Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-24
HUNANISMS
Rv WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUy

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TJERE is the prize case of weird post.
II war influence that is to exert itself for
q generation - come.
There are to be poor red clover crops IN
Eurorc for Il generation. Dr. T.. H. BaII'
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture. says So
Iierc is the reason:
Many women in Europe will be forced;
EccniIsr of the shortage of men, to become Old
nrids Old maids keep cats Cats reduce
\ the numbers Of mice. There becomes short
age of mice's nests. Mice's nests are the
sole breeding places for bumbiehees. Inc
bumbebce supply will be decreased Bum
blebces arc the only insects that carry the
nolIen from one red clover blossom to another
and fertilizc it. thus causing II TO y!eLo
coed Without She bumblcbCe there will be
no clover seed and that crop cannot repro
ducc itself.
So will the IIolstcins and Jerseys. to say
nothing of the DurhumS and the lieretords,
have their troubles in remaining in clover
"Tbcrc is n general tendency to dccry the
results of congressional Investigations
saws Chairman NJ. Il. Madden, Of the Budsel
Committrr but there are cases whcie the!
have won out over the experts: r,
There was the instance OF the fah"nIa
Canal. for example. President KooSeVeH
appointed an lnterhu'lonu' D,o.,oJ
engineers to study the problem. 1t reported
recommending the construction ot ''a
level canal. ,A
"A committee OF Congress, OF when !
was member went to Panama 10 looA
oycr the situation. We decided that sea,
level canal was virtual impossibiIlty ana
50 reported. , .;ns
The matter was threshed out. ana t'ns
has shown that We were undoubtedly risnt
and the International engineers were wrong
Senator John William IIarrcld, the huge
genial oklahoma oil operator. VINO mas le
Gently taken his seat in Congress. mace nl'i
self Il rule when he went into the on Ous,.
ness some six or cight.years ago. lhis ru''
was that of all the money he made IN OIL Nv
would rcinvcst only 20 per cent in thc sam.
business. Eighty per cent he would p'uS'
in stocks bonds. real cstat" and other Oh.
viously more stable securities. Ihe' ~ Pt,
cent that he rc!nycstcd in oil has mad" ",'u
more money than the 50 per cent l'IAc'u u'
that in>tir"t within him whicI was con.
servativc. lie still holds, however, tha'
his formula was dictated by good Judgment
Chester Crowoll. the writer was rI",ns
on tho subway in Ncw York. md two youN
women next to him were earnestly I'srus
ing methods Of home manufacture OF NLIt,
arguing about the relative merits OF Tue"
several tcchniqucs. .,.,
"Rut." said Mabel. has it Mnthor't{::
Has i. the zip in it, tn" kick: lN0' '"'
point, .uJl
'Iias it kick" rctortcd Sue 'WclL
7 wish you could have seen my sister a''n
n coupla drinks. What do you thInH Sn.
was doing: Smoking her lipsticN LOT
cigarette.
Victor Murdock, member Of the IGdcIo,
Trade Commission and al one time '. .Ho,
Of the l'rogrcesivCS in Congress. ndm''' 'm"' mo
Dc is Of Scotch extraction. RE cues m
fact that Sir Walter Scott in ms "I'.,mS .,ors
refers to one "Rrd" Murdock, notorl%MGS
cattle thief. and suspects that 'h'S '"''
vidua was one Of his forebcnrs =,
With this background, be is quite Ionu w.
telling stories at the expense OF the S'o''"
man. Here is one which he relates ,.
Mike and Pat met Sandy on Ion'SiTII"SJ
road, and, being broke and hungry acrlueu
that thcy would rob him. MIR" set IPO| .%o,
him. but Sandy fought 50 vigorously tDui;
soon the frst Irsi,man found himself out u
commission. Pat then dug into the Hcotvn ttr,.
man and furcd no better. But by thIS 't"r r
Mix" had revived and took Sandy ." '''
another round. ia,
THIS went on for quite while when 'a'
coming 70 life again. fc't large stone p pe.
meath his fingers. graSped it, slipped up oS,
hind Sandy as DE was standing oyer u" u"
prone figure of Mike and cracked MIN ,,I. o..
the head with it. This put Sandy OUT ,m'
lrshmcu went carefully through his cIot"e,'
even examining the seams for sew"d III o,". ro,",
Their search revealed but one lo"e'O"'
quarter, - n,
"Fnith," said Mike, "and it's lucky 'o'
us that he did not have II dollar
Representative James Il. Mann IS tue .", n.o.
competent Legislator Congress has ever In.
duccd. SAYS his fellow member from ~ ~.
nois, Martin r. Madden, chairman oi Wv
new Budget Committee.