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span or the war workers wouldn't ride
in them.
Some here say It is the walking to
and from the Government departments
that started the athletic activities Of
the girls and brought out SO conspicu-
ously what they can do in this line.
Probably, however, 1t is due to the fact
that girls of the war-worker type I'M
derstand not only how to work well
but how to play well. Not being de-
pendent on their labor they have not
taken it SO seriously that their nor
NAL tendencies to sport and play have
been subdued.
One of the first moves they made
was to provide for a playground and
for prescribed times of recreation, as
well as the lunch hour. The request
was granted. just as all requests from
war workers are II made by the right
persons In the right way. The au-
thorities decided to turn over the FL
lipse and the grounds near the depart
ments to the girls. There was room
for football or baseball or any other
form Of athletics and the girls took
advantage Of 1t.
The football team formed late in the
fall had SO much sport that real games
between the war workers (under spe-
cial no hair pulling rules) will be seen
here next october. The fact that
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Britain's Coal

REAT BRITAIN owes its position
~ in the world OF commerce and
industry to-day to coal more than any,
thing else. If beneath It's soil and In
its river beds it had possessed as
much glittering gold as Australia or
California 1t would not have awaited 1t
nearly so much as it's wealth in coal
Not only do the coal mines employ
more than a million men. but they pro-
vide for the cotton, woollen, iron, ship
building, and many other noted in
dustries, without which England
would soon be poor.
1t Is a fact that Great Britain pro-
duces fourth of all the coal used in
the world. The total output Of coal
in 1916 was about 255S50, 900 tons.
Unmined coal reserve figures of Great
Britain are estimated at 2O9 900, 900, 900
tons OF which 10000, O0O, 900 is anthra-
cite.
Coal is money to Great Britain, for II
pays, in place Of money. for thousands
OF commodities which are imported
into that country, and which no
anount OF reconstruction could enable
the English to produce within their
own borders. At the estimate OF un-
mined coal above. and the present rate
Of consumption. 1t will last for many
centuries to come.
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T Uncle SANS army of attrac-
tive war workers is going to
make a name for itself in the
athletic field. Who said young girls
could not play football or catch flies
in the outfleld or excel mere men in
fancy diving? The claims of the young
war workers, supported by photo
graphic evidence. prove they can.
In the first place, one may ask, what
r. a war worker as the term is gen.
orally understood in Washington In
what respect does she differ from the
feminine Government work? Can a
war worker BIO man?
Strictly speaking a war worker
might be Of either sex, but If any one
IN Washington referred to a man as a
war worker he would be sized up at
once as a stranger. The accepted def
milton OF q war worker is a girl who
Il giving her time to Government
work not because she has to for finan-
cial reasons but because she wants to
for reasons of patriotism. The fact
that money for new clothes or pin
money for trips to New York comes in
handy Is incidental, and the thrills
and excitement that go with real work.
ing are part of the reward.
Thousands Of young American girls
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Hair Pulling Is Barred in Scrmmages Play Baseball
Make Swimming Records and Would Lief
Take Motor Rides as Not

from all parts Of the country who are
now manipulating typewriters or doing
clerical work or otherwise acting as
part of the expanded Government ma
chinery never did a stroke until the
call for feminine volunteers. Now the
great majority Of them like 1t SO much
that they would not go back to the
old order of things for anything.
Take the Navy Department bureaus
for example. II is much more eXcit-
ing for bevy Of pretty girls to be
working under a handsome young
naval officer than simply wasting their
time at home. The officer wants some
thing done. so he smiles graciously at
one Of the girls and asks her II she will
mind coming to his desk. Chances
from the others show perhaps a trace
of the feminine instinct Of jealousy as
the fortunate one enters into a confer
ence over some particular paper to be
copied. So it goes until 4:30, when the
class Is dismissed by the young Off er,
who tells the girls where to expect his
automobile for the ride home.
War workers as q rule ride in some
cne's automobile or walk. 1t is bad
form to ride in the street cars. Until
recently hundreds Of automobiles car
ried signs giving their destination. so
that the girls could choose their own
escorts. Cars had to be kept spick and
The sun., 1919-02-23
Ole Hanson, Fighting Mayor,
Smashes Bolsheviki

ton in the hottest part of the summer.
to get permission from the capital is
sues committee for Seattle to raise
100000 for the extension of Its
hydro-electric power plant on Skagit
River. At the time the nation was in
the thick of the raising of Liberty
loans and the committee uncere-
moniously turned down Seattle and
her Mayor.
He told it to a friend, who arranged.
him an interview with the President.
The day OF the interview was just
about the scorcher of the Washington
heated term.
O!e-~&lsssp~On haG no tiH<zaaw patiA&Aas
for lots Of the little formalities. The
story of the interview is authenticated.
He may have begun it with a Mr..
President" or a president Wilson,"
but as soon as he got talking. and
talking very fast and very earnestly,
he dropped into plain Wilson" minus
prefixed frills. The President liked It,
and when Woody" followed liked that
still better.
The persuasive efforts of the gentle
man from Seattle proved highly
sudoriflc. Sweat trickled down the
Hanson brow and soaked the Hanson
collar Don't mind If I take off my
coat, do you, Wilson," The Presi-
dent laughed and told him to go ahead.
Now, then" said the Mayor, having
peeled. He pulled his chair up close as
Is his habit. you know this little
Capital Issues Committee Is only about
so high"-indicating the height of his
knee and slapping the Chief Executive
on his. When the friend who had ar
ranged the call recovered from heart
failure he perceived that Wilson was
speechless with laughter and Hanson
was beaming and confident.
"A most interesting man." said the
President when he had gone. The
President said IT to a number of people.
including Bernard Baruch, and Mr..
Baruch was on hand the next day
when. Hanson tackled the knee high
committee again. During this second
plea he peeled his vest as well as his
coat. AS soon as he finished talking
Mr.. Baruch began, and the result was
that Hanson and Seattle got their
permit.
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Continued from Second Page.


on the platform and notice similarity
in delivery.
When the general strike was brew
ing lot of Seattle people were audi
bly, a little dubious as to where the
Mayor would stand. The moment the
strike was called he ended their doubts.
AS has been told, although he used
the threat of placing the city under
control of the Federal Government"
which could only mean martial law,
he did, throughout the trouble, keep
1.-The City Hall the seat of government"
handling the situation not with the
Federal troops but with the regular
and emergency police.
His operation of the municipal car
lines in defiance>of the strikers Is con-
sidered to have been the particular
move that broke the labor phalanx.
Two privately owned car lines followed
suit, and the general strike commit
tee finding it couldn't withhold the
car men. realized that the Wanted rev.
olutionary cause was slipping.
In fact, the doubling Thomases must
have drawn a deep breath of relief on
the morning of the first day. February
6, for 1t was then that Mayor Hanson
assured the would be Soviets that "any
man who tries to take over Govern
ment functions here will be shot on
sight"
During the extraordinary demand
for common labor for the Seattle ship
yard Hanson last summer set an eX-
ample which hundreds of business and
professional men followed when he
took Job as a bolter in the Erickson
Steel Ship plant. Daily for several
weeks he worked half the day. earning
wages of $3.S6. and putting in the
balance Of his time on his job as
Mayor. He Joined the boilermakers'
union the first day no went TO work.
Wedging In the domestic fact that
Mayor and Mrs. Hanson are now
blessed with eight living children, we
come to that story of his visit to the
White House He went to Washing
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thing He rises at in the morning
and takes a half hour of smart and
thorough exercise, dresses carefully
and descends to his front door in the
Rue Franklin, lifts the door mat and
finding there a packet fresh from the
Office Of L'Homme Ltbre, takes 1t up
to his room on the second floor. 1t is
the latest news collected and notated
by his assistant and the paper and
brought by a man on a bicycle. This
package read and digested he takes
up two or three dossiers from the
Ministry and works over them
leisurely and thoroughly.
He gets the morning papers there
and runs through them. By $3.50 he is
ready to receive those he has engaged
himself to see, and you may suppose
a Prime Minister never fails in these
He has his light dejeuner ordinarily
about 10 o'clock and thereafter goes
forth to his affairs-his ministry and
his newspaper. He has no idle min
utes. He avoids all casual inter-
views. He will not halt in corri-
doris to talk. An old friend came into
his newspaper Office at the wrong time.
What do you want?" "Just to shake
hands with you" Bending forward
with extended hand he shook the visl-
tors. 1T is done" he added and went
on with his work. At o'clock or
arller he is home to a frugal dinner.
To such a man of such iron con-
stitution all hope of favorable ending
of his present wound is possible. He
has seldom been sick; comes of long
lived family. He rarely touches wine,
never at home. Water is his drink.
Five hours OF sleep suffice for him,
but his regret, and with the Tiger
one must believe that 1t is a sincere
regret, he would devote every remain
ing muir of life 70 france. belo led,
beautiful France. to France of his
fights and his passionate alteration. to
France of his ecstatic dreams.
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1t was not surprising. therefore,
that President Poincare should send
send for Georges Clemenceau and say
in effect, you have broken down six
teen Ministries, now make the great
one that you have called for till the
walls shake. And that he took the
President at his word; that he did
form a great Ministry: that he did
head it formidably: that with 1t as a
weapon he extracted every ounce OF
fighting force in France to hurl 1t on
the enemy until the enemy lay down
on his knees and begged for his life,
all that is history Of less than two
years.
And on what does this man of
power live? How has he passed his
time? His leisure was for art, for
gentle instruction, for getting close to
nature. Gossip taking up his marital
story, his divorce, his second mar
riage pretends that he was O. lady's
man. mentions actresses and 80 on. but
IL all must be quite wrong.
For many years of his surprisingly
active life he has seldom gone out in
the evening. He was in bed after an
hour or two of reading by 10 o'clock
or so. But here Is the astounding
The sun., 1919-02-23
Labor Is Britain's Great Problem

unless peace were soon concluded ths
horrors of the war would be followed
by the horrors of insurrection.
The justification OF her provisions
as to the radical transformation Of
the existing system Of distribution and
ownership of land is now in plain
sight. There are many who appre-
bend that the revolution which she
regarded as danger two years ago b
now looming on the horizon.
Lord I.ansdowne has sometimes
been described as the most patrician Of
all the great mobiles Of England. Irish
and French blood, however, FREEDOM.
mate in his veins. Tracing his descent
from that Walter Fitz Ohio CASTELAR,
OF Windsor, who in the eleventh oeR-
fury was likewise the founder OF the
line of the Irish Dukes OF Leinster, his
ancestors settled in Ireland over 700
years ago, when Thomas Fitzmaurioe
became first Lord of Kerry, Governor
of Ireland, and married the grand
French Blood as Quasi Royal.
The present Marquis OF Lansdowne
Is the twenty-sixth Lord OF Kerry n
the male line direct. His French
blood is quasi royal and comes TO him
through his mother, eldest daughter Of
Gen. Comte de F1ahault. Through the
Count he can claim descent from the
great Talleyrand. and even from Louis
XIV. of France. That monarch had q
natural daughter of the name of AIDE
laide F'illon born within the precincts
Of the celebrated Pare aux Cerfs-
Growing up into a woman of rare
beauty she married Count Jean de
Flahault, scion OF one OF the oldest
houses of the French nobility. But II
was generally understood that the son
whom she bore him, and who was
afterward known as the Comte Charles
de F1ahault grandfather OF Lord
l-andsdowne) was not his Offspring,
but that OF the Able de PerigorCl, after
ward known in history as Prince de-
Talleyrand.
Count Charles de F7ahault was in his
younger days the lover of Queen Hor.
tense of Holland, the mother OF Ma.
poleon III. No secret is made Of this
romance. for in the pages Of the
Almanach de Gotha the late Due dc
Morny is officially described as the on
spring of Queen Hortense and Count
Charles de F1ahault. Later on In life
the Count married the wealthy da Ugh.
ter and heiress of Lord Keith. to whom
England owes the possession OF the
Cape of Good Hope. Through her
he became the father OF the late
Marchioness of Lansdowne
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Paper in Reconstruction

which affords the toughest paper fiber
known.
From the Germans comes tie idea
OF paper clothes. The Ell 4cious
British blockade cut off so much raw
material that Ersatz Substitute soon
became the German byword.. Thread
made OF paper and woven into cloth
ing formed a material that even would
stand washing. A Berlin newspaper
announced recently a sale Of Nomens
and children's clothing in which the
paper threads had been combined win
artificial silk. Counterpanee bed,
quilts, blankets and undercloth'nG an
were made of paper.
When the piratical underseas raid
ers were caught, and when the even
more piraticM air bombers Wee
brought down the British military au'
thorities found that the ollskins worn
by the former and the feather" JACK
cts protecting the latter were basic
ally paper.
Still another use made Of paper
by the Germans was in driving helts
for machinery. thin steel bands beins
inserted to take up the bulk OF tne
dllu od4NA'' -
course, came in for this subsctul@
and II is believed some OF the airplane
wings were made of paper in the an
sence of the linen and silk mixture
Used by the Allies for their alrcraN',
Sewing Silks" hosiery. '"oo'
waste and roofing titles" all are BENZ
made OF paper. In this country 'o'
quarter of a century some OF the oes,
freight car wheels have been maze o'
layers of paper, compressed 10 p'''
romenal degree by a hydraulic pres
and provided with stcc! fangHs anu
tires.
Imitation thing. lavishly decorate,
Is still another use, and the Gan'u' a..
utility has been by no means run J..
this brief summary Of the d'Wn'h
age OF paper.
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crowds gathered to see the rival teams
or to get close-ups of the scrimmages
did not worry the players. Everything
was fair but hair pulling or pinching.
Tackling around thaneck was permits
sible, likewise grabbing foot If there
was nothing else available.
Some of the punts the girls made
were really remarkable, picture
showing the War Department war
workers star kicker in action.
Baseball is going to be in vogue
again in a very few weeks. Another
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Hike a lance. His duels have been
much dwelt upon, and he had many.
He told his seconds once he would not
kill his man. but he would break his
leg above the knee; it would heal
easier. and he did, and it did. He has
no fear. and hence his known GOODNESS
was always daunting. 1t is told of
Paul de Cassagnac that he wanted
much to fight Clemenceau, but he
wanted Clemenceau to challenge, as he
would choose swords. Paul was a
great fencer and Clemenceau was a
dead shot. 1t is not surprising that
they never met.
In 1902 he was elected to the Senate
by the same constituency OF Var that
had overthrown him. In 1906 he was
made Minister of the Interior in the
Ministry of Sarr!en. When the latter
retired IN the same year Clemenceau
became Premier. Counting on his
socialism, the great miners strikes
were started, and at first he started
In person to the mines to investigate.
But disturbances as for great labor
called out the military and put down
Tioting with an iron hand. The legis-
iation upon Church and State and the
seizure Of the church property had
been decreed beore he came into power.
He dealt with 1t as best he could,
insisting on the inventories being most
exactly made. Whatever he thought
in his earlier days, his ripper thought
was:
Governments can do nothing with
beliefs. If the question is whether or
not we should or should not destroy
religion. -tsSrc 1swer is, We do ne-.aaens
10; We are not able to-and l am
happy to say it-destroy a single be-
lief in a single conscience"
In 1908 the Casabianca incident
arose to trouble him. but his downfall
and that of his Ministry came like a
thunderclap when, Delcasse opening a
question of wrongdoing in the navy.
Clemenceau in answering him lost his
temper and accused Delcasse of "hu-
initiating France"
He took up his pen. however, and
continued his fight for reform in all
things. and kept continual watch on
plOIdSdnu1 ilc buS-
pected and whose intentions he dis
trusted. He objected to the 1912
Franco-German treaty which Caillaux
promoted. In 1912, too, Clemenceau
started another newspaper. L'Homne
Abre, for which he engaged himself
to write a daily editorial, but, strongly
as he suspected Germany, he held TO
his party line and wasted much force
on the polemics of the hour In matters
OF relatively small account, but when
the German Kaiser committed the
great crime of inaugurating war on
France Clemenceau forsook all else to
ourn as pure inspiring flame OF pa
triotism' II Is history too recent to
tell In detail Just now how as the war
took shape and invasion was actual he
became the whip of the public mer
who failed to measure up to the grow.
Ing needs OF the hour. Viviani, BRAND
Painleve, names heading war Minis.
tries. fell to the shafts of his bow,
More force was needed; more, more
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system of the distribution and owner
slip of land.
She believed that in this manner the
entire future of the tenant and
peasant population, over the welfare
of whom the women of her caste had
watched for centuries. would. be i'm
perilled unless peace were restored
soon enough to safeguard the former
end present conditions of land tenure.
She foresaw. too. that the more the
wal was prolonged the more difficult
1t would become to bring about re-
adjustment to former social condi-
tons. and she became convinced that
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What Hawaii Did in War

on the Island of Oahu was made
quately protected The fear, should a
German invasion of Siberia take place.
was not without reason. The Delegate
said. II believe the Government should
at once build a fortress on the island,
install more coast artillery and pro-
vide adequate mine protection. so that
in case of eventualities in the Pacific
our far away supply base cannot be
taken.
ANY extensive operations that It
may be necessary to carry on in the
Pacific cannot be considered unless a
great well protected base Is provided
in the islands. 1t is 1900 miles from
the United States to the Hawaiian
group. but they are the heart core of
any Pacific naval action"
The United States paid small at
tention to these appeals, but the
patriotism of the little islands did not
falter. AS late as July. 1918, Secretary
Lane brought out OF the islands a
picturesque story OF vivid proof of
their loyalty. While there he was
asked to represent the United States
In ceremony for the pledging of
fealty. the first time the Eawaiians
ever performed their ancient rite for
this country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lane stood in beauti-
full grove Of waving poninia trees
while the luscious fruits of the islands
were presented them by different
groups from every class of the island
society. First came the princes OF the
royal family, wearing garlands Of yell
low feathers, the badge Of royalty.
Then followed warriors. fishermen,
farmers and other castles carving
brilliant tropical flowers and fruits.
which they gave to the Secretary. The
ceremony was symbolic of placing the
native resources Of Hawaii at the dis
posal OF the great republic.
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\ APER promises to play a slgnif-
cant part in reconstruction
work in northern France and

"ork IN northern France and
Belgium. Ideas taken from the Ger
mans and extension of present uses
BY American and British manufacture
ers are being combined. Despite the
shortage in wood pulp and its prod
ucts the work is going forward rap
idly.
Waterproof pasteboard houses, easily
handled and put together. are probably
tho most important development. Such
dwellings have oiled paper in place of
glass windows. They will be put to-
gether with screws made OF wood pulp
screws that are equally serviceable In
wooden houses and which have the
added advantage OF taking colors of
the material in which they are placed
Tables, chairs and other bits OF furni-
ture now are being made of paper.
Even kitchen utensils are so con-
structed.
Ease of transportation due to the
enormous saving In weight, as we'll as
the ease of replacement, arc the chief
factors that are making paper a uni
versal material of reconstruction days.
Tin canisters are being replaced rap
idly by paper containers. Paper
buckets are more durable than galvan
lied iron or wood. Garages, fire.
PROCEED by simple process, are find
ing market and at small cost.
Even some OF the ships which carry
the paper made material to the
stricken nations abroad will be
equipped with paper lifeboats. That
contribution comes from the Jananeae,
who not only thoroughly waterproof
the boats, but are enabled by a process
| OF cementing them to build them in
| clinker types, strong and serviceable.
| The pulp for this use is taken from the
| everpresent Japanese mulberry tree,
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No HAlR-PUICHls IS scRINMAeE RULE.

picture shows the typical pose Of the
navy war workers star pitcher Ad-
miral MCGOWAN, who is the idol Of the
navy war workers. and has given
them advice as to how to curve the
ball is perhaps responsible for the
look Of confidence in the young lady's
face as she is about to shoot one over.
A tennis ball instead Of a baseball
is generally used, but the rules are
the same. The picture showing how
war worker taking a high fly was
snapped while a tennis ball was up
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Continued from SiTth Page.

interruption for several hundred
years, and the attachment between
them and the Lansdownes has been
very strong.
In the fall of 1917 Lady Lansdowne
realized that the longer the war
lasted the less possibility there would
be Of the continuance of this sort of
kindly feudalism. since economic con-
ditions resulting from the appalling
expenditure incurred by the State
crring the conflict might have the
effect Of revolutionizing the existing
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some fifty feet overhead she watched
1t without a trace Of nervousness,
held her hands steady and then
muffed it. But her intentions wers
good.
It's at swimming and especially
graceful diving that the war workers
have all the better of the men. Cold
weather swimming clubs are formed
and patronized by the girls. who com.
plain that men are afraid of cold water
and don't understand how to get real
benefit out of the exercise.
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Georges Clemenceau, Untamable,
and Strongest Man of France

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