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as pianist, and so on and 50 on. have
in my minds eye one or two young
people who are expert accompanies.
and nothing else. They are known to
purposes have never been heard of by
the public. And unless they develop q
talent for composing or conducting,
their light is likely TO be hidden under
bushel until the moment arrives when
both, the public and the critics show q
proper appreciation Of their worth.
There Is no use in further laboring the
DOintn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
CHARLES O. BANKS.

Celebrated Musician. Organist and Choir
Director OF Saint Paul's Church prnnI, !
lyn. Will give organ recitals monthly. be-
ginning October e. to which the public
10 lnVlted At these recitals Mr. Banks viii
have tho assistance Of an eminent artist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

fore the public than there are accom-
panists. But what inducements are
held out to the average young must
clan to turn his attention to this all
important branch of the art? II he
be ambitious, he knows full we'll the
very limited possibilities there are of
becoming famous, because who takes
notice or cares about the accompanist,
unless he be very bad? If he cares
for public applause-and let it be re-
membered that this is one Of the chief
rewards given to any artist for his
labors--he will get none of it! If he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

maintain that the gift to accompany
is just as great gift as voice, and
is just as rare-in fact, rarer. Ger
tain it is that there are far more
good vocalists and instrumentalists be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

brings the saloon into his story ex-
cept as a setting for Bret Harte
lynching or an 0. Henry sleight-of-
hand. Yet things are different here
The we'll ordered, neatly scrubbed
taproom Of the Pig and Whistle"
or the Purple Cow" makes per-
fectly respectable setting for a love
scene. The hero might even propose
to the heroine in such setting,
something hardly possible in "Mur-
phys Place"
In writing of "Pussyfoot' johnson
and his campaign in this country,
one finds it almost an impossibility
to find an important, impartial
source Of confidence in his success.
Yet sought big business man. a
man who employs nearly 10000 la
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
France Dubious

johnson hasn't much to say Of the
prospects of success in France.
That must come later on he ad
mits. Those people over there live
on alcohol, and it might be danger
GUS to take it away from them too
suddenly. Besides, the point that so
many people miss about our work
is this: We don't want to go to a
country like France and say: Here,
you must give up drinkingn We
want to educate the people TO a
point where they will realize that
this thing ['this thing is the way
johnson almost invariably refers to
alcohol is bad for them, and have
them give it up themselves"
Great Britain, Johnson believes.
will probably be the hardest nut to
crack. That he hasn't become dis
couraged at the prospect, after see
ing from the inside the difficulties
that confront him, says worlds for
his powers of OPTIMISM
He has started in his camnaign in
Scotland. And he has enlisted on
his side most valuable ally. Mrs.
David Lloyd George, wife of the
British Premier, has joined forces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

nations in which Johnson's agents
have been effectively fighting John
Barleycorn. In the first named coun-
try a system whereby licenses to
sell liquor are granted by local mag
istrates is in force. "Pussyfoot" be-
ieves in working on the magistrates.
Already many of the small commune
ties are dry, and others nearly so,
through the influence of league
workers with the magistrates, who
refuse to issue the necessary IL
censes. In Esthonia and Letvia the
Germans once controlled the liquor
traffic, and to-day anti-German feel
ing is responsible for the adoption
of prohibition by majority of the
people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

The "World League Against AL
coholism," with headquarters at pres
ent in Washington, is the organiza-
ton for whose spread to Europe
Johnson is paving the way. 1t is
intended to establish central bureaus
of the league in London, Paris, Ber-
lin and other European capitals,
with branches reaching into the Far
East, and to every inhabited portion
of the globe. This is no local cam
paign on which "Pussyfoot" is en-
gagged. His ambition to make the
world dry" knows no barriers.
Already an example of the spread
of the "dry" movement is to be seen
in the recent result of the Nor
wegian plebiscite on the subject Of
prohibition of spirits. By a large
majority Norway now prohibits the
sale of any spirits except light wines
and beer.
Sweden may go next" johnson
said. ALREADY we have a majority
in the lower House at Stockholm.
and we're working on the upper. In
couple of months now there will
be bill before both houses provid-
ing for prohibition"
Denmark, Esthonia, Letvia and
Finland are some Of the other small
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

Mr.. -Pussytoot-Yo" ought to prohibit the
selling Of drink, and put do,on the terrible rce.
John Bull-But you'd haze more success,
Mr.. Pussy, think, if you'd put dozen the ter
vible pricel Reynolds Newspaper London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Viii he 60 dry?" We don't think!
Mall Gazette

johnson brought with him to Eng
land an unfailing sense of humor.
For about two months he had the
run of the town, without hindrance
or movie men. Then a London
newspaper discovered" him. And
great was the cutlery thereat. For
days the sole topic of interest was
this American prohibitionist who
had slipped into England unnoticed
and was trying to make sociability
a crime and substitute dope and
vice for the temperate use of neces-
sary stimulants," as one editor an
nounced.
With a hue and cry the news
hounds of Fleet Street were on his
trail, and he became the most in
tervlewed, most "movied" celebrity
IN the country. His mornings mail
assumed mountainous proportions.
Postcards, bitter, witty and merely
vulgar, flowed into his office from
every part of the British Isles. He
was offered several opportunities to
fight, or to come and be lynched.
Every anonymous" writer with a
ha'penny took a fling at "Pussy-
foot And he chuckled over them
all and some of the best ones he
stuck up on his desk.
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The Workers Tiesc

This is the Big Business view
point. But it doesn't carry much
weight with the British working
man. AT present the latter is so
underpaid and gets so little from
life that the argument, used freely
by Johnson's opponents, that stupe-
faction is the workingman's legiti-
mate recreation, carries the day.
Besides the passive resistance with
which Great Britain is meeting
Johnson's efforts there is beginning
to develop some anti-prohibition
force along the old, and, to an
American, easily recognized lines
Embryo "anti-tobacco" campaigns,
which spring up in the night, get the
desired publicity, and then dissolve;
long letters, articles and editorials
IN the press concerning the increase
in the use of dope and the growing
ceses Of insanity in places already
dry; these and other wet argu-
ments which fool no one who has
been through a prohibition cam
paign, are beginning to put in an
appearance.
Even the appearance of malicious
counter campaigns fails to disturb
'Pussyfoot's' equanimity.
Gust get them thinking" he says;
that's my first step"
Meanwhile, no matter how much
thinking she is doing, England is
doing a lot of laughing And sing
ing:
s. You need miM, to make you
J,lsky,
Bat gre me good Scotch whisky,
SO Get! Seat is my advice to you"
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you can lead horse to tcn;er, but You cannot make
him drinks London Moruug Advertiser

friends with the English is that
he is the very antithesis of that
typical American" No quicter,
more unassuming, self -effacing indi-
vidual ever occupied a position of
equal prominence.
In fact, as he told The Tribune a
short while ago, he considers HIM
self merely as sort of John the
Baptist" for a greater thing to come.
He would prefer to merge his own
personality with that of the cause
instead of being its fgurehead. But
England, having discovered" him,
will never permit that now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Making Stories

His door was open to all. He re-
ceived everybody, particularly the
reporters. If there wasn't an obvi-
Gus story for the day, he "made"
one. l would rather interview John
son than almost any prominent man
ever here. One is sure of an enter
tanning hour. The English "jour-
ralists" couldn't quite make him out.
BY all rights, he should have had a
tendency to cloven hoofs and tail,
Or at least high, funeral hat, and
black cotton gloves. Instead they
found him
"a stout, sturdy, studious, specta-
cled, bald-headed man, about
forty-five or fifty years of age,
with round face and tendency to
double-chin, rather thick feat
ures, large round eyes, long up
per lip, with short stubby mus
tache--and laugh, laugh which
lights up his whole erstwhile seri-
Gus countenance and shakes his
whole body, an infectious laugh
which makes you join him and
hope for another"
Somehow, despite the educating
influences of the war, England still
maintains her tradition as to what
constitutes a typical American"
just as the American stage still por-
trays "an Englishman" as the fop
with spats and a drawl. And it must
be admitted that one of the charac-
teristics Of that typical" American,
as seen through English eyes, was
blatancy, with a little tendency to-
ward braggadoccio.
No small part of the secret of w.
E. Johnson's success An making
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

Of which you have heard so much
and believe so little, you can't, with
out the little expedient Of breaking
the law, buy drink Of hard LIQUOR"
They just can't grasp it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

Of which you have heard so much
and believe so little, you can't, with
out the little expedient Of breaking
the law, buy a drink Of hard liquor"
They just can't grasp it.
4 Huge Task
That is feeble portrayal Of the
density Of incomprehensibility into
which "Pussyfoot" johnson had to
infuse the light of prohibition. Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, championing
splritualism, has a cinch compared
with the task.
Yet he is undismayed.
ut may not come in my time" he
says cheerfully, "nor in yours,
sonny, but it's Oh the way"
w. E. johnson came to this, coun-
try early in the spring Of this year,
unheralded and unsung. He opened
his little Office on what they call the
first floor when they mean the Sec
ond, at SO Fleet Street, right in the
heart Of London's newspaperdom.
And not a reporter discovered his
presence for two months He didn't
say word to any one himself, being
the last man in the world to 20 out
and seek the publicity which he now
accepts as beneficial, since 1t comes
from his opponents. He just set
quietly to work.
Educating myself" he says,
with a chuckle. "It gave me a
chance to learn something about
these folks over here. And, do you
know. I like them! Why, they're
fine people! I've been to some din
ners given by brewers, where l was
supposed to speak, and people came
just to laugh at me. And ] spoke
and I gave them Hades, straight
from the shoulder. And they GER
tainly treated me nicely"
His Good Nature
If Mr.. johnson considers the
present treatment -- which Is, Of
course, largely good natured, since
they can't take him serously--as
"nice," England may just as we'll
give up the Job Of trying to faze
this disciple Of aridness. Because
it must be admitted that some of
the newspaper comment, particu-
larly from papers controlled by
brewing interests, is decidedly not
mice" from an impartial point of
view.
johnson has to take the worst of
everything, have his speeches
twisted just enough to make them
ridiculous and his every action por-
trayed as the antics Of quack. But
it all rolls of his back like water
OF duck. Among other things,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
SiCeeP it array
London Morning Advertiser

with Johnson in what will be
twelvemonths' effort to enlighten
Scotland on the subject Of prohi-
bition before the question comes up
for local option next fall.
Mrs Lloyd George is a forceful
speaker and brilliant driving force
in any campaign she undertakes.
She is taking care of the feminine
objective, speaking to meetings of
women while johnson tackles the
men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
To the Englishman
"There Amt No
Such Animal" As
Prohibition

borers and vast clerical staff scat
tered over the country. Over
whisky and soda he said that if
would not use his name he would
give his honest opinion.
Il think it's coming"
This from a man who has as much
faith in the humane tradition" az
the next.
Il don't think this man Johnson
will do it," he added, "although I
suppose if England ever does 90
dry that he will have been one of
the chief factors. But | think we will
do it ourselves. Wen come to it.
Well have to. Now, III tell you why
think SO. It's a business question
pure and simple. You folks in the
States have a tremendous advantage
over US, in more ways than one, but
one of those ways is your prohibi-
ton. You can get more out of your
workman and he can have better
time, too.
II regard it as simply a question
Of business; for on moral grounds
you could never in q thousand years
overcome the habits and prejudices
and established customs Of this coun-
try; and on medical grounds they
would be arguing till Doomsday; but
just let manufacturers like myself
see that it's good thing, and that
will make a tremendous difference.
I'm for 'Pussyfoot "
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A Task For " omen

Women came to the fore when
the war was on she says, land
went to the rescue Of those who
suffered from It's ravages in Bel
GUM and Franco. Now We have a
peace time duty-to rescue our own
countrymen who are suffering from
the ravages of alcohol Women can
lead this campaign--women can
make it succeed"
The wife of the Premier has al
ways been an ardent prohibitionist.
Several years ago there was an Incl
dent in which she succeeded in clos
ing "Paddy's Goose" one of the
most notorious public houses in the
East End Of London, and reopening
it shortly as soup-kitchen to feed
the poor.
Mrs. Lloyd George is not actually
member of Johnson's Scotland
party. She is working quite indie
pendently, but along the same lines.
She is an admirer of Johnsons, but
obviously prefers to keep her efforts
separate. On his part, "Pussyfoot"
is delighted to have so prominent
and valuable an ally. He. too. feels
that women can do as much if not
more than men in bringing prohibi-
ton to pass
No English newspaper would ever
admit the possibility Of Johnson
succeeding. Yet when he opened his
Scotland campaign and wherever
he spoke packed the halls and had
columns Of his speeches in the local
press, there was mild furry in
Fleet Street. The "Globe" was
amusing. Without actually admit
ting the possibility of Scotland go
ing dry, it took great pains to point
out emphatically that should such a
thing occur nothing must be al
lowed to interfere with its great
national export trade"
AS for England itself, impartial
observers feel that Johnson is under
taking too stuff task. Even SYM
pathetic journals, such as The
Manchester Guardian and "Tbe
Westminster Gazette" hold out little
hope Of success. The former be-
lieves that there is a sort of ..hu-
name tradition surrounding the
consumption of alcohol in this conn
try which makes prohibition we'll
nigh impossible.
In America, for instance, the
Guardian points out, no author
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
By Frank Getty

NJ clubs and music halls, Eng
land goes into paroxysms
Of mirth when the orches-
ira swings into this latest popular
song. OF course, it was written by
an American rag-time composer
(they don't know what a backyard
Is In England), but that Is another
story; the sentiments are undoubted-
ly English.
About the same time each evening
that London audiences and dancers
are rocking with laughter and plead
ing with the orchestra for an en-
core, the object of their amusement
is winding up his speech to an over
flow crowd in one of the little Scot
fish villages where local option is
soon to be an issue at the polls.
England is making lot of noise
over "Pussyfoot," and enjoying it.
self hugely at each new quip at his
expense. W. e. johnson, who is the
head Of the prohibition movement in
England, is working very quietly.
He welcomes the notoriety with
which the opposition is keeping him
supplied.
"Let them laugh" says Mr.. John
son. No one enjoys a laugh more
than he. "Let them laugh and sing
about me, and draw funny pictures
Of me. Then next year we'll have a
little voting, and then We'll see."
But if Johnson takes himself seri-
ously, it must be admitted few Eng
lishmen, or women, for that matter.
do. 1t is by no means contempt for
the man himself that belittles him
in their eyes. Few Americans are
more popular personally than W. E.
johnson himself. He can step out
during the afternoon and make
friends with half dozen Of the most
bitter "wets." But it's because he Is
the figurehead of a campaign which
rs 80 completely incomprehensible to
the average Englishman that he cam
not be taken as anything but huge
1oke--yet Johnson himself says it's
true, but he emphasizes that little
word yet.
Uncomfortable
To the average Englishman prohi-
bition Is an inconceivable unreality.
1t Is an actual fact that his mind
cannot focus on q situation in which
liquor did not exist. Even though
the newspapers, and, later, travellers
themselves, from the United States
told OF prohibition as it had come TO
North America, deep down In his
inner consciousness he remains Arm
ly convinced that "there amt no SIGH
animal"
do you mean to say" ono will
ask, do you mean to say that II I
go into hotel in New York and
tell the chappie to bring me a
whisky and soda he won't do so9"
"And your workingmen." another
wants to know, chow about them?
You can't tell me they'll go on work.
ing without beer"
And your public dinners''-this
Is always crushing argument
"how can you possibly have public
dinners and toasts and things with
q: wine?"
Then the little knot around the
swings into the endless-chain
araxment about the need for alcohol
in the human system, and breaks up
at closing time convinced that the
"Yanks are spoofing u.s.
1t doesn't do any good at all to
say:
''hfy English friends, these argu-
ments are all very fine. They may
be true. In fact, / rather like the
sound Of them myself. But the fact
remains prohibition is there. It Is
4 Ait accomph. And North, South,
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