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Giuseppe Castellano talks to Skylar Smith, Professor of Liberal Arts at the Ringling College of Art and Design, about why there's no time like the present to start learning about illustration history; whether an illustration is fully complete without the interpretation of an audience; what Generative AI and a lawsuit by Albrecht Dürer have in common; and more.You can find Skylar on LinkedIn.Artists mentioned in this episode include: Jules Feiffer, Norman Rockwell, George Petty, Miné Okubo, Arthur Szyk, J.C. Leyendecker, Al Parker, Saul Tepper, Norman Bridwell, Beatrix Potter, Todd McFarlane, James Montgomery Flagg, Seymour Chwast, Hilary Knight, Ashley Bryan, Tomi Ungerer, Tex Avery, Eric Carle, George Herriman, Caravaggio, and Albrecht Dürer If you find value in this podcast, consider supporting it via Substack or Patreon. Among other benefits, you will gain access to bonus episodes we call “Extra Credit”. | Visit illustrationdept.com for offerings like mentorships and portfolio reviews, testimonials, our alumni showcase, our best-selling Substack, and more. | Music for the podcast was created by Oatmello.
National Go fishing day. Entertainment from 1981. War of 1812 began, Napolean defeated at Waterloo, Sally Ride 1st US woman in space. Todays birthdays - James Montgomery Flagg, George Mallory, Paul McCartney, Carol Kane, Isabella Rossellini, Nathan Morris, Blake Shelton. Clarence Clemons died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/I wanna go fishing - Randy HeavinBette Davis eyes - Kim CarnesBut you know I still love you - Dolly PartonBirthdays - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/She love you - The BeatlesEnd of the road - Boys II MenAustin - Blake SheltonExit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/Follow Jeff Stampka on Facebook and cooolmedia.com
Christopher Gilbert is a professor in the English department at Assumption University. Chris is the author of "Caricature and National Character The United States at War" which traces the comic representation of American values from the First World War to the War on Terror, Gilbert explores the power of humor in caricature to expose both the folly in jingoistic virtues and the sometimes-strange fortune in nationalistic vices. He examines the artwork of four exemplary American cartoonists—James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to craft a trenchant image of Americanism. These examinations animate the rhetorical, and indeed comic, force of icons like Uncle Sam, national symbols like the American Eagle, political stooges like President Donald J. Trump, and more, as well as the power of political cartoons to comment on issues of race, class, and gender on the home front. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete audiobook with relaxing music and visuals to help you stay engaged. Narrated by Mike Vendetti. If you have any suggestions, please let us know in the comments section!
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 534, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Money Slang 1: The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate. a clam. 2: Cheap way off a rodeo bronco. Buck. 3: Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough. bread. 4: Bank notes that sing before fa-so-la. Do-re-mi. 5: When speaking of Messrs. Netanyahu or Britten, it's all about the first name, pluralized. the Benjamins. Round 2. Category: The Gridiron 1: [Hi, I'm Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers] In the 1972 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders, I caught a miraculous, game-winning pass that's been nicknamed this. "The Immaculate Reception". 2: [Hi, I'm Dick Butkus, Hall of Fame linebacker of the Chicago Bears] Before moving to Soldier Field in 1971, the Bears played its home games for 50 seasons in this Cubs park. Wrigley Field. 3: [Hi, I'm Champ Bailey, college football's top defensive player of 1998] The award for top defensive player in college football is named for Bronislaw Nagurski, whose nickname was this. Bronco. 4: [Hi, I'm Raghib Ismail of the Dallas Cowboys] While at this school, I was named MVP of the Orange Bowl on the first day of the '90s. Notre Dame. 5: [Hi, I'm Shannon Sharpe of the Denver Broncos] In 1995 this Cowboys running back tied Jim Brown's record by scoring his 100th career TD in his 93rd NFL game. Emmitt Smith. Round 3. Category: Lunar Locales 1: The Mare Frigoris is the Sea of this. Cold. 2: The Palus Somnii is the Marsh of Sleep and the Lacus Somnorium is the Lake of these. Dreams. 3: Not on my list of vacation spots is the Lacus Mortis, the Lake of this. Death. 4: The Sinus Iridum is the Bay of these, so start searching for those pots of gold. Rainbows. 5: The Mare Australe is the Southern Sea and the Mare Orientale is this. the Eastern Sea. Round 4. Category: Cry "Uncle" 1: In his famous recruitment poster, James Montgomery Flagg modeled this figure on himself. Uncle Sam. 2: After Little Eva's death, he's sold to Simon Legree. Uncle Tom. 3: John Candy gets the third degree from his nephew, played by Macaulay Culkin, in this 1989 film. "Uncle Buck". 4: It was Jackie Coogan's character on "The Addams Family". Uncle Fester. 5: In a Chekhov play, this title character runs the estate of his brother-in-law, a pompous professor. Uncle Vanya. Round 5. Category: The Lou 1: He partnered with straight man Joe Lyons before he teamed with Bud Abbott. Lou Costello. 2: The Cleveland Browns' Lou Groza was nicknamed "The Toe" for his accuracy at this. Kicking field goals. 3: She's teamed up with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton on 2 albums. Emmy Lou Harris. 4: With 14, he shares the record for most stolen bases in the World Series. Lou Brock. 5: In 1929 she became First Lady. Lou Henry Hoover. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Hello Interactors,Two years ago yesterday, the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was reported just north of Seattle in Everett, Washington. By the end of the month, my town, Kirkland, became famous for more than just the brand of Costco toilet paper. It was the site of the first serious outbreak of COVID in the United States. How many more years will this last? It all depends on if we’re honest with each other and behave ourselves.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…I WANT YOUIt wears many crowns: multae coronae; this virus, this disease. CO-VI-D. COVID. We watched as its thorny tips gripped the tender tissue deep in the lungs of unsuspecting Chinese victims in Wuhan. Replicating, mutating, devastating. Like many crowns before, it sought expansion; new territories to explore, humans to exploit, and lives to destroy. But not the impenetrable America, we thought. Not immutable Americans. Epidemics are for poor countries. Others. What collective stupidity.Viruses know no borders. America’s first serious outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus occurred in a health center just over a mile from my home in Kirkland, Washington. Like any invader, it scared people into their homes. First reactions were to stay clear of the facility from whence it was spreading…and anyone who may work there. Doctors and nurses at the home were early spreader suspects. Would they spread it to hospitals, other patients, or their families? Not yet knowing how it spread or how to avoid it, early advice was to simply wash your hands. Wash everything – your clothes, your groceries, and even your Amazon packages. Masks were regarded as ineffective by many U.S. medical pundits and practitioners. Wash your hands, they said.The United States has a history of denial when it comes to epidemics. When the Spanish Flu was first reported in 1918 in a U.S. Army camp in Kansas, the U.S. had just entered World War I the year prior. Citizens of warring countries in Europe, including Great Britain, were experiencing outbreaks of the flu but were loathed to report it. They feared their enemies would know their troops were vulnerable and weakened. They also didn’t want the public, especially draftees, to fear both the war and an epidemic. And they wanted the media to focus attention on the war, not public health.Spain, who’s King had contracted the flu, was neutral during War World I so freely reported the outbreak that was soon to be ravaging Europe. The Spanish flu did not originate in Spain, just the honest reporting of it.The U.S. government, and its high ranking military, were equally hush on the outbreak. It didn’t help that two months after the first reported case, Congress passed the 1918 Sedition Act. This made it a crime to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States." Newspaper editors may have had their own reasons for not reporting on the epidemic, but fear of legal action by the federal government may have topped the list.By the end of summer, the flu had spread enough that doctors became increasingly worried. For example, in September of 1918, doctors in Philadelphia asked the press to advise the public against attending an upcoming “Liberty Loan” parade. Local papers refused to run the articles. Doctors pleaded with Philadelphia’s public health director to cancel the parade, but their pleas were dismissed. The parade became a super-spreader event. Over the course of the next month, over 12,000 people in the Philadelphia area died from the Spanish Flu.President Woodrow Wilson didn’t help. Wilson, borrowing a page from the Europeans, chose a combination of censorship and propaganda. This was America’s first real governmental threat to the freedom of the press. He demanded “loyalty” from all Americans in the lead up to World War I and his administrations pursuit to “make the world safe for democracy.” Days after Congress declared war in April of 1917, Wilson issued an executive order creating an agency called the Committee on Public Information. It was led by the journalist, George Creel, and was intended to persuade Americans to support the war and recruit soldiers.One of the departments was called the Division of Pictorial Publicity and included volunteer artists and illustrators. One of those illustrators was James Montgomery Flagg. Perhaps drawn to patriotism with a name like Flagg, he made one of the most enduring illustrations in American history. It’s the ubiquitous poster of Uncle Sam sternly pointing his finger at the viewer with the face of an angry father, with words in all-caps, “I WANT YOU…FOR THE U.S. ARMY.”Wilson’s PR man, Creel, was not unlike the over controlling press secretary’s that Trump appointed. Creel demanded the White House only publish good news, flattering reports of the government and the country, and, most of all, propaganda supporting America’s efforts in the war. Mentioning the spread of infectious disease across America did not fit the agenda. Especially when, as in Europe, the bad news included soldiers being infected. Many of whom, were being shipped to Europe where they continued the spread of the virus.Military doctors pleaded with their superiors and the President to stop sending troops overseas, suspend the draft, and quarantine soldiers. All Wilson was willing to do was temporarily suspend a single draft and reduce the numbers of troops headed to Europe by 15%. By the end of 1918, 45,000 soldiers died from the Spanish Flu. That’s just over one-third of 116,000 who died fighting.In November of 1918, during one of the epidemics largest spikes, the war came to an end. Some believe the Spanish Flu brought World War I to an end. But far be it from any nation’s leaders to admit as much. While Wilson was in Paris in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference, he came down with a bad case of the Spanish Flu. The White House tried to hide this fact from the public issuing a statement saying the nasty Paris weather had given him a cold.MASKING REALITYNot all leaders ignore the advise of medical professionals reporting from the field. Just a few years prior to the Spanish Flu epidemic, in 1910, a plague was ravaging Northern China. All those infected were certain to die within 24-48 hours. In a race with Russia to claim scientific and medical superiority in a cure for the disease, the Chinese Imperial Court assigned a little known doctor, Lien-teh Wu, to head eradication efforts.Dr. Wu had discovered through an autopsy that the disease was spread through the air and not by fleas, as suspected. Wu had spent time in Europe as part of his training and observed surgeons using gauze masks during surgery to avoid sneezing or spitting into open wounds. If the mask prevented particulates from escaping the nose and mouth, he thought, perhaps it could prevent them from entering. He began experimenting with his own masks by layering cotton with gauze and fitting the mask close to the face.But there were skeptics. One was an experienced French doctor who was practicing in China at the time. Dr. Wu explained to the doctor his theory of the plague being spread airborne and that his mask reduced spreading. The Frenchman responded, “What can we expect from a Chinaman?” To prove he was right, the racist doctor visited a hospital housing victims of the plague without Wu’s mask. He died two days later.News of the efficacy of Dr. Wu’s invention spread around the world. Mask use was commonplace in the medical profession by the time the Spanish Flu hit. Even ordinary citizens were aware of its effectiveness. While it’s impossible to prove at this point, populations in U.S. that wore masks faired better than those that did not. Seattle was one such city that embraced mask wearing.But just like today, there were detractors. The same excuses were used one-hundred years ago as we hear today. People complained they couldn’t breath. Others felt it was a challenge to their civil liberties. Businesses worried mandatory mask wearing would hurt business while some thought masks would offer a false sense of security.San Francisco passed a law mandating mask wearing, but enforcement posed challenges. One over zealous enforcer shot a man who refused to wear a mask. And when a photo emerged of the mayor and other public officials not wearing masks at a boxing match, citizens revolted; especially when they were not charged or assessed fines that ordinary citizens faced. Still, San Francisco stood out as the mandate resulted in a significant decline in cases.The widespread prevalence of mask wearing in America, and news of San Francisco’s success abating the disease, spread to other parts of the world. Most notably, Japan. In February of 1919 their National Public Health Bureau pushed local health workers to wear masks while tending to flu victims. Later they added guidelines for mask wearing by the public in crowded places like trains and trams. By the fall of 1919 Japan was distributing free masks to those who could not afford them. They then included cinemas and busses to the list of suggested public spaces for mask wearing.As the Spanish Flu subsided in America, so did mask wearing in public spaces. But it stuck in Japan, and other East Asian countries, to this day. Maybe we’ll be seeing more of it in the West even after COVID subsides. If it ever does.As the COVID pandemic unfolded, we witnessed a proverbial passing of the buck as the world searched for answers. The finger pointing started at the origin. Doctors and nurses were put on the spot as people demanded clues as to what it was and how it spread. Western medicine has taught us to view doctors as omniscient beings, fountains of knowledge – surrogate paternal or maternal oracles of comfort. But through three surgical masks and a plastic shield they said, “Don’t look at me, you need to talk to the virologists. Besides, I’m just trying to stay alive myself. Now excuse me, this person can’t breathe.”The virologists, a bit removed from the mess, summoned their knowledge of microscopic distress. They spoke of gamma phage, viroids, prions, and nano plagues. And when peppered for clarity amidst the hysteria – to get the gist on this viral mist – they pointed to epidemiologists.These fine folks are the furthest from the pain. People become numbers and points on a plane; Statistical patterns that seek to explain; hints at causation of a transmission chain. But the models they use assume we’re the same. They think we behave like lemmings in a game. Epidemiologists (as well as virologists and physicians) perform mathematic experiments using a fixed set of variables that assume humans behave, and react, the same across diverse populations. Those assumptions are largely modeled after behavior Western science has been most focused on over the centuries: WEIRD people. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. And as we know, even within the WEIRD community, there is a lot of variation in behavior!When statistical models assume idealized behavior of the so-called, rational man – people who consistently and optimally perform subjective but rational acts – they ignore the fact people do not largely act rationally. This makes it hard to then predict how the virus will behave across diverse sets of populations. Especially when those who do act rationally are randomly exposed to interactions with people who may not act rationally. Human social behavior, especially at the scale that epidemiologists study, can be more random than not.THE COMPLEX ALTERNATIVEBut there are those seeking to change this. A November 2021 study by a diverse set of researchers, mostly out of the University of Illinois, introduced randomness into the more traditional and relatively inadequate epidemiological models to simulate human social behavior. Instead of using variables that assumed people would act rationally and predictably, they seeded them with a distribution of random numbers that more accurately account for the random interactions we have with people and place.By capturing multiple features of COVID outbreaks they discovered a “small fraction of individuals were responsible for a disproportionately large number of secondary infections.” Traditional models assumed this would lead to herd immunity. This has not shown to be true even among those areas hardest hit by the first wave. They also discovered another “puzzling aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic.” They observed frequent regional plateaus with an “approximately constant incidence rate over a prolonged time.”They reasoned it is human behavior that likely causes this pattern. They surmise that what causes “both suppression of the early waves and plateau-like dynamics is that individuals modify their behavior based on information about the current epidemiological situation.” They also suggest these epidemical dynamics of “long plateaus might arise because of the underlying structure of social networks.”What they claim is happening is local outbreaks cause people to adjust their behavior, either voluntarily, through social pressures, or both commercial and governmental restrictions. When people move less the cases plateau. But as soon as they start trending down, everyone starts moving again. Some of these people, even during the peak, travel to different regions that may be experiencing a slump of outbreaks. A portion of whom are carrying the virus and inadvertently spread the disease creating a new wave of cases in that locale.These short-term localized waves, and commiserate behavior, repeatedly occur around the world. They create, and perpetuate, persistent long-term waves of the pandemic. These researchers claim these longer-term waves have the potential to stretch out for years given current human behavior.When the pandemic first started to unfold, the Santa Fe Institute started a podcast series called Transmission. It looked at the pandemic from a Complexity Science perspective. The host, Michael Garfield opens by stating, “The coronavirus pandemic is in one sense a kind of prism: it reveals the many interlocking systems that, until disrupted, formed the mostly invisible backdrop of modern life…” He continued, “The virus acts on, and invites new understanding through, the complexity we only take for granted at our peril.”The Institute took the transcripts from those episodes, and other Santa Fe Institute reports, studies, and insights from a set of international complexity thinkers, and published them in a recent book titled “The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 pandemic.” It invites the authors of these early reports to reflect on what they got right and what they didn’t.Garfield recently interviewed the two editors, the current and former president of the Santa Fe Institute, David Krakauer and Geoffrey West. He had them reflect on the book, but also on what they believe Complexity thinkers got right and where there’s more to be learned.Krakauer mentions a split in opinions and hints at what is the essence of the study I quoted from before,“There are those who will say we have to get behavior into the mathematical models. Otherwise they're going to be useless, right? And we've talked about this before; the early phase of infection being quite biological and well-behaved exponentially, and then going nuts with human behavior dominating rather than biology.”But he goes on to point out that it’s not that mathematicians have thrown in the towel.“But then there are others who said, no, we just have to find the new course grain models. We just have to be more sophisticated. Drop the deterministic mass action, put the stochasticity [randomness] in, and then we get the causality out. We don't get prediction out, but we get causality out. So there, even the community is internally riven on the question of what the right response should be.”Near the end, Krakauer concludes by saying, “I think we do not understand how collective intelligence works.” but that over the last two years, “we were all schooled in collective stupidity.” He thinks “we haven't even begun to understand what's going on here” and that we’re “not even in the foothills of understanding how complex reality works.”Geoffrey West reminds us that “we can't solve these problems unless we have everybody together.” And he’s not just talking about the scientific community, he includes “society in terms of the shakers and movers [like policy makers] who are thinking about these problems from a completely different, and usually non-scientific viewpoint.”I sit here in Kirkland on this inauspicious anniversary and reflect on my non-scientific point of view. Sadly, what the virus of multae coronae has taught me is this: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. That’s Latin for “Generally people believe what they want.” But beliefs, like viruses and mask wearing adherence, has the potential to change locally in the short-term while spreading globally in the long-term.Thank you for reading Interplace. This post is public so feel free to share it. Subscribe at interplace.io
With less than four weeks to go before American voters elect their next president, how has executive authority developed since George Washington was sworn in as the federal republic's first president in 1789? In this first of three podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about where power lay in the period between the United States achieving independence and the outbreak of Civil War in 1861. __ Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now we're offering 3 months for just £5. Go to thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com/ for details. __ Image: George Washington on horseback in front of a map of the United States, by James Montgomery Flagg, c. 1935. Screen print. (Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Highlights We say farewell to Former Commissioner James Nutter: Dan Dayton |@ 00:30 Poland in WW1 - Part 1: The Oath Crisis |@ 01:45 Poland in WW1 - Part 2: What you probably did not know: Jan Lorys |@ 03:45 The US government federalizes the shipbuilding industry |@ 10:45 Women take up the fight in Europe: Mike Shuster |@ 19:15 Americans who fought before America’s declaration: Richard Rubin & Jonathan Bratten |@ 23:30 President Trump in Paris for Bastille Day WW1 Commemoration |@ 28:45 Junior Master Gardener Poppy Project: Lisa Whittlesey |@ 29:30 NYC museum exhibit: “Posters & Patriotism” |@ 35:45 Utah grant program for WW1 events, research and memorials |@ 36:45 “They Also Served” overlooked WW1 participants |@ 37:45 Story about Star Spangled Banner widely picked up |@ 40:15 The Buzz about gas:Katherine Akey |@ 42:15 And more…. ----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Today is July 12th, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host. Announcement We open today with an announcement from Dan Dayton, the Commission’s Executive Director. Remembering Former Commissioner James Nutter who passed away this week at age 89. Dan Dayton reads a remembrance of Commissioner Nutter and all he did for us here at the commission. World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week [sound transition] We have moved back in time 100 years ago. Today our wayback machine also crosses the Atlantic to view a crisis that arises in Poland - known as the Polish Oath Crisis! Poland in WW1 - Part 1 Germany, has been hoping to use Poland’s extensive manpower to help them fight the war, Jozef Piłsudski, the leader of the Polish Legion has grown disillusioned with the Central Powers that Germany set up in Poland under the 1916 promise of independence after the war - if Poland sides with her. By now, the revolution in Russia has removed the hated Czar and brought in a government that will probably support Polish independence. Plus... America’s entry into the war makes it even more likely that any Allied-enforced peace will recognize full Polish self-determination, instead of a nominal independence as a German vassal. Jozef Piłsudski sees his chance to make his objections known this week, when the German installed governor of Poland requires that all the soldiers in the Polish Legion swear a loyalty oath to a “future King” of Poland and to be a “loyal brother-in-arms” to the Germans and Austrians! On July 8th, Pilsudski resigns from the provisional government, and instructs the men of the Polish Legions not to swear the oath. The next day, on July 9th most of them agree - and publicly refuse to do so, many throwing down their weapons in protest. This is does not go over well. Polish-Austrian subjects in the Legions are forcibly drafted back into the Austrian army and sent off to the Italian front; Russian and German subjects who refused to swear the oath are treated as enemy combatants and are arrested as prisoners of war. Jozef Piłsudski himself is arrested by the Germans and remains in captivity until the final weeks of the war. Poland in WW1 - Part 2: To help us understand the story of Poland and Polish Americans in WW1, we have a special guest with us today. Jan Lorys, is a historian and the former Director of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago… Welcome Jan! [Jan: to begin with, can you put - Poland as an independent people, nation and culture into the context of the time for us?] [There was a large immigrant wave of pols to the US at the turn of the century, what drove that?] [Why did so many immigrants volunteer to go back and fight, especially since they might have been up against their own countrymen?] Thank you for taking the time to join us Jan… That was Jan Lorys, historian and the former Director of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago talking to us about the Polish experience in WW1. http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/162750174313/polish-oath-crisis [sound effect] US Government Federalizes the Shipbuilding Industry It is the week of July 8 to July 14, 1917. As we explore the pages of the Official Bulletin - the administration’s daily war gazette published by the order of the President by his propaganda chief, George Creel - For a theme this week - we are focusing on ships, shipping, and shipbuilding. There are literally a dozen stories about the war on the waves - Here are a few of them… woven into an interesting picture of a whole industry that is simply being taken over by the federal government. [sound effect] Dateline: July 10, 1917 Headline: PRESIDENT ORDERS 87 GERMAN VESSELS TAKEN OVER FOR THE UNITED STATES. This article points out that in May of 1917, President Wilson approves a joint resolution of congress that allows the united states to take possession of any ships in its national or territorial ports, which are owned in whole or part by companies, citizens or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war. With that as the basis, President Wilson orders that 87 such ships be appropriated by the US government to be “retrofitted” and put back into service for America. The cash value of the 87 ships is not given, but with a war planned to be prosecuted an ocean away, these opening “spoils of war”, are a real boon. Those 87 ships easily represent one or more years of US shipbuilding capacity - now - they belong to the federal government with the stroke of a pen! Speaking of building ships - another headline this week reads [sound effect] Headline:EXPANSION OF U. S. NAVY YARDS BEING PLANNED SO THAT 16 WAR VESSELS MAY BE BUILT AT ONE TIME. Secretary of the Navy Daniels states today: The shipbuilding facilities of the United States navy yards are being expanded so that eventually 16 war vessels may be on the ways at one time, while fully 32 may be in course of construction. This number does not Include submarines and submarine chasers. "All this work at navy yards is being rushed, with the men working overtime and in shifts, and in most cases bonuses are being offered for completion of work ahead of the schedule." [sound effect] Headline: PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES THE REQUISITION OF SHIPPING Expanding on a law that Wilson gets congress to pass - giving him great authority over the maritime industries, President Wilson flips that control over to another powerful industry board he sets up - The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. In this article Wilson states: “I hereby direct that the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall have and exercise all power and authority vested in me in said section of said act, in so far as applicable to and in furtherance of the construction of vessels, the purchase or requisitioning of vessels in process of construction, whether on the ways or already launched, or of contracts for the construction of such vessels, and the completion thereof, and all power and authority applicable to and in furtherance of the production, purchase, and requisitioning of materials for ship construction. Speaking of materials - that is also addressed this very same week! [sound effect] Dateline: July 12th, 1917 Headline: Entire output of steel available for war needs The story reads: "At the conference this morning between the committee of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chairman of the Shipping Board, and others, further discussion was had about the prospective demand upon the steel industry - for supplies of various steel products for carrying on the war. The steel men repeated their assurance that their entire product would be available for the need, -- and that they were doing everything possible to stimulate an increased production and speed deliveries. " The price to be paid for the iron and steel products was left to be determined after the inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission is completed, ---- with the understanding that the price, when fixed, would insure reasonable profits and be made with reference to the expanding needs of this vital and fundamental industry. The government is not only after the control of the resources but also of the labor [sound effect] Dateline: Friday July 18th, 1917 Headline: LABOR FOR NAVY YARDS BEING SUPPLIED BY CIVIL SERVICE This story talks about how the labor for the expansion is being supported by the government’s civil service commission. It goes on to state: “The Civil Service Commission is an employment agency on a large scale, but it goes beyond the functions of the ordinary employment agency in that it tests the fitness of every person it certifies as eligible. Equipped as it is with 3,000 representative agencies — that is, local boards of examiners—situated in every part of the country, it is eminently qualified to perform the important service of bringing the man and the job together, so far as the needs of the Government are concerned. Then on Friday - the Official Bulletin reveals the big story - The - to me - jaw dropping announcement that The administration is going to federalize the entire ship building industry! WHAT!? [sound effect] Dateline: Friday July 18th, 1917 Headline: STATEMENT ABOUT THE PROGRAM TO FEDERALIZE SHIPYARDS The article goes on to read: “ Because of their varied contracts for shipbuilding, the yards can not carry out this program without the help of the Government; it has, therefore, been decided that the shipbuilding industry of the Nation shall be federalized. All steel merchant ships now on the building berths will be forthwith requisitioned by the United States, and each yard will proceed to complete such ships under the direction of the general manager of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and will take on new work only with his consent. Wow! There are a bunch of other headlines but we need to stop here and just review - Remember these headlines are just from articles THIS WEEK! FIRST - Wilson expands the US maritime fleet by nearly 90 ships - by appropriating all the vessels in US and US territorial ports if are connected to any nation, company or citizen of a nation we have declared war on. NEXT - Secretary of the Navy Daniels declares that we are pushing the US Navy shipyards into doubling their production capacity. THEN - Wilson officially empowers an organization called the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation with general control over the industry… FOLLOWED BY - The steel manufacturers gathering in Washington to agree that their entire output and industry is now at the beckon call of the US government - at a “to be negotiated price”. The labor force and hiring for the NAVY shipbuilding industry is put under control of the government’s Civil Service Commission ALL THIS IS TOPPED OFF WITH the announcement on Friday that - the entire shipbuilding industry NAVY and CIVIL is being federalized and put under the control of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The bottom line seems to be that 100 years ago this week - the US government literally takes over and federalizes the entire US shipbuilding industry including supply and labor. That a shocking and almost inconceivable turn of events for a free enterprise, democratic, capitalist nation - Yet it is another part of the war that changed the world. Great War Project Our next guest is Mike shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War Project blog. We have explored Poland, shipbuilding in the US and now Mike takes us to the UK where more soldiers are being freed up to fight - by women! Welcome Mike! [Mike Shuster] Thank you Mike. That was Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK:http://greatwarproject.org/2017/07/09/women-at-war/ The Great War Channel To watch videos about WW1 100 years ago this week, from a more european perspective, go visit our friends at the Great War Channel on Youtube. This week’s new episodes cover: The destroyed villages of France - Fleury Turmoil in the reichstag - the Kerensky offensive German defenses in the Meuse Argonne region - this story is a preview of a region that will become a major battle ground for American soldiers in the near future! The link is in the podcast notes or search for “the great war” on youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar Storyteller and the Historian They are back! This week: the Storyteller and the Historian talk about the many Americans who served under other flags prior to the US entry into WW1. [Audio S&H] That was - the StoryTeller - Richard Rubin and The Historian - Jonathan Bratten talking Americans in WW1 before America’s entry. A monthly full one-hour journey with these two great raconteurs is now available as a podcast on itunes: Search for Storyteller & Historian in the iTunes Podcast sections World War One NOW [SOUND EFFECT] We have moved forward into the present with WW1 Centennial News NOW - News about the centennial and the commemoration. Commission News President Trump in Paris As we mentioned last week, On July 14, 2017 US President Trump and French President Macron will both honor the long and special bond between France and the US during a Bastille day parade in Paris that remembers American troops arriving in France 100 years ago. It looks like we will not have access to a live stream of the event, however, we will gather videos and pictures for you and post them on our social media platforms on Facebook @ww1centennial and on Instagram @ww1cc. The commission sees the common recognition of the centennial by the leadership of both countries as a significant moment in the centennial commemoration of the War that changed the world! Junior Master Gardener Poppy Project This week we want to introduce you to a new collaboration we are very excited about! The 4H club and it’s Junior Master Gardener Program. This is an international youth gardening program that engages children in “hands-on” group and individual learning experiences that develop an appreciation for the environment and gardening - cultivating both the ground and - the mind. In commemoration of the centennial of WW1, the Junior Master Gardeners are going to work with the WW1 centennial Commission on a Poppy program! We are so excited about this great initiative that will extend the conversation and awareness about the war that changed the world to the kids. With us today is Lisa Whittlesey, Director of the International Junior Master Gardener Program. Lisa - good to have you with us! [Lisa: I have to start by telling you that I REALLY like your website at jmgkids.us - it’s green and happy and really fun - So let’s start with the JMG program itself - Can you tell us more about it?] [ Lisa: How does the JMG poppy program work?] Thank you Lisa! That was Lisa Whittlesey, the Director of the International Junior Master Gardener Program introducing us to their new WW1 Poppy Program. We will be talking about this more over the coming week. We are setting up a special page for the program at ww1cc.org/jmg. We put that link and the Junior Master Gardener web site link in the podcast notes. Links: http://jmgkids.us http://ww1cc.org/jmg Activities and Events [Sound Effect] From the U.S. National WW1 Centennial Events Register at WW1CC.org/events - here is our upcoming “event pick” of the week: link:https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/legend-memory-and-great-war-air New York: Exhibit, posters and patriotism We mentioned this in passing last week, but if you’re in the Big Apple, go to the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan and see their new “Posters and Patriotism” exhibit featuring the work of many New York artists and illustrators that were enlisted to create posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice. Besides finding this in the U.S. National WW1 Centennial Events Register at WW1CC.org/events there is also an interview on the site with show curator Donald Albrecht where he discusses some of his favorite pieces from the show, which includes the James Montgomery Flagg’s “Uncle Sam Wants You” poster. We put the links to the event and the article in the podcast notes link:http://ww1cc.org/events http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2758-four-questions-for-donald-albrecht.html http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/posters-and-patriotism http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/event-map-system/eventdetail/42753/posters-and-patriotism.html Link:http://ww1cc.org/events Updates From The States [sound effect] Now for our updates from the states, and we’ll start with a new program from the Beehive state - Utah! Utah An exciting new opportunity for grants has launched in the state of Utah. The Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs and the Division of State History are offering grants for World War I-related research, commemorative events, as well as the cleaning and restoration of memorials around the state. The funding ranges from $500 to $1,500 for events and research and up to $5,000 for the cleaning and restoration of WWI memorials. This is a great extension of the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials program if you are in the state! Gary Harter, executive director of the veterans and military affairs department, states “Even 100 years after it occurred, the impacts of World War I are still felt today.”, He continues with “These grants will assist in allowing the war’s significance to be remembered and those who fought it to be honored.” Learn more by following the links in the podcast notes. link:http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865684168/New-grants-available-for-World-War-I-commemorative-events-displays.html https://heritage.utah.gov/history International Report Remembering Caribbean and African Imperial Soldiers In our International Report this week, we head to Birmingham, where the “They Also Served” research project recently held a remembrance service at the New Testament Church of God in with guest speaker Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen. Dr Joe Aldred, from Churches together in England, helped organize. He said, "There's something about living in the diaspora that means that the major narratives tend to tell the story of the majority community and in that regard the world wars and the participation of African and Caribbean people in the world wars from Britain's colonies - that is no exception. Why are we not represented when it comes time to commemorate?" They’re not the first to bring into public conversation this issue of overlooked groups that served in the war. Dr. Sashi Tharoor, MP for Thiruvananthapuram, author of 15 books, former Minister of State in India and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, has spoken about this oversight recently himself. In an interview with Sky News earlier this year: [RUN CLIP] It is now recognised that over 2 million Africans and 16,000 Caribbeans, not to mention countless Black Britons that joined British regiments, served during the war, a war that is often viewed at a white man’s war but that was truly global. Learn more about They Also Served by visiting the project website, where you can view photos, follow the project’s upcoming events and learn about individuals that served in their blog. Follow the links in the podcast notes. Link:https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Birmingham-churches-to-honour-WW1-s-African-and-Caribbean-servicemen http://theyalsoserved.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/ShashiTharoor/videos/10154627859308167/ Spotlight in the Media Story about Star Spangled Banner gets Press For our Spotlight in the Media segment - we wanted to update you on the story we ran last week about the Star Spangled Banner and it’s WW1 connection to sporting events. It was the WW1 Centennial Commission’s public affairs team that sourced the original story and as it turns out with Sports Illustrated pushing out a parallel piece - - so - the whole thing really took off last week and got picked up by media outlets all across the country including ABC, the Chicago Tribune, the Sacramento Bee, Columbus Dispatch and Tucson Arizona Star and a bunch of others all carried the story of the National Anthem and the World Series game of 1918. One of our key goal is to inspire a national conversation about WW1 and we love it when these stories about WW1 get picked up all over! You’ll find a passle of links the podcast notes. Links: Original http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2708-cubs-red-sox-world-series-in-1918-key-in-u-s-love-affair-with-national-anthem.html http://wtop.com/fourth-of-july/2017/07/14483876/slide/1/ http://wgnradio.com/2017/07/04/chicagos-very-own-wayne-messmer-wrigley-field-and-our-national-anthem-anthem-singer/ http://www.local8now.com/content/sports/1918-World-Series-key-in-US-love-affair-with-national-anthem-432523063.html https://www.si.com/more-sports/2017/07/04/star-spangled-banner-national-anthem-sports-colin-kaepernick http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_JULY_FOURTH_ANTHEM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/1918-world-series-key-us-love-affair-national-48416844 http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/1918-world-series-key-in-us-love-affair-with-national-anthem/ar-BBDFPKE http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170704/baseball-gave-rise-to-national-anthem http://www.sacbee.com/sports/article159406654.html http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170704/baseball-gave-rise-to-national-anthem http://tucson.com/ap/sports/world-series-key-in-us-love-affair-with-national-anthem/article_930cd8da-64f8-544f-b262-d5db664ee21d.html The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts That brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine - what do you have for us this week? Americans Underground The Smithsonian Channel is airing a new documentary, “Americans Underground” about the tunnels and dugouts that became home to thousands of soldiers during WW1. link:https://www.facebook.com/SmithsonianChannel/videos/10156269967403357/ http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/full-episodes The Yellow Cross A new chemical weapon makes its debut on the front -- mustard gas link:https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2014/02/04/yellow-cross-the-advent-of-mustard-gas-in-1917/ Thank you Katherine. We also want to let you know that announce each weeks podcast with a post on our facebook page @ww1centennial - This is a great place to comment and discuss the stories you hear - we monitor the post and try to answer your questions, add insight and chat with you our Podcast audience. Check it out this Friday. Closing And that is WW1 Centennial News for this week. Thank you for listening! We want to thank our guests: Jan Lorys, historian and the former Director of the Polish Museum of America speaking with us about the Polish American experience during the war, Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog and his post about women and their varied wartime roles in the UK. Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten and their StoryTeller and the Historian segment on Americans in Europe prior to the US declaration of war, Lisa Whittlesey, Director of the International Junior Master Gardener Program, telling us about their collaboration with our Poppy Program Katherine Akey the Commission’s social media director and also the line producer for the show. And I am Theo Mayer - your host. We also want to thank the Pritzker Military Museum and Library our founding sponsor! Visit their WW1 website at www.pritzkermilitary/ww1. There is also a link in the podcast notes LINK:www.pritzkermilitary/ww1 The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn on iTunes, google play, and tuneIn - search for ww1 Centennial News. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thanks for joining us again this week. So long. [music] SUBSCRIPTIONS WW1 Centennial News Video Podcast on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ww1-centennial-news/id1209764611?mt=2 Weekly Dispatch Newsletterhttp://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.htm
The Lux Radio Theatre. June 22, 1936 "The Dark Angel". . A melodrama of a love affair interrupted by the war and only slowed down by blindness. James Montgomery Flagg is interviewed. Cecil B. DeMille, James Montgomery Flagg, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Rod LaRocque, Lillian Hellman (screenplay), Mordaunt Shairp (screenplay), H. B. Trevelyan (author), Zeffie Tilbury, Edward Cooper, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Crauford Kent, Wauna Lidwell, Gwen Mannering, Lionel Pape, Edward Reamers, Charles Romano, Margaret Brayton (performer, commercial spokesman), Anne Stone (performer, commercial spokesman), James Eagles, Leroy Prinz (intermission guest: dance director for Paramount), Frank Nelson (program opening announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Herbert Marshall, Merle Oberon.oldtimeradiodvd.com
The Lux Radio Theatre. June 22, 1936. A melodrama of a love affair interrupted by the war and only slowed down by blindness. James Montgomery Flagg is interviewed. Cecil B. DeMille, James Montgomery Flagg, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Rod LaRocque, Lillian Hellman (screenplay), Mordaunt Shairp (screenplay), H. B. Trevelyan (author), Zeffie Tilbury, Edward Cooper, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Crauford Kent, Wauna Lidwell, Gwen Mannering, Lionel Pape, Edward Reamers, Charles Romano, Margaret Brayton (performer, commercial spokesman), Anne Stone (performer, commercial spokesman), James Eagles, Leroy Prinz (intermission guest: dance director for Paramount), Frank Nelson (program opening announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Herbert Marshall, Merle Oberon. audiblepodcast.com/rnn 1 Free Audiobook oldtimeradionetwork.com oldtimeradiodvd.com Great Deals on DVDs
There are many symbols for the United States. Perhaps the strongest national personification is the character known around the world as Uncle Sam. This military recruiting poster has been widely reproduced and caricatured since World War I.
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