New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1917, Page 6

S % NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, jANUARY 9, 1917 w Britain Herald. ERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietora. d'daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., it Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. red at the Post Office at New Britain Second Class Mail Matter. Fered by carrier to anv part of the city for 15 cents a week, 650 a month. iptions for vaper to be sent by mail, payable In advance. 60 cents a month, 300 a year . only profitable advertising medinm In he city: Circulation books and rress oom alwaye open to advertisers. [Herald wiil be found on sale at Hota- lng’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- N, New York City; Board Walk, At- nUe City, and Hartford Depot. ~ TELEPHONE CALLS. ess Office .. rial Rooma FIRE LOSS HERE., pw Britain's fire doss for the vear by was $48,863. Compared with Ire loss in the year previous, 1915, is & very favorable report. Dur- hat the loss ‘here was 89, or greater than in any other since the big Y. M. C. A. fire in According to figures compiled jhicf Dame. of the fire department verage fire loss in' New Britain & the past ten years has nat gone $40.000 a year. - Compared with ‘clties the same size as New in these figures are enlightening. i show that the city s as well, if Petter, protected against fire than f other communities bordering on 0 population. [Et vear the aggregate fire loss of | United .States and Canada finted to $251,442,995 according to finnual compilation of the Journal Ppramerce. < This is “ one of lest amounts of fire loss ever lered in these two countries, both ded by practically the same com- s. Only six times In the entire Ir of the United States has it ;‘d as much loss through confla- 5n as It did last year. The los £16 \{s fifty millions of dollars | | than the loss for the vear pre- | i Thus, New Britain bettered its | vear the s | ['tion, other cities throughout the | This is not an infallable rule hecause | Ana | some small towns have doubled their | i post office business overnight by the H suffered more than ever. face of all the fire prevention that were held and the educa- methods promulgated. The an- ayerage for fire loss in the d States for the past forty yvears roximately one hundred and fifty Ins. ¢ lo an the face of things the 8 shoqwing the fire loss through- lanada and the United States the past twelve months may scouraging to those who look for jfterment of conditions, still the 11916 will go down In histary as | nprecedented for its unusual pnts resulting in loss of lives and | y from fire. The munition s, an outgrowth of the Buro- jjwar, brought on many fires and | pions that would not otherwise visited these shores. The fire # destroved the Canadian Parlia- ,buflding and the cxplosion at 1 Tom which almost wreoked the pr part of New York City must it down as extraordinary. These cldents alone helped to swell the total of loss. The Black Tom ston resulted in the loss of almost f » millions of dollars. Judged the standpoint of an unusual 8916 does not show extreme care- s S0 much as it daoes bad luck. must be an improvenrent over d year in fire loss as in other HPAR-REACHING DECISION. [l upholding as valid and constitu- [} the Webb-Kenyon law which hits shipments of liquor from so- wet states into dry states, the H States Supreme Court has given © definition to prohibition. Here- [ prohibition will prohibit. Other- ‘the Federal Government will ‘| why. The court also sustains Virginia's recent amendment to w prohibiting importation of in interstate cammerce for per- g {use. t to an amendment of the Con- | on of the United States prohibit- | he use of alcohalic liquors in all | uties this decision of the Supreme | ie the most important thing that | happen in the res | One of the sra bt prohibition in the states that| gone dry was that prohibition | bt prohibit. where there 5‘ those states than in the states | ezalized the of liquor. And| was never a refutution of these | Bootleggers in whiskey and oth ates supplied [ other known in turn catered to the Aelect thirsty. the | states are in the dry column it i otorious fact that any white man | 0 wished could get all he wanted nk. The prohibition laws there maxy for the. preventjon of Im of prohibi charges been | | drink- | Cases have was heavier sule shipped | liquors r)’(HII[ hiindtiger 5] institutions and well wants of | In South ! | foolproot liquor among the this will all change. The Federal Government will see to it that the state laws are nat violated by the ship- ment of liquors into this territory from outside reservations. Chief Justice White down the decision which was con- curred in by all but two members of the bench said: “The all-reaching power of government over liquor is settled. There was no intention of Congress to forbld individual use of liquor. The purpose of this act was to cut out by the roots the practice of permitting violation of state liquor laws. We can have no doubt that Congress has complete authority to prevent paralyzing of State authority. Congress exerted a power to co-ordi- nate the national with the state au- thority.” The Webb-Kenyon Act was desizned primarily to prevent the shipment of liquor from states where it is allowed into states where 1t is prohibited. The law has never been really forced. The state authorities could not guarantee'it was carried through to the letter because thaere was ever a conflict of opinion between the Webb-Kenyon bill and the interstate cammerce laws, That was the clash between Federal and state authority. The decision of the United States Supreme Court re- moves every shadow of doubt. As the Chief Justice points out in upholding the law, “The purpose of the act was to cut out by the roats practices of violating state liquor laws.” Here-~ after the people in prohibition states Will know just what is meant hy pro- hibition negroes. Now, iv handing en- They never knew before. This de on will be an eve-opener to many. And rightly so. When men cast their vates for prohibltion they should have prohibition in the full sense of the word. There should de no half way reform. Under the old system the favorite few got what they wanted: u the new order there will be jusii alike for all. Which means, of course, state prohibition laws backed up by the Federal Gov- - ernment. ros'n‘ms'p—:n DELANEY. One way to gauge the growth of & city is by the volume of business carried on through its post office. acquisition of a school. New Britain more substantial growth in every way. Tts post office business has gone for- ward with a systematic stride that clearly. indicates the line of progress. | The receipts for the year total more than $150,000. With growth in vol- ume of business the efficiency of the post office has kept pace. This is largely due to the painstaking care and endeavors of the postmaster, Willlam F. Delaney. - Postmaster Delaney has secured a lasting place for himself in the heart of New Britain because of the manner in which he has taken care of his numerous duties. In point of efficlency it is doubtful if any man | ever equalled his achlevements at the local office. There is not another post office throughout the land is wlho correspondence has realized a where | the spirit of co-operation manifest. The employ under the direction of the Postmaster more work have grasped the significance of loy- alty and team-work. As a conse- quence there is no strife or friction. Which, in the end, means that the | people of New Britain secure the max- | i imum service, After i office, Postmaster Delaney has prac- tically mastered the job. There is not a detail of the work with which he 18 not familiar. There is not the slightest matter of routine that has lost interest to him. His enthusiasm in these matters has helped to spell his success, Hlis generosity in giving credit where credit is due in the ranks of subordinates has gome a long way toward establishing an esprit de corps which bids fair to last so long as his administration is in force. An entlre city owes him a debt of grati- approximately two years tude for the consclentious manner in | which he has looked after this public trust, There were 133,442 more cattle and 605,338 more sheep and goa using the National Forests in 1916 @han in 1915. This increase was in spite of large eliminations of graz ing from the forests. It is a caunted for by improved methods of hosrses, and lands handling the stock and by more inti- mate knowledge of the forage on the ranges and their carrying capacity. An inventor is mow working on a aeroplane and to safe promises make flying as as automobiling. Let us examine the alone there proof the automobile is. During past year in Conmnecticut were And comparison with some others, 202 people killed by automaobiles. this is a very small “Tom"” Lawsan acts more like Circus-man than a farmer, and see just how fool- | FACTS AND 'ANCI Everybody is handing in Secretary Lansing’s resignation except Secretary Lansing.—Hartford Times. | The 380,000 French saloon keepers | at the front no doubt keep busy serv- ing high balls to the Germans.—In- } dianapolis News. 5 ! o In considering ways of replenishing the treasury, the administration has evidently overlooked a tax on Christ- | mas bonuses.—Indlanapolis News. The trouble with some Amerlcans is that when they speak of the Allies they forget that Belgium is one of them.—Charleston News and Courier. Imagine the overwhelming joy of the bald-headed man who received military brushes from a long-lost cousin in Texas.—Mlilwaukee Sentinel. The Colonel makes desperate efforts from time to time to break into the front page again, but Mr. Hughes is still sitting tight.—New York World. If & man works only elght hours a day, and has rules against doing too much, his age will advance more rap- idly than his wages.—FEd Howe's Weekly. Canadian shipyarfs are aleo said to be turning out swbmarines rapidly. | If the war continue much longer, the | dangerous congestion of submarine traffic may be added to the problems demanding solution.—New Orleans Times-Picayune. THE POPE AND CHURCH UNION. Attempts Being Made to Remove Schism Between Orthodox Eastern Church and Church of ‘Rome, Would Unite Christendom. (New Haven Journal-Courler) If the news in last Friday’s papers of the Pope’s intention to c8nstitute a Commission on the Tnity of the Church proves true, it will mean a step of far-reaching importance to the whole Christian church. It should be welcomed by all Protestant commun- ions. Its primary object, ac stated, is to remove the schism which has exist- ed since 1054 between the Orthodox Eastern church and the Church of Rome. Secondary to this it may ren- der possible a reconsideration of the decision of Pope Leo XITI. against the validity of the ordinations of the An- | glican church. Tnvolved in this also would be the inter-relations of all the | other churches of the roformation. The Church of Christ continues %n this day to be in a sinful state of schism; but never hefore in history have so many and powerful influ- ences been working towards its vis- ible unity. The war is forcing this old prob- lem of church unity as a new ques- ticn home to the heart of our com- mon Christianity. A few explana- tions may serve to clarify the condi- tions to which this alleged intended action of the vatican seems addressed. Lord Halifax succeeded in persuading Pope Leo XIIIL to appoint a commis- sion to thoroughly investigate wheth- er Anglican orders are valid. Upon the report of that commission in 1306 the Pope rendered this decision: “Where- | fore. strictly adhering in this matter to the decision of the pontiffs our predecessors, and confirming them most fully, and, as it were, fenewing them by our own motfon and certain knowledge, we pronounce and declare that ordinations carried out accord- ing to the Anglican rite have been and | are absolutely null and utterly void.” Since then, and especially since the war hegan, the eves of the Anglicans have been turned more towards the Eastern church than towards Last January, Sir Athelstan vice president of Lord Halifax's so- clety, at its-annual meeting made the following remarks, which we quote in substance: “We are spectators and ac- tors in the greatest historical drama since the fall of the Roman empire. Since then Rome loomed larger and larger. Roman habits of thought per- vade Catholiclsm and Protestantism allke. What will happen if in this great war the Entente Powers are vic- torlous? Russta will restore the East- | ern empire and the Holy Orthodox church of Pastern church at Con- ! stantinople. The SlaV races, carryving | with them Eastern Christianity, will | rush into the heart of Burope to the | shores of the Atlantic and almost to | the gates of Rome.” | ™o etrtidng coineldence with this 15 { the remark of Professor Palmlieri, as | reported in the news despatch: “Of ! course, Rome cannot view with in- difference the increasing friendship | between Anglcanism and Orthodoxy | (the Orthodox Eastern church.)” He | also states as a motive for the con- | templated action of the vatican that “the Slavs will very soon be called {upon to tnke an acttve part in the { life of the western natfons whether Catholle or Protestant.” The refcrences in the despatch to the connection of the world confer- ence movement with this most inter- esting situation are quite correct. The ‘pl:\nn which were interrupted at the | outhreak of the war seem about to be | providentially carried by the war to | larger Issues than might have heen foreseen. Tt may be stated that quiet but active work is now In progress to secure the most thorough and be: possible preparation for the ultimate | convening of that conference. Con- ferences of representative American scholars and theologians, as well as eminent laymen, are to he held to for- ! mulate and digest the subject-matter to be considered. Some Roman Cath- | olic scholars of high reputation have { been invited and signified their read- iness to co-operate in this necessary preparatory work The possible appointment of a Ro- | man Commission on Unity certainly would-open the w: to proniising cor- respondenrce. We recall as fitting the present situation, so far as the Protes- | tant communions are concerned. the following remark made by a delegate of the Russian church at one of our conferences: “We find you Frotestants | all divided among yourselves. You should first get together, and then with us approach .Rome.” [“What Would Our Fathers Thought of That’ (By Jaines Shepard.) "l will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth,” Mx- odus $4:10. Sonie of the things we daily view Were marvels when those things were new. The river flowing through our state Served once to carry Hartford's But overland our freight to bear Our horses plodded here and there, Tn seventeen hundred ninety-two The first canal was bullded through Old Madley, in the old Bay State. Boston had one in cighteen eight. In eighteen twenty-five, there came, The Erie, with its world-wide fame, While Tarmington, in twenty-two A charter had to make one through Our state, and on to Northampton. "T'was so completed as to run Part ways, in eighteen twenty-eight, And ten years later crossed our state. Old Farmington did celebrate This marvel which they deemed so great. The stars and stripes did gally float To welcome there the coming boat. A band sent forth a welcome cheer, Many were there from far and near. Of all the crowd that sallied forth Most wide awake was old John North, A silk hat on his head did rest Tor he had on his Sunday best. The horses came on narrow path ‘With tow llne taught, the hoat came aft. “Hurra” was then At length the hoat My God,” quoth hat “What would our fathers thought of that?" the people’s cry. moved slowly hy. North, with lifted Tropelled but by the winds of God, The Mayflower Pilgrims reached Cape Cod, . K Where.they refoiced to find no more Than nigh ten weeks spent sailing o'er. One Fitch of Windsor paved the way, Steam navigation to display. Tn eighteen seven, Fulton's fame, With steamboat on North river came. Steamboats in many rivers plied And later crossed the ocean wide. While ocean liners bear the date Of eighteen hundred thirty-eight. They then began, and ever aft Have followed the trans-atlantic path, We might have said. with lifted hat, “What would our fathers thought of that? 01d Quincy, Mass., once had in hand The only railroad In our land; Rut it was short and crude at least, For cars were moved by man or beast. Steam locomotives were, we find, First used in elghteen twenty-nine, While elghteen thirty “hit the trail” With twenty-three full miles of rail. In nine years more, o'er railroad ground, Trains ran sound. The first imported lahor here For building raflroads did appear. Our Yankees then did list to hear The Trish brogue to them so queer, And some exclaimed, as home they ran, “Oh! I have scen an Irishman.” And when ‘the whistle from a train Was sounded o'er the hill and plain. They knew it not, yet tried to guess, Some thought their cows were in dis- tress. In Janua Steam trains freight Came into Plainville day by day: The old canal then passed away, Yor ralls were then, or were to he, Laid from Northampton to the sea. From Providence to Fishkill, too, A steam road was projected through. When ecighteen fifty came around Through here to Bristol, trains were found Now. say we all, with lifted hat, “What wonld our fathers thought of that?" from Hartford to the forty-cight for passengers and Throughout the day God glves us light And also, man's ald, by night, The tallow candles’ feeble glow ‘Was our great light long vears ago, ‘While some contrived for evening tofl, In nasty lamps to burn whale ofl. At length a few did burn camphene And after that came kerosene, Petroleum's successful bore First came in eighteen fifty-four. QGas light was used in twenty-two And later, all the country’ through. At last, the night turned into day When came to us the ‘“great white way,” In cighty, of an April night. We saw our first electric light, In an Arch street shop 'twas shown FElectric lighting to make known. Again we say, with lifted hat, * “What would our father thought of that?” with Of common things, hehold a few We marveled at when they were new, The telegraph of forty-four That Morse first wired a mes o'er. The great “black cellars of the earth” With coal of a surprising worth, "Twas mined a hundred years ago, For sixty years it came in slow. The stamps, required in fifty-five To kill the practice then alive Of sending letters to a friend With postage due at other end. The two-cent rate of elghtv-three Compared with what rates used to be. The photograph of forty-one And all that's now in that line done. The phonograph we now enjoy, Tn seventy-six was but a toy. The telephone with busy wire And blund'ring wprk to ralse our ire. Yilectric stoves, which we admire With heat to cook. vet have no fire. " cable does the ocean span, “the inner man.” pass by, X-rays reveal On earth the trolley car In aecroplanes we ride the sk We telegiaph, where stations are. A wirciess message throush the air. While in our ecity may be found Marvel of mar all around. Of each we say, with lifted hat, “What would our fathers thought that?” w of Of all the marvels now a days The auto car we well may bpraise, In proper hands, its course to sguide, ) l It gives a service worth our pride, But yet, 'tis not a worthy plan To trust a car with ev'ry man, I3specially is this so, when ‘I'he cars are better than the men. The car a great advance may claim But man remains about the same As most of men have ever been Since “Adam’s sin they all j'ined in,” They drive like Jehu through the street, They fear not that which they may meet, They sound their horns to clear the way And kill some one most ev'ry day. No one to blame, but bless my hat, “What would our fathers thought of that?” “Reform”. (Pittshurgh Dispatch), The ‘“‘dope” in investigations, probes, etc., in which official time and talent are engaged, has its form as surely as boxers and football stars and race horses have theirs. After the first ‘“feeling out” of the adversary and a swift clinch, comes the heraMic shout that nothing but prison sen- tences will fit the offence of which those are guilty of whatever is un. der inspection. At present it is the inquiry into the rising food costs, the causes—and beneficiaries. Chicago as the distributing center for a large part of the country's pro- duce prices and food supplies, is quite naturally the center of the investigat- ing storm. The cry has already gone up in semi-official way that prison sentences, not mere fines in cash will satisfy the public and properly rebuke those responsible for the food crisis. But someone to sentence to prison 1s as essentlal to the completion of this programme. as the capture of the rabbit 1s in the preparation of a noted dish of which that is one of the chief ingredients, Calling for a viettm to punish and inflicting the punishment when he is found meriting it is not exactly’ the same as finding the man and mend- ing him to prison when adjudged gullty. A Changed View. (Milwaukee Journal) Significant indeed are the tactics now being used by newspapers and other forces which for two years or more have been trying, in the inter- est of Germany, to sway legislation and government in America and which put forth most strenuous efforts to make the interests of Germany the determining factor in the election of a President of the United States. For two years they made President Wilson the target of unprecedented abuse and vilification. Now, all of a sudden, they are heaping praise upon him. This change in their at- titude is nothing more or less than more proof, very convincing an dcor- roborative proof, of their devotion and allegiance to Germany, with little or no thought of America. Their slander and vituperation of the head of our government was in- spired by the fact that the president refused to take their orders to act as a servant of Germany. Now, fol- lowing the president’s efforts to in- duce the belligerent nations to take steps leading to consideration of terms of peace, action which was doubtless prompted by his humane sentiments and a desire to hasten peace as a means of reducing the danger of America’s becoming em- broiled in war, the pro-German press is lauding him to the skies. The rea- Fon for this radical change is easy \o grasp. President Wilson's message too warring nations, although formu- lated hefore Germany’s proposal to her enemies, and in no way connect- it, nevertheless i{s construed by them as falling In line with Ger- many's wishes and purposes. There- fore these newspapers suddenly dis- covered that the president is a great man, a lover of humanity, a veritable angel of peace. To serve Germany they are stultifying themselves by giving the e to anything that they have said about him in the past. Their record of alienlsm and dis- loyalty only stands out more clearly than ever. The purpose that has act- uated them in past and which act- uates them now is as transparent as glass. Tt is not less transparent than the purpose which would govern their minds and pens if Great Britain and her allies, after winntng a victory like that of the Central powers in Ru- mania.*should, as Germany has done, ask their enemies to consider steps to end the war ,and 1{f President ‘Wilson should take a step that seemed to fall In with the plans of the Em- tente. It would not take much im- agination to picture the bitter things which, in such a case—a reversal of conditions—the pro-German - press would say about the president. They look at everything through the eyes of Germany. TFrom this viewpoint thelr course has been consistent throughout. To the ‘nation, its peace and its future. this thing is full of menace. It oreates internal dissensions and foments internal dangers. It makes not for integration, but for disintegra- tion. Our common duty as a citizen is to smet our faces against alienism in this or any other form, no matter what its source may be. The Novelist's Freedom Dimited By the Law. (New York Sun) The admission of the manuscript of a novel, written by the feruale de- fendant in a suit for separation, as evidence of the young woi-i1n’s men- tal attitude toward the plaintiff, is ltkely to have its effect upcn author- ship. Of course self-reveiation is | commion enough among the scriven- ers; few men have written books without leaving the autobio graphical mark on at le:st one of their works. Is 1t not ‘Arnold Ben- nett who has insisted that, a. a man can put forth only that wn:_h he has contained, every hook is in a way a revelation of the writer? This is of course a narrow theory, easily dis- pelled by an examination of the work of any one of a dozen gia~ts who, un- like Bennett, were not cor fined to the narrow limits of humdrum hrappen- ings. It is impossible that Stevenson a dozen Wild Lifein North America Rivalled Only By Ajrica Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—Al- though the wild life of North Ameri- ca {8 more abundant than that of the other continents of the northern hem- isphere and has only Africa as a world rival, yet our present-day richness in this respect 1s decidedly poor comi- pared with the abundance and variety of mammalian life that roamed our plains before the advent of the white man, while the vast number of spe- | cles which disappeared even pefore the Indians came to inhabit the land s even more astonishing. In a communication to the Nation- al Geographic society, E. W. Nelson, chief of the United States Geological Survey, gives an amazing account of North American wild life in prehis- toric times. A portion of the com- munication has been made public by the soociety in the following bulletin: “The original buffalo herds have been estimated to have contained from 80,000,000 to 60,000,000 animals (the latter figure is 6,000,000 greater than ; the total number of cattle in the United States according to the census of 1910), and in 1870 it was estimated that about 5,600,000 still survived— exceeding by 1,400,000 the number of mules in the United States in 1910. A number of men now living were priv- ileged to see some of the great herds of the west before they were finally destroyed. Dr. George Bird Grinnel writes: o “‘In 1870, T happened to be on a train that was stopped for three hours toclet a herd of buffalo pass. We sup- posed they would soon pass by, but they kept on coming. On a number of occasions in earlier days the engi- neers thought that they could run through the herds, and that, seeing the locomotive, the buffaloes would stop to turn aside; but after a few lo- comotives had been ditched by the animals the engineers got in the way of respecting the buffaloes ‘idiosyn- cracies.’ “Astonishing as was the number of buffalo which roamed the plains of old, even more numerous were the an- telope, though the latter did not At- tract as much attention as the larger maemmals. Besides these, the cron- iclers of the colonial days give many interesting accounts of the incredible number of other wild animals, includ- ing bears, wapiti{, white-tailed deer, and turkeys, on which the wolves made fierce war. One writer narrates that during the winter of 1870-71 ful- ly 2,400 moose were snared on Great Manitoulin Island, at the head of Lake Huron. “The wealth of animal life found by the great natural resources of the New World. Although freely drawn upon from the first, the stock was but littie depleted During the the rapidly increasing occupation of the continent A5 de- mand for anfmal products, have had ‘The buffalo, elk, and antelope are reduced to a pitiful countless our forebears was one of up to within a centu: last 100 years, however, and other causes, together with steadily increasing commerecial an appalling effect. fraction of their former numbers. ‘“Practically all other large has alarmingly decreased and termination has been partly only by the recent enforcement protective laws. ‘“The recent great abundance large land mammals in North Ameri- ca, both in individuals and specie: in striking contrast with their scarc- ity in South America, the difference evidently being due to the long isola- tion of the southern continent from other land-masses, whence it might stayed have been restocked after the loss of a formerly existing fauna. found in himself that devil which guided the Master of Ballantrae. But that is not exactly’ the point. The court has opened the door, and the realist who plucks chapters from his own soul, or appears to, is in dan- ger of being haled to the bar. “My wife is looking over my shoulder as T write,” was a favorite nhrase of the Victorian best seller authors. but they wrote prose idyls, and if their wives looked over their shoulders, which their wives probably didn't, there was nothing to fear. No scandalous cats were let out of the bag. This, how- ever, is another age. The author in- vents & character and examines the character’s soul. in Esmond Gilhooley, or whatever the protagonist's name may be” The au- thor may not have the fortunate ac- quaintance of a Gilhooley, so he asks himself what he himself would be if he let himself run wild. Presently on paper appears a creature who drinks heavily, gambles the night long and beats his wife. In this there could be no danger If the author'z wife knew him to be a sober man who would not play bridge for a mill a point or kill a fly. The fatal thing, obviously would be to attribute to Gilhooley evils so secret that they might ecist, unsus- pected, in any one: “Now he knew, what had becen for months a vegue fear, that he loved Ermyntrude Zink, and that the di tance between him and his lawful wedded wife had become an impass- ahle abyss.” He describes FErmyntrude. His wife, looking over the manuscript if not over the shoulder, recognizes Miss Zink as her dearest friend. She sees all, and a lawyer, for the possibility of self-revelation by an author has been recognized in a cour-. The cautious married novetist will do well to make his heroes and his! villains the antithesis of nimseif: pa ticularly the heroes, wife is portrayed as the heroine. vice does not apply, of courss, to those wretched novelists whose wives never read their husband’s stuff. Squeezing Out the Watcr. (Louisville Courier-Journal). ‘“What is this?” ‘A letter-press. think it was?" “I was in hopes you had decided to run those stock certificates you are trying to 'peddle through a wring- er'” What did you the game its ex- of of What demon iurks ' “The fossil beds of the Great Plaint of North America and other parts of” the west contain eloquent proofs of the richness and variety of mammal life on this continent at different per. fods in the past. Perhaps the mosi & wonderful of all these ancient faunaf - was that revealed by the bones of | birds and mammals which had been J trapped in the asphalt Dits recently & discovered in the outskirts of TLof " Angeles, California. These bonei show that prior to the arrival of the present fauna the plains of southein | California swarmed with an aston:r' ing wealth of strange birds beasts. The most notable of thest are saber-toothed tigers, lions muel larger than those of Africa; giani | wolves; several kinds of bears, includ- ing the huge cave bears, even larger than the gigantic brown bears ol ‘Alaska; large wild horses; camel | blson (unlike our buffalo); tiny an. i telope, the size of a fox; mastodons mammoths’ with tusks fifteen feet long; and giant ground sloths; in ad. | dition to many other species, large and small. 4 “With these amazing mammals: were equally strange birds, includin among numerous birds of prey a glant vulture-like species (far larger thap any condor), peacocks, and many . others. 4 “There is reason for believing thal primitive man occupied California an¢ other parts of the west during &l least the latter part of the period when the fauna of the asphalt pits still flourished. The folklore of the . locally restricted California Indians contains detailed descriptions of & beast which is unmistakably a bison,: | probably the bison of the asphalt pits: | “The discovery in these pits of the | bones of a gigantic vulturelike bir | of prey of far greater size than th condor is even more startling, sine the folklore of the Eskimos and In dlans of most of the tribes from Ber, ing Straits to California and thi { Rocky mountain region abound 4 tales of the ‘thunder bird'—a gigan { tic bird of prey like a mighty eagle capable of carrying away people in talons. Two such coincidences su gest the possibility that the accoun | of the bison and the ‘thunder bird’ really based on the originals of asphalt beds and have been down in legendary history ! many thousands of years. “Among other marvels our fossil beds reveal the fact that both cam. | els and horses originated i North' ! America. The remains of many wided 1y different species of both animal have been found in numerous local tles extending from coast to coast § the United States. Camels and horse with many species of antelope close- ly related to still existing forms img Africa, abounded over a large part of & this country up to the end of the geo- logical age immediately preceding the | present era. it “At the time of its discovery By Col- & umbus this continent had only one domesticated animal—the dog. In 1 most instances the ancestors of theff Tndian dog appear to have heen thd native coyotes or gray wolves, but the descriptions of some dogs found by, the early explorers indicate very dif-: ferent and unknown ancestry fortuately these strange dogs extinct at an early perfod, and left unsolvable the riddle of origin. “Before the discovery of Americ: the people of the Old World had do- mesticated cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, & goats and cats: but none of these do- mestic animals, except the dog, exist-i§ ed in Amerfca until brought from Europe by the Invaders of the New & World.” g i PHILADELPHIA REJOICES, Over the Shipbuilding Prospects the Delaware River. (Philadelphia Business th through! on Press.) in the ships ‘e on a scale is booming yards along the Delaw quite unpreccdented in this or any ! other district. Seven large yards and, !a number of smaller ones are work-# \ ing to capacity and new contracts are constantly coming in. One hundred iand two vessels of various types, ag- ! gregating almost 0,000 tons and valued at almost $150,000,000, have been contracted for and 90 of them are aleady reported on the way A | great probable increase of these totals 9 is contained in the announcement at ;| Washington that two dreadnoughts {and two destroyers in the 1917 naval . program will be built on the Dela- | ware. | This is undoubtedly more than [ war-time prosperity. In fact, a greater rush of business is looked for on the Delaware after the war 1is over. . All the nations will then be | setting to work at rebuilding their de- i pleted merchant flects. The enormous total of tonnage destroved will have to be replaced. Trans-oceanic trade, now greatly impeded, will receive a {fresh impetus. And most important jof all. American capital will not dis- & continue the enterprise so auspicious- '} |1y begun of restoring the American | |flag to the seas. Tangible proot of ¥4 | this is present in the recent acquisi- & !tion of the Camden shipyards by an American syndicate with apparently I unlimited capital and colossal in- terests in international trade. is | probable that these immense ds will he devoted aimost exclusively to ican mer- i 4 Tt i the rebuilding of an Amer { chant marine. Already the Delaware river has wrested from the famous Clyde the world’s supremacy in shipbuilding, | and its development shows no sign of halting. Tt is plain that the growth of the Delaware yards benefits not | only Philadelphia and the great min- +ing and manufacturing resources of the state for which Pennsylvania is the outlet. It means plenty of work, good wages and all the happy conse- quences that prosperity brings in its wake. In cvery way the triumph of § the Delaware river yards is a triwnph | for Philadelphia. 4 l 7 pt |