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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Earnings Best Fun on Earth,
Says Schoolboy Who Knows
ON Whtlock, Who Worked Three Months Last Summer
upin Madison County, Urges schoolnates to Go
After That Country Cooking

Earnings the best fun on earth,
and, oh, you country cookingl"
This is the credo of seventeen-year-
old Tom Whitlock, Of 448 East Twenty
sixth Street, Brooklyn, regarding sum-
mer farming for high school boys, and
Tom speaks from experience, for he
worked three months last summer for
Frank A. Wagner, farmer of Madi-
son County, and at the end Of that
time was pronounced regular farmer.
And to prove that he thinks farm
ing is the best fun OH earth, Tom is
going up to the Wagner farm again
this year, and after that he is plan
ming to enter Cornell and learn to be
an "agriculturist."
Speeds Up Work
Tom went up to Mr.. Wagner last
year green with the verdure of the CITY
boy who had lived in New York all his
life. He was put to work with a half.
breed Indian "hand" at his first lob
OF dropping potatoes. Frank, the hand.
mad been used to taking his work in a
leisurely fashion, but when this city
fellow began dropping slices of pota-
toes in the ground like a house afire.
Frank. too, began to move along tho
field in unaccustomed haste. The
strain imposed by the green hand
proved too much for the ease-lovinT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Opera

81 Puritani," it was announced at
the Metropolitan Opera House last
evening, will be sung next Saturday
afternoon instead of the double bill,
lie Cog dor" and "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana," owing to the illness of Miss Ro-
sina CALI, who plays the important
pantomime role in the Russian opera
pantomime. The cast of 81 Puritani"
will include Mines. Barrientos and
Perrin and Messrs. Lazaro, de Luca,
Mardones, Rossi and Reschiglian. Mr..
Moranzoni will conduct.
Gle Coo dor" and "Cavalleria Rus
ticana" will be given at the Saturday
matinee of the following week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
women May Now Join
Political Parties and Run
for Office
nentE.rlcouraged
All Members Urged to Be-
come Affiliated With Organ
ization of Their Choice

The Woman Suffrage party of New
York City has dropped the non-parti-
sanship plank in it's platform and men,
hers and officers of the organization
are now free to run for Governor or
Senator as often and as far as they
like.
This action was taken at a stormy
meeting of the city committee of the
party held yesterday morning at tho
headquarters, at East Thirty-eight
Street. Boss" Mary Garrett Hay and
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president
Of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, came up from
Washington. where they have been
working for the Federal suffrage
amendment, and every borough Off
c;a1 and election district captain was
on hand to vote on this most lmpor-
fant action the suffragists have taken
since Election Day.
The new policy encourages every IN
diyidual in the organization to enroll
in the political party of her choice on
Nav Is, which is a special enrolment
day for women voters. According 20
The original platform of the party. In
dividual members were permitted to
join political parties, but otilclals were
obliged to remain non-partisan.
In the future the organization will
retain it's ZION partisan policy as re-
cards the education of women voters,
in spite of the fact that Individual
officers will espouse particular poltlcal
faiths.
"Some people cannot understand how
we can be non-partisan in policy and
still permit our officers, leaders and
captains to hold Office in political par
ties" said Miss Hay after the meeting,
"but actually there is a difference ~
this respect between individuals and
societies. An individual may be very
partisan, but an organization that
homes to retain as members Republl--
cans. Democrats, Prohibitionlsts ana
Socialists must have non-partlsan
policy and must deal with broad ques-
tons like education or those involving
humanitarian principles
1--WE who have worked for suffrage
do not wish the enfranchised women
of the city to go off by themselves
POLITICALLY. but to join with the men
and help in the political organizations
The time has now come to advise oul
women and all women to enroll Tor the
primaries as good citizens should, ane
if thew are called upon by the men te
take Office in the parties to serve them
faithfully and we'll.
"This they can do while retaining
their membership in the. great civic
and educational organization that the
Woman Suffrage party has now be-
come" t....f
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
f.Maytime" Moves to the
Broadhurst Theatre

The 275th performance Of "Maytime"
was celebrated last night when it moved
from the Forty-fourth Street Theatre
to the Broadhurst. The play had it's
premiere at the Shubert Theatre on
August 1e. When it was first decided
to move "Maytime" from the Shubert
Theatre, the Broadhurst was selected
as the most suitable playhouse, but at
available, SO it was temporarily accom-
modated at the Forty-fourth Street;
yhis charming musical romance will
now remain at the Broadhurst until
the end of the season, with the original
cast, including Charles Purcell, Peggy
Wood and William Norris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

marry Sylvanus Stokes, jr., tomorrow
in Washington; Miss Elizabeth Seton,
Miss Esther Hosmer, Miss Mary Graham,
Miss Louisa Hoar, Miss Cecilia McCul-
lum. Miss Lillian Birney, Miss Harriet
Peckham, Miss Catherine Harlow and
Miss Eleanora Morgan
Captain R. r. Glen. honorary attache
Of the British Embassy. will serve as
best man, and the ushers will be Colonel
F. X. Puckle and Major NJ. F. Day, of
Briggs, r. NJ; Captain A. Kingman,
assistant military attache Of the Brit
ish Embassy; j. w. B. MacAuley, R.
N. R.; Colonel C. F. Lee, R. F. c.;
Colonel Blonfeld, r. T. c., and. Lieuten-
ants C. E.. Battle and Harold Van VAL
zah, u, S. N.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
On the Screen

"The Family Skeleton" which is be-
ing presented at the Rialto this week.
has two things in it which ought to
insure its success. One is real sur
prise for the climax and the other is
the presence of Charlie Ray. AS to
the surprise, every one may not
agree with US. Having seen a million
films, more or less, in the last two
years, we still find at times that we
are lamentably lacking in perspicacity.
We haven't that thing known as a
movie mind. But then our favorite
dramatic critic once confessed that he
never knew who was going to marry
who until the final fadeaway.
But every one will agree in regard to
Ray. No one can see him on the
screen without feeling thankful that he
is not that gem of purest ray serene
which dwells in dark, unfathomed
caves. "The Family Skeleton" needs
him.
Charlie has a dressed UP part for a
change, and it is good to see him in a
Palm Beach suit (without betty. Ray
is Billy Bates, young man who be-
lieves that he has inherited tendency
to drink, and SO he tries to reach his
ultimate destination as quickly as pos
sible and get it over with.
Only Poppy Drayton believes in him
and objects to that particular kind of
vandalism SO she sets out to reform
him and she is wise in her generation.
She appeals to the only sense which
one can always be sure that every man
possesses chivalry
Billy Elmer assists materially in
making the picture interesting because
he is, so ugly as Spider Doyle. and
Sylvia Bremen assists to the same ex-
tent because she is so lovely as Poppy.
The "family skeleton" rattles away
in his most terrifying manner, but he
finally succeeds only in ringing the
wedding bells.
Toto, the clown, appeared in new
comedy called Fare, Please" and it
was only that.
The overture is Flotow's "Alessandro
Stradella." Helena Morrill, sang "Gia-
NINA Mia" from "Fhe FREELY" and
Greek Evans contributed "The King
of the Vikings Am To II. U.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

Miss o'Brien, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan J. o'Brien, will
be married to Lieutenant Pierce H.
Butler, son Of James Butler, next
Saturday morning, in st. Vincent
Ferrer's Church, Sixty-seventh Street,
between Lexington and Third Ave
nues. Owing to the recent death Of
John D. Crimmins, an uncle of the
bride, the wedding will be small an!
quiet, and there will be no reception.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Miss Bigelow To Be a Bride

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Emerson Bige-
low, of PSI West Seventy
Street and the Knoll, Norfolk, Conn.,,
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Dorothy Bigelow, to
Ward Melville, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Melville, jr., of Montague Ter
race, Brooklyn. Mr. Melville is serving
in the Office Of the quartermaster gen
eral, in Washington.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Plays and Players

The first performance of can Ameri-
can Ace" A. H. Woods's new patriotic
war melodrama, will be given at the
Casino Theatre tonight. The curtain
will rise promptly at $500.
Owing to the fact that Lillian Lor-
raine is compelled to carry out her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Mis-. Edith McKeever Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Chauncey Nc
Keever, of 135 East Sixty-sixth Street,
have announced the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Edith McKeever,
to Ensign Boughton Cobb, U. S. N. R.,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ives Cobb,
of 161 East Seventy ninth Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
I Il { Dram .
Handsome New Theatre
Opens With Artificial and
Dull Play

"The Fountain Of YOUTH "a COM
edy by Louis Evans Shipman. at the
Henry Miller Theatre. With Henry
Miller. Presented by Henry Miller.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

Although the rainbow itself is n
tieeting phenomenon. "The Rainbow
Girl" is going to demonstrate a strong
tendency toward permanence. with the
end 81 the bow bearing in no uncertain
manner upon the locality of the box
otfice. After running six weeks in Bos-
tor. it was found too good, apparently.
to be kept away any longer from New
York.
The play breaks away happily from
the custom of two long acts for must
son ahead, three intermissions are
auspiciously afforded between the
scenes. two of which come in the first
act. The sets, which are by JOSEPH,
Urban, are pleasing and harmonious.
with nothing garish about them, and
among the other outstanding features
which make for the success Of "The
Rainbow Girl" are the effectiveness Of
the plot, humor of the lines and stu.
ationss, spontaneity of the dances and
the impelling rhythm and excellent
orchestration Of the music.
To sketch the main situation is suf-
ficient to indicate the plot. Mollie
Murdoch, of "The Rainbow Girl" at
the Frivolity Theatre, in London, has
married Robert Dudley, without know
ing that he is Lord Wetherell. He:
surprise upon learning that he is a
peer, is not as Joy quite unalloved,
for twelve servants at Wetherell Hall
are members of her own family, from
whose tyranny she ran away to go on
the stage.
The Head of the Bennett family, who
is butler at the hall. is indeed for
midable person. His very strut is
enough to COW interiors and do
pendants, if not to instil wholesome
respect into the bosoms of his en-
ployers. The part was a fat one for
Sydney Greenstreet, who played it
capitally. The Frivolity Theatre af-
forded an effective character part in
Buck Evans, q comedian, who came to
Wetherill Fall to pose as bishop
and uncle of Miss Murdoch to enhance
her standing with the gentry: The
role was conceived in the broadcast
manner, and carried off by Billy B.
Van with his customary verve.
The principals. Berth Lvdy and Harry
Bentham, won honors with exception
ally good singing. Miss Lydy's part
offered an opportunity for the display
of her talents as an actress. Of the
Bennett family, Ernest. footman, and
Jane, a housemaid played by Harry
Deli and Lenora Novasio, distinguish
ed themselves by antics that afforded
| the audience a large share of genuine
enjoyment. Among the more melodious
| and catchy songs were "Just You
Alone" "My Rainbow Girl" and Cloves
Ever New" all duets by Mr. Bentham
and Miss Lydy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

contract with Jack Norworth and ap-
pear with him as co-star of "Odds and
Ends. it will be impossible for Miss
Lorraine to open on the Century Roof
as announced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

The report has been circulated that
owing to the drafting of Frank Con-
roy the Greenwich Village Players will
suspend their activities, but the an
nouncement was made at the theatre
last night that he would not be called
until after the end of the theatrical
season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
The Rainbow Girl" Has All
the Primary EIues That
Dazzle

(. The Rainbow Girl" musical play
IN three acts and four scenes, with
nook and lyrics by Rennold Wolf,
founded upon a comedy by jerome K.
Jerome, and with music by Louis A..
hirsch, presented at the New Amster-
dam Theatre by Klaw & Erlanger:
CAST OF CHARACTERS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

Daisy Meade r,.. ,,,,.
iemrk grs~ ~s''cr William Clifton
t;us Nnrtms .s...s.... Billy b. Van
Nawfn,.,, w" '.'''...s...s...., Robert G. pitkn
nMssrt '''.''. =, ,.,..,.... Polly Bowman
nnnthan Ethel Delmar
Raidwi,n '''.'5.ss' Dorothy ST Clair
Rnher, vam,, - lNlna Swell
AInSia Nf,r nnm DuSiicS Harry Benhan
Miss Tcrris = 49, - ,t,.t nesl , t'y,y
t'jayo,,s"n Marguerite st, Clair
Miss nsd,s,.. ~ Frederic Solomon
S iss nuuley the younger Margaret Merriman
E,a.,r - p t,s. Florence Ware
Martin Bennett . Svdneu nroe nj ~. .o
S,isannah Bennett - ryiara Sr ,,n. ~, III ~
Honoria Rennctt ..... 49, II atHias, N rJnTav
Ernest Bennett .. - = 'I ~ rr r.1i y, ~
Jane Bennett .,..,. : I en Il, ~ No, a,yn
Matilda Bennett .. = J lana 'T UaiInv
Mary Anne Bennett Marrow Nj cr" "a, ,,cs
simeon Bennett ..,.,....... Icssc Wiii3n ghs ,m
Charles Bennett ..,...t Cha r,es T :, ~,
Anastasa Bennett ...... J,Iie Esstrom
Jalnes Bennett ..,...,,,. " Charles Hail
John Bennett. ...... Carlisle Hlacktnn
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Up and Doom the Columns of the German Press

preston to their feelings by this form
of obstruction"
According to another version, the 81
lence had somewhat different meaning;
it was meant as protest against the
action of the stakeholder, who, in calling
the Legislature together, announced that
no utterance would be tolerated regard
ing the independence of Alsace-L Lorraine
or its attachment to another federal
state of Germany. According to the
"Berliner Tageblatt," the Legislature met
again week later and passed in fifteen
minutes a number of government bills
with not one word of debate. Then the
members adjourned and went home
again.
And now all Germany is asking what
these mute parliamentary sittings"
mean.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
You Have to Pay Dearly
to Get Married

OVEN the German marriage ceremony
IL has been struck by the rush of war
prices. Couples, indeed, who are con-
tent to be tied up by wholesale at the
regulation hour set aside for the cere
mony inside the church, will continue to
be married free; but those who make
greater pretensions and call for a spe-
clal ceremony of their own will paw so
per cent more than hitherto. If inside
the church they will pay 18 marks, in
place of II. But that is the fee for
simple marriages only, with no great
display; if, however, there is Especial
ornamentation," the charge will be $50
marks, instead of 25. A similar in
crease has been made in the baptismal
fee in cases where the ceremony is bv
special appointment.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

or copper fittings Of doors and windows
in private houses has been begun at Ber-
lin. The Charlottenburg town council
has recently been discussing the matter
The council protested against the low
prices to be paid for the confiscated ar
ticles, and demanded that substitute
parts made of iron or steel be put in by
the military authorities in place of those
taken away. Some members of the coun-
Gil thought that the time had not vet ar
rived for this form of confscation. in
asmuch as there were still numerous
monuments of no artistic value in Ber-
lin, and the copper roof of the Castle
Church was still intact. But the monu-
ments will get their turn, too. for. ac-
cordlng to later news, the Prussian Min
lister OF War informed a committee of
experts that a considerable part of the
monuments of Germany would have to be
melted down. The minister has already
requested the various German states to
prepare lists of the public monuments
IN them. indicating which could be most
easily spared for war purposes.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
TURP|TUDE. s;s'ss, s:ss;;;,.: D'ss;ss:s, iss:,:s,
Baseness or Vileness;
Shameful Wicked
ness; Depravity.

What tolloars is reprinted from a
pamphlot gotten ont By "The Manu-
facturers Record" avhich offers
these prefatory facts:
August Thyssen, one of Gcrmany's great
est steel manufacturers, has made reve-
lation of Gcrmany's official and individual
perfdy and turpitude that is of more i'm
portance than all the diplomatic revelations
now coming to the front, which have
stamped Germany the greatest criminal
in history
Herr Thyssen is personally known to
many Of the leading iron and steel men Of
America. Some years ago, with other Euro
pean iron manufacturers, he attended a
meeting in this country and was esteemed
by his acquaintances a man of supposed
high integrity. He makes a revelation
which fully confirms all that Otto H. Kahn
said when he declared that the whole Ger
people had sold their souls to the devil
for the promise of material prosperity
through miitarism.
August Thyssen is about seventy eight
wears old,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
stXV1e Shall Not Merely
w Occupy India

The Emperor was particularly enthu-
siastic over the coming German conquest
of India. "1ndia," he said, "is occupied
by the British. 1t is in a way governed
by the British but it is by no means
completely governed by them. We shall
not merely occupy India. We shall con-
quer it, and the vast revenues that the
British allow to be taken by Indian
princes will, after our conquest, flow in
a golden stream into the fatherand. In
all the richest lands of the earth the Ger
man flag will fly over every other flag"
Finally the Emperor concluded:
81 am making you no promises that can
not be redeemed, and they shall be redeemed
if you now prepared to make the sacri-
fees which are necessary to secure the posi-
tion that our country must and shall occupy
in the world He who refuses to help is a
traitor to the fatherland; he who helps
willingly and generously will have his rich
reward"
All sounded, I admit, tempting and
alluring, and though there were some
who viewed rather obviously the pros
pect of Germany being able to conquer
the world in year, the majority of bust
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
No Scarcity of Tonnage
NOTWITHSTANDING Germany's

NOTWITHSTANDING Germ any's
Y heavy losses in commercial vessels
during the war, she will have no scarcity
OF tonnage after the war, in the opinion
of Herr Huldermann, one of the directors
OF the Hamburg-America line. This
opinion was based partly upon the fact
that 40 per cent Of German tonnage be-
fore the war was engaged on voyages be-
tween foreign ports and did no regular
business with German seaports. He said
that if Germany's aggregate tonnage be-
tore the war was 100000 tons it
would be brought up to 100000 tons
within three years after the war. at the
latest. And instead of there being a
scarcity OF tonnage, he thinks there will
be too much. "When one thinks of the
shortage Of raw Materials" he said. I'VE
shall have much too large commercial
fleet in ruined world"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02


however, against my better judgment.
In 1912 the Hohenzollerns saw that
the war had become a necessity to the
preservation of the military system upon
which their power depends. In that year
the Hohenzollerns might have directed,
if they had desired, the forei gn affairs of
our country so that peace would have
been assured in Europe for at least fifty
years. But prolonged peace would have
resulted certainly in the breakup of our
military system, and with the breakup
of our military system the power Of the
Hohenzollerns would come to an end
The Emperor and his family, as I said,
clearly understood this, and they there
fore, in 1912, decided to embark on a
great war of conquest.
But to do this they had to get the COM
mercial community to support them in
their aims. They did this by holding out
to them hopes of great personal gain as
a result of the war. In the light of
events that have taken place since Au
gust, 1914, these promises now appear
supremely ridiculous, but most of us at
the time were led to believe that they
would probably be realized.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
HOHENZOLLERN BLACKMAIL
The Amazing Confession of Partner
in a Nations Crime

and so the Hohenzollerns in the main got
their way. But, apart from the black
mailing of men who refused to pay any
more money into the Hohenzollern war
chest, let US see how the Hohenzollerns'
promises are working out. A circular
was sent out last March to a large num-
Der of business men by the Foreign Trade
Department which contained the follow
ing suggestion:
at will be wise for employers who have
foreign trade interests to employ agents in
foreign countries who can pass themselves
off as being of French or English birth.
German agents and travellers will probably
for some time after the have difficulty
in doing business not only in enemy coun-
tries, but in neutral countries. There will
undoubtedly be personal prejudice against
Germans that would probably make it diff
cult for representatives of German firms to
do business. Although this prejudice will
not interfere with German trade, as it will
be merely of personal character, it will
facilitate trading transactions if employers
will employ agents who pass as French or
English, preferably, or as Dutch, American
or Spanish"
So this is the prospect we are faced
with after the war. The meaning of this
circular in plain language is this: So
loathed and hated have Germans become
outside their own country that no one
will want to have any personal dealings
with them after the war
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Goodby to All Table
cloths

NO more tablecloths will be obtain
L y able for household use during the
rest OF the war. Some time ago the table
linen OF hotels was mostly confscated,
but now the screw has received fur
ther turn with an order for confiscating
cloths and napkins in all stores. When
the present stocks in households have
worn out people will have to eat their
scanty meals on the bare tables, unless
they can get paper tablecloths The an
nouncement on the subject adds that
"stuffs made of pure paper yarns are
exempt"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Costly Axle Grease

THAT the German farmers are using
Il butter as axle grease was recentlv
admitted by country member of the
Prusslan Chamber. He explained it bv
asserting that ordinary axle grease was
very much higher even than butter. This
use of so precious an article throws a
striking light upon the famine conditions
now prevailing in Germany. The regu-
lar butter ration of the people is only a
little more than two ounces a week, and
those who can buy it clandestinely will
lngly pay more than So a pound. Yet
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
No Record So Damning and Damnable

OR
~ and n consideration fGema
o vl,andor penonalproG oGpedged
in a hh knew m h of iNonso odirsand
The nHed into
Hn
tn be o enormous o6tswhnh
is % nn dbe fanadrw (which hdennelyco
o of tn
humanhS reeof ofnoaldep
h in mand dFrnceup
hhe all
h and would world donquec shas smuched
ew Record
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
ushing Trade in Russia

q ERMAN designs for pushing trade
~ opportunities in Russia are evil
dent in the announcement that instruc-
ton in the Tartar language is to be given
at the "Oriental Seminar" of the Berlin
University. "The Tartar language says
the "Vossische Zeitung" in this connec-
ton. "is spoken by the Mahometans in
the interior of Russia and Siberia, and
as large part of Russia's trade is, in
their hands the Tartar language will be
important for us after the war for busi
ness purposes"