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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Washington.-Sena and mem
bers of congress who have made, In
the way of resolutions or amendments
to appropriation bills, suggestions as
TO the management of the war find
before they get very far that the pres
ident has ideas of his own on this sub
ject and knows pretty well what he
wants. From the time an effort was
made to create Il joint congressional
military commission as an advisory
war board up to the present time con
greSs has found that about all the adj
ministration desires of it is legislation
granting the president more power and
provision for financing the war.
There has been something in the
way of conferences by members of the
military committees with the war de-
pIrtment, but instead of the members
of the two committees Offering &C
ceptable advice, these conferences
prove to he simply methods by which
the administration furnishes to the
men who formulate war legislation
confidential information as 10 the war
situation. The conferences also serve
to impress upon the military commit
tees the importance Of legislation
which has been asked for by the ad-
miniStration.
Several times in the rush of bust
ness and the passage of very large
supply bills for carrying on the war
propositions We're made for changing
he draft law. for increasing the size
of the army, or fixing a limit as to
the size of the army. All of these
were voted down upon the hint that
they were unsatisfactory to the ad-
ministration.
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FRECKLES
Nov |. the Time to Gel Rid Of The.e UgIy Spots

There's no longer the slightest need Of feeling
ashamed Of your freckles, Othine-doubls
strengths guaranteed to remove these hv41ly
spots.
Simply get an ounce Of Othlne-doubls
strength-from your druggist, and apply a littls
of II night and morning and you should soon sec
appear. while the lighter ones have vanished en-
trely. 1t Is seldom that more than one ounce
Is needed 10 completely clear the skin and gain
q beautiful clear complexion.
BE sure 10 ask for the double strength Othine,
as this Is sold under guarantee Of money back
II Il fails TO remove freckes.-Adv.
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The Democratic majority in the
house found itself in some perplexity
regarding the appropriation bills which
had not been passed before the end of
The fiscal year. After the matter had
been discussed in the mouse, Congress
man Gillett of Massachusetts, who is
now the minority leader. remarked :
IF we We're not at war and if this side
of the house had not really adjourned
politics, ! should enjoy very much
making some comments unOn the pres
ent awkward situation of the appro-
priation bills; but, inasmuch as we on
this side have adjourned politics, /
Shall restrain myself and will without
criticism assist in every way | can to
eXtricate us from our embarrassing sit
uation."
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Saskatchewan ......... 26.OO

1t is the low prices at which land
can be obtained in Western Canada
which is rendering this country such
an important factor in the production
Of foodstulfs at the present time. 1t
Is enabling men who have been farm
ing small areas in older districts to
take up and farm with the same capt.
tai areas not only many times as great,
but which are also capable Of produc-
ing considerably larger crops to the
Northumberland.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
In Commitment.

Jack-Td like to have a street nam
for me.
Stella-You have-you are Easy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
The BUSY Moments.

"Bllggins complains that he is over
worked"
Yes. But he never seems rs busy
as when he is making just that COM
plant"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

The salary Of the president of Swift
erland amounts to $1,000 year, with
an additional $1,000 for expenses.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
Restful.

"Sapleigh is always thinking of him
self" Eyes; in that way he avoids
having much on his mind"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
Knockinq.

Opportunity knocks at every mans
door. they say" yep; with an invi-
tation TO fight"
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1t is proposed to give London eng
land) firemen an increase of 10 shil-
lings ($375) a week until after the
war.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

A corporation in Denmark makes a
business of cleaning and dlsinfecting
telephones.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
lust a Dream.

az dreamt l dwelt in marble halls"
"Eh?"
Fell asleep in the union depot
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Iron alleged with gold has been in
troduced as a substitute for tin In the
making of cans.
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HAS HIS OWN IDEAS
on MANAGING WAR
PRESIDENT WILSON OFTEN LETS
CONGRESS KNOW HE NEEDS
ONLY POWER AND FUNDS.
ALL DEPARTMENTS HELPING

Complete Coordination of the Gov
eminent Agencies-Oemocratic Ma
iority in House Perplexed Concern
ing Delay in Passing Appropriation
Bills
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Thousands Of railroad shop men
have been lured by high shlpyard pay
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His Occupation.

'What does he DO for his country?"
Hes an automatic hot-air genera
tor."-Detroit Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
His Training.

The Canadian Airplane company,
Ltd, employs none but British sub
jects
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

In the commerce of speech use only
coin of gold and silver.-Joubert.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

Springfield, Mass, labor union is
asking the city council TO regulate
rents during the war
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

a Clumsy Wooer.

Marie-Well, ] should define IT as
unskilled labor.-Kansas City Star.
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WIS SlttA war.
When the resolution in regard to the
short-line railroads was being consid-
cred In the senate Senator Penrose
said To Senator Smith Of South Caro-
lima, who had charge of the bin: "If
ii is not violating any state secret,
am curious to know whether the word
ing of this resolution was made in the
treasury department" There was give
and-take hadinage between the sena-
tors, and Smith claimed that the com
mttee on interstate commerce was re-
sponsible for the resolution. Penrose
said he was in hopes that 1t was
framed in the treasury department "a
he desired to spare the feelings of his
fellow senators, "because," he went on,
IL have seldom come across a legisla-
tive document more filled with obscurl-
| ties, antiquities. and incomprehensi-
bic sentences" Penrose said that he
felt deep regret in passing such retiec-
lions upon his colleagues in the senate.
sit has done no harm" blandly re-
piled Smith.
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There is a probability that the Bor-
land amendment will figure to some
extent in the coming political cam
paign. Congressman Borland of Kan
saS City, for whom the amendment
was named, has built up reputation
In congress almost exclusively on nc
count of his persistent activity direct
ed against the District of Columbia in
one form or another. Sometimes il
has taken the course of fighting the
so-caled half-and-hnlf plan as a meth
od of taxation in the national capital:
at other times of making the residents
of the District pay more taxes or re-
ceive less benefits from the govern
ment; and lastly the proposition to
increase the working hours of the de-
partment clerks. Congressman Ror-
land Is not the only man that has
made reputation in fighting the Dis
trict Of Columbia, but the District al
ways seems to have friends enough in
the senate to win fair share OF sue
cess.
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Anti-prohlbltionists IRE trying to
make capital out Of the fact that
"hootleggers" continue 10 supply
Washington with whisky although the
Sheppard prohibition law is in tull
force. 1t is true that great deal Of
whisky is brought into Washington by
"bootleggers.' although the term ls
now Il misnomer, rs the supplies are
brought in by automobiles. by trains.
nv wagon. and in any other method
which will pass the District boun-
darles. In the olden days whisky was
carried on 10 Indian reservations In
the hootIegs Of those who dealt In this
Illicit traffic; hence tho name bootleg.
ger.
But the prohlbiuonists are not viii
ing to admit that prohibition Is n fail
IRE in the District because people are
stin able to get whisky and II Ia
brought in and sold by bootleggers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25

Noisy.
rs he patriotic?"
"Well, he talks loud enough"
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at has done no HARM blandly re-
piled Smith.
The president said, Politics is ad-
lourned," and so far rs congress is
concerned politics has been pretty well
adjourned on all war measures. Any
way there have been few surface out
breaks of the political rash, and that
holds good for both parties But poli-
tics has convened on the census bill
BY no stretch of the most elastic con
gressional Imagination could that bill
be construed as n war measure ana II
contains provisions thar were made-to-
order for political mud-throwing. The
Republicans. headed by Minority Lend
err Gillett and Congressman Walsh or
Massachusetts, have made life more or
less miserable for Congressman Helm
of Kentucky who has charge of the
bill. but Helm no doubt finds conSola-
ton in the fact that the bill is going
through a little at time, just as it
was written, despite Republican efforts
to place 1t on politics adjourned"
basis with war legislation.
There was mention, in debate the
other day, of the Virgin Islands, Con.
gresham MondeI of Wyoming saying
that the sundry civil bill provided APP
preparations from Alaska TO the Virgin
Islands. For a moment people who
heard him had TO stop and think, and
inquire about these Virgin Islands. The
war has so overshadowed everything
| that we have almost forgotten we pur-
chased the Danish West Indian islands
for S25,000,OO0 a short time ago. and
II may be Il long while before we know
exactly what we want to do with
! them.
President Wilson, being rather free
| with his vet0es even when they
held up large government supply
bills, demonstrated that president
can do what it is claimed by some
! he should have the constitutional
right to do, that is, veto items he
disapproves in appropriation bills. OF
course there is no possibility of Civ
! ing the president any such right, rs II
would mean that he could make an APP
preparation bill practically to suit him
self. However the veto power affords
him an opportunity to prevent the en-
actment of legislation in appropria-
! ton bills which he does not approve
If both houses of congress would live
up to the rules they make for appro'
priation bills there would have been
no need of the presidential vetoes OF
supply bills. The pneumatic tube
/ proposition in the post Office appro-
priation bill was legislation, just as
was the Borand amendment making
the government clerks work an extra
hour.
There was one feature Of the veto
of the Borland amendment which par
ticularly interested men on account OF
its showing the position of the presi'
dent on the labor question. 1t has
been shown from the beginning of the
war that the president has been very
anxious to proptate and concillate
labor at all times. Opposition to the
Borland amendment by organized Ia
Dor no doubt made an impression up
on the president.
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Is still major general with little or no
prospect of making any reputation In
this great war.
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MAKING ACTRESSES.

Frank Smithson, the musical COM
edy producer, who Is staging the mu-
steal comedy "Hooray for the Girls"
which the members of the Junior
League will present at the Forty
fourth Street Roof Theatre next Tues
day night, for the benefit of Devastated
France, has found that the New York
society girls are apt and earnest pu-
pills. Mr.. Smithson says that there
is some valuable stage material to
be discovered among these young
ladies', who are from New York's
smartest society. "Of course" said
Mr.. Smithson last night, "the young
ladies' were. at the beginning, more
Interested in the strange aspect OF
things behind the footlights than with
the roles they were to enact. All
vas so new and strange to them that,
thrown into a new environment, 1t
took them some little time to get their
complete attention. One advantage
mas been that most of the young ladies
have been engaged in war work, and
50 are Injured to stern discipline, One
OF the young ladies' rather archly
informed me that Military discipline
hadn't anything on mel
You see I made up my mind II I
was 70 get in this show I must go
about the rehearsing the same as If
l had company of experienced ac-
resses. My method Is severe, insis-
tent and the young ladies, 1 must adj
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init, have entered into the work with
a will and purpose that is admirable
For one thing, with all the hard
work the young ladies' have done, not
one of them has sulked or grumbled.
They have. one and all, appreciated
the difficulty of the undertaking.
Only to-day one 81 the young ladies,
and one who has proved most apt and
efficient. said to me: I'll never again
find fault with an actress. What I've
always thought so easy I've found
most difficult. When I've read about
the actors art 1 had a notion that 1t
was all moonshine.'
~There is hope for good results when
young society girls arrive at that state
Of mind. Until they do. there is no
hope II is positively amazing the
quickness with which these young
ladies' were able to pick up stage
dancing. The training is hard, toll
some, difficult for beginners. but they
have kept at 1t with a will and I think
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The Biggest Bargain in
Town for Xmas Shoppersi
| NJ ATTN EE EVERY DAY
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livers his ITO be or not to be" solilo-
guy seated in the chair OF many
memories from f. M. Sotherns col
lection
The history of the American stage
for five decades meets in the famous
Shakespearean wardrobe of Maurice
Hermann, whose domicile is a
strangely pathetic shrine of the past
to which come the loyal worshippers
OF the classic drama whose walls are
hung with the faces of his friends in
the costumes he made for them, the
great players Of yesterday, and nearly
all Of them dead!
They tell me that my occupation Is
gone--that 1 should adapt myself to
the times and make costumes for the
vaudeville artists" says the cos
tuner of classic drama. But just
arc alive again, that Hampden is
playing Hamlet to crowded houses!
There's hope-the Shakespearean ac-
tors are not all dead, the love of
Shakespeare is not vanished All the
great Hdmlets of my time-Ive
known them and worked for them.
Last season when Mr.. Hampden was
TO splay Hamlet he came to me- I
made for him the traditional costume
from that patterned for Edwin Booth
and which Sothern wore. But each
Hdmlet has had his own distinctions
in dress. For instance, Booths tuniC
was lined with purple-he wanted a
touch Of color to show in the black
costume. When Richard Mansfield
was about to play Hdm1e,-which he
never did, though he planned the pro-
duction in detail-he came to me with
new idea. He said he had found an
authority OF tenth century dress
which indicated that in Denmark and
the north red was the color of mourn
ing in the Middle Ages! And l be.
lieve il he had gone on with the
production that he would have fol.
lowed his conviction! All, he was a
great mani did all the costumes
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long in the play at all So loud did
the alteration become that Miss
Brady and Nagcl could not make
themselves heard. Just after Nagel
had finished telling Miss Brady. i've
been looking forward--to Just seeing
you, more than I have to the race"
the din Off stage increased, and turning
10 Miss Brady Nagel spoke a line not
in the script. ut sounds" he said, las
though the coach and the trainer are
having it out. III have to have a
look"
He quickly walked off stage TO find
two stage hands scrapping for all they
were worth. Nagel didn't wait. He
landed first on one OF the fighters and
as quickly on the other. The noise
suddenly ceased and Nagcl returned to
the stage TO tell Miss Brady and the
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Vaudeville and Burlesque.

Blanche Bates returns to the
stage for one week at the Palace
in The World Mother" The
scene is a London street during
an air raid. Miss Bates and the
supporting cast donate their SER
vices and the receipts will go to
the Red Cross.
An anniversary bill at the AL
hambra presents those eccentric
dancers the Mosconis, Trixie
Friganza in AT the Block
Party" Sophie Tucker. Laurie
and Bronson and Nan Halperin.
A patrons request bill at the
Royal includes Sophie Tucker,
ne Avon Comedy Four, Kate
Gilmore and Sam William, Joe
Jackson, Harry BreenS Joe
Donald Kerr and Fife Weston.
Bert Williams comes to the
Riverside for his third and final
week in vaudeville, as does also
Lieut.. Gitz-Rice. Lois Josephine
END Tyler Brooke, and Mrs.
S~nt Hughes are among tho
kessIln.rs.
GciIe Baker appears at the CO.
,y9nlal, as do Harry Watson, Jr.,
wellington Cross, Tarzan, Tom
bryan and Lillian Br6derick,
ETspe and Dutton and Lou and
Jean Archer.
The Sight-Seers come to the
Columbia in a two act satire
called Wait a Minute"
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audience that the coach and the
trainer had both been put out. and the
play proceeded
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for his Henry v. and for his other
great productions.
1.-THE chain and the Jewels worn by
Mr. Hampden are the historic ones
worn by Mr.. Sothern in his Hdntlet,
which he gave to me, with tho Hd~t-
let chair. which I am loaning to Mr..
Hampden for his production. The
other day an actress came 70 ma to
sell me a Queen Gertrude GOWN which,
she declared, had been used in one of
the great productions of recent years
and which, she declared, was in fine
condition. OF what materialT /
asked. OF velvet she said shook
my head. Tho managers used TO
storm at me and the players are often
impatient at the way / fuss about
period costumes. but should costume
Queen Gertrude in Hamlet in a velvet
robe when the velvet looms were not
known in Europe until the hfteonth
century, i've centuries after Hamlet
1t Is that way with the 1ewels--they
belonged to an earlier period, and they
were made strictly in that period by
the old house In Paris that has been
making paste Jewels and stage orna-
ments for the past half century. In
the tenth century they had fine silks
and woods in the north of Europe
the tights and cap OF HamLet are Of
wool.
when Edmond Quinn. the sculptor,
was modelling the Edward Booth
statue. recently unveiled by The Play
ers in Gramercy Park. he brought the
model to me, and when had dressed
the hoy in the Hamlet costume. for a
minute in a certain light / could have
imagined that the boy was Booth him
self! How 1t brought him back to me.
The other day Sydney Booth, a nephew
OF Edwin Booth, came to me to fit the
costume Norman Trevor wore in "A
Kiss for Cinderella so that he could
wear II, for he IL Maude Adams's lead
ing man this season. "a costumed a
Kiss for Cinderella for Miss Adams
I've done all her plays for years. He
said to me: I have some of my uncle S
stage wardrobe. I wonder IL you'd
like to own in your collection the Ben
odict costume ne wore in Much Ado
About Nothing"?' Like It? Why, when
he brought 1t to me took it in my
arms; 1t seemed to me almost that the
friend OF nv youth had come alive for
the moment"
Pictures, costumes, mementoes OF
the Augustin DAILY regime, Of Henry
Irving OF Richard Mansfield, OF Sal
VIM the elder, Of the whole train of a
majestic past Of the Shakespearian
heyday. to the present OF Forbes Rob
ertson and Hampden, hold their place
in this shrine OF memories OF the
nHmic world.
During the second act Of Forever
After" at the Central last Tuesday
night there was forced upon Conrad
Nagel, who plays opposite Alice Brady
and is the youthful hero Of that play
an unexpected opportunity to demon.
strate his heroic qualities off the stage
rs well as on.
The second act OF Forever After
as you may know, is laid at the back
of the training quarters of the Har-
ward crew on the eve of the Harvard.
Yale race. On Tuesday night wher
Nagel, as stroke Of the Harvard crew
was making love to Miss Brady, there
came from just off stage volume OF
sound which could have only one
meaning. A very healthy and lively
fight was going on, and II didn't be-
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TIME new bill at the vieux Co
lombier this week win be a
double one, Alfred de Musset's
Les Caprices de Marianne"
and Tristan Bernard's lie Fardeau
fs la Liberte." The former, first
produced in 1851 at the Coincide Fran
caise, Is a play Of Neapolitan intrigue
in two acts The other is a one act
satire on the virtuous inclinations of
those who acquire wealth. The De
Musset play calls for cast Of eleven
and Demands for six players. The
receipts Of the Wednesday evening
performance will be donated to the
women's auxiliary of the French Hos
Yltal
Members of the Junior League will
present "Hooray for the Girls" at the
Forty-fourth Street Roof Theatre next
Tuesday night for the benefit OF de-
vastated France.
trait Of Bertha Kalich which hangs in
the lobby OF the Harris Theatre, is a
Young Russian artist who has recently
come to this country. Young and COM
paratively unknown as he is, his work
has already attracted the attention of
connosseurs and critics. 1t has been
on exhibition at the Folsom Galleries
and Knoedler and Macbeth have given
him a place on their walls. Jacob II.
Schiff is one Of his connoisseur patrons
and Bertha Kalich herself is an en-
thusiastic and helpful admirer Of the
young painters eminent talent. She
says OF him: MT. Bloc's work has an
unusual quality, which once seen can
not be forgotten. To me il seems to
show fascinating mingling of the in
fuence Of the Bellini period and the
most ultra Russian type. over 1t all
Is an individuality and originality quite
his own" The portrait OF Mime. Kalich
IN the theatre lobby was made by the
artist from Photographic cut, assisted
ny his memories of the actress in the
part of Rachel. Albert Sterner is an
other OF the helpful patrons Of the
Young artist who believes firmly in the
great future of his talented colleague.
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Fairb. nk. Going 60 France.

FhhED9nkh oOtub 10 bHehoes
Douglas Fairbanks, the AIRCRAFT
star, on completion Of a new photoplay
following Arizona" will go to France
to do a series of photoplays- He will
be accompanied by his entire produc-
ing organization. II is quite possible
that he will take his company on n
complete tour OF Europe for special
scenario which Is now being written
by Director Albert Parker. The smfl-
ing Aircraft star last Thursday an
nounced his intention of remaining In
Europe for at least three months,
which will give him ample time to OBJ
tain vast material for a number of
pictures The Fairbanks organization
is now open for stories to b used as
scenarios for Doug on this trip.