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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-28
Paris Papers Agree Wilson's Move
Is Distinctly Step Toward WaI

PARIS France Feb The Paris morning comment
ing the presidents Congress asking extraordinary
American ships that the president has
shown and skill in handling the situation They agree
regarding the proposed action distinctly IN the direction U
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-28
SINKING Of law
not overt ACT

fAssoeisted Press by Federal Wirsle.st
WASHINGTON, d. c., FEB. 28.-Il
has been officially established that the
American schooner Lyman n Law
was not sunk by an Austrian sub
marine.
The schooner Law was sunk two
weeks ago in the MediteFraneah. Re
ports by the United States consul af
Rome said at the time that the steam
ef was not torpedced but was sunk ~
mine She carried no conffaba11
and for while It was > question
whether or not her sinking was o1
overt act on the part Of Ausfri.
From today's news. II Is probable he
sinking IS not to be 50 classed
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-28
Teutons Advance on Rumania Front

BERLIN. Germany. took the
offensive northern Rumana capturing important hill positions and
taking than 1900 prisoners and II machine guns -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Continued from Page One

of Pennsylvania with 200 men. He trained
his men in law and law enforcement and in
structed them how to obtain evidence which
would stand in court. Two things above all
else he impressed on them, and they are the
beginning and the end of the law of the SER
vice now: Remember that this force is the
finest thing in the world; if you ever start
after a man, get him or make him get you!
The result has been that in all the years the
members of this force have been singularly
honest. fearless, efficient. The number of dis
nissals has been comparatively small, consd
ering the high standard of the service and the
strict military discipline maintained. Members
have been killed on duty many times, but
there have been mighty few cutters or
grafters.
The men wear a service uniform Of gray
black whipcord, cut military fashion, with
black helmets, puttees, gloves and boots. They
are armed with revolvers which they carry
in a holster, heavy batons not unlike New
York policeman's nightstck, and Springfield
carbines. They ride horses from TeXas-not
so handsome as those Of New York's mounted
men, but we'll suited to long road trips or
brisk jaunts across country after crooks. The
main Office Of the department is at Harrisburg,
but that is merely an executive office. The
state is divided into quarters, and one of the
cour troops is stationed at district headquar
,ers in each. Under that district headquarters
are a number Of patrol stations, with three
men attached to each Two of the men are
assigned daily to patrol duty, the third stays
at the local station ready for calls for aid
in person or by telephone When at district
headquarters the men mess together in bar
racks, on a sort of club basis. When away
they have an expense allowance. They care
tor their own horses and accoutrements. Each
troop is made up. at present, as follow: One
captain, at $500 a year; one lieutenant, at
$1,5O0; one first sergeant, at 1000; four SER
geants, at $1,l0O; four corporals, at $3.50; one
blacksmith, at $3.50; forty-fve privates, at
$500. The term Of enlistment is two years,
but an increase of So month is given during
the second continuous term, and further in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
BY DEEMS TAYLOR

gcsted that Mr.. Rciss and Mr. Bis
pham organize their company OH some
more or less permanent basis. He vol
unteered substantial assistance toward
making future performances possible.
During the winter Mr.. Reiss and
Mr.. Bspham worked encrgetlcally to
get their company assembled, and
with complete success. Rehearsals have
been going on for several weeks, and
the opening performance IS scheduled
for May T. at the Lyccum Theatre
In several respects this is not an or
binary comic opera venture. To begin
with, neither comic opera nor OPP
cretta." in the usual sense Of the terms,
quite describe what the two directors
are planning to produce. What New
Workers will see when the curtain rises
week from tomorrow night Is
opera comiQuc," form Of theatrical
entertainment that has hitherto been
lacking here. The term simply means
an opera of which part Of the lines are
spoken. 1t differs from grand opera in
that not all of the dialogue is set to
music. and from comic opera in that
the plot need not necessarily be comic
at all. Carmen was first performed as
opera comiquc, while FjdeliO, which
could hardly be called a rollcling farce.
is still produced in that form.
Opera comioue has not flOurished in
America largely because it did not fall
into either Of the only two categories Of
opera we knew Timid and self-cOn-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
By ALICE DUER MILLER
American Women 10 the Women OF
Europe

American Women 10 the Women OF
Europe
Dav after day the echo Of your story,
The quiet miracles that YOU have done
Your courage and your clcycrness, the glory
OF the long victories by women won
Day after day your men have sung your
praises
Germany, England Italy and France
Have tried to tell us all YOU did, in phrases
That build a new, more chiyalrous romance,
Til every man who knows your risks and dan
gers
Has learned to look on women with new
eyes,
Til we. as yet un'ricd, remote and strangers
To all your suffering, have won your prize;
And silent women in far distant lands
Offer us freedom with pale, weary hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

Mr.. Sumner. of Providence, said: Il
Weld to no one in my admiration for the
sex. but | doubt if any member here
would want a member of his own family
to come in here in an attempt to nfu-
cnce votes for a cause with the bright
ness of smile or Of her iewelry."
Mr.. Herrick, of Woonsocket, arose to
a point of order, asking: Does the
gentleman speak for himself or the Mar
yagansett Brewing Company%
Speaker Hammill ruled the point Of
order out and warned the members
against frivolity.
Mr.. Sumner retorted that if the
gentleman had made the charge outside
he would knock him down. Because |
happen to have a brewer among my eli
ents, because a man dares to accept a
client who pays him for honest work
and never asks him to de anything i'm
proper, he must submit to this. | have
nothing but admiration for the thou
sands of good women in this state, but
there are others who seem to lose all
sense of honor, all sense of decency,
when they come out and try to drive a
man into doing something he does not
want
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

SciouS in the presence of all art forms,
especially music, we had to have every
thing labelled for us. Music, we de-
cded, was either popular" meaning
bad and interesting. or classical,
meaning good and dull. For the enor-
NOUS mass of music that is not written
on Twenty-eighth Street and still con-
trives to be interesting we had had no
name and accordingly listened to 1t
with suspicion. Similarly, we could I'M
derstand comic opera, which had a com
edian and tunes that you could whistle,
and grand opera, which was sad and
sung in a foreign language, and had
tunes that you couldn't.
Opera comique, therefore, has usually
bewildered us. It's music might fall far
below the level of The Red MIL on the
one hand, or might be better than II
BalIo IN MaScherG on the other while
its book might be as funny as Die Mes
terSipger or as tragic as Butterfly. 1t
didn't fit into our scheme Of things. 1t
was too highbrow for the Broadway
managers and too intimate in character
for the Metropolitan.
Mr.. Reiss and Mr.. Bispham are plan
ming TO fill this gap Their productions
will be made in a theatre small enough
to preserve the atmosphere of the pieces,
with a cast and orchestra competent to
give adequate and artistic perform
ances. The works chosen for the pres
ent season are all comedies. One Of
the first to be presented is DOnizettis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
STATE POLICE FORCE

crease of the same amount during the third
consecutive term of enlistment. The enlist
ment age extends from twenty-one to forty
years.
When the force was created and for several
years thereafter Pennsylvania was hotbed
of labor troubles. Rioting and pitched battles
between the authorities and strikers were
everyday occurrences The state police, in
trusted with the duty of enforcing the law and
maintaining order, had to take part in many
such battles. It's members were shot and shot
rioters. The favorite terms of opprobrium,
"Cossacbs" and BLACK Hussars," date back to
this period in their history. The rioters, nat
urally enough, insisted that anybody who pre-
vented rioting was their enemy, even if he
happened to be sworn servant of the state,
whose duty it was to enforce the laws against
riot. There began the enmity of labor agi-
tators to the state police, and to the proposal
for a state police in any other state So far as
careful observers can judge, it is an enmity Of
leaders, not Of the union workers themselves.
The same enmity, based on precisely the same
grounds is manifested toward municipal police
every time there is a strike of any magnitude
in any community. There have been spread
broadcast many lurd tales of undue interfer-
ence with strikers by the state police in the
interest of the employer class Investigators
who have had ample facilities for research
brand them as nine-tenths calumny and one
twentieth misunderstanding of the situation.
The other twentieth may represent truth.
The annals of the department bristle with
deeds of heroism-not only the brand of hero
ism which faces almost certain death, but the
kind which mpels men to work twenty-four,
thrty-six and forty hours without rest and
with scant food when the service demands it.
To recount them would take couple of vol
umes. Two instances, both taken from that
field of work in which the police are most con-
demned, must suffice to indicate the spirit in
which they work. Several years ago there was
a strike in Westmoreand County, with the
usual attendant complications. In the course
of events an injunction was issued forbidding
the strikers to parade over a certain road
which led to the company's plant. So they
promptly gathered themselves together and
marched that way behind brass band, loudly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

TIME first musical show ever saw
was Floradord. That was about
u eighteen years ago, and, al
though | didn't realize it at the time,
/ was seeing the production that near
~ killed comic opera in America. For
it was Floradorn that made the chorus
as important as the cast. In the ira
ditional type Of comic opera, such as
The Mikado. Robin Hood. The Fortune
Teller or Brian Born, the chorus served
chiefly as background for the cas-. 1t
helped sing the refrains Of some OF the
songs. and performed various marching
evolutions in the concerted numbers,
but it did almost no dancing, and al
WAYS remained in character, its men,
bers being designated usually as vii
layers. soldiers. outlaws" etc.
Then came FlorQdora and the historic
seytette. with its two thousand only
original members. and comic opera be-
gan to pick at the coverlet. For the
idea Of having members Of the chorus
do turn Of their own made an instant
hit musical comedy had come to stay.
Authors and producers-especially
producers-were quick to seize upon the
new idea and carry it further. The
chorus began to be less a background
than a separate entertaining body. It's
costumes became more elaborate and
were changed frequently during the
show. Il started to learn dance steps
The villagers and outlaws began to ap-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29


the specially number in which one
of the principals sang song that
had little or nothing to do with the piece
but that offered a chance to bring on the
chorus in new set of costumes.
Naturally, plots began to suffer
When. after laying the scene Of mu-
steal comedy in the Malayan ArchlpeI-
ago. YOU brought on sixteen girls dis
guised as Alaskan sledge dogs while
Felix Donnerwettcr, the milwaukee,
pickle manufactures, sang MY Little
Lapland Landlady," you had to provide
vour plot with certain amount of elias
ticitv: otherwise, if your action was too
closely knit. your specially numbers
might seem to intrude.
And so, plots began to suffer. Then
about six years ago, came the dancing
show. and the producers ended the sui
fering Of the plots by removing them
altogether. The Ziegfeld Midnight
Frolic finally completed the evolution
ary process by emitting not only the
plot. but all the lines, offering a simple
series Of speciality numbers and vaude-
vile acis.
Not that comic opera ceased alto
gether. Victor Herbert and Julian Ed
wards kept the form alive, and sue
cession of Viennese importations. be-
ginning with The Merry WidoW, fur
nished ample evidence that there still
existed a public for logical plots and
good music. A reaction against the
enormous expense of the elaborate
dancing shows took the form Of mus
cal pieces, often adaptations of farces.
recurring only a comparatively small
cast and little or no chorus. the OatY
Girl and Very Good Eddie are eX-
amples.
Now comes evidence that real comic
opera is at last on its way. Last tall
Albert Reiss and David Bispham made
an experimental production Of two one
act operas by Mozart, Bastien and BdS-
tieane and The ImpreS0rj0. The Origi-
nal intention was to put them on for
one or two performances only, but they
received such warm welcome that the
producers finally had to lengthen the
run to several evening performances
and two matinees. Not only were the
performances a success with the gen.
eral theatre-going public, but they
aroused the interest of some of the di-
rectors of the Metropolitan Opera
House. notably Otto Kahn, who sug-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

asserting their rights as American citizens /
90 anywhere they pleased. Many Of them We
known to be armed, and all were
ugly temper. When they were about D
way down the road state polcenE
appeared in their path and ordered uo|
to turn back. They laughed and jeered' F|
claiming their right to go anywhere they en'
Nevertheless, you won't go down this r'''
insisted the trooper
Who'll stop u.s." counterej the leader
the mob.
81 will, with the power | have retor'ea J
trooper, putting his hand on his pistol n0'"'
but not drawing the weapon.
"Then you'd be tried for murder" sh0'1
the leader.
at may be-" was the reply, "but yca ~oul'i
be at the trial" !
The procession began to disband almost =
mediately.
A few months ago, during the WesungnOO.
strike, a company of state police was o'us.s
to take up duty in a veritable hotbed OF s".
ers, who were distinctly ugly, and preserve =
der. AS they marched along the streets ~,
saw all the signs of trouble coming ana se''.s
trouble. The commander, wise man Nc =.
toned his men and then sent for certain s"''
leaders. r..
"Now, look here" he said TO them IN ''''.
"You fellows are on strike; and so long a. ~
conduct yourselves peaceably you are "'".
your rights and we'll protect you. II 'ne's n
rioting and destruction of property anu 70
ing and brick throwing, the Law VIII o.
lated. We're here, sworn to preserve orue,
prevent violation Of the law II you i'''
break the Law we've got to arrest you "a
you know if you start anything we s's ~
no matter what the cost. Won't &c B,
TO cooperate with US and have our prove !.
than TO break the law and force us 10 "
you?" ~,
There was no trouble in that con'in'nu
jurisdiction, and when the police rOue
they were cheered by the strikers IA
What Pennsylvania has done New -,
State can do-if leader as aoie a.
Groome can be found and If politicians
mysterious higher ups" can be mace -
their hands of.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
a. COMIC OPERA ITS DECLINE, FAIL" RISE Il 4
Caricaturcs by w. +. HILL

The MINT Bel, a little masterpiece by
the composer of LuctG. Donizettl wrote
both libretto and music in less than two
weeks as a stop-ga for a producer friend
of his who was in financial difficulties
II was first produced in Naples, in 1886,
and saved the season for the manager
Another novelty is Gounod's setting
of MoIeres The Mock Doctor, first pro-
duced in Paris in 1858. but never before
seen here. 1t was written Just before
Fuust.
Besides these and Pergolesi's The
Scrrdnt-MiStreSS there will be repetl-
tions of BaStien and BdStienne and The
TnpresaliO. All the works will be sung
in English, from new TRANSACTIONS.
Neither director has any particular pref
udicc in favor of works by European
composers, and any Americans with am
billions to write opera cOmique will re-
ceive a cordial welcome from Mr.. Reiss
and Mr.. Bispham.
The company is made up throughout
of American singers, in fact, no singer is
eligible to membership who is not an
American citizen. It is not generally
known, perhaps, that Mr.. Reiss took
out his final papers not long ago. The
singers are stockholders in the COM
pany and have been rehearsing without
any guaranteed salary. Their number
is necessarily considerable, for much OF
the music is sufficiently taxing to make
it necessary for the singers to alternate
in several Of the parts. The list of names
is an impressive one. Mr. Reiss him
self has been member of the Metropol-
itan company for sixteen years, and
performance Of the Ring without his
Mime. or of Die MeisterSjager with
out his David would be almost un-
thinkabc. David Bispham, OF course, is
David Bispham; anybody who doesn't
know who he is needn't expect to be
IOlQ mere.
A few, and only few, of the other
names on the list are those Of Mabel
Garrison and Kathleen Howard, of the
Metropolitan; Florence Macbeth and
Lucy Gates, both operate sopranos OF
international reputation; Lila Robson,
Idelle Patterson, late prima donna with
De Wolf IIopper'S company; Rafael
Diaz, the Spanish tenor; George Ham
lin of the Chicago Opera Company;
Thomas Chalmers, late of the Century
Opera Company; Carl Formes and
Percy Hemus, the concert barytone. The
performances are being staged by
Jacques Coini, who contributed so large
~ to the artistic success of Hammer
STEMS Manhattan Opera House vent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Do You Know

That women have the right to vote
for President in nineteen out of the
forty-eight states-three more than
one-third and five less than one-half?
That five more votes would give
woman suffrage states a third of the
vote Of the Electoral College?
That more women may now vote for
President than the total Republican
vote in 1908?
That in the last four months woman
suffrage has gained eighty-one electoral
votes, as compared with ninety-onc
gained in the previous fOrty-eight
years?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
War Work for Women

An official letter signed by the presi-
dents of the national and Of the state
limitations opposed TO suffrage says
lat women in the present crisis must
not be burdened by the ballot, but must
be left free for patriotic service.
Is il not more important to leave men
free? In recent election fewer than Z
per cent of the men in our own Assem-
bly, district were sufficiently free to cast
their votes. Should not women be as
willing to replace man in the arduous
task of voting as in the comparatively
light work of the farm and the munition
factory?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

Although it has already taken the
court many months of deep thought to
settle this question, Massachusetts
women are still hoping that before the
summer adjournment the judges will
find time to clear up the point as to
what women are.
For instance, will it be contempt OF
court for woman to behave like per-
son in Massachusetts?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

ure. Many opera-goers still remember
his production of PeLieds ct MeLisaad,
as one of the loveliest things ever dont
on the operate stage here.
From the Russian Ballet to the COlOre.
Players, New York has had varied al
exciting theatrical season. Out o. 4
the seasons novelties, one Of the mo
interesting is going to come at the vr
end-light opera, staged by gsA|
opera stage manager, sung by graz
opera singers, and produced by gral
opera stars. Whatever be the fate i
the new venture, it is certain that 4
such comic opera company has ever Bee
gathered together in this city before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

Bonaparte, as recall,
No one would describe as tall.
Louis, Frances greatest King,
Was a very little thing.
Newton, who unlocked the sky,
Did not measure six foot high.
SO, Rhode Island, YOU are small,
Hardly any size at all
But to me you seem more great
Than oUr very largest state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

meal has decided that women are not
people. This is said to be a severe blow
to Canada. Russia Ohio, North Dakota.
Indiana, Arkansas, Rhode Island Mich-
gan and Nebraska, which have recently
enfranchised their women under the i'm
preston that they belong to the human
species
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
.Admirer of the Sex, but Counsel for
the Brewers

The Woman's Journal of April u
gives us this statement of an incident
of the debate on suffrage in the Rhode
Island Legislature:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

What Massachusetts Women Pay Sal
aries For
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
N an opinion which the small group who
have read it describe as long and tech
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

pear on the programme
as flower girls, bathing
girls. grass widows, men
about town and summer
boys. Somebody invented
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-22
MAKING IT PLAIN

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 The difference is very great. An "emulsion" contains zeal cod kve1 osz, which has had the hearty endorse ment of the medical profession for many years, while an "extract" is a product which contains TO oI and is highly alcoholic.
 Scott's Emulsion guarantees the higf- est grade of real Norwegian cod Li1ey oiI, skilfu1ly blended with glycerine and hypophosphites. Scott's is free from the false stimulation of alcohol and is en- dorsed by good physicians everywhere.
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