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...most states the adjournment of the legislature is an incident of interest only to the politically-minded. In Arkansas a fortnight ago it was a capital event, at least to the Haley Potato Chip Co., whose manager placed in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette this advertisement...
WHOOPEE! HURRAH! The legislature has adjourned! Let's all close up and celebrate! At one o'clock this afternoon I shall close my potato chip establishment. I shall hang out my American flags and as they kiss again the air of freedom unpolluted by the foul breath of the legislative bribe takers, the boodlers, the demagogues and the little dictators so drunk with power that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder...
...Senators will see, tripping politely up to their august rostrum, a slim person in her early 30's, with bright blond hair and a ready smile. Lola Williams got on in the world by cultivating a small potato patch of her own in a corner of the family farm; later by selling newspaper subscriptions. She reached Washington in 1918, a trained secretary looking for a job. The War Department took her in as a clerk until Senator Curtis found her. Now she is queen Secretary of the whole vast capitol...
...potato was more significant than the money. After biologists had fooled around with the tuberculosis bacillus for almost 50 years, they had developed two standard methods of discovering the bacilli in sputum. One was to stain a smear with dyes and search for the germs with a microscope. That was crude and inaccurate. The other was to inject suspected sputum into guinea pigs, creatures unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. That was slow and expensive. A quicker, surer method of diagnosis was needed...
...mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...