Evening star., 1923-08-27

hoCVer, and throws rolling barrage
ahead of his coherts. He says the
Hoover forces are fighting like ir-
regulars. by burglarizing and robbing
ltters files, contrary to The Hague
laws of civilized warfare. Nothing
that he has ever written would make
him blush to publish, but he objects
to having the enemy rob his hem
roost.
General" Hoover. like Banquo.
cries out, Thou canst not say i
II the war continues. the very foun-
dation of California republicanism
VIII snake and the residents Will be-
lieve they are having another earth
quake.
1t was California which lost Mr..
hughes his election in 1915. Beware
the earthquakes of. California,
There'S a raisinw
cablegram from London an
nounces that Col Gibbs and Col Grif-
fin of the United States War Depart
ment are now in London for the pur-
pose of placing contract with an
English firm to lay a cable from
Seattle to Alaska. at a cost of about
100000.
The Morse telegraph was an Amer
lean invention; the first oceanic cable
was successfully laid by Cyrus w.
Field of the United States. and the
United States sends more than twice
as many kilograms as does either
Great Britain or any other nation.
The greatest electric inventions are
American. The greatest copper mines
are American. Why must the United
States Army seek to spend 1900. 900
with foreign cable-laying COM
pany? Are American companies so
overcrowded?
With a twenty-seve ven-hour schedule
Francisco, how can tired business
man spend a week end on a round
trip across the continent, without
occasionally being late, in arriving at
office Monday mornings? 1t will be
pleasanter when the dawn to- dark
ness timetable Is perfected.
**
Why be a banker? Learn bricklay-
ing and buy the bank. The Wash
ington Y. NJ c. A. is opening a school
in bricklaying. since builders seem
to have solved the problem of how
to get rich quick" The salary" is
$50 a day; why drag along through
life in a learned profession at $40
week? The art of bricklaying will
be taught in lectures. demonstrations
and individual instruction, covering
common bricks and hollow tile. No
gold bricks will be laid. The course
leads to the high degree of ID. B."
which, when spelled out, means Doc
tor of Bricks"
The reha bilitation branch of the
Veterans Bureau finds that the aver
age cost of putting a sick or wounded
man on his feet so that he may go
out and make living and support a
| family is 5000.
The works OF Henry Ford are not
run as an eleemosynary institution,
but on a strictly business basis. Mr.
Ford employs SO many thousands of
men in so many thousands of kinds
| of labor that he has to utilize all the
available kinds of men who apply for
| work. Yet he finds the work for
| which each man is capable. He has
| his jobs classified from a physical
standpoint into 3,33S kinds. and his
| work simply because he is physically
| imperfect. So in the shops there are
$40 men without any legs, 1851 with
only one leg each, two men with no
arms, us men with one arm each and
| 10 blind men.
|
| He believes that if other large en-
ployers of labor would study how to
| utilize cripples-the lame, the halt
and the bhnd-they would not only
demonstrate humane sympathies but
| also patriotism and economic good
| sense.
| A laundry manager advertised a
| few days ago for women to work in
| his laundry, stiplating that none
| should apply unless she was deaf and
| dumb. That was not Sentimental
| sympathy. he explained; IL was his
| policy, based on the ground that the
| mutes would spend less time gossip
| ing and more time at the work they
| were hired to do. So the lame work
man, knowing his handicap in general
| industry, works with unusual faith
fulness at the job he has secured.
| A government expenditure of 5000
per man to produce faithful workers
| is good investment. even from the
standpoint of economics, though that
is not the highest view of reha abilita-
| ton of the veterans.
Copyright. 1923. by Paul V. Collins.)