New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

sort of spontaneous afti-red flag dem
onstration which turned Monday nights
affair into bowling, seething, mauline
pandemonium.
Boycott on Socialists
The police are taking no chances
Under supervision OF Commissioner
Enright they are conducting a can
vass among the owners of all large
meeting halls in order to prevent the
assemblage Of any Socialist meetings
red flag or otherwise
Already" said Commissioner En-
right, 1--WE have got number of such
owners here in the city to agree to
refuse the Socialists the use of their
places for meetings. We expect in
time to bring about general boycott
through the cooperation Of building
owners and lessees."
How vigorously the Socialists will
combat such q condition remains to be
seen. Yesterday they were inclined to
lie low. For official purposes the local
executive committee of the party be-
gan work on lengthy recital Of Mon
day nights proceedings, which, with q
protest and appeal appended, will, they
said, be forwarded to President Wilson.
Secretary of War Baker and Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels probably to-day.
Privately they spoke much, too, Of
"rowdyism," "brutality." "stranpling of
free speech" and the "throttling of lib
erty"
Work of Police Appreciated
They spoke with genuine apprecia-
ton, too, of the work of the police.
If tour of the Peoples House and
series of talks with members of the
rank and file Of the party be any safe
iterion, the truth is that the fury
of Monday nights demonstration
against them has set them to thinking.
Commiss ioner Enright, following a
verbal report on the nights doings
from Inspector John DAILY, declared that
there seemed to be no doubt but that
the soldiers and sailors made most
of the trouble" and ne dispatched a
long letter on the subject to Mayor
Hylan.
If men in uniform would mind their
oWl DuSiAIcob uilu aCl III an OIQeTLY
manner" he said. che Police Depart
ment could handte the rest. The police
can handle citizens. but they do not
like to have sailors or soldiers inter
fere. They don't like to do anything
to man in uniform. At the Same time,
If their rowdyism continues something
will have to be done with them"
Thomas Replies to Enright
The Commissioner also protested
that the Provost Marshal, whose men
are supposed to deal specifically with
unruly soldiers, ignored a call for as
slstancc from the department., Major
P. J. Thomas, head of the Provost Mar
shal's office here, promptly came back
with the statement that the po ice sent
him no call until 1915, and that they
had previously requested him to send
his emergency squad up to Lenox Ave
nue. and 135th Street, where there ap-
peared to be some trouble among the
negro troops.
eve have only 100 men available for
such duty here" explained Major
Thomas, "and they are distributed
about the city on guard duty. They
cannot be Modified in a second. II
the police knew in advance that they
should probably need our assistance at
Madison Square Garden. they should
have told US so and we could have
made arrangements accordingly"
To this Major General Bell, com
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
Railway Telegraphers
Vote to Go on Strike
General Chairmen and Secre-
taries Cast Ballots Repre-
senting $4,000 Men

CHICAGO, Nov 26.-A vote favoring
a strike of railroad telegraphers
on all the roads in the United States
and Canada was cast in Chicago to-day
by the general chairmen and secre-
taries of the fifty-one divisions of the
Order of Raj road Telegraphers in
Western and Middle Western States.
inc chicago meeting was representa-
tive of $4,000 government employees.
who are dissati fled with the supple
ments to General Order No. 27 affect
ing wages and working conditions. 1t
was voted to reject all these. Tele-
grams we're sent to the meetings in
other cities asking similar action.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
Washington Doubts Presi-
dent VIII Seek u. S. Own
ership at This Time
Opposition Is Growing
To Reported Plans
CongressmenObject to Seiz-
ure After War Necessity
Is Declared Past
Tribune Woshington Bureau


WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Extension
of the period of wire control will be
asked by President Wilson in his mes
sage 20 Congress next week, according
to reports at the Capitol to-day.
1t is not expected that the Presi
dent will come out directly for govern
mont ownership of the telephone, teIe-
graph and cable lines at that time, but
merely for continuation Of the pres
ent control and operation until the
country has returned to normal condi-
tions. Since the period of railroad con-
trol following the war is twenty-one
months, it is suggested the same ex-
tension will be expected for the wires.
Under the law, government operation
Of the telephone and telegraph lines
ceases the day peace is declared. Had
the Administration intended to per-
> NIT this aw to stand, it is held to be
highly improbable that the cables would
have been seized week ago or that
the Western Union and Postal lines
would have been merged about the
same time. 1t is the expectation that
the peace treaty will be signed before
the present Congress expires in March,
thus leaving only three months for
Postmaster General Burlesop to ex-
pertinent with q unified government
system.
Ownership Plans Delayed
Explanations made Of the bill for
government ownership of the wireless
plants under the Navy Department cad
to the belief that the Administration
is not ready to declare fatty for gov
~,
and telegraph and cable lines.
Whatever may be the attitude Of the
Administration, it is doubtful whether
any legislation of this kind viii be
enacted at the closing session Of the
65th Congress. The apparent attempts
of the Executive Department to get
and retain hold of public utilities under
the guise of war necessity after the
war has been won have created bitter
feeling in Congress which is confined
to neither party
$50 Slow" Says Congress
The disposition in Congress will be
to go slow and give the Administration
nothing until it produces tangible proof
Of the necessity for action
Except for the unexpected seizure Of
The cables, Congress might have been
willing to extend the wire control for
q few months. But such is not the case
now.
Even several advocates of govern
ment ownership are against the extern
sioL of the war power. They object to
the adoption Of such policy by Execu-
tive order on the ground that 1T IS
the duty of Congress to determine the
nations policy after the people of the
country have had full opportunity to
express themselves.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

Hylan, headed by Rodman Wanamakel
and Paul W. Bartlett, submitted Its
recommendations to the Mayor las.
ght with a design for temporary
arch drawn by Thomas Hastings, which
is to be supplanted later by per-
manant structure.
Mr.. Hastings said his sketch should
be considered only as a suggestion and
he invited the aid of architects and
sculptors in the endeavor of the com
mittee to produce something really
worthy of the men who have made the
supreme sacrifice for humanity, Amer
ica and their home city.
The Madison Square site, the com
mittee believes, is the only one where
an arch on so large a scale might be
erected. At Fifth Avenue and Twen1y-
fourth Street there is room for two
abutments, one slightly encroaching
upon the park on the east and the
other standing on the small plot OF
land caused by the intersection OF
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, now occu-
pied by the Worth obelisk
The arch will be eighty feet high
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
Federal License
On Autos Is Cut
Out of Tax Bill

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2e.-In further
revision of the war revenue bill the
Senate Finance Committee to-day
struck out entirely the proposed Fed
eral license tax on the use of auto
mobiles and motorcycles. which ranged
from ten TO fifty dollars annually, in
Ine House bill, according to horse
power, and from five to twenty five
dollars under the plan previously
adopted by the Senate committee.
This eliminated $50, 1000. 900 in esti-
mated revenues under the Senate rates
ard about s73,0o0Ooo the House had
TANNED to raise from this source
Chairman Simmons explained that in
reducing the bill. to $4,000. 100000 fol
1919. II was found that the motor
geh'cle license tax was unnecessary.
however. remains in the bill.
The tax on patent medicines and
sifn'iar articles was again changed by
she committee upon recOnside ration
ia.s to-day. Instead of the 3 ger cent
Tax proposed on manufacturers sales,
~ - the request Of the interests involved,
the committee decided to impose a
stamp tax upon retail sales Of cent
ioT each 25 cents paid by consumers
ior such articles.
Over the protest Of the Republican
msmbers of the committee the Demo
Gratis to-day began work or the tax
: provisions for 1920. Chairman Sim
mons presented his 1920 programme,
recently announced, and il was printed
Ior Ior use and a vote later on adoption.
~ provides for reduction Of the excess
pront rates 10 about one-third moro
man those under the existing law, elm
nation entirely Of war profits taxes,
continuation Of the special miscella-
nous taxes ~ now contained in the II
reduced rates and reduction Of the
ssouced rates and reduction Of tho
normal rate on individual and corpora
.on income taxes from IL 10 s per
10y 10y With rate Of only 4 per cent
spppnslyinZ 70 individual incomes up 70
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

and will bridge the entire width of the
avenue, a little over fifty feet The
design proposed is almost Roman in
character with a considerable amount
of sculpture illustrating some of the
great battles of the war.
great quadriga representing the
triumph Of justice or democracy is
planned as q crowning feature of the
memorial and while simplicity of de-
sign is to be the principal aim its size
will, it is believed, lend great dignity
The temporary arch, and probably it's
permanent successor will be the same
width as the Arc de Triomphe in the
Place de E'Toile, Paris. 1t will not be
50 high, however.
The construction of the temporary
arch will be hastened as much as possi-
BILE, so that in some form it will be
ready to welcome the returning troops
within the next few months.
The memorial is to be erected by the
people Of New York. Beginning to-
morrow, 10000 member of the police
and the police reserves will receive
contributions of pennies, dimes and dol
lars to meet the cost of the work
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
Red Flag Is Barred
From City in Bill
Passed by Aldermen

The anti-red flag ordinance was pass
ed by the Board of Aldermen yesterday
with only the Socialists and one
Democrat, William P. McGarry, of
Brooklyn. voting against it. The ordi
nance will become law when Mayor
Hylan signs 1t.
The Socialists, through their leader.
Algernon Lee. served notice that thew
would ask the courts to set the ordi-
nance aside as unconstitutional. The
measure. which provides a penalty Of
500 vr ten days imprisonment, or both.
reads:
"No red or black flag and no ban
ner. ensign, or sign. having upon
it any inscription opposed to or
ganized government, or which Is
sacrilegious, or which may be dero-
gatory to public morals, shall be dis
played or carried through the streets
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
Miss Mortimer Indicted
Accused Of Manslaughter as Re
suit of Auto Accident

An Indictment charging manslaughter
in the second degree was presented to
pdge gen snd n IN the as+da eoqnty H. court
Queens County Grand Jury against
Miss Edith Mortimer, Of Roslyn, Long
Island.
The indictment grew out of an auto
mobile collision in Broadway, Flushing,
on October 19. Miss Mortmer's car in
avoiding collision with a coal truck
ran over and killed Nathan Wasser-
berger, of Maspeth, and Martin de
Mato, of q Front Street, Brooklyn.
Miss Mortimer is at liberty on $4,000
hail
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

Of the city in any procession or par
ade. Any person who shall violate
any provision of this section shall be
punished by q fine of not more than
500 or by Imprisonment for not ex-
ceeding ten days or by both such
hne and Imprisonment"
The Socialist aldermen in their
speeches attacking the ordinance, which
was fostered by William P. Kenneally,
Tammany leader of the board, served
notice that, ordinance or no ordinance,
the Socialists would continue to dis
play their colors.
One mode Of showing the Socialist
red, according to Alderman Lee, will be
for all women Socialists to wear red
petticoats and raise their skirts suf
ticiently high when occasion warrants
to display the red underneath Another
will be to wear red carnations and red
socks and stockings. And for their
street parades and professions the So
cialists, if the suggestion Of Alderman
Adolph Held, one of the Socialist
minority, is carried out, the Reds will
carry blue flag bearing this inscrip-
tion in white
"This is q red flag"
Arnon L. Squlers, Republican leader
of the board, following a speech by So
cialist Leader Lee, asked him:
"Do Socialists put the rec flag above
the American fag?"
Alderman Lee did not answer the
question directly, saying:
when I was boy it was not un-
common for communicates of the Ro-
man Catholic Church, of which the ma
jority members of the board are for
the most part members, to be asked
if they put the papacy above the ma
ton, and the answer given by the
Catholics was that the question was
unfair, that they recognized no antag-
onism between their religion and their
nation. The contradiction-the antag-
onism-which you state you assume" ."
Then Alderman Lee lapsed into de-
fence of his Americanism, holding that
he reverenced the Stars and Stripes as
much as any Democrat or Republican,
and then wandered off into a eulogy
Of the red flag.
Alderman Squiers next asked him if
he believed with Victor Berger when
he said: IL am in no wise opposed to
our flag (the Stars and Stripes), but
~ q
(the red flag) is the bigger of the two
Alderman Lee answered: There is a
sense in which it is true"
Alderman B. C. Vladeck, a Socialist
from Brooklyn, said that Mayor Hylan
had been accused of some of the things
IN the last campaign that the Socialists
were baing accused Of now
"The Mayor was accused Of un-Amer-
icanism," said Alderman Vladeck.
"And even now the walls Of the city
are plastered with posters put up
by The New York Tribune in which the
power behind the throne in this admin
stration is accused by The Tribune Of
un-Ame ricanism and disioyalty and his
name is spelled out with the body of
kissing snake in this manner:
HEARS-S- -S-ST"
The point that Alderman vladeck,
along wi the other Socialist Alder
men, sought to make, was that Mayor
Hylan should have sympathized with
the Socialists instead Of starting the
anti-fag agitation.
Alderman Alexander Braunstein,
Socialist of The Bronx, read a letter
written by Mayor Gaynor In 1911 de-
tending the use of the red Aag
mayor Hylan, like his ilustrious
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

predecessor" said Alderman Braun
stein. "also writes letters, but w tn
this difference: Mayor Gaynor's letters
were examples of English, profound
and Philosophical, and worth reading,
while Mayor Hylan's letters are fit only
for the comic section of yellow jour
NAL"
"It never will hapnen again y
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27
City's Victory Arch
Will Be Erected at
Madison Square
Committee Chooses Fifth
Avenue Intersection and
Calls for Designs

Fifth Avenue at Twenty fourth
Street has been selected as the best
available site for the erection of
memorial arch In honor of the citys
heroic dead.
The committee appointed by Mayor
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

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Soldiers and Sailors
Again Rush Socialists

Continued from page I
New-York tribune., 1918-11-27

1t never will happen again"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26

to cooperate as heretofore to assist
the farmers in every way possible. All
questions of production, of the mar
keting of farm products, of conserva-
ton in the course of production, and
of agricultural labor and farm prob
lens, generally, will be handled by
the department of agriculture; while
all questions of distribution of food
supplies to the allies and of conserva-
ton in consumption will be handled
by the food administration, but the
chief reliance is on the farmer him
self and / am sure that that reliance
will be justified by results. The chief
thing to be kept clearly in mind is
that regulations of this sort are only q
part of the great general plan Of
mobilization into which every element
of the nation enters into this war as in
no other. The business of war touches
everybody. It is a stern business, a
cooperative business, a business OF
energy and sacrifice. a business in the
largest and most stirringsense of that
great word"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26

that should be at once liberal and
equitable.
CHOSE peculiar circumstances gov
erning the handling and consumption
of wheat put the farmer at the very
center of war service. Next to the
soldiers, the serving of country and
the world and serving it in a way
which is absolutely fundamental to
his own future safety and prosperity.
He sees this and can be relied upon
as the soldier can.
1.-THE farmer has also contributed
men to the army, and l am keenly
alive to the sacrifices involved. Out
OF 100000 men engaged in farm
industries, 205,O00 have been drafted,
or about 1.48 per cent of the whole
number. In addition these, there
have been sailers, and the farmers
have lost a considerable number of
laborers because the wages paid in
industrial pusuits drew them away.
"In order to relieve the farming in
dustry as far as possible from further
drains of labor, the new draft was
drawn with a view of taking from the
farms an even smaller proportion of
men, and it is my hope that the local
exemption boards will make the new
classifications with a view of tighten
ing the load upon the farmers to the
utmost extent. The secretary of war
has asked for authority to furlough
soldiers in the national army in con-
ditions permit 1t so that they may
return to their farms when assistance
is necessary in the planting and har-
vesting of the crops. National and
local agencies are actively at work,
besides, in organizing community help
for the more effective distribution of
available labor and drawing upon new
sources of labor While there will be
difficulties and very serious ones, they
will be difficulties which are among
the stern necessities of war.
| 'The federal railway administration
is cooperating in the most active, in
telligent and effective way with the
food administration to remoce tide diff
ficulties of transportation and of the
active movement of the crops. Their
marketing is to be facilitated and the
farmers given the opportunity to re-
ali7e promptly upon their stocks.
The department OF agriculture and
! the food administration will continue
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.,
MAKES PICTURE DEBIT

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., makes his
screen debut in his fathers new pic
ture, "A Modern Musketeer." The
scene calls for a Kansas school class.
and young Fairbanks, on hearing of
this, gained consent to put on his first
makeup, which he insisted be applied
by his famous daddy.
Business Manager John Fairbanks
contributed his two youngsters, which
will make this scene quite Fairbanks
ian. The money earned by these
children will be turned over to the
Douglas Fairbanks Chapter of the Red
Cross.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26
VARIED PROGRAM is
OFFERED AT 0RPHEUM

The program at the Orpheum thea
ire for the first part of the week
offers enough thrills to satisfy the
most ardent searcher after melodra-
matte situations, with its combination
William S. Hart in Double Crossed"
and william Duncan and Miss Halo
way in another chanter Of "Vengence
and the Woman. Both these photo
plays are brim full of action and star
Ting situations The vaudeville offer
ed is most pleasing and comprises the
Woods Trio offering a musical act OF
lively music and featuring a young
lady press-agented as Americas daint-
lest trick drummer. She manages to
keep two drums very busy. not to
mention half a dozen other drummer
accessories. Barney Flynn and Annie
Howard offer an Irish comedy talking
singing and dapcing act which is verv
entertaining. On Wednesday Charlie
Chaplin in THE Fireman" divides
bonors with Mary Miles Minter in
"Periwinkle."
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26

Washington School had an enforced
holiday Monday forenoon. In some
sort of way the fire box flooded to
such an extent that no heat could be
obtained and the schools were ad-
journed in self defense. A plumber
went into action on the job and dis
covered that the water was backed up
from valve effectually closed by an
accumulation of the mortal remains
of small fishes. AS the public schools
are not in the fishing business, there
did not seem to be any graduation
over the catch; but the pipes were
cleared and the fires started and all
made ready for the next harvest-and
the great idea now is the new water
system which is assured and will be
pushed to the earliest possible compile
/ ton
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26

number of residents of the southwest
part of the proposed Filler road dis
trict metyat Pleasant View last even
ing and discussed the feasibility of
their withdrawing and entering a dis
trict in which Twin Falls could be To-
Gated, should such district be formed.
1t is understood that petition with a
number of names asking for such
change of location contingently was
signed and will be presented to the
county commissioners as soon as a
session is held The general senti-
ment in the city so far as The TIMES
can ascertain at this time is to leave
the formation of districts largely to
those interested. without interference
from the county seat.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26
Two slackers In-sheriff FRANK M.

Two Slackers In-Sheriff Frank M.
Kendall and his corps of deputies
have a way of making Twin Falls un-
safe for slackers. Rolen Cox, from
Tombstone, Arizona, is now in Jail on
this charge. John w. Hunt, a desert
er from Company M was arrested last
night here by the sheriff who was as
sisted in his search by Sergeant w. B.
McCracken of the marine corps.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26
Sale Near Murtaugh-w. d.

Sale Near Murtaugh-W. ID. Goss
will offer for sale at his ranch a
mile and a quarter northwest of Muir
laugh, beginning after a free lunch
at noon on Wednesday, March 6, thir-
teen head of horses, ten head of cat
tie, two hogs, 100 chickens, 216 posts
and a large amount of farm machin-
cry. II. b. Lue will conduct the sale.