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Movie of a Man With a Poor Memory
By BRIGGS
iL'opyrlght, 1919, Now York Tribune Inc.)
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o-i^enr Bread
Long Way Off,
Savs Barnes
Charges Craig
Paid $325,000
On $7,000 Loss
Whrar Director Declares
Sharp Reduction in Price
of Graiii Is Necessarv
to Make Loaf Cheaper
U. S. Must Feed World
?
Allicd Coimtrics Will Not
I?ai*c Crops as Large as
J u*t Year, He Predicts
Julius Barnes, head of tho Food Ad
ttnmstration Qrain forporation, who
has been appointcd United States
Wheat Director by President Wilson, to
handlc the 1919 wheat crop.as provided
J?r undcr act of Congress guaranteeing
he farmer a minimum of $2 ?.u a'
bushel, said yesterday it would bc a1
long time before the "five-cent loaf of
bread returned.
He would not say that it would
never return. Mr. Barnes added that
45 per cent of the cost of baking a loaf
oi bread wa., tho wheat cost, and he
asserted that a *harp reduction in
wheat prices would be nccessary to
bnng about any important cut in the
price of bread.
ihe opinion wai expressed by Mr
Barnes that the United States would
have to continuo to feed a great part
oi the world. The Allicd countries, he
:aid, would not rai.se such large crops
ol Wheat as they did last year. Re
ports that there are larcje supplies of
v.hcat in storage at the Black Sea ports
are unfounded, Mr. Barnes said, and at
ihe present tiinc this country is sup
plying Rumania with wheat when, if
supplies were available at the Black
Sea ports, Rumania would buy there.
Suppliea of wheat carried over from
lust year's crop in thia country are
very small, tho head of tho grain cor
poration stated, and it is with difflculty
that wheat is being obtamed in suf
llcient quantitioa to meet the current
export demanda. Owmg to this aitua
t>on wheal i uelling at different polnts
m the interior al anywhere from 12
lo 33 centa a. bushel above the mini?
mum gurantoe price of $2.20.
Aceordlng to Mr. Hnn.es, approxl
roately 38 per cent of last year'o Amerl
^fn v'1"/"' '"'l' wa i takon fov sxporl
no pn-di.-i.-d a very large demand from
*b'?*<l ?"; ? ? n aUhough he said
howa, ,,* in ? po |tion ,,, rUlt? ,
< bo ? urpluH, for obvioua
Ihe Iftlem ijovernmenl .-tt
udicttted \ lehl of more
Vn 800,000.000 1m, heta of wfSt!!
?' ?' ?' tho .prlng whwt pUnJln.il
"' wnf|Jvor?blg devolopmim ?
, ?.*?*?"??"' Ii ""1 bv Mr. Uarnoi
ttttd, in pari; . '
wheat crop ever grown. '?r?es.
, "' 'I'1-,v I ??' made eftectlve a na
t,0??l guarant. pri0e of w),P;ita n"
redeeming that guaranty to the pro
ducer we shall undoubtedlv ?Cnuir?
"?? wheat. "Its resale
one of great public interest
??' ion' :'' ?? that thai policy can
not '"? ntelligently decided until cror
outturaa are more dcflnitely knowr
here and abroad. We hall be prepared
to act on one ol several alternate pol
ieies.
c had a clcar conception ol
?? coming year, and
fated to the President large pow
' ' ; ;,!'!1 ': Bcretion. Wbile the national
policv ol resale must be decided by
ractort developing with season, there
rtain fundamentala which r con
to bo right and just, and on
h an operation may be baeed.
.,,?! thi i ;
"First The guaranty i? clearly in
Unded for the benefit of the producei
and tne license power may be used to
control trade practicei ho a? to a an
the proper reflection of the guaranteed
price raaching all prodacers.
?Second In tho event of surplaa
wne^t produetion, domestic cojiourner*
?ball not r??y more for wheat than
concurrently aecepted from for
/??' .
? J hird '1 he national Treasury should
\.'- aroteeted by the realization of a
price, a-. far na \\ ,-ar, be ?|t..
termined, and any governmental policy
oX artiflciajly substdiaing ia unsound."
rWlE managemcnt of Rcisenwebcr'a
ga\e noticc last night that the
shimmy and the shiver must shimmy
e.s m ! T1' outslde' ? ?* a". and danc
erai must cmbrace with decorum.
Tho managemcnt of Reisenweber's "
ihl Jui- aniu?"ncement accompanyinV
the not.ce "believcs ir. modesty in
dancingand that tho only propcr sal
ioom^in7cT?n^ "1C regular b;l!!
JYJRS MAR/E CASALE, of 44 Frrrv
?* Street, Newark, wishes the New
\ork police would hurry and locate her
fourteen-year-old ,0.1 Frank, who his
been playmg "hookey" for two week,
She beheves Frank is in Xew York
IVIra. Casale is the mother of nineteen
cnudren, SCVcntcen of whom are now
"The more you have the harder it is
to losc one," sho said. 3
i.T GOT no time to he tricd." pro
h Wf?rlld, i;fi,V'''rd Toddpp' ?rrested as
a loafer when he was arraigned yester- :
feLt-V the(<TBridS* Plaza Police court.
nnon 'r' ^ottadate for this after
noon; I m going away."
aTnrin^i1 g0,a,way'" rejoined Magistrate
McCloskey, 'but not wherc you think
you re going." J K
noh?.?dCr rctorte1d bv drawing from his
pod.et papcrs showing he had cnlisted
in the navy, and was at the end of -.
thirty-day furlough preliminary to his
iriducnon. After leaming that the naval
authorities did not care to handle the
case, however, Magistrate McCloskey re
mant
tion.
lui
pATROLMAN M1CHAEL SCANLON
teln^V'r ?f duty ye3terday at the
telegraph bureau at hcadquartors
K,_ancc-d at a report from the West
luotn Street station which his relief
wai writtng down.
"Michael Scanlon, seven years old,"
foll fr?? A '\ Rradhurst Avenue,
fell from either the roof or tire escapc
on the top floor of lhe five-story cne
men to tho courtyard and was in
stantly killed."
?tiSa?iCany , r?trol<"'? Scanlon
started to road the mesaage again
when it was completc
"Michael Scanlon, SPVrtl_. M
Vr 1 ?e?broke t,!''. "maybe it's little
Michael!" L
11 was.
Mystery in Death
01 A. C. Srhuvlei%
Drownecl in llmlson
v ' ' ?'"??' <?'' Acklpy C, Sclmyler, n
Now Hi-k inmnittietiiror, loiirmxl vea
'," ?' ?" ?l myHtorlotiR deiUh ,:,'ii,,.
Ivi:;:;,,1.?.*? .^ or
P'ranK It, Schuylor, 11 son 0f tho
l '"'"niiactiM'.-r, who livoa nt 205 Wcal
??'* rathera death was unexp ntned.
],"" ""- *??? round waahed ah. al
Muniini. on the Uudson. Saturduv
|bore no ?Uirk- 0f violencc,
Mr. Schtiy er iuid that hia father had
IhadeZ.r/L11^!^ Mr..SchuylW
boaYMal,m= :.:.">- ?$
1 suteVo I; VThUeare,CwaWSernCof0oU td "' ih*
no aound of di5turbance? ?Utcry a"d
i the De?atoUifreLvaS the ProP?tor of
! ,,?i Beverage and Mineral
yeara old andT.d Hvcd at th^ ??Cnty
Hcan Club for the SVfLtn0yeaTs^'
Mr. Schuyler has two aona ifvlnir |n
te.YS?ctuy{;rk R" Sch^ntano
Suet| for WiltVs Billl
(rving I. Bloomlngdale, of Blooming
dale Brothera, dry goods merchanta
whoae wife ia suing him for a aepara
tlon, ia now being aued for wearina
apparol which Slra. Bloomingdale
1 - alieged lo have bought.
The plalntlff ia Anna McNally
rnodiKte. In her complaint sho saya
that tthe han sold to Mr?. Bloomingdale
on th<? crcdit of her husband, wcaring
apparel and materlala amounting lo
?1<J,148. 8he nllegf.? that only $]o,Ob'j
waB j,aid on tjjeae accountti
i OURGLARS not only stole $1,015 from
-" the trousers ol' Dr. A. Graham Bid
! dle, of 135 Central Park West, but they
also deprived him of the use of that
partieular pair of trousers for 1he day.
"Don't touch them pants until tho
fingerprint oxpcrts gel through with
them," detectives from the West Sixty
eighth Street station told Dr. Biddle.
A burglar came through the bedroom
window and took a diamond pin and a
diamond ring from the bureau and the
money from the doctor's trousers.
Enrico Caruso'a sister-in-law, Mrs. Glad
rtina Goddard, oiVlui East Eighty-flrst
.-.treel, told Magislrate Tobias, in Harlem
i ourt. .-ho did not wish to prosecutc. (ieorrro
Grossman, Iwenty-onc, of .,1". West Fiflieth
Street, arraigned on a charge of suapicloli
of grand larceny. Grossman was dis
charged. H ? waa suspected oC haviug stolen
jcwelry which included a pair of diamond
earnngs, a gift from Caruso (o Mrs. God?
dard.
A jury before Justice Callaghan, in ihe
Supreme Ccurt, Brooklyn, dcclared Charles
D. Sperry, h weallhy real estate dealer, of
261 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, incompelenl to
mv.iiaKe his own aftairs. Rperry, who i
sixty-one years old, denied, on the stand, b
charge made by his son, Thcodore, lhat he
had offered to give the Red Crcss $1,000,000,
or that he had evcr written a S25.000 check
for that socii ty.
The eleventh annual convention nnd con
gresa of the Behais will be held at tiie
llotel McAlpin, starting April 26. The con?
vention will be m M-ssion for five duvs.
'Ihe Motor Corps of America, with head
quartera at 96 Park Avenue, haa announced
it ha ; been given the n; e of a 2fi0-acre
farm at Bayside, Long Island, by Kamuo!
Jafobs, ol :'M l'ourth Avenue, to bo used
-,l a rest farm and trainlng camp,
Melcn Koska, twelve, of "ifir, Third Ave?
nue, Th,- Bronx, who shot her eight-year
old sister, Ree, March 1, was diseharged
from custody by Justice Ryan in the Bron*
Children's Court. The shooting was dc?
clared to ha\e been accidcntal.
A concert is to be given ai the home of
Mrs. VincenI Aslor, 840 Fifth Avenue,
Monday aftcrnoon for the benefit of tho
orthopedic ward of ihe Post Graduato Hob
piUl.
T.ord Reading i-. t. be the guest of honor
at the Imnouel of the Association of For
! cign Press Corrcspondents in the United
Staies. Thursday, at the llotel Plaza.
Tammauy "Ilohl Up'
On Inromr Tax Law
(Jkii'^mI to Smilh
ti. vei nor Smith 1,-t i.i'uod with a
1} piciil I atnniMiiy "hold up" ni i-oiuie.'
i lon with ihe umendmenl lo tho !,,??
incomo in\ law, when, ln lho closln^j
houra of tho LogUlnturo, u chango was
nin.lo in tho Davenport bill plnclng In
tho hands of llie CtOVOlllOl', Seiinlor
llenrv M. Suge, of Mlniny, ,,nd II. K(\
mund Machold, of .lelVorson County,
patt'onngo conlrol vf tho now Incomo
tax bureau in tho Stato L'ontroller's
ofllce.
It was said yesterday by friends
of Stato Controller Travis that before
midsummer an action to test the con
Btitutionality of the law will be beRim
by a laxpayer. The fcature of the law
most criticised is in the amendment
fathered by Senator Davenport, that
?'no new position shall be created nor
salary lixed except on the unanimous
approval of ihe Governor, the chair?
man of the Senate Finance Committee
(Mr. SageJ and the chairman of the
Assembly Ways and Means Commit?
tee" (Mr. Machold). ln its original
? shape the bill gava the State Controller
. full authority to organi'/.e ihe new
bureau. The alleged unconstitutional
feature lies in the fact that the State
( ivil Service Commission is eliminated
from having a voice in tho selection
of the appointces.
The Travis men say that Governor
Smith "held up" Senator Davenport and
made him sanction the change, with an
intimation that unlesa Tammany re
ceived its share of the patronage there
would bo no new tax bill.
It is expected the organization of the
tax bureau will i-esult in tho appoint
; ment of parhaps 800 men and women,
of which the Democrats will claim one
third. The Logislature appropriated
1300,000 for the organization of the
bureau. but, that is only to start it.
About 160 appointmonta will be made
within the next few weeks. Controller
Travia goea to Albany to-day and will
return -n Thursday.
Public Service Conimission
Says City Controller Has
Adjusted Hugc Claiuis
for the Subway Builders
Total Bill $1,069,592.76
Dcgiioii Coneern Allowed
to Increases Charges,
Board's Letter States
The Public Service Conimission, in a
letter to Controller Craig made public
last night, virtually charges the Con?
troller with adjusting a "damage"
claim liled by the Degnon Contracting
Company for $325,000, while, according
to the cngineers of the Public Service
Conimission, the limit of the damages
was not more than $7,000.
The correspondence rcflects the
strained relations between the Public
Service Conimission and the controller's
ofliee. The Controller wrote the com
mission on .March 26, adviaing the
conimission of the filing of a damage
claim by the Degnon company in the
sum of $1,069,692.7G, saying a hearing
would be given on the claim on the
next day:
The Controller asked for a rcport on
the merits of Ihe claim. It was short
notice, the commission says, to ask
for detailcd data on a large and in
volvcd trahaaction. /vfter rcviewing the
Degnon company'.-, services and claims,
The lotter from the commiision to tho
Controller says:
"The contractor has now prosonted
to you a claim for damages amounting
to $1,069,592.76, this claim presumably
taking the place of tho one for $456,
920,31 previously aubmitted to you for
the samo contract, It is understood
thai in considoration of the payment
pf this $325,000 the Degnon Contract?
ing Company was to release the ch.ims
JUod in connoction with Bections
9-0-2 (for $721,87-1.88, with Interest),
nnd ections 2 of routea -I and 38 (for
$708,090,21 . Aa to clnlm on aection
'?' " ? acliou was dismiaaotl on fogaj
tfrounda by Justice Greenbtnini on
?"""? '-'"? 1018, and a. to tho claim on
HPCtion :'. rouloa ?! ??,i ;ls, | ,,,,.!?.?
'"I'> "' >' "l"'it by tho ftCtillH ohiol
engmoor which may bo of Intorosl te
>"" >""! which IndlvHloH that iho con
'""''"'I- may havo nutVorod dumnge. in
1111 wniounl nol oxt.dlng $7,000 (ln
stond of $708,000.21, i.'. elalmod).
' t thPf.ioio appoura that y.m havo
' '",ule, " fcttlomonl with lho cnntractoi
lor $326,000, r-lther on tho ground of
(uicgod dnmugoB where i? onu enao ac
tion was dlamlaacd by tho courl u
iiote.l ahovo, and on nl|0gerl damagea
which, in the opinion of the engineers
l?nd ol tho conimission i are not war
ranted by the facts, and further that
you have allowed tho contractor to re
serve a claim for alleged damages
WhlCh he previously estitnated at $466 -
930.37, but which now has been swollen
to $1,069,692.76."
At. the offlces of the Public Service
( ommission yesterday it was said that
under the Walker bill passed last Sat
urday tho Board of Estimate cati ad
just all of the subway contractors'
''damage" claims, amounting to about
51.?',.00(1,1)00, at any amounts it likes, as
the Walker bill legalizes any such ac
t inn
1-111 Damaged by Crew
The U-lll, which lies in the navy
yard, a trophy of victory, was dam
! agod by its German crew, it was
; learncd yesterday, in violation of the
j terms of the armistice. The main ball
; thrust beaniigs had been tampercd
with, and the boat could not put to sca
i until temporary repairs had been made.
i Lieutenant Commander Freeland A
Daubin, who was skipper of the craft
: on ita westward voyago, brought it in
i Saturday with only fivo hours' oil sup
ply loft in its tanks. The boat is
1 larger than submarines in our navy
and officcra dcclarcd it has a better
periscope.
100 per cent. Victory Liberty Loan Honor Flag flies at
WANAMAKER'S today?a Bond for every employee
^
Reconstmiction of Wounded Soldiers
Four hours and a four-iiiile walk last
Monday took us up and down, by stairs and
elevators, and over long inclined planes,
winding around and aronnd, built so that
kindly buman helpers may gently carry upon
stretchers suft'ering men to be put on their
i'eet, if they have any left, or to be made over
again physically, ii? Iminan skill and scienee
ean work thal niiraele.
It was an unforgettable visit to the Walter
WvqA r. S. General Hospital, a group of
thirty-one buildings upon eighty acrcs of
ground in Takoniu Park, Washington, 1). C,
with a capacity of 2,400 beds, and often over
full of soldiers and sailors.
The Washington Monument, of white
marble, magnificent in stateliness and beauty,
over-towers every building at the Capital,
but it has no heart.
The great Walter Reed Hospital, named
in honor of a doctor who sacrificed his life
for humanity, has a heart, and it surely is the
heart of the LTnited States.
It is a great red-blooded, throbbing,
health-giving heart that feels for the boys,
bulletand shrapnel stricken, gassed and poisoned,
saber-cut, maimed and lamed, some with two
legs and two arms gone, and many, very many,
with but one leg left.
It was in this hospital that I saw, in the
twciity-two wards I visited, 1,076 men, and
three-l'ourths of them were in bed.
127 doctors in attendance.
211 trained nurses in attendance.
158 assistant nurses in attendance.
99 aids for massage and electric apparatus
work.
and 1,378 enlisted men, orderlies, who helped
to carry; cooks, dining-room attendants,
wooden leg and arm inakers, workshop teaeh
ers, and experts in trades and professions, all
working to lhe end that men who are incapaci
tated by the war may leavc the hospital with a
new bread-winning ability.
Tidy-up men were doing all sorts of ehores
and "stunts" to take care of and cheer up their
mutilated and war-shocked, convalescent, home
siek comrades, by means of the Y. M. C. A.,
Knights of Columbus and Ked Cross reereation
rooms, gymnasiums, music and pleasure-eivino'
halls. " i B fe
With all lhe serious eondilions and solemn
responsibilities, the loss of limbs or tendons or
nmscles, the shuttered eyes, fingers broken and
impaired, nol a singie I'ace wove a seowl or ex
pl-ession ol' regivl \\)V ||lr satTl'llCC, eilller h\
word or by look and there were l,<;7<i mCn in
whosc I'aees ! reml hope, eourage and conlenl
Ul,!l H"' |>rioc they had had |,? pftv for their
eonnlrv's sake.
Mothers, Wives, Sisters
and Sweethearts of the Boys
in the United States Hospitals
Suffer This Suggestion
^.
Your boys offered their all tt? their country,
and the United States truly intends to offer il
all and best for lhe wounded and returned
men.
Believe me, I am deeply impresscd with the
nccessity of .giving lhe Governmenl time l<>
nurse and repair stricken nerves, shattered bonea
and fractured ligaments, and to lil new legs and
arms and other parts and make them comfort
ably workable and practical for service.
Therefore, 1 most earnestly reccommend to
stop influencing lhe boys lo get home. nmeli
as you want them. Do not inirry them out of
the hospitals wliere the Government is giving
them good food, the tinest surgical skill and
trained nursing, and lhe splendid oversight oi'
competent, interested military and scientific
care.
There'is something in lhe air and nianagc
ment of a hospital such as the Walter Reed at
Waslnngton that says lo all the fellows: "Boys,
stay with us where you are. patiently until we
have mothered you and mended you to the ut
most of our knowledge and ability; only give
us time and you sliall have our best service,
whatever the cost may be to the United States
Government, whose servants we are and which
has instructed us to spare no paitis in time ,>r
money to heal your hurts."
How ean we say, or how ean we feel, that
lhe war and the work of the war are finisked,
or anywhere nearly finished, until the wounded
men have been mended and every one of them
put upon a sure path of earnipg his livelihood?
The Walter Reed Hospital is given as an
example. Kngaged in this same iine work there
are also these
U. S. Army
Rcconstruction Hospitals
.J
General Hospital No. 2?Fort McHenry, Md.
General Hospital No. 3?Colonia, X. J.
General Hospital Xo. 4?Fort Porter, X. Y.
General Hospital Xo. 6?Fort McPherson, (ia.
General Hospital Xo. 7?Roland Park, Baltimore.
General Hospital No. 9?Lakewood, X. ,).
General hospital Xo. 13?Dansville, X. V.
General Hospital Xo, 14?Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Army and Navy General Hospital ? Hot Springs,
Ark.
Army and Navy General Hospital?Cape May.
N, J.
l.ettennaii (.eiieral Ilospital - San FYanciseo.
Base Hospital, Korl Des Moines, lowa.
Base Hospital, at Fort Uiley. Kan.
Basc Hospital, at Fort Sam Nouston, Tcxas.
and a great uumher i\\' pntieiils are being carcd
t'or in other hospitals in our large eitics.
burely we must keep up this and other great necessary works. for the rehabilitation
of our brave fighting men, for the safe maintenance ancl saie return of the army over
seas, ancl for the firm establishment of a wise peace.
In order to keep up the good work, let us
put through the Victory Liberty Loan quickly
It is not only a Duty-Loan, but also a Good-Cheer Loan
to Lonesome Boys a long time in Hospitals
And then?with the Good Work
Well done, a New America!
[Signed]
April 22, 1919.
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