Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-08
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON NJ Ply

TNARL VENABLE is the new secretary Of
IL the National Republican Congressional
Committee which keeps fences mended that
the chances of continuing that party in
the ma jOrity seat in the House of Repre-
scntatives may be enhanced.
Mr.. Ncnable used to be secretary to
Senator Borah and before that he was the
editor of country weekly out in Idaho.
They were just going to press on
Thursday. Ncnabc says, when n preacher
from down the valley burst in and broke
the news that Unknown citizen had
died. and that here was a story of his life,
about a column long, and here was column
and half Of in mcmoram poetry and
would the editor please put both of them
in the paper,
Editor Vcnablc explained the mechanical
difficulties in the way, since the paper was
on the press and there's was not room and
nj! that sort of thing. The preacher went
away somewhat modified.
Two hours later, however, he tore back
into the office. lie had seen the bercayed
widow. She said that the poetry just had
to be printed. She explained that this was
her second husband and that. when the
first husband had died, she had got that
same column and half Of poetry printed
about him. and that now, arriving at the
time of the second bereavement, il would
put her in the light of showing the rankest
sort of partiality if the space allotted to
rhyme were curtaied.
When ] found, the other day, that Miss
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. the writer. was
stranger 10 fractions, thought / had
discovered a novelty.
Now here comes Miss Mary Meek Alike
son, who is well known to readers of
women's publications.
Miss .NtkrsOn is the daughter of Thomas
Clark AtkNsOn, who is the head of the Ma
tional Grange here in Washington. She is
the niece of William Oscar Atkcson. the
Congressman from Butler. No, who wears
the lacc-lkc whiskcrs. She is of crIditc
not to say scholastic folk.
Further than this, Miss Atkeson holds q
degree. from the University of West
And yet she speaks up and SAWS that
sometimes in the idle moments when she
has nothing 10 do but sit around and won
der, her mind runs vagrant- like into the
unknown and amuscs itself with surmising
multiplication table.
'ln Grcnt scientific institution like tbc
Bureau of Standards - says Henry d Huh.
bard, its secretary, "One comes to appre-
ciatc the wisdom of DIR. Oliver Wendell
tonnes When h" said that there are three
classes Of studcnts-thc fact gathercrs. who
live In the first story of the house the reo
soners, who live in the second story, nnd
the id"aIists, who live in the third story
and have skylights.'
Mr.. Hubbard also subscribes 70 the theory
laid down by the Chinese provcrb tbot ''bo
who puts on the capstone gets the credit ;,
Chris Hagarty is war correspond
ent and went to cover the Boxer IN
rising nearly two decades ago He was haIf
around the world with British Journalist
named Jack Daily, and Tom Mellard now
financial adviser to the Chinese Govern.
ment.
They stopped to take look nj the olIuro,
ments Of Honolulu, which Mellard Ind "nep
many times, but which was new to N"
others. The three rode around the town Inv IN
low nccked hack. The two noyices woro ~,
rapture'l. liagarty, who was given 70 worI
painting, opincd that God had made his
masterpiece first and had afterward bccomr
| careless of the rest of the world ,iIv
thought It was the dream of seroph oftrr ft,y
the first ling in love. Mcllard was bored
and yawncd. ="
Suddenly he sat bolt upright his attcntion
rivctcd on something ahead, by love ba
calculated, and slapped his thight. "tbnv
have put up new icehOusc." '
Whcmupon the huge Hagarty seized him
by the proper handles AMI threw him bodilv
from the carriage. ''