THE EVENING POST: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER a, 1917. APPROVES OF RED CROSS PLAN FOR WAR CHARITIES
DR. N MORTON PRINCE SATISFIED Why Not Electric Deliveries? WITH RESULT OF CONTROVERSY, > Increased Efficiency—Reduced Cost ( Chairman of Servian Distress Fund Because of the needs of our Army and Navy and to insure the con Says Organizations Received Prac servation of one of our important fuel supplies, a warning has been tically All They Asked for. sounded against waste in automobile operation
Dr. Morton Prince, of Boston, chairman of the Serbian Distress Fund, has sent .i-"H mt"-A,:I1'1 •••). I ''! -H J7„T1» the following letter to the Evening Post in reference to the outcome of the con troversy between the Red Cross and the seventy-four war charities. In a letter to the Evening Post, on SCIENTMCAMEMCAN August 2 last, I called to the attention of the public the controversy between the I .• .• III..I•••• imiiiiiit'i .mi''I''r'li. Red Cross and the seventy-four war charities, and stated the case of the lat ter. As my letter was given wide pub licity and attracted considerable atten rats the present system, and -thai these tion, it Is only fair and generous to the ready for incorporation in Brie Red Cross, now that it has substantially war is over Now IM the time for yielded to the wishes of the war charity to attack the problem seriously if we organizations, that due public recognition our position in world trade. should be given to this action. Tha Opportunity of the Electrically Driven "In its recent circular to the war relief Vehicle.—The increasing shortage in petroleum fuel, charities the Red Cross gives the follow which threatens to become scute, offers a great oppor ing assurance: tunity for the wider introduction of electrically driven The Red Cross will accept contributions vehicles, which depend for their supplies on power of such supplies of a general nature as developed by other classes of fuel, or water power you have heretofore been shipping through the War Relief Clearing House, The electric vehicle is by no means, an experiment, for and will endeavor to forward them in it has performed most satisfactorily for a number of accordance with the wishes of the sender, years, for both pleasure and commercial purposes, and but can accept them only with the un derstanding that where is it impossible has proved itself eminently practical. This the public or impracticable to make deliveries as does not appear to be generally aware of, as the more designated, the supplies will be distribut spectacular or sensational features of the gasoline car ed by the American Red Cross in Paris or elsewhere according to the most urgent have monopolized attention, but impending conditions needs, will undoubtedly force a wider recognition of the un SHOULD NOTIFY SOCIETIES. doubted merits of the electric vehicle. "This is substantially all that the war Sign Which Protects AutomobUee^eSJfhet charities asked for from the very begin -Margarita Schumacher, in devisus^Kiean* of ning. If the Red Cross will live up to ating automobile theft, has dqaajpway with the the spirit and letter of this new assur chains,.brakes sad oftsr devises. wV ance, I feel quite sure that every one will be willing, where it is Impossible or impracticable to make deliveries as desig nated' by the donors, that the Red Cross shall distribute according to its best Judg ment and 'according to the most urgent needs.' This Is only reasonable. I hope, NwVa*,aV. however, that for obvious reasons, the donating societies will be promptly noti %- fied when this has been the case. Electric trucks and delivery wagons fulfill all the requirements/of "I am jrlad to call attention to this decision of the Red Cross for the fur fuel saving. They can be made actual factors in the economical ther reasons that I have received sev conduct of any business calling for transportation facilities. The eral inquiries from charity organlaations asking how relief supplies can be sent cost of service is low and it can be depended upon. Simplicity of to Europe and be distributed according operation makes for safety. Electric cars have a very long useful Ufa to the wishes of the donors; and offers, coming from Paris,' have been recently made to me to form a new clearing Our Transportation Engineers Are At Tour Service house and guaranteeing free transporta tion and distribution of donations inde pendent of the Red Cross according to The New York Edison Company the wishes of the donating societies. "The previous ordef""*f the Red Cross General Offices: Irving Place and Fifteenth Street has given considerable anxiety to many Telephone Stuyvesant 5600 UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE relief societies, fearing, as they have, that they would have to go out of busi ness. The duplication Of the machinery BELGIUM'S CURE FOR LABOR DISTURBANCES of transportation and distribution un i i ii ip 1 OBITUARY der a new clearing house organisation = would be a pity, and it would seem now W*rkm»'> Comrta Salve Maar Problem, hy Settling; ladlvldunl Dispute* to be unnecessary. storm rages without, and upon the deple DINNER FOR TAMMANY MEN. CAFT. ALAN MUDIE. MUSIC AND DRAMA Between f?in»lorera and Employee*— Example for the IT. 8. ATTITUDE OF RED CROSS. tion of this storm and its manifestations Capt Alan Mudie, well known as an In wind, rain, lightning, and thunder, Mr. Hy Ian. Crat«, aa* Saalth te •• "It is gratifying to note that the at actor in this country, was killed in action "Tiger Rose." Belasco has lavished all the mechanical •C Baal Batata titude of the Red Cross is now concilia on September 20 in Flanders, on the Perhaps the most noticeable feature resources of his art. Crises In the chase By ARTHUR ft. KITRN, tory and friendly and all that we could Judge Hylan, Charles I* Craig, and .Al fcsttar far Belarlaa Law In the Comparative Law tloreao of the American Bar western front. Capt. Mudle was a na in the production of 'The Tiger Rose" •>! are revealed in succeeding flashes, and ask for. The Red Cross In Its circular fred E. Smith, Tammany candidates fa* Aseaelatloa. tive of Manchester, England, a member Willard Mack, In the Lyceum Theatre, the suspense of the audience IS main asks: 'May we count on the cooperation Mayor, Controller, and President of the of the family that founded the famous last evening, was the general excellence tained at full tension up to the moment HE Russian Democratic Congress, now In session, has been reported to be at of yourself and your associates? We Board of Aldermen, will make addia—p circulating library in London. Soon af of the stage management As David of the final escape. It is upon this act at a dinner to ha given la the Hotel BUt- work on a model system of workmen's courts. In connection with this report. need your help,' It adds. I. for one, can TIt la Interesting to note that % few years prior to the war, Belgium had already ter going on the stage, Charles Frohman Belasco was the director, this was no that the future of the play will mainly more on the night of October IS by th* not read the first report of the Red brought him to America to play a lead extraordinary phenomenon. The play it depend. In the concluding act—which Real Estate Ken's League for Hylan. enacted a well-considered system of workmen's courts for the settlement of disputes Cross without feeling a thrill at the re ing role In "The Arcadians" opposite Miss self proved to be a fairly good specimen provides opportunity for another ad between workmen and their employers aa well as for disputes solely between ( cital of the vast and multiform work At a masting called hy Joseph & Julia Sanderson. He was a good actor of border-land melodrama, in which fami mirable set—the interest flags a little, .Workmen or solely between employers. The Belgian law of May 15. 1910, which it is undertaking. And surely no Schwab, chairman of th* League, si if and dancer, and he soon became a favor liar ingredients have been used with partly because of anti-climax, partly be Blast 52d Street, last night, a dinner com was an extension of a system of Workmen's Councils or Outsells de Prud'hommes one who is a friend of humanity would ite with the public. He also appeared workmanlike effect hy the actor dra cause of confused and shambling con mittee waa named aa follows: IsMor H. originating during tha French Revolution and continued both In France and In be willing to hamper it in its splendid under Charles Frohman's management matist. It demands no prolonged con struction, and partly because of accumu Kempnsr and J. Arthur Fischer, Manhat- Belgium, to one form or another, since that period. But the Belgian law of 1910 endeavor, but will want to render every in "The Girl from Montmartre," and sideration, but is welcome as a bit of lated improbabilities. Here Rose, her fu tan; Henry A. Meyer, Brooklyn; Henry represented an extension and perfection of an older system to a degree never before help In his power. On the other hand I gitive lover, Bruce Norton, and Dr. H, III M—IH again with Miss Sanderson in "The Sun breesy, stirring, and wholesome enter Robltsek, Th* Bronx; George JT. Ryan, attained. would respectfully but earnestly call the Cuslck are all assembled In a deserted shine Girl." His dance with Miss San tainment, in which the emotions, at least, Queens, and anntnsj It is surprising that tha provisions attention of Mr. Davison to the necessity log hut, and all fall Into • trap set by words, collective bargaining, the mini derson was one of the hits of this piece. are human and natural, and the story Vfcr 0f the Belgian law have not been taken of helping, In turn, the war charities the astute Devlin. In preliminary mum wage, and other devlaes familiar He was seen, too, with Miss Hasel Dawn full of excitement and interest, in splto account of aa a possible model for simi by keeping them informed, even if only dialogue Norton reveals that he la the 1* AM to modern industrial experience are left In "The Debutante," and bis last en Of its somewhat too apparent artifice. lar legislation in the United States, be by a postal card, of the extent and di younger brother of Cusick's dead wife, The Sleepy Hollow Gauntry dub will without supervision. gagement was with "The White Feath cause its provisions, in many ways, are rection of Red Cross activities in the The scene is laid amid the forest wilds and that the man he shot was his sister's give an open-a^s^serfefmaace In ft* Oar* HOW LABOR TROUBLES GROW. er." well adapted to the industrial situation field of each, so that they may know of Alberta, where the lovely and semi- seducer, whereupon Cuslck at flrst wants dan Theatre, at Wsraarmigh, aa Cfsafn In the spring of H15 he returned to existing here. This is explained by the fact that the specifically what needs are being cover civilized Rose Bodon is the plague and to strangle him—for anticipating his own bus Day, October IS, for the benefit of England to offer his services to his Tha judges of these workmen's courts Legislature is here dealing with a Ju ed. In this way duplication of effort the darling of the sturdy Scottish factor, vengeance—but soon embraces him and th* Soldiers* and Sailors' dub, at Osat- country. He was employed first In the are composed of workmen and employers dicial system, and has purposely left to and waste of money will be avoided. Hector MacCollins, who has adopted hew promises to aid his escape. Then Devlin nlng. N. T. Th* Washington munition factories, and was then given sitting Jointly, ejected by an electorate the parties full freedom of action. But "At present some, at least. Of the Im She is the idol of the scanty male popu pops In (from concealment) and arrests Players have been engaged is a commission as a second lieutenant in consisting of both classes, under a sys if it has not thus endeavored to accom portant charities are not only totally lation of the district, among others of the whole lot, but narrowly escapes death Mollere's comedy, "Sganarelle," an infantry regiment. His ability as an tem of proportionate representation. It plish the millennium, it has, nevertheless, disregarded in this respect, but they find the romantic young French Canadian, at the hands of Rose, who covers him other one-act piece, for which entertainer made him useful in cheering It notable also that since 1910 women are succeeded In eradicating the cause of a it impossible to discover what specifical Pierre La Bay, and the rollicking, hard with his own pistol, while Norton makes settings have been designed to fit the up the recruits, and he was kept in Eng not only permitted to vote in the elec Urge number of strikes. ly the Red Cross Is doing or professes bitten mounted policeman, Michael Dev a bolt for it. This piling up of complica outdoor theatre. land for some time. About nine months tion of the Judges, but are even eligible Our own experience within the last to do. They are obliged, therefore, to lin. A grim doctor, Dan Cuslck, Is one tions provokes Impatience, rather than ago he went with his regiment to Flan M nrring«». In ttemortam, I to Sit as Judges themselves. few months teaches us that a surpris mark time and wait, though they might of her slaves, and no one is much fonder Increases suspense, and managerial wis ingly large number of Important strikes, ders, rose rapidly, and only a short time dom would command a vigorous com TWO CbaSaTSB 09 LABOR. usefully be devoting their money and of her—or more distressed by her nagan- the Neto Tor* Evening- Post in the 8taie of New York and on the before his death he was made a captain. pression of superfluous closing scenes. At he telephoned te 4M9. Another novel feature is the separa energy to the relief of distress not cov ism—than the good old French priest, Pacific Coast, originated In disputes be the last Norton returns with Father tion of each of .the workmen's courts ered by the Red Cross. I suspect, too, Father Thlbault The doctor comes spe tween the employers and a small num EVIB GREENE. Thlbault, and the curtain falls upon his into two chambers, one for disputes re that many people are refraining from cially to warn her of the danger of hold ber of their employees, which might have Evie Greene, well known some years betrothal to Rose and the prospect of his specting workman engaged in manual la answering the appeals of war charities ing secret Interviews in the woods with been finally settled by workmen's courts ago in English musical comedy in this ultimate pardon, through the Interven bor, and one for employees engaged in for particular relief because of not know strange young men—he has an observ such as we have been describing. The country, died last month at her home in tion of the church and his newly-founJ Intellectual labor. This Is a wise separa ing whether or not the Red Cross is cov ant eye on his rounds—and bids Mac- LANODON— DOUGHTY — On tremendous cohesion now existing be gouthsea, England. She was born In brother-in-law. tion, and well conceived to serve the ering that field-—such, say, as Armenian Collins also to keep a sharp lookout day, October a, 1117, at Brooklyn, tween the various classes of our indus Portsmouth, and made her first appear N. Y-. Edith Doughty to Robert Getty different classes of labor. It avoids plac relief. adding that he himself can play sheep trial system lends to these disputes, at ance on the stage in London in 1S96, Evidently the part of Rose has been Langdon. ing all kinds of workmen upon the same "I feel quite sure that if the above dog no longer, as he Is about to leave the I^LOYD—FMLD—Oa Tuesday, first petty, their final huge proportions. but it was four years later when she fashioned expressly to fit the attractive dead level. The separation is maintained assurance pf the Red Cross Is lived up neighborhood. Then in a queer fit of t, lsn, at Brooklyn. Dr. made her success as Dolores in "Flora- personality and limited artistic equip not only In tha determination of the dis Belgium is a country with an area to, and it will take the trouble to keep confidence (obviously due to a necessity Mortimer Lloyd to Mr* dora," and after that played leading ment of Lenore Ulrich, who fills It with Lynea Field. pute, but also in the personnel of the not quKe that of the State of Maryland, the societies posted as to Its activities of the dramatist) he proceeds to explain a delightful piquancy, plenty of spirit, parts, such as Kitty Grey, in the musi Judges who are to determine it but with a population, anterior to the (what, unfortunately, It has too often that he has discovered the whereabouts and much picturesque action. But she war, approximately that of the whole of cal comedy of that name; Nan, in "A overlooked), it will receive from them of the scoundrel who years before had The workman's courts do not have Ju often mumbled her broken English In Canada, There were, it is true, strikes Country Girl," and Hans-Gene, in "The the help It asks for. Speaking for my stolen his wife from turn, and abandoned risdiction .in claims for compensation a fashion that mads her practically In in Belgium, as in other countries, but, Duchess of Dantzic" Her last appear Immediate associates and myself, we her to disgrace and death, and that he growing out of accidents, but nearly all comprehensible. The language In melo NAROANE8—On October «. 1*17.1 considering its highly complex industrial ance was in the revival of "Floradore," shall be glad under these conditions to lb starting off post haste to kill him. drama Is not often precious, but she conceivable disputes arising out of the Nargaaee, in his seventy-first year. A organization, they were surprisingly few. in London, at the beginning of the war, give it our loyal support and will ren Meanwhile report has come of a mur should remember that It has its occa mass of requiem will be aalshtatsd *Jt\ Interpretation of the contract of labor May not the legislation of this enlight when she was the subject of a popular der any service we may." der close at hand, and tha policeman, sional value as an interpretation of ac the Church of th* Missed Sacrament, V and its performance, and the Incidental ened little country serve as a valuable ovation. In private life she was the Devlin, arrives hot-foot, in pursuit of tion. Willard Mack, the author, has fur Broadway and 71st Street, on Saturday. relationships between employer and em wife of Commander Ernest Kennaway HUNTKR the sth. at 10:10 A. M. Interment at model In solving some of our own Indus EVENTNO COURSES AT a young engineer who has shot a strang nished himself with a fruity part in the Calvary Cemetery. ployee, are covered by tha jurisdiction trial problems? Arbuthnot, R. N.. who la on active ser er at sight in the woods near by. No character of the hard-headed and amor assigned to these courts. Appeals from vice. Msaa la <
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