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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-15
VINCENT RETURNING
TO PACKARD PLANT
tosnpilmrnicd hN President Wilson
for Services IN ITriping Design
Iils,rty Motor
WAS A LIEUTENANT COL L0NEL
Commissioned Mnlor Ia signal Corps
aud Trnn-fcrrrd ~ AIR Scr,-
lie on rrunotion.

'pnurud,I hy tho president ~
the tut'i states for his services to
America ,u time ~ national ucrd.
Hti vnd.0ttoj on nl' his acts IN the
speedy production uf a mlllbf, h'l
alton enigma fnr tho United Rlnics
forces, l.,ut cot Jesse % vincent
has received m honorable dlAchnrgo
from the army ani has returned To
take charge ~ Packard engineering
the wuth hu l'ft lu june. 1871, t.
enter government service
THE president brIiryoH ihhL, 'he
two gentlemen concerned rfrU' COl
Goo " MiNtrr nud lIeut cot !
81 Vincent rrYH uu executive ~.
nounoemenl med- public ~ the white
house ON Dee 4 "wrtr rntir"h IN
nocent ~ Rr, IMPROPER or selfish In
teniluns. that their yum wha only
tochnlcal ana nat then services ~
tho government. Whi,h have been ~
the hlghrHt value ana ~ the most
disintcr"si"j sort dos'r,e cordial
recognition"
The chl"r magistrate thu. dIspnses
of any Cfiticism that vas embodied
In the Hughes report uf oct a.
Irvimcs ilnnr ingjnc.
Mr. NinTsnt went 70 Washington
May -. Ni7 ~ submit to the air
craft production board tho DRAWINGS
and parts ~ m aviation engin" that
he and hts starr had ilst completed
ne tho Cruwnlng development ~ an
effort to which the Packard com
pany had devoted NOR" than two
year. ana 500, 600 n was the third
In series NJ lf-ry Hinder cngincs
designed for Just the emergency tina,
had arisen with the declaration ~
wara military engine fur tho pro-
jected American aircraft service.
Ra.is ~ Idirri, Motor
--latest adViceS brought tu Am"tl'
"a by the French ana. ihii'sh nvia.
tion missions then Dfst arrived In
Washington, woro that tho design
stood IN need ot notifications. re
intinr principally 10 Higo and 90 fac
tor OF safety with tho assistance
OF T.. T. Hall Of Stn Francisco, Mr.
Vincent using tho Packard "p0b'
~ a basis. dcsigncd the Liberty mo
tor. In the manufacturing develop
ment of the Liberty such changes as
were made were hack In the dircc.
tion OF Mr.. Nincents original de-
slEn. The opinion of engineering
4. that tho Liberty motor
y finally developed Is tho finest en-
.dns ever built and. In some rcrpects,
was the greatest single contribution
10 tho war.
June II, 1911. President Maccaulry
of the Packard company placed MI.
vincentr services exclusively at the
command Of tho government. Au'
gust 10 Mr.. Vincent resigned the
Packard vice. presidency of engineer
ing to he commissioned aH major
In tho signal corps. In March, last,
he was promoted to lieutenant
roiorei In the aircraft service.
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MRS ] W sHREVE died at her
home. 1870 East Burnett THURSDAY
evening at 9:30. She wns ~ years ~
age and In survived by her husband
Funeral srrvlceS will DO conducted a.
tho Catholic church. Sixteenth ana
Rockford. Monday. December 10.
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VA q. KELLEY. whose address
is care Of Alien T.. clay. general de-
livery ls among the Tulrans In the
casualty list today lie died OF
wounds In France.
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of o
nf ~ fought

The French troops who had been
holding tho line Tor many DAYS were
wetried and II was desired 10 relieve
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Thcairi'~l Manager Di~~.
NEW NoltkI Dec it-Chas W.
Hayes, general manager of tho
Nrlwyn ~ Co. theatrical interests.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
CHAPTER XIV
By RI. f. Krehbiel
Copyright. 1913. By Il. Il. KrehoieIi

ilCpyr1fnr, i1lSs bJ IL hfSuOttit
In his four tcmpestuous years at the
Manhattan Opera House Mr.. Hammer
stein spun Ariadnc threads which the
historian of the future will probably
lind running through the maze Of opera
in New York for many years, and he
will be credited with clear prescience
as we'll as the qualities which my story
Of his career plainly dscloses. The
metropolitan Opera Company appar-
emily picked up one of these threads
when it resolved to meet Mr.. Hammer
STEMS challenge contained in his prom
Sc to incorporate original English op-
era in his repertory by establishing it's
great prize contest. 1t followed an
other somewhat OBVIOUSLY when it en-
tered into an agreement to cooperate
with the gentlemen who wished to give
opera a local habitation and name in
Chicago and Philadelphia, and still an
other when it recognized the need of
satisfying the demand for French opera
which Mr.. Hammerstein had created
through the policy which had been pur-
sued by Mr.. Conried, and Mr. Gatti
made it necessary to call in the help
Of the Chicago Philadelphia. Philadel-
phia Chicago company. Under the di-
rection of Mr.. Conried and his sue
ccssor French opera, which had pro-
vided the high lights of Mr.. Grau's
concluding seasons, was permitted to
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
THE CHICAG AGO-PHILADELPHIA ENTERPRISE

America. 1t sounded delights,
Italian, it would, no donh, a
sounded little more natura, :. asss
man. since it was composed - - ~ oes-
words and clever translator s.sa a:,
have reconciled the public to =. Isa'
lish version until Signor Sa,s. aug
had offended its ears by his pronns'' sasS0
ton. The secret which Susanna s' ss''
from her husband was that sh. =. Asp' '
cigarettes. The count did not sm0s ssea
the servant, as he makes yio,.r.
surance by dumb-show, does ~
smoke; the countess was not kn.n. w.
smoke, yet the count smells sro.s "
her drawingroom and even c,;ss ~
to her hair and clothing. Sharp,v ~.
chised, the countess admits tbst
harbors secret. and that it re,....
something with which she wh;,e.
the lonely hours which tba 80
spends at his club. A lover. of cors"
concludes the count. He flies IVA.
rage, smashes the furniture. and. dash
ing out Of the house leaves ths .,.~.
ess in despair. She finds conso,a,,an
in a cigarette, after locking the soor
But the count returns unexpect.alr
his fury still upon him, and, 6ndirn
the door locked, breaks down the h.r
rlcr. Susanna, caught fagrants 4,
licto, hides her cigarette behind -.
back. He scizcs her roughly and hu,,.
his hand. The secret is out Co,...
sion, mutual forgiveness. and ~.
count, enrolling himself among the ~,
otees .of Dame Nicotine, takes l.,.
from his wife's cigarette. From heo,
ming to end the intermezzo is h;S,lr
enjoyable, largely because Of Il,
sprightly comedy, but chiefly becsu,.
Of the exquisite music, full of M.
zartean righteousness, and also M.
zartean Characterization. supplements
by modern ingenuity in deiineat0r
Quite marvellous is the skill with which
the composer turns smoke into 'rnu,e
or music into smoke, as one chooses 10
look at it. With this work WolfFer.
rari won as enduring a place in ,he
American lyric theatre as he did in rs
concert rooms with LA Vita Nuoya.p
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

ahetted by Connecticut Yankee named
Elinu Hubbard Smith, produced edwin
and Angelina" in 1895, and Benjamin
Carr and William Dunlap achieved run
with their opera, "The Archers," in
New York in the same year.
"Natona' came to New York on
February %, 1911, three days after its
production in Philadelphia, and was
sung by the same people.
The libretto WAS written by an
Anne q wish it had not been) and
its music by man of Irish extraction
and German training. They are a pop
ular pair, and they deserve to be; but
that has nothing to do with the case
brought before the judgment seat by
their opera. Neither has the fact that
the story of "Natoma" is American.
Some carping critics had objected that
it was not American because its scene
is laid in Southern California when
that part Of the country was still un
der Spanish domination. But perhaps
this is made all right by the circum-
stance that the heroine is an Indian,
and the so-called red people (thoueh
they are not red) are better entitled
to be called Americans than any other
race, despite the fact that they may
not be auchtoncs, but have immigreted
from Asia Where Mr. Redding's here
inc came from | am at loss to tell
Speaking in the metre of the epic poem
OF the Firms which Longfellow has
fastened upon our Indians, she would
fsin make US believe that she is queen
of q tribe indigenous to the lower part
Of California. But when she invoked
her peoples God it is Manitou to whom
she prays---a proceeding about as nat
ural as if Mr.. Herbert were to ask us
to believe that his great-grandfathe
was wont to kneel in supplication and
cry: 80 me taw 3oodh!" However.
Go not want to go deeply into the eth
nology of Mr.. Redd;ngs book. 1t is
enough that I believe the abalone 20
be edible. in spite Of the legend which
Natoma tells about in a sort of runic
rhyme. I accept his Spanish dances,
though not sure' that the Spanish aris-
tocracy danced the minuet in public
squares, and pretty positive that they
cid not dance it as Mary Garden and
Mr.. Sammarco danced it. I am also
somewhat disturbed by other incidents
designed to illustrate the social life
Of the Spanish residents Of California
a century ago. do not believe that
fond father who had watched long
and lovingly for his daughter would
permit her TO rush out into the moon
light at the Fl rst tinkling 0 a guitar
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

tow's Grip Van Winkle" had also been
performed at the Academy of Music in
New York fifty-six years before, and
that the then manager of the now ven
cradle institution had anticipated the
Metropolitan Opera Company by offer
ing prize for the best original grand
opera by an American composer. Max
Maretzek had written an opera, "Sleepy
Hollow" which had been performed at
the Academy of Music here and in other
cities. Signor Arditi, too, of amiable
memory, had written "La Spia," based
on Cooper's novel, an American subject,
and Walter Damrosch's Scarlet Let
ter" had scarcely had time to become
a matter Of history. Kidlings all these
operas, however, compared with two
which may be added to the American
list published in preceding chapter.
Pclissier. Franco American, aided and
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

and to stay there long enough to
send one wooer about his business and
throw herself into the arms of another
whom she had met for the first time
an hour Or so before. This does not
seem at all Spanish; certainly not aris-
tocratic; in fact, not altogether proper.
Most voluble and voluminous of all
the managers in his advocacy Of opera
in English, both before and after the
production of "Natoma," was Mr.. Dip
pei; yet the first translation of which
but into Italian. There was some JUS
tifcation for taking Boris Godunoff"
out of its original tongue, as was
done at a later date By the Metropoli-
tan company. for even the polyglot
members of Mr.. Gatti's organization
could scarcely be expected to use the
Russian language, but there was no ex-
cuse for a French performance of
"Tannhauser" by Mr. Hammerstein
except the predominant Gallicsm of
his forces, and none at all for the per-
formance of "Susannens Geheimniss"
in Italian. There are only three char
acters in the arch little comedy, and
one of them (played by Francesca Dad
did is mute; a second Countess GID,
was sung by Miss Caroline White, all
American, and the third Count GID,
by Signor Sammarco, who had mastered
enough English to carry part in "Na-
toma." Moreover, the play is one
which would have carried an English
dress right jauntily Originally it was
French farce. Max Kalbeck, an Aus
trian musical writer, turned it into
German and the German book was set
to music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari.
Three races are suggested in the name
OF the composer, but | cannot stop to
inquire how much the German, how
much the Italian or how much the Jew
lsl element in the composers physical
and mental constitution have to do with
the music Of al Segreto di Susanna"
as 1t was called on the bills when it
was produced at the Metropolitan on
March II, 1911, for the first time in
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

behaving like children who on the
dawn Of every first of January look
out Of their windows with the ex-
pectancy of seeing new world. A
society for the promotion Of national
opera had been talked to death at a
single sitting, yet I cannot recall
speech or newspaper article Of th>
time (except my OWN which betrayed
knowledge Of some Of the most obvious
facts of operate history. Neither
composers nor singers, neither mana
gers nor critics who took part in the
excited discussion Of the day, seemed
aware that more than half a century
before William II. Fry had written
English operas, both words and music,
ono of which at least had been per-
formed in New York and also in
Philadelphia, the scene Of the latest
accouchement; that George Il. Bris-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

MUSICAL INSTRUCTION
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Not a Bite Of
Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says q glass OF hot water and
phosphate prevents Illness
and keeps us fit.

Just as coal when 1t burns, leaves
behind certain amount of combusti-
BILE material in the form of ashes, so
the food and drink taken day after
day leaves in the almentary canal a
certain amount of indigestible material,
which if not completely eliminated
from the system each day, becomes
food for the millions of bacteria which
infest the bowels. From this mass of
leftover waste, toxins and ptomain-
like poisons are formed and sucked
into the blood.
Men and women who can't get feel
ing right must begin to take inside
baths. Before eating breakfast each
morning drink a glass of real hot
water with teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash out of the 80
feet of bowels the previous days &C
emulation of poisons and toxins and
to keep the entire alimentary canal
clean pure and fresh.
Those who are subject to sick head
ache, colds, biliousness, constipation;
others who wake up with bad taste
foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiff
ness. or have sour, gassy stomach
after meals, are urged to get a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate from the
drug store, and begin practicing in
ternal sanitation. This will cost very
little, but is sufficient to make anyone
an enthusiast on the subject.-Adv.
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tables and eats at his leisure. There is
no delay. The meals are handed out so
rapidly that one man is served every five
seconds and several thousands are eat
ing at one time. | examined a meal on
a tray. Ii consisted of a bowl Of soup
from which the steam arose, generous
portion of fish, two mealy potatoes,
stewed corn and pudding. There We're
also bread. butter and crackers. 1t looked
appetizing and the price was 80 cents.
4 man can live here for 81 per day.
This means 30 cents each for three meals
and 10 cents per night for bed in the
barracks. If he wants to save on his
meals he can make the cost even less.
There are canteens and lunch counters
where one can buy sandwiches or o.ner
snacks. such as a herring and crackers
and cheese. These are sold at country
grocery store prices
copyright, 1918, by Frank z. Carpeneer1
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1t has a railroad track at one side and
in the center is a row of blocks on
which the keel is go rest. while along
the bottom of the keel blocks are the
iron pipes which carry the compressed
air and furnish the power for the pneu-
matte riveting and calking machines
In some of the ways ships are already
beginning to rise. There is scaffoid-
ing on each side and the skeletons of
the great vessels are now to be seen.
The great locomotive cranes are in
opration and the riveters are fasten-
ing the plates to the framework
/ spent sometime watching the con-
struction of the ways The great pile
drivers force the tree trunks far down
into the earth, until they look like the
stumps of a clearing Then men cut
Of the stumps close to the ground
They use cross-cut saws and some
stand up to their knees in the wa
ter. They wear rubber boots that reach
to the thighs and work away an
though it were summer. rather than
winter.
In one place I saw them driving plies
made of concrete. In this case steel
finger almost as large as the pile forces
its skin of steel far down into the
earth. 1t is then withdrawn and the
concrete mixture is poured into the
skin and hardens to stone. Some piles
Of this kind are sunk to a depth of
seventy feet. and within a few
hours after driving are as solid as
the wooden tree trunks under the
shipways adjoining.
During my trip through the yards /
studied the workmen. l looked about
for loafers and slackers. but found no
one who did not seem to be doing his
bit with all the muscle and brains lie
possessed / heard no dissatisfaction
expressed and like to think that there
is patriotism mixed with the work. The
men seemed impressed with the fact
that they are helping in winning the
war, and this idea is stimulated by
signs in red. white and blue. which arc
put up everywhere. You find them on
the stumps near the shipways. on the
walls of the barracks and in the mess
houses. l have some of the signs be-
| fore me and will give few samples;
what we do over here is going tic
| help a lot over there Good ship
| builders are the best kind of good
Americans. Do yours partl" The
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A DAY AT HOG lSLAND-By Frank c. Carpenter

sooner we finish those ships the soon
err the war will be ended" ships!
Ships! Shipsl Are the only means OF
getting supplies over there quick"
The foremen of the works are chiefly
Americans bet the rank and file are
largely made up of Greeks and Italians,
and they are. as a rule, more brawny
and better looking than the men you
will find on an ordinary job. Great
care is taken in hiring the labor for ii
is important that no disease or any
thing infectious be brought into the
yards Every man must go through
careful examination, physical and
otherwise, before he is put to work. He
is made to undress to the skin and given
a bath. haircut and a shave He then
goes to the doctor, who examines him
thoroughly In the meantime, his clothes
have been washed and put through
rapid drying process so quickly that by
the time he is through they are given
back to him. sterilized and perfectly
clean. The wages are high and extra
pay for overtime,
The rev arrangements for housing the
men are now under way. An industrial
city will be erected within mile of the
plant and comfortable quarters Will be
given at a reasonable rate At present
there are barracks for something like 5000
men, The remainder of the force live in
Philadelphia and go back and forth in
the ferries. motor buses. electric roads
or trains
The army of laborers increases and de-
| creases in size according to the weather
| and other conditions. / have before me
! the record of day when 25,oo0 men were
employed. At that time there were more
4 than 900 carpenters. 1000 piledrivers, 700
electricians and about 400 pipefitters and
| plumbers, There were about 11.oo0 COM
mon laborers.
! had my lunch in one of the mess halls
where these thousands of men are fed
every day, and then went into the butch
err shop and bakery connected with the
establishment, and inspected the kitchen.
| where a dozen cooks in white caps and
aprons were working at long ranges and
great steam cookers.
| The mess hall is separated from the
| kitchen by counter. and the men. hav-
| ing bought their meal tickets outside,
come in single file. AS each passes the
counter he is given a tray, much like
the black tin waiter used in the restau-
rants This tray contains his full meal
which he carries with him to one of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-07
MY TIRED FEET
ACHED FOR 4TR'
Let your sore, swollen, aching
feet spread out in a bath
of "Tiz"

Just take your shoes off and then put
those weary, shoe-crinkled. aching.
burning, corn-pestered. bunion- tortured
feet of yours in "Tiz" BATH your
toes win wriggfe with joy. they'll look
nm AZ Won and almost talk and then
they'll take another dive in that "Tiz'
bath.
When your feet feel like Jumps OF
1ead-au tired out--just try TIE. II
grand--it's glorious. Your feet Will
dance with Joy; also you VIII lima az
nain gone from corns, callouses and
bunions.
There's nothing like "Tiz." II the
emily remedy that draws out all ths
poisonous exudations which pufr up
your feet and cause foot torture
Get a 25 cent box OF "Tiz at any
drug or department store--don . wait
All, how glad your feet get; how COM
Portable your shoes feel. You can wear
shoes a size smaller il you desire.-Adv
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NOME with me to Hog Island, and
IL see the biggest shipbuilding opera
ton in Uncle Sans mighty ship
building programme. Fifteen per cent
of all the steel merchant ships now con-
tracted for by the Emergency Fleet cor
poration will be constructed there. Many
OF the ways are rapidly approaching
completion; the keels of the first vessels
have been laid, and the parts of which
they are to be fabricated have begun to
flow here from the different factories, all
over the country. A few months ago
the place where the shipyards now are
was covered with grass as high as your
waist, and in places with bushes as
high as your head. 1t was deserted and
desolate. Six miles, as the crow flies.
from the great bronze statue of William
Penn, on the top of the city hall in
PHILADELPHIA, it was as lonesome as the
valley of the Jordan near the Dead sea
"A dismal island of desolation in a great
ocean of business activity. There were
shipyards to the north of it, shipyards
to the south of it, and ships were build
ing on both sides of the Delaware for
miles up and down stream Not far
away was the Philadelphia navy yard,
and from there now and then flew the
airplanes of the aviation school across
the way, frightening the birds which
nested in the rushes.
Today Hog Island is one Of the liveli-
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In nearly all the shipbuiiding plants
In England and Scotland women are
employed in large numbers One plant
alone employs more than 5000 women.
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Philadelphia, Pa.
..1aa u-f+b h;0

PhiladeIphla, Pa-
We are busy on the island with a big
and lusty crew,
And every man among us soon will
show what he can do;
We will lick old Kaiser Willis and Wen
build the world anew,
With the ships we're busy building or
Hog Island
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Today Hog Island is one of the liveli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01
LUSITANIA FEELING
AS SEEN BY GERMAN
Bitter Thought That Germany Lost
Benefit, Prof. Kuno
Meyer Says.

AMSTERDAM. August s1.-Prof.
Kuno Meyer, who was in America in
May, 1915, when the Lusitania was
sunk. describes in the Pan-German
Taeglische Rundschau of Berlin the
attitude of America toward Germany
at the time the liner was destroyed
There has been considerable discus
sion of the lawsuit arising out of the
cided in the United States recently
There was no special excitement
or resentment in America at the time
of the sinking. except in the British
press" Prof. Meyer writes. The man
in the street was perfectly calm about
it and several congressman voiced the
general feeling the passengers should
not have gone after they had been
warned"
The writer attempts to prove that
the attitude OF the average Ameri-
can was not hostile to Germany by
saying mot hair of a Germans head
was hurt, not Germans window was
broken. nor was there any hostile
York or the other eastern cities"
Every American, whether hostile,
friendly or Indifferent toward US, as
sumed as a matter of course that we
would continue to sink munitions
ships" Prof. Meyer continues. 1T was
different feeling than that which
prevails today and that We lost the
benefit of it through our own fault is
a bitter thought.