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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09

or more wheels out of alignment. And
you know what that means for the
tire. The diagonal grind which the
tire must undergo soon wears 1t oown.
The service station man soon rectities
this condition.
"Our service station men are often
able to save many miles to tire by
trimming off bad cuts that have been
caused by overlooking. speeding, etc.
A cut once started follows the gran,
of the rubber and constant use causes
II to penetrate deep into the tire. II
caught and trimmed off In time many
miles and dollars can be saved.
Another service that these men
supply is the recommendation of the
proper type of tire for any particular
service. Goodyear has tire for every
service, and we require our service
men to recommend that particular
type that will best serve the truck
owner.
we find that the result of thir
policy OF looking after the truck
owners tires have been surprising-to
both the truck owner and ourselves
which means that we are constantly
working on this plan-to establish a
service station wherever there are
trucks to be served,"s
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
SLANG SISTER OF POETRY"
An Unacknowlcdgcd Relationship and
What Can BE Said for II.

Slang, Gelett Burgess once said, ia
"the illegitimate sister of poetry, that
makes with her common cause
against the utilitarfan economy OF
prose" Their common ground is the
realm OF metaphor, as we are quich
to recognize. for we like to think OF
our ready idiom as the stuff that
poetry is made Of GOOD night" we
eXclaim to express the finality OF
lost cause, and it makes us feel that
We are poets or that Shakespeare was
an everyday American to find 1t in
the same sense in Henry ~" part
J., IF he fall in, good night! or sink
and "go sit down" Shakespeare has
mot in it." Sheridan has "cut it
out" The list might be prolonged;
and when all examples are put to-
gether one begins TO doubt whether
all new slang is not old poetry wii'
large. Indeed, slang Is poetry In just
SO far as it seeks the emotions thru
the freshly-edged metaphor. 1t is the
opposite of poetry in that II cUi
sciously seeks to be in bad taste. The
difference is in the nature Of the emo
ton IL seeks to rouse. Its humor is
Falstaffan; 1t speaks to us not III
fun only: If 1t is not grotesque-if It
is funny merely because 1t is new-its
career as slang is short; it either per-
ishes or becomes plain English.i The
slang metaphor, too, as the ephemerid
of poetry has "a short cycle OF life with
startling power of self-renewal. 1t is
like evolution afflicted with the speed
mania, type succeeding type so fast
that one loses the sense of continuity
in the process. When a careless col
legian OF George AIDES says, Father,
you talk like O hod Of ashes" the fig
ure is not hard to recognize; It is at
least true to type.-Harper's.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
FRANKLIN C0MPANY'S
BUSINESS INCREASES
Greater Volume of Production
Occurs Since United States
Entered War.

From the day the United States en-
tered the world war up to the present
time, the business of the Franklin au-
tomobile company has showed great
er volume than the entire business
during 1916. BY the middle of June,
production for 1917 had already ek-
ceeded the total for the entire pre-
ceding year. In fact, at the present
time the Franklin company is prod uc-
Ing three times as many cars as siA
months ago and nearly twice as many
as were being made only as far back
as April
In spite of this greatly augmented
production, orders on hand have kept
ahead of shipments anywhere from
six to ten weeks. This condition eA-
listed even thru the adjustment per-
iod Immediately following this coun-
trys entry into the war.
The Franklin factory, which during
the past year has been practically
doubled in size. Is now running in full
swing, including all the recent addi-
tions, and production has reached the
rate of $4,000 cars per year, three
times the production rate existing in
1915. The biggest single days snip
ment In the history Of the Franklin
tailed Ga cars; the biggest week, end
ing August 10, registered an output
Of 26S cars.
For the seven months to August l.,
cash receipts for the Franklin COM
pany increased 144 per cent over tho
same period last year. May, June ana
July receipts were $40 per cent bigger
than in the same months of 1915.
During the past month Franklin
dealers have contracted for 10000
900 worth of automobiles for the next
nix months. At practically every
point in the United States the require
ments OF Franklin edalers exceed the
available supply that the factory can
produce.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
CADILLACS EASY ON TIRES
Owners Get Big Mileage, According TO
Rubber Company's Data.

Averaging 9,s1S miles on their tires
Is the record shown by nine Cadillac
owcnrs among one hundred miscella-
neous car owners, according to the
dau collected by a. tire makers De-
troit branch.
The figures of the entire one hun
dred owners showed an average OF
S,67G miles. hence the showing Of the
Cadillac owners is more than one
thousand miles In excess Of the gen.
eral average.
or the nine Cadillac owners, seven
are still using the tires upon which
the report is based: and of those sew
en-, five have reached 10000 miles or
more.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
GOODYEAR HAS TIRE
FOR EVERY PURPOSE
Distinctive Service Rendered
For Solids Used by Heavy
Motor Trucks.

The unprecedented congestion o,
traffic on our railroads has been the
III wind that blew the motor truck
industry good. Scarcely a field OF
merchandising endeaVor exists whic h
has not been invaded by the rubber
tired freighter. Hundreds OF manu-
facturers and wholesalers who form
erly had no choice but TO wait on tho
railroads to deliver shipments TO their
customers, have found relief in the
utilization Of motor trucks. And
thousands OF retailers after tnor-.
trials, have found truck deliveries
more economical and more satisfac-
Sory in many other respects, than the
sd time horse-drawn method.
At the present time upwards Of 375
manufacturers are engaged in the pro-
duction OF commercial vehicles. Ana
all Of these must necessarily nave
rubber tees to protect their mech
anism and their loads from shock and
vibration. A majority of them are Oh
the slower moving type, operating on
solid tires. as against the speedici
machines which usually are mounted
on pneumatics.
The Service Necessary.
So that thruout the country there
has sprung up the necessity of proper
tlTt StINl'c IoT tuc OWHtIb VI IIltSc
trucks. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Co. is successfully working this
out on the same basis that has so
efficiently and economically serveu
the wants Of users of Goodyear pneu-
matte tires. This Is the service s,a-
ton idea. So this company has estab-
lished, and is adding to the number
daily. motor truck tire service sta
tions, wherever these trucks have en-
tered the business world.
II. S. Wilson, manager motor truck
tire department in commenting upui,
the .company's motor truck service
station policy, outlines the different
elersents that compose service on
solid truck tires. Says Mr.. Wilson,
"These service stations render q dis
tinct service in applying -presseu-o,
tires-the most widely used solid tire
at present--to the rims, and save the
truck owner the delays that would
arise from the necessity of sending
his wheel to the factory or some
branch city for tire application.
y Alignment Problem Handled.
Then there is alignment problem TO
take care Of. II Is conservative TO
say that fully one third Of all the
motor trucks in operation have one
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
The Effcr

One clubman was telling another
OF his experience with a book writ
ten by still another member.
DO you know" said the first men,
ber that ! picked up his book last
night and that never budged out of
my chair until 4 o'clock this morn
ingl"
"Heavens!" exclaimed the second
member. WAS It that interesting"
mo, but didn't wake until that
hour"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
II Depends.

Thompson, newly wed, was seek
ing advice Of an old married friend at
the club.
do you," Thompson asked, "think
a man should take his wife into his
fairs"
The friend, with grim smile. I'M
mediately replied:
If he isn't making any money;
yea"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
Alignment Problem Handled.

"Then there is alignment problem TO
take care Of. 1t is conservative to
say that fully one third Of all the
motor trucks in operation have one
Evening star., 1917-09-14
DECIDES TO CONSTRUCT
SH|PBU|LD|NG PLANTS
First Of Three Agreed Upon by Ship
ping Board to Be Located
at Hog Island.

An agreement has been reached by
the Shipping Board for the construction
of shipbuilding plants in which the
government will build a large number
of fabricated vessels. The first of the
three plants. as agreed upon with the
American International Corporation. is
the be constructed at Hog Island, Pa.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation has
signed contracts for construction of
this government-owned plant and for
the construction therein of fifty fab
ricated steel merchant vessels. The
plant will cost slightly less than
SO, 900 900
Evening star., 1917-09-14
LORD READINGS MISSION
CHIEFLY FINANCIAL ONE
Chief Justice of England to Hold
Series of Conferences With
Secretary McAdoo.

Viscount Reading, lord chief justice
of England here on a special financial
mission for his government, Will hold
A series of conferences with Secretary
McAdoo of the Treasury Department.
The first was held yesterday, and con-
cerned itself for an hour with discus
sion of International finances.
New questions have arisen since the
departure of Foreign Minister Balfour.
II is desirable for Great Britain to
have in this country confidential
agent familiar with financial affairs, a
field in which Lord Reading. as chair
man of the Anglo-French commission.
which fioated a s50O.O00.O0O loan here
in 1915, is familiar. He will act while
here in q confidential and advisory
capacity to his government with refer
ence to certain financial subjects which
could be handled better by such an
agent here than by correspondence.
While Lord Readings chief mission to
the United States concerns finance.
there are other subjects upon which he
will report to his government. the ma
ture of which was not divulged.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
AMERICAN BATTALION
IN ENGLAND THRILLS
Physically Fit, Boys Take First
Drill Since Leaving
United States.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.

Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
LONDON, September 14-"Heads up,
shoulders back. stomachs in," shouts a
major of the American Army standing
before a battalion on a green English
drill ground. There is instant obedi-
ence and one gazes with deepening ad
miration upon a body of men to de-
light a commanders heart. How tall,
muscular, supple and uniform they are,
and how intelligent each one looks!
Their average age limit is a little, over
twenty-one. Their severely plain and
close-atting khaki shows the fine
curves in their figures.
There is not an unfit man in the
lot" says the major. I'VE marched for
three and a half hours this morning
and this is the first drill we have had
since we left the United States In this
whole camp-we haye vastly more men
than you see here-there is not an Ill
man. l am proud of them. Yes, sir,
am. Look at them"
At this the major shouted COM
ma nd which was repeated by the cap
tains of the companies. and the batta-
lion broke into movement. For three
quarters of an hour l watched its evo-
lutions, its comings and goings. its
massings and dissolvings and its con-
fractions ana eSpdnSlONS.
That. major" remarked a journalist
from Kansas ''wields his men as
cowboy throws his lariat."
Human, Not Machinelike.
Truly it was beautiful and it's beauty
was mirrored in the majors watchful
eyes One might have said that the
battalion moved like a we'll oiled
machine. but 1 could not think of it
as machinelike. 1t was too obviously,
intensely human. Its silent, friction
less movements suggested to me the
free working of healthy organism.
individuality has not been ironed out
of the American. Each'man remains
human being with a human beings
sensiblities, yet he yields himself 10
collective efficiency as well, L should
think as does any soldier in the world.
Rigidity and perfection of alignment
are not. it seems to me. marked char
acterlstics of the American Army. AS
l watched this admirable battalion drill
l saw no trace of stiffness and no eX-
aggerated military pose. Through the
whole body seemed to run that high
fiexibility evident in. each individual
man. 1t is most interesting to COM
pare the Americans and the British.
Admittedly. Britain never before has
had so wonderful an army as she now
has in mum berS, professional skill. ana,
by very long way, in gymnastic and
athletic power If a British battalion
looks more rigid than does an Ameri-
can battalion. it certainly does not look
less formidable. If the Americans
throw somewhat freer individuality
into the fight, that will not and can
not throw into it more tenacity, more
fortitude or more terrible hitting
power
Evening star., 1917-09-14
BUSINESS MEN VOTING
ON RAILROAD PROBLEMS
Referendum Being Taken by United
States Chamber of Commerce
Regarding Regulation.

Federal regulation of the issuance
of railroad securities. the compulsory
incorporation of all interstate railroads
under an incorporation law to be
passed by Congress and the delegation
to the Interstate Commerce Commission
of power to regulate intrastate rates
when they affect interstate commerce
have been recommended by the railroad
committee of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce. and referendum
on these proposals is now being taken
by the national chamber.
This is the twenty-hrst referendum
taken by the chamber. and the recon-
mendations were made by it's commit
tee after careful study of the present
system of railroad regulation and the
various changes suggested by rail-
road executives. labor leaders and COM
mercial organizations. Much attention
was given to the question of whether
railroads should be given merely an
opportunity to incorporate under fed
eral authority, or should be compelled
TO incorporate, and the sentiment was
decidedly in favor of the latter course.
Harry a. Wheeler of Chicago is chair
man of the committee that worked
members are Charles r. Van Hise, pres
ident of the University of Wisconsin
George w. Anderson. Boston; Judge
F. c. billiard. Sherman, Tex.; Robert
H. bowman, New Orleans; stephen A.
Foster, Chicago: Bishop Thomas F.
Gailor, Memphis; Emory r. Johnson,
University of Pennsylvania; E. T. Mere
dith, Des Moines; George a. Post. New
York; William u. Ripley. Harvard Uni
yersity; C. w. Simmons, St. Louis, and
Alexander W. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
SOCIALIST EDITOR URGED
MISSION TO PRESIDENT
London Paper Publishes Details of
Meeting in British
Capital.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.


Cablegram to The Evening star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
PARIS. France, September Z Ode
layedD.-The newspaper Humanite pub
fishes interesting details concerning the
socialist conference in London, particu-
larly the part taken by the French ma
jority socialists therein. A motion pre-
sented by Deputy Renaudel, editor of
Humanite. demanded: First, that the
socialists of the allied countries insist
that their governments define their
war aims: second, the immediate reak
ization by the allies of treaties organ
izing international arbitration as a
preparation for more extensive or
ganization; third, the sending of a
delegation to President Wilson to get
his approval of these views and to OBJ
tain his consent to take the initiative
in the constitution of a committee to
study the general lines and conditions
in the organization of a society of ma
tions.
The proposition was not adopted by
the conference. The sending of a dele
cation to Mr.. Wilson was combated
by Arthur Henderson of the independ-
ent labor party and by NJ Goldenberg
of the Russian delegation, who did not
hesitate to affirm that the proposed So
ciety of nations would be nothing but
a bourgeois ideolosy NJ. Renaudel
then declared that his proposition was
valuable only as it provided the con-
terence with a formula of it's concep-
ton of future peace and consequently
he withdrew it. But he called atten-
ton to NJ. Goldenberg's Interpretation,
explaining that a formula of the right
of peoples to dispose of themselves
could be guaranteed only by force or
the international will of peoples
Humanite adds that the debate will be
resumed with the Russian and British
democracies. 1t is known that the
French majority socialists, particularly
NJ Renaudel and NJ. Milhaur, dean of
the faculty of social and economic sci
ence in the Geneva University, are
great partisans of the idea of a So
ciety of nations.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
Sixty Recruits for Home Rifles.

Sixty recruits were obtained at the
patriotic rally last evening under the
auspices of the Southern Railway unit
of the Home Defense League Rifles to
enroll a sufficient number of men to
form another company of the Home
Rifles at the gymnasium of the Union
station. The new company will be
known as Company Y. P. B. Beach
were delivered by Col. NJ. A Winter.
Odell S. Smith, Lieut.. Col E. P. Hazel
ton. Maj. w. J. Wilson, Maj. z. B. Hesse
and Capt. D. W. Thayer.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
SEEKS TO AVERT STRIKES.
National Defense Council Striving
for Arbitration Agreement.

The Council Of National Defense has de-
termined to call a conference of labor
leaders to consider a general agreement
with employers for compulsory arbitra ton
of labor disputes directly concerning war
production, prevention of strikes and
iockouts and maintenance of prevailing
open or closed union shop conditions.
Secretary Baker, in announcing this
fact. as chairman of the defense council
said no place nor date had been set.
The conference was proposed by the ma
tonal industrial conference board, an Or
ganizaton representing $4,000 manufac-
turers. which already had pledged its ad-
herence to such an agreement.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
Two Armies Racially One.

Indeed. as these two armies are main
ly one racially. SO. in my opinion. they
will be practically one in terms of mil
itary efficiency. Certainly Americans
flag, if. when the issue is joined, it does
as well as the Britons and Frenchmen
have done in many desperate battles
Let me close on a human note One of
those well knit. 1.-THE American West
Pointers. a captain with a Colt As
swinging at his side-a big fellow he
was-said to me:
Il am not homesick. but l do want
to see London. That town has figured
across the Atlantic I cheered myself
with fancies of what j should see in
London"
Evening star., 1917-09-14

Corrigan has been the Washington cor
respondent of the Atlanta Constitution
for several years and his work has won
for him the friendship and admiration
of southern members of Congess, par
ticularly the members from Georgia.
Recently Lieut.. Corrigan obtained an
Army commission and will leave for
France in few days. He was financial
secretary of the Press Club. position
which he resigned this week.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
Exports of Tin Plate Increase.

Exports of American tin plate. terne
plate and d.taggers' tin in the fiscal year
just ended totaled 521.S61.390 pounds
valued at s2S,404,433, compared with
516,257.473 pounds. valued at SIS. .703,733
the previous year. In 1895 only 20,S27
pounds of tin plate We're exported.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
To Investigate Army Depots.

A board Of officers to consist Of Brig.
Gen. Thomas Cruise, Maj. Alexander =.
Williams and Capt. Ralph II. Hess,
Quartermaster Corps. has been aps
pointed to investigate the storage con.-
ditions and facilities relating to va
rious depots Of the Quartermastar
Corps and to mako recommendations
thereon.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
Prospect of Big Merchant Fleet.

Shipping Board officials believe that
the fabrication of ships will mean that
America within a few years will have
the largest fleet of merchant ships of
any nation in the world.
The fabricatinE program calls for
manufacture of the parts for the ships
in the steel mills. and only the as
sembly of their parts in the yards
Some officials believe that fabricating
methods eventually will revolutionize
shipbuilding.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
Other Sites Selected.

The other two plants will be built.
one at Newark by the Submarine
Boat Corporation and the other at
Chester. Pa. by the Merchants Ship
building Company. These contracts
will shortly be signed
The first of the fifty ships will be
completed by the American Interna-
tional Corporation within ten or eleven
months. and the entire number will
be finished probably within fifteen or
sixteen months. Long before they are
finished. however. the Shipping Board
additional money to build more ships.
Evening star., 1917-09-14
sEoRaIANs HONOR coRRIGAN.
Members Of House Give Wrist
Watch to New Lieutenant.

The members of the Georgia delega-
ton in the House of Representatives to-
day presented to Lieut.. John Corrigan,
U. S. A. an Army wrist watch. Lieut..
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-05
FAIR OFFICES IN MIDST
OF FINAL PREPARATIONS
RecheckinE Work Will Be Completed
To-Dny-FinishinE Touches Being
Made at Grounds.

fhuuc at 1rOunuH.
Tho final drive in preparing for vir-
ginia's annual State Fair began at the
associations offices yesterday when tho
work Of rechecking the list OF exhibit
tors and tho concession grants was
begun. The large force OF stenograph-
ers and assistants expect to complete
this work late this afternoon and to
nave everything ready by closing time
Tomorrow for the formal opening of
tho exhibition.
Meanwhile. all is bustlo and methodi-
cal confusion at the grounds. Car
penters are rushing to completion the
large amount OF construction made nee
essary as result Of the greatly In
creased size of exhibits and the num-
Der OF exhibitors. repairing tho SOC
tons of fencing and those portions Of
buildings showing the wear and tear
or the last year. while road workers
are busily engaged In putting tho I'm
lshlns touches upon the ways within
the grounds.
dustless fair is tho slogan added
this year to the one which has stood
during former shows. bigger and bet
ter than ever. Each year there has
been n steady growth. but this year
even more interest has been shown
than formerly, despite the war condI-
lions. Contracts for concessions show
that this portion OF the fair will about
eQuai that OF last year, but exhibitors
In the cattle. horse. swine and sheen
departments. aB well as the woman's
department.. the county exhibits and
the various organizations are much in
excess Of the number ever before ac-
Commodated.
The amusement features have been
given special attention this fall also.
and one OF the most interesting free
vaudeville shows in the history of the
fair has been engaged. The World
at Home Shows will provide the same
entertainments as those occupying tho
attention at the famous Toronto ex-
hibition, while there will be q num-
per OF specials. such as soloists, balloon
performers and fireworks. The races
this year also will provide an enter
tanning feature of the fair, trotting.
pacing and running events holding the
public's attention during the first four
days Of the fair, and sensational auto
mobile drivers occupying the track on
Friday and Saturday.
While all Of the regular exhibits
Will be much better and much larger
than during former fairs. and conse-
quentiy more interesting. considerable
attention has been given toward per-
tecting several special exhibits that
are expected to become permanent
features. These include the exhibit of
the State Game and Fisheries Commits
sion, located in the Industrial Build
ing, and that of the Federation Of
Mothers Clubs located in the Mothers
Building, on the south side of the
Industrial Building. Both will be
unique in their respective lines and
probably will prove among the most
interesting features of the fair.