1905-10 October Electrical Worker.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

16 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
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THE TRAMP'S SOLILOQUY.
"And have you journeyed far?" I
asked a hungry-looking tramp.
Said he, "I've tried Topeka while m
many a busy camp."
Said I, "The man who travels makes
the fruits of learning his."
"Oh, yes," said he, "I know just what
an Indianapolis."
"You're fond of Wheeling," I remarked,
"by trains?" and he replied:
"I never do a stroke of work, Norwalk
when I ,can ride.
"I ne'ver have a Dayton hand, and so I
never say
To any station,agent, 'Do these trains
Schenectady?'
"I'm fond of music, so I like to journey
via Lynn,
N or Haverhill so steep and long our
train cannot get in.
"No being with a Galveston can I address
as wife:
I've ,never felt the Holyoke of happy
married life. ' .
"We hoboes are a Mobile lot; we eat
and sleep and yawn,
And always wear the same old clothes
Oswego marching on. ' ' ,
"And when the crowd is Taunton' us
we take it all in fun;
We cannot spare the time to stop and
have our Vvashington. '
"Were wishes ships we'd Salem' with
the canva's all unfurled, '
N or anchor would we cas,t till we'd
Albany round' the world.
"But on a boat a Little Rock will get
me off my, feet, " ,
And once in Maine Augtlsta wind upset.me
.. in the street. . .
"Some towns of which you're Fond elll
Lac the rneeins of getting at ;
You've got to trust in Providence and
let it go at that.
"I've had by Philadelphia, but still I
don't regret
I saw the place, for what's the use?
vVe may be Joliet.
"I've got to go to Portland to the Fair
they hold this year,
And then, of course, Seattle and Tacoma
souveniL
"And now," ,said he, "I must to bed
because it's getting dark."
Said .I : "Pray tell II)'e where you
sleep ?',' He winked and said "Hyde
Park." ,
,-.Nixon'Watermann.
P.~OFESSIONALADVE,RTISING
: METHODS.,
,ArC! ,:we. introducing .in cont:lection with a
goo~.deal of ,our, seriou~ scientific work "the
flamboyant methods of the professional advertising
manager?" This accusation is
made editoriaUyby' The Electrical Warld
and Engineer (New York) ,"which' asserts
that, 's()me institutions of learning consent
to become the prey ,of' s'ensation-mcmgers-
. to be exploited by m~n who may be compared
with "the advance agents of a circus."These
be strong words, but the writer
6f the ~ditorial' in question. regards' them as
amply justified by the facts: As a case
particularIy.in point he instances the various
re,cent investigations of radium and
radioactiVity, and the way in which they
have been made public; thus:.
"From time to time we have raised a
voi~e of warning against ,hasty acceptance
of the fervid hypotheses that' befog the ascertained
facts of radioactivity. The need
f()r sober judgment has been emphasized
over and over again by the wild stateme,nts
~hich have gone the roungs of the technical
as well as the non-technical press, The
latest of these has just forced ·itself i,lpon
our notice, and calls for pointed comment.'
It is built around the following thesis: 'It
is sober fact that radium has sh?-ken the
law of gravitati,on, has set at apparent defiance
the law of conservation qf ener!!':,
has displaced the atomic theory, q,as re-