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Show Uncommon SSnSC B1 joKn Blake . Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. The right kind of brains are always at work. They are not like Mr. Words-w Words-w o r t h's peasant's Browsing brains, to which a Brains primrose was just a simple, primrose. They are not even like the brains of Mr. Kipling's sailor man. wbo lived "For to admire and for to see." The Intelligent useful men of the world are Interested In everything. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were both scientific observers. Both could have been numbered among the best engineers of their time If they had not been so taken up with painting. As it was, da Vinci lacked only a modern gas engine, or he would have beaten the Wright brothers to the art of flying by many centuries. . Keep your mind open, and at work. Ask questions and remember the answers. You probably will be more Interested In your own job than anything else, and that is as It ought to be. But don't think your own job Is the only job In the world. If you take an ocean Journey, find out as much as you can about the ship's power and her management. Learn how the men on the bridge control the great vessel's movements, how with the electric ears of the wireless wire-less they hear the approach of other vessels, and thus keep clear of them. Find out how the sensitive instruments instru-ments not only foretell storms, but find out where they are, how Intense, and how rapidly approaching. Read the columns of scientific Invention Inven-tion and development that you find In the dally newspapers. Know what is going on in your own home town, to the end that if it is bad, you may join with the honest people who are trying often vainly to better it. The study of astronomy Is Interesting Interest-ing and exciting, but If you haven't the access to an observatory you cannot go very far In it. But you can read what astronomers have learned about worlds other than ours, and' knowing something about the nearby planets may help you to spend Instructive evenings looking at them. Let your brains browse on every field you may pass as you make your little journey through life. Concentrate on your own job, of course, but keep that mind of yours receptive and at work. And thank your lucky stars that observing ob-serving men, long before the beginning of history were looking and wondering and writing down their observations, and thus laying the foundations for the spread of knowledge which makes this the most Interesting of all the ages since man was created. . A change In the administration of a great American city disclosed the fact, already suspected by the majority of the inhabitants, that .the place was overrun with graft. Grafters Are The men at the Traitors head of the for mer administration administra-tion had been elected by the people, and had taken oaths of office which declared that they would uphold and execute the laws. Instead it doing that, they had deliberately, de-liberately, and successfully, set out to enrich themselves and their friends out of the public pocket. The only reason there had not been a general complaint long before was that the people of the city had become inured to graft and rascality. Twice or three times there had been an outbreak of public indignation and the old regime had been swept out of office. But its members calmly waiter! for indignation to cool, and then by their hold over hundreds of thousands of job holders, they got back their power and resumed the old game. Now, a man who takes money out of the pockets of the people who elected him to office is considerably worse than a common grafter; he Is nothing short of a traitor. The supreme punishment for that sort of treachery Is not needed to put an end to It. All that Is necessary Is for the majority major-ity of the people and the majority of the people, although negligent, are honest hon-est to find out what Is going on In their local government, and If. It Is wrong, to stop It There never has been a crooked city administration so powerful that it could not be swept away In a single election if the voters decided to unseat it But for some reason or other the voters don't want to take the trouble to go out among their friends and convince them how much they are cheated every time tliey pay a tax bill. Nor does the average voting citizen worry much about gang rule, and racketeering, rack-eteering, unless he happens to be a spectator to some outrage, or unless somebody begins making him a victim of graft. What most people don't see, don't worry them. Administrations in most cities are j not as goeil as they should lio. but from 1 time to time honest and energetic men get Into office despite the political j gangs, and then as long as they hold I their places there is a change for the I better. |