Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-21
HUM4NISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON Du puy


MIR. FRANKLIN ADAMS, counselor Of
1Vl the Pan American Union, who has
climbed every mountain in the Andes, was
introduced to Mr. Sylvanus Morley by
mutual friend, who assured Mr.. Adams that
tho latter gentleman also knew all objects
Latin American by their first names.
''llavr you Il special work in Latin Amer.
ica;" Mr.. Adams asked.
''Ycs,' replied Mr.. Morley, II am a
glifcr.''
~ MN said Mr.. Adams, intcrros.
ativcly, "a glffer?'
YES" said Mr.. Morley, ''for the Car.
negie Institution.'
"A gifrcr-for the Carnegie Institution"
repeated Mr.. Adams.
as gliffer for many years. Mexico, Cen.
trail America. Egypt and the Near East"
AS n gliffor," repeated Mr.. Adams.
''Chu," said Mr.. Morley, and was walk
ing away. but Franklin Adams could not
let him 60 He ran and caught him by the
elbow and said frankly and hun'bly:
Mr.. Morley, tell me what a giffer is?'
And Mr.. Morley explained that ghfer
was an individual who devoted himself to the
reading of hicroglyphics.
Scientific men throughout the ages"
says Henry D. Hubbard, secretary Of the
Bureau of Standards, have laid down Ger.
ldIH lIlODItIllS dS Dtlnp DPNOHu tDp nope VI
solution. The decades have passed and new
generations of scientists have arisen to dis.
prove the correctness of this theory by solv.
ing one and another of these unknowabe
riddles.
at used to be said. for instance. that
there was no way of finding out what was
on the other side of the moon since we
were permitted to see but one face Of il.
It used to be said. also, that the substance
OF which the stars are made could not be
determined.
1--WE have not vet looked around the cor
ner and seen the other side of the moon,
but we have reached out that ninty.tw
million miles and determined the substances
or which the sun is made. This has become
possible because it has been shown that
certain substances when heated give off Ger.
tain colored lights. So, by breaking up the
rays of light that come from the sun. by
passing them through spectroscope. we
are able to show exactly what are the sub
! stances in that body which in their heated
condition give of these rays Of light which
com" to us. So do we solve the unknow'
able"
Colonel John Temple Graves of Georgia
slIvcr-tonguCd orator. advances the novel
theory that public speaking Is better physl.
cal exercise than golf or floor rolling.
He recently returned from on extended
tour during which he spoke for an hour and
4 half every afternoon for hundred days
lie started out cnervated and dYSpeptic and
returned with his chest out like a West
Point cadet.
He invites any ono who disagrePs with bis
theory of public speaking as an exercise TO
examine himself in the process of elocuton
take note of the stunts that are being put on
by his diaphragm. stomach muscles, Dis
pipes, bellows and Adams apple.
Medical authorities admit, he cites, that
woman, God bless her has always been
healthier than man. Mnyhap this scientific
| fact is due to her more frequent exercise
through vocaization.
The Hon. Charles II. Burke, now Com
! missioner of Indian Affairs, has been
| mixed up in the development of the some,
| what new State of South Dakota since bacs
! in 1882. When States are plastic ana
taking shape the influence upon geograpny.
| that single individuals may exert IS QUIZ
| remarkable. If il had not been for Chares
| II. Burke, for instance. the star when apI Az
| pears on all the maps indicating the cdPisa.
city of South Dakota would have been n,', o'tn n
| at Huron instead Of at Pierre. for buTht ,t..r -
1890 secured the designation OF the 'u''''
! town as the seat Of State government
William Maclay, according to hlc.s,u
| Lnthicum, secretary of the Democratic 10 .,
! tional Committee. was an intimate lls,motivs u
! George Washington in those early lot,tIooisy
| days Of the American Government MTasb
| has written it down some place lhat /" wers
| ngton had IA set of false teeth when w. w.
responsible for the somewhat drawn app' ps ws
ancc Of that gentleman's 3 upper lip 10
see it in his pictures. .,;o ,ros the
Mr.. Lmthicum believes that tins was , an an
frtf set Of false teeth ever made. being ~ ~
article created and developed as re'"''
Yankee ingenuity.
Annette Kellermann. the diving Venus, lusnts. ha'