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No Truce, Says
De Valera in
First Interview
Correspondent, Blinded by
Goggles. Is Taken to the
beeret Home of Leader,
In or IS ear I) n h 1 i n
Denies Any Weakening
\Te Must Die Some Time, \
\Thy Not Now? Cited as
Spiritual View of Irish,
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DUBLIN, March 16 (By The Asso?
ciated Presa). Eamon De V?rela, ?
leader of the Republicans and presi?
dent of "the Irish Republic," (*ave a
personal interview to-day to The As?
sociated Press correspondent. This is '
the first interview he has accorded to
any newspaper representative since his
return from the United States to Ire?
land.
If any proof of the extraordinary
precautions taken by his devoted fol?
lowers to insure his protection were !
needed, it was aiTorded by the extreme
care taken in escorting the correspond
ent tc and from the presence of the
Irish leader. For an hour after leaving
Mr. Pe Valera the correspondent was
under the closest surveillance, not
only from his escort, but, as it seemed.
from e in Dublin.
The conversation lasted three-quar?
ters if an hour. Mr. Pe Valera told ,
of the impressions he had brought back
from America, and remarked:
Deplores American View
"The saddest thing there to me was !
to see the lush question treated by so'
?any people as if it were a religious
wrangle, ft is not a religious question,
even in so far as the differences here
between the north and south are con?
cerned."
-." bitterly of the English gov
t's "lack of principle and
statesmanship."
"England," he said, "is Irving to win
by playing on human weakness. As a
matter of fact, though it does not re?
alize it, England is playing not. on the
weakest but the strongest quality of
the Irish people- their spiritual quai
it;,-. The young men of Ireland are
saying to themselves: 'At best, the
span of life is only seventy years. We
must all die. So why not now, in cir?
cumstances like these?"
Leader's Health Excellent
The Irish leader is in excellent
health, but his friends in America
would hardly reeopnize him, for he is
en the run and naturally does not re?
veal himself unnecessarily, Obviously
it w d not do to describo his appear?
ance in detail, but he looks extremely
::? an 1 conveys the impression of be?
ing free from any sense of personal
danger.
Thi volunteer who conducted the cor?
respondent to Mr. de Valera's residence
said 'not. drsp-.re the protests of his
friends, De Valora persisted in work
ing trenuobsly daily from 7 o'clock in
the morning until 11 at night, The
intensitj of hfs concentration was
shown to-day by the rervor of his o\
p< oi the Irish cause and its
righteousness and his i duration that
Ireland i keeping air the flame of
the high principles for which the late
war was fought.
Wears toggles on Trip
The interview was a complete sur?
prise. Until fifteen minutes before it
took place the correspondent had no
informatiq/i that it would be accorded.
A questionnaire for submission to the
President through the same channels
as were used in the submission of the
e of last January had been
prepared and the correspondent was
pi ng to the r< ndezvous for that
purpose when suddenly he was invited
to climb into the sidecar of a motor?
cycle and don goggles, which effec?
tually bl ndfolded him. The car sped
through Dublin by way of an intricate
rout" and after an indeterminate
pei the correspondent found him
aelf in a well furnished living room
at: 1 soon in the presence of De Valora.
Twice after leaving the house the
correspondent w-as held up and exam
ined, first by members of the Irish re?
publican army, within sight of the
President';; residence, and, second,
fortuitously by the military.
When he was asked if he intended to
P ti i ! Day m< ? ?age, par?
ticularly to the i" ople of America, Mr.
p.. Val
"I ' nk tl people of America un
' ind if the other ?'copies of
the wi ? iot yet realized, that it
is might and right contending in this
awful, struggle if they are left cold
?'hen it is so evident that it is a great
principle at stake, for which millions
of the bravest of many countries lost
their lives in the late war it would
be futile to endeavor to move them by
mere word.-. Those whom midnight as?
sassinations, callous executions, wan?
ton shootings, torturings, lootings,
devastations, failed to touch, no mes?
sage could affect. Those will continue
to dream, perhaps, of some future day
v en : ? ci and right shall reign, but
" ' deling that vigorous, concrete aid
' .... could make their dreams
c ? true,
"For the past four years wo have
heen appealing to and conscientiously
trying to mobilize the moral forces
of the world. Our experience has
been that those loudest in the appeal
that we should trust moral forces
alone are precisely those who show
the least inclination to give us prac?
tical nid by their nctions. 'Am I my
brothrr's keeper?' 1 fear is long
B - to remain the. philosophy of
nihtikind."
ing that there was any weaken?
ing in Ireland's power of resistance.
De Valera continued: "The Repub?
licans of Ireland, that is, three-fourths
of our people, realize that since death
I :? ... there is no way it can
i well as in the grand defence
el the most sacred human rights,
There is nowhere on earth, a purer or
ftore unselfish struggle. It will be
persevered in with the same courage
?nd fortitude as shown by the early
Christians.
"Brute force and lies, by which your
Hamar Greenwoods and their like are
?tasking it, will avail only for a time.
The Roman emperors did not win in
their contest- England won't win in
hers."
Mr. de Valera declared there was no
*futh in the rumors of overtures for
* truce or peace, or that the Dail
Eireann had laid down new conditions.
"There Can be peace to-morrow, if
Eneland would simply refrain from her
a*"i:n>ssions." he asserted. "We had
tstabl shed a peaceful constructive ad?
ministration and were setting a noble
?sample to the world of a government
?"?fed upon consent, and developing
?or trade and industries, when Mr.
Lloyd George loosed upon us his mur
?r horde, blooded un by official in
?kgatinns and sedulously inflamed with
fc regular weekly bulletin of calumny
?nd hate.
"Against this horde we will never
?eafee to defend ourselves to the utmost
W our power."
?^Questioned as to whether the offer
?* full fiscal autonomy would Induce
acceptance of the partition act. he re- '
plied: "The partition act is the act!
Of a foreign hostile assembly. The I
Irish people as a whole will never ac- '
cept it.. The people, even of the six
counties, were never consulted about '
it in any recognized way. It whs de?
signed to perpetrate division and scc-1
tional rancor among Irishmen."
Wires Cut in Ireland,
I Jiicnicif s Tools Seized
DUBLIN. March 1 (By The Asso?
ciated Press*. Telephone and tele-!
graph Wires were cut on an extensive!
scale during the last twentv-four !
Hours, causing the suggestion to be
made that some movement on a larjre ;
scale was being arranged. Linesmen '?
wore held up as they left the central !
offices and the equipment taken to pro
vent them making repairs. Thus far.
however, there have boon only the
usual scattered shootings.
A tailor of Keenagh, County Lone
ford, was taken from his work to-day
and shot dead. A card with the words.
"Shot by the Irish republican aimy
for spying," was attached to the body.
^ A constable was shot dead in North
Kerry and a woman, into whose house
the body was taken, died of shock.
Harding Said to
Place Tax Revision
Ahead of Tariff
Agricultural Representatives
Opposing the Efforts of
Those From Business and
Manufacturing Districts
;',-??, 77-r Trihune'e'WtuMnoton Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 16. Rumors,
that the President would favor tax re?
vision in advance of tarif revision
were in circulation at the Capitol to?
day following his conference last
night with Senator Penrose. chairman
of the Finance Committee, and Repre
sen'ative Fordney, of the Ways and
Means Committee.
These rumors, coupled with the fact
that Ways and Means Committee mem?
bers, are anxious to go to work on a
tariff bill, if thru measure is to bo
presented to the House soon after it
meets, or n tax bill, if that is to come
first, caused much discussion.
It developed that agricultural inter?
ests are insistent that tariff revision
be considered first. Agricultural mem?
bers of Congress accordingly are seek?
ing to' block efforts of member? from
business and manufacturing sections
lo have tax revision come first,
The fact that President Harding has
in far not seen fit to adopt the plan of
putting tariff revision ahead has added
to the interest in the situation. While
the President is being urged by some
if his friends in Congress to declare
for tax revision first, Chairman Ford?
ney of the Ways and Means Commit?
tee and the members from agricultural
states are urging him to call for taritf
revi -ion.
The House Ways and Means Repub?
licans for the most part favor tariff
revision first. Representative Long
worth, of Ohio, however, who is nn in?
fluential member of the Ways and
Means Committee and close to Presi?
dent Harding, is strongly in favor of
having tax revision come before taHff.
So is Representative Racharach.
In the background of the contro?
versy there is a clash of opinion be?
tween the advocates of tariff on agri?
cultural products and the opponents
if protecting such products. The re?
peal of the excess profits tax is in?
volved.
[t ; openly asserted by agricultural
members that the roost active pro?
ponents of repeal of the excess profits
tax, who are members from the large
: business and manufacturing centers,
] aie seeking to get that tax repealed
just as quickly as possible. Then
i they will be in a position to do as they
? please about voting" for duties on
agricultural products. On the other
hand, agricultural members say that
if they deal with tariff revision first
and hold in abeyance the repeal of
the excess profits tax, they can get
what they want in the way of duties,
because the advocates of repeal of the
excess profits tax will fear to go
counter to them.
The tariff and taxation problems
are further complicated by the fact
that a powerful element in Congress,
including some Republicans, will fight
against what it considers extremely
high duties on manufactured products.
Besides this there is the controversy
' over the sales tax. House opposition
to this is strong and the talk in Ways
i and Means circles to-day is that no
i saks tax can pass the House.
Republican Green, of Iowa, and
Republican Voting, of North Dakota,
: members of the Ways and Means Com
1 mittee, are scheduled t? see President
Harding to-morrow. They will urge
t a riff revision first.
Chairman Fordney asserted to-day
that the anti-dumping bill would be
i ('introduced in much the same form
as it passed the House last year, and
predicted it would be passed immedi?
ately.
The American Legion
News: Local, State, National
Many Posts Will Parade lo
Madison Square Garden
To-morrow Might for Bi^
American Mass Meeting
Overflow Gatherings IMav
Be Held Outside the Hall ;
County Organization Will ?
Meet Next Wednesday ?
Indications are that the demonstra?
tion of loyalty planned for to-morrow
evening at Madison Square Carden,
when an all-American mass meeting is
to be held under the auspices of the
American Legion, will produce addi?
tional features equally as entertaining
as those scheduled to take* place inside
the amphitheater.
To begin with, most of the posts
of the city are not going to bo con?
tent with merely going to the Garden
and joining in a demonstration there.
They propose to make, their attitude
toward pro-anything alien doubly clear
by parading to the meeting, with ban?
ners flying and bands playing,
One of the largest of these proces?
sions will form in front of the Pub
lie Library, at Forty-second Street and
Fifth Avenue. It will be escorted by
six mounted policemen and the navy
band. Manhattan Naval Post started
the movement and this unit of
the Legion will be joined by several
others, including Barbara Frietchie,
Murray Hill and Lexington j-jsts. All
Americans, Legionnaires or not, are
invited to join in the parade.
In all other sections of the city such
parades will organize, and it now ap?
pears as though several overflow meet?
ings will have to be held.
Tank Corps Post will form nt 117
West Forty-sixth Street at (? o'ckck,
and at liilT) James S. Slosson Post
and other Staten Island units will
? meet at South Ferry.
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New : York County Meeting
The next meeting of the' New York
j County organization will be held at the
Hotel Pennsylvania next Wednesday
? evening.
Because of the change in the paid uni
strength .of the posts, individual mem?
bers of the. county committee have not
been notified; therefore all posts are
requested to inform their delegates oT
the call.
Each post is entitled to one delegate
for the first fifteen paid up memhers
and an additional representative for
each additional 100 such members.
Theater Party to Galbraith '
A theater party will be given at the
Century next Monday night by S,
Rankin Drew Post, in honor of the
national commander. Frederick W.
Galbraith jr., and other guests who
were present at the Legion banquet
last week. They will include:
Major General Robert Lee Bullard,
Colonel William Weigel. Rear Admiral
H. McP. Huso, Lieutenant Commander
E. E. M. Whiting. Captain H. H.
Hough. Captain J. W. Timmons, Lieu
j tenant Colonel Frank E. Evans, Lieu?
tenant Harry Miller, all Medal of
Honor men in New York City, Lieu?
tenant Colonel Whittlesey, Major
| George G. McMurtry, Lieutenant S. G.
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Veterans Wanted as
Mass Meeting Ushers
Veterans ?uc wanted to serve
as ushers at the All-American
mass meeting In lip hold to-mor?
row night at Madison Square
(Jar don.
Sydney G. Gumpertz, Congres?
sional Modal of Honor man, will
lio in charge of these volunteers,
and ho asks that one hundred
men, in full uniform, report to
him at the 69th Regiment Armory
at 6 p. m. to-morrow. Proper
credentials will be issued at that
time. \
Honorary ushers?men who
have been decorated for gallantry
?will report at the same time.
Gumpertz and others. There will be ;
an honor guard of marines with the
P-'?rty.
NATIONAL LEGION NOTES
More than 'J4.000 new claims of :
veterans for compensation and other
government assistance had been filed
by the middle of February as a result
I of a service contest aninnp Illinois
| American Legion posts, which started
last armistice day.
A letter of congratulation has been
received by F. \V. Galbraith jr., na?
tional commander of the American
Legion, from the French 'War Veterans'
Society of America, in reference to \\\?.
Legion head's determined stand against
Hie efforts of German propagandists to
drive a wedpe between this country
and France.
Hundreds of medals, decorat ions and
i citations, intended for veterans, but
tindelivered because of insufficient, or
?improper addresses, are in the hands
of the adjutant pene ral of the army,
who has appealed to the American
Legion to assist in finding their own?
ers.
I'OST ,\( TIYITIKS
Tier Post will mi-et nn Friday, Ma roil
30, at 170 East, sixtieth Street.
I rjnnri ballplayers can satisfy thMr ?1?
? sire to join a triwl team by communicat?
ing with Jack Rvan, mnnaRfr of the nine
of Washington Heights Topi, 155th Street.
i and Amsterdam Avenue,
r .
The first dance .,r Sentinel Post, will be
held to-morrow ntghl ai Sonia Hall, Put -
| nam ami Bedford avenues, Brooklyn.
First New Vork Cavalry Post will Rive
a dance to-night at iv^ Washington Ave?
nue.
On next Tuesday evening Cotintv Chair?
man Donald C. Ptrachan, of Brooklyn, will
?irepent a permanent charter to the ,1. w.
Person Post.
A masquerade ball will be given next
Tuesday evening by Elmhurst To?t at the
Masonic Hall, Elmhurst, L. I,
Twenty n"w members were signed up
! by Washington Heights Post at a smoker
recently.
Air Service Post meets n?xt Tuesday
night at 11 Eist Thirty eighth P'reot.
The Third Naval District Pest will meet
' to -nieht at Keen's Chophouse, 1^7 West
' Forty fourth Street.
The 23d Regimen! Armory, Bedford and
Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, will be the
scene to-night of a masquerade dati'e un
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The AVomen's Auxiliary of the Arthur
Post, will hold a euchre and dance on
Wednesday evening. March 30, at t;nify
Hall, Webster Avenue near Fordharn Road.
The regular meeting of the 40th In?
fantry Post will be heM at Peper's Casino,
-d East Sixty-seventh Streot. on Tuesday
evening._
Tons of Mail Bring Tax
Payments in Final Rush
Collector Predicts Receipts for
1020 Will Be Smaller Than
Those of Previous Year
Tons of mail, containing cheeks and
money orders in payment of l?'.'O in- ?
romo taxes, arrived at the Custom
House yesterday just in time to in?
vent the word "delinquent" being writ- ?
ten opposite the names of 50,000 tax?
payers. Most, of th? mail was found to :
he postmarked brrrire Tuesday mid?
night, which was the limit fixed by law
for the filing of schedules.
William H. Edwards, Collector of In
tcrnal Revenue, said that many checks
amounting to more than $1,000,000 each
were received, These came from largo
corporations which took advantage of
the last day to enjoy interest on their;
money over the longest possible period.
Mr, Edwards said he was confident,!
that the total income to the Federal
government from income taxes would
lie less than last year. The decrease,
he said, would be due to business de?
pression and lowering of prices.
It. probably will be a month before the
total returns from New York are known.
The schedules of persons reporting in?
come of $?,000 or less will be audited
here, while those showing a larger
amount will be sent to Washington.
Mr. Edwards sent to .1. N. Hennen,
chief deputy, and R. .T. McEUigott, chief
field deputy, letters (hanking them and
members of the staff for working long
hours so thut the handling of schedules
could be completed in time.
Harding ?fters Buffalo
Woman Revenue Post
Tender to Mrs. D. K. Stucki
Eliminates B. P. Gage and
Stirs l7p Republicans
Snmat Disvalrh to Th* Tribun*
BUFFALO, March 1 ?.?Announce?
ment that, Mrs. Daniel K. Stucki had
been offered the office of Collector of
Internal Revenue for the Western Dis
? trict of Now York has caused a furore
in the ranks of Erie County Repub?
licans and threatens to split the or?
ganization wide open.
According to the leaders here, the
Erie County committee was prepared
to approve the application of Rert P.
I Cage, of Wyoming County, for the
I office. Mr. Cage is one of the Re
j publican political leaders in western
! Xew York and he has had his eye upon
| the post for some time.
Mrs. Stucki is a leader in Repub?
lican women's organization of the stata
and this afternoon ieft for Syracuse
to attend a meeting of that body. Be?
fore departing she confirmed the re?
port that President Harding had offered
! her the office.
Mrs. Stucki says she is not adverse
j to accepting, but she does not care
, to be read out of the party by the
male members of the organization who
want to s"ee the job go to Cage. Her
women followers, however, are insist?
ing that she accept, despite the mascu
I linn opposition, and declare they will
; fight for her.
Mrs. John Harrison, mother of Mrs,
! Stucki, is a native of Caledonia and a
: rhildhood friend of Dr. Harding,
] father of the President. She also w?.s
I a classmate of Miss Abigail Harding at
1 Caledonia and a former music pupil
? of the present first lady of the land.
Leaders Worry
Over Choice of
U. S. Attorney
Four Candidates Are Out
for Caffey's Post, Each
With Strong Backing in
Stale or County Circles
-.
Koenig Sees Daugherty i
Bonynge, Chilvers, Davies
and Cunningham Lead in
Race for $10,000 Place
Harry M. Daugherty, United States
Attorney General; Charles 1). Milles,
national committeenian; Samuel S.
Koenig, president of the Xew York
County Committee., and Ceorge A.
Clynn, chairman of the state commit?
tee, are in. a jam over the selection
of a Cnited States District Attorney
to succeed Francis G. Caffey, of the
Xew York district. The salary is !
$10,000.
1'jjte candidates for the place include
Rob?AkW. Ronynge, former president j
of the*National Republican Club, and j
\ former Representative in Congress |
| trom a Colorado district: William Chil- ;
vers, Special Assistant District Attor- !
i ney, associated with ox-Governor Whit
| man en the investigation of the Police :
; Department; .lohn R. Davies, Municipal I
Court justice and campaign manager i
for Dr. Xicbolas Murray Butler in the i
pre-Presidential canvass a year ago,
?and Judge William D, Cunningham, of
the State ('ourt of Claims. It is said ,
that George W. Aldridge, of Rochester, ;
is backing Judge Cunningham.
County Chairman Koenig was in |
Washington yesterday and the day be?
fore trying to ?thrash out the tangle
as to where the plum shall go. Mr.
! Daugherty received from Mr. Koenig a
.list of the candidates for the place
I from Xew York County. It is said that
j M r. (univers and John R. Davies were
on his list. Mr. Daugherty wanted to
; know which one Mr. Koenig favored.
| Mr. Koenig was disinclined, to express
u preference, both being well known
, organisation men.
Mr. Bonynge, on account of his ex
! perience in Congress and because of
j his being counsel to the State Indus
I trial Commission under Governor Whit
? man, early obtained the backing of Mr.
Hilles and others identified with the
; Republican National Committee, which
j sent Mr. Bonynge to Maine during the
? September campaign.
Messrs. Chilvers and Davies have
j rallied the lending spirits in the
j county committee in their behalf. Mr.
Chilvers has hud considerable expert
i ence as a prosecutor, and he saw Mr.
; Daugherty last week. Mr. Davies, be
I cause he backed Dr. Butler, is making
j a real light for the place. The dark
horse in the race is Judge William D.
| Cunningham, of Ellenville. He is mak
I ing an energetic canvass.
It now begins to look as if Mr.
| Daugherty, in order to avoid trouble,
might say to Chairman Koenig: "Your
county is not united on any candidate,
and I shall not appoint any one from
a county that has not a united support
for its candidate." This practically is
placing upon Chairman Koenig re
' sponsibility for retifing two of the
three aspirants for the place. None of
them is disposed to retire.
Meanwhile Judge Cunningham is
canvassing the Repuhliran Congress?
men of the state in his own interest.
Senators Calder and Wadsworth at yet
have not taken sides in the contest.
State Chairman Glynn wants the mat?
ter aettled, as until the new Collector
of the Port and the United States
Attorney arc appointed it is dif- j
licult to dispose of the remainder of
the places. The announcement from
Washington that George W. Aldridgc
will not be appointed until next' Sep?
tember practically settles the collector
ship, but dues not solve the other mut?
ter, County Chairman ?Coenig, Mr.
Milles and State Chairman Glynn are
to take t'cc raaterV up on Mr. Koenig's
rotvirs fTorr, Washington to-day.
It is understood that ex-Senator Al?
bert Ottinger, who \va< defeated by
Nathan Straus jr. in the 15th Senate
District last fall, will he appointed an
Assistant United States District At?
torney.
Thomas Smith in Office April I
!?'.inner Representative Thomas F
Smith, it was learned yesterday at Tam?
many Hall, will not assume the duties
of Public Administrator to succeed
William M. Hoes, resigned, until Apr;!
1 Mr. Hoes has made application to
the Hoard of Estimate and Apportion?
ment to be retired on a pension. The
formalities attending his retirement
havo not all been met. but. it is expect?
ed that Mr. Smith will take office on
the date mentioned.
Harding Hopes to Speak
At Bolivar Statue Here
Seriously Considers Invitation
for Unveiling April 15 and
Message to I-atine
WASHINGTON, March !?, Pru?
rient Har??ng 11 cntierstood U> be piv
ing serious consideration to an invi?
tation to attend and make the principal
address at the unveiling on April 15
in New York of a new statue of Simon
Bolivar, the YerWuclnn patriot. No
definite decision, however, hai' been
reached.
The invitation was presented to Mr.
Harding by John Barrett, former di?
rector genera! of the Pan-American
Cnion, while the former was in Florida
on his pre-inauguration vacation.
Mr. Harding is understood to favor
ecceptnnce of the invitation, if it is
possible for him to'leave \Va=hingt^n
so soon after the convening of the spe?
cial session of C.ongre<s, April 11. II?
also is understood to be desirous of
availing himself of the first oppor?
tunity to pledge the friendship and
good will of his Administration to the
repuhlics of South and Central Amer?
ica, and to give voice to some of the
Lat' n- American policies he intends to
I pursue.
Does High
Make Hi
T OTHER day I happened to
overhear a man arguing
that the store with a low
rent can undersell the store, pay?
ing a high rent.
Rut let's
check up on
that and see:
I pay a
high rent --
simply be?
cause the lo?
ca t i o n is
worth it. En
i trance a n d
A. Av a s h " vv w ' n"
^?? V~*^Jhtk ?lows on both
van \ ?* vh. Fifth Avenue
^8& \S tbL " '' Rroad
^Ba ^3 ? w a y " and
iBk * W you know
^k I what that
? ' means in po?
tential trade. I'll wager that more
men pass my two doors every day
and more men come in and buy
than either pass or patronize any
other hat store in town and like?
wise that day in and day out I
sell more hats per square foot of
space than any other shop. The
result is that my high rent figures
out less on each hat sold than
could ever lie the case in any
cheaper location.
It isn't the amount of rent per
square foot that counts, hut the
amount of rent per-dollar-of-busi
ness done.
Same way ,with other expenses.
I have made my store cheerful and
inviting. It has the name of being
the finest hat store in the country
nothing like it anywhere. Cost
Rent
gh Prices?
me ;i loi of money to fit it up, and
costs money to keep it up. Also I
pay my salesmen topnotch wages
because they know hats, because
they know men's heads, and be?
cause they use their own heads.
Yet I'll bet that all my expenses
put topp'her ligure out leas per
hat sold than in any other store in
the business.
At all events, I know ihat no
other store is beating my prices
when measured by quality, service
and satisfaction.
By way of see-for-yourself evi?
dence, I invite you to look at my
$5, $6 and $8 hats or at any other
price and then compare them
with what the same money will
buy elsewhere. You'll tind that
the Fifth Avenue label costs you
nothing extra.
I special i/.o on Stetson Hats??
the finest in the world. Can show
you every style and shape Stetson
makes?in every size and shaoV.
Also my own hat?. And I vouch
for every hat I sell money back
if you're in any way disappointed.
M-flcAerma/r
J I Sell just Two Things
HatswSatisfadion
Q08 WkAenue+tJtaJisonSt
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America's Largest Hat Shop
TO
,L AMERICANS
A SUMMONS TO SERVICE
ODAY, the Seventeenth of March,
the gracious, gentle and appealing
figure of the great missionary,
teacher and apostle of the Irish
race looms before us against the background
of sixteen centuries. He came not as a war?
rior or a conqueror, not as an Alexander or a
Caesar, not in military pomp or splendour,
but in the meek and lowly garb of a follower
and preachei of the gospel of Christianity.
Sixteen hundred years have come and gone
since Saint Patrick, without fire or fagot,
without rack or rope, but solely with the
gentle suasion of the Word of God, convert?
ed a whole people. The light of his benign
mission of mercy and love still shines down
the centuries with high hopes of ultimate
brotherhood for all mankind.
It is in this spirit that the American Com?
mittee for Relief in Ireland announces the
initiation of the nation-wide campaign for
Irish Relief on the anniversary of Saint Pat?
rick. Trustworthy information from all
sources shows that the people of Ireland are
drinking the dre'gs of human suffering to a
still greater degree even than Belgium during
the great war. Property is being everywhere
destroyed, houses and homes wrecked and
devastated, and the aged and the infirm, the
women and the children, are the chief suffer?
ers. We are not concerned with the causes
of this suffering; our appeal is solely"humani
tarian, absolutely non-sectarian and strictly
non-political.
We confidently appeal, therefore, to the great
heart of tfoe American people. As America
succored Belgium so will she come to the aid
of stricken Ireland. Our cause is the cause
of humanity, our sole purpose to alleviate
?human suffering. Our faith is in the Ameii
can people*. Ten millions of dollars must be
raised within the next few weeks to meet the
conditions we have just described. We call
upon the American people to contribute lo
this great cause to the end that want and
famine and disease,, the fearful aftermath of
war, may not overwhelm a whole people.
Signed: Executive Committee:
MORGAN J. O'BRIEN,
Chairman
J. Cardinal Gibbons ?
Jane' Addams
Elisabeth Marbury
Hon. Josephus Daniels
William Randolph Hear*!
George B. Cortelyou
Hon. O. H Shoup,
Governor of Colorado
Make Checks Payable to
Hon. Lee M. Russell,
Governor of Mississippi
Hon. Edwin P. Morrow,
Governor of Kentucky
Charle* G. Dawe?
David Starr Jordan
Bernard M. Baruch
Henry Morgenthau
Charles Nagel
Medill McCormick,
Honorary Vice-Chairmen
Senator Thomas J. Walsh
Senator David I. Walsh
Senator Jame? D. Phelan
Thomas F. Ryan
Nicholas F. Brady
John D, Ryan
Edward L. Doheny
James J. Phelan
Lawrence Godkin
John Quinn
Martin J. Gillen
Thomas J. Maloney
J. W. McConaughy
William P. Lai kin
James A. Flaherty
Joseph C. Pelletier
Bishop Michael J. Gallagher
John F. Lurey,
. National Directo*
John J. Pulleyn. Treasurer
Richard Campbell, Secretary
JOHN J. PULLEYN, Treasurer
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF
1 West 34th St.
IN IRELAND
New York City