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MEN WANTED FOR SERVICE
 OF RESERVES

R. k. Robertson. Alaska Fedora! Director of the United States Public Service Reserve, has written instruc- rions regarding the enlistment in the service of the country other than the military branch. One thousand men are neefed from Alaska, that being the quota for the territory. The fol- lowing is the full statement received in Seward:
 In connection with the enrolment of mer in the U. 5. Public Service Re serve, a special postal card has been furnished to the Public Service Rc- serve enrolling agents in Alaska. These cards, which are called "Hur- lev" postal cards, are to be filled out and returned to Mr. Edward N. Hur- ley, Chairman, U. :. Shipping Board, Washington, D. C., by shipouildng mechanics only; that is, men who are skilled blacksmiths, boiler makers, ship carpenters, dock builders, electri cal workers, foundry workers, machin- iSts, painters, plumbers, pipe filters, sheet metal workers. coppersmiths, hip filters ana structural iron work CTS. The purpose of these cards is to ind out how many mechanics there arc iu the United States, who are skilled in the lines mentioned and who ne willing to enter the serNice ol the Government in these classes of work which are adjuncts of the shipbuilding trades. The Department of Labor hopes that every man in the country who is skilled Tn any of these lines will immediately register for service.
 However, the Government does not relegate enrolment simply to men skilled in the lines of work mentioned, as it is going to be the policy of the Government in making the enrolment Co specialize: lSt-All classes of ne. chanicS that can be used in the con struction of steel and wooden ships; 2nd-All other classes of mechanics; @rd-Expert gas engine and automo- bile engineers and drivers; 4th-EX- perienced lumber men, both mill and woods men; 5th-All persons who are able and willing to serve in agricul- tural work; 6th-Yodng men who are willing and can pass an examination as aviat0rS; 7th-All others who de- sire to be enrolled in the Service.
 No man need hesitate about enroll ing simply because he is not skilled in the lines for which the Hurley pos tai cards are used, as the Reserve wei comes every patriotic citizen who wishes to serve, whatever his qualifi- cations, including laborers of all kinds, artisans, engineers, professional men. The men especially needed, besides
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-06

900 men, it is hoped that every quail jed person will immediately register. Registration has been somewhat de- layed by reason of the failure of sup plies to reach the Enrolling Agents throughout Alaska, but new that they have al9.ved it is thought that a large enrolment will be had.
 There are Enrolling Agents in prac- tically every community, and men should enroll with the enrolling agent of their town. Enrolment may be had with the following persons: A. r.. Gurr, Douglas; Homer O. Banta, Haines; c. M. VanMarter, Ketchikan; Thomas ; Elsemore. Petersburg; f. J. Napdewall, Skagway; B. D. Stew art, Sulzer; Arthur G. Shoup, Sitka; w. H.. Wa ren, Wrangell; Ernest Kir- berger, N;,ke; G. J. Lomen, Nome, Walter Johnson, St. Michael; k. ;. Dirmic&, Candle; N. H. Coo,nbs, Ccun ciI; Lars G,lnderson, Haycock; Frank Waskey, Fortuna Ledge; A. E. La throp, Anchorage; Thomas s. Scott, Cordova; R. V. Watkins, Kennecott l.. V. Ray, Seward; E. E. Ritchie, Val deg; John A. Clark Fairbanks; How ard J. Atwell. Brooks (Tolovana Dig gings); E. Coke Hill, Ruby; Geo. ". Pennington, Nenana; Harry l.. Twad- dle, Panama; and R. F. Robertson, lu- neau. y
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BRITISH AVIATOR TO TEACH MEXICANS THE
 TRICKS OF FLYING

MEXICO CITY, April 6. - Cap tain Ronald True, formerly of the Royal Flying Corps of Great Britain recently aviation instructor at tho Texas training camps, has arrived here to teach flying to the students at the Mexican National Aviation School. Captain True saw active service in Flanders, Palestine and the Dardan- elles.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
carrying the Merry Opera War Across to London
Returning, He Pursued His Old
Ignis Fatuus of Opera at
Popular Prices for All

term Of ten years be engaged. directly or
indirectly or in any way, with the business
OF producing opera.
On April 49, 1913, Mr. Hammerstein an
nounced to the world that he had bor-
rowed s335,000 for his operatic enterprise
and would begin building as soon as he got
title to the ground. Twelve days later
he gave out statement that if the CITY
Club persisted in its purpose he would
abandon his English opera plan and enter
INTO competition with the METROPOLITAN
Opera Company by giving French and Ital-
ian opera at Metropolitan prices. Later,
believe, he borrowed s450,000 from the Man
haitian Life Insurance Company, which be
put into the Lexington Avenue property. in
addition to 100000 which he had obtained
from the United Booking Company for the
privilege of giving vaudeville at the Palace
Theatre, which was within the zone in
which he held monopoly for the Victoria
Theatre. From the profits Of this NAV
house he had accumulated further sum of
sloo'000. He had made contracts with
singers, confident that his original project
would not meet with opposition from the
Metropolitan directors. He had taken conn
sci of distinguished jurists and rejected The
common sense advice of those concerned
with him in the administration of his theat-
rical affairs.
with his opera company he purposed to
give performances in large numbes of
cities throughout the country and tossow
opera houses broadcast wherever he conId
obtain a gift Of land on which TO buia and
loan. He probably felt that he was i,sti
fed in his effort to give opera for q SIM
posedly famishing public no matter vhs.
Interpretation the purchasers Of his inter
ests in New York and Philadelphia put unon
the contract he had made with them. He
was warned by them on May Is that thev
would take legal steps to enjoin him if he
persisted in his purpose, but the only eff
feet of the admonition was TO call out more
OF what the newspapers considered his hu
NOR Thereupon, on July Q 1913. the Met
ropolitan company filed summons and
complaint in the Supreme Court of the
State of New York asking that he and his
son be enjoined from putting their nurpose
to give opera into effect The answers of
Mr Hammerstein admitted nearly every es-
sentfal allegation in the complaint, but set
up series Of affirmative defences. tellin,-
at great length how the plaintiff had forced
MIN into the contract for the purpose Of
creating a monopoly. taken advantage O.
his wrecked body and perturbed mind. had
tempted a dozen singers away from him.
compelled him to pay other artists moro
than they were worth and brought him to
the verge Of ruin. He sought refuge in tho
plea that the Metropolitan Opera Company
was engaged in interstate trade and com.
merce and that its acts toward him were IN
restraint of trade and fell under the con
demnation of the Federal statute called the
Sherman act.
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their consent to It's execution He also
consulted Paul Crnvath, esq, one of the
companys directors, who as their legal ad-
wiser had drawn up the contract of sale.
Mr. Cravath was not inmical to the project,
IN which, like Mr.. Hammerstein, he saw an
educational influence which might in time
result in making the popular opera feeder
to the more aristocratic establishment 1t
so CHANGED, however, that Messrs. Kahn and
vanderbilt were in Europe at the time, and
consideration of the letter had to wait
upon their return. After three weeks. on
December 1S, 1912, the directors gave their
answer refusing to allow Mr. Hammerstein
to proceed with his project. Their refusal,
they said, was based upon their belief that
New York could not or would not support
two opera houses and that Mr. Hammer
STEMS project threatened harm to the exist
ing institution.
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would not find publication and credence.
There was Royal Opera in st. Petersburg
with which an impresaro could be con-
nected, but only the Imperial Russian Opera
administered through court official by the
Czar himself, who was not likely to con-
Germ himself with opcratic projects in
America. AS to the other interest, the state
ment sounded like an echo of some talk
in which Mr.. Tito Ricordi had indulged two
years before at iuncture when the Metro
pohtan people professed to be big with an
ambition to foster opera in the vernacular.
At a dinner which grew out Of a movement
inaugurated by the Metropolitan companv's
offer of prize for an opera in English bv
native composer Mr. Ricordi whose publ-
cations occupied a large part of the Metro
polltan repertory, had considerable to say
about the need Of greater number of
opera houses in the United States
The talk was q symptom of the prevalent
operate mania, anything but philanthropic
in motive, and before Mr.. Rcordi returned
to Italy he had given Quictus to the story
that the house Of Ricordi was about to en-
gage in such an enterprise as the saneuine
champions Of American opera thought.
Italian publishers control opera houses in
Italy not for altruistic ends or always for
the good of art, but to promote and safe
guard their publications. 1t was because
Of fear in some circles that the system
might be introduced here that the Metro
politan company fell under suspicion in
190S-'O9.
In taking his preliminary steps Mr.,
Hammerstein was not inconsiderate of his
obligations to the Metropolitan company.
He addressed a letter to the directors of
the company outlining his plan and asking
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Milk

\ PRoPos of the rise during the past
year in the price Of milk in this
country, the following paragraph from,
The Milk Reporter" on the situation in
Great Britain may be of interest:
Great Britain is also confronted with a
scarcity of dairy products, chiefly the re-
suit Of shortage in cattle feeds. Permits
to buy milk are issued for certain Classes
OF the population, including children under
hve hve years, lnvalids and nursing mothers.
others arc on their honor not to buy milk
unless 1t IS for these classes
ne statement is made on excellent au-
'nofi'y that AN adult cannot buy in Lon
don glass of milk, even if willing to paw
$50 Tor it, Not only butter but all kinds
OF lats are obtainable only in extremely
small quantities. Some families are with
out any fats for nearly a week at . time
Ice cream disappeared from the market
more than year ago."
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

Walden's "The Children OF Dom, wos rro
duced by Mr.. Hammerstein fortnigbt no.
lore the close of the season. 1t was nrc-
tentlous work and made a dismal fai,uro
so great failure indeed, that a]thouyh
hord howard was the holder of a mort
gage for 100000 on the opera house and
n"d contributed large sum for the pro
ouctlon OF the opera, Mr. Hammerstein re-
FUSED to give it the third performance
"hlch the composer asked or demanded
1hereupon there came rupture of rela-
uons which hnd fateful consequences
On the last night Of his season Mr. Ham.
merstein. following his American methods
addressed the London public in a speech
from the stage, in which he said that he
was going to New York to look after b;s
nome interests, but would be back for the
next season with new singers and new
operas. The business which called him
back to New York grew out Of entangle
ments at the Victoria Theatre, which had
been his most prolific source of supply in
his earlier enterprises. Returned TO Amer
lea, he made contract of rental and sale
OF the Kingsway house, through Mr.. An
drews, to Mr.. Stanley Denton a gentleman
who was reputed to have an income of
100000 year. The new manager made the
theatre Che home of review entitled
Come Over Here" which achieved popu
lar success. The overhead expenses Of the
mouse, however, were so great that he be-
came involved in financial difficulties. and
defaulted in his payments to Mr.. Hammer
stein. Thereupon Lord Howard foreclosed
the mortgage and became the owner of tba
house. Mr.. Hammerstein lost the whole
amount of his investment
Returned to New York, Mr.. Hammerstein
devoted the summer to an adjustment of
the affairs of the Victoria Theatre and to
search for new worlds to conquer. with
faith Ill himself undmmed and courage un-
daunted. Up from the quagmire flew the
old agnis fatatus-opera at popular prices.
In November, 1912, he broached his new
scheme to the public He wanted to build
another opera house and in it produce Eng
llsh opera at prices ranging from So down
to 80 cents, but he confessed that to do
this 1t would be necessary for him to OBJ.
tain the consent of the METROPOLITAN Opera
Company, the contract with which, he said
prevented him from giving opera on his
own account and also stood in the way Of
his acceptance of two offers of assistance
one from music publishing house. the
other from Russian impresario connected
with the Royal Opera at st. Petersburg.
The statement was characteristic of
time when the air was full of stories about
new rivals of the Metropolitan company
and no tale could be told so absurd that it
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

opera in Italian, French and German
Even with its enormous success" of the
preceding year, said the letter, the Metro
politan company had made practically no
profit and better results were not expected
for the current year"
On the day on which the letter of the d.
rectors appeared Mr.. Hammerstein in the
breezy way which made the newspapers his
willing bellmen, and even champions, an
nounced that he willing to go ahead
with his project regardless of the terms
of his agreement. eff the press and the
public give me sufficient evidence that they
want me to give grand opera in English
Will DO It," were the words of his Defiance
A new operate project essentially like
that of Mr.. Hammersten now began to take
shape in the City Club Whether or not it
was born of the purpose of Mr.. Hammer
stein and the refusal Of the Metropolitan
directors I shall not attempt to saw. It
was suspected by some that the project
rooted in the plan which had been outlined
in the letter to the Metropolitan directors
and the fact that the leading spirits of that
directorate at once gave it moral and phvsi-
cal support lent the semblance at least of
probability to the theory that the City
Clubs scheme of giving municipal" opera
in the New Theatre, now called the Century
Opera House, had been conceived for the
purpose OF discouraging Mr.. Hammerstein
from proceeding with his undertaking. Mr.
hammerstein made the charge openly at the
time and met with denial from the spokes-
man of the Metropolitan company. In his
latterday communications on the subject
with me he has not reiterated it, but seems
to have assumed that the plan was born in
the minds of some of the gentlemen of the
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nothing of the finger of fate pointing
straight out of all this large tidy prepared
ness at Peter and their fellow passengers
and all the youth of the world lie thought
imperialstic monarchy was an old dead
thing in Russia and in Britain and in Ger
many alike.
"In Berlin indeed in every photogra-
piers, was the touched-up visage of the
Kaiser, looking heroic, and endless post
cards of him and of his sons and the Kai-
serin and little imperial grandchildren and
the like; they all as dull and drearv
looking any royalties can be, and it was
inconceivable to Oswald that such figures
could really rule the Imagination of a
great people. He did not realize that all
the tragedy in the world might lie beh nd
the words of that young German. we came
into world politics late behind the fact
that the German imperialist system was
just little less decayed, little less hu-
morous, a little less ndolent and disillu-
stoned than either Of its great parallels to
the east and west. He did not reflect that
no system IS harmless until its hands are
taken off the levers of power. He
could stfil believe that he Lived in an
immensely stable world and that these vast
forms Of kingdom and empire, with their
sham reVerenees and unmeaning ceremonies
and obligations, their flags and militancy
and their imaginative senility threatened
nothing beyond the negative evil of unin-
splred lives running to individual waste.
That Was the thing that concerned him lie
saw no collective fate hanging over all these
intent young faces in the Moscow Art Thea
ire as over the strutting innocents of pa
trouc Berlin; he had as yet no animation
of the gigantic disaster that was now SO
close at hand, that was to torment and shat
ter the whole youth of the world that was
to harvest the bone and energy Of these
bright swathes of life.
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and Berlin. It had been a very typical
young German, glasses and all; and his
clothes looked twice as hard as Peters, and
he sat up stffy while Peter slouched on the
seat He evidently wanted to air his Eng
lish, while Peter had not the rcmotest de-
sire to air his German, and only betrayed
knowledge of German when it was necessary
TO explain some English phrase the German
didn't quite grasp.
Germany may be in too much of
hurry he repeated.
We came into world politics late, said
the young German, indorsing Oswald's idea
from his own point of view. we have much
TO overtake yet >
"Thc Germans had come into world poll
ties late. That was very true. They were
naive yet. They could still feed their nat
urai egotism on the story Of world mis-
sion. The same enthusiasms that had taken
Russia to the Pacihc-and to grand ducal
land speculation in Manchuria-and the
English to the coolc slavery Of the Rand.
was taking these Germans now whittier?
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~ war looks like another world.
K "a 1t isn't so far away yet as to
give it perspective, yet some
times imaginative persons like Mr.. Wells
can project themselves back in such
way that it all takes on the strange
edges of an old picture book. He does
that in "The Education of Joan and
Peter" new Welsian novel, sections of
which are being printed in "The New
Republic" Seeing Germany in the past
when she was gathering forces to throw
herself on civilization by the light Of all
the events that followed is fascinating.
Mr. Welss young Peter was in Moscow,
and in Moscow he was reminded by dis
similarity Of Germany. Russia was 'un-
coOrdinated."
"But all the other north temperate races.
it seemed to Oswald distinguished from
the Germans, had the same suggestion about
them of unco0rdinatcd initiatives. Their
minds moved freely in great old system
that had lost its hold upon them. But the
German views were coordnated. They were
tremendously co0rdnated. Two Sundays
Sunday morning parade along Unter den
Linden They had gone to see the white
trouscred guards kicking their legs out in
the goose step outside the guardhouse that
stands opposite the Kaiser's palace, they
had walked along Inter den Linden to the
Brandenburg Tor and then, after inspect
ing that vainglorious trophy of piled
non outside the Reichstag, turned down the
Sieges Alice, and came bacl; to the Adlon
by way of the Leipziger Platz. Peter had
been alive to many things, but Oswad's
attention had been concentrated almost eX-
cusively on the youngsters they We're pass
ing, for the most part plump, pink-faced
students IN corps caps. very erect IN their
bearing and very tight in their clothes
They were an absolutely distinct variety Of
young human male. pucrile mlitarism
possessed them all. They exchanged salu-
tations with the utmost punctlio. While
England had been taking her children from
the hands of God, and not so much making
them as letting them develop by default
into notes of Interrogation, Germany with
out halt or hesitation had moulded her gift
of youth into soldiers
"There had been moment like thun-
derclap while Oswald and Peter had been
near the Brandenburg Tor swift wave
of expectation had swept through the
crowd; there had been a galoping of
mounted policemen, a hustlng of traffic to
the side of the road, hasty lining up of
spectators. Then with melodious tootings
and amid gutteral plaudits big white
tomobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had
gone by driven at headlong pace. Der
Kaiser!' Just for moment the magnif
cence hung in the eye-and passed. What
had they seen? Cloaks, helmets, hard Wis
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is now moving on to Washington, where
She hopes to extend her idea.
A film depicting the story OF the Star
Spangled Banner is now being prepared
and will be released for the opening of the
drive Newspapers published in foreign
languages are TO aid in the campaign bv
printing transations of the words with the
music, so that those not speaking English
may learn the anthem and be able to sing
it in their own languages.
Miss Fulton's enthusiasm led her a step
further. What Mayor Hyan did applies
only to the city Miss Fulton wrote let
ter to Representative Thomas f. Smith. who
is secretary of Tammany Hall and the Con
gressman from the district in which she
lives, urging him to introduce in Congress
a bill giving national recognition to the an
them, as the army and the navy have given
thelr recognition. Congressman Smith
wrote in reply that he believed the purpose
might be attained with less delay and less
Congressional oratory by executive action.
He, therefore, wrote to Secretary Tumulty
setting forth the wishes OF Miss Fulton
She has received from Representative
Smith copy of Mr. Tumulty's letter to
him on the subject, in which Mr.. Tumulty
wrote that he had brought the matter 70
the Presidents attention.
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\ Ironbound as Verbose
IN Phraseology Can Make 1t

A merry war was thus proclaimed, and
right merrily was it carried on in the news
papers. On March 81 the Metropolitan d.
rectors gave out the text Of the clause in
the contract of sale which prohibited Mr.
Hammerstein and his son Arthur from en-
barking in any grand opera enterprises until
1920. 1t seemed to be as ironbound as YER
bose legal phraseology could make it, When
this portion Of the contract of sale was
made public Mr.. Hammerstein retorted that
the overtures to purchase his opera inter
ests had come from the Metropolitan d-
rectors and that he had not listened to
them until he had broken down so COM
pletely in mental and physical health that
his physician had commanded him to cease
work. Thereupon he had put the matter in
the hands of his son Arthur and sailed for
Europe, leaving a power of attorney for
his son. He denied that he had ever con-
templated abandoning the giving of opera,
but in his power of attorney, signed on
April 49, 1910, he had expressly empowered
his son to enter into an agreement in writ
ing to the effect that he would not for the
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\ Prospect of Opera
"a in English

They gave the full text of their letter to
the newspapers. They quoted MIR. Hammer
STEMS words Cor rather those of his son,
Arthur, who had acted as his attorney in
fact), in which he spoke of the enormous
increase in the cost of opera by reason of
the exactions of singers, the runous cost of
the rivalry between the houses and his
conviction that one house could serve the
cause OF opera better than two and that
the Metropolitan, because of its practical
subsidy through its stockholders, could bet
ter fulfil the public need. The statement
held out the prospect of opera in English
at the Metropolitan "on basis which would
avoid conflict with the present season of