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New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
WOmen's Club Leaders
1ndorse Jury Duty Bill
Adopt Resolution Urging That
Talesman Service Be Ex-
tended to Them

The question, "Do women want to
be qualified for jury duty?" was an
swered at conference yesterday after
noon in the clubrooms of the Profes-
sional Woman's League, 81 West Forty
eighth Street, when a resolution in
dorsing bill about to be brought be-
fore the New York Legislature was
passed unanimously by women repre-
senting important clubs of the city.
The meeting was called by the
Brooklyn Women's Bar Association and
was attended by the presidents of
women's clubs of New York City.
The Brooklyn Women's Bar Associ-
alton has sought the enactment of q
bill empowering women to act as jurors
in New York State. The bill, which
will probably be presented this week,
has the Endorsement Of all Supreme
Court judges but one, the support of
District Attorneys throughout the
state, Of the Commissioner of Jurors
of Kings and New York County and
of many we'll known lawyers.
Additional Endorsements of the bill
have been received from Judge Thomas
G. T. Grain, Of the Supreme Court, and
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, of the Court
of General Sessions, while Judge A. F.
jerks, Of the Appellate Division, and
Judge Martin T. Manton, Circuit Court
of Appeals, have agreed to speak for
the measure at public meeting of the
Brooklyn Women's Bar Association in
the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
next Friday.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Sheriff Griffin Ascribes
Crimes to Use of Drugs
Finds Addicts Increase, Short
age of Policemen and Courts
Are Too Lenient

Habit forming drugs have inspired
most of the recent crimes of violence
that have shocked the public and
puzzled the police, according to Sheriff
Daniel Griffin of Kings County. Drugs
also were responsible, Sheriff Griffin
said yesterday, for many more crimes
which were entered on police records
the existence of which were not
suspected by the public because of the
Police Departments policy Of secrecy
concerning them.
The situation was most serious
Sheriff Griffin said, and was beyond the
control of policemen simply because
their numbers were insufficient to meet
it. The shortage of policemen, he
thought, was partly responsible also
for the spread of the drug evil. The
courts, also, were too lenient with drug
addicts. He told of one patrolman who
admitted that he could not cover his
entire post in an eight-hour tour, al
though he had managed to "do" seventy
blocks once.
The police have made no apparen,
progress in the solution Of the dozen
or SO murders that the last few weeks
have piled up on them, and a new list
of hold-ups and robberies made then
spread their activity bit thinner.
In the case of the murder of Joseph
,Holbach and his wife at South Ozone
Park detectives arrested man who
resembled a material witness. The
prisoner denied all knowledge of the
crime and was paroled when District
Attorney Ryan of Queens County de
clined to accept responsibility for the
arrest.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Sheriff Knott
Would Abolish
Death Penalty
New York Official Declares
Electrocution or Hanging
Relic of Dark Ages; Life
imprisonment Favored

Sheriff David H. Knott, in speech
at the Victory Dinner" of the second
panel sheriff's jury at the Hotel 3it-
more last night, advocated the aboh-
ton of capital punishment in New
York State. Calling upon his hearers,
who included nearly all the justices
of the Supreme Court and judges of
criminal courts, for their active aid,
Sheriff Knott denounced killing by the
state as "a barbaric custom that con-
fused justice with vengeance"
He, said that crime statistics of other
states, where capital punishment has
been abolished. proved that life i'm
prlsonment for murder is as effective
as death, besides being more nearly
within the spirit of the times.
"When the state resorts to capital
punishment" said the Sheriff, at does
not do away with the injury which the
criminal has done to others. Society
would be equally well protected by
Furnishing the criminal with lifelong
exile. Our treatment of first degree
homicide is capital punishment-de death
by electrocution. Is it in line with
the newer justice? Is it in harmony
with the true end of punishment ?"
Sheriff Knott also paid a tribute to
the American army for its services in
Europe.
Some of the members Of the second
panel are Charles Thorley, foreman;
Henry Birrell, secretary; f. s. Chap
pelle, treasurer; Payne Whitney. Henry
Payne Whitney, Oliver H. Hartman,
Rodman Wanamaker, Newman Erb,
Joseph X. Choate, NJ. j. Dreicer, Mi
chael Friedsam. Louis j. Ehret, Daniel
6. Reid and John A. Harriss.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Bi-State Port Control
Favored by Merchants

The New York-New Jersey Port and
Harbor Development Commission gave
a hearing in the Aldermanic Chamber
yesterday on the proposed amendment
TO the treaty between New York and
New Jersey for the government of the
fort Of New York, under which a joint
commission for the development of the
Port would be established.
The amendment also provides for
the creation of. Port of New York
District, under the direction of the
ccm mission. modelled after the Port of
London Authority, and which will be
known as "The New York Port Au-
thority." The new commission is to
consist of six members, three from
each state, two of the New York mem
bers coming from New York City.
This commission, it is provided, shall
have power to acquire and operate any
terminal or transportation facility in
the district, issue bonds and fix and
collect rates for the use of the facili-
ties it may acquire or develop. The
bounds of the district have not vet
been outlined.
James f. Wallace, of the Chamber Of
Commerce, voiced that body's approval
of the measure. The chamber, he said,
fully indorses the project, which, he
said, is in the interest of both states.
Byron r. Newton, Collector of the Port,
approved of the measure, as did also
Lindon M. Bates and Richard G. Harri-
son. secretary of the City Club. Tho
only objector was Captain James A.
Campbell, boat owner, who urged in
stead the Improvement Of the East and
Bronx rivers
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Food Is Cheaper,
Bslt Retailers Try
ToConceal Fact
downward Trend of Prices
Most Marked in Butter and
Eggs; Chain Stores First
TO Let Consumers Know

The cost of living is at last regis
bring the effects of the end of the
.,r merchants and food market en-
,srts agreed yesterday, when the price
of butter dropped another three cents
O mound and q dozen eggs became one
halt cent cheaper. In the last ten
davs butter has dropped eleven cents
. pound.
A comparison of the market quota
lions on wholesale food prices of yes
tardav and Of November II. when the
srmistice was signed, shows down
ward trend of the price of commodi-
ties. 1t does not effectively bring out
the present downward tendency Of the
market. because of a brief period of
higher prices caused by the uncertainty
attendant on the sudden advent of
peace.
rlain. are not noticeable in their bills,
the retailers in most instances prefer
ring TO keep the good news to them
selves. Almost all the chain stores,
however. are recognizing the lower
prices in their sales
Consumers who pay retailers the
same price for butter as they did ten
days afo are victims of their own negli-
gence. according to p. Q. Foy, local
food market expert. Mr.. Foy said yes
terdav that retailers will reduce their
rrices in time, but consumers can
hasten these reductions by vigorous de-
nands.
With the dscontinuance of the Fed
eral Food Boards official price bulletin,
1t is difficult to quote retail prices, due
to the different prices charged in stores
Of different grades.
The marked drop in the live poultry
market is due directly to the clothing
strike and the termination Of contracts
for manufacturing uniforms. These
factors together have thrown $4,000
persons out of work. most of them
residents of the Ghetto sections of the
city. where the greater part of the
live poultry is consumed.
Publication of the storage reports,
revealing tremendous stocks on hand,
account for the perceptible fall in meat
prices. These reductions, according to
Mr.. Foy, probably will be followed by
others. The general trend Of the but
ter, egg and meat market is downward
Fruits, potatoes and vegetables do not
show decreaSes from November IL. but
the seasonal increases are not in pro-
portion to those of other years. The
mild winter has limited the price ad-
vance and preserved hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in crops which last
gear were frozen.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
'Hylan Is Out When
Tenants ON Strike
Call to Protest
Go See Your Judge Women
Are Told by Mayors Guard
When They Ask Justice
in Dispute Over Rents

A delegation of women and children.
tenants evlcted from the house at $50
East 172d Street, The Bronx. called at
the City Hall yesterday afternoon to
seek the aid of Mayor Hylan in effect
ing compromise between themselves
and their former landlord. Mrs. Isidor
begowsky, who was forced to move out
her furnishings on Tuesday night, al
though her two children were lust re-
covering from influenza, acted as
spokesman for the delegation. Police
Lieutenant William Kennel, Who for
many years has acted as bodyguard for
the Mayors of the city, told the Wis
TORS, without inquiring to make GER
tain OF his statements. that the Mayor
was out ION special mission"
Mrs. Begowsky asked whether the
delegation could see Mavor Hv,an TO-
gay. She told a Tribune reporter later
that Lieutenant Kennel gruff1v an an
s"ered that che wouldn't saw" lie ad-
tLsed ". That the women appeal for aid to
.ne Charltlcs Commissioner, and whom
soiu Justce and not charity was wanted
i; ne re1erred them to "thc Judge in YOUR
uls.rlct,' according to Mrs. Regowskv
mats fine way for people of tie
Ny NY 70 % be received at the City Hall"
YRS Mrs. begowsky declared. eve Went
.nere 10 get help, and instead we we're
10 ,uld 10 see the judge II our district
we nave seen him, and it was because
ne+ 1v'toeu o,,t tS we must pay our rent or
Compromise Turned Down
According to Mrs. Begowskv. most of
,ne tenants of the house have been
11IV'ng there for at ieast three wears
ror several years the house has been
run by lessee, whose lease expired
recently. The original owner then took
cnarge. and on the plea of extensive
alterations increased rents from S3 TO
50 month. A nine months lease also
was mandatory.
Inc tenants objected to the raise
and the lease, to the latter mainly be-
cause OF a clause stating that the land
lord could, on five days notice. eiec.
any tenants who was undesirable to
him. AS compromise, the tenants Of
tered to pay 80 per cent of the increase
in rent and pledged themselves to give
two weeks notice if they intended to
move. This offer was turned down.
Of the women who called to see the
Mayor, Mrs. Begowsky has two chill
dren. One, five years old, accompanied
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Archbishop Cerretti Is
Entertained by Cardinal
Pope's Envoy Meets Dignitaries
of Catholic Church; Brings
Sealed Letter to Gibbons I
.SnecinL (.orresno,,.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.r-Archbishop
Cerretti, the under-secretary Of state
at the Vatican, who was sent as E.
special envoy Of Pope Benedict XIV to
honor Cardinal Gibbons upon the oc-
casion Of his golden jubilee, and also to
bring message to the American people
from the Pope, was entertained this
afternoon at luncheon in the Cardi-
nails home.
The Archbishop brought sealed
letter to tll Cardinal from the Pope.
The letter, which is in Latin, is of a
personal nature, and tells the Cardi-
nal in what high esteem he is held by
the Pope. The luncheon was attended
by number Of dignitaries of the
Catholic Church. The Archbishop. in
an address, paid high tribte to Cardi-
nal Gibbons. Speaking of the reception
accorded President Wilson in Europe,
he said the principles which the Ameri-
can President has never ceased to ex-
pound are based upon the general out
lines already traced by the Pope during
the critical period of the war. He also
said that there should be a general dis
armament of nations and an inter-
national court of arbitration.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Fifteen More Families
To Be Ordered Out TODAY

A climax IL expected in the strike Of
the tenants Of the apartment houses
at 8bB to 1854 East 172d Street this
morning. M. w. Hcrbst, representing
w. h. Keller, the owner of the build
ings, declared last night that he In
tended TO serve fifteen disposscss mo-
tices on as many families to-day
There was mass meeting Of the
tenants in the street. directly in front
Of the apartment houses last evening.
Twenty policemen we're present but no
effort was made to interfere with the
meeting. The only speakers were AS
sembiyman Samuel Orr and Alderman
Abraham Braumstein.
Earlier in the day the children Of
the striking tenants went downtown
and paraded in Nassau Street, in front
Of the office OF Mr.. Keller.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Pennsylvania System Absorbs
Cumberland Valley Road

PHILADELPHIA. Jan 22.-The Penn
sylvania Railway Company has alb
sorbcd the Cumberland Valley Railroad
as further step toward consolidating
thc system. This will be accomplished d
ny transferring to the parent corpora
tion the Cumberland Valleys property
ana franchises. Practically the entire
s, sock ls owned by tho Pennsylvania.
Upon me release Of the railroads from
Valley will be under the direction Of
It's president, M. C. Kennedy. who viii
then become mn officer of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. w
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
''When Is,a Policeman"
Is Question for Courts

John j. Kelly, patrolman on leave
of absence as member of the Office of
Naval Intelligence, who was to have
returned to police duty yesterday, was
Harlem police court charged with I'M
personating a policeman and with as
sault.
Samuel W. Lowenbein, of 2471 David
son Avenue, The Bronx, asserted that
Kelly said to him: "I'm an officer and
you're under arrest" at the subway sta
tion at Ninety-sixth Street and Lex
ington Avenue. Then, Lowenbein said,
Kelly inquired: "What is it worth to
you if let you go?" When Lowenbein
suggested that they go to a police sta
tion. Lowenbein said, Kelly punched
him in the face and kicked him down
stairs
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

Australian wheat to market is the prin-
cipal factor holding grain from these
countries off the market. Australia
is supposed to have a surplus of 2OO,-
100000 bushels of wheat, piled up by
successive large crops since the war
began, but grain men say that much Of
this is of poor quality owing to serious
deterioration through lack of proper
storage facilities. According to private
cable advices from Australia, the farm
ers have been guaranteed approx
mately 81 bushel by the common
E.ealth government for the 1918 crop
just harvested. Australia is shipping
some wheat for export, but the move
ment is limited by the shortage of
ocean tonnage.
Small amounts Of Argentine corn are
coming into this market at price only
slightly under the current spot quota
tions for corn in this market.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Modest Clothing Styles
And High Prices to Stay
Makers and Retailers So Decide
at a Joint Con-
ference

Beau Brummells and returned army
officers who pine for patch pockets,
belted coats, raglan sleeves and other
giddy masculine styles will have to re-
strain their longing for another year.
The conservation styles initiated at
the request of the War Industries
Board will be retained for the season
of 1919, according to the vote of the
National Association of Clothiers at the
Hotel Astor yesterday.
Ihere will be no reduction in the
cost of clothing. This decision was
arrived at after joint conference of
the National Association of Clothiers
and the National Association of Retail
Clothiers. Protests were voiced against
reports published to the contrary.
William Il. Corwine, secretary of the
Clothlers' Association, said: Retail
ers. as well as the public, seeing those
reports of reduced prices, are going to
expect reductions, and we are going to
have trouble explaining that conditions
which caused the high prices remain
unchanged.
Ludwig Stein, of B. Kuppenheimer g.
Co., Chicago, was elected president of
the association, and it was voted to
hold the next convention in CHICAGO
in December
Predictions of great prosperity for
the entire country during the next two
years were made last night at the
twenty third annual banquet of the
National Association of Clothiers. held
at the Hotel Astor. Edmund James
Cattell, City Statistician of Philadel-
phia, was the speaker who gave the
encouragement.
than LOCO of the leading clothiers of
the country every state in the Union
being represented.
Others who spoke we're d. Thomas
Curtin a representative of the North
cliffe press, who served as a war cor
respondent for over four years, and
DR.. Felix Frankfurter, chairman of
the War Policies Board of the Depart
ment Of Labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
her, while the other, eight, is ill and
being nursed by friend.

her, while the other, eight, is i'll and
being nursed by friend.
Others in the delegation were Mrs.
r. Schwartz and her two children. six
years and four years old; Mrs. Goss-
man with her four-year-old child. the
other, six, being in school; Mrs. Mala-
mud and her tive-year-old boy; Mrs
Golub with one child, her other two
being in school, and Mrs. Rocker and
her two children, six and eight years
old
The women said that while they had
no definite plans they intended writ
ing letter to Mayor Hylan and max
ing an appointment with him. We'll
see then whether some policeman at
the door will tell us the Mayor is out
on special mission" one of them
remarked. "Yes," interiected another.
"and we'll see, too, whether Mayor
Hylan really means what he says about
getting after rent prcfteers."
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
u. S. Bars English Livestock

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Upon noti-
tication from British authorities that
foot and mouth disease has broken out
again in England, the Bureau of Animal
Industry has cancelled all permits for
importation of cattle, sheep and swine
from that country, and is taking special
precautions for the inspection and
quarantine of such animals now en-
route to the United. States. British
veterinarians are said to have the
outbreak under control.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Cleveland Moffett's
New Novel
Possessed"
Has Every Woman Two
Natures? Have You?

Cleveland Moffett's new novel.
Possessed" is based upon this
theme of a woman's dual per
sonality. There has been nothing
like it since DR.. Jehyll and Air.
Hyde.
Penelope Wells is a beautiful
and highly accomplished young
woman. The story tells what
happens when such a woman,
emotionally starved, but spirit
ually aspiring, meets the one
right man There follows the in
evltable conflict between her two
natures, between her desire for
her lover and her desire to main
tain her ideal of chastity. Pencil
ope, gazing into the goldfish
bowl, sees vision OF herself-her
other self-in the arms of Cap
tain Herrick, her lover. Is this
vision a matter of memory or ef
imagination? Would she be
capable-would her other self be
capable of such conduct? She
appeals to her physician, a psy-
chologist and neurologist, for help.
This wonderful psychological
story, the revelation of woman's
soul, is Cleveland Moffett's
greatest novel 1t begins in
February PHYSICAL Gull
TURE. If you read the first
dramatic page, you will read the
entire story 1t will stir YOU.
mystify you, interest you. 1t is
a masterpiece of feminine
psychology.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
After War Drop i'm Living Cost Begins
Comparative Table on
Food Price Reduction

The following table of current
wholesale prices and those of No
vember II interpret the course of
the food market since the armis-
tice and show the housewife
whether her retailer has been
passing on the changes:
Nov. II. Present.
Best creamery but
ter, lb. ......... .63 SO
Lower grade cream
cry, lh ......... go .53
Best white eggs,
UOACI ...p Luz IL
Best brown eggs. 80 .68
Western best eggs. III .66
Live poultry
Chickens, lb... SO .28
Fresh killed
turkeys IA AZ
Geese, Western,
fancy 80 80
Geese, mixed go. 1892 1882
Fowls, dry picked. SO .35
BOOSTERS ......... .27 .26
Chickens, dry
packed ......... .37 SO
Meats
Dressed calves,
fancy, lb. ....... 80 .23
Calves, fair to good 20 20
Calves, common. -. 20 .16
Live spring lambs. .16% Is
Roasting pigs -. 1924 1880
Dressed hogs .... .26 .19
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

You thought China was the
worst Of all drug-sodden coun-
tries. Americas consumption of
opium, per capita, is far greater!
1t is estimated that there are
more than a million snd a half
victims of habit-forming drugs
in the United States-more by
far than there are victims of
tuberculosis! We now consume
more habit-forming drugs than
all Europe combined! Men,
women, even little children, are
enslaved by the insidious habit
which is sweeping into its clutch
each year an additional 100000
victims.
Paregoric is the newest of ter
rlbie scourges. 1t contains $780,
alcohol and 1870 opium-a shot
Of "booze" that would satisfy
the most exacting topper, and a
dose of morphine equivalent to
that usually given a normal
adult! And the present law per-
mits you to buy q barrel of it at
any drug store!
In the. February issue of
PHYSICAL CULTURE MAGA-
ZINE, Edwin F. Bowers, M. D.,
contributes powerful article
how Drug Fiends Are Made"
1t vii! open your eyes to a con-
dition that you probably never
dreamed existed in this country.
Read it.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

Only small percentage of peo-
pie maintain their correct weight.
Most of us are either too thin or
too fat. 1t is better to be too thin
than to be too fat, but at the
same time it indicates a state of
exhaustion and a lack of energy
and efficiency.
The thin person usually makes
a mistake in thinking that he
wants to be "fat," but the truth
is that what he wants is more
health. Normal health will give
him normal weight-mere con-
sumption of oil and other fat
making food ariU not. What he
wants is more healthy blood, more
firm, healthy flesh. Instead of
putting on twenty-five pounds of
fat, you should put on twenty
five pounds of health. 1t can be
done in very simple, gentle and
easy manner, without medica-
ton of any sort. without any
special apparatus.
In the February issue of
PHYSICAL CULTURE MAGA-
ZINE, Bernarr Macfadden shows
you the way to put on Is pounds
of hcdith-not fat. Every man or
woman should read this article.
1t is one of the best articles of it's
kind ever written.
Evening star., 1919-08-17

The stockingless era began
at Atlantic City when Mrs.
Harry Shore was the first to
appear on the boardwalk with
bare ankles.
Photo by Press Illustrating Nryicr.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01

modified or abolished by American in
PREVENTION.
The result is simple, but ii is unmis.
taxable. Every continental nation still
finds itself for financial reasons oblig-
ed to continue to show respect and
even Difference to American demands,
but belief in American proposals for
the league of nations has diminished
DAY by day for many weeks.
Reaction Against America.
Little by little. despite its financial
burdens, Europe is beginning to reas-
sert itself. The reaction against Amer
lean domination and American ideas
is the single striking circumstance at
the present moment. If Europe still
does lip service to the league OF ma.
lions it is because 1t still has regard
for American financial resources and
food supplies. But aside from this
Europe mean the continent, whose
condition and history differ radically
from those of England is rapidly,
very rapidly, approaching situation
in which 1t will prefer financial bank
ruptcy to what 1t conceives will mean
political bankruptcy, following further
submission to American ideas. wheth-
er expressed in the league of nations
covenant or the fourteen points, and
every observant American. every sen
sitive American, is painfully aware OF
this fact today.