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...three, Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...
...Syracuse, 74-year-old William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, famed Anti-Saloon Leaguer, heartily endorsed Senator William Edgar Borah's candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination but declared he would make no speeches for the Idaho Dry because: "The more I make, the wetter the country gets...
...Descendants said Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, U. S. N. retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going...
...Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter Jr., 15, son of a Memphis, Tenn. stove manufacturer, and Phelps Newberry Jr., 15, son of a Detroit banker, grandson of onetime Senator and Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry. Apprehensively the two lugged five suitcases, noiselessly as possible lest some sharp-eared master hear and spring out to stop them...
...last three national elections the Republican Party has gone to the country on an adroit Prohibition platform promising enforcement of the 18th Amendment and nothing more. Last week political wind was full of straws to indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...