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Other Law Enforcement
Faced with cnarges that his allocation of Boulder
dam power ando r " not comply with law, Secretary of In
terior Wilbur has obtained a legal opinion from his
solicitor, approving !n every respect the plan outlined
by Wilbur several months ago.
It is a remarkable opinion.
If the courts find it to be sound law, then congress
must rewrite the federal water power act. Further
more, congress is going to have to find new words
to make clear its meaning. Words which had seemed
unmistakably plain no longer are adequate.
It Is doubtful whether any solicitor but the pres
ent one, E. C. Finney, who for more than thirty years
has helped secretaries ol interior do what they wished,
could have written the opinion on Boulder dam power.
This is the situation. The Boulder dam act says
the r- eretary of interior shall divide the power gener
ated at the dam in conformity with the policy ex
pressed in the federal water power act.
And this is the act: “The commission shall give
preference to applications by states and municipalities,
provded the plans for the same are deemed by the
commission equally well adapted, or shall within a
reasonable time be fixed by the commission to be made
equally well adapted, to conserve and utilize in the
public Interest the navigation and water resources of
the region.”
Wilbur already having decided to give approxi
mately one-fourth of the power to private power com
panies, Finney interprets this section in the follow
ing way. He passed over the clause about states and
municipalities and goes to the words “public interest.’
‘Public interest,” he says, ‘is one of those broad
terms like public policy, capable of different legitimate
interpretations In the discretion of the officer called
upon to administer it. The interest referred to is pri
marily the government’s responsibility, financal and
otherwise, to all the people of the United States . . ,
Hie primary public inteiest is in the soundness of the
contracts and the solvency of the contractor, not in the
corporate or municipal character of that contractor.”
Farther on, in reply to a question from Secretary
Wilbur as to what discretion he is permitted by the
act, Finney says, in efTcct, that, the preference clause
means nothing whatever. Finney then attempts to read
into the act a requirement that power must be avail
able to a’l adjacent areas, whether publicily or pri
vately served.
These interpretationo would confer on the secre
tary of interior authority to do exactly as he pleases,
regardless of the law. Whether wilfully or not, they
tend to cloak law violation with the sanctity of legality.
If these interpretation arc not challenged, they
will establish a precedent threatening a future danger
worse than the wrong for which they pave the way at
Boulder dam.
City Manager and Bosses
Cleveland’s city council has fired the city manager,
William R. Hopkins.
The Republicans acted on the orders of Maurice
Maschke, local boss. Six years ago Maschke named
Hopkins to office, the first city manager in the largest
city ever to attempt that form of government.
Maschke now lias removed him.
Maschke also has named Daniel E. Morgan, Cleve
land lawyer and state senator, to succeed Hopkins.
As soon as the formality of a public hearing for Hop
kins is out of the way, it will be City Manager
Morgan.
For those who thought the city manager plan put
the parties out cf business, Cleveland’s experience will
be a disappointment. For those who think city man
agers always are experienced administrators, it also
will be a disappointment.
There is no doubt that the firing of Hopkins was
discreditable, and on flimsy evidence. There is no
denying that it was done by purely political means.
But the fact remains that Hopkins first was named
politically, and that he gave the city six years of
high-tvpe government, marred only by the misdeeds
of a corrupt ring of hold-over councilmen.
It also is true that the new manager. Morgan,
will be an able executive, judging from his past
record.
In both cases, the political naming of the chief
executive went on as it would under a mayor plan
But In both cases, a better man was named than, nine
times out of ten, would be named under a mayor
plan.
Tiffs experience also has demonstrated that pub
lic influence can be brought strongly to bear on
councilmen. In naming a manager. The pretest over
the firing of Hopkins in Cleveland forced the boss,
Maschke, to name not his first choice, but his second
or third, and a much better man.
Cleveland’s charter is not ideal. It has weak spots,
and some unpopularity, as recent close votes on amend
ments have shown. But Clevelands experience this
week has not injured the city’ manager cause in that
city, nor weakened the charter.
Judge Sabbatino Expounds Americanism
Recently there flashed forth in Brooklyn an en
thusiastic devotee of virile Americanism. Magistrate
Sylvester Sabbatino was addressing a young Com
munist. David Weisse, who with his sister had been
arrested for soliciting funds to aid the defense of
the Gastonia strikers. The magistrate made no effort
to conceal his passionate devotion to Americanism
or his notions of civics and pedagogy. Addressing
Weiss, he said:
“What you need is for me to have you in a two
by four room. What would I do to you? I'd blacken
your eyes and give you some real American spirit."
The magistrate may have been a little careless
or hasty in choosing the dimensions of his proposed
classroom, but of his fine spirit there could be
no doubt.
Magistrate Sabbatino just has been interviewed by
a representative of the press and induced to elaborate
his conceptions of Americanism. Starting off in good
Mayflower style, he chronicles the struggles of his
forefathers to realize the ideals which they later em
bodied in the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution.
“Americanism.” he says, "is the strict adherence
to the ideals imbedded in the Constitution of the
United States and in the Declaration of Inde
pendence.”
Asked what he believed to be the best method of
instilling Americanism into the youth of the land,
he declared his preference for education. Going fur
ther, he asserted that the chief defect m education
today as an agency for inculcating the ideals of
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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way”
Americanism is to be found in the lack of religion.
"This is the primary menace to Americanism.”
So much for Magistrate Sabbatino’s dclared belief
that he is for Americanism of the brand of the
Declaration of Independence. Let us see how his
conception of Americanism in action conforms to the
ideals of the author of that document.
In one of his most famous statements, Jefferson
asserted that he had “sworn eternal enmity to every
form of tyranny oyer the mind of man.” Magistrate
Sabbatino’s threats of nose punching and his epithets
of “mongrel” and “moron” come dangerously near
to mental tyranny.
But there is one classic passage from the writings
of the sage of Monticello so cogent and timely that
it almost might have been written as a civil liberties
report on the Sabbatino case:
“To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his
powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the
profession or propagation of principles, on supposi
tion of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy,
which at once destroys all liberty, because he being,
of course, judge of that tendency, will make his
opinions the rule of judgment and approve or con
demn the sentiments of others only as they shall
square with or differ from his own.
“It is time enough for the rightful purposes of
civil government for its officers to interfere when
principles break out into overt acts against peace
and good order.”
Nor will the magistrate measure up more suc
cessfully to his religious test for sound Americanism.
We assume that he is a Christian.
If so, his nose-punching propensity hardly squares
with the admonition of his Master to turn the other
cheek. Nor will his “mongrel” and “moron” line up
too well with the slogan, “blessed are the meek.”
“The Whip Tradition”
"We must bear in mind the Whig tradition of
a right to revolution.”
What is the significance of those words from the
report of the Hoover commission on law observance
and enforcement?
How do they square with what Hoover himself
said in transmitting the report? The answer is,
they don’t.
Hoover said:
“While some sections of the American people may
disagree upon the merits of some questions involved,
every responsible citizen supports the principle that
the law of the land must be enforced.”
As opposed to that philosophy, there has prevailed
In this country since its beginning the “tradition” to
which the commission refers. Nicholas Murray But
ler didn’t invent the idea of “higher lawlessness.”
Though it is January instead of July 4, let’s dust
off a well-known document. We quote from the
Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. That to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed, that whenever any
form of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abol
ish it, and to institute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
There’s your higher lawlessness, your Whig
tradition.
Had it been otherwise, had the idea of dumb,
docile and unquestioned obedience to all laws pre
vailed, we would still be subjects of Great Britain
and there wouldn’t be any eighteenth amendment.
Hum runners dragging sleds, covered with white
sheets, have been “ghost-walking” across the ice of
the Detroit river. It’s a spirits’ racket.
A headline says “Smart Girl Hides Brains to Win
Men Friends.” One divorce is granted every fifty
five minutes in Chicago.
He who fights and runs away usually is caught
by a traffic cop anyway and given a ticket for speed
ing, resisting an officer and careless driving.
REASON By FR S K
THERE'S a great deal of discussion because
Gladys Moon Jones, Washington lobbyist and
press agent, wrote a speech for Mrs. Piatt, member
of congress from New York City, but it’s not suf
ficiently unusual to merit extended reference.
It has been quite the thing all through our na
tional life for many of those in public station to hire
somebody to write their speeches.
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Many of our Presidents have done this. For in
stance, George Washington was benefited by the
literary genius of Alexander Hamilton and many
of his successors purchased or rented brains from un
known writers.
Secretary of State Seward suggested a minor
change or two in Lincoln's first inaugural address and
Secretary of the Treasury Chase suggested two
words in the emancipation proclamation, but the rail
splitter needed no help.
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BANCROFT, the historian, wrote some of the sturdy
s'.ate papers which Andrew Johnson sent to con
gress when he and it were at death grips and as the
years passed by the practice of having a finished
writer around the presidential premises was adopted.
Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge, without batting an
eye. delivered speeches which were prepared by others.
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Amusing stories are told of the pride which differ
ent Presidents have felt because such speeches went
over big. there being no perceptible diminution of their
satisfaction because someone else did the work.
Possibly a fellow thinks he wrote it after he’s been
complimented half a dozen times, just as a fellow gets
to believe the story he tells over and over.
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i~\F course, nobody wrote the speeches or state
papers of Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wil
son. for while m technical matter they may have
employed the suggestions of experts, neither of them
needed any literary aid society, they being the ablest
writers in the White House since Lincoln.
Lincoln’s gifts in this direction are the more re
markable when you recall that he never went to
school one whole year, all put together.
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However, he read always and gained much of his
clear and simple style from hi* reading of the Bible
He was far from being the uncultivated man his
enemies painted him, having read many of the great
authors with delight, particularly Shakespeare, from
whose plays he was able to quote by the page and
concerning the proper rendition of which he argued
with the great actors who came to Washington.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. Tracy
S A YS:
If Disarmament. Were Real,
the Nations Would Be More
Concerned With Airplanes
and Poison Gas.
PREMIER MACDONALD is
wrong in proposing to scrap
battleships. They ought to be kept
as museum pieces. But let that
pass.
Even though nations are not in
a mood to destroy their up-to-date
engines of war, they may gain
something by junking those that
have become obsolete.
If disarmament were real, it
would be more concerned with air
planes and poison gas, as H. G.
Wells points out.
Those who expect it to be real
at this stage of the game, however,
expect too much.
It is only within the last twenty
five years that we began to talk
about disarmament as a possibility.
How long ago was it that people
began to talk about the possibility
; of Republican government?
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A pact outlawing war, but pro
viding no method to keep it out
lawed: a world court to settle Inter
national disputes, with no way to
make its decisions stick; a League
of Nations, with a council, assembly
and secretariat, but not a police
man on the beat.
Indeed, one can pick out a lot of
flaws in the performance, but to
what end, or with what logic?
Revolutionary ideas are not put
into action over night, and never
have been. The power of tradition
is too great, and what tradition lacks
is more than made up by fear.
Humanity still is sold on nation
alism as a system, and still afraid
of world peace because of the sur
render of sovereignty it involves.
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Cause for Worry
TiO judge by the headlines, Jus
tice Hughes’ declaration that the
Interests of this country wei’e
safeguarded made a far deeper im
pression than did his explanation of
the world court and its work.
What worries the American peo
ple and the people of all other
contries for that matter is the possi
bility that they can’t get back,
thing that they can’t get back.
Their attitude in this respect is j
rooted in history and fertilized in
the schoolroom.
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"H. G. Wells rails at the “flimsy :
Utopianism about peace now so cur
rent,” meaning the idea that it can
be had by signing treaties without
force, and establishing courts with
out power, but is not his conception
of the problem just as insane?
Does he suppose that people would
consent to an international police
force, wjthout a thorough under
standing of its authority and their
rights?
And how could they arrive at such
understanding, except through cre
ation of courts and gradual develop
ment of international law?
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Hurry Is Dangerous
INSTEAD of being discouraged at
the slow progress of the peace
movement, we should be thankful
that it is not developing any faster.
To hurry it would be to run the
risk of making irreparable blunders
and creating such violent reactions
as might destroy it.
In this connection, the world Is
not dealing with the simple propo
sion of drawing pictures on a clean
slate, but of substituting a gigantic
scheme for one which has been
woven into the habits, customs and
thought processes of the human
race.
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The task of outlawing war. or ad
justing international disputes by
peaceful means, and of putting
civilization on a co-operative basis
is more stupendous than was that
of converting the western world to
Christianity.
While it is true that we have de
veloped a capacity for doing things
quickly, only fanatics could believe
that we have made enough progress
to accomplish in a decade what still
is incomplete after two thousand
years.
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Proportion Sense Lost
THE peace movement suffers no
worse handicap than the non
sensical expectations of those who
look for it to mature in an unrea
sonably short time.
Their preposterous criticisms serve 1
no purpose so distinctly as to dis- j
gust normal people.
Sometimes it seems as though
they had lost their sanse of pro
portion, and as though they ex
pected the greatest drama in hu
man affairs to come to its climax
within the space of hours.
To all intents and purposes, their
attitude is much like that of the
prohibitionists back in 1917. and ev
ery one knows what happened be
cause of that.
Where are the state universities
of Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona,
Texas, Nevada and Utah located?
Colorado, Boulder; New Mexico.
Albuquerque; Arizona. Tucson;
Texas, Austin; Wyoming, Laramie;
Nevada, Reno, and Utah, Salt Lake
City.
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ing a cellar dry in anew house, and for various methods that may
be adopted for waterproofing an old cellar that is damp and wet. If
you have a problem of this kind, fill out the coupon below and send
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NAME
STREET AND NUMBER
CITY STATE
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
If You Get ‘Winded,’ Have Heart Test
BY DR. MORRIS FISHIBEIN.
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hyrcia. the
Health Magazln*.
THE heart is a muscular pump,
pushing the blood around the
body through the arteries and veins,
and back into the heart again. The
blood is sent through the lungs
where it receives oxygen.
It goes on and on through many
years of life, producing enough
work to lift the weight of the in
dividual thousands of feet in the
air.
It receives its own nutrition
through the blood supply that goes
to the heart directly. When the tis
sues of the heart are attacked by
infectious disease, or when poisons
carried in the blood bring about
changes, or when too much con
tinued strain is put upon the organ,
it revolts, as w'ould any other mech
anism, and it responds in various
ways.
Some infections weaken the tis
sues so that they are stretched be
yond repair. Others produce
growths upon the valves which in-
IT SEEMS TO ME "S’
JUST what I have done is not
specfied, but the Observer of
Charlotte, N. C„ seems to be in
censed. I am honored with an en
tire editorial in the first column.
The leader is called “Occasion for
Silent Contempt,” and reads as fol
lows:
“Now and then from different
parts of the country friends of the
south are sending the Observer clip
pings of the fulminations of the
writer known as Broun, w’hose spe
cialty is the casting of slime toward
the southern people.
“Os course, they want the Ob
server to ‘burn him up,’ but notori
ety is just what fellows like Broun
court, and eagerly. The more notice
to themselves they are able to at
tract, the better it pleases them.”
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Harmless
THEIR writings, however,” con
tinues the Observer in its si
lent way. “are harmless, for it Is
very well understood that they are
not taken seriously by the public
they reach, and are meant mainly
for consumption around bootblack
stands and hotdog corners.
“They are of proper discount
among all intelligent readers over
the country, and the people have
come to receive them with amuse
ment, rather than indignation.
“If controverted, the opportunity
for continuation is developed, but
with fulminations of the kind per
sistently unnoticed, they would soon
expire and be heard no more. *
“Controversy with fellows of this
kind only serves to keep their am
munition chest supplied. The ’silent
contempt’ treatment is the sort that
kills.”
That may be well enough as far
Everybody Happy!
terfere with their proper opening
and closing.
In the vast majority the changes
that take place are insidious and
the individual seldom is aware of his
danger until considerable damage
has been done.
In discussing the future of medi
cine, Sir James Mackenzie empha
sized particluarly the importance of
detecting the symptoms of heart
disease in their earliest stages.
This detection is not the sort of
thing that the physician must do
primarily. The patient must come
to him before he can apply the spe
cial knowledge that he possesses.
When the heart has been dam
aged it gives evidence in several
ways. The physician accustomed to
recognizing the normal sounds of
the heart can detect changes in
their strength, their frequency, their
order, and any unusual sounds, such
as murmurs which are not heard
over a normal heart,
He can count the heart beats be
fore and after effort and see if the
heart responds prmoptly and prop
erly to unusual work, and how
as contempt goes, but it seems to
me a pretty poor piece of silence.
Here I am one-third through my
column and with no work entailed
except to do a little paragraphing
and punctuation for the Observer.
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Slipshod
EVEN the contempt, I’m afraid, is
a shade slipshod. For instance,
the phrase “the writer known as
Broun,” is a complimentary way of
putting it. Asa rule only the great
in letters are mentioned as single
name men.
We speak of “Shaw” and “Shake-
Questions
and Answers
Can pen names be registered in
; the United States patent office?
No.
How many persons graduated
from universities, colleges and pro
fessional schools in 1926?
71.529.
What particular President of the
United States is referred tc in Fan
| nie Hurst's book, “A President Is
Born”?
It is a work of fiction, and no
! particular President Is intended. Her
| purpose is merely to tell a story of
j American rural and home life, and
|to depict the kind of a boy who
might make an ideal President.
What is the meaning of the name
ITedwig?
It ts German and means “war
refuge.”
Where is the University of Wash
ington located?
Seattle, Wash.
When were buffalo nickels first
coined?
In 1913.
What Is the meaning of the word
"mondawmin”?
It. is an American Indian name
meaning corn.
What is the religion of William
Howard Taft?
He is a member of the Unitarian
church.
Is it correct for a man to wear a
wrist watch with formal evening
clothes?
No.
Why has the sea not bored a hole
through the earth?
Because the interior resistance of
the earth is greater than the pres
sure of the water.
Has there ever been a Soc : al'st
Governor in the United States?
quickly the rate returns to normal
after the effort is discontinued.
He can determine how much ef
fort is required for the individual to
become short of breath.
Realizing the importance of these
studies, special tests of heart func
tion have been elaborated by which
the trained physician can determine
how capably the heart responds.
The tests are simple. They may be
simply repeated standing and sit
ting, hopping a given number of
times, bending over and straighten
ing up a certain number of times,
climbing a certain number of steps
and similar efforts.
Pain is not always, and indeed
not usually a symptom of heart dis
ease. Serious breathlessness follow
ing slight effort, unusual fatigue
after brief exercise, a sense of con
striction in the chest, may be far
more serious as symptoms than oc
casional pain.
The first sign of heart failure, as
Mackenzie emphasizes, is frequently
merely a sensation of distre* when
the individual undertakes some ef
fort that he was previously accus
tomed to perform in comfort.
Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of America's most inter*
esting writers and are pre
sented without record to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.—The Editor.
speare,” “Goethe” and “Dickens.”
Lesser folk appear in fuller form.
No one speaks of the “novels of
Wright,” even though they have
sold into the millions.
He is always “Harold Bell Wright”
and his great rival is referred to as
“Zane Grey,” never as simple
“Grey.” Even Mencken is generally
identified by his full title—“ Henry
L. Mencken.”
Accordingly, the Observer would
have been much more efficiently
contemptuous if it had said “a
writer named Heyw'ood Campbell
Broun.” This would have indicated
that no reader conceivably could
recognize the fellow in question un
less he were stretched out to the
fullest extent possible.
“Known as Broun” is in itself
singularly inept because it concedes
the fact here is a rogue who has
succeeded in capturing some portion
of the public attention.
To be sure, his kingdom later is
limited as being restricted to “boot
black stands and hot-dog comers.”
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Admiration
A ND even here the country editor
betrays a suppressed, uncon
scious admiration for the great
metropolitan journalist whom he
attacks.
Without apparent hesitation, this
man. who calls himself my foe, con
cedes me some of the busiest
havens in this whole humming land.
I am much too modest to make
any such far-flung claims for my
self. Indeed, I must draw back and
say, “Sir, I fear that you exagger
ate.” Inevitably there must be re
mote sausage shops where the name
and fame of Broun are quite un
knowm.
Nevertheless, it is a pretty com
pliment which the Charlotte editor
has paid me with his traditional
southern hospitality.
He seems to say in his courtly !
way that his free associations with !
the phrase, “It Seems to Me,” are
sustenance, polish and mustard.
Even the humble kraut is known !
by now to contain the vitamins by \
which men live, and a small glass j
ivery day will keep the doctor j
urther away than any one who can <
throw an apple.
(Copyrieht. 1930. by The Times)
Daily Thought
This is a true saying. If a man
desire the office of a bishop, he
desireth a good work.—l Timothv
3:1.
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No man is born into the world
whose work is not born with him.—
LowelL
JAN. 18, 1930
I SCIENCE
By DAVID DIETZ
Theory That Man Is Not
Descended Directly From
Apj-Like Ancestors Creates
Stir Among Scientists.
TWO events of the recent meet
ing of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Sci
ence continue to receive extended
comment in the editorial columns
of the nation's newspapers. They
are the contentions of Dr. Henry
Fairfield Osborn that mankind Is
more than a million years old and
not descended directly from ape
like ancestors, and the contentions
of Dr. Robert A. Millikan that the
; future of man is safe in the hands
Sos science.
j Dr. Osborn’s theory, perhaps, is
| receiving the greater amount of
attention. In view of this fact,
therefore, it is of interest to ex
amine the evidence in this interest
ing field of research. J
Fortunately an excellent sum
mary has already been made by Dr.
Gerrit S. Miller Jr., curator of the
United States National Museum.
As Dr. Miller points out, only two
finds have been made which can be
considered in the nature of “missing
links.”
They are the skull, teeth and
thigh-bone found at Trinil, Java,
constituting the so-called Java man
or Pithecanthropus, and the skull,
jaw and nasal bones found at Pilt
down, Sussex, England, and con
stituting the so-called Piltdown man
or Eoanthropus.
All discussion therefore must be
based chiefly on an interpretation
of the age, the physical and the
mental characteristics of these two
specimens.
That there should be no general
agreement upon the subject, is not
surprising.
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Java Man
JAVA man was discovered in 1891
by Dr. Eugene Dubois, and first
described in a pamphlet published in
1894. Writing in the annual report
of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr.
Miller says of this pamphlet:
“Throughout the scientific world it
was read immediately and com
mented on with intense interest by
zoologists and anthropologists alike.
“But the fact soon became appar
ent that the only point of univer
sal agreement among these readers
was their interest; their opinions
differed to an astonishing degree.
“Some accepted the belief of
Dubois, that the remains came from
lon individual; others regarded the
circumstances of the discovery as
giving no support to it.
“About the skullcap some agreed
with Dubois, that it clearly repre
sented a transition stage between
ape and man; others pronounced it
human; still others w’ere as fully
j convinced that it was simian.
“In April, 1896, Dubois gave a
summary' of the opinions of nine
teen writers; five regarded the skull
cap as simian, seven as human and
seven as intermediate.
“The controversy which thus be
j gan has not yet ended.”
Coming to present-day opinions
| about the Java man. Dr. Miller
writes: “There is only oi>e point on
| w'hich all writers agree, namely, that
i the skullcap is strangely different
from the corresponding part of
i other known mammals, both re
j cent and fossil. In striking contrasts
j we find that there are not less than
i sixteen points of disagreement.”
a a a
Differences
DR. MILLER proceeds then to
list a summary of these sixteen
] points of difference. I will under
-1 take to give an abridged summary
of Dr. Miller’s summary’:
The deposits in which the re
mains were found were of glacial
age. According to the first view.
the remains are less than 500,009
; years old; according to the second,
at least 1,000,000.
The way the bones were deposited
supports the view that they belong
to one individual. The distance be
tween the bones as found would in
dicate they belong to different ones.
The remains came from one ani
mal. They came from two, one a
gibbon, the other a man. They
came from three animals.
The thigh-bone has human char
acteristics. It has those of a gibbon.
The skullcap is human. It is in
termediate between man and apes.
It is simian. It has the character
istics of a gibbon. It has the char
acteristics of a chimpanzee.
The creature had powers of
speech. The creature was an im
becile. The skull gives no evidenca
as to mental capacity.
The creature was a true transi
tion form between man and ape.
The creature had a structure which
removes it from a position of direct
; *uman ancestry 7. The creature was
a gigantic gibbon. The creature wa*
a T, dawn man.”
The theory that Java man was a
“dawn man” is Dr. Osborn’s theory.
It w’ili be seen that there Is no
agreement betwen Dr. Osborn and
other anthropologists.
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VERSAILLES CONFERENCE
Jan. 18
ON Jan. 18, 1919, the Versailles
peace conference formally
( opened.
Out of this meeting came the
treaty of peace signed by representa
tives of the allied powers and Ger
many, marking the close of the
World war.
Versailles is a town in northern
France, capital of the department
of Seine-et-Oise, twelve miles south
west of Paris. It has been the scene
of many other historic events, in
cluding the signing of the armistice
between Great Britain and the
United States in 1783, and was, for a
time, the capital of France.
1 Today also is the anniversary of
the institution of the United States
departments' of commerce and labor,
on Jan. 18, 1993.
i On Jan. 18. 1775. Georgia elected
delegates to the continental con
gress.
On Jan. 18, 1782, Daniel Webster
was bore.