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Show T V THE CITIZEN 12 CLEMENCEAU, SWEET VOICED TELEPHONE GIRLS IMPRESS JAPANESE DYNAMIC OLD TIGER OF FRANCE not now amount to very much in the affairs of France, said Clemenceau. My newspaper may have been muzzled and my voice silenced. But before this war is over here the old Tiger gestured formidably with his right first, ard scowled under his enormous eyebrows before this war is over I do what I please, I say what I please, I save France from herself and her enemies. That was the remark made by Clemenceau to W. Adolphe Roberts, in I may Bordeaux, in 1915, and now told, for the first time in the current National Brain Power magazine. Clemenceaus recent visit to the United States makes more interesting and timely, this further insight into his character. Roberts goes on to say: I tried to get Clemenceau to tell me what he his prestige would do to and become the architect of victory. But he shook his head, with its great jutting forehead, crinkled up his eyes re-establi- sh and favored me with a smile that was almost lost behind the drooping white mustache reminiscent of the fangs of a tiger. It was wartime, he explained, a time for action rather than talk. lie did not propose to weaken his plan of campaign by chattering about it in advance. My own study of his career leads me to analyze the secret of Clemenceaus success as having been due-o- ver and above his will power to these three rules of conduct: sabre-toothe- d Courage. "Hard work. Physical development. He has always played a lone hand, and always faced down his opponents. He never ever joined a political party, but was selected as an Independent to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate over a period of more than fifty years. When he believed a government to be in the wrong, he attacked it, and won support to himself as leader of the opposition, by the very strength of his convictions and the evidence of the facts he brought out in debate and the moment each fight was over he resumed his independence as e member of parliaa mere ment. "In his dealings with individuals, he has been equally uncompromising and bold. In France, it is not ethical for a public man to attack his enemies verbally, unless he is willing to back up his statements on the dueling field. Knowing this to be so, Clemenceau became an expert with both sword and a chalpistol. He never lenge, but sometimes issued one without result. His record shows twenty-sifree-lanc- side-steppe- d x duels, from all of which he emerged the victor. That he can today embark on projects such as his late trip to America demanding an immense expenditure of physical and mental energy, is little less than a miracle of will power. To borrow a phrase from the vocabulary of the war, he Is the ace of aces and all those who live in terror of old age can draw inspiration from his An unexpected but very sensible re- ply to the question of what he liked most in America was given lately by a Japanese newspaper man upon returning to his native land after a visit to the United States. Was it the huge buildings, the swift trains, the evidence on every hand of dynamic national energy that won his highest admiration? Were these the impressive things that will linger longest in his memory? Not a bit of it. Separately and collectively he found much in their favor to say. He admitted that they are fine. But they are not the things which will haunt his dreams of America. What he remembers with most pleasure is the unbelievably sweet voice, the constant sweet nature and the extraordinary resourcefulness of the typical American woman telephone operator. There will be general agreement that this Japanese visitor has paid a deserved tribute to a group of Americans whose labors in an often exasperating and always nerve straining occupation are performed usually with courteous patience and firm maintenance of poise sometimes unappreciated. He is entitled to a floral tribute from the telephone women in America. More than that, he is entitled to the thanks of all reasonable Americans for reminding them from afar of an advantage they perhaps are inclined to overlook. And more than that still, he has not only bestowed praise where praise was due but discovered something wholly new to say on a topic worn to a frazzle by countless strangers within our gates who have been harried with questions about it. THE CITY OF ROOFS. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, which not long ago gave a right royal welcome to the prince of Wales, covers a larger space in proportion to its population than any other capital city in the world, except, perhaps, Peking. The reason is the same as that which makes London, and American cities, too, in proportion to their number of inhabitants, incomparably vaster than Taris, or Berlin, or Vienna the tendency for each family to live under his own roof tree. But as the average Japanese family is much poorer than the average Londoner, and as in any case Japanese houses are minute creations of wood and paper, this city of hardly more than 2,000,000 souls occupies a space hardly less than that of Greater London. Some years ago a Japanese painter exhibited in the annual Academy of Tokyo a picture of the capital as seen from one of its northern hills. He entitled it A City of Roofs, and the title was an apt one. Each roof measures only a few square yards, and of the myriads of houses the vast majority are omy one or two stories high. Even so, the buildings are so tiny by European standards that one can almost touch the eaves with ones hand without stretching, and so frail that one could effect burglarious entry with a pair of pocket scissors. WOI Were it not for the exquisite taste of Japanese architecture, even in mean houses, and the exquisite cleanliness of Japanese personal habits, one might not unfairly compare Tokyo to a city of hencoops. s Save for one main street, the Ginza, which is the Broadway of Tokyo, the citys streets are quite unpaved. In the wet season the surface mud is so deep and sticky that it will suck a pair of low shoes off a Europeans feet. The Japanese do not mind the mud, because they wear wooden pattens or geta in the wet season. The deeper the mud, the bigger the geta. The streets are merely narrow lanes between the hencoops, so narrow that one can almost touch either side by stretching the arms. Right and left of the street are deep ditches of unspeakable filth bridged by stone flags at the entrance to each house or shop. After all, medieval London was hardly better. And the truth about Japan is that still today it is medieval, both in its absence of sanitation and its morality. At the very first glance a European arriving in Yokohama or this medievalism. The coolies, the rickshawmen, the working class, are clad in jerkin and blue tights; they might, but for their Mongol faces, be supers in the conventional stage setting of Henry IV. To imagine Tokyo or any other Japanese city properly one might first imagine London in the Fourteenth century, and then imagine that London equipped with every modern appliance save paving and sanitation, with trams, electric railways, the telephone and electric lights. But to complete the picture one must imagine a decorative, graphic and architectural art as living and spontaneous and gracious as that of London of the Fourteenth century. world-famou- Tokyo-recog-niz- es MEN OR MACHINES? Hugo Stinnes, the German financier who is hailed in some quarters as a genius of finance and hence a great man, has told the National Economic Council that the recovery of Germany depended on the scrapping of its revolutionary principles, and principally the eight-hou- r day. In other words, Stinnes would make industrialism the monarch of his country instead kaiserism. In a recent talk before Mary mah chapter D. A. R., Dr. Day recoui ed how Stinnes works. With o business men he purchased ma: when they were low, and Dr. asserted that some there were w did not hesitate to say that Stin: and a few others were instrumental driving the mark to its lowley pla sold them in this country to creduloflgasec buyers and then with American gj A. b bought up fpetories and business! ce and were now welding them into j es 61 If gantic industrial monopolies. Bearing these facts in mind it W erl rather easy to see why Stinnes is f; r d oring bringing back the for the workers. That extra two houjjome would be the means of putting mojjts, f money into his coffers, a fact whiSt i concerns him deeply and it wouffat take out of the workers a certa: amount of vitality and eventually suit in a breakdown a fact whidlen concerns him not at all, for he mu figure that always it is easy to gi workers. The overlords of industry of tlie .. type of Stinnes, and the trouble k.s0 that they are too plentiful, have a use for the humanitarian viewpoi They want results in dollars and cent and it is always easy to get the wort ers. They cannot reason that man is a living creature, not a machine, anid is capable of doing just so much that Co is a certain amount that will be donpive to the very best of his ability. Drive him beyond that point and the quality of his production begins to drop. jj, :s red Careful and scientific investigationsVouc in many lines of industry have att'!!df ii pointed to one conclusion that the. I shorter work day is more profitableH not only along humanitarian lines but economically as well. A people whose a every bit bf strength. is absorbed by' :3,D industry will not be a happy people nor, will they be the best type of citizens. It is becoming increasingly harder for industry to wring from its workers thejjf last ounce of strength they possesi sis Cit and in years to come, with the en-lightenment of the people and the realization of their power men of the type of Stinnes and his associates will no longer be in a position to make in; dustrial slaves of free men. ten-hou- . lite K. ecu Beginning Now! wi 60 on A Af P.C With each new subscription to The Citizen, each renewal or payment of subscription account, an order will be given YOU, entitling you to one picture, 11x7 Inches, Ivory Finish; a photo of superior quality, made by A. C vi of MONROE STUDIOS 267 8outh Main Street. You present the order and get your Picture Taken and delivered to you without any charge or further obligation. Sci IT A |