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New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
5000, 600 Loot Seized:
Theft Charged TO Four

Detectives yesterday arrested four
men who were taking goods from 10o
West Twenty Ctreet. They
confiscated about 100000 worth of
furs, silks and woolens, which wera
in loft in the top floor of the build
ing.
The seized property was removed to
headquarters in motor trucks. About
$4,000 worth is said to have been
identified by It's owner as having been
stolen. Other merchants who have
been the victims of loft burglars have
been invited to inspect the material.
The prisoners said they were Harry
Schwartz. of 77s briggs Avenue, Brook
Ign: David and Harry Katch. brothers,
Of 50 ESSEX Street. and Max WaXrod OF
Fourth Avenue. They arc charged
with grand !Nrceny. Detectives Hayden,
etiquette, B:avnwor;h and Drury made
tire arrests,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
City Chamberlain Lays
$50, $40 Error" to Cruio.
berolzheimer, Explaining Importance of His Office
in Letter to Hylan, Refers to Comptroller
and Gross Carelessness in Same Paragraph

Philip Berolsheimer, who is still
City Chamberlain because Mayor Hy-
Ian vetoed the bill to abolish his Of
tce, wrote long letter to His Honor
yesterday. In this he told at length
how valuable an asset to New York the
City Chamberlain is and what a care
les person Comptroller Charles l..
Craig is getting to be. 1t was Mr..
Craig who urged the abolition of the
Chamberlain's office.
Somehow or other the letter drifted
into newspaper Offices last night. How
it got there is still mystery, for the
Chamberlain and the Mayor and the
Comptroller all refused to come to the
telephone.
AS the text for his sermon on the
value Of Chamberlain to any we'll
regulated city. Mr.. Berolzheimer took
the case of check drawn by the Comp
troller in payment of bill for So
s41.69, presented by the Crimmins Con-
struction Company.
This check, he charges, was made out
tor $34,eS7 instead of the correct
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

amount and was delivered to the Grim
Minis concern.
"of course" Mr.. Berolzheimcr imme-
diately adds, lest the Mayor read this
far and then get apoplexy, II had or
dercd the bank not to pay the check
when it was presented. so that the city
could not be any loser through the mis-
take of the Comptroller"
After this the City Chamberlain feels
called upon to say many burning things
concerning the Comptroller and his
efficiency.
"Gross carelessness such as this" he
writes, would not. be tolerated for an
instant in private institution 1t is
an open invitation TO the unscrupulous
to perpetrate fraud on the city treas
ury with an assurance that the ma
chinery of the Comptrollers office is
not competent to prevent it,"
The letter concludes with the fade
out of the Chamberlain registering
virtue and pious triumph.
"The Chamberlain's office" it says,
'Instead Of being abolished, should be
perpetuated and given greater powers,
so long, at least as the present admin
istration of the Comptroller's Office con-
tinueS"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
CPL take them all"

1t was about noon in the sheet and
pillow case section. Crowds every
where, waiting to buy. Finally one
housewife, a bit impatient, stepped
behind the counter and, folding her
arms around big bundle of pillow
cases, called Out-"I'll take all of
these. | don't know how many there
are, but want all of them." And she
took them.
Again-it was after the store clos
ing buge had sounded. A mother
came hurrying into the Girls Store.
Everybody was busy Strengthening
stock. But the woman went through
rack after rack, table after table
and laying exactly twenty washable
frocks aside, she exclaimed T'll take
these right now; Tm afraid this sale
won't go on next week."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Strikers Sink Motor Van
Stone and Beat Driver and Run
Vehicle Into River

Striking furniture movers attacked a
motor van owned by Deutsch Brothers,
OF % Avenue A, yesterday at Ninety
sixth Street and First Avenue, stoned
and beat the driver, Enrico kartoloner,
and drove the van into the East River.
When the driver returned to the scene
of the attack, reinforced by patrol
man, only the top of the van was above
water.
Divers fastened cable to the truck
late in the afternoon, and the vehicle
and contents were recovered The fur
nlture is valued at $4,000. Deutsch
Brothers blame strikers for the loss of
another truck and $4,000 worth of fur
niturc which were burned several
weeks ago,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
I'm coming back

She admitted she was tired, but
there was smile on her face as she
stepped up to a Floor Manager in the
Downstairs Store. 81 didn't bring
half enough money today; are you
sure this sale will be here tomorrow?
I'm coming back"
Tomorrow is uncertain. The sale
VIII continue SO long as we announce
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Ruegfr Gets Six Months

feter Kueger, former patroFman at
tached to the Atlantic Avenue Station,
brookiyn. implicated with Herman
hrause. also police officer in the rob
berry of a Brooklyn fur factory last
November, was sentenced to six month :
in the Raymond Street Jail bv Justice
Manning in the Brookln Supreme Court
yesterday. AS Ruercr has been IN iail
since the time of his arrest, he viii!
have only five more days to serve
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
A Telegram
and a Reply

Among many letters and teleprams
and some cablegrams that we reee;vsd
yesterday regarding this epochal sal.
was one from Winnipeg. Msnitob,
expressing anxiety regarding what w.
were dong and asking if our sale were
"a permanent policy to reduce stock in
anticipation of panic"
Here is the reply to that telegram.
The impression that you have re-.
ceived regarding our 20 per cent. hori.
zontal deduction has misled you.
For limited time we are offer;nc
our stocks for retail at one-fifth of
for no other purpose than to prevent
sky-rocketing prices and cornering
operations on part of spectators
who have been buying up both raw
and finished materials and holding
them to bring about exorbtant in.
creases.
Our stores in New York and phila-~ q
delphia closed on Saturday evening.
May lst, with their millions of articles
bearing their original tags, and all
these goods slept straight through
Sunday, with not a soul in the build
ing except the watchmar, and when
the doors opened on Monday morn.
ing, May 3rd, the advertisement in the
newspapers was a complete surprise
to everybody.
But the announcement 1t made
now seems to be in every mouth In
America.
Never in the history of business, 90
tar as we know, was there a sale that
included so great a diversity of mer.
chandise with savings so great to the
people.
Many clear seeing merchants
throughout the United States are al
ready following our example, with the
result that the wholesale and manu-.
featuring producers are steadying
down to bring about a normal move
ment of merchandise with normal
profits.
Since our first announcement was
made there have come encouraging re.
ports of wholesome, increased produc- '
ton among the industries, with
calmer spirit on the part of labor, that
too begins TO see some relief from the
increasing high cost of living.
(Signed)
0&1f 21r"e&
May 11th, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Weather Report

sun rises. +3 a. m. Sun sets. :62 o. IN,
Moon ri ses. II 80 a. N. Moon sets. IL 81 a. m
The hours given above refer to standard
and not New York City time.y
Local FOrecast.-hocal showers to-day;
Tomorrow showers: moderate northwest
TO northeast Minds.
Local Official Record--The following Of
tcal record shows temperatures during the
last twcnty-four hours in comparison with
the corresponding date OF last vear
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
What 20 per cent. means

Il must have forgotten all learned
IN school," she said to her companion.
Il didn't realize that 20 per cent
means S5 on purchase of $25. Say,
la like to get that much interest On
my savings account, wouldn't YOU ?"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

highest temperature Yesterday, IS de-
Erees tat p mo- lowest 80 degrees tat
500 a m); average, 66 degrees; avera &c
same date for thirty-three years, 81 de
Sress.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
ltun,idit
barometer Reading.
% so ! D. IN. o9s - ~
General Weather Condi,ions

,WASHlNGTON, May lo.--'rhe Colorado
vs. W o"nce OF SUNDAY night is general to-
hiSht over southeas stern Colora6o u,itr
moderately high pressure OFF tho so,,,b A,
, rautlr coaE' anu over the north upper lake
region. mere were showers over the nor, h
districts from Montana and the Dako, s
eastward through the lake region and NJ
kngta nd ano also light local showers IN
ne lower Missouri Valley, the central
ROCKY Mountain region and the middIa a
plateau. and showers Sunday night nVar
northeastern Texas. Elsewhere tho waathar
was fair. '"ei
1t is considera bly, cooler in the unner
laNe region. Wisconsin, Minnesota and over
the shower areas of the extreme West AND
warmer in the central valleys the middle
Atlantic states and the South AS rule
however. temperatures differ but Uttle
from the seasonal average
- Unsettled. showery weather will prevail
Tuesday and Wednesday frol,, tho ,al,a -
gion and Ohio Valley eastward and in no
cast Gulf and south Atlantic states ~
cept the Caroinas. Tuesday nigh, ~
Wednesday. 1t will be somewhat coolsr
Tuesday in tho south portion Of the ,niddin
Atlantic district. and on Wednesday IN ,ha
lower Ohio Valley.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
District Forecasts-New 1Arser-clo,.

District Forecasts.-New JArsey-Cloudv
Tuesday, showers by night. cooler in IN
terror south portion: Wednesday showers
Eastern Pennsylvania-Local showers
TUESDAY. somewhat cooler in south
Wednesday, showers.
Eastern New York-Local showers Tues
day; "Wednesday. showers.
Southern New Englsnd-Showers Tues
day Wednesday,, partly cloudy.
Western, New York and Western Penn
sylvania-Showers Tuesday and prohsbIr
Wednesday, iittle change IN temperature
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Everything is 20 per cent. less
except the cr0wds"-

another-"come on. get into it, and
get what you want before it's gone
Everybody is good-natured. Every
body realizes that in such business
turnover as this there must be
certain amount of "give and take"
eyes, you give and we take" said
a customer to whom this remark was
made. "We're taking all right"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

Three-thirty in the afternoon in
the Corset Salon. People in line wait
ing to be served. One woman re-
celved her change and counted it with
an expression of uncertainty.
20 per cent. off, madam" the
salesWoman explained.
"2o per cent. off? Why?"
The answer was lost in the babel of
tongues, but the customer turned
from the counter with smile of sur-
prise. mo wonder there's crowd"
she murmured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

the consciousness, to voice her protest
against war?
In the French schools the Ffench
education scheme, Mrs. Blatch found
the forcing grounds of national char
acter.
The French school trains the child
to be self-centered and nation shy of
foreign relationships. The child does
rot know what round game is. In
the court yard, where it goes with its
class once or twice day, it plays by
itself with hoop, skipping rope, a
ball. The tiny babies of three to
five are drilled as egoists. Each acts
alone. They do not even dance hand
in hand in circles. Much ingenuity
must be used to keep them apart"
All that a child is taught is of and
about France. "There are not for them
the fascinating myths of Greece and
Rome and the Norseland. They recite
long lists of French kings with the
Gates of their reign. They love France
to excess because no other land is real
tc them. The world does not unroll
before them, only the maps of France.
Each department they know, each riv-
er, each bay and headland. France is
the universe in the eyes of her chill
dren"
This is the clew to the intense and
marrow patriotism of the French. This
the key to their national complex
isolation. The dreariness of French
education, its aridity and joylessness
result IN curious individual intensities
he free school system for girls fur
n.shes clew to French feminine char
acter.
From half-past eight in the morn
ing to tive-thirty, six days, week after
week, for ten months each year, these
girls, thirteen to seventeen years of
age, the time of crisis in their lives.
bend over their tasks. They are silent
very silent, but we know there must
b" turbulence under the placid sur
| face"
And these find outlet in q precocious
instinct for amour, in the surchareed
femininity for which French women are
famous.
She found in the predominantly mas
cullne tone Of English prewar educa-
ton the key to the arrogance and
infiexibility which SO often character
lze the Englishman. The corporal
punishment on which English schools
prided themselves did much to rob
the English boy of initiative, as COM
pared with the American boy, who is
trained chiefly by women.
All education has been to make the
art of living together easier. Men
have only imperfectly understood this,
and they have given education strange
shapes to. fit their passion for az
gression. Women, with what means
they have, have kept the ends of edu-
cation more clearly In view,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

Counsel of the Ungodly''
a Novel of the New Rich

IF 1T makes you feel superior to
laugh at the vulgarites of the
nouveau richie you have a COM
Portable feeling awaiting you when
you read "The Counsel of the Ungodly,"
by Charles Bracket (Appleton). For
our part, we lost interest in the aspir-
ing Miss Dawson when she confided to
her butler "a real Van Hoeven, tenn
pcrarily out of luck, travelling inco-
gnlto) that she had always longed to
know real" people. Her mother, whose
shrewdness and enterprise had brought
them from mining town to Paris and
thence back to fashionable Long
Island suburb, seemed a trifle more
three dlmensional than the ladies of
the set to which she cast imploring
glances.
The story is sprightly and vivacious
enough to perch precariously on the
edge Of improbability When the beau
tlfui young woman, so obviously supe-
rlor to her coarse relatives, meets with
reverses the butler throws off his dis
guse, reveals himself as her uncle and
brings her into her kingdom of polite
society 1t is all done so lightly, how
ever, that its snobbishness, like it's i'm
probability, is shorn of offensiveness.
For those who long for society, with
no means of obtaining it, "The Counsel
OF the ungodly" gives charmingly the
illusion OF capitalization, wit and the
great world,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
The New World
Americas Influence Upon
England in 1900
70 TWO centuries in Encland

Mo TWO centuries in England's
history exceeds in glamour of no.
nance the two that ended with
the year 100, and the two Americas,
North and South, had much to do liz
creating the great picture of rapidly
unfolding drama. We have long looked
tor book that should contain, in one
volume, the essentials of trade develop
ment, new knowledge of the earth, and
other minor but important factors, as
they reacted on Great Britain during
the period above defined. James E.
Gillespie, Phi. D., instructor in history.
University of Illinois, in his "The In
f1uence of Oversee Expansion on Eng
land to 170O," which has been published
recently by Columbia University, gives
us vital data cleaned from a huge mass
of scattered material written during
and since the years from 1900 to 1900.
His book is No. POT in the scholarly
series Of monographs that have been
issued since 1891 by Columbia Uni
versity, edited by the university's fac
ulty of political science.
This book reads like romano rather
than like pure history, and vet
1t clings closely to facts. But what
else could be expected when one finds
himself carried back over the years,
to be confronted by the steady arrivals
at English ports of ships from all quar-
ters of the globe and especially from
the two Americas, bringing in won
drous tales of adventure, Of strange
lands and remarkable peoples, and
legends of wealth hidden in forests
and mountains and by sea and lakes :?
The stories of tobacco, sugar, coffee.
the potato come into this book. with
the attendant contemporary records of
popular curiosity concerning and sub
se0uent use of these then strange
plants and edibles. And, too, there
were an immediate birth Of new in
dustrless a beginning of invention of
better Instruments for use in naviea-
ton, stirring of missionary activity
and, not at all the least important a
throwing of glorious lights across the
pages of dramatists and poets. The
chapter of this volume that treats the
philosophy of the age-represented in
The Utopia" "The New Atlantic" and
pages of "The Temp valu-
able addition to the records of English
literature during the great years of
Elizabeth and after.
This book will be welcomed by libra
rlans in schools and colleges through
out the United States, and is sure of
a cordial greeting by little, but ar
dent band of scholars who center their
attention on the period it covers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Modem Women and War
Harriet Stanton Batch Expresses Well the
Feminist Viewpoint

n T SEEMS now an act of supreme
d courage and faith to launch,
~ against the adverse current of
inertia, a book that has for its
theme the problem of war and the re-
construction. But "a Woman's Point of
View" (The Woman's Press), by Har-
riot Stanton Batch is informed with
so strong conviction and so keen an
intelligence that it is likely to make
its way even against the common
WEAKNESS.
1t is one of the ironies of the hu-
man spectacle that war, which is
everywhere waged ostensibly to pro-
tect the women and children, makes
them its cruelest victims. Now that
the hope of an impossible millennium is
abandoned, now that men have waged
tragic war and an even more tragic
peace, Mrs. Blatch feels that it is
time for the woman to speak.
In the early days following the
armistice Mrs. Batch went abroad to
see that rebirth which was all the
bright hope of the war. She saw only
apathy and disintegration. There was
reduction in morale and energy. Re-
viewing the loss in morale and in
tegrity through the war, the morbid
psychology resultant from it, the
priceless humanistic advances wjned
out, 1t could not fail to be borne in on
woman that war can never be her bust
ness. She whose business It is to
bcstow and cherish life can have M
part in its folly. War is the great
masculine delusion. When she ac-
qulesces in it she obeys. the dictates of
her world, whose opinion is masculine.
BY the light of the four years con-
migration Mrs. Blatch saw social condi.
tons newly illumined. And her fenin-
ism, which has been so vigorously par
Humanitarian, found wider applica-
ton. Perhaps not for the first time
have the principles of feminism been
given so wide an application, but in
American feminism at least the work
Is new.
@;s}: an admirable clarity of mind
Mrs. Batch goes back for the roots
of the war not to be endless wran-
Glings over national boundaries or to
imperial ambitions, but to the condition
of women and children, and to the
grade Of each country's education. In
Germany, she knew from her careful
prewar observation, the subjugation
OF women was wellnigh complete.
"The shackled woman endowed her ma
ton with slave qualities. To suppress
the sons of her womb was not diff
fcult." Her sons were submissive to
their ruling classes as she was SUBJ
nnssive to her menfolk. In both, all
pr education went to implant the ideal
Of obedience. What capacity had she,
when frsaG women had no courage for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Modern Greek Tales
Eight TRANSACTIONS Give a
Picture of the Nation

nY NO better means could Demetra
I'D Vaka and Aristidcs Phoutride.
give to the outside world SYM
pathetic understanding of the modern
Greece they love than by opening the
door to modern Greek literature. In
Modern Greek Stories" (Dufficld)
they have brought before English read
ers eight of the most famous of mod
ern Greek short stories.
We have lost track of Greece since
the days Of her glory; we have forgot
ten that when her supremacy passed
from her she still lived. How roman
tic have been her experiences since
then, how hazardous and adventurous
her national existence, is eloquently
expressed in these stories. In pref
ace the translators give a brief pres
entation of the ccaseless struggles of
modern Greece for her freedom, and
this brief outline of her modern his
torical development gives shape and
definition to the artistic development
which these stories represent.
These eight stories present the life
and point of view of people, gentle,
poetic and religous-who by the
strange cycle of racial experience have
rot 40 NJ ic;t
seriousness. They are the tales of
people who live close to the soil
people rich in imagination and wonder
of the elementals with which they are
brought continually face to face.
Seven are stories of the soil and
one is story of the sea. That one,
Sea-" by A. Karkavitsas, the common
tale of a seafarer's nostalgia for the
sea, has a most uncommon power and
lyric beauty. 1t is exquisitely simple
and poetic.
In the stories of the soil are rich
and lusty pictures of peasant life.
They are the stories Of a peasant ma
ton, remote from urban sophistication.
The colors of East and West, exotic
and austere, mingle in them. They
make fascinating pattern of contrast
ing figures. The real disclosure of
these stories, however, is not in any
unexpected literary grace. These stories
are for the most part childlikc and
naive. Their eloquence and power lie
in revealing the folk spirit of the
modern Greek. Behind the simple and
peer pagan figures-his old gods still
weave in and out Of all his modern
thinking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
le Ancestor of the Tank Invented Centuries AGO
Armored Car Not a New Idea
British Officer Mentions Interesting Medieval
Predecessors of Modern Machine

| experiment at the Somme the tanks
gained an increasing measure of APP
probation and use, playing a partcu.
larly important role in the battles of
Cambria and Hamel.
The author foresees tremendous
scientific and technical developments
in the art of warfare in the future
He asserts that "99 per cent Of victory
depends on weapons; and supplements
this observation with the statement: .
"All war on land, in the past, has
been based on muscular energy; hence
forth it will be based on mechanical
Uses of the Tank
Developing his argument along these
lines, he pleads vigorously for the full
development of the possibilities of his
favoritc weapon, the tank. He sums
up the significance of this powerful
military machine in the following pass
age:
"To-day the introduction of the
tank on the battlefield entirely revolu-
tionizes the art of war in that:
"U) 1t increases mobility by re-
placing muscular force by mechanical
power.
"(2) 1t increases security by render
ing innocuous the effect Of bullets
through the feasibility of carrying
armor plate.
"(3) 1t increases offensive power by
relieving the man from carrying his
weapons or the horse from dragging
them, and by facilitating ammunition
supply it increases the destructive
power of the weapons it carries"
Colonel Fuller goes on to demon
strate the advantages of the tank in
the slittle wars" which are so neces-
sary to the maintenance of the Brit
ish Empire. The moral effect of tanks,
supported by airnlanes, upon recall
citrant Hindoos and Afehans, would,
he believes, be excellent BY making
full use of the latest mechanical de-
vices in slaughter, the whole of India
could be held in subsection by "a me-
chanical police force of 10000 to 25,-
600 men,"
The author is not inclined to put
much faith in the League of Nations,
or in any other pacific scheme for eli
minating war. In his own words:
Faith in League Of Weapons"
"War will be eliminated by weapons.
not by words or treaties or leagues of
nations; by weapons-leagues of tanks,
aeroplanes and submarines-which will
render opposition hopeless or retribu-
ton so terrible that nations will think
not once or twice, but many times be-
fore going to war. If the civilian
population of a country know that
should they demand war they may be
killed in few minutes by the tens of
thousands, they will not only cease to
demand it but see beforehand that
they are we'll prepared by superiority
of weapons to terrify their neighbors
out of declaring war against them"