Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — Oil on Troubled Waters. [ARTICLE]

Oil on Troubled Waters.

- Poets and philosophers of all ages have sung of oil and its soothing qualities. “Why," asked Plutarch, “does pouring'oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds slipping over smooth oil have no force,

nor cause any waves?” It is told in the Ecclesiastical history that the Bishop Adain gave holy oil to travelers, saying: "But do. yon remember to cast this oil I give you into the sea. and the wind shall cease Immediately.” Pliny the elder proclaimed that “everything is soothed by oil." Our own Ben Franklin wrote much on the phenomenon of oil on the troubled waters. It has grown to be an accepted belief in every walk of life that where there is oil to be poured forth there la peace. __