The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-28
FIVE FESTAL DAYS AND GALA
NIGHTS
Redpath Cheutauqua Program for
1917 Bigger and Better
Than Ever

The Reapath program in this city
for 1917. bigger and better than
ever, has just been announced from
chautauqua headquarters in Chicago.
PristlinG with compelling interest
from first to last, this program in
ciudes such outstanding features as
Lieutenant Donald H. Mckinney. di-
rect from the French front; Montra-
vile Wood. famous scientist and in
vertor OF the torpedo with ears" ::
The White Hussars Band, and the
Great Reno. Throughout the week
are more Of what one might call pop
ular numbers than usual, fact
which will be acceptable to the ma
jority of the chatauqua going public.
Everybody likes band. Since the
days when we followed our first
circus parade, to the pulse-stirring
strains of the uniformed band sitting
aloft in their gilded, palatial wagon
drawn by prancing horses, we have
never quite lost the magic thrill
which always returns when we hear
the rcusing strains of good band.
. Yet even in the band has the idea of
unusualness been carried out, for it
is singing band that will feature
this year The White Hussars will
appear on the program on the clos
ing day. Their combination of STIR
ring band music with vocal has made
them one of the most pleasing sue
cesses Of recent years.
! At the present time with the sub
ject of national defense receiving
attention. it is interesting to know
that Professor Wood is the inventor
Of the ''hearing torpedo about
which so much has appeared in
magazines and newspapers. This
submarine instrum ment is noted for
its humane possibilities and its al
most human intelligence.
At one point in his lec' ure demon
stration, Professor Wood allows
members Of the audience to come on
the platform and wrestle With 2S-
pound gyroscope running at speed
of nearly 5000 revolutions minute
Later he demonstrates the applica-
ton of the gyrcscope to the aero
plane and monorail car by actually
sending small models of these twenti
eth century carriers out in midair
on a slender wire stretched above one
of the aisles Of the auditorium. His
demonstrations of /the ultraviolet
raw are alike mareiol's.
In the early days Mr. Wood was
closely associated with Thomas A.
Edison, and in 1899 was appointed
district engineer for the Edison COM
pany for the Pacific coast. He IS
the inventor of the two-button elec-
trio switch and nearly a hundred
other practical and familiar devices.
A few years ago he was honored
with an appointment as aerial post
master in Chicago.
Convincing, vivid, thrilling are in
adequate words to describe the mar
rative of personal experiences Of
Lieut.. Donald II. McCibney in the
great war This lecture tales one
TO the very center Of he titantic
struggle. That a man can live
through such diabolical experiences
continue, day and night, for
puzzles human credulity.
months amid such surroundings, to
minister to the suffering and dying,
When the war storm broke, this
typical young American collegian
was teacher in a Protestant college
at Beyrut, Syria, within a days
journey Of the scenes of the minis
try of Jesus of Nazareth and of the
plains where Joshua led the Israeli
tes against the heather hosts of
Canaan.
Almost before he had become ac
customed to the ways of the East,
there marched out Of the historicI