Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-15
HUMANISfS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

COLONEL GEORGE COCKTAILS. then
" engineer in charge Of construction on
the Panama Canal. rode out over the works
one day with Martin u. Madden. then q
member of Congress- They approached to
within n quarter of mile of some rock
work that was being prose uted.
"COlOnel,' said the Congressman. your
compressed air drills are being operated
with but % per cent efficiency. You ought
to speed them up
On investigation this. proved to be fact
This Congrcssman who could judge the
work of a drill as far as he could hear t.
had gone to work in a stone quarry outside
OF Chicago az waterboy at the age Of ten,
had listened to compressed. air drills tor
thirty wears, had even invented an improved
drill. lie instinctively knew when they wer,
off the efficiency key.
The length OF the friendship which has
existed between Prcsidentt, Harding and his
secretary. George Christian. was evidenced
the other day when the son of the latter,
Lieutenant Warren Christian, L. s. A.
came to Washington for visit. The
younsster was named for Mr.. Harding.
George Chamberlain. former Democratic
Senator from Oregon. who broke with
Woodrow Wilson and who has been ap.
pointed a member Of the Shipping Board BY
President Harding. started life as a clerk
in grocery store in Natches. Miss.
The late Justice Ashley Gould. OF the
Supreme Court Of the District Of Columbia,
once had a somewhat narrowing experience
in the process of spending fifteen cents for
a shave.
He stepped into barber shop in Balt,
more and was surprised and mildly pleased
when the colOrcd razor expert said:
'IIowdy do. ledge Gould. Set right
down. and went tremendously about his
preparations.
The lathcr was nicely on and the barber
had pushed the Judges chin way over for
the first stroke down past his car when it
occurred to him to ask this man where be
had known him before
Law" he said II never will forget
YOU. Jedge,' and he tilted that dIgnitays
chin back so as to get we'll under It. IT'S
been fo'tecn vcahs now, but ! will never
forget you Don't you remember, Jeds.
Cr"stng his hand firmly on that officials
| forehcad) the time that I beat up my ole
woman and you sentenced me to nine years
in the penitentiary?"
The sentence, the Judge later testified
was no longer than the next ten minutes
seemed to him.
George w. Spear. chairman of the Horo'
logical Institute of America. wrote me .
letter commiscrating with A. +. Bcal, whose
frazzled nerves l described. nerves unstruns
because the timepiece over which he pre-
sides at the Bureau Of Standards fddes
around and varies three seconds in a mere
year.
Mr.. Smear used to be friends with Com
mander Edward Everett Hayden when that
officer of the navy presided over the clock
at the Naval Observatory. which Is ms
| daddy of them all.
This is the clock which is standard time
for the Nation, 1t is hitched up win
thousands of other clocks everywhere BY
telegraph. At stated periods it makes on
electric connection and the spark spread'
out over the country and throws the hands
| Of all these clocks to exactly the right time
Wherever YOU see n clock with one OF those
from the United States Naval Observatory,
you may know that it Is hitchcd to thS
clock that Commander Hayden had III
| charge.
And this darned old clock wouldn't keep
correct time, either. 1t aggravated tne
| Commander so he could not sleep OF nighlt'
1t varied seven eighths Of Il second In tWeN'
months.
Robert Y. Grigga is the discoverer anS
in the shadow of Mount Katmai. the biSGesI!
volcano in the world, OF the coast o.
Alaska. a..
lie has led six expeditions to that Val'e
where the world might tumble on one a.
any moment; where the ash crusts mlsn'
break through and drop him In for par
boiling. han
One is likely TO be bit appalled,, 'na wnsn
this man relates his experiences. to plcsu,'
these expeditions as calling for srupeIi ru
dous amount of physical courage. lhs A."
the way DIR. Griggs explains 1t; ,. IN
Most things he says. loom iaiss te,m
proportion to ones closeness to H.@ "ssr
Danger is the single exception. The c,o'il
one is to danger the more diminuu's
appears