The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-11
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They used to talk a lot about the
dangers OF the deep and to pray
Justify for those who went down to
the sea in ships. But really 1t ap-
pears to be getting safer to go to sea
than to stay at home. Some persons
insists that statistics show the most
dangerous things a man can possibly
do is to walk down the street OF any
reasonable live city Of 10000 popula-
ton or more.
Now the chief of the weather
bureau says that with the aid OF wire
less telegraphy more of the perils of
the deep are to be eradicated. He
tonnage to be equipped with wire
less outfit and he wants the govern
ment to require that every ship and
every, wireless outfit shall be required
to repeat any message 1t may pick
up IL not intended for 1t alone. When
such control is exercised, he says. a
storm will be located and its direction
shown to all vessels.
''The message will go out" says
Professor Moore, "that storm is CEN
tered along the south line OF coast,
moving along the gulf stream. in
creasing in intensity, and the vessels
master will say: We will sail around
that When the time comes that we
will get observations from the en-
tire Atlantic coast by wireless tele-
graphy, through one ship repeating
to another its observations. we will
be able to send information to the en-
tire Atlantic ocean. Messages will be
repeated backward from ship to ship.
Storm in such part OF the ocean.
All else serene. Sail your course
All ships outside of that region will
feel easy, but everything coming into
that region will have to look out. It
will render ocean transportation far
safer than riding on street car is
today.'-Buffalo Express.
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PREHISTORIC; NOT ANCIENT.
In asserting that the mildly famous
Calaveras skull is comparatively
modern specimen. the University of
California people are only confirming
what the government ethnologists
have already said, and the addition
that the skull was put where 1t was
found by some humorist or swindler
is interesting rather than important,
for it has already been determined to
the satisfaction of practically all
scientists that no trace of really an
cient men has yet been found in
America.
OF course. the socalled mound
builders were old timers, as American
history goes. but to the biologists
they were mere creatures of yester-
day, differing from the Indians of to-
day only in a few Of their customs.
Physically, they were just the same.
In fossil animals running back to the
dawn ages the American continents
are extremely rich, but there IL every
reason for believing that man was a
late arrival here. Again and again it
has been asserted that bones proving
the existence of men lower and older
than the indian as we know him have
been discovered, but whether the find
was in California or Nebraska or
Florida, the claim of great age has
always been dispelled when thorough
~ investigated
The only foundation for a contrary
belief is the wildly exaggerated stories
told by the older historians of the
civilizations" found and destroyed
by the Spaniards in Mexico and to the
southwark. Had those tales been
true they would have implied more or
less remote origins. but they were
mostly myths, invented to increase
the glory OF the conuuerors. OF pre-
historic folk we have plenty, but Of
those really ancient none at all.-New
York Times.