Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-24
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUy

T f. EDGERTON, president of tho Ma
y . tional Association Of Manufacturers,
was talking with Ernest Greenwood. Ameri-
can representative Of the International La
Dor Organization which studies industrial re-
latons for tho League of Nations. The fact
that the United States is not working with
other nations on the problems that affect the
world reminded Mr.. Edgcrton of a stoty.
He said that farmer. having lost one OF
his team of oxen, decided that he would
hitch himself to his cart alongside the other
to take his produce to town. This some
what awkward idea was carried out and the
journey was begun.
The cavalcadc had not gone far, however,
until the OK decided he would run away.
Down the road he galloped frantically and
the farmer found it necessary to keep pace
or find himself dragging humiliatingly in
the mud
As he passed the front gate of q ncighbor
that individual called to him loudly:
Where are you all going
The reply to which, Mr.. Edgerton says,
is much like that WHICH industrial America
is forced to make under its present condition
Of aloofness. The hurried farmer answered:
IT don't know Ask-the OK
Right after tho war, says Commander
Wells Hawks, of the navy, a number of ves-
sells of that service went up the Mississippi
to give folks inland a look at our fighting
ships.
The T. s. s. Isabel went aground at the
junction OF the Mississippi and ttc Ohio, and
It took a couple of days to get her off. The
first night she was stranded the men on
watch observed the appearance of some mys-
tcrious flashes of light on the river and be-
gan attempting to pick up the messages that
It seemed we're being flashed.
The code was weird and strange. and il
must have taken these entcrprisng sailor
men half an hour, clever as they are at these
matters to dPCipher It.
Then they came TO understand. and COM
municatiOns we're established. These flash
lighters we're moonshiners with cargoes TO
! land.
Miss Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. whose
books and pieces for the magazines bring
! her 30 much money that she lords it over
| each of her six brothers in a financial way
| is a very I'retty young woman, havil lC but
twenty six summers back Of her. and iiv-
| ing right here in Washington, D. {
Despite the fact that there are millions Of
people in tho United States who read Miss
! lIamiItol's articles every month and there
fore credit her with much erIdition this
| Young TCmNn admits that she wOuii not
! know n fraction from Chinese laundry tag
! Miss HNmi.ton has never IN all her life
| opened up nm arithmetic as far back in the
| book as fractions.
Here is the way it came about Both her
! father and her mother wrote for publication
| Despite this, the Hamilton boys did not seem
especially inclined to court the muse, and
so, when, at the age of seven, Miss Ger
trud", the only girl, began to write cute lit
tic verses her parents were delighted. The
education which they gave her was all filled
up with reading and literature and things
and did not have anything to do with those
utiltarian studies which are ordinarily
crammed down the mental throat of the un-
| willing female child.
so, at the age of sixteen, Miss Gertrude
began to write for the magazines. and after
ten years at It she finds herself in the lit.
Nrarly plutocratic class
Hudson Maxim, who is credited with Civ
ing smokccss powder to the American Army
and Navy, played the part OF King NEPTUNE
at the recent pageant given at Atlantic
City.
In the midst Of the ceremony Of Mardi
Gras night, sitting right in the snnt
light up there on his throne, he commanded
one Of his slaves to touch the master of ccrn
monies on the shoulder, thus arrcsting his
attention, WhereunOn the king dcrrrcL
sottO vOcc:
y want to so home. It's too damned