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New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Dry Enforcement Bill
Fails to Define Liquor

ALBANY, Feb. 10.-The prohibition
enforcement bill of the Anti Saloon
Lengue, which WAS introduced in the
Legislature tonight, does not contain
any clause defining Intoxicating bever-
ages, nor is there any mention. of the
percentage of alcohol that m Aht be
retained in liquors. The measure en-
bodies the substance of the present
state law on the subject, which does
not allow even per cent of alcohol in
beverages in dry territory. The bill
was introduced by Senator George f.
Thompson, of Niagara, md Assembly,
man Walter S. McNab, of Schenectady.
The bill provides that the duty on
enforcing the proposed law would be
entrusted to the present Excise Com
missioner, who would be called the
Commissioner of Public Welfare." a
physicians prescription is necessary
under the bill to obtain liquor. Recorcs
of sales by retail and wholesale drug
gists are required.
Provision would be made for the
search of premises where liquor is kept
contrary to law. But a qualifying
clause would provide that no warran,
should be issued to search a private
dwelling unless part of it is used as u
store or shop, cor unless the same is a
place of public resort or liquor is un
lawfully sold therein
By the terms of the measure cider
would be put in the non drinkable class
after 1t is one month old.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Army Sentences
BY Court Martial
Will BE Reduced
Baker Announces Plan 10
Review All Cases; About
$4,000 Trials Were Held
During Period Of War

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 Revision OF
sentences imposed by general court
martial for offences committed during
the war is to be made by board of
officers constituted in the office OF the
Judge advocate general of the army.
Secretary Baker announced to-day that
the result would be "a substantial re-
ductlon of the sentences in nearly all
cases save those Of the gravest char
acter."
The number of mli-tary prisoners
held at home and overseas who might
be affected was not made known, but
Mr.. Baker recently informed the SEN
ate that $1,000 trials by general courts
martial had been held since the be-
ginning of hostilities. Approximately
100000 other cases were heard. but az
the charges were not of a serious ma
ture the trials were by special or sum
mary courts.
THE cessation of hostilities and the
return to conditions approximating
those Of peace, said Mr.. Bakers state
ment render IL just and proper that
clemency be exercised toward pris-
ones convicted by general court mar
tial Tor Offences committed since the
beginning cf the war
with this end in view board con-
sisting OF officers of experience in civil
as well as military life has been con-
stituted in the judge advocates office
to examine the records Of these pris-
oners and enable the judge advocate
general 20 recommend to the Secretary
of War reduction Of sentences as the
facts and dictates of justice in each
case may warrant. The commandants
Of the barracks have been instructed to
forward promptly to the Judge advo-
cate general their Recommendation as
to each prisoner"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

nue.; Flora Mack Crawford, 47e Clinton
Avenue, and Mrs Hattie L. Dreyer, l25
Amity Street.
-, The Rev DR.. William Carter cf the
Ihroop Avenue Presbyterian Church,
wrote to Riegelmann:
nave been waiting, hoping against
nope, that you would reverse yourself
and reappoint Mr.. Jonas to the chair
manshlp Of the Brooklyn Victory Cele-
oratlon Committee and so save me the
necessity Of resigning from the COM
mlttee, to vfich you so generously ap-
pointed me.
We. who know your previous char
acter, Know that you must have been
hard pressed, wrought, perplexed in
Ihe extreme, to have done what you
nave done, but we expected you to be
aole TO stand under fire. to defy the
neasts that prey and hold your ground
Ilke man. Your better feelings
prompted that step; your hesitation in
me peglnnlng, proved it, and We are all
the more sad that at last you faltcred
Faitered and yielded to the enemy IN
the most crucial hour.
We all had hoped you would save
our committee from tho smirch and
stain already fastened upon similar
committee in Manhattan. We thoueht
you would keep our borough and Vic
tory committee free from Hearstism
and any charges of disloyal connection,
put SINCE you have not, it is nv DUTY
as patriotic Christian CLERGYMAN. as
see IT, to withdraw nv name from
the committee and ask you to accent
my resignation"
Many letters expressing similar
sentiment have been sent to Mr.. Jonas.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

gan must be sifted to the bottom.
Commissioner Enright owes a more
convincing explanation than he has yet
made to the people of this city"
"The Globe"
"John w Gof, ir.. who resigned as
Third Deputy Commissioner of Police,
quit the Office on the friendliest terms
with Commissioner Enright.< He gave
up his position, as he says, because
there is Il combination of cIrcum-
stances, including the Costigan affair,
which is not for the best interests of
the department. Mr., GoT is no fool.
mayor Hylan has approved Costi-
gan's reduction in rank and the shear
ing of his power If Police Commits
sioner Enright can take any satisfac-
tion in this Endorsement of most
questionable procedure from man of
Mr. Hylan's standing in the community
he is easily satisfied. But he can be
sure that the Mayors words VIII not
remove the painful impression created
by the incident among the decent cle-
ment Of the people. Not one bit of evi-
dence has yet been produced to prove
that other than sinister motives were
behind the Costigan affair"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Admiral Wilson Is ILL;
Comes Home With Wilson

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-Vice-Ad-
miral Henry B. Wilson, commanding the
American naval forces at Brest, France
has pneumonia. Admiral Sims notified
the Navy Department to-day that Ad-
mlral Wilson was stricken about Feb
ruary ] and was seriously ILL., but that
his condition showed slight improve
ment, and it was hoped he would be
able to return home on the flagship
New Mexico, assigned as one Of the
vessels to escort the TRANSPORT on
which President Wilson will return.
Admiral Wilson has been detailed to
command battleship force No. 2, the
modern dreadnought division of the
Atlantic fleet, now in Cuban waters.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
4BACkS UP ON
( COSTICAN FACTS

possibly he would not be able to verify
The Tribunc's story until to-day.
When told that the story was copy
righted. and had been read back to
Gof before it had been printed, he
said:
81 wouldn't take it to be true for all
that don't take it to be any truer
than many of the statements in the
papers lately. shall ask him to
lie Fails to Specify
Have any of the stories about you
and Costigan in the last week been un-
true, Mr.. Commissioner, and if so,
what ones ?"
"Quitc a few have been untrue"
Are you going to sue any Of the
papers for libel"
al shall decide that later"
How DO the convictions obtained by
Costigan's men compare with those OBJ
tanned in other districts? ."
81 have not looked that up"
Iou told the Mayor that the worst
record oil any Inspector in the depart
ment was made against Costigan' with
out making any comparison ?"
There was no answer.
Friends Of Cosrigan last night. after
Enrlght's interview, brought out the
fact that Costigan's splendid record of
arrests in districts outside his own-
1875 out OF 316 was made in spite of
the fact that since the present police
administration he has not received
any "squcals' or private information
given to Police Headquarters. These
"squeals are considered tho best
sources Of information on which vice
and gambling raids are made.
1t was also called to mind that Cos
tigan's staff of men had been gradually
cut down in number, that his contin-
gent fund, for financing raids and in
vestigation, had ben removed, that ne
had an inspection district to COVER"
and work for the District Attorneys
Office to perform. They stated that,
with ali these hindrances and multi
pIicitY of duties, he was still able to
roll up better record, as head of the
vicc squad, than any other Inspector.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Retired Officers To BE
Relieved Before March l
Order of Adjutant General Re
turns Gocihals to In
active List
New York Tribnre
WnShi1lOiOn RMreGM

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-Retired of
hcers who have been on active duty
during the war emergency are to be
returned to the retired list by March l.,
the War Department announced to-day
in an order directed to the chiefs of
staff departments and commanders of
camps and army posts. The names of
all retired officers now on active duty
is asked by the adjutant general, with
notations as to the military necessity
for retaining them longer on active
service.
Among the general officers who will
return to the retired status is Major
General George w Goethals, assistant
chief Of staff and director of purchase
storage and traffic. 1t is understood
that General Goethals desires to be re-
lieVcd of active duty, and that he is
grooming as his successor Brigadicr
General George w. Burr, an ordnance
officer, who has been serving as assist
ant director. General Goethals will
resume his duties as State Highway
Engineer for New jersey.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
School of Social
Research Opens fo,
Preliminary Study
Lecture Course on New r..
enue Law by T. S. Adam.
and Talks ON Other Snh
jects Are on Program.

: Preliminary courses in the ",
School for Social Research wh;,, .'s
to be formally opened next o,.',
began yesterday at the school h's
quarters, .465 West TWENTY ~ s''
Street. N
The school is organized to meet q
needs of men and women ints,...,
IN problems of the day, and sD.s,., =,
courses will be offered on impo,..s.
phases Of reconstruction problems y
addition small groups of spec.n =
qualified persons will be organized =,
practical investigation Of jmno,..'
questions
A course of six lectures by Thon,,
s. Adams on Federal Taxation. !. ~
of the important features of the v.sn
OF the school. These lectures will /,
devoted largely to the interpretot;o.
CT the new revenue law, particul,,,s
the income and excess profits ,.,..
Mr. Adams is now acting as advs.s
to the United States Treasury ne,...
ment and helped in drawing the n.,
revenue law. These lectures will \.
gin this evening and will be pjve, :.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings .t {
O'Clock.
The preliminary courses will jnclua.
lectures on modern history, polue,l
economy, anthropology and nsv,sol
ogy and will deal with problem, n
city, state and national govcrms~
and corporation and labor man.,.
mont.
They viii include lectures bv Tim,
stem VebleA on the industrial Trans
ton from the Eighteenth 70 y.
Twentieth entury; James Ha,rsS
Robinson. on the Relation Of rsST
cation to Social Progress; Cbars.
A: Beard, director of the Burese
of Municipal Research.s on ap,oI
lens of American Governmants.
Emily James Putnam, on Habit and
History; Harold j. Laski. on "Renre.
sentative Government; Wesley CIsi.
Mitchell, on the "Price System and IN,
War" and Frederick W. Ellis. on aTh,
Mind Viewed as a Factor in Social A..
lustments. Robert Bruere Ordws,
Tead, H. c. Metcalf and W. E. Mosbe,
will give courses and field work in
employment Administration and H..
dustrial Relations.'
The opening of the school was pre.
ceded by an informal reception by the
faculty Sunday afternoon. Among thOIs
present were Mr.. and Ms. Thomas !.
Chadbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Charles j.
Norton, Mrs. Joseph Swan, DR.. and
Mrs. Simon Flexner. Mr.. Lawrence
Godkin, Mr. and Mrs. julius Bame,,
Mr. Edwin Winter, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Rosen, Professor Benjamin Hendell
Emerson, of Amherst College; Mr.. A.
bert Milbank, Mrs. Herbert Croly, Mr..
Grant La Fargo, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Sachs, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Louis Slade
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Jay, Mr.. Martyr
Johnson, Mr.. Robert Lovett, Mr.. Gsld.
ner Gayley, Mr. and Mrs Vladins
Simkhovitch, Judge Learned Hand and
Mr.. George W. Bason.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
State " elcome Body
Resolution Is To Be
amended by Committee
Staff Corrcspondencee

StuU OoTFeSpOnCCncee
ALBANY, Feb. 10.-The proposal of
Assemblyman Joseph Steinberg, Of
New York, calling for the appointment
OF committee headed by the Governor.
to welcome returning soldiers. will be
perfected before the Legislature acts
upon it. Objection was raised to it
in its present form by the minority
and majority leaders.
Simon L. Adler, majority leader. said
there was no provision IN it for an
appropriation. He suggested it be
amended in this particular. Minority
Leader Donohue said all the elected
state officials should constitute the
committee, instead of merely the Coy
ernor, the Lieutenant Governor, the
Secretary of State, the Speaker of the
Assembly and the President pro TEN
of the Senate
The resolution, which is sponsored
by number of patriotic societies and
lndlVlduals who protest against re-
turning soldiers being welcomed by
the Hearst Hylan committee. was re-
ACiiSQ " tIc Assembly WAYS ana
Means Committee for the amendments
Indicated
Assemblyman Steinberg, in moving
the resolution, said it was only fitting
that the soldiers from all parts of the
state should be welcomed by COM
mittee headed by the Governor.
The members OF this house," said
Mr.. Steinberg, "are we'll aware, as are
the people of the state, of the unfor-
. tunate differences that have arisen
among the members of the committee
appointed by Mayor Hylan to receive
the returning soldiers. No good pur-
pose can be served by going into the
merits of that controversy, as the all
important thing is to secure the ap-
pointment of state committee free
from ali disturbances and ready to
act with harmony in giving our
soldiers rousing and hearty welcome
on their return home"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Tanker Sends S o S
Standard Oil Company Shp
Reported in Distress

HALIFAX, N. S, Feb. 1O.-Calls far
help from the American tank steama
Communipaw were picked up here to
day. The messages gave the vessel
position as latitude 1913 north, long,
tude 55.15 west, but did not explain
the nature Of her trouble. The Ame'
lean coastguard steamer TalapOos
was dispatched to her assistance. T.
Communipaw sailed from New Yoi
February 2 for Genoa.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
RoOp TO Join Omsk Regime

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1o.-General
Vladimir Roop, head of the Russian
military mission sent to the United
states by the Kerensky government, is
leaving this country, it was learned
to-day, for Vladivostok, where he will
be connected with the supply depart
ment of the Omsk government Cen
eral Roop returned recently from
Scandinavia, where he attempted to
pass into Russia, but was turned back.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Arrests by Costigan's Squad

But did not Costigan participate, as
these arrests ?" was the next query.
On an affirmative reply request
was made for Costigan's record in
other districts. Commissioner Enrght
read the following, for the Manhattan
and RrnnN dict1.icte. n,lr-.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Figures Show
COST gan Led
I'm Vice Work
Continued from page |.

service division. The number in Cos
tigan's district totallcd BIC. In other
districts the totals for outside arrests
as given by the commissioner were as
follows:
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

"ln the other districts his record
was trivial" the Commissioner CON
cludcd.
Commissioner Enrght's own records,
given out by himself, showed therefore
that Costigan had made 1856 out of 316
arrests for gambling in Manhattan and
The Bronx. This was approximately
as many as made by the other three
vice squads nut together.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

tard rehabilitation Of the army, but
the method should be changed. There
is an immediate necessity for enlarg-
ing opportunities for employment to
relieve the congestion of labor"
Men Not Afraid to Work
DR. Kirchwey urged instituting pub
Tic works to aid that end. When asked
il many discharged men declined to
accept positions involving physical Ia
Dor and whether many did not refuse
Jobs for which they We're fitted ne
said that 1t appeared rather question
of pay and possibility of advancement
There was no objection to manual la
Dor. he said, provided the job had pos.
sibilities of something better. lie SAID
the efficiency of the Federal employ
mert boards had been doubled by as
sstance from tho Red Cross, Y. NJ. c.
A., knights Of Columbus, Jewish Wei
fare Board and other such organiza
tions. .Ile urged action by the Gov
ornor or Legislature to obtain & change
in the method of demebilization.
Colonel McAndrews explained that,
under the present law to have men
discharged by the local draft board .
would REQUIRE the maintainance Of
equipment and personal at 1900 boards
to house, feed and give medical at
tendance to the men awaiting demobl-
lization and provide storage and rec
ord facilities. This he said would IN
volve tremendous delay and expense
whereas the work now was being done
from twenty camps with similar equip
ment.
More Than Million Discharged
More than 100000 men already
had been discharged Colonel Nc
Andrews said. The maximum rate
reached was 100000 a week but the
troops now in the United States had
been reduced to minimum required
for actual duty and further demoblli-
zation of forces at home would be
gradual. The future rate Of demoblll-
zation. he asserted, would depend on
the rate of return Of troops from
France. About 100000 are expected to
return in February and about 10000
in March, but at no time, Colonel NC
Andrews said would the number de-
modified in one month exceed 30O,-
Colonel McAndrews explained that
the law required when a man was dis
CHARGED that he be given his pay and
8 p cents mile from the point OF dis
charge to point of enlistment. "The
moment a soldier is discharged" he
said, "he becomes a private citizen and
no one has d right to say what he shall
do with this money. Many of the boys
from the country in the army have
measured up against the city fellows
and found they are just as good men;
They are willing to take chance and
many will not return to the farms
He stated the War Department was
using every method to induce the men
to return to their homes, and that eN-
cept in cases of special urgency the
provided that the men be
discharged at the camp nearest their
homes. The nth Division, composed
largely of men from New York City,
probably would be mustered out at
Camp Upton, he said, while the 18th
Division, from New York State, proba-
bly, would go to Camp Dix.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Not in the Record

These 1855 arrests were not credited
to Costgan in making up his record.
were they?" was asked the Commits
sioner.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

New York papers demanded yester-
day to know why Inspector, Costigan
was reduced and what was the situa-
ton in the Police Department. The
editorials follow:
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

polio. Commissioner Enr'sn' ''.,'au ,e', Of n n
,,'say to discuss ina 'e''s"su0" I, W ~ \
.o.aa' r.'.a p.,u,y commissioner John W, W, i
IhIo or to ray vhoAaer he h"'
Con- u, ., cor to resign . neD.a'so 20
Although ,ho Go GomInars.'r,l S1or'. Resignation
no, say whether ~ ~, " - say tba.I
vae vcl--,2<y. or o.
EVENING SUN
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-23
BROKEN HEARTS REPAIRED.

Broken hearts are being mended in
Russia now-not the hearts shattered
by unfortunate romances, but the val.
vular organs pierced by knives. Time
mends the first kind land the skilled
surgeon Zelder, can be depended on to
operate successfully on the knife-torn
heart.
DR.. Zelder has a little hospital at
Obuchow. Thirty-one persons brought
to the hospital with hearts pierced and
slashed by knife wounds have sue
cessfully had their organs repaired
and have recovered entirely, to all ap.
oearances, from their remarkable ex-
oeriences. One patient has lived
seven years and shows no signs of
having been affected by the heart
wound and subsequent sewing up.
The foregoing statement is going
the rounds of the press as something
new and remarkable, yet human hearts
were repaired more than 20 years ago
and it was a colored man, DR.. Daniel
H. Williams, the famous surgeon of
Chicago, who first successfully op-
Grated on the human heart.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-23

ing the riots informed his auditors
that, "this is a white mans country"
He was promptly rebuked and we
trust he'll know better next time.
No, this is not a white mans coun-
try" 1t is true that the white man
stole it from the Indians, land also stole
some colored men who were free in
Africa, brought them over here and
made them slaves to work the stolen
property. Three hundred years of I'M
requited toll gives the colored man a
better title to the land than the white
mans.
The colored man knows no other
land; he speaks the vernacular of tn
country; he has fought in every war
to preserve it's integrity; has has al
ways been loyal though deprived of
'life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness."
The colored people of the United
States are not aliens; they were all
born here. They are Americans and
as Americans have their share in our
common country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-23
BUSINESS MEMS MISTAKE.

The colored business mems league
at st. Louis made great mistake in
electing Robert R. Motion as president
of their organization.
Motion is not a business man, knows
nothing whatever Of business and
very little of anything else. The
cicque which unanswered his election
was simply working to impose the
sinister power of Tuskegee on colored
business men.
Motion is not even qualified to be
the principal of Tuskegee, because he
lacks an important quality which
every leader should possess-man-
hood.
When his wife was elected from a
Pullman car few years ago he prac-
tically intimated that it served her
right, as he had warned her to ere
spect the traditions of the South"
Imagine man who will not protect
his own wife, as the head of an in
stitution organized "for the training
of colored youth"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-23
NEWS FROM OVER THERE.

Paris, France, Aug. 7, 1919.-After
sixteen months from my home and
family and one year in Europe, it is
expected that by August rs my dis
charge will be given to me in New
York City.
The last appointment given to
colored secretary by the Paris office
was given to me yesterday. The last
party of twenty colored secretaries
was placed in my charge; it is the
most signal recognition l have receiv-
ed to be placed in charge of such a
learned, strong and big minded group
OF Christian men and women. Among
them are: A. w. Schockley, J. H.
Scroggins, VIM. Stevenson, C. H. Will
Hanson, M. R. Atwell Mrs. Mary Tai
bert, Mrs. Helen Curtis, Mrs. Flor
ence c.. Williams, Miss Katherine
Johnson, Miss Aletha Rochon. Mrs.
Madeline Childs, Miss N. F. Brown.
Mrs. Addie w. Hunton.
The hope is that we will sail from
Boulongue Saturday.
All are well and in fine spirits and
ready to go home. We did not come
pack til it is/over, over here.
Best greetings to all friends and
readers of THE APPEAL.
3. N. MurreII.