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NEW YORK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916        * * *    7

N.Y. WOMEN PLAN VOTE CAMPAIGN

State Suffrage Convention Begins in Albany To-day

HUNDREDS ARRIVE FOR ITS SESSIONS

Re-election of Mrs. White House and Other Officers Certain

(By Telegraph to The Tribune.)
Albany, Nov. 20.-One of the most businesslike campaigns ever waged or woman suffrage will be planned for the coming year at the New York State Woman Suffrage convention, which begins here to-morrow and will continue the rest of the week. Hundreds of suffragists from all parts of the state arrived in Albany to-day for the meetings.

The women intend to dispense with spectacular methods, but will put forth greater efforts than ever before to reach the voters through an organized, systematic plan. This was the impression gained to-night through talks with leaders.

Among the early arrivals were Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse, chairman of the Woman's Suffrage party; Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. Henry White Cannon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Miss Alice Morgan Wright, Mrs. Alice Duer Miller, Miss Harriet May Mills, Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey, Mrs. Arthur A. Livermore and Miss Mary Garrett Hay.

Will Have Organized Efforts.

Meetings of the campaign district chairmen and of the state committee were held to-night and arrangements made for the campaign which will be submitted to the convention. It is planned to conduct the movement with the same organization that characterizes the old line parties, and every district leader will be carefully instructed as to the best methods of reaching voters.

The suffragists here feel certain that the wave of sentiment in this state is toward their cause, and that with proper effort they can more than make up the 200,000 majority by which the amendment was beaten last year. They have carefully [[?]] the new members f the Legislature, and have no doubt that the measure to submit the question to the party again next fall, will be passed this winter.

Because of the desire to present a united front to the people, no opposition is expected to the reelection of Mrs. Whitehouse and other state officers on Thursday. The only change likely is the creation of a financial committee to assist in tabulating the reports of the 800 treasurers of local suffragists organizations throughout the states [[?]] Mrs. Reid, the state treasurer, in her manual report to-morrow, will show that in the last year $130,000 was collected and spent by the party, of which $50,000 was gathered in New York City.

Signs Welcome Women

The women of Albany have made elaborate preparations to receive the suffragists. In Capitol Park is a gigantic electric sign welcoming them to the city, and on every side is seen the new slogan: "Woman Suffrage Is Coming in 1917."
    
Open air meetings were held in Albany and vicinity to-night. From an automobile at the corner of State and Pearl Streets a large crowd was addressed by Mrs. Whitehouse, Mrs Laidlaw, Mrs. Brown and Miss Hay, while others spoke at open air meetings at Cohoes and before the railroad men at the New York Central and Delaware & Hudson shops.

Several of the leading suffragists here to-night declared that they saw no significance in the fact that twelve Western suffrage states went for Wilson. They said if this resulted from the woman's vote, such a sentiment could be overcome by giving the vote to the conservative women of the Eastern states.

MOTOR KILLS BOY, FLEES
Chauffeur Is Arrested-Car Has Bent Mudguard

Morris Eisenberg, four years old, was killed yesterday afternoon as he played in front of his home, at 84 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, by a limousine, which sped away after the accident.

When the car bearing the number that witnesses had caught entered a garage last night detectives arrested its chauffeur, Robert [[?]], of 180 Saratoga Avenue, on a charge of homicide. he told them, the [[?]], that he had thought something was wrong, but he was "too nervous" to stop. A mudguard on the car, which belongs to Hugo Lehrfeld, of 93 Decatur Street, was bent.

BRYAN STARTS "DRY" FIGHT

Predicts National Amendment Will Be Submitted in 1920

Chicago, Nov. 20.00A "dry" Chicago campaign was opened to-day with an address by William J. Bryan, before a meeting of the Dry Chicago Federation.

Mr. Bryan declared his speech here to-day was the first shot in his four year campaign to make the United States dry in 1920.

"I believe national prohibition will be the paramount issue of 1920," he said. "Unless the amendment is made before that it is probable that the amendment will be submitted in 1920. It is even possible that it may pass this winter."

Mr. Bryan was asked as to a recurrence of the report that he was to move his home to Asheville, N. C.

"I don't mind denying it again," said Mr. Bryan. "Why should any one leave a nice dry state like Nebraska? My home will remain at Lincoln. I will do my voting there."

Can See Raemaekers Till 10 P.M.

The visitors to the Raemakers cartoon exhibit, which is being held in aid of the French Red Cross at White Allom & Co.'s Galleries, 19 East Fifty-second Street, have been so numerous that it has been decided to keep the exhibition open until 10 p. m. instead of 6 p. m., as at present. This also applies to Sundays.

RUTH LAW ENDS HER FLIGHT HERE

Calls Trip from Chicago at 103 Miles an Hour "Just Fun"

LANDS, THEN SEEKS POWDER FOR NOSE

Although Forced to Finish Without Gasolene, She Sets New Marks

By BLANCHE BRACE.
"Flying's just fun!"

Little Ruth Law, grinning under her leather helmet, dipped her dwarfed, old-fashioned Curtiss biplane through the fog to the firm ground of Governor's Island yesterday morning, and stepped out-five feet of triumphant bird-woman, winner of the American non-step 'cross-country record, by her flight from Chicago to Hornell. She knocked the icicles out of her blond hair and laughed.

"It was easy," she said, apparently thinking nine-hour trips from Chicago to New York soon would be a common-place. "Everybody'll be doing it soon. Have I proved that a woman can fly?"

She had. A slight, twenty-eight year-old woman, with the clear blue eyes of a child, had achieved the most dramatic flying feat yet known in America, with a saucily inadequate, almost obsolete biplane.

Had Begged for New 'Plane

Ruth Law had begged for a new twin-motored biplane to make her trip in, but the Curtiss people, who feared that "a woman couldn't handle it," had refused her. She had come in her old one. making the 897 miles traversed between Chicago and New York in the actual flying time of 8 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds, travelling at the average rate of 103 miles an hour.

Next time they'll probably give Ruth Law the machine she wants. By the spectacular flight which brought her to Governor's Island at 9:37:30 o'clock yesterday morning she not only out-distanced Victor Carlstrom, who established a new record on November 1 by going from Chicago to Erie, Penn., but also achieved the world championship for women and the second[-best world 'cross-[country non-stop record.

Ruth Law was as happy as a child on a holiday. In fact, she thinks that "flying's just a holiday," and so she put in a few vacation capers at the end of her long, record-breaking, record-making dash. She circled about the Goddess of Liberty, and finished with a downward swoop that resembled the flourishes they used to make in the old-style Spencerian handwriting. Above the blare of the band that she almost demolished in landing and the 

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plaudits of the crowd that had gathered to welcome her, the little avia trice laughed.

"It was fun!" she cried, unbuckling the strap which had held her in the seat in front of the mechanism, exposed to the icy drive of wind. "It was fun! But where can I powder my poor nose?"

She grinned the wide and slightly impertinent grin of a joyous child as she patted her little old 'plane, perched by the side of the big twin tractor, 100-foot broad machine in which Victor Carlstrom flies, with its 100-gallon tank and its 208 horsepower.

In her flannel shirt and her gray suede knickers, her chamois coat and her wool cap she looked like a naughty little boy as she surveyed her tiny, 110-horsepower motor with its twenty-eight feet of wing spread and its fifty-six[[gallon gasolene tank, which had barely met the claims upon it, forcing the bird woman to fly the last two miles without fuel.

"I'll do it all over any time," said Ruth Law, "But next time I'm going to have a big 'plane. A man-size 'plane, you know," she chuckled.

"For, of course, women can fly," she said a little later. "They have the nerve and they can get the training. Any one can. The day of the aero plane is coming. That trip between Chicago and New York isn't anything. Maybe tired business men who work in Chicago will commute by 'plane to New York, or, anyhow, come for the week ends. Maybe lovers' letters will be sent that way for speed. Aero planes will come to be used as commonly as automobiles, I feel pretty sure."

Major First to Greet Her

Major Carl F. Hartman, chief signal officer of the East, was the first to shake hands with the merry little visitor. Men aviators pressed around, generously glad to congratulate her. Major General Leonard Wood told her it seemed to him "one of the most remarkable achievements in aviation the world has ever known."

Alan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club; Henry Woodhouse. Evert Jansen Wendell and others were just as honestly pleased with her feat as Carlstrom himself had been.

"They're mighty nice," said Ruth Law. "I didn't start out to beat a man's record, you know. That wasn't 

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my idea. Why, Victor and I are awfully good friends. I just wanted to have some fun."

She had it. There wasn't one instant when she had been scared, she said, but there had been "moments that made her sit up and take notice." She loved them. That's the fun of it, Ruth Law declares.

Left with the Sulks

When she left Chicago at 8:25 o'clock Sunday morning, Eastern time, she had the sulks a bit. She had wanted to come in the big machine. It never pleases a woman not to be taken seriously, anyhow, Ruth Law says. And besides, a stiff gale blowing over Lake Michigan, had cooled her little engine and delayed her two hours. But at last she was off, with Vice-President Stevens, of the Illinois Aero Club; her husband, William Oliver, and a few thousand others waving her goodbye.

"I headed straight for the Indiana state line," Miss Law said. "I had my course mapped out on a revolving chart strapped to my belt, and to the guard of the seat, and I stuck to it as closely as I could. The compass readings I scratched on y gauntlet. And luck was with me."

She had hoped to reach Hornell early enough to justify her in coming straight on to Manhattan. her low supply of gas and the lateness of the hour, however, decided her against the attempt, although her disappointment was intense.

'Caution's always my first word in flying," said Ruth Law. She was feminine enough to add: "I know I could have made it if they had just let me have the 'plane I wanted."

Flight Here Not "Much Fun"

Her flight from Binghamton wasn't 'much fun," she admitted. There was a thicker-than-molasses fog, she said, that brought her down from her usual height of 200 feet to skim the tree tops, with a sensation that made her remember the days when she used to go coasting.

"Often I couldn't see a mile in front of me, and that is considered dangerous in flying," she said. "It was like making a steamboat trip in the fog, feeling your way along and tooting your whistle every minute or two."

Her fuel supply was insufficient, too, and she had to keep tipping the machine so that gas would flow into the carburetor. With dismay she watched it go down to the quarter mark and stop feeding. That was the reason for the graceful swoop with which she landed-it was impossible for her to tip the plane.

Still dressed in the heavy gray woollen cap and sport coat she had worn in the flight, but minus her knickers and leather helmet lined with wool, and her chamois coat, Miss Law later in the day discussed her victory at the Hotel McAlpin.

Wanted a Holiday

"I wanted a holiday and to show that a woman could fly," she said. "I don't know why more women haven't taken up aviation, anyhow. I dare say it was because men told them it was dangerous; just like the ballot, you know.

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The 
Ad-Visor

Tuesday, November 21, 1916.

This department is engaged in separating the sheep of advertising, and of the service which backs up advertising, from the goats-and hanging a bell on the goats. It invites letters describing experiences-pleasant or unpleasant-with advertisers, whether they be manufacturers, wholesale houses, retail stores or public service corporations. It will print those letters which seem to show most typically how an advertiser's deeds square with the words of his advertising. Only signed letters, giving the writer's address, will be read. But the name will be printed or withheld, as preferred. Address: The Ad-Visor, The Tribune, New York.


I HAD an argument with a friend last night in regard to newspapers which gave a guarantee on anything advertised in their columns. To finish the argument I bet him that you were the only newspaper that did that; he said there were others. A little later he came around with a copy of The Globe, which says they do not "knowingly" accept any fake advertisements.

Kindly let me know whether or not advertisements in such a medium may be taken at their advertised value.

FRED ANTIOCO.

When the word "knowingly" creeps in, effectiveness flies out of the guarantee. Guarantees like this have the same relation to a real guarantee that a sieve has to a dishpan-they may both be shaped the same, but one of them doesn't hold water very well.

FOLLOWING is the guarantee given with every Seneca camera: 
"Warranty-Guaranty-Seneca Cameras are guaranteed against defective workmanship or material for ten years from date of factory shipment, to the extent that we will replace any defective part which fails as result of original defect, providing it is returned to the factory. This guarantee does not apply to the lenses and shutters, though we use only standard makes, guaranteed by their manufacturers. Ten days' trial of entire equipment, and if not satisfactory full amount refunded.

"SENECA CAMERA MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
"Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A."
Wouldn't this guarantee be much more effective if the clause, "This guarantee does not apply to lenses and shutters, though we use only standard makes, guaranteed by their manufacturers" were omitted? It seems to me that a company should be willing to stand back of its entire produce, not only parts of it, and particularly when the lenses and shutters are guaranteed by their manufacturers.
L. H. C.

Quite so. Even if the camera makers buy their lenses and shutters from other manufacturers and merely assemble, the guarantee should be all-inclusive. If they can trust the lens-and[shutter makers' guarantee, they should be willing to make good direct to the customer and look to the lens=and-shutter people for their own reimbursement. If they can't trust the guarantee, how can they expect their customers to trust the assembled camera?

HOW do you reconcile the following two specific statements made by two well  known cigarette manufacturers? Fatima cigarettes were very recently advertised with this slogan: "There are three Fatimas smoked to every one other 15-cent cigarette." Schinasi Brothers are now advertising Natural cigarettes with the slogan: "For a quarter of a century the biggest selling 15-cent cigarette." The quarter of a century certainly covers the period in which Fatima were featuring their 3 to 1 slogan. Both statements can hardly be true.

C. D. BECKMAN.

We don't reconcile the two statements. We can't. It seems to us merely "poetic license" rather broadly applied to advertising copy. Of course, "Naturals" and "Fatimas" are not 15cent cigarettes in the same sense of the word, the former being listed at ten for 15 cents and the [[?]]...ter at twenty for 15 cents, but that doesn't reduce the hyperbole.

PROVIDING The Ad-Visor plays no favorites in the field of safety razors, the following should be worth a place in the sun of The Tribune's favor. Six years ago, while on a tip to the Pacific Coast. I was forced to try an Auto-Strop safety razor or impair my facial graces for life in using the old and so-called reliable straight blade. I used the Auto-Strop, then purchased one, and for more than five years shaved with it, acting as a gratuitous sales manager for the instrument among my acquaintances.

But trouble came. One package of blades did more to spoil my faith in Auto-Stroppery than five years of faithful service had been able to establish. I find that is usually the way-with razors, friends and other things we work to death.

Without knowledge of the Auto-Strop Safety Razor Company's policy toward its patrons, I wrote for information, and, if possible, assistance, inclosing one of the half dozen blades that had failed me. Within three days a courteous letter came, informing me that my razor, through long usage, had lost its adjustment. "Would I forward it to the factory?" I would.

Back came the razor in less than a week, carriage prepaid, and one dozen blades to replace the six which had failed to give service. A second note assured me of their pleasure in adjusting the instrument and desire to give that same brand of service whenever I might need it.

You know, I've thought ever since that maybe there are a lot of firms that will show as much interest in a purchase of six years ago-if we can only hunt them out.
  
D. R. M.

There are a great many firms that will show like interest in a six-year-old purchase. One of the aims of The Ad-Visor is to help to find them.

TRIUMPHANTLY I address you regarding my victory over Young's Sample Boot Shop, 47 West Forty-second Street, owner, one Herman Schenck, in hopes that it may be interesting to you and to the readers of your unique column to learn that persistency and determination to secure right, regardless of inconvenience, has wrested satisfaction from an unreliable concern.

About April 8 I purchased a pair of shoes for $5.95, and after wearing them only five times they practically fell apart. i took them back and was told they would be repaired for me. I was really entitled to a new pair of shoes, but, as I did not want to be unreasonable, decided to leave them. Imagine my chagrin when I called a few days later and was told there was a charge of 35 cents due for repairs, while the shoes had the appearance of brogans that had been worn a year. This charge I refused to pay, on the ground that the shoes were unsatisfactory and that I had consented to have them repaired only out of consideration for the firm. I was treated with scant courtesy, and was told that I would havve to pay the 35 cents or i would get no shoes. By this time I felt very much abused and stated that i would bring legal proceedings to enforce my rights. They seemed to be amused and remarked, "We've heard that before."

My next step was to write them two letters, a week apart, giving them a chance to act squarely, but these letters were ignored. I then determined to show this unreliable dealer that even unaggressive young...

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