Ole Hanson Stumps the Country for Americanism I cigar was cocked to the angle of a seemed to think that he was some¬ Seattle's Un¬ flagstaff. how in the field of Presidential Fighting Ex-Mayor Really The mention of Presidential as¬ timber." pirations does not rcduco Ole Han¬ For the, present his speaking tour and his which is to derstands the and He son to an anticipated clamlike book, be brought Northwest, Says silence. out by a publishing house of Long him "I have had an ambition to be Island, keep busy. What He Thinks About the Reds President of the United States since "I never was so busy or had less/* / I was eight years old," he said, In he said at parting. "Never again answer to the writer's question. "Is can any one tell me of the prosperity it not an ambition that is legitimate to be encountered by public speaking. to after said. ever could be womanless. I have to every American schoolboy?" It appears me, my short By Louis Leo Arma they Nothing seen hundreds that the of Russian men in but never Further than this Ola Hanson did experience, promoter's idea 1W. W. eruptions on Annistice done through them that the L W. W. Seattle, is a woman I have not choose to go, beyond the state¬ of an adequate speaker one who and the «vents of the could not accomplish more effec¬ recognized as Rus¬ Day sian. From 1900 to 1918 of ment that "about two of every three will speak for nothing. have once more and in less time. The L W. W. seventy paist fortnight tively every one hundred immigrants past persons who met him on the lecture "Still," he added, "I like it, and the singled out the Northwest as felt sorry for the unions, but, which nineteen years to reach this coun¬ j platform at the end of a speech country needs it." the hot spot of radicalism. is more important, could not show try have been males. That tells Í The shooting down of four ex- them the error of their ways. much of the story in the Northwest, soldiers and members of tthe Ameri- for the woman, after all, rules the A Matter of Evolution home, controls the expenditures and can on November 11 at Cen- Legion "From 1914 to the big strike of keeps man in his place and satisfied. John Drinkwater \ tralia. Wash., followed by the The most 1917 we may assume that condi¬ practical employer is he lynching of one "Red" and the Jail¬ who builds homes for his employees, tions in the lumber woods were not the for that rears on Kick a score a employer the ing of more, have created of the best. All Industrial improve¬ Prefers | «situation the end of which is not ment is a matter of evolution, but, . yet. By Glendon Allvine thing stronger handy. His name íb as yet, the living conditions in the man the JOHN DRINKWATER sell¬ not by any means descriptive But No understands North¬ great woods had not evoluted. The isn't west, the character of its people Oleisms ing insurance any more, which ho is getting used, after these six men did hard work and lived in is the reason all weeks, to our quaint American cus¬ end its political and economic struc- why London shacks and bunkhouses. They fur¬ HE yesterdays are gone forever, but the lessons knows who he is and why toms. New York he has seen both fcre better than Ole Hanson, Seat¬ America is "wet" and "dry," and out in the Mid¬ nished their own bedding with which taught by the past must be remembered tee j learning. tle's fighting ex-Mayor, the spec¬ if "For was dle West he baa visited towns "dr they trudged from camp to camp. T are to twelve years I employed tacular white-haired American of progress. the Northern Insurance Com- as Sahara. For many years there were no by Bwedish extraction whose percep¬ pany," said the author of "Abraham "There was a Drinkwater fn amusements for the men, and this, In order to understand the present tee must remem¬ Lincoln" at the Hotel Cromwell's tion and decision last winter broke ber Schuyler the Parliament," he has with the lack of home life and the the lessons of the past, but must forget its prejudices* other day. "I »sold insurance poli- learned, "which amuses me, because . sympathetic strike which since has * . general feeling of irresponsibility, . «ejes, both fire and life, and traveled I am writing a play about Crom¬ been characterized as, in effect, a mado of these workers saturnine, This is a new new world.but one must never about the British Isles surveying well." social revolution. day.a rough fellows who, in the rough-and- forget that old human nature never changes* business and inspecting agents. He is also gathering material for Mr. Hanson is now on a m * . "Then, one day, I got 'sick of in- a speaking tumble fights of the camps, sunk the play about Robert E. Lee, in tour of the the | surance, and decided to try my hand whose life he country. During spikes of their shoes deep into the Our present condition has been bred by indifference* finds dramatic ma¬ past seven weeks he has spent forty- and at living by my wits. I had written terial comparable to that of Lin¬ faces of their opponents. There is neglect* ignorance selfishneês. I some verse and plays in my spare two nights in sleeping car berths. * * * coln's. no gainsaying that the employers moments, and finally decided to He is preaching Americanism and must be out For the motive that sends this were slow to recognize conditions, Cowardly complacence wiped by intense write for a living. to his audiences his interest in our young Britisher to America for the relating experi¬ or it may be that they thought the country's problems. "Last night I dreamed I was back * * # .characters for his we have ences with the radicals of the North¬ of creature comforts was In the insurance office again." plays quality his own explanation: west.those same that were impli¬ comparable to the loyalty of their Despair never caught a fish nor built a home. "Please," said his wife, 'net's talk » n * about else." cated in the Armistice Day out¬ men. something "The Civil War period In Ameri» "After the strike of 1917 j The conversation veered to an- is the most in modern breaks. great Great wealth, to be respectable, must come from great 1 perhaps epic was called living conditions for the "Make it a felony to belong to service* lumbermen were improved. Better * * * the I. W. W. or a kindred organiza¬ beds, better food and better hours comes to men who have Ole Hanson, Seattle's who tion," said Seattle's former mayor were established. Now I would Poverty oft naught that the fighting Ex*Mayor, says: world wants to to The Tribune representative. "No rather have a meal in a Washing¬ buy. "Make it a felony to belong to the 1. W. W." * * * amount of theorizing suffices in the ton lumber camp than the best din¬ ner that could be served in a New There is* as yet* no synthetic substitute for brain.-. present honr. Act! Jail the native York hotel. Camp cooks are paid .OLE November 1919. those who wish to remain in this her vote is for the home and trouble-makers and deport the ras¬ $175 a HANSON, 18* that to $200 month and they are country. Deport the others. The which the cally aliens who are at symbolizes home. Com¬ equally tht acquainted with the appetites to statistics on the recent coal strike bine with that the fact bottom of the which minister. that soon unrest of the North they tend to prove that it is the foreigner labor will not permit itself to be west." "The advent of better living con- solid rock of psychological and ao~ place among all the unions that and the radical who go hand in hand- ditions did not diminish the fact. manipulated, as it plainly has been popu¬ ciological voted on the so-called sympathetic just a3 they progressed thus in the in the and there is Behind the larity of the I. W. W. Rather it "The strike for the past, much for Discontent improved condition that shipyards workers, Northwest, where 300,000 men were -which we may be hopeful and thank¬ helped, for the results of the strike came in 1917 no real con- which was, in effect, revolution men Seattle's erstwhile Mayor, who re brought thin¬ guided by whoso greatest hope ful. But we always must encourage were pointed to as the magic that tent. It stayed the hand of the I. W. ly disguised and bristling with po- was to overthrow the government these signed his position to take the plat could be weaved natural forces by standing by organization W. for the moment, but the goal of tentialities. of the United States. firm that form against radicalism, summed and converts were So against anything smacks uj many gained. revolution loomed ahead. The I. W. Unnatural "If we use force now we can talk of alienism." the reasons for the chronic discon far, so good; for these, broadly, are W. still held aloof from the Living reform later. It is no unions, time to mend Ole Hanson is his tent in the Northwest as accepted principles of employer- but after the overthrow of the Rus¬ "The conditions which I have out- the barn door approaching follows when the horse is forty-eighth He is the at employee relations and are a thing sian government a new policy was lined are as surely responsible for being stolen and that is the condi¬ birthday.