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iornance given at that house for the
debu~ of Sembrich in La Sonnambula'
He returned to New York the follow
ing year to produce for the first time
in America "Othello," in which his
brother, Italo, appeared in the title
role, and his wife, Eva Tetrazzini Cam
panini, sister of Tulsa Tetrazzini, ap-
reared as Desdemona.
His reputation firmly established,
Campanini went from one musical cen
ter 10 another until he had conducted
in every big opera house in France,
Spain. Italy and South America. For
nina years ne held the baton III Con-
vent Garden, London. Every singer of
note in the last 80 or 30 years has
sung under his direction.
When Oscar Hammerstein arranged
TO present grand opera in New York
in opposition to the Metropolitan opera
lie selected Canlpanini to assist In the
and have complete charge
of directing the productions This ar
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24

The Store Of Use
| full Gifts for Men,
Boys & Children
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24

An Irish conductor had the misfor.
tune To run his car over an old man who
had bottle of blu.ng inside his coat
Jumping from his car and seeing the
fluid gathering in pool On the street,
he cried TO his friend. "Finnegan tn
90 hard wild us We've killed one o
them blue hoods, Boston Trans.
cripr.
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rangement which continued from 1906
through 1909, was responsible fer
many novelties of the French school in
addition TO introducing such notable
artists as Luisa Tetraz2ini. John
Mccormick, Mary Gardner and other
famous stars.
With the organization of the Chi
ago.Philadelphia Grand Opera COM
pany in 1910, Campanini was selected
as musical director and at once or
ganized and trained an operate or
chestra that soon was reckoned second
to none in the country.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
OPERA DIRECTOR
CAMPANINI DEAD
Had Directed Nearly Every Singer of
Note in the Last 80 or
IS Years

Had Directed Nearly Every Singer of
Note in the Last 80 or
25 Years
Chicago Dec. 19.-Cleofante Cam
panini, director general of the Chicago
Grand Opera company. died OF pneu.
mon.a this morning
Maestro Campanini was in weak
ened condition when he came to Chi.
cago to direct preparations for the
opening session on Nov. 90 At that
time it was no: thought that his i'll.
ness was serious. A few days after the
opera season began, however, his condi
ton became worse and he was confined
to his room under treatment of a ply
stefan
He gradually grew weaker and three
weeks ago was removed to hospital.
There pneumonia developed and
weakened heart defeated efforts OF
four physicians to aid his recovery.
Campanini was born Sept. /, 1860. in
Parma, Italy, and first studied music
In the Consedatoire there While still
youth he took his first violin deck
at the Parma opera. At the age of %
he was director Of the Parma opera
and conducted Carmen" his brother.
Italo Campanini famous tenor.
playing Don Use.
The opera at Parma served as a step.
Ing stone and he was called to direct
the famous La Scala at Milan. where
he was praised by Verdi
Henry Abbey, the American impre.
sar,o, was so impressed with the pro-
duction Carmen that he offered the
young man an engagement at the Met.
ropolitan opera house, New York.
There he conducted the second per.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
BURNED TO DEATH
Clothing of Woodstock Woman
Catches Fire from Lamp

Woodstock, Dec. 19.--While Mrs
Eugene Bourbon, aged As years, of
South street was lighting a lamp early
last evening, it exploded and her dress
instantly caught fire She was alone
IN the tenement at the time In a
frantic effort to eXtinguish the flames,
Mrs. Bourbon threw herself on the
bed, but her struggles were futile and
before help could reach her from mem
bers OF another family who resided in
the house her cloth ng was en- re $
consumed and her body was terribly
burned
She was at once given medical at.
tention, but her burns We're so serious
and the mental shock SO great tpat
her life could not be saved and she
died about midnight
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
SS0,G00,000 ADDED TO
WAR RISK INSURANCE
sweet Sill Raising Monthly Payments
from $50 to $50 Passed by
Congress.

Washington, Dee 2.-Enactlneat
II the Sweet bill, increasing payments
OF war risk insurance from 500 10 So
monthly and liberalizing the in1ur.
ance provisions Of the law - eE oai
the classes of benedciories was com
pleted Saturday BY Congress and seat
to the President for approval Tire
measure, it is estimated, will cost the
government $4,000 900 wear.
Differences between the Senate and
House provisions were adjusted in
conference, end practically 10 irba,e
developed on adoption OF the confer.
CAGE report. The measure n ke5 con
yerred Insurance payable in lump sum
or in thirts-six equal mstohhents.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
Perfume From PhllIpplnss.

Tho shrub from Which the French
manufacture the perfume known as
cassie has been found growing abund.
pntly in the Philippines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11

But if you put your money into
bonds for the development of staple
industries, you are promoting pros
perity. Your money Immediately hires
workmen, pays them wages, and they
in turn produce necessary commodities.
1t is fairly simple. Yet millions of
our countrymen are buying extrava-
gantly and defending themselves by
the claim that they are aiding con-
struction. Day laborers are buying
ten or fifteen dollar pairs of shoes,
when five or six dollar shoes would
look as well and wear as we'll. And
multimillionaires, as has lately been
learned, are making the same pair last
for years by having them repeatedly
repaired.
Perhaps that is why they are multi
millionaires.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
THE KINDER
GARTEN CLASS

Complaint is made by federal au-
, thorities that the purveyors of worth
less stocks are reaping a rich harvest
just now. The complaint is Just. They
are
They are likely to continue. There
are many wage workers whose occu-
patton calls for very limited degree
of skill, but who have succeeded by
unionizing in getting a fancy price for
their labor-a price somewhat dis
proportionate to the degree of dexter
ity needed in their calling. AS result
they have money in amounts which
they can hardly contemplate with
calmness.
Never before were there so many
illiterates with money. People of ru-
dimentary mentality-of positively
weak intelligence-find themselves able
to spend promiscuously. And to the
bogus company sharks it seems almost
too good to be true.
Here are credulous and confdine
ones whom it is almost a pity to rob.
1t is shame to take the money. Candy
from a baby. A fool and his money.
Most proverbs are true for all gener-
ations.
From which it will be seen that the
temporary dissemination of money
does not make for democracy. 1t is
getting back into the hands of the few
the financiers: The possession of a
little elementary education and fairly
well developed intelligence is just as
valuable to a working man as it ever
was. The boys had better cultivate
it; and they'll know how to keep their
money when they've got it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
LOYAL CITIZENSHIP"

Is the title of a red, white and blue
booklet compiled by DR.. Wilbur F.
Crafts for school superintendent and
principals and pastors and other lead
ers to aid them in promoting loyalty
to law. It's keynot is: "There is no
right of revolution where the people
have the right to vote" It brings to-
gether brief utterances of Presidents
Lincoln, Harrison, Roosevelt, and Taft
and Governors Folk and Patterson and
others on the duty of officials to en-
force and Of citizens to obey all laws.
1t contains several pages on teaching
good citizenship in schools, and quotes
loyalty oaths for teachers and pupils.
Single copies will be sent free. on re-
quest, by The International Reform
Bureau, 206 Pennsylvania Ave, S. E..
Washington, D. C.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11

to which persistent reference is made
is food.
The high cost of furniture, or tools,
or cooking utensils, or soap, or bed
steads, or miscellaneous hardware, or
even house rent, we hear little about.
But it is food al Of the time-and then
perhaps, leather or wool. Sometimes
the leather and wool are referred to
as shoes and clothes, but generally the
reference is made to the raw materials.
1t seems more than a coincidence
that the articles which must be cheap
ened are principally those which the
farmer sells. Those which he buys.
apparently, may remain at their pres
ent figure
The demonstrations and Indignation
meetings for which our eloquent SPELL
binders and their friends hire halls
are not attended by members of farm
laborers' unions-because there aren't
any farm labor unions. But cabinet
makers who construct furniture that
farmers buy, and other operatives
whose handiwork is very largely ex-
changed for the money which farmers
get for their produce-these organiza-
lions attend the meetings, and don't
say much about the prices of furni-
ture and kitchenware, out of which
their high wages are maid
If an organization of farmers and
farm laborers attended one of these
meetings, we might, for change, hear
less about food and more about other
brands of high priced merchandise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
RABBIS BLESS MEAT
AS STEAMSHIP LOADS
First Kosher Meat in Five Years
Goes to European Jews
as Gift.

New YOrk.-Included In the more
than 100000 worth of supplies sent
abroad by American Jewish relief
agencies thus far this year were sew
eral hundred tons of kosher" meat
The steamer Ashburn, which left here
some time ago for Danzig, carried 500
tons of this commodity, while the
Huachuca, which has just sailed, Is
carrying smaller consignment to Con-
stanZa, Rumania.
Unusual interest attaches to both
these shipments. Prominent Jews Of
this city inspected the first cargo.
Jewish rabbits blessed the barrels Of
meat as they were lowered into the
ships hold. The meat was a gift from
the Jews Of America to their CO.
religiOnists in Poland and other parts
of Europe These European Jews have
eaten virtually no meat in five years,
for their religion prohibits them using
meat other than that killed by a rabbi
and In an orthodox manner and
kosher" meat has been understandable
Among the other supplies sent In
clothing, shoes and shoe-repairing ma
terials, large quantities of notions,
medicines, hospital supplies and
long list of additional articles, every
one Of which Is lacking in the war
wrecked countries across the Atlantic.
Funds to continue these regular sail
ings Of relief ships are now being
sought by the American Jewish Relief
Committee, whose headquarters are at
Is East 10th Street, this city. Louis
Marshall is chairman and Henry Fl.
RosenfeIt director Of this organiza-
ton. Campaigns are scheduled for
this fall In some twenty states, and 1t
is expected to bring the total contribu-
tons for Jewish relief this year up 70
s35,OOO.OOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

Governor j. B. McDougal of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Chicago has re-
ceived telegram from Secretary of
the Treasury Glass containing an i'm
portant announcement for the hold
ers of United States Treasury Certi-
tlcates of Indebtedness, dated May I,
1919 and maturing October 7, 1919.
Following is the text of the announce
ment from the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
"All United States Treasury cer.i-
ficates of Indebtedness of Series V-K.
dated May 1, 1919 and maturing Oct.
Z, 1919, are hereby called for redemp-
ton on Sept. Is, 1919 at par and ac-
crued interest pursuant to the pro-
vision for such redemption contained
in the certificates. On September Is,
1919 interest on all certificates of said
series will cease to accrue"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
HERE'S WHY

The kidnapping of American officers
by Mexican opportunists does not seem
to have caused that surge Of national
Indignation which might have been ex-
pected. On the whole, we seem to have
contemplated the outrage with AGA
demic calm. One might say callous-
ness-almost Inconsistencies
Yet every man of every nation seems
to resent an insult to his nationality.
What other explanation is there of
race riots? If Lithuanian on a con-
struction gang addresses an Italian in
terms that are derogatory to Italy,
there is at once a physical argument
When Scandinavians and Irishmen
work together on the same shift, they
do not hurl vilifcations at each others
birthplace, if they want to avoid black
eyes.
1t is natural for man to feel indig-
nant when his native land is singled
out for affront. 1t is the normal posi-
ton for healthy man to take.
By what miracle of psychology, then,
do Americans endure the insults of
Mexico with such phlegmatic indiffer-
ence?
Because, dear friends, few of US
consider that it is our country that is
being insulted. A large number of US
do not recognize America as our coun-
try. Some of US recognize Italy, some
Poland, some Germany, some Norway;
but those who in their hearts recognize
America are almost negligible. Even
our participation in the war bears this
out. 1t was the young and immature
element, chiefly, that made the sacri-
flee; the rest of US made money by
performing war work at the topmost
price which we could exact.
Where do we find men in large num-
bers willingly making sacrifices for
America? These economic convul-
sions, in which profteer and wage
booster alike continually weaken our
whole national structure, are the evil
dence of the extent to which the av-
erage citizen loves America, no matter
how many generations separate him
from his immigrant forbears.
When we finally recognize the fact
that we are without q spirit of nation
al unity, we will doubtless begin to
correct the poisonous defect for the
first time. We shall make one step in
the right direction when we recognize
it as a truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
BETHEL ACADEMY
OPENS SEPT. 16.

Bethel Academy, at the Seventh
Day Adventists community located at
the foot of Powers Bluff will start
September 10th for the school year of
nine months.
Quite few changes have been made
IN and around the academy during
the past year. A new dormitory has
been built, 36x1O6, two stories and a
basement. This will be used for the
boys, and the boys dormitory will be
turned over to the girls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
Fitting

We learn that unnaturalized emf
grants are leaving our shores at the
rate of 1000 day and that each of
ITEM is taking at least $1,000 with him.
They are on their way back to Europe,
with the profits of wartime prosperi-
ty.
This fact is worrying some of the
economists, because they feel that the
country is becoming denuded of cur
rency. They claim that it will soon
be impoverished.
But the economists were telling US
a short time ago that the initiation of
living costs was largely due to sur
plus of currency-to a disproportion
of commodity to money.
So the problem is solving itself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
WOOD, SETTING
ANEXAMP
POR7AGECOUNTY
From Stevens Point Journal

Voters of Wood county, at the spec
ial election on Tuesday, authorized q
bond issue of S1,500,000 to build high
ways in the county. While the conn
ty will not be able to obtain appropria-
tons from the state and United States
IN equal amounts its action will give
it the limit in state and federal aid
allowed under the law and will mean
the expenditure of considerably more
than the S1,50O,00O now voted. With
the money available, Wood county
should soon have concrete roads on all
the heavy used portions of main high
ways and good earth roads elsewhere
on the main lines.
We congratulate heartily our neigh
boring county on its enterprise and
good judgment. 1t will be a good
investment for her. The best roads
at any cost are cheap. The extrava-
gance lies in continuing roads so bad
that it IS expensive to use them. A
good highway, whatever it's cost of
building and up-keep, is a saving to
the people because of the reduced
wear on cars, wagons, horses and hui
man beings and the saving in time.
1t was stated by Highway Engineer A.
K. Hirst at the hearing in Stevens
Point IN August that the mere rumor
that trunk line road was to pass by
a farm had raised the price of land
$40 an acre. With hard, even roads on
which to drive to market, the farmers
cost of handling his goods is vastly
reduced, and thus good roads become
vital factor in bringing down the
cost of living. i
Wood county is now building a con-
crete road from the city of Grand
Rapids to the Portage county line.
Probably it will with the money now
voted also install concrete road On
Highway ID across the county from
north to south. Wood county is not
10 fortunately located as Portage coua- /
~ as 1t is, except in the northern por-
ton, out of the route of cross state
traffic, but it is doing much to over
come the handicap, and unless this
county also puts in the best kind f
roads, traffic will finally turn out e
the way and go around US. We can .
stand that, perhaps, as we are not |
greatly worried in regard to tourists, |
out we can't stand to have our own
people put up with poor roads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
JEWISH RELIEF WORK
IS NOW WORLDWIDE
Christian as Well as Jewish SUI
ferers Are Aided by 0rganiza-
ton That Covers Many Coun-
tries in Europe and the Orient.

Quietly, and practically without
publicity Of any sort, the Jews Of Amer
lea have built up, through the Amer
lean Jewish Relief Committee and
other official agencies, a machine for
the organization and distribution OF
relief to war sufferers of their own
and other races that Is now practi-
cally worldwide. The headquarters of
the Committee are at Is East 10th
Street, New York Expenditures for
this work now aggregate more than
100000 q month, and by means OF
state-by-state campaigns to be held
this fall q total Of $35,OO0,OOO is to
be sought to finance the work through
the coming months.
An enumeration of the countries in
which relief efforts are being made
is indicative Of the scope Of the work.
Representatives of these Jewish agen-
cies are to be found In Poland, Czecho-
slOyakia, Jugoslavia, Galicia, Serbia,
Rumania, and other Balkan states,
Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Siberia.
Small groups of refugees, cast I'D by
the backwash Of war, are being as
sisted in Holland, Japan, China and
other isolated parts Of the globe.
All told, many million Christians
and more than 100000 Jews In coun-
tries other than the United States are
being directly aided by American Jew
iSh relief funds. The major portion
Of this humanitarian work Is Of course
carried on in Eastern Europe 1t is
there that the bulk of the worlds Jew
ish population lives. The fact that
these same nations have been perhaps
hardest hit by the late war, explains
why World Jewry Is at the greatest
crisis in its history.
But though the Jews of America
have set out TO save their race from
destruction, they are not forgetting
that their own people are not the only
sufferers In these lands. The signif-
canoe of the whole undertaking becomes
apparent when 1t Is known that the
relief supplies which have been pur-
chased and shipped largely with Jew
ish funds are distributed without dis
elimination to Christians as well as
Jews. Barriers Of race and creed
have been submerged in the food tide
of suffering throughout much OF the
earth, and the efforts of American
Jewry to aid in the great crisis OF
today have become as broad as human
ity itself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
WORLD JEWRY AT
GREATEST CRISIS
Leaders in America Striving to
Save Face in Europe From
Destruction.
MUST SEND AID QUICKLY.
Children Are the Most Pitiful Sufferers
From the CatacIysm That Has
Ruined Once Prosperous +
People.

The Jews in almost every country
Of the world except America are in
state more dire and terrible, perhaps,
than any in which they have found
themselves since the fall of Jerusalem.
Briefly, the Jewish race in much of
Europe is on the verge Of annihila
ton.
The countries in which the plight OF
the Jews is the worst are Poland,
CzechOslOvakla, JugosIavia, Ru-
mania, Serbia, Galicia, Palestine,
Turkey, Greece and Siberia. In Wilma,
a typical town of Poland, the Jewish
population has been cut down by star
walton, typhus and other diseases in
the last five years from 10000 to
$4,000 Nearly half of the survivors
are dependent upon relief supplies
sent by their cO-rellgiOnists In
America. Warsaw, Kovno. Constanza,
and many other cities throughout
Central and Eastern Europe tell the
same tale
American Jews, aroused by the re-
ports that first filtered through after
diately organized under the American
Jewish Relief Committee, Of Is East
10th Street, New York City, to save
their race abroad. They sent some 20
commissioners TO various foreign cOun-
tries to investigate the truth of these
reports. Almost all these commission
ers have now returned and the first
hand information that they have
brought back is more alarming than the
early unsubstantiated reports. Such
men as Nathan Straus, Henry Morgen-
thau, Julius Rosenwald, Jacob Fl.
Schiff, Felix NJ Warburg, and many
other prominent members of this com
mittee are now bending every effort
to arouse America to the great need
abroad and rush the food and supplies
across the ocean which, If sent quick
ly, will save the Jewish race from
destruction.
Saddest of the victims of all this
woe are the children. Tens Of thou
sands Of pitiful youngsters who are
seven or eight years old have gone so
long undernOurished that they are lit
tie further developed than normal In
fants of one or two years. In the
Polish cities orphaned children wander
about the streets, homeless and unable
to get into the orphanages. These are
already Overcrowded and depend
primarily upon American relief funds
to keep theltI going.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11
BLOWING IT IN

There is a rather curious fallacy
that promiscuous buying is a merit,
because it puts money into circula
ton" 1t is no fallacy at all that the
rapid circulation Of money promotes
prosperity.
The former is simply an argument
in favor of extravaganza. The latter
is an argument in favor of industry.
1t depends upon what you buy. If
you use savings to purchase a steam
pleasure yacht that you do not want
and can not afford, you are not really
helping to keep the factory wheels re-
volving. You are diverting industry
into the vicious activity of manufac-
turing useless things.