Show The e Name N arne Is Familiar F f Q BT BY FELIX B. B and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Solon WHEN W HEN we want to say that a aman aman aman man is wise we call him a solon and we call lawmakers solons too This doesn't mean that we think all lawmakers are wise men men men- heaven forbid The reason is that the worlds world's original lawmaker on a abig abig abig big scale was was a very wise man and his name was Solon i That name isn't just a first name or a last name name- it is all the name the man had and andall andall andall all he needed He lived so long ago that the population tion was small enough to let men get by with one one- word names So So- Solon Solon Solon lon was one of the original Seven Solon Solon Wise Men of ot Greece and was born in Athens about B. B C. C C He wrote or rewrote practically all the laws that were in existence during his time and was the first lawmaker to devise a code that gave people rights instead of merely pro pro- prohibiting prohibiting prohibiting them from doing this or saying that they must do that Be Be- Besides Besides Besides sides regulating regul ting private and public life lile his code reformed the calendar the system of ot weights and meas meas- measures measures ures the monetary system m. m It re re- relieved the burdens of debtors with with- without without without out curtailing the rights of credi credi- tors He could be elected on either cither ticket today His laws were crudely written on wooden cylinders and set up in pub pub- public public lic lie places for tor everybody to read This must have been just a n matter of form because in his day about the only ones who could read were the ones who wrote the cylinders Kelvin's Law LawHE THE HE kelvin a commercial unit of electricity Kelvin's law for measuring the most economical di dl diameter ameter of an electric wire Kelvin or absolute temperature scale which begins at degrees below zero Fahrenheit and the tor the first electric refrigerator for household use were named for Lord Kelvin of Largs Scotland one of the greatest and most practical scientists scientists scientists of all time He invented Y Slashing Hashing signals signal for lighthouses I oil oil- y designed an L k floated floa ted self level ing magnetic l a compass which al allowed allowed lowed this instrument t 1 ment to be used i on steel ships in In- invented Invented vented the ultra ultra- sensitive detect detect- Lord Kelvin ing and recording apparatus that made the trans trans-At transAtlantic antic lantic cable possible reduced tem tem- temperature temperature to t a mathematical basis and announced absolute zero where there is no heat and where molecules stand still His name was William Thomson and he was born in Belfast in 1824 the son of a professor of mathe mathe- mathematics mathematics matics at the Royal In In- Institution Institution Institution of Belfast As early as 1852 he be foresaw the practicability of heating and cooling buildings by means of currents of air When he built a mansion of his hs own in 1874 on the Scottish coast he built in heating healing ducts and ventilating ties ti s. s When he died in 1907 he had received every degree a scholar could obtain and had made a for for- fortune fortune tune of many millions of dollars Rich as Croesus Croesus' HEN a man is so rich that he WHEN actually reeks with wealth we call him a Croesus The word is pronounced like those things in a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's trousers trousers and and we dont don't mean wrinkles like in ours But dont don't misunderstand we dont don't call a rich man a Croesus be be- because because cause he Is the only one who can afford them in his pants Perhaps we never should have brought the matter up Croesus is a word for a rich richman richman richman man and goes oes way back o o B. B C C. when the original Croesus a Greek king of of p pLydia Lydia was born f He was richer 1 1 than any king k be be- before i jH J W fore him hence 1 7 J a the use of his name Living In Croesus the time when men wore togas you youcan youcan youcan can see that he didn't even wear pants pants pants-or or did they wear pants with togas Now we are arc sorry we brought the matter up Lydia at the time Croesus was king included practically all of Asia Minor and his wealth was ob obtained tanned mainly from the mines and gold dust of the river Pactolus Proud of his treasures he carried his love of splendor to extravagance and thought he was the th happiest of 01 men All of which proves it isn't the number of pairs of pants you have hava that makes you wealthy Released by Western Newspaper Union |