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New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
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BALTIMORE, May 15.--Dr. David NJ.
Robinson, professor of archaeology at
Johns Hopkins, has recently discovered
that even though the pagan people of
the Roman Empire were lacking news
papers and periodicals, they were no
laggards in the advertising game. nor
were they ignorant OF the potency of
publicity. They even had press agents.
Political ads and want ads dominated
their publications, DR.. Robinson said,
which were mostly very large bill
boards, lettered by scribes, much as
the journalist Of this enlightened and
abstemious age labels his news stories
with 30-point headlines. At times this
rude forerunner of Ben Franklin's art
managed to get out extras"
The following is an up-to-date and
enterprising Groom for rent" ad which
appeared some hundreds of years be-
fore the first Christmas in the live
town of Pompeii:
"To rent. From the first day of next
July, shops with flowers over them;
finer upper chambers and house in
the Arius Polio block, owned by
Gnaeus Marius"
although the ancient Romans had
no daily newspapers such as civiliza-
ton Is blessed with today" said DR..
Robinson, "they had q system of sign
boards and public notice billboards
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16

WASHINGTON, May 15.-The pressure
IS now high over all interior districts east
of the Rocky Mountains abnormally low
west of the Rocky Mountains, and reIa-
| lively low over the Gulf OF Mexico and the
lower st. Lawrence Valley This pressure
distribution has been attended by widely
scattered showers in the south Atlantic
states, the southern plains states and the
Rocky Mountain and central plateau re-
glons.
Temperatures have fallen somewhat In
the Atlantic and east Gu1f states and over
much or the country west of the Rocky
Mountains No It has become warmer over
the plains states. the upper Mississippi
Valley and the upper lake region
The weather will be unsettled with rains
Monday and probably Tuesday in the
south Atlantic states, and generally
| fair elsewhere east OF the Mississipnf
ElVer during tho next forty-eight hours,
temperatures viii fall somewhat Monday
IN the middle Atlantic states and New
England. and will rise in the region of the
Great Lakes.
District Forecasts.-Eastern New York
and eastern Pennsylvania--Part cloudy
ana cooler to-day: tomorrow fair
New Jersey--Partly cloudy to-day oooi-
er In interior; tom morrow fair
southern New England--Cloudy to-day
cooler on the mainland; to morrow fair.
Western Pennsylvania and western New
forR-Fair to-day and tomorrow; rising
temperature tomorrow
Delaware--CIoudy and eoolsr tcdnv.
or f7er S-S >
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Divorce Ordeal
Puts Stillrr1arl's 8
Nerves Awry
Financicr Suffers Severely
Because of Hearings, His
Friends Say; Another Ses-
sion ON Stand Faces Him
To Be CrilIed About Life
Wife Said to Oppose Peace
Plan Unless Legitimacy
of Baby Guy IL Admitted

Club friends OF James A. Stillman,
formerly president of the National City
Bank, who is suing his wife, Mrs. Anne
Urouhart Stillman, for divorce are au
thority for a report that he is suffer
ing from severe nervousness as re-
suit Of the ordeal Of the hearings and
tho resultant publicity.
Unless pending negotiations for a
settlement Of the case are successful,
az it is believed they will be, Mr.. Still
man is to experience further grilling
when Mrs. Stillman opens her defense
Of the case. Her attorneys have deter
mined to call him as witness and
question him regarding various events
in his life since early In 1914. He will
be examined particularly with regard
to his alleged relationship with Mrs
Florence Lawlor Leeds, former chorus
girl, named as correspondent by Mrs
Stillman, and concerning the birth and
parentage of Mrs. Leeds's boy, known
as Jay Ward Leeds.
The negotiations, however, will give
Mr.. Stlllman a respite, as it was re7
ported yesterday that should settle
ment not be effected by May %, fur
ther continuance will be asked for by
the attorneys.
The possible terms of settlement
printed exclusively by The Tribune, are
those which it was believed by friend
OF Mr.. Stillman would be acceptable
to the financier and his counsel. 1t
has developed that these terms are not
altogether approved, either by Mrs,
Stillman or by John E. Mack, of Pough-
keepsie, guardian ad litem for the baby
Guy Stillman.
1t is understood that Mr.. Mack will
insist on a more liberal settlement in
behalf of his charge, and Mrs. Stillman
IS said to be exerting every effort to
have the legitimacy of Guy admitted
IN any settlement. In previous peace
negotiations deadlock came on this
issue of Guys birth, and it may serve
to defeat the pending proposals.
1t was learned yesterday that attor-
neys are seeking May Haddon and
Clara Young, two witnesses in the case.
Both are servants and were EMPLOYED
IN an uptown apartment where the de-
tense has charged Mr.. Stillman visited
and where, it is said, he was known
as MIR. Leeds, of the Secret Service" !"
Believing that some witnesses might
not be at hand when called to testify,
attorneys for Mrs. Stillman are known
to have put much testimony in affidavit
form. These documents have been
filed, with the amended answer of the
defendant. Among the witnesses so
recorded are: Sophie Bartkoff, maid;
Frank Ivans, superintendent Of an
apartment house at Ga East Eighty
sixth Street; Hannah Johnson, cook;
servants, detectives and others, among
them William c. Groves, Evelyn Rut-
ledge, Walter j, Rutt, Claud H. Grove.
Victor Bucanegro, Antonio Scoggrave,
Joseph F, Kennedy, Joseph A. Mcmahon
and Estelle Klee.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
100000 at Coney
To Greet Summer:
Thousands Inn Surf
Extra Police, Who Open Sea-
son Officially, Have Lit
tie Trouble; Can of Paint
SeizedasLiquorCo Container

Two hundred and fifty thousand per-
sons, many of them wearing new straw
hats, went to Coney Island yesterday
where summer was said to have ar
rived. The ninety-two extra patrol
men, whose assignment to the Coney
Island station on Saturday made the
opening of the season official. had little
difficulty in handling the largest crowd
to visit the resort this year. Thou
sands OF the brave who were willing to
let their new summer headgear out of
their sight temporarily, enjoyed bath
ing.
Patrolman Mathew McCann, of the
Coney Island station, arrested John
Audutie, thirty-seven years old, who
gave his address as 1903 Neptune Ave
nue., Coney Island, for refusing to tell
him the color of the paint which he
was carrying in cam
Patrolman McCann said that he over
took Audutie on Neptune Avenue and
became suspicious Of a can which he
says Audutie was carrying under his
coat. The patrolman questioned him
and Audutie is alleged to have told
him that the can contained paint and
that it fell from an automobile which
passed his home. Audutie said that he
was trying to catch up with the ma.
chine when he was stopped by Patrol
man McCann. When asked to tell the
color of the paint, Audutie baked, and
refused to say whether it was for ex-
terror or interior decorating.
Patrolmap McCann then took him tc
the Coney Island station where it is
said that the paint was discovered to
be liquor. Audutie will be arraigned
to-day for violating the state prohibi-
tion law.
An unidentified sailor rescued Charles
Marson, seventeen years old, of $50
Gold Street, Brooklyn, from drowning
The boy, in company with his cousin
John McGinis, was fishing at Ocean
Parkway, when he fell into the water
A sailor who was standing nearby
Jumped in and pulled the boy out.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Pagan Press Agents Put Pomp
I'm Pompeii Centuries Ago
Snappy Political Ads, Notifications of Rooms TO
Rent and Lost and Found Pleas Carved
City Bulletin Boards

that was almost as efficient as the
modern daily newspaper. A great dis
advantage Of these billboards was that
their size was necessarily limited and
consequently the length of the adver-
tisements was cut off as short as
possible.
"The politicians Of to-day, for in
stance, might we'll pattern after old
Publius Furius, candidate for alder
man in Pompeii in the fourth century
before Christ, whose modest campaign
ad follows:
Make Publius Furius Aediss. beg
Of you; he's good man.
This notice Is short and abrupt, but
withal convincing.
Attacks upon the personality of a
candidate, however, were no more rare
In ancient Pompeii than they are now.
Take the, following notice, for instance.
found carved on bulletin board in
Pompeii:
"'The sneak thieves request the cleo
tion of Vatia as Aedile..'"
Lost and found ads were also plenti-
ful, it seems, and the ancient Pom
peiians were not stingy in Offering lib
eral rewards. Take the following ad,
for instance:
"a copper pot has been taken from
this shop. Whoever brings it back will
receive 65 sesterces If any one/ shall
hand over the thief he will receive an
additional reward"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
f ate of 5000
Blind Pigs Up
In Court To-day
~
Test Case Will Decide if
Sanctity of Home Can Be
Violated by Dry Agents
in Search for Liquor
Plaintiff Wants Wine Back
IL Complainant Wins. Then
''Speak Easies'' Can Be
Operated i'm Apartments

The future Of 5000 "blind pigs" and
"speak- where liquor is being
sold In New York, according to &
statement by Police Commissioner
Richard r. Enright, depends on a de-
eision to-day by Justice Edward G
Whitaker, in Equity Term of the Su-
preme Court.
The case is test brought by Harry
Kuchinsky, of 20 West 115th Street
who desires to establish whether the
police have the right to enter mans
home and place him under arrest for
possessing liquor. The petitioner asks
the court to order the police to re-
turn certain wines seized in his home
which was raided May 8.
Could Run Business In Home
II it is decided that the police have
no right TO enter and search apart
menGs where it is believed Illicit traf-
ficking in liquors is being carried on,
it will make it possible for saloon men
to move their business into the apart
ments where they live. They will
then be able to invite all their
friends" to their homes, police say
and the friends on departing can lay
dollar a drink on the dresser.
Since the saloons on the street level
have been visited hourly by detectives
Commissioner Enright reported the
illicit sellers OF liquors have taken to
apartments, Easements and othey
places off the street level. If they
happen to reside on the premises
their places win come under the head
of "home'' and will be sacred from
invasion by police should Justice
Whitaker decide in favor of the
sanctity of the home in his ruling to-
day.
On the other hand, it has been
srgued since the beginning of law
that g mans home is sacred from in
yasion, except in extreme cases.
Eight Arrested in Restaurant
Eight men were arraigned yesterday
morning before Magistrate William A.
Sweetzer in Tombs Court charged with
having liquor before them in tea cups,
r q restaurant, at los Broad Street.
They were held in $500 bonds for ex-
animation Wednesday and Thursday.
Among the eight were three sea
captains, Richard Douglass, of 6 South
Fifty-ffth Street, and Benjamin
Greenwood, of 1o1 West Forty-fourth
Street. The proprietor of the
restaurant, William Siebert, of 282
South Bennett Avenue, East Orange,
n. j., was also among those arrested.
Mrs. Sophie Fucker, forty years old,
of % Columbus Avenue, was held in
$500 bail yesterday by Magistrate
Robert C. Ten Eyck in West Side
Court, on charge of violating the
state liquor law. Detectives testified
TO finding a bottle containing whisky
III rear room. Mrs. Zuker's attor.
ney argued that other persons had
Gccess to the room and Mrs. zukei
denied ownership Of the whisky.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Policeman Leaps in Canal to
Save Suicide Friend. hut Fails

Brooklyn, met Sergeant Cashhel, Of the
Hamilton Avenue police station, an old
friend, near his home yesterday and told
him that he had quarreled with his
wife and didn't know what to do.
Sergeant Cashhel advised him to GO
home and apologize. Mitchell, however,
jumped into the Gowanus Canal instead.
Sergeant Cashhel jumped in after him
and got him ashore, but was unable to
re srf seif7fe him
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Kills Himself Under Train

A man about thirty-two years old
flung himself on the tracks of the Gem
trail Railroad of New Jersey at Thirty
fourth Street, Bayonne, about 6 p. m.
yesterday as an eastbound Philadel-
phia & Reading express train ap-
preached. His body has not been iden-
tilted.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Killed i'm Auto Crash

HONESDALE, Pa, May 15.--Howard
F. Gurney jr., president of the Gurney
Elevator Company, died to-day from in
juries suffered when his motorcycle
collided with an automobiles He was a
son of H. T. Gurney, of New York.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Lovely Fortuny
Fabric for Your
Country House
AU QUATRIEME

over d Es ~ lah
I: ! !: !: :" =: i: ! ! :: '
we have not Nu Q<sa78lSs,,, Q
been able g -. 3 i:
to get it be-
fore because of trade condi-
tons.
Now we have received
300 yards of this material. in
time for the opening Of coun-
try houses,
For the Italian room or
the room in which English
chintzes arc not suitable. this
fabric is particularly good.
1t is in an exquisite old ItaI-
ian design, developed in dull
blue and yellow in the soft
colors of old Italian damask.
The material itself is a soft
firmly woven cotton and may
be used as upholstery and
hangings; Is inches wide,
$3.50 a yard. Marrow band
ing, 40c a yard.
Fourth floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Broadway at
Ninth Street,
New York
Business Hours
8 to s.
Telephone
Stuyvesant 4700
To put a
lighted match

to a haystack and not expect
it to burn is the extreme of
folly.
Inflammatory words print
ed in the newspapers, said to
be spoken in secret meetings
of labor organizations, at
this particular time are MAX
ing it harder for employers
to maintain full forces and
full present wages, while the
buying public is in a waiting
mood for lowering of prices.
The interests of work
givers and work-doers are
in d is S olub bly, bound to-
gether.
(Signed)
nj 6&a4t<
May 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
MUSIC

Nothing SO expresses
music in it's finest form, it's
profoundest shades of
meaning, for the benefit of
young and old, in the home,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
The Great
Stabilizer

Nothing SO coordinates
the marvellous mechanism
of man, keeping him on an
even keel, in condition for
going on, as
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Weather Report

Figures indicated are standard time
sun rises. a :38 q. m. Sun sets7:O % M
Moon rises 81 p rn.lAIoon sets L :33 a m
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
\ Gift for the Bride

\ A1lIL IOT the D[lQG
An Old English Dessert Set
delightfully."- Victorian in
it's practical shapes and
simple obvious design Of
blue ribbons and pink moss
roses, in lovely colors.
Twelve plates. Four low
compotes. One high COM
pote.
$3.50.
An Quatrien1e,
Fourth floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Highest temperature Yesterday.

grees Cat 2 p. m.) lowest, 60 degrees Cat
GAS a M; average, So degrees: average
same date last year, So degrees; avera ge
same date for thirty three years, SO de-
grees.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16

Local Official Record--The following Of
fetal record shows temperatures during
the. last twentyfour hours in comparison
with the corresponding date Of last wear.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16

Local FOrecast.--Partly cloudy and
cooler to-day; tomorrow fair; moderate
west winds.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16

TT is not big type and
n big talk in the news
papers-but the qual.
ity, fashion and fair
price of the goods in
the store which make
value and give lasting
satisfaction.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
the AMPICO

The home, to be an ideal
ly efficient environment for
the workers of today, and
for those who are growing
up to be the workers of to-
morrow, MUST have an
AMPICO.
The AMPICO reproduces
the playing of more than a
hundred of the worlds best
pianists. 1t may be played
AS any pianoforte-by
any one. It will play for
the dance--alone--no one
at the keyboard. 1t contains
within itself all pianoforte
possibilities which have vet
occurred to the mind of
man.
Because of this
we wish to render the wild
est service in placing the
AMPICO in the homes of
the people. And we have ar
ranged two home-like suites
of rooms in the Piano
Salons, where any one NAV
come, and bring friends,
and have the marvellous
mystery of the AMPICO
unfolded by the
AMPICO in the
CHICKERING
Today, at any hour.
Tomorrow, if not today.
AMPICO Reproducing
Pianos begin at 1915 for an
upright, with foot-power.
ANY of them may be pur-
chased on the deferred pay
ment plan, terms to be
nodded to the Individual de-
sire, mutually reasonable.
Piano Salons, First Gallery,
New Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16
Hunidit

8, NJ. 64i1 p. M. 45ls p. r.... 6.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-16

Barometer Readings
a, m. 9o.0Sl1 p. m. 30osls p. m. te0S
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In a very definite sense there is an
anomaly in my position here this
morning, an anomaly at which the
gods might we'll laugh. There is an
old proverb about the futility of
carrying Goals to Newcastle, and
surely that even must be less futile
than coming to the Free Synagogue
to speak in protest against anti-Sem-
itism. Yet from another point Of
view I hope that my presence this
morning will not be regarded as inap-
propriate, as anomalous, or as un-
meaning. Will you not, my friends
and fellow citizens, you who are for
the most part at any rate OF Jewish
ancestry-and I hope also Of Jewish
faith-will you not regard my pres
ence this morning as symbol, as
promise and recognition by your
Gentle and Christian fellow citizens
of the obligation which the challenge
of this hour imposes upon them?
Just as the first venturesome flower
that bursts through the snow before
the winter is well closed presages the
coming cf the springtime with its
burgeoning, and of the sii,nmer with
it's beauty and it's glory, will you not
regard the presence upon this plat
form this morning Of one who is of
Gentle birth and Christian faith as
pledge and token that there is NOV
ing in this great America of ours
a spirit that will not rest until it has
beaten this newest and ugliest foe
of American democracy to it's knees!
Recently it was my privilege-in
some respects privilege attended
by some sacrifice Of feeling and some
pain-to sojourn in Central and
Northern Europe. And as I moved
through those lands so lately stricken
by the agony and the hatreds of war,
still suffering it's wrack, it's ruin and
it's torture, with lacerated hearts still
unhealed and the tears still moist
upon cheeks of men and women, felt
strangely torn between courage and
despair, between hope and faith and
rejoicing and the pessimism that
comes to men who see only the mag
nitude of the tasks that lie immed-
lately before them. On the one hand,
there were signs Of old hatreds dy-
ing, of the passions and the furies
reused by the war being wiped away
by a newer and better and holier
spirit. I saw, for example, as l went
through Germany, that there was no
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-01-28
The Real Jewish Peril or the Menace of
Anti-Sernitism to America.
JOHN SPARGO
Address Delivered the Free Syna New York City

longer any hatred of this America
of mine and of yours, that there was
no longer any bitter antagonism to
this nation to which you and ! belong.
I saw, too, when was in Belgium,
in the heart of the country that suf-
fered so much, where in every home
some tragedy occurred out of which
was born bitter and deep resentment,
in the heart of that heroic little ma
ton, saw hundreds Of little German
children being led away from the
headquarters of the Belgian labor or
ganizations to be fed by the contrib
utions of Belgian workingmen. That
was the outward and the visible sign
of the manner in which the hatreds
engendered by the war were being OBJ
liberated by the compassion and the
spirit of fraternity that is again
growing in the world.
On the other hand, everywhere I
encountered ominous signs of organ
lied effort-conspiracies, if you
please, since we are to talk this morn
ing largely about conspiracies-to re-
vive hatreds older than any nation,
to s4fekindle old and dangerous and
bitter passions, passions from which
have emanated some of the foulest
deeds that are recorded on the black
est pages of our humankind. In par
ticular noted this in the land where
l was born, the land where my an
cestors lived through so many CEN
turies. For I, too, like many Of you,
an American by choice, of my own
volition, an American because I came
freely to land offering greater op-
portunities for me and for my chill
dren than the land of my birth, and
in return for the advantages received
pledged myself to give without res
ervation, without stint, without ques-
tion, all that I am, all have, all that
I can be, for the maintenance of the
land from which, received so much.
But loyalty to this nation, the utmost
LOYALTY to this land, to which I have
pledged my fealty, carries with it no
obligation that I shall root out OF my
heart a peculiar sympathy for and in
terest in the land where my fathers
dwelt, where I myself was born, and
it has always been matter of pride
to me that in the land from which l
came we long ago ended one tragic
chapter in our national history. 1t
has been a matter of pride to me as
one born under British skies, heir to
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the great traditions of the Anglo
Saxon peoples, that in that land while
there were pogroms in Russia and in
Austria and in Roumania, while
there was bitter anti-Semitism
rampant in Central Europe and
even in France, it was possible
for Jews to sit in the great
mother of Parliaments and even for
a Jew, Disraeli, to be Prime Minister
of the greatest Empire that history
lobby of the House of Commons in
September and in October, when I sat
in the Clubs where could meet my
old associates and friends, I found
that even there in England the spirit
of that bitter, insensate hate for the
Jew, as Jew, which has for so long
blackened the whole history Of Chris
tian civilization was rampant.
I returned to the United States
saddened at what the Old World pre-
sented, and I remember when came
up New York Harbor and saw again
Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, symbol
of the things for which this nation
stands, symbol of the heritage that I
can give to my children to be theirs,
and the heritage Of their children,
thought, "Well, at least we shall be
free from this thing; at least here
it shall not grow" And then when
I went to my home in Vermont and
faced the pile of things that had ac-
cumulated during my absence, one of
the first things that came to my hand
was this pamphlet that have here at
my hand t.sis morning containing
reprint Of a number of articles which
have appeared in an American news
paper, financed by one of the great
industrial capitalists of America,
man who it seems but yesterday was
regarded as the greatest of idealists,
his only fault being that his ideals
were too high to be realized.
AS this morning I contemplate the
spectacle of Mr.. Henry Ford with his
millions descended to depth too low
for any decent minded American to
follow him, I recall that five years
ago Mr.. Ford was good enough to
invite me to be his guest; to cross the
ocean in Peace Ship-now remem-
bered principally because of the bel
ligerency and bellicosity of its voy-
agers-to cross the ocean in a Peace
Ship to bring the boys out of the
trenches; to put an end to the agony
of the war; to stop the hatred that
was then so manifest in the world
and to bring about again the reign Of
universal brotherhood. I had to de-
cline Mr.. Ford's invitation for pre-
cisely the same reason as must
now denounce his latest enterprise. I
believed then that Mr.. Ford was the
unconscious tool and dupe Of a very
dangerous and menacing intrigue in
international politics. I believe that