| Show on aenne 1 I john blake 0 bell syndicate service the right 0 kind lind of brains are tire always at work they are not I 1 ke mr air words peasant peasants s browsing brains to which a brains primrose was j a s simple I 1 in p I 1 e primrose they are not even I 1 ke the brains c cf f mr air kipling s sailor min who lived for to admire and for to see the intelligent useful men of the world aie interested in everything michelangelo and leonardo da vinci were both scientific observers both could have been numbered among the best engineers of their time it if they had not been so taken up with 1 I binting As it was da vinci lacked only a modern gis 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 bat but don t think yo ir own job Is the only job in the world if you tale tal e an ocean journey und out as much as you cin about the ships ship s power and her mana management ement I 1 earn bow how tl L 6 men on the bridge control the great vessel vessels s movements how with will the electric ears of the wire less they hear the approach of other vessels and thus keep clear of them r find ind out how the sensitive inspru ments not only foretell storms but find out where they are how intense and how rapidly approaching read the columns of scientific annen tion and development that you find in the dally daily newspapers know ii 11 going on in your oun home toun to the end that il i it is bad you may join with the honest peole who are trying often olten to better it the study of astronomy Is interest ing and exciting but if you haven t the access to an observatory you cannot go N very ery 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 30 iou u to spend instinctive eNen evenings ings looking at them let bour brains browse on enedy field you may pass as you make 3 your our little journey tl ti rough life concentrate on your own job of course curse but keep that mind of vours ours receptive and at work and thank your lucky luchy stars that ob serving men long before the beginning of history were loo looking kini and wondering and writing down their observations lations and thus laying the foundations for the spread of knowledge which makes this the most interesting of all the ages since man was created 0 A change in the administration of a great Amerl american cali city disclosed the fact already suspected by the majority of 1 ie inhabitants that the place was overrun with graft grafters are the men at the traitors head of the for mer adminis tra tion had been elected by the people and had taken oaths of office which declared that they would rould uphold and execute the laws instead of f doing tl at they had deliberately libera tely and successfully set out to enrich themselves and their friends out of the c 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 waited for indignation to cool and ahn 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 nathl 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 tl e major ity of the people and the majority of the people although neall negligent ent are hon lion est to find out what Is going on in their local government and if it Is wrong to stop it there never nener ha 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 reas reason on or other the voters don dont 1 want to take the trouble to go out among their friends and convince con tince them how much they are cheated every time they pay a tax bill nor does the average voting citizen worry much about g ging rule a and nd rack steering ete ering unless he happens to be a spectator to some outrage or unless somebody be begins ins making him a victim of graft what most people don t see don t worry them 0 administrations in most cities are not as good as they should be but from time to time honest and energetic men get into office despite the p lithol gangs and then as long is they I 1 old their places there Is a change for ohp better |
