The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21


1 y preaching retirement of Brig.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re-
minder that it was he who super
vised the rails
Retiring General ing of the bat
Could Regulate tleship Maine
E1o, of Aeso. in Havana har-
.D =" r Dor for TIL e
u. S. government in 1910 and 1911.
In the service for AZ years in
the engineering corps, he prob
ably has won more shirt-sleeve
battles against all the disasters
of the Anglican litany than any
other army officer with q gift
for achieving the impossible.
He will be GA years old on
August IA and there is talk that
he may be upped to the rank of
major general before the bell
rings on his finish fight against
the elements.
He is the Hackenschmidt of flood
grapplers, winning one fan after an
other against the Mississippi. He
has been president of the Missis-
sippi River commission since 1892;
member of the board of rivers and
harbors since 1880 and is also a
member of the st. Lawrence Water.
way board.
Back in the days Of manifest
destiny" starting in 1897, the
young second lieutenant got his
first practice workouts in the
mud and miaSma, floods and
elemental and human catastro-
phe in the Philippines and Cuba,
and with the army swampers
tidying up China and providing
relief after the Boxer uprising
around the turn of the century.
If the destiny involved get
ting things shipshape in a hurry,
he always made it a lot more
manifest than it might have
been otherwise. He was chief
engineer of the. China expe-
dition.
He started fighting floods in Mont
gomery, Ala, in 1907 and through
the years commanded army engi-
neering works, defensive and ag-
gressive, at Milwaukee, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Pittsburgh
and Norfolk, Va.
In the World war, he was chief
engineer of the second army corps
in France. He went to West Point
from his home town, Waynesville,
N. c. His son is commander in
the navy. He has two daughters.
DIR. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist,
biologist, and student of family
relations, who has given much of
his interesting career to clinical
studies of home life, discovers that
~, ~, women are ag-
Second to the posers and that
N. w. Mounties ~ out OF % get
their man. This
is his finding in his survey of this
hitherto unexplored field of stats
tics.
DIR. Popen0e is director Of the
court Of family relations at Los
Angeles. A specialist in the
daily Squabbles of married life,
he has been effective in settling
many of them. He says it is
good idea to write down all your
wife'S faults, check them against
your own, and then burn the
paper. You should keep the
family budget straight, refrain
from nagging, and keep yourself
and everybody else around the
house interested and never
bored. As a geneticist, he
thinks it is fair bet that we
will become a race of "Super-
idiots" whereas we could be
super Einsteins If we could use
collectively the sense that God
gave geese.
He is. native of Topeka, Kan,
educated at Occidental college and
Topeka university. He was news
paper reporter in Pasadena and Los
Angeles dbefofe he became a biolo-
giSt and sociologist. r %A@
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DIG, aruddy John M. aCarmody,
- known as. ..Powerhouse Jollrl, %
takes over $500 PWA employees un-
der the new arrangement by which
New EVA Boss load. COMPARED
Belitfles Atlas to which Atlas
With His Load would be just
toting a tennis
ball. Leaving the Rural Electrified
ton administra alton, he heads the
new Federal Works agency, which
takes in both the PWA and the
FWA; also the bureau of public
roads, the building operations of the
treasury. the u. S. Housing author
ity and many other Herculean en-
deavors.
He is q snoring Irishman
with a booming voice, employ
ingosecti0n boss technique ID
getting things dome. He was for
many years an editor Of the Nc
Graw Hin Publications, making
his career in industrial engineer
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