Sistemas SCADA.

As The Weekly Exposure (a paper devoted to the unveiling of the truth) goes to press this week, we have been reading the papers, not that we could learn anything from them, but we did it just to get a line on what our com- petitors are doing. I notice all of them are featuring advertising.

It’s awful hard to find any news. A thing that struck me very forceably is that Mr. Ford is being editorially complimented in Republican papers, which before the late Coolidge announcement, he couldn’t even get an ad- vertisement in. Now I have read, as I say, these papers and I will just give you the news as I see it.

POLAR NEWS (any one of you figuring on touring the arctic this sum- mer don’t overlook this feature). “The U. S. Government is going to send an expedition to the North Pole by Air.” That’s nothing new. That’s the way Cook went—by air.1

“Scientists figure that there might be another country undiscovered up there.” Wouldn’t it be great if we could just find another nation. That would give us another entry in the next war.

And just think of the loans we could make them. I bet you if they do find anybody up there, they will find a Californian among them, subdivid- ing the land and selling it out in lots.

They are going to try to make the trip in the Shenandoah, one of those Zeppelins.2_{Well, maybe it can fly up there in that Northern Altitude. None}

of them have ever been able to fly very long down here. This one flew from Lakehurst, N. J. to St. Louis. That’s mighty poor recommendation to start out on. Lots of guys have made the trip from New Jersey to St. Louis that I would hate to trust with important news to carry to the North Pole. A dir- igible is one thing America has never had to retire for old age.

Of course, The Exposure is not speaking from a scientific standpoint. It is looking at it purely from the taxpayers’ angle. Our experience in the frozen North consists of playing one week in Duluth, Minn. in the month

of September. The audience had on light mittens and two suits each of woolen underwear. They hadn’t really dressed for the winter yet. There was only one snow plough working on the streets.

Oh, yes, I did get up to Edmonton, Canada, one time. That’s just a thou- sand miles further North than Cook got. After six o’clock dinner at night we went to a ball game, and double header. Then we come back to theatre and gave a show. After the theatre, we came out and sit around waiting for it to get dark enough to go to bed.

So if The Exposure don’t seem to get overly excited over this Expedi- tion, why it’s because I am afraid they will find some other nation up there, and I can’t see any good of discovering ’em.

Find the guy that discovered Europe, and see if you can get anybody to get enthused over him. We had better let these Esquimoxexs alone, they might turn out to be another Europe.

Well, that was all the Polar News I could find, so if our Polar depart- ment fell down this week, it’s just because there is nothing doing North of 98.

CONTINENTAL NEWS. I see by the papers that they say “Germany is going insane.” I wish you would name me a nation that is competent of judging insanity.

Russia.“Russia wants us to recognize them.” Our government say they won’t recognize them. We will sell them something but we won’t let on that we know them. Russia wants us to recognize them, so they can send over an Embassy. Then they can get in on this bootlegging.

Russia should take a tip from Mexico. Mexico got along fine the last few years till we started to recognize them, and immediately they broke out into another Revolution.

RURAL AND DOMESTIC NOTES. There is a good deal in the pa- pers about giving my native state of Oklahoma back to the Indians. Now I am Cherokee Indain and very proud of it, but I doubt if you can get them to accept it—not in its present state.

When the white folks come in and took Oklahoma from us, they spoiled a mighty happy hunting ground, just to give Sinclair a racing sta- ble, and Walton a barbecue.3

Washington, D. C. papers say: “Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.” I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.

It’s a poor day now when you don’t read in the papers of some presi- dential candidate flopping over to Coolidge. There is only one way to stop Coolidge now. That is to have Bryan come out in favor of him.4

Some of these presidential candidates who are resigning in favor of Mr. Coolidge are taking their supporters with them—both of them.

Coolidge is the first president to discover that what the American peo- ple want is to be let alone.

If the Republicans can just keep from doing something from now until next fall they will walk in.

The only chance the Democrats have is to try and get the Republicans to pass some bills. The more bills the Republicans pass the more chance the Democrats will have. Of course, this is the time of year when a presiden- tial candidate can be bought off mighty cheap. Catch him just when he is figuring out what his campaign literature will come to.

They are having quite an argument over Mr. Mellon’s Tax Bill.5_Mel-

lon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

“White House in Washington declared unsafe,” says a dispatch from Washington. That was before Ford’s declaration. I imagine it feels safer now. There is nothing will bolster up a political house like votes.

New York. John D. Rockefeller says: “Love is the greatest thing in the world.”6_{You take a few words of affection and try and trade them to him}

for few gallons of oil, and you will discover just how great love is.

Washington, D. C. (Dairy Department). Magnus Johnston says he is “going to use common sense in the Senate.”7_{That’s what they all say when}

they start in. But if nobody don’t understand you, why, you naturally have to switch.

East Orange, N. J.(Local Notes). “Scientists say that the next war will be fought with electricity.” I am glad to hear this as it means it will be a light war. Now the editor of The Exposure will admit that that last was a very low candle power joke. But when you take into consideration that we deal in facts and not in humor, why that wasn’t so bad, at that.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

America is following slowly in the footsteps of England. We have a liberal party. Ours is whichever one is in power.

Headlines in papers say: “Europe criticises U. S.” If memory serves me right we haven’t complimented them lately ourselves.

They say hot air rises. And I guess it does. An airplane flying over the Capitol the other day caught fire from outside sources.