Show The Name Is F Familiar rIf r- r BT If B. B 1 and ad ELMO SCOTT WATSON J JJ J Solon I WHEN Wit EN we want to sa say that a aY aman aman Y 1 man is wise we call him a I solon salon and we call lawmakers solons scions too oo This doesn't mean that we I think hink all lawmakers are wise men- men menI I heaven n forbid I The reason is that the worlds world's original lawmaker on a abig ag big g scale was a very wise man and his name was Solon That name isn't Just lust a first name or a last name name- It t is all the name the man had and andall andall r rall all he needed He lived ived so long ago that hat the population tion lion was small enough to let men get jet by with one- one word vord names Solon Solon So So- lon Ion was one of the original Seven Solon golon Wise Men of Greece and was born in Athens about B. B 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 eople rights instead of merely prohibiting pro- pro them from doing this or saying that they must do that thaL Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides regulating private and public life lie his code reformed the calendar the he system of weights and measures measures meas meas- ures urea the monetary system It relieved relieved re reo re- re the burdens of debtors without without without with with- out curtailing the rights of credi credi- tors lie He could be elected on either ticket today 1 His Ills laws were crudely written on wooden cylinders and Ind set up in pubic public pub pub- lie lic ic places for everybody to read This must have been Just lust a matter of form because in his da day about the only ones who could read were the ones who wrote the cylinders Kelvin's Law THE kelvin a commercial unit of ot electricity Kelvin's law for measuring the most economical diameter di ameter of an electric wire Kelvin or absolute temperature scale which begins at degrees below zero Fahrenheit and the tor lor the first electric refrigerator for household use were named for Lord Kelvin of Largs Lugs Scotland one of the greatest and most practical r s of all time He invented 4 flashing signals for lighthouses designed an an oil oil- floated self level js v li ing magnetic J compass which alUS allowed al al- US lowed this Instrument instrument ment to be used 4 on steel ships in invented InVented In- In vented the ultra ultra- detect detect- detecting Lord Kelvin ing and recording apparatus that made the trans transAtlantic trans trans-At At Atlantic lantic cable possible reduced temperature temperature tem tem- to a mathematical basis and announced absolute zero where there is no heat and where molecules stand still Ills His name was William Thomson and he was born in Belfast in 1824 1 the son of a professor of mathematics mathematics mathematics mathe mathe- matics at the Royal Institution Institution In In- of Belfast As early as 1852 he foresaw the practicability of heating and cooling buildings by means of currents of air When he built a mansion of his own in 1874 1 on the Scottish coast he built in heating ducts and ventilating ties When he died in 1907 he had received every degree a scholar could obtain and had made a fortune for tune of many millions of dollars I I Rich as Croesus Croesus' a man is so rich that he WHEN WilEN VV 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 Dut dont don't misunderstand we dont don't call caU a rich man a Croesus because be cause he is II the only one who can afford them in to his pants Perhaps we never should have brought the matter up Croesus is a I word for a rich richman richman man and goes coes b way back backa a io 0 B B. B C. C when the original Croesus s sa a Greek kin king of ol Lydia was born 4 He lIe was richer than any king before before be be- fore him hence hence t the use of his name Living in Croesus the time when men wore togas you youcan youcan ou can see that he didn't even wear pants pants pants-or or did they wear pants with togas Now we are sorry we brought the matter up Lydia at the time Croesus was king kine included practically all sll o oAsia of Asia Minor and his bis wealth was obtained obtained ob ob- mainly from the mines am and gold dust of the river Pactolus Proud of his treasures he carried his love of splendor to extravagance and thought he was the happiest o of men All Ali of which proves It isn't the number of pairs of pants you have that makes you wealthy Released by Western New Newspaper r Union Unions I |