Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-24
HUMANISbIS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY,

BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY,
0UT in Detroit, not long ago, l asked
~ Henry Ford, the automobile manufac.
turer. for an interview. He said that he
would be glad to see me the next morning.
"What timc?" I asked
make it s O'clock he said.
All of which made it necessary for me to
grise at the phenomenal hour of 6 O'Clock In
the morning at Detroit ten miles away.
watch the sun rise over the city which calls
itself dynamic, and hurry out to the plant
at Dearborn, where the meeting was to take
place.
arrived little before and the manu-.
facturcr came in on the dot. lie had. how.
ever, been down to his railroad shops, where
he is working upon new designs for rolling
stock, and had been mulling over some Of
these for two hours. l found that no sur.
prise was occasioncd about the Ford plants
Mt any time of day or night if the big boss
should suddenly appear.
Jimmie Sloan. for many years Secret
Service man at the White House old tine
friend of Theodore Roosevelt, now sits down
at the Shipping Board in the outer Office Of
Chairman Laskcr. lie is in charge of per-
sonnel, which means that he is the man to
whom a discharged emplOye tells his hard.
luck story. 1t is sad task now, made up
much more of firing than hiring.
Il. r. O'Connor, of st. Paul, sometimes
affectionately called ''the Cardinal BY
his friends, is the acknowledged democratic
leader from the city of James J. Hill
Not long ago lie went over to Minneapolis,
the other twin Of the Minnesota mctropoli.
lie went to see Edward Il. Smith. a good
friend despite the fact that he is the Repub-
lican leader of Minneapolis.
smith was having lot Of trouble with
some If his teeth. They had been aching
him something awful and he had finally
reached the point where he Ind resigned
himself to parting with them. lie was get
ting ready to have them pulled out.
O'C0nnor commiserated with him. They
discussed the matter in detail. particularly
the pain prevention agency Smith should
resort to while the teeth were being taken
out.
Don 't-taic gas" O'Connor urged fCe!-
ingly. Whatever comes, do not take gas.
You might talk"
DR.. William A. White, superintend.
cnt of the Governments great Hospital
for the Insane and It's leading psychologist,
told me why it was that women used the
pronoun 'I" more than do men.
lie said that it was because woman is an
eXhibtiOnist.
didn't know what he meant by this and
so he explained that she got ahead in the
world by showing herself of. She was her
own stock in trade and she talked about herr
self just as n farmer does about his Here
ford cattle, or a merchant does of the quail
ity Of his goods. This kept her working
overtime on the first person singular.
+. Slossen, Of the National Research
Council
Never! he filings back to his own nterro'
cation.
Nature is the constant and unremittins
enemy of man. Never for moment may
he relax his fight against her; II he does "s
She will Overrun his fields with weeds. ana
he will be without food. Unless he hghts
her away from his house by coats of artl,
fetal paints she will lead 1t to decay ana
her rains will come in and make him ms,
cradle. She may attack him with prstlIenasete
at any moment if he does not fight her W'tH
sanitation, or overcome him with Hood OF
Volcano. She pushes him back always mo
the chaos of the jungle from which ne mas
emerged only by mastering her. sne y
trrachorous and unslccpng. She lies IN "an, ",
Eventually she will probably overcome man
and the world will move backward to"Aru
the moIlUsk. Love her: y corpUIch op'
portunity.
Every time ! see +. G.. Mntson, Deputy
Commissioner of Internal RevenuC, he S',"S S
me "A new yarn Of the inSenuiticS to WHY" "H"i
the wary resort that they may become HI ~
sons between the thirsty and hidden WhlSA'
barrels. Here IS his latest: ~
In New York man fitted himself up aH
entire Wholesale druggists cstahliShme.,,
fixtures. stock, everything. lie applied 10, iot
Il license as a wholesale druggist, to d','
Icnsc liquor. passed inspection. and got II, II,
lie then had no further use for MS ilAtures lins
and stock, so he conceived the idea Of reh'"9
them out.
Auyhodv who UonfeI a wholesale drug,
gist's permit had but to hire this outht' "n
ready to he installed. open shop, pass u
spcction, and send II back to its owner ,on.
1t had served this purpose hall aO. ~
times before the authorities detected ~
scheme and spoiled II for further use