Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-23
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PU,

"TITE first Postmaster General" said
l. Will Hays in the bosom of his official
family one day. was Darius. the leader
of the Mcdes and Persians. Whenever he
did good days work capturing Babylon
he sent out flock Of news carriers In
all directions. bearing the message. He
was the master of the posts
And I've Postmaster, General. after thus
, airing his crudtion. looked around Bit
SuSpiClouSly because a special assistant OF
his. one Joe Stewart. is wondrous wise.
Mr.. Hays hoped he had put one over on
Stewart
And to insure the correctness of The
message sent" intcriectcd this killjoy. "and
as Il warrant against its being lost, he
tattoOcd it on the backs Of the messengers. Il
was rarely sarblcd in transmission"
You are getting into the railroad game,
Mr.. Ford, one of us said to the hivver
manufacturer out at Dearborn, "iust at the
time when tho trucks are threatening to take
away the freight business and the airplanes
the passenger travel. Is it not possible that
railroads may be put out of business in the
near futurc?"
mo mechanical DEVICE said he. has
ever come into the world and aftcrward
been driven from it. There are more bI.
cycles used today than at the time of their
greatest popularity. back in the nncties"
lloN uDOul the stage cOucn :! ! asked,
1.-The autObuS is the modern development
Of it, he said. land is transporting
hundred times as many people as the stage
coach ever did,"
Representative Benjamin X. Focht, Of
Pennsylvania, is called the Mayor Of Wash.
ington because he is chairman of the Com.
mttcc on the District .of Columbia Of the
liorNc Of Representatives. When he was
youngStcr he went to Baltimore TO study
pharmacy and worked in a drug store for
practical experience. The druggist used to
send him down to the cigar factory when his
supplies Of smokes ran low. and here Young
Focht found himself subjected to the infu
cncc Of that trick Of trade, tlc doubled
OrdCr.'
The cigar man would say that the supply
of this particular brand was very low and
that they probably would not be available
when next needed. 70 protect thc customer
from rdnning out Of these cigars Lc would
give him a double supply while they were
in stock. Also ne would fill the lo'kctS Of
the druggists boy with the best cigars in
the house. Thus young FOcht acquired
taste for expensive cigars which he has
found it necessary 20 crafty through all the
years that have intervcned, often to hs
financial embarrassment.
"lhc nations Of tho world.' Henry d.
Hubbard Told me, "havc always maintained
physical standards of their vHriOu& measure
mcntS filed away in the archives Just now
all thoS" standards of mraSuic are being
, scrGppcd, for scientists have developed an
unvarying standard in nature which may be
used. This standard is the length OF
wave Of light which is 1-52,OO0 Of an inch
with it measurements can be made as deli
cate as on" 200 milionth of an inch. This
standard exists in nature and is UnCnungns
"Thc standard yard rule in the archives
"f Great Britain has been measured by this
new Standard Of length and it has been
found, quite strangely, that the neral Of
this rule is shrinking and that the british
standard yard is growing shorter. It Is not
correct standard. The light wave OF
nature is displacing it,"
Ihomas Il. DraytOn, of Seward. Aiasks
claims to be the only writing man domlcllea
in that whole vast possession of Uncle spm
or course Rex Beach. who has made
million out Of writing, used to live up here
but he was not doing it until long AFTER
ward. Whcn as n clerk IL Chicago. irlenu
showed him story of Alaska he had writ
ten for poultry journal and which was :.
poor that Beach wrote better one OUT "
Indignation.
At the time Beach was in ALASKA, lFay.
ton says, everybody worked hard, but u.
very worst Of tho tasks were Saved Tor Wv ".
Chinamcn, who were the real slaves Ol Wv
mining camps. When q task became wv
erduous or too mean for even the !hinaln'.
the practice was to call Beach, who was
horse for lowy labor.
Mi. Sumnc, Wcllcs, Chief Of attn
American Affairs Of the Stat" D"rar'l,lH,n""". ,Hn".
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