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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02

kaleldoScope scene lhat IS worm seeing
Intended for Fashion only
These new beach SUITS take on all lhe
ecceniricltieS OF the hour ADOPT ITS
caprices and gloriiy IT'S fashions. hey
dot not 60 near the water. Dccldedly
no. They are intended TO draw the at-
lentlon OF all observers TO her who
takes part IN the dress parade'
Ihc beach Is the thinR thcse day.
J ha water IS a mere accessory, some
thing to Dip INTO II you want TO hr
brave and something TO SWIM IN II you
are invested wIth Outrageous courage
Hu' the SUIT Is made tor the beach. Re.
member that It you are fashionable and
u you intend 10 80 anywhere near me
breakers ms year
Palm Beach started TINS fashion
Newport acceniuatcd IT. Bar Harbour
lei II pass, ior 'he contents herself WIN
a glorious swimming pool where yoJ
paddle 70 me music oi one 'i the l'fst
ofche'na' m the lard. ~ course u rs
essentially IKE Bar Harbour 10 be di'
ierent from any other port ol The land
and to provide a certain individual ia,-
clnaiion Tor those who love It, which
can be gotten nowhere else IN this
country hat which the other resorts
DO. Bar Harbour does not de.
However, THIS IS not story oi sum.
mer resorts, hnt one oi beach SUITS,
and as lew thousand Young women
viii 60 toward the water this month
tor tbeir recreation. It IS we'll Tor then
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
SHIPBUILDINC
CO.EMPLOYEOF
TACOMA SPEAKS
Declares the Improvement Has
Been Wonderful-Ssys It's
Best Medicine on Earth.

u have gained seventeen pounds and
the only reason ! can give for my won
derful improvement is that Tanlac is a
wonderful medicine" said A. H..
Thomas, a we'll known employe Of the
Wright Shipbuilding company, residing
at 8O2I1 South Ninth street, Tacoma,
Washington
The cause OF my trouble in the first
] place was an accidental blow on the
head, which received six years ago.
] commenced TO have awful headaches,
and these with the worry about my con-
dition seemed TO gradually undermine
my whole system and my health got
bad. Ny appetite left me, my stomach
got in terrible condition and was
down in bed for several weeks What
little I managed to eat would ferment
. 'n my stomach causing gas and intense
pain, was very restless at night, was
tired and sluggish all the time and
never felt equal to my work.
This Tanlae has proven to be just
what | needed 1t has gotten my
stomach in splendid condition, my ap-
petite Is fine and can cat just any
thing 7 want and enjoy it, never suffer
with indigestion, sleep like log and
seldom have a sign Of headache
am just feeling fine now and my wife
IS taking Tanlac also and il is helping
her very much, II is the grandest
medicine on earth, there's no doubt
about that"
Tanlac is sold In Oklahoma City by
the Westfall Drug Co. and leading
druggists and dealers everywhere.
ADV
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
Skinny Coat-tails !
For Mere Man Is
Fashions Edict

WASHINGTON.-Very short trouss
cTs.
Very skinny coat-tals.
No vest, and
Just enough buttons to insure safety.
That is the formula of dress for men
laid down as both necessary ant pa
triotc by clothing manufacturers this
afternoon in conference with the war
industries board.
A ourtaiIment of 30 percent on mats
was agreed to for fall styles. and when
It comes to next spring designers are
wanted TO go the limit in the interest
OF conservation.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02

nccr A little bag of sand attached at
night TO the tail OF mule will prevent
u from emitting IT'S blatant bray, he
declares.
Mr. Nhn's knowledge dates back TO
the early days OF Oregon, when mule
team drivers found this awy Of keep
ing their slumbers from being dis.
turbcd The Theory involved is that in
order to bray with success and wonted
harmony a mule must stretch its neck
and elevate It's caudal appcndage to
the horizontal Denied this privilege
by the weigh, OF a small rock or sack
Of sand the beast fails to yocalile Is
thought
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
Excitement Rife;
Wash Boiler Leg
In Texas Explodes

GALVESTON, Tcxas-A recent ex-
plosion OF a gun he'll Of rather large
cal.bcr, relic Of the civil war dav5
caused considerable excitement ner,,
until the detective department ascer-
tanned tho cause OF the disorder
A washerwoman was using the shell
as a SPARE leg for a wash boiler and
the heat caused II TO explode, although
it had been considered harmless and
was over fifty years DID, Aside from
slight damage to a partition near the
place Of the explosion no damage was
done as no one was in the immediate
vicinity at the time.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
Bag of Sand on
Males Tail to
Stop the Bray

PORTLAND. ore The re..und.ng
'Hee-Haw" Of the American army
mule awakening the echoes and max
ing nights hdeous almost anywhere in
France can be prevented IN simpler
fashion than by operation upon the
throats of the animals, TO which the
French veterinarians are said 70 resort.
according TO F 6. Akin, a Portland pio-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02

a fashion n the hour for country roads
as well as Breaches, for club piazza, as
well as seaside piers. II is brilliant
biz ~ apparel and already the demand
has IcsScucd the supply
Conyrghi 1918. by tho Mcclure
heWspnpor Fyudt,HtcJ
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02

Indifference cannot but be criminal
when il is conversant about objects
which are so far from being Of an in
different nature that they are of the
hiyhest importance TO ourselves and our
country--Addison.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
Officers Enthusiastic

Mrs Leonard r. Pollak of New York
City, the new president OF the National
league OF Women Workers, is a native
OF Cincinnati and a graduate Of VasSar,
and has long been identified with So
Geological movements OF national scope
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
S!I4RIB|5SS& 4I!|5
kAnne Pattenhosase

NEW YORK.-We look with happy
N eyes upon the designer who put
out of fashion the bungc,ome
hideoslty Of other seasons called
a bathing suit And get, We look
a,kance at the designer who has put
these new beach suits into the mind
Of women
They create diversion; Of that there
is no doubt They make of the beach
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02

wherever il unrolls Us long, sinuous
length down the side OF the breakers. a
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-02
!. S. SOLDIERS At
FRONT ARMY or
MANY TONGUES
But All Are Animated by
/ Straight American Spirit,

sYou ought to go down and talk to the
Dys who Just came ~ from the
ysnches where they beat of a boche
hldinR party four times their number
They're down in the ruins of the next
tillsgt, sharpening their bayoncis and
fitting ready for more. They're all
kinds Of natonalitcs, that crowd and
1ou can hardly understand some Of
tem when they attempt to speak Eng
jsh."
On the strength Of the licutcrant's
jp the victorious doughboys were
is'ted. They were resting IN dugouts
md ruins talking over their latest
Hight, and exchanging IDEAS as 10 the
est way Of killing Germans. More
Nan half OF them spoke broken Eng
l)ish, and the accents were many It
Required the common cause" for
hem 20 understand each other
a Army of Many Tongues.
a One young private. who had account
NJ for four Germans two nights before,
fesented being asked his nationality
Pm Italian born but good American
pow. ] figured t'' bout time we show
0amn kaiser where TO head in ~, so
| Join the army" He was one OF a mum
bcf OF Italians in the group.
a Another big Strapplng chap admitted
e was born in Ireland, but insisted he
Yas American, not Irish His closest
|DsI through the thick and thin of bat
he was a Pole Russia, the Balkans,
Sweden, and Norway were represented
IN this small group Of doughboy'
N One man explained with difficulty he
volunteered because Russia quit. and
Ne took it as personal duty to do his
best 10 offset his native countrys fail
ure.
n Officers Enthusiastic
I Officer, were enthusiastic in telling
'pf the LOYALTY and devotion OF these
NA,uraiyed Americans, In the group
were a number Of men OF German par
entage. all OF whom had accounted Tor
themselves we'll in battle The univcr-
Sal cause for joining the army was 20
"lick Germany good. which from their
point Of view was making the world
safe for democracy" Americas wish
was their command. as they hid in
those ruins from German shells and
sharpened their bayonets for more Ger
mans
Evening star., 1918-11-03

clined commissions to escape the in
i+ial expense. is likely at last to have
fall. Last July Senate provision
requiring the War Department to fur
nish uniforms and equipment to Off
GERS at cost was rejected in confer
ence because Of the objection Of the
Secretary of War that he could take
better care of the situation by regu-
lation. On August IL he made an or
der to that end; and subsequently, on
the motion OF Senator Hoke Smith,
Congress inserted in the Army appro-
compulsory for the department to fur
nish these articles for officers at
actual cost. OF course. it took time to
perfect arrangements to make the
regulation effective; and in the mean
time officers have been paying the old
prices to the tailors. But now it is
expected that in the next few weeks
it will be possible to carry out the
order in all respects.
officers now can purchase at cost
most of their equipment at any
one of the great depots-New York
Washington, Atlanta. Sam Houston,
San Francisco. Chicago and ST. Louis.
The saving to the officer in such ar
ticles as ponchos. rubber coats, caps,
leather equipment and the like is very
great in price; and. especially in rub
ber goods, in the better quality of
BOOuS aVallaDlc.
1t is notorious that in some cities
retail tailors had secured large sup
plies of uniform cloths. and their high
price had been a hardship to officers.
particularly to the large number of
young men just receiving their COM
missions and under necessity of pro-
curing an entire outfit. At the same
time many officers-especially those
not expecting active duty-who were
anxious to have the best sartorial cut
and style to their clothes objected to
a regulation that would prevent them
from having any but high grade
tailoring. with its attendant cost. The
War Department sought COM
promise by arranging with some of
the best manufacturing tailors to
make uniforms of standard cloth and
to deliver them at any of the six
depots at reasonable prices for gar
ments so made. AS soon as these ar
rangements are completed notice will
be given. and then officers can buy
their uniforms there or at the stores
of the manufacturer in much the same
way the average man picks out his
summer suit at Il department store.
For those officers who wish to have
their uniforms custom made the Quar-
termaster Corps by December !, or
earlier. will carry supply of stand
ard cloths for coats, hrecches and
overcoats, in weights and qualities
running from q. -. cotton TO thirty
two ounc" melton or kcrScY, and the
officers who wish may purchase these
grades at cost. The Guartermaster
general will also cndcavor to make
arrangements with iirst-ratc custom
tailors TO make uniforms and supply
thc TRIMMINGS AND Innings nj re@-
Evening star., 1918-11-03
Army and Navy News

locomoties and cars sufficient to ac-
commodate all the personnel and am
munition, repair shops. cranes. stores
and material. The Navy produced the
designs for the complete equipment
in thirty days, and In use they nave
functioned perfectly.
The range of these guns cannot be
given, but they exceed by thousands
Of yards that of any other guns, ex-
cept the German freak guns. engaged
in the theater Of war. No comparison
can be made between the naval and
the freak guns, which throw small
projectile but lacked accuracy, be-
cause in order to attain the enormous
range the gun hurled the she'll to
height where the air conditions are
unknown. even If they are constant.
while the accuracy of fire Of the naval
power of their shell is beyond meas
ure. The carriages are so designed
that the guns can be fired at an angle
never thought possible for their type,
with result that the projectile can
be dropped almost vertically upon the
direct fire upon the walls of citadel
almost below the horizon. A suffi-
cient number of these pieces. even at
long range. would put the defenses of
Metz out of commission as quickly as
German howitzers demolished the
"
Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett,
formerly director Of naval gunnery
is in command of the guns sent over
by the Navy and now operating
against the enemy. 1t Is appropriate
that naval men should handle these
guns, for naval men designed them;
and naval gunners are accustomed to
their use and direction. The gunnery
officers who have become familiar
through months and years of practice
in firing them. and in caring for. re-
pairing and maintaining them In first
class condition, are at home with
them. British and French have dis
mounted and sent to similar duty
guns from their war vessels, as well
as naval guns made In their naval
shops. 1t is well known that France
has used many of its naval guns for
shore batteries, and 1T Is reported
that Germany has employed her naval
guns in many Enthusiastically in
the defense of Zee eebrugge and Ostend.
The matter for conjecture is that
the Navy has not been induced to
spare more of these guns for If they
are available. failure to employ them
would indicate incl'iciency little less
than deplorable.
Evening star., 1918-11-03

in Europe. These girls. speaking to
them in their own tongue, speak to
them also in their own language, II
one may use both phrases. are great
psychological good. The craving for
an atmosphere they have been used to
Is satisfied and their recovery quicker.
If they do not recover. they will have
been given the comfort of sending
last message to their loved ones.
through some one who understands.
LAS second substantial reason. of
Poland on account of German occupa-
Of the earth. 1t Is needed. But this
personal service, on the side Of sense
and sentiment, must come from Polish
women of American training.
"Polish soldiers are paid five cents
day. Yet out of this less than pit
tance a little group Of them recently
sent $3.50 to the Polish White Cross.
That is how badly they want the
ministering Of their own. at time
when death hangs in the balance and
the whole world seems mad. The
Polish working class here in the
United States Is assessing itself to the
poorest laborers are giving twenty
Ave cents a week. Others fortunate
enough to have acquired liberty bonds
have rendered these to the leaders of
the White Cross.
"Mme. Paderewski, tireless in this
work. Is giving her time and money,
helping to provide the White Cross
with working material. At Easter
time she sent $4,000 packages to the
Polish soldiers in France. In London
there are great number Of Polish
Evening star., 1918-11-03
ME Navy Department. through
the bureau of ordnance, of
which Rear Admiral Ralph
Earle Is the chief, has manu-


which Rear Admiral Ralph
Earle Is the chief, has manu-
factured a considerable num-
her OF fourteen-inch (not sixteen-inch.
as erroneously has been stately 30
.caliber guns, available for use on the
military front In Europe. More diff
cult to design and produce than even
the guns are the gun carriages, or
mounts, capable of carrying these
weapons, which, Independently OF the
mounts, weigh nearly hundred tons.
Each gun requires a railroad train OF
especial strength to transport 1t and
its she'll, spare parts, special machine
shop and it's personnel. The design
ing Of the guns was all in the days
work for the Navy ordnance bureau.
They have made for use on snip
board hundreds Of such pieces; they
are in daily use. for~,practice at least
on the dreadnoughts Of the fleet; they
have hurled their half ton or moro
projectiles from British monitors
upon what was German-held terri
tory Of the coast OF Belgium. Ameri--
can naval gunners, ranking at worst
with the best in the world, have mas
from the uncertain gun platform of q
ship upon an object whose distance
is measured in miles rather than
thousands Of yards. and expect to
score q hit at twenty miles on the
third shot. though a mountain of
Three miles intervenes, making the
same score as on land with q terra
flrma gun platform.
But the carriage for these monsters,
Afty-eight feet in length, was another
proposition. Nothing Of the kind had
come to naval ordnance men before.
The Army had heavy guns, perhaps
heavier than these. in the coast de-
3enses, but It had not experimental
with q mobile type of carriage for
guns of this weight and size. The
British and the French We're using
naval guns on the battle front, but
they were much lighter, and. as
mounted, lacked the mobility which
these heavier ones required for full
scope to their powers of destruction.
Each mount, 1t was decided, should
be operated as a separate train; and
the number OF guns in action. there
fore, is fixed rather by the number
Of mounts and trains than by the ac-
1ual count of the big guns. Each
brain includes cars mounting the
guns with their protective armor,
Evening star., 1918-11-03

~ sAAS RSAaoU VI tHC tcdElHB dbuh.
der OF nations. poor Poland. long
acclaimed the buffer state of
Europe. sees ray Of hope for
her sons and daughters. These
ere scattered over the face Of the
earth. to escape tyranny at home.
But they have been coming together
during the last year. A Polish army,
bearing the white eagle of the his
tory OF that country Of poets and
musicians. is in the trenches. with
the Stars and Stripes and the tri-
color of France. the Union Jack and
the banner of democratic italy. And
now Polish nurses, from the United
States, are forming an organization
to take care of their brothers.
It was little over year ago that
y Polish army was authorized by
Secretary Baker, following many
conferences with Ignace Paderewski,
probably the best known Pole in the
world. June 4 last was the first an;
on that day the white eagle with its
eager lovers of freedom moved into
the front line trenches. Their deter
mination. fearlessness and the sense
OF having mission in the world war
moved President Poincare to deco
war cross. The news stories Of for.
Aign correspondence Of this event
read like so many dramas.
*+
The sympathy between France and
the Polish people has always been
strong, SO 1t is not strange that the
Polish White Cross rests under the
wing Of the French Red Cross. Nine.
Paderewski. who devotes her entire
time to developing this new organi-
xation. Is its president and proud.
patroness. She appeals for Polish
physicians and nurses from America
to 60 to their wounded countrymen
in France. One company of nurses.
who. one and all. gave up good posi-
tions in New York, Chicago and other
cities to undergo intensive training
for the patriotic work, is already in
the hospitals Of France. Others are in
training. and still more Of these
cestry and American rearing are
1oining the little army of the White
Cross.
The White Cross and the white
0ABk0-Wu0T0V0T tNey appear CEdUCo
opens her arms, say those who know.
Col. James Martin Of the French army
is one Of those who know, and to him
mas been given the task of gathering
Polish-Americans for allegiance to the
newest flag in the trenches. He ar
rived in America last September and
established offices in Washington.
France was anxious to see battalions
OF the Poles, who because Of Austrian
Or German birth were not permitted in
AmGflGan
other allies she held out to these hon
est dreamers Of the northland the
nope OF q new, free Poland, nation
During the first days Of the starting
Of the White Cross in Chicago a great
demonstration took place, with Col.
Martin. who had the training Of the
new Polish army in his hands. as the
principal guest. Fifty thousand Poles
paraded and twice that number came
to the exercises in Humboldt Park,
where the French idol Of the Poles
spoke. He moved the people gathered
Evening star., 1918-11-03

nothing to prevent any officer from
taking his cloth and paying any price
own selection. This alternative shows
the difference between the regulation
and the original intention of the SEN
ate, for the latter provided that all
uniforms and equipment should be the
same in quality for all officers Of the
same grade. With the increment Of
missions and winters approach maxi
ing a change from light to heavy
clothing. officers think that the new
order of things cannot come too
quickly.
X X
THE adoption by the United States
Army Of vaccines for preventive
uses has driven out some Of the
scourges of war; and the latest serum
1t has applied against pneumonia
promises not only to eliminate that
disease from the camps, but to be of
incalculable value to the civilian. Up
to the present war it has been a fact
that more soldiers were victims Of
disease than of bullets; and the deaths
that resulted from typhoid in the
Spanish American war will ever be
recalled with feeling of horror by
those who can remember the condi-
tions in the camps at that period.
An English officer, by experiments
and observations conducted by him
in Africa, inspired American Army
surgeons to make the use of the ty-
phoid prophylactic compulsory in the
Army; and the result Is that typhoid
In the Army during this war has been
a matter Of no concern, not more than
a dozen cases having made their ap-
pearance. Vaccination against small
poX has long been accepted as a mat
ter Of course, and that disease has
not appeared in the Army of nearly
three millions of men.
Pneumonia has killed more persons
than all other diseases put together
in the Army. The unavoidable con-
geation of camps and cantonments
resulted last winter in many cases of
measles, and in the weakened condi-
tion of the patients from this rcspira-
tory disease pneumonia followed, with
many deaths
The present epidemic of influenza,
in the same manner frequently
brought in it's train the same disease,
pneumonia, and now Army surgeons
are applying the discovery by Lister
OF Il vaccine against pneumonia for
the prevention of that disease in the
Army, as they did to put an end to ty-
phoid. There is this difference in the
administration: The surgeons are
sure, from actual experience. that no
harm can follow the use of the ty-
phoid vaccine and they have made it's
use compulsory; they are certain only
from theory that tho use of the vac.
Evening star., 1918-11-03

there to patriotic fervor. Thousands
dropped their work in the industries
Of Chicago, dropped everything, and
with only their two hands and the
glory of patriotic feeling, Joined the
forces Of Col. Martin. There were
women who did likewise.
These and other Polish women in
training now for nursing their COM
patriots are said to have made deep
ers among their people and receiving
excellent salaries. Asked as to why
it was considered absolutely essential
to have purely Polish nurses for the
wounded-Of the new Polish army, one
of their representatives told the in
Quirer that the Poles fighting in France
cannot speak or understand any Ian
guage other than their own. He
added that out of a force of 10000 men
who are trained and 10000 being
trained in Canada, no less than 1900
are from the United States and are
accustomed to things American.
American institutions. customs, habits.
ways and means are now q part of
these Polish-Americans' very exist
ence.
Quoting this authority In his own
words: "The members of the White
Cross are being recruited chiefly
from the United States for two rea-
sons. First. the wounded Poles want
to know what is going on in Chicago,
Pittsburgh, the Polish section of
Baltimore, ETC., rather than what is
happening in Poland or other places