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New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
5000 Are Expected
AT Victory Carnival
Proceeds of Masque May Mean
100000 Quarts of Milk for
Starving i'm France

Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar, chair
man of the Carnaval de Vivtoire, the
costume ball which will climax New
York society's efforts to supply French
children with needed milk. announced
yesterday that more than 5000 people
are expected to attend and that the
proceeds of the -Masquc de Triomphe at
the Ritz Carlton Saturday night will
probably result in the shipping of 30O,-
900 extra QUARTS of milk, thirty tons in
powder form, to the children of France.
The following telegram was received
by the ball committee yesterday:
"Madame La Marechal Foch and the
Princess de Polk, president and vice
president Of the French Commit
tee of Free Milk for France, ex-
press deep gratitude for the milk al
ready received and despair that 1t ar
rives so slowly when the need is SO
great.
"The demands keep on coming. The
idea that you have had to replenish
France with milk is ono of the most
beautiful and generous, one of the most
practical, Of your admirable charities.
You cannot imagine how many mothers
Of big families, how may refugees suf-
fering from anaemia, caused by all
kinds Of privation, how many poor
wounded and sick, bless your name.
"Thank you again for what you are
doing for France, weakened by more
than four years of terrible fighting.
at is our old French race that you
help US to save"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23

Susan Claspell and George
Cook Have Bright One
Act Play
By Haywood Broun

"Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell
and George Cram Cook, is easily the
best of the three plays in the new bill
of the Provincetown Players. A sun
dial may not suggest all sorts of
humorous possibilities, but the mis-
fortunes of a couple who try to live by
true time without recourse to machine
made approximations of truth are
capitalized most amusingly. The play
suffers slightly from beng allowed to
run just a shade too long, but per
haps it was timed by a sundial rather
than clock. James Light, Norma
Millay and Jean Robb played well.
Eugene G. ONeill, who writes so
delightfully."- about the sea and seafar-
ers, is represented with "The Moon of
the Caribbees." There is plenty of true
talk, charming set and an abundance
Of atmosphere, and yet the play is a
disappointment. 1t spins a rather
pointless tale about an uninteresting
young man who has shipped on a
British tramp. The young man has
memories" and when his shipmates
have carouse on board with negro
women who bring them rum he partici-
pates somewhat halfheartedly More
over, after he has drunk his bottle he
says, "Oh, God" To US he seemed a
deep sea snob. The carouse was much
more interesting than his scruples or
his remorse. This was partly due to
the acting Of Ruth Collins Allen, who
played one Of the negro women. The
lack of appeal In the somewhat fastidi-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23

Gus young man was no fault Of Charles
Ellis. The blame lay largely with the
playwright, who has cluttered his small
stage to such an extent that it is well
nigh impossible to single out the young
man. He is characterized only slightly
in the text and nothing in the stage
management serves to make up for this
deficiency. In no way is he thrust be-
fore our attention to the exclusion of
any of his fellows. o. K. Liveright
contributed a good bit as a cockney
sailor.
"The Rescue by Rita Creighton
Smith, proved a dull play, although it
was in striking distance Of an idea.
This was not developed sufficiently to
attain roundness. The heroine of the
play is pictured as drifting toward
madness in her grief at the death of
her mother. In the home of her aunt
she is burdened not only with the
routine of dull life, but by the mem
ories of other members of her fathers
family who have gone insane. The old
family servant undertakes to save her
by making her believe that she is an
ilegitimate ~hild. This cheers her up
enormously, and she goes to New York
to get q job. We were not convinced
of her ultimate salvation for all that.
She seemed a bit queer to US. The
part of the servant was well played by
Ruza Wenclaw.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Society Makes Appeal for
Aid for Orphans i'm France
Fatherless Children Depending
Upon q. S.; Help Must Come
at Once To Be Effective

Fatherless children Of France are de-
pending upon Americans not to lose in
terest In their future. Since 1915 the
society that bears their name has or
ganized more than $50 committees in
all parts of France. Any child under
sixteen whose rather lost his life in the
war and who is destitute is eligible for
adoption. 1t is the policy Of the So
ciety to maintain the child in it's own
home and under the care of its mother
A subscriber to the fund will, upon re-
quest, receive the name and address of
the orphan assigned to him by the
treasurer. and he may correspond
directly with the child or it's mother,
thus establishing personal relation
ship.
No greater worK can be done for
France than to give these children the
chance of whicn the death of their
father has deprived them Their plight
is an emergency which must be met i'm
mediately Neglect during one or two
years o1 the physical and moral welfare
OF the child cannot be repaired later.
To be effective tho help must be given
at once.
communicate with Alexander j. Hemp
h;ll treasurer of the New York Com
mittec of the Fatherless Children of
Trance. at 563 Park Avenue. Ten cents
keeps a child one day, So keeps it one
month. $36.50 one year and $73 pro-
vides for the support OF one of these
little orphans during two years.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
All Russian Programme
At Philharmonic Society

An afternoon with composers of the
"New Russian School" that 1ourishcd
In the last half of the nineteenth CEN
tury is an afternoon of highly seasoned
musical food. 1t is stimulating rather
than restful and inspires optimism for
the future of a people in whose art
there is so much vitality, emotional
strength and intellectual vigor.
The Philharmonic Society at it's con-
cert in Carnegie Hall yesterday after
noon offerec an all Russian programme,
consisting of works of three composers
of the period named-Rubinstei Ka-
linnkow and Rimsky-Korsakoff Nine.
Ethel Leginska, the English pianist,
was the solost..
The Kalinnikow G minor Symphony
is new to the Philharmonic programme,
though it has been played in this
country before, both in New York and
Chicago. To hear it is to wonder that
it is not given oftcner, for it is a work
Of wide appeal 1t is built on mclo-
dlous themes, easily identified, and has
VAR ty in its orchestration which
keeps up interest through to the end Of
a somewhat diffuse last moment.
Nine. Leginska played the Rubin
stein D minor Concerto, a work which
gives scope for the wide range of
dynamcs which this fiery woman has
at her command.
Perhaps an accompaniment some
what heavy at times forced the energy
which Nine. Leginska put into her eli
makes. In her quieter moments she
stroked the piano with as soothing a
touch as could be wished Nine. Le-
ginska is possessed of interpretativc
power as we'll as technical mastery.
Her performance abounds in contrast.
The occasional suddenness of her as
sault may shock, but her playing is
never dull.
Rimsky- y-Korsakoff' Spanish Caprice,
with which the programme ended, has
seductive minor themes and fanciful
cadenzas. 1t is charged with the wine
of Spanish rhythms and ends in a
riotous fandango. The orchestra, un-
der Mr.. Stranskys baton, played
throughout the afternoon with virtu-
osity and fine body of tone
f.. / r.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
BROOKLYN Mother Fails
To Get Pay Son Allotted
Senator Wadsworth Is Asked to
Investigate Complaint of Mrs.
Sophie Onderdonk
NeaU York 1'ribaons
Wdshin Qton Bltredu

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-With her
ooy, minus an eye and wounded in both
arm and leg, in hospital at Bath,
england, and another son recently
N'led in an accident which injured the
@otner as well, Mrs. Sophie Onder-
Wink, 469 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, has
'a'ed to receive any allotment from
"ef boys pay for five months, letter
ssSt sseeiyed at Senator Wadsworth's Office
''sted to-day.
NO. Not only has she FAILED to receive
hhay OF the SIS month allotment made
re ser by the boy, but she has failed to
ibseeiVe a Liberty bond which the boy
las las bought, paid for and ordered de-
''Ipered TO her, the letter declares:
soi. i.aiiiFg 10 get any satisfaction her
w. Mrs. Onderdonk appealed to some
- ''ius and one of these, an official OF
q. insurance company in New York
!, w wrote Senator Wadsworth about
Vie he inclosed letter which he had
;r.l''en for Mrs Onoerdonk to the ad-
cant cant general, asking if something
d;,;lu De told her about the boys con-
iIiWt'on and about the allotment and
Liberty bond
ne reply TO this 4,sncd by Austin
ths, ss1fKer Us adjutant general, said
fos' Nrs. Onderdonk to obtain the in
""S2 required should write three
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Aged Blind Women Ask
Face Powder for Gifts
Offered Choice Of Present for
Christmas Tree, They
Decide Quickly

Mighty is the Christmas spirit, oh,
gentle reader, but great also is the
feminine spirit, and hereby hangs a
talo Of both.
This first part, conce rning the Christ
mas spirit has to do with the dinner
that the Brooklyn Bureau Of Charity,
which does work among the blind,
gives at this time each year to the
penniless and sightless cid women of
the borough who would otherwise go
without Yuletide festivity.
Sevcnty-six guests were biddcn this
year for the dinner that will be held
at 2S9 Schcrmerhorn Street ChTistm as
night. When the money which had
been set aside for their entertainment
was brought forth it was found that
this would purchase sufficient food, but
nothing else.
There are a score or more blind girls
in Tie Industrial School that the Du-
reau mairtains-girls who earn n little
money now and then through the sale
CT basket work or ott,sr creations.
They heard Of the rather barren en-
tertainment planned for the seventy
six, and zach contributed quarter to-
ward the purchase of Christmas pres
ents and a tree.
Then the question rose what to buy
The guests, and some practical person
suggested that the destitute old souls
be asked as to their old chief want.
Quaveringly the lod ladies voiced
their desires. None longcd for clothes
to warm them nor medicines, though
their ailments were many. In seventy
six rellowed voices they who could not
see admitted that their idea Of the bes
of Christmas presents would be face
powder!
On the tree that will CLEAN in the
dining hall on Christmas will hang sew
enty-six boxes of face powder, symbols
Of the immortality Of the spirit of
Christmas and femininity and proof
that what the latter desires the former
almost always supplies.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
M usic
Wide Range of Color Effects
Produced by Paulisi Choir
isters at Concert

The Paulist Choristers, who came to
us first as a church choir, but now, ap-
pafently, an itinerant concert organi-
zatlon, gave a concert in the Lexington
Theatre last night with the assistance
OF Mr.. Modest Altschuler and the Rus
sian Symphony Orchestra.
IL was announced as a "Christmas
carol Concert of Victorious Peace"
ana so made q patriotic as we'll as re-
ilglous appeal to music lovers. There
were many Yuletde features on the
programme, the most refreshing of
Whlch was the old English carol Of
1oOd hlng Wenceslas," into which
rarther FINN, the conductor, put a
variety which was far from unpleasing
ny using the orchestra with the voices
Oh the boys and men and by other de-
vices obtained dramatic effects which
accentuated the old legend.
mere were number of solos as
well sung by members of the choir
which found favor with an audience
that was more friendly than discrimi-
mating. Father Finn has trained his
SINGERS in a remarkable, not to say
singular, manner, so that they produce
great range of color effects, more
lnstrumental than vocal. His sopranos
especially might be said to pipe rather
than sing, the words being all but
Sacrficed in order thai the tone may
have a fute-like quality.
1t is the very antithesis of the style
which used TO prevail in the choir of
the Church, of the Paplist Fathers in
this city, and is not to be condemned
altogether though it robs singing of
human and distinguishes its music
from that of instrum cnts. In precision
and nuance, however, he has achieved
results little short of wonderful.
l. II
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Eight Moussorgsky Songs
On Resnikoff's Programme

Eight songs by Moussorgsky occupied
a conspicuous place on the programme
Of Vladimir Resnikoff's second recital
at Greenwich House last evening. One
or two are famous.
"The Seminarist," for instance, a sa-
tirical commentary on the amorous ad-
ventures of a theological student, fell
under the ban of the Russian censor
and was consequently published in
Leipzig. While i'll and in the country
Moussorgsky one day heard through his
open window the village idiot paying
passionate, half-crazed addresses to the
village beauty. The incident so i'm
pressed him that he perpetuated it in
the extraordinary Idiots Love Song"
Another and less grotesque portrait is
The Classicist,' in which Moussorgskv
paid his respects TO Famyntsin, a reac-
tionary critic.
MIR. Resnikoff, prominently at home
IN the songs Of his countrymen, sang
with taste and interpretative eloquence
IRISH English and Little Russian folk
songs completed the programme.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Rural Teachers i'm West
Now Have Own Cottages
Mrs. ] C. Preston Eliminates
Boarding" Pedagogue in
State of Washington
Neac York 1ribune
W0ski,, 0fou Rair,rn

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-"Boarding
teacher is no longer the bugaboo of
the parents Of rural school pupils in
the West, according to Mrs. Josephine
CorlIss~Preston, state official, educator
and member Of the Republican Wom-
ems National Executive Committee,
who is in Washington on business
connected with the National War
Emergency Educational Committee.
Mrs. Preston is State Superintendent
of Public Instruction Of Washington
teachers cottage" alongside the lit
tie red schoolhouse out in the rural
communities. More than 200 homes
have been built for rural teachers, i'm
proved living conditions having much
to do with the rapid advance in 'edu-
cation in Washington.
eve have, however, shared in the
shortage OF teachers" said Mrs. Pres
ton, ''and our state realizes that higher
salaries will have TO be paid for trained
teachers IL we are to hold them"
Under this woman state superintend-
cnt the State Of Washington leads the
world in consolidated school districts.
One of her most important achieve
nents has been the community centre,
which fiourishes there as nowhere else.
The consolidated districts have made
possible large number of very ex-
cellent rural high schools Taking a
trading centre for the nucleus, the
school districts adjacent combine, there
by securing extraordinary advantages
hitherto unknown in rural school work
One consolidated district has an ex-
tent Of 25 by 60 miles, covering seven
teen districts, and is under a superin-
tendent who receives monthly salary
op @OOO
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Levitzki and Yvette Cuilbert
Are Features of Two Recitals

Mischa Levitzki, who, with Guomar
Noyaes, has made the greatest stir
among the young pianists who have re-
Gently made their debuts in New York,
gave a recital yesterday afternoon at
Aeolian Hall. He opened his pro-
gramme with the Bach Chromatic Fan
tasy and Fugue, in which both the as
surance of his technique and his re-
fined sense of line were at once evi-
dent. In Schumanns Etudes Sympho-
niques his intellectual grasp and feel
ing for dynamic values were likewise
apparent but it was in the Chopin
group, the G minor nocturne, the A
fiat mazurka and the D flat etude,
that the warmth both of his tone and
his interpretive feeling were most
manifest.
Mr.. Levitzki emphasizes the poetic
side of Chopin, and without losing its
tenderness sand essential melancholy,
never descends to the lachrymose read
ings so beloved by the average recital
ist. Always with him there was mas
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
A Parents Christmas
: Greeting to Teachers

oey9nd comparison than in New York
rms is Christmas week, suitable
V'me TO count our blessings. For the
seasons sake and to get the right
a'ttude/of mind for rejoicing when Joy
bells ring the multfarious teachers
organizations - the lnterborough AS
seclation of Women Teacher, the
%, in,rookiyn Teachers Association, the
welfare League, the Teachers Union,
the Teachers. Interests Organiza-
uon and the forty others -- might
listen to an old parent and taxpayer
VINO said to me recently:
We parents of New York treat our
school teachers more generously than
any large body of women workers are
treated anywhere in the world,
They work 1875 days a year. Any
excuse is good enough for closing
school. Sometimes ! wonder if the
Board Of Education really believes in
education, since it seizes every chance
for shutting it down. This Christmas
the holiday is stretched to twelve and
a half days instead of the regulation
week. That means that my wife must
care all day long for our three vital
sparks two or three extra days that
the teacher may work so much less.
Last year the lower salaries were
raised and this year still another hun
dred dollars has been added to them.
Besides each school teacher gets an
increase every year until the ordinary
class teacher is receiving S1,920-ouite
q tidy payment for a woman Cor less
than two hundred days work. And the
smart ones, these who would make a
success in other lines. are promoted to
be heads of departments and principals
at $2,400 and $500 How many women
in law or medicine or in business get
ri Micrl, Ill
you.
Then there is the pension. This
year there is $2,5O00O0 additional for
that purpose alone. A married teacher
gets two years off when sho has baby
We keep open her situation for her
and let her start again where she left
eff without losing pension or salary
position. l see that every month
around twenty-one of them start on a
two years leave. Do you know any
private corporation that does that
way?''
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Bv John Martin

tescher has sent to The Tribune a
,r of letter written by her to the
NATIONAL Security League respecting a
home Of the league for nationwide
..unsisn for equal education for all.
- her letter she berates the league
.,,ndlv for darin.. TO "endeavor to give
:, the teachers definite help in under
tending the causes and issues Of the
wsr for peace and the problems which
-. must meet as nation and as in
,;viduals" She summons the league,
;,stead. "to get after the Board of
ss.imates and procure better salaries
for teachers in this city, giving them
4;me TO study an travel and bring a
uorld-wide view to their pupils"
Help get the money for our schools"
shs SAYS 1t is the one thing need
nj"
Her attitude illustrates how the mill
,ant teacher may damage the cause Of
educaton- Her intense concentration
on her OVID grievances makes her blind
to the fne purpose Of the league, a
purpose which can see beyond Hoboken
and does not think New York teachers
srs the whole educational world. The
league proposes to use its national
organization. and the zeal discovered
BY war needs for winning equal chance
iur education for all American citizens
without regard to race, color, p ce
Of residence, the will of parents or the
will Of county, Sity or state That is
the most benefcent campaign now
avaiting imitation in this land. What
pity any teacher should get botIv
indignant over it,
Every teacher in New York Citv
should know that, whatever complaints
she can iesltlmately make, her condi-
tans and the whole city school sys-
ten are unexcelled anywhere. while
throughout the country outside the
big cities, and especially in the South.
the LOT Of teacher and scholar is worse
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Child Labor Laws
To Be Urged Again,
Woman Predicts
Miss Julia Lathrop Says
9lO Employees in Five
North Carolina Industries
Are From 6 to 10 Years

1.-THE Charlotte On. c. Observer
takes pride in chronicling the fact
thRt North Carolina cotton manufacture
Ts exclllde year-old workers from
mills.
Miss .Ju1ie Ilafhrup, chief Of the Chill
dren's BurHHn at Washington, has ding
ont other interesting statistics -
namely, thHt though fve-year-olds may
mt be enrplUyed, children from six to
tHn yearB of age work on eleven-hour
shifts, not only in cotton manufacture,
but in FIVE other industries.
Miss LwFhrup says in statement to
owen R. Love5oy, secretary of the Ma
ttunal Child Labor Committee:
The mills ] visited in gathering my
STATISTICS con stituted about one-tenth
oi the total number in the state, and
tney were q fair example. We there
Iure grutuituously contribute to The
charlotte Observer and to its constitu-
enrs whatever comfort they can get
cut Of the government estimate that
not more than $40 children between SIX
ana ten years of age are working in
QloLA AtS INV SSoSlS dbcQ III
North Carolina, and that those of this
number In the cotton mills Awho were
working regularly are on the eleven
hour shift.
These are the industries presided
over by the men who assured Congress
mat without Federal law North Caro-
In IN would protect her own children.
{Happly there are other forces in
North Carolina at work, forces keenly
alfve to the necessity of safeguarding
the children of that commonwealth,
and we may expect them to be heard
AZ the next session Of the Legislature
demanding the enactment of we'll
considered programme for child con-
servation.
This Is just something to be thought
over by all those who are worrying how
we are going to find positions for the
men and women Of this country-with
girl war workers losing their jobs and
soldiers returning to them"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
broadway Coingto
Receive Bath and
Made to doll Up''
Association of Merchants
Hopes to Put the White
Where 1t Bel longs i'm
the Gay White Way

broadway is going to be cleaned up
again--this time with soap and water
and paint brushes and good deal Of
elbow grease. The debris on the
streets is to be taken away. mud
Pnddles are to disappear and every
corner ls to blossom with clusters Of
or'ght lights. The Broadway Associa-
t'on plans giving the more or less
white Way bath, and when it has
concluded Its operations there will be
no thoroughfare in the world, not
even the most spotless street of Spot
less Town, which will compare with the
best known street in New York. they
hope
Ever since the armistice made it
possible to turn up the lights on Broad
way the dingy spots and murky cor
ners of the thoroughfare have been ir-
rltatlng to members of the association.
Not only will they attempt to clean
up the street, but hope to bring about
important reforms in traffic and trans
portation. And when the whole has
been accomplished many thousands Of
lights will be added to the number
already twinkling along it's length.
Ask P. S. c. to Assist
A call will be made at once upon
the Public Service Commission to
consider an aggressive programme
which the association has prepared.
Part of the scheme is to have the
subway construction buildings rem
dered more slightly. Until they can
be removed an attempt will be made
TO have them camouf1agcd into OBJ
scurity.
Henry G. Opdycke, until last week
major with the American Expedition
ary Force, has been retained as man
aging director of the bettermcnt pro
gramme.
New Officers Elected
The "Clean-Up Broadway" move
ment follows the election by the rs
soclation of new board of directors
Among the new members are Alex
ander J. Hemphill, chairman of the
board of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany; Louis q. kaufman, president Of
the Chatham and Phoenix National
Bank; r. r. Moore, president of the
Commercial Trust Company r. w.
Poor, president of the Garfield Ma
tional Bank; Daniel Frohman, Horace
Saks, Colonel Edward f. Albee, Ber-
nard Gimbel, August Silz and Sidney
Bowman.
Colonel Jefferson DeMont Thompson,
just reelected president of the associa-
tion for the seventh consecutive year,
is given credit for having started the
cleanup" pla... Other officers are
DR.. John A. Harriss, first vice-presi-
dent; c. L. Taylor. F. G. Carrie, Paul
II. Zagat, Horace DeLisser and L. Nj.
Boomer, vice presidents; John David,
secretary, and August Jansen, treas
Nrer