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V: Fag 10 rnnoK coi'nty jornx.Uj WHERE EX-SERVICE MEN ARE DISPLACING CIVILIANS 111 II v ii L 1 vi 1 L-?! Wholesale cuts In the uuinber of female employees of the bureau of war risk Insurance are part of the general plnn of the bureau to bring all Its employees under the civil service regulations. The places of probably 1,1100 of the girls who have been permitted to resign will be taken by an equal number of ex-service men who have qualified by civil service examinations. This photograph shows service men and girl clerical forces working side by side. Woman Worker Has Made Good Wonderful Record in War Service Is Shown in Statistics Just Compiled. MANY TAKE UP MEN'S WORK Nearly 15,000,000 Women Drew Pay for Labor Never Before Performed by Them 700,000 Acted as Volunteers in Liberty Loan Campaign. Washington. Statistics have proved that during the world war nearly 15, ioOO.OOO women actually were drawing pay for their services. More than 1, pOO.OOO of them never hnd done a day's work In their lives. The number of volunteers would add another 1,000, 000 to that total. In the Liberty loan campaign alone ,700,000 women acted as volunteers. There was a similar number In the united war drive. For the Red Cross the total must have been millions, for in this organization women who worked all day or who kept house all day, and who had an hour to spare, would devote that hour to surgical dressings, classes, refugee work or ministering to the wants of those whose homes had been hit by the In fluenza epidemic. Then, too, stenog raphers, clerks and girls in office buildings would, at the close of the business day, offer their services grat is, to the draft boards or any of the other countless bureaus organized for the speedy termination of the war. In actual figures the women whose services brought monetary remunera tion were listed as follows: Mechan ical and manufacturing, 2,000,000; ag ricultural, 2,000,000; transportation, 200,000; merchandise, 600,000; public service, 50,000; professional, 70,000; clerical, 700,000; domestic and per sonal service, 2,500.000; unclusslfled, 6,750,000 total, 14,870.000. Help Win War. Those employed in the actual win ning of the war or in positions listed as necessary for the winning of the war Included munitions, 100,000; can neries, 80,000 ; food, spice, drug, tobac co and similar factories, 125,000; tex tiles, 275,000; clothing factories. 212, 000; hosiery and knit goods, 130,000; making shoes, 05,000; general equip ment, 600,000; shlpynrd and foundry employees (the latter made bolts and rivets, ran drill presses and worked In machine shops), 100,000 total, 1,717, 000. ' This figure represents only the worn ' en who already were mill-trained and does not include those who left oc cupations to assist In war work, nor does It Include those who hnd had no previous experience in work of aity kind. ; In 1910, one-fourth of all the wom en in Industry were married, and more than 15 per cent were either widowed or divorced. In 1918 the number of married workers had practically dou bled and, with comparatively few ex ceptions, all had one or more depend ent upon them for support. Of the number who actually have replaced men no figures are obtaina ble. The Bush Terminal company of New York was one of the first to re "Thirsty for Words" Is Her Bigamy Defense London. The excuses . and palliations, brought forward In bigamy cases are monumental In their ingenuity, but I think this one from the north of Eng land will lake a prodigious lot of beating. A girl was had tip for a triple bigamy surely oughtn't It be called trlgnmy when It's three? Her mother wns called for the defense, but all she could say In explanation wns: "She can't help It, my lord. She's got a reg'lar thirst for 'avlng the words spoke over erl" - alize the possibilities of women In men's Jobs, nnd within a week after the selective service net had been passed called for woman volunteers to replace the men. Iustead of con fining the replacement to the families of Its employees. It sent out an appeal to all stenographers, telephone opera tors and clerks, with the result that the clerical force of their own estab lishment, which was essentially a war producing machine, was not In nny way depleted, and within a few months women were operntlng electric and steam locomotives, running motor trucks, operating steam winches and cranes, Inspecting and maintaining lighting and telephone and other com munity service utilities, loading cars and ships, packing In warehouse and cold storage rooms and handling de tails of transportation. Took Jobs of Men. In the operating department of one of the Eastern railroads 2,360 women and girls took positions formerly held by men. In one of the large Western cities more than 20,000 women re placed men who hnd been called Into service. Another American establish ment employed 5,000 girls in nearly all the mechanical departments in the operation of making fuses. In another plnnt where uniforms were manufac tured nearly 3,000 women were em ployed. Still another plant, a Mas sachusetts concern manufacturing mu Bore Into Telephone Cables Beetle Causes No End of Trouble to Telephone Companies In Cali fornia. Washington. When telephone girls In California find their wires are "shorted," a bug may be on or In the This Beetle Bores Through Lead Sheathing of Aerial Cables Magni fied Ten Times. wire, for California has a wood-boring beetle that goes through wood and also through alloyed substances considerably harder than lead. The beetle has put hundreds of tele phones out of commission by boring holes In the cables that carry the wires. Water enters the cables, mak NEW MORMON TEMPLE NEAR HONOLULU yum xta ' , ( $C 'j.-w - 'i i iCZ v - , -', , ' -s-fv , : ,t View of the new Mormon temple at Lale, on the Island of Oahu, near Honolulu, which was recently dedicated In the presence of noted Mormon church dignitaries. This Is the only Mormon temple outside of continental United States. nitions, employed 10,000 workers, near ly all of whom were women. That the women have made good has been definitely established. In one of the munitions plants where 2,000 girls were at work the greatest out put made by two BCts of engineers were 15,000 complete sets of fuses dnlly In two shifts. Tho girls turned out 3S,000 complete sets In the same period of time. In another Instance where the work dealt directly vith a drill press the greatest production where men were working In tennis wns 3,200 pieces each In nine hours' time, while that of girls doing the same work was 4.400 pieces each. DESCRIBES SIBERIAN MISERY Col. Tausler of Red Cross Says Filth Was Cause of Army's Reverses. Tokyo. That a chief cause fur the recent reverses of the Siberian army was to be found in its unsanitary con ditions, was the opinion expressed re cently by Col. It. B. Teusler, American Ited Cross commissioner to Siberia. Col. Teusler suld that bad sanita tion, both In the army and among the population, with the agonies of starva tion, brought about extreme misery nnd a moral breakdown, which was es pecially reflected In the troops, who felt they had no support behind' them. The minds of the populntton seemed to hnve become almost benumbed and absolutely Indifferent to what hap pened, or to the suffering of others. Col. Teusler added that although such numbers of the people were starv ing, there was sufficient food, but lack of transportation facilities prevented Its distribution where most needed. ing wire connections useless until the bored places are found and repaired. The problem of control of this metal boring beetle Is still unsolved, accord ing to the bureau of entomology of the United States department of agricul ture, and It will be difficult to flud s practical way. "Immortals" Tackle Job They Will End in 2020 The holiday season set the French academy back two weeks In the work of revising the French dictionary which, ac cording to the best estimates, will be completed In the year 2020 or 2025. The two holidays this year happened to fall on Thursday, the only day of the week on which the Forty Immortuls as semble. Academy members began the present revision la 1878, 41 years ago. Bird Breeding Place Menaced Most Remarkable Refuge in tho World in Danger From Hunters. MANY RARE SPECIES THERE Bird Rgiervatlon It Under Control of the Department ef Agriculture Protecting the Birds There It Precarious Business. Washington. Slicking out In the racltlc ocean OtH) miles beyond Hono lulu Is a group of little Islands, the largest not more than two square miles In area, nnd several of them barely rising above the waves at high tide. Vet on those Islands are many hundreds of thousands of birds and among them are at least six species u Albatross Wings Piled in Old Cuano Shed, Ls.ynn Islands. Evidence of the Extent to Which Poachers Have Killed These Birds. The Wings Stored Here Wert Evidently Intended for Shipping, but Never Hid Been Cured. not found anywhere else In the world. In 11U1, one of thoso species wns rep resented by six birds nil that were left as the sole means of perpetuating the species, and they concentrated on a single little island, where one man might kill them all In one minute's shooting. That species the I,n.vsnn tealhas fortunately Increased until there are, by estimate, thirty-five Individuals. For the t'ulted Stales department of agriculture, for a few jenrs, has con trolled the Islands as a bird reserva tion the Hawaiian Islands reservation, It Is called. Iiut protecting the birds there Is a precarious business. The possibility has existed always Hint one or more of the rnre species might be wiped out In a day. Albatross Destroyers Arrested. By way of Illustration, this: One day In 1900 the crew of the cutter Thetis found nn old shed absolutely piled full of albatross wings. A search revealed the fact that 23 plume hunt ers had landed on l.nysnn Island and had killed ht least .'100,000 birds. The men were raptured, taken lo Honolulu, and formally urrested. Since that time there Is not known to have been any repetition of such depredations, but It Is always Imminent. Just now many fishermen lnrgely nationals of countries other than tho United States are extending their op erations from Honolulu out to the re gion of the bird reservation. I.niullngs on the Islands are constantly Immi nent, and such landings would be a in on ace to ono of the most remarkable bird-breeding places In the world. The bureau of biological survey, having direct charge of the reservation, Is cnlllng attcutlon to the fact that dis turbing the birds on l.nysnn or any of tho smaller Islands Is forbidden, and announcing that the reservation will be protected, by whatever means are necessary, for the benefit of all the peoples of the world. I.aysan, the largest of the group, Is one of tho most westerly of the Ha waiian Islands. It has nn area of about two square miles', and within It, con forming generally to the coast line, Is a large lagoon. This Island Is one of the most populous blrd-brcedlng places on the globe, literally hundreds of thousnnds of birds resorting there to lay their eggs every year. Specialists of the biological survey call attention to the fact that the ostensible occupation of fishermen does not mean that men -may not be very destructive to birds. The great Invents Typewriter on Which to Write Music Wichita, Kan. Will Kansas wonders never cense? A type writer on which one can suc cessfully write music Is the In vention of H. P. Fluuth, a com poser of this city. The machine Is Bald to hnve 135 characters which Can he written on, below or above ihe Staff. The typewriter differs from the ordinary nnnlel only In that the printing surface of the roller Is flat. Flauth Is understood tn have worked more than 18 years on the Invention. auk, they recall, was exterminated hy fishermen, Tim raicM of all Hie species that ovist only In the l.n.vsau group Is n duck-like bird, excellent for f I, and therefore must likely to be shot by IKIicrmcn. Rare Birds on Island. The species that nest there nnd no where else nre the I.a.vsan leal, the Utile I.nysan rail, the l.nyxnn honey enter, the l.aysnu finch, tho miller bird (a small warbler), the Hawaiian torn, nnd the Ijivsan albntiois, other spe cies that nest principally on I.ayMii nnd adjacent Islands and would be In danger of externiltiallon If nmlcstcil there, nro Hie red tailed tropic bd. the black fooled .Ibntrom, the gray hacked tern, nnd the sooly tern. The number of Individuals of the ex clusive species In 1911 were estimated to be: Six of the I.ayxnn teal, perhaps 100 of the miller bird. ,'l"0 of the honey-eater, 2,000 of the rail, 2,700 of V OOnT.. 3".' lp "7. ,v the finch, and 1S0,(HX of the albatross. Indications nro that, while the teal has Increased, the other specie have probably decrcuscd. The Islands composing the reserva tion are I.nysan Island, Ocean or Cure Islntid, 1'enii and Hermes reef, I.yslnn ski or Pell Island, Mary reef, nwitt reef, (iardlner Island, Two Ilroiliers reef, French Frigate sloml, Necker Islund, Frost shonl and lllrd Island. 50 Year Old Cache Found Stefansson Discovers Supplies Left in 1850 to Aid Ill Fated Franklin. RECALLS TRAGEDY OF ARCTIC Food and Clothing Found to Be Almost In as Good Condition as When Placed There by MeClin tock in 18S3. New York. Of Interest to all who have beard the call of the North and the lure of exploration Is the an nouncement flint Vllhjalniur Stefans son found tho abandoned cache of Sir Leopold McCllntock, commander of the Intrepid, In the Arctic after a lapse of more thnn half a century. It wns Sir Leopold McCllntock, In com mand of the ship Intrepid, who found traces of the voyage of Hint unfortun ate explorer Sir John Franklin. He built a cache on Melville Island, pre sumably between IS'iO nnd 18.r4, when In quest of tidings of Sir John Frank lin nnd tho members of his ill-fated expedition In the Arctic. Located by Stefansson. The McCllntock cache was located by Stefansson, who reports that ho found everything In almost as good condition as when placed (here In 1853. Articles of clothing he found particularly well preserved and much better In quality thnn the clothing of today, and the food and supplies left Lin the Arctic cache by Commander McCllntock and his men nlso were well preserved, dosplle the severe weather known to prevail In the Arc tic regions. Documents nnd a list of the con tents of a cache built In the fur North by Commander McCllntocli nnd other data also were found by ("apt. Joseph B. Bernler, In command of the "Arc tic" expedition of 1008-1000. A tablet erected nn Dealy Island hy Cnptaln Kellett nnd Commander McCllntock In 8Ti2-18!i3, whoso vessels were lost, also was found by Captain Hornier and re-erected, with Ills own tablet, nn I'o'i-v's Knelt, commemorating the a f Hie Arctic nrchlpeliign In Umiii t'n Mic tablet found by Captain ,.. .. ,.ri. ,he names of the ships linv'-'fiod hv the explorers "II. M, S. pe.ni'ite Henry Kellett, Ksq., C. B II. M S V. Intrepid, F. L. McCllntock, F.mi. '1111110. Wintered 18.r)2-18r3, S. b'2 IC. (liu;). Door of Depot House CHILDREN OFFERED AS BAIL Pueblo Strikers Seek Rilestt of Wlvss After Mayor Is Beaten. 1'iicblit, Colo. Children in surely for ball Is something new In Colorado. Five women were annum those ar rested here following j riot In which Mayor Mike SludzlnsUI wnt knocked down and severely beaten by striking sleel workers. Iluihund of he wom en hindo frantle attempt to obtain their release on bond, mi) lux 'hey needed Iho women to "keep the home fires burning," and one man. who could not raise Ihe f'-'iHI bond rcnulrcd, took his Hire Utile children 'o ihe police slntlon nnd offered to leave them In custody ns surely for his wife's ap pearance lu court. The offer was re fused. I.nter the women were re leased on n cash imud of tl.iiw given by thn strike comiiiltlcc. The rioting followed the attempt In reopen the Mluncipiii steel mills, closed since July. Austrian women stoned the workers who tried to enter tho plant. HIGH HEELS CAUSE DEATH Pittsburgh Woman Mangled by Ele vator Afttr Her Shot Catchet In Door. Pittsburgh, Pa. High heeled hs dragged Mrs. C. Stellli-r,ak'ed forty two, to a slow death when she was crushed beyond recognition between nn elevator cage and I be shaft wall III tho North Park a purl men tn. No. 20t Knst North avenue, where she resided. Mrs, Ktelller was hurrying through the hall going to the elovntor when John (illiHon, Hie elevator operator, In formed her that he would carry her up lifter he hud answered n telephone rail. As Mrs. StclhVr stepped Into the waiting cur her high heeled shoes cnught between the elevator and the floor. In nn effort tn extricate herself she fell forward, grasping the rnble of Iho cage which started slowly to de scend to the busemeut, pinning her between the steel cage and the wall. RUSS REDS SELL CZAR'S GEMS Lenlnt Government Trading In Hol land Through Germany to Avoid Blockade. Amsterdam, Holland. The I.clilnn government In Iliissln, bulked by tho world fluniiclal blockade from sending money abroad for propaganda pur poses, now Is conducting nn extensive traffic In confiscated Jewels through (icriiinny to Holland markets, accord ing to the lianilelslilnd, which coin-, incuts on a charge that the com munist member l.lsser of the Am dterdatn council offered the Kusxlnn emperor's diamonds for sale. (with direction given), itemnl will be found In house." "Lleutennnt McCllntock," says Cap tain llernler, who was commander of tho Intrepid and second In command to Captain Kellett, early showed his grent activity by making sledge Jour neys of a huzardous nature across Melville Island from the locality In which the Kesolute and Intrepid were frozen In near Dealy Island. Tho tracing mndo by McCllntock around Iho shores of Melville Island and Prince Patrick Island, on foot, added ninny hundreds of miles fo the coast surveyed under Hcleher nnd Kellett. The cairns established by him be tween ISM and lsr.l nre mentioned in his reports wllh the papers found at Dealy Island. Built Half Century Ago. It Is prnluibly one of these ealrmt Hint was discovered by Stefansson nnd built by McCllntock more than hnlf n century ago. Continuing, Captain llernler says of McCllntock: "Ills suhseuuont career In navigating the waters In Lady Franklin's yacht Fox of Peel Round. Itegent Inlet, Ilellot strait, King Wil liam Island and nrouud Montreal is land and Ilnothlu peninsula are well known. Ills brilliant achievement and discovery of dellnllo Infortunium regarding the fate of Franklin point to him ns tho most fortunate of all voyagers who pursued ,the most re markable search known In the his tory of navigation," One of the documents left hy Mc Cllntock In a copper lube and under a pllo of rocks was found by Captain llernler. Another wns found outsldo of Kellett's depot, probably disturbed from Its resting place by a polar bear, for It bore the marks of tl0 paw of nn animal of considerable size. Much of the Informal Inn found In' these documents was utilized by Cnn laln llernler while cruising through northern seas In the Arctic. Enjoyed His Own Funeral. Illllsboro, Pn. James II. Houser seventy-five years of nge, Is nil ready to die now. In fnct, ho has already burled himself. Ilellevlng funernls should be enjoyed while living, he has had his staged here recently. Mnny friends attended. They anng "Kenrer My God, to Thee," nnd a lot of other funeral songs nfter a minister deliv ered Houser's burial servicer:. Houser has prepared his own obituary The ceremony wns held at a church and at the Houser home.