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fl 4 WEDNESDAY THE BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES ir ATRIL 18, 1917 M. E. Jubilee Luncheon. THEATRICAL NOTES. Sroflklyu Daily Sintni ESTABLISHED 1S4S Sums iflalantt StmfA M.

E. MINISTERS ARE APPOINTED run of mobile sand, set in motion by a new shaft that was being sunk, shifted one of the footings of the huge framework that supports the surface. He is an experienced engineer, who was Chief Engineer of the Highways Bureau before he resigned to engage in private work, llis reputation in his profession and his record in subway work he exclude the possibility that such phenomenon was within the category of dangers which a prudent engineer was under obligation to expect. The several inquiries already in progress will unquestionably make clear the cause of the disaster. Meanwhile, we can only congratulate ourselves that, shocking asi was it was not much more it might easily have been.

Dr. G. Richardson Made District Superintendent FEW BROOKLYN SHIFTS Statistical Reports Show Conference Had Good Year. -i( Simpson. John H.

Bell and IT. B. Luccock. South Second JJtrevt, J. B.

Hamilton. South Third Street, Harry Knight Milled. Sumner Avenue. F. il.

Upham. Union, W. M. Nvsbtt. Williams Avenu-'.

W. C. Phelps. Borough of Manhattan. Church of All Nations, J.

R. Henry, K. Heritor, Bllore Dl Stafona John Street. L. It.

Streeter. A. K. Davies. Borough of Queens.

Astoria, First Church, V. It. McDermott. Astoria, Italian. Kultaolo Fenlll.

Daldo. 1. E. Sho. maker.

Corona, M. (J. Proper. Corona. Italian, Gaspare Scarlfita Elmhurst.

II. LL li Irhi-r. Floral Iarlt, E. J. Jackson.

Flushing, L. H. Cunwrll. Oh mtule, Fn-ili-nrlx Uunton. 1 toll is, .1.

C. Hamiicau. Jamaica, O. C. Fort.

Uoiik Inland Fit), Van Alst Avcnut. Alfred Jlodgetts Manpoth. J. lOtfflleston. Middle illngr, Charles Ucll.

Oznne Park, W. C. Hlakrntan. Richmond Hill, Trinity, XV 1. Carnea Shaw Avenue, II.

M. Richard. H. It. Young.

Long lslund. Bayvllio and Locust Valley, M. Tlmbn.ll. Ccntreport, A. A.

Clark. Central lsllp and Hauppaupe, B. C. Miller. Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington Station, It G.

Nye. Conunuck Circuit, A H. Ball. Coram and Middle Inland, ltobert Thorn. Cutchoguc, J.

M. Trimmer. East Meadow, C. E. Williams East Norwich.

H. F. KaFicndlerk. 1 arinlngdale and Melville. Gustavo Laast.

Flandurs and Calverton. J. V. Williams. Glen Cove, W.

M. llughts. Great Neck, C. A. km sal.

Grcenport, T. U. Miller. V. VV.

Winans. Hlcksviile Circuit. G. H. Allati.

Huntington, A. B. Sanford. Kings Bark, N. 11.

Hudson. Jaki Giove nnd St. James, J. L. Murrell, ilatiituck and Jamespurt, Kminett A.

Sirigl.y. Northport, Jackson, orient. Johnson. Oyster Bay. J.

J. Blthe. Fort Jefferson, G. M. Stockdale Iort Washington.

II II. lu Hols. Rlverhead, Biml Rdwnrds. Rosln and Searlngton, G. A.

Hronsoti. Sea Cliff, L. Moore. Setaucket, W. 1etcrs.

Smllhtown, R. Rovey. Southold, E. W. Rhngley Stony Brook, B.

F. Ra. Westbury, 1. I). Hurrls.

Woodbury Circuit, I. L. Smith. Brooklyn South District. A.

S. KAVANAGII, District Supt. Borough of Brooklyn. Bay nidge, F. B.

8l6ckdale. Bensonhurst, St. James, Go. B. Thompson.

Borough Park. J. VV. Johnston. Buffalo Avenue and Herkimer Street, William Rcdhefft r.

Cropsoy Avenue, A. J. Pennell. Eighteenth Street, W. I.

Bowman. Fenlinore Street. Gordon L. Thompson. First Place, William Hamilton.

Flatlands, J. L. Robinson. Fleet Street, J. XV.

Maynard. Fourth Avenue, W. A. Richard. Goodsell.

W. C. Craig. Grace, W. L.

Davison. Hanson Place, W. H. Kidd. Jama, W.

T. Duncan. New Ynrk Avenue John W. Langdale. Nontrand Avenue, II.

il. Munson. Ocean Parkway. XV. West.

Pronpct Avenue, Frederick Stiehler. St Mark's, R. M. Moore, Reggie Robert Sands Street Mt mortal, I. VV.

Henderson. Sh'M'pahead Hay. A. H. Cann.

Sixth Avenue, B. C. Tullar. Summirfldd, F. D.

Torroy. Vanderveer Park. A 1 Batchelor Warren Street, G. L. Fox.

Wesley, J. F. Dunkerle. Queens. Richmond Hill, First Church, D.

D. Irvins Springfield Gardens, E. D. Bassett. Long Ialand.

Amityvllle, First Church, B. F. Gilman. Hlinpson, H. E.

Marsland. Babylon A. G. Boynton. Baldwin, M.

Lepk-y. Bayport and Bluepmnt, Robert C. Carlson. Boy Shore, Henry Medd. Bvllniore, VV'.

Knight. B. llport, William Dalziel. Bridgehampton, J. A.

Swann W. Burton. Centre Moriches. J. J.

Mofflt. East Henry McCalluui. Hast Moriches, G. A. Fowler.

FHtd QU'igiie, J. T. Langlois. Elmont, St. John's, K.

U. Cooke Freeport, S. O. Curtice. Gid Ground, A.

L. Hubbard. Blip, J. J. Foust- I Lawrence, Henry Blatz, Jr.

Lynbrook, Geoige W. Itoeach Oceanside, O. Colt. Patcbogue, W. H.

Wakeham. Roosevelt, D. Stanle Coon Sag Harbor, W. M. Kanton.

Sajvllle, H. IL Mower. Seaford, Paul Morrison. Southampton, C. 8.

Gray. Valley Stream, Grace and First Church, C. W. Severance. Woslhamplou, M.

O. Olsen. Westhainpton Beach, W. VV. Gillies.

eupancy, and the cost of altering them for three-family occupancy in compliance with the Tenement House law is prohibitive. The Lawson bill will abolish this great waste of space and throw open to working families healthy apartments in sections not overcrowded. Mr. Veiller will recover from his chagrin and we have no doubt that he will in time recognize the wisdom of the measure he now regards as a step backward. In reality it is a decided step forward.

The U-Iloat. We arc close enough to the scene of the first blow struck by the German government at the flag of the United States to feel the thrill of it. Fortunately, the blow failed, the torpedo discharged at the destroyer Smith, just outside our harbor gates, went twenty yards wide of the mark, and the German U-boat which fired it disappeared from sight. The surface of the sea and the censorship h'de it from us now. But the news of the attack, wirelessed 'n from Fire Island, will cause us to look out at the dark sea that rolls in on Coney Island with a new interest.

It will serve to bring the war home to us. With less tragedy and grief than the bombardments of the British oast villages and the raids of the Zeppelins caused in England, it will be an exccllen' aid to the recruiting sergeant. There has been a difficulty all of us have experienced in realizing that we are in this war; that we are assailed by possibly the greatest military nation that ever was in tho world, and that gun fire and steel are to be opposed by gun fire and steel before we can again tread the paths of peace and security. There is no reason for alarm over the proximity of the U-boat that sent a torpedo at ourswift war vessel. It has been expected in military circles that Germany would take advantage of the entrance of America as a belligerent to shorten hep U-boat line by attempting a blockade of the American ports.

The incident of yesterday only shows that the expectation was well founded. U-boats are probably lurking off the most important of our ports, waiting for vessels bound for Europe with supplies and munitions and not unwilling to sink an American ship of war if they can do so. Precautions have been taken against that very contingency, ard we are sure that the submarines will find this neighborhood too unhealthy for an extended sojourn. There is not the slightest fear that they will either get into the harbor or attack the waterfront. Submarine nets and submarine chasers guard the channels, and the Smith is onl; one of many destroyers that are patrolling the coast.

To use her guns a submarine would have to come to the surface and expose herself to the gunfire of the guardships; a risk so great as to be almost suicidal. The only danger to be apprehended from these sharks is to vessels afloat. Even that danger will not last long. The Mineola Conference. It has taken a war to bring Hal Fullertons dream of a one hundred per cent, productive Long Island to the point of realization, bpt the big war seems to have done it.

The agricultural conference to be held at Mineola to-day is the first practical step in the program of maximum food production. Long Island, which is rich farm land for a great part of its extent, will lead the Nation in he organization of its producing force. The State officials have been quick to recognize the significance and value of the team work that will begin this afternoon. Gov. Whitman has directed Director A.

B. Johnson, of tie State Agricultural School, at Farmingdalr, to attend the conference, and Dr. Finley, Chairman of the State Militia Committee, has instructed the four District School Superintendents of Nassau County to co-operate. That means that the boys enrolled for war service from the schools under the Mills-Slater law will pitch in and help in the work of cultivation. The students at the Agricultural School are to be enlisted in this service also, the actual experience on the farms to count in their school rating.

The main value in this movement for the intensi--p cultivation of Long Islands rich fields is that it will lessen to a great degree the dependence of the city on long-haul railroad transportation for food supplies. The Nassau County farms are within motor truck haul of Brook'yn and Queens, and should there be an overload of military service on the continental railroad lines, the city will feel less inconvenience because of the maximum production on the farms of the Island. 80 many Inquiries htvs hern mad ftt tho Majestic Theatre hoi office regarding the character of Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation, the Vitngraph spectacle now being sliown there, that the management hasfoond It nec-canary to issue an eiplanutlon. Woraauhood" hours no rcaomhlance to tho Motherhood picture. which baa been withdrawn.

It la not a sex picture. It deals entirely with the questloo of national prejiarcrincM, showing tho country overrun by an luvadlug army. Tho title comes from the fact that In tho story women coute to the nation's rescue and help to drive out Jbo foe. 1 Nat Carr, star of the new Winter Garden production, Tho ripudug Show of 1UI7, opening IQ Plttshmgh Monday, writes nil the comedy songs he sings In the production Carr wrote them while in Ixmdon, aud has been ft big success with them at twelve Sunday ulght concerts at the Wluter GurUeo. LITTLK OLD A NO IK, wife of Abe, in Old Lady 81, which comes to Teller's Sbnbert lbeutre for a weeks engagement beginning Monday, April 2J, with matinees on Vih1ucs-day und Halnrday, has a rare peimmullty.

There la the wisdom of the eternal femlulns In her violet eves and In her nature the sweetness that makes her wisdom ante aud effective, if you were having trouble witn a husband, or merely bating trouble with a beau, or faclug a tragedy, or struggling to splice together the threads of a broken happiness. Aunt Augie la the person to whom you woulvl like to go. Always you would know that jour confidence was guarded with her, that even to Abe she would not divulge your secret. You could depend Uin Just the right degree of sympathy, a however, that ueier merges into the lachrymose hut saves Itself and you Just at the ciltlcal moment with a little twist of humor that is characteristically Angle. Ami the urivb'f tiie could give: Counselings gathered direct from the garden of her own experience and keen olwrvutloos of life.

Would there were tin Angle for eveiy girl with a love affair, for ev r.v unit) who, like Mike, clalmi "the aeiug womau h'ulnt got the sctiso you could put on jour little Unger!" Cf him Angle says, one piucc in the play: lie nfunttft boon awiul hnid nipped by soma pet loon to make him despise em so!" Nothing could he neater than her taking down" of Abe nlieu ho shows solicitude, lest she he offend'd at the attentions Hie ladle at the home Imv suowered upon him Ilow can I help It, mother. If those women muko fools ovt ineV he protests rod-fuced and distorted at a tempest In a teut that has bubbled up about Mm. "Abe!" cilcs Angle, who Is sore pressed in the role of pence-insker. Its their weaknessl Tatnt nothin In you! Its a Joke, my damlng, snjs Frances WhltA at the Orpheum. "I wus doing Utile Ingenuo tilings with Rock and Fulton.

When Miss Fulton wrote her play, The Brat. and bad It accepted, she left the team to play In It. Then Mr. Rook lot me have her placo. Until three years Ago, I btid never danced a step.

He taught uie all I know." And now she's the busiest person in New York. To The Iaw of Compensation' at the B1Joj Norma Ta'marlge appears lo three distinct stage of a woman's carper, first aa a girl In boarding school, then as a happy young wife ami mother and third as a woman of the world. Creation, the production depleting the blrti of th imlvcritc ta one of the feature acta at the Bushwick Theatre this week. Wonderful electrical effects producing gorgeous sunsets and moonlight are introduced, and fitting musical heighten the dramatic effect and stimulate I ho Imagination. The Morningslde Players.

The Mornlngnlde Pin vers wi.l present one-net plajs nt the Comedy Tlmure for thre licrforoionces, beginning with a subscribers' re. hnnul ou Sunduy nlcht There will be mat-luces on April 24 and 2o. ACTRESS AIDS RECRUITING. Kitty Gordon Will Invade Brooklyn With Champion Gun Crew of Navy. Kitty Gordon will dovote every evening next week to tUd naval recruiting, and will invade Brooklyn with the champion gun crew of the United States Navy, winners of a huge silver trophy as the be.st shots after two years of target practise with big guns.

Miss Gordons tour will he in the Marcus Loew theaties in Brooklyn, and sho will sing Irving Berlin's official recruiting song, For Your Country and My Country. Miss Gordon will appear in the Broadway. De Kalb, Palace and Warwick theatres on Wednesday night, accompanied by Irving Berlin, and will visit Loew's Royal, Bijou and Fulton on Friday night. She will seek rccurita for the Navy nnd will mako a strong appeal lor enlistments. PASTOR CRITICIZES BILLY.

Rev. J. H. Lathrop Calls Tabernacle Meeting Crude and Vulgar. Billy Sunday was sharply criticised yesterday in a statement issued by the Rev.

John Howland Lathrop, pastor of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, Elerrepont street and Monroe place. The crude and vulgar performance that Is now going on in tho name of religion In this great city, the Rev. Mr. Lathrop states, "challenges all those for whom religion has any sanctity to proclaim a religion worthy of respect of the twentieth century men. Mr.

Sunday alonn might well be passed in silence, but when his movement is backed by the Governor of the. State, the Mayor of the city, a largo company of substantial business men and by the greater part of Protestantism in this city, It is neither to be ignored or thought lightly of. What Is this thing so systematically forced upon us? wo are compelled to ask. That it alms primarily at the moral regeneration of men Is clearly evident: that it will accomplish much wo will all hope. But that the righteousness and exaltation is a narrow and purely personal one is as clearly evident." NO SANDY HOOK BOATS.

Jeraey Central Likely to Discontinue Marine Service. The New Jersey Central announces that, owing to conditions beyond its control, it appears probable that it. will bo unable to place steamers of tho Sandy Hook route in service this season. Should conditions change whereby this service can be operated, immediate notice thereof will be published. In the event of the Sandy Hook steamers not being operated, an adequate, high-grade, all-rail service will be operated between New York and Atlantic Highlands, Highlands, Highland Beach, Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach.

Long Branch, Asbury Park-Ocean Grove. Point Pleasant, during the season, except for causes beyond control of the company. 47TH WANTS RECRUITS. Captain Jackson Has Enlisted 100 Men Sinoe the War. The Forty-6eventh Regiment Armory Is now open to receive recruits.

A tent has been erected outside tho armory where literature and information is available. Capt. William Jack-son Is the recruiting officer. He expressed himself as satisfied with the development thus far. About 100 recruits have applied since the various companies left the armory for points on Long Island end New York State.

The headquarters of Col. Ernest E. Jannicky and his staff are still in the armory, although so much of the colonel's time is spent in making inspection tours of his widely scattered units that he is seen very little at the armory. Charles R. Coffin sends an appeal to the newspapers that persons corresponding with the guardsmen write on their letters not only the regiment but the title and company of the man who is to receive the letter.

Correspondence sent to the armory and properly addressed is forwarded wltn-out delay. TRIANGLE MOTOR BANKRUPT The schedule of bankruptcy of the Triangle Motor Company, adjudicated bankrupt on February 27, lias been filed. The liabilities given are and the assets $93,578.93. of the liabilities $171,954.29 consists of notes endorsed for other people. The secured portion of the liabilities Is $105,772.74.

Of the assets, Is made up of unliquidated claims, chiefly on commission claimed from the sale of motor Foreign Missionary Sooloty Holds Large Gathering at BosserL Tho mid-jubileo luncheon of the Now York branch of tho Womens Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Bos-sort, with about 250 women present, representing twenty-five enurenes of BrooHjyn und Long laiand. The lunch-ton was preceded by tne invocation, given by tne presiding oificer, Mrs. Z. i. Donnler, and the program following the luncheon comprised brief addresses by officers of the society.

Miss Lillian Holmes, of Chungking. West China, told of the medical worn done by the missionaries. Mih. Mary Knox Uobinson, niunager of the New York branch, told of tho humble beginnings of the society in by eight women. These women vowed Unit they would wear only calico cresses, if that were necesasry, in order to send two missionaries to China.

Mrs. Grace Andrews, tho New York branch secretary of home base, spoke on The Ultimate Goal." Mrs. J. Sumner Stone, the New York branch treasurer, talked on Peace with Victory.7 She advanced practical methods of raising tiie desired amount ot money, the easiest being that of having each member get two new subscribing members. She quoted Billy Sunday as saying that if every Christian brought two souls to Christ tho world would soon be Mm i diaii in tact as well as in name.

She told her audience they had another John the Baptist among them and that their work gaming new members should bo easier while tills great ev.tngelbt was here. Mrs. Alfred J. Preston, manager of tho New York branch, took for her subject, Tho Glory of tho Jubilee. She dwelt upon tho religious significance of the celebration und the glory refietted upon tho individual working in tho eaur.e as well as the glory given to God in tho conversion of the people in the dark lands.

Thero were vocal selections by Miss Dorothy Moller with Mrs. Alfred Ernes Turner at tho piano. Mrs. Robert M. Moore W'as the toastmistress of the occasion.

The committee of arrangements included: General Chairman Mrs. Thomas W. McCormack. Publicity Committee Mrs. Alfred I.

Preston. Mrs. Franklyn Bennett, Miss A. A. Brennen.

Mrs. Paul E. Edwiinls, Mrs. Rotert A. Greenfield.

Mis. W. A. Layton, Mrs. M.

E. Bedding Luncheon Committee Miss Julia Rins, Mrs. Irv ng Blount. Tieasurer Mrs. Charles Conklin, 07 South Tenth street, Brooklyn.

He oration ami Millie Committee Mrs. Eu-geno M. Travis, Miss Kiln F. Dexter. Reception Committee Mis.

Rasmus Hansen, Mrs. Clinton A. RcrgMiressor, Mis. Robert II. Ibu'iipl, Mrs.

H. C. Ingraham, Miss IMiih Ingraham, Mrs. G. A.

Sluter. Mrs. F. W. oiimt.

'the guests of honor were: Mrs. Robert M. Moore, Mrs Sumner Stone. Miss Groce An dreus, Miss MMiun Holmes, Mis. M.

Uom-lew, Mrs. Mary Koox ltAlusou, Mrs. Alfred 1. Preston, Miss Florence Plumb and Mrs. O.

T. Scott. The churches represented were: Bay Rldgo, E. German. Klinbuist, Fouitli Avenue, Freejort, Grace Church, Hanson Place.

lxng Island City, New Urk Avenue, New York District, Nostrund Avenue, Oyster Bay, Port Washington, Uoslyn Heights, St. Mark s. Scu Cliff, Sumner Avenue, Suimnertield, St. John's, Vaoderveer Park. The Jubilee is a five-year celebration of the organUutlou on March 23, ItttiU, In Tretuotit Street Church, Boston, and Is being observed by a great fivejear drive in ft forward movement all aloDg the line.

More memliers more missionaries more magazines more money, to be aci'ompllshed' through the Intercession of more piajerA Tue money received through the Jubilee legion will he applied to the regular work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, or to such special objects as may be designated by the donor, thus assisting in the attainment of the great financial Jubilee goal $1,600, WO per Tear by 1919. Brooklyn Heights Assn Urges Improvement of Bridge Plaza AH Officers Re-elected Clark 8t Park May Be Increased by City Purchase Col. Ogden Reviews Progress of the Year. The annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association was held yesterday afternoon at the Hamilton Flub. A resolution approving the plan of the Department of Plant and Structures for the improvement of the lower section of Brooklyn by the removal of the elevated railroad from Borough Hall Square and the adjacent portion of Fulton street to Adams street, and the improvement of the Brooklyn approach to the Brooklyn Bridge by the clearing of tho storage yards, galleries and other structures at the bridge approach, was unanimously adopted.

The following officers of the association wrere re-elected: Charles Peabody, president; Isaac H. Cary, the Rev. Newell Dwight HUlis and Sanford H. Steel, vice presidents; George W. Chauncey, treasurer, and John William Tumbridge, secretary.

The executive committee is composed of Dr. Fred W. Atkinson, Charles A. Boody, Frank C. Munson, Willis L.

Ogden, Bayard L. Peck, Guy DuVal and John Hill Morgan. During the meeting a motion was made referring to tho executive committee the possibility of the city buying and adding to the little park at Clark street the two lots adjoining the Kirk, thereby enlarging the park to a larger extent. The motion was adopted. Col.

Ogden, chairman of the executive commitee, made a comprehensive report of tho achievements of the organ ization for the year. Those present were: Edward Stab ler, Higgins, Col. W. L. Ogden, Col.

A. L. Barr, Col. J. T.

Mantila, DuVal, J. McKee, J. W. Tumbridge and C. J.

Peabody; who presided at the meeting. More Hell Gate Trains. The Colonial Express and Bar Harbor Trains to Run Over New Route. The Pennsylvania, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroads announced yesterday that on April 30 tho Colonial Express will be operated over the Hell Gate Bridge route. Tho train will leave Washington at 8:15 A.

arriving in Boston at 8:20 p. M. Southbound, It will leave Boston at 8:45 A. arriving In Washington at 8:30 I. M.

Beginning June 11, the Weshlngton-Bar Harbor Express will ba operated daily on this route, except Sunday, leaving Washington at 1:15 P. and arriving at Bar Harbor at 12:40 P. M. the following day. It will leave Bar 'Harbor at 3 P.

M. and reach Washington at 2:37 P. M. the following day. Thoso trains will not handle service between New York and Washington for Intermediate points.

MORE AIRMEN ON ISLAND. Yale Squad Will Train on Knapp Estate at Mactic. Aerial Coast Patrol Unit No. 3 has been officially organized and goes into training at once, the Aero Club of America announced last The unit is composed of twelve Ye.le men and is the third to be formed at that university. The third unit will train at the seaplane station recently established by Joseph P.

Knapp, president of the American Lithographic Company, on his estate at Mactac, on the south shore of Long Island. THE COMMUNITY CHORUS which has been rehearsing under the direction of Charles S. Yerbury in the Commercial High School. District Superintendent James J. McCabe was elected president: Margaret W.

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1879. Stopping the Orgies. Mayor Mitchel's order closing the bars of the city at one o'clock in the morning has the commendation of all right-minded persons in the city. The dissent is morally and numerically negligible. What the Mayor, seconded with admirable spirit by the proprietors of the big hotels and restaurants, has exercised his power to forbid, will in no degree lessen the salutary and legitimate element of entertainment and enjoyment, an undue restriction of which would be unwise.

It is not his intention that life in New York shall be without laughter. It would not be a good thing to enforce a sad and gloomy temper on the people. The weight on the hearts of men is sufficiently heavy, and as in the individual case so in the case of a nation it is the faculty of laughing that saves the world. But the drinking after one oclock in the morning is not productive of the laughter that keeps the mind steady and the public spirit from a morbid depression. We are close to six million people in this community.

All but a few hundred thousand of U3 work in the day time, play in the late afternoon and early evening, and sleep at night. The few hundred thousand whose idle life enables them to spend the night in orgiac exercises, are a bad and not a good part of the community. Their activities are never healthful, and when the world is a shambles and our national life is threatened by all the swarming perils of a world war, they shock the sense of decency. It is well that the 6ane Sentiment of the vast majority be not offended by these midnight mockeries of the agony of mankind. The change will be marked.

Entertainments that began at midnight for those to whom the night is one long field of folly, will either begin at an hour more reasonable or close down altogether. Cabarets that allow entertainment to go to extremes of suggestiveness in order to shock their sleepy clients into wakefulness and the rage of buying liquor, will suffer a curtailment. The dens in Which the underworld gathers for its sodden festivities will be locked. All this is good. All this will begin the practise of a restriction of Belf-indulgence which is one of the valuable elements of war discipline.

Common Sense Wins. Common sense has won a gratifying victory in the collapse of the opposition to the Lawson Three-family House bill. The action taken by the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society insures the passage of the measure. There was never any opposition based upon a clear understanding of the housing problem in Brooklyn. The attacks on the bill by Mr.

Lawrence Veiller, who has resigned the secretaryship of the committee because of his chagrin over its repudiation of his attitude, were singularly unrelated to the realities of the situation. Mr. Veiller has long been the autocrat of tenement house legislation. He was interested in the housing problem-in Manhattan from the humanitarian standpoint, and was horrified at the real evils which the Tenement House law was enacted to eradicate. It has been difficult for him to get over the effect of that horror.

To him any building of three stories was a potential slum', and must be treated as drastically as any of those East Side hives that were formerly but collections of loathsome living cells and fountains of disease and crime. Inflamed with this idea, Mr. Veiller constituted himself the watchdog -of etery dot and comma in the Tenement House law. His attitude toward reforms, the need of which was obvious, has seriously retarded the development of Brooklyn on lines which were socially far superior to those upon which that development were constrained. Pride of opinion rose to extravagant heights when he assumed that the whole real estate interest of the borough, backed by the Borough President, and with the approval of some of the most worthy and devoted philanthropists here, were endeavoring to emasculate the Tenement House law for selfish purposes.

What they were really endeavoring to do, and what it is now certair they have succeeded in over Mr. Veillers opposition, was to improve the Tenement House law, by removing restrictions the economic oppression of which had become intolerable. Under present conditions the working population will benefit chiefly by the amendment of the statute. It is impossible to get an apartment in a two-family house even in, the outer wards of the borough for less than $20 a month rent To a man whose wage is $18 a week or less that rental is excessive. The consequence is that he is compelled to live in a huge tenement house, under social conditions greatly inferior to those which would obtain in a three-family house on a spacious street.

Meanwhile, thousands of houses, well built, and having three stories and a basement, have been unused because they are not jpnger rentable 'for one-family oc- The Lump Sum Veto. The Assembly made a stupid blunder in overriding the veto of Gov. Whitman of the legislative expense items in the Appropriations bill. In the form in which they were presented to him, they should have been vetoed, lie was pledged to go to the extent of his power to give the people a definition and a reason for every dollar allotted for State expenditure. This he has done, courageously and completely.

The item to which he made objection was a lump sum item. Presumably, every part of it is intended for honest expenditure, but it was concealed in the old basket in which thieves have so often carried away the public treasure. The people want to get rid of that system nnd their sympathy is with the Governor, who, in his effort to help them, finds himself blocked by an inopportune and childish assertion of legislative privilege. There has been no time at which the desire of the people to study every item of expenditure has been so acute. Every dollar of public funds is a dollar consecrate.

It is devoted to the preservation of the political life of the Nation and the precious blood of her sons. The people resent not Only the diversion of single penny to any wasteful or dishonest use, but persistence in a system that would hide such a diversion from their gaze. New York in the War. When the story of Americas part in this war shall be written the energy, boldness, and wisdom shown by the government of New York State will entitle it to a shining page in the splendid history. First amonj the governmental units that make up our Nation was it to get right down to the bottom of the military situation and give efficient form to the inherent right of every sovereignty to the service in arms of all its cit'zens.

While there was confusion and hesitation elsewhere, there was none at Albany. Gov. Whitman deserves the highest credit Hr his initiative and his courage. In the face of a political campaign in which his political rareer was at stake, he did not hesitate to drive through the Legislature and statutize with his signature the power of the State to resort to consul iption for the military defense of the country. He urged and had enacted the Universal Training law, which- will make every New York youth a soldier at need.

With respect to the present serious food situation, the Governor has acted with similar spirit and wisdom. His sight has gone straight to the heart of the difficulty and has seen the only remedy. The strategic point of our whole campaign for food is the point at which the hand of man touches the fecund earth. It is at that point that the State government is concentrating its activities. With the aid of private agencies which have come forward to organize and finance an intelligent and fruitful movement for the intensive and extensive cultivation of the soil, the Governor is linking the agricultural forces of the great State in a mighty enginery of production.

It was the embattled farmers who fought the war of our liberty; it will be the farmers of America who will furnish in indispensable food for the fight for world democracy. The Mills-Slater law which was bitterly criticized by politicians, but which a true popular instinct overwhelmingly approve, will furnish hosts for farm labor. Under Dr. Finleys leadership, the schoolboys, under the direction of the State Militia Commission, who are too young for the battle lines, will devote their patriotic spirit and strorg young muscles to the work of feeding the world. It is a glorious thing; a wonderful exemplification of the powers that lie latent in the Republic until some great emergency, such as this, rails them into dynamic expression.

Saturday is to be Agricultural Mobilization Day throughout the State. In every county there will be a local committee which will map out the work, arrange for the proper distribution of the emergency labor, and the channels through which the harvests are to be brought into the commissary of the world. The Irishmen fought with great bravery just under the brow of the pimple of Vimy Ridge, and were up against a steady stream of fire from machine gunk in the pimple until the Canadians wiped it off the face of the earth. Despatch from the front. Kelly and Burke and Shea sustaining the old tradition.

If Haig and Nivelle succeeded in getting across the Rhine before the government lets Col. Roosevelt and his division have a crack at the game, we can foresee a terrible shredding of their reputations as military chieftains when the Colonel writes his history of the war. For their future glory they had better stall a little. Up Connecticut the barbers have announced that hereafter the flowing locks will be clipped off only if a war price is paid. A boycott league should be organized, pledged to cut the haircut.

Judge Cropsey, having power only to enjoin the West Side project temporarily, does the best he can with the. time at his disposal. President Wilson tells the South that corn as well as cotton is expected from Few changes were nnnounced among the Methodist Episcopal pastors of Brooklyn by Bishop Luther Wilson, at the concluding session ol the New York East Conference at St Marks M. E. Church, last night, hut thero was quite a shift among tho Long Island mtnisteis.

As was forecasted in these columns, the Rev. Dr, K. G. Kichardson, of tho Simpson Churoh was appointed Superintendent of tire Brooklyn North District. It was 11 oclock when Bishop Wilson began reading the list of appointments.

The church and Sunday School loom was wbll filled with nil audience which had been in attendance since 8 oclock, but scarcely a person left the edifice before the appointments were read. The Bishop prefaced the reading with a statement commending tile work of Billy Sunday and then went on to sav that In neither the New York or the New York East Conferences, In both of which new district superintendents had to he appointed, had any man directly or Indirectly come to him with a suggestion that he he appointed. He further averred that in both cases the man named did not wish the position and accepted It only because he had expressed a desire for him to take it. This was a notable mark of devotion and service, he said. This comment was all that was needed to make absolutely certain that Dr.

Richardson had yielded his own preference to remain as a local pastor and when later his name wu.s read as the new head of the North District the announcement was greeted with considerable applause. The appointment of Dr. Richardson left a vacancy at Simpson Church which was filled by the transfer of Dr. John H. Bell from Sumner Avenue.

Dr. Francis B. Upham, the retiring District Superintendent, was named for Sumner Avenue. As was announced In the Brooklyn Times more than a week ago, the Rev. Victor G.

Mills, of Bensonhurst, was sent to First Church, Meriden. Italian branches are to oe opened In Astoria and Corona. Three charges have been united as follows: Calver-ton with Flanders, Bluepoint with Bayport and First Church with Grace Church at Valley Stream. Some of the most Important changes follow: The Rev. Dr.

Alfred Hodgetts from South Second Street to Van Alst Avenue. Long Island City; the Rev. J. Benson Hamilton, of Trinity, Manhattan, to South Second Street, the appointment of the Kev. W.

M. Neshit to succeed the Rev. W. J. White, retired, at Union Church; the Rev: G.

A. Bronson from Vanderveer 1ark Boslyn and Pearlngton; the Rev. W. s- -k-son from Prospect Avenue to North- port; the Rev. H.

E. Marsland, once of South Second Street, to Simpson. Amityvllle, and the Rev. J- C. 1 lan-dreau from the New Haven district to The Rev.

George W. Roesch goes from Oyster Bay to Lynhrok and Dr. George Adams from Lynbrook to Crawford Memorial, The Bronx; the Rev. J. J- Blythe, now at the latter church, to Oyster Bay; he Stockdale.

formerly of Sheepshea.l Bav to Port Jefferson, and the Rev. W. W. GUltes, of Herkimer Street, to West Hampton- Beach. Buffalo Avenue and Herkimer Street are to have one man.

The Rev. William Hamilton was sent to First Place, Brooklyn. In place of Dr. Frederick Stiehler Dr. W.

V. Kelley presided at the evening session, while Bishop Wilson and his cabinet were in consultation. The Rev. E. M.

Ptckop presented the report of the Committee on Temperance. Some exception was taken to that paragraph which read: We condemn the efforts of Elon Brown to sidetrack real eelf-gov-ernment on this question. The Rev. Henry Medd said that he thought it wrong to single out one man. Dr E.

G. Richardson was in the chair when the afternoon session was called to order. Dr. David Downey reported progress In the work of the Joint Committee on Charge of Boundaries between the New York East, New York and Newark conferences. The representatives on this committee for the New York East Conference were continued in office.

Dr Millard Robinson reported for the New Extension SThoyRev. John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, convulsed the staid members of the conference with his pointed Illusions and witticisms. 4 Dr. W. A.

Layton, Superintendent of the Brooklyn and Long Island Church Society, stated that the church in which the present conference has been held Is one of those which would not be in existence to-day had it not been for the financial assistance rendered in the past by his organization. It is now helping fourteen of the churches of Brooklyn, he said, and during the thirty-eight years of its existence has. expended about 1500,000 in behalf of about 500 church bodies. He is asking for an endowment fund of $250,000 to purchase suitable sites for new churches in Brooklyn and Queens. A The Rev.

Anton M. Trelstad. pastor of the Norwegian Bethel Ship Mission, said that 12,000 had been found employment during the last year 1.622 in March alone. He was almost worn out by overwork, he said, and asked for an assistant. The reading of the semi-centennial anniversary papers of the Rvs.

Edward C. Cunningham and T. M. Terry was completed and the Rev. W.

P. Estes took occasion to say that this was the sixtieth conference he hks attended and the fifty-eighth to which he had answered present. Mr. Terry Is the oldest man in the conference, having been a member for sixty-four years. The Rev.

Henry Blatz, was presented with a purse of gold upon his retirement as the treasurer of the Conference Benevolences. The Rev. George S. Thompkins was chosen his successor. 4 The annual report of Mr.

Blatz showed cash receipts of $116,651 4 an increase of $10,004.83, and receipts by vouchers of $132,289.76, an Increase of $32,694.06. During the eight years of his incumbency he has handled The statistician, the Rev. J. W. Mace, reported 71,622 full members on the roll, an increafio of 80.744 enrollment in the Sunday School, and current expenses of $395,183, an Increase of 4.219 probationary members received during the year; $488,626 paid for ministerial support, an Increase of $19,425 paid for conference claimants; $10,816,000 value of church property, an increase of $449,900, and an Epworth League enrollment of a gain of 459.

The appointments follow; Brooklyn North District. E. G. FICHARPROV, HNtrtct Snpt. Iioroofh of Brooklyn.

Andrews, W. J. Turkey. Kalb Avenue, W. W.

W. Wilson. Bmbury Memorial, Charlea R. Ross. Comer Stone Temple, D.

O. Osterheld. Knickerbocker Avenue, Wm. MacNicholL St. W.

B. Thompson I iie I I iL 14 1 i I i i 1 1 a I It. r-T TOUCH TYPEWRITING TEST. St. Leonards Academy Wins Championship of Year.

The seventh annual contest for accuracy in touch typewriting under the auspices of the United Pitman nnd Gregg Shorthand Writers Associations was held recently in the Merchants and Bankers' School, Fifty-eighth street and Madison avenue, New York. These annual contests for accuracy in typewriting under the able direction of Mr. David H. OKeefe, the popular teacher of typewriting in tho High School of Commerce, have worked wonders for the improvement of touch typewriting. The committee in charge of these contests, knowing that accuracy is the most essential qualification of a good typist have drawn up a very stringent code of rules and the papers are checked and re-checked so many times that the school hoping to win the coveted championship banner must have a thoroughly trained team.

The High School of Commerce, Manhattan, the largest and best equipped commercial school in this country, if not In the world, having over four thousand pupils from which to select a team of fifteen, was confident of winning the trophy. La Academy, Manhattan, the alma mater of some of the most famous men in the city, entered a team of splendidly trained typists, filled with tho Old Second Street Spirit," which carried them to victory on so many occasions. Bushwick High School, Brooklyn; Montclair High School, N. and several other well-known high schools and business schools also entered well-balanced teams. St.

Leonard's Academy, 140 South Fourth street. Brooklyn, entered the youngest team in the contest. These boys have been studying typewriting only eight months, while many of their rivals have been studying the subject from two to four years. What these youngsters lacked in age, they made up in enthusiasm and determination. In preparation for this contest they learned the value of concentration.

In fact, they were selected for their power of concentration. They were trained to sacrifice every Individual hope of winning a medal for speed and to make every effort to1 help the team to capture tho banner for accuracy. They carried out their instructions to the letter, and the result is that St. Leonards Academy, Brooklyn, won the championship in accurate typewriting for 1917. Harold Connell, a St.

Leonards boy, won the gold medal for accuracy in tho amateur class by writing fifty-throe a minute without an error, for fifteen minutes. FLATBUSH HOLDS RALLY. Wake Up America Day Observed In Congregational Church. Wake up America Dav In Flatbush1 will be marked bv a gierantic Datrlotlc mass meeting to be held In the Flat-bitah Congregatlonal Church to-morrow nlerht, on tho anniversary of the Rattlo of Lexington. April 19.

1775. The meeting has been arranged in co-operation with the Mayor's Committee on authorises and the armv and navv at a direct means of stimulating enlist ments among the young men of Flat bush. One of the speakers will be Major Alln L. Rengan. Division Adjutant, Y.

Division 17. S. Armv. Major Reagan will talk on the timely topic of The Nation Needs Trigger-Pullers Not Mouth Patriots." Special Invitations to address the meeting havo been sent to Col. Theo dore Roosevelt, S.

enator Cal clef xx-- and the Congressman from the Flat bush district. There will he a band. The churches of all denominations, civic associations and commercial bodies, as well as the loading clubs of the Flatbush district are co-operating in tho mass meeting The department store, the specialty houses and the numerous other advertisers or this great city, a hose announcements are made dally In The Brooklyn Times, have a message of great Importance te convey to Times readers. Get the meaaag daily. The Subway Collapse.

There is still some obscurity as to the cause of the subway excavation collapse at St. Felix street and Hanson place. There is none as to the good fortune which timed this disaster so as to save Brooklyn a frightful experience. Had the supports of the falsework shifted at night, when there was an opera or other function at the Academy of Music, there would have been a seen'' of horror from which imagination recoils. Automobiles, wrecks ge of buildings and of subsurface pipes and cables and human beings in great number would all have gone down together into that fifty foot trench.

It chanced that the crash occurred when the St. Felix street and Hanson place intersection was singularly free of vehicles and pedestrians. It is a blessing that it was so. But it is not the result of human prudence. The inquiry into the disaster will be searching, we cannot doubt.

Such an accident in the very heart of the most populous part of Brooklyn is almost unbelievable, and the public will want every assurance that it was not due to the lack of any precaution the remotest need of which could be ascertained by human intelligence. The people have a right to the assurance that neither money, nor engineering skill, nor caution in the highest degree is spared to safeguard them against such a frightful occurence as it seems miraculous that this was not. Mr. John C. Sheridan, the general manager for Cranford who are constructing that section of the subway, believes that an unexpected.