The Washington herald., 1908-01-28
Moore Confines Greatness to
IsOthermal Line.
WHY MICHIGAN BREEDS FAME
Chief Of weather Bureau scouts
Environment and Hereditary The
Ories-SBeecb at banquet of Mich
igan State Association Last Night.
Wants Statues Erected.
celep, hor,sradisb. snd saFdeu truck too:


Detroit Jackson. and. also, Kalmazog.
It's just about forty dollars to char
lotte russo that you've read the history
OF the world. and believe Alexsnders,
Caesars. Laura Jean Libbeys, Dorsey
Foultzes. and other prominent people
have been perambulated into the limelight
because of heredity ard environment.
Maybe you thought all this illustriouS
cluster and some more got in the public
eye because they had parents who had
corner on brains. or because they were
fond Of burning the midnight John ID.
Rockefeller product
It's not so. however, and notwithstand-
ing
Prof. Moore ThcOrlzes.
At the banquet Of the Michigan State
Association. held in the Arlington last
night. Prof. Willis l.. Moore. who thinks
in isothermal lines, and who dandIes his
fingers about a seismograph for pastime,
came out with the real reason. and also
told why Michigan has produced so many
who have asceaded 20 the seats Of the
mighty.
II is 10 be hoped you didn't think that
Kalamazoo could have ever produced
such edible celery or Battle Creek so
many perfected brands Of highly decorat-
ed breakfast foods, II they had ever had
to depend on environment or those other
things.
Climate. Climates the thing. Climate
is responsible for it all.
Did you ever wander down into the
tropics and look AZ the natives. More
than likely if you did YOU didn't see any
one who looked like Napoleon Smith who
owns an eight-story building in Detroit.
nor any one VINO looked more like
Charlemagne than the St Clair River
looks like stream OF pure thought
You probably saw a black man lying on
the broad Of his back kicking bananas
on; pam tree or perhaps lying about
the pam tree and kicking about the
bananas.
Well. on the other hand. If you 90 up
North. I'D where Eskimos. Peary and
Walter WeIlman furnish most OF the
population and all the reading matter
what 90 YOU find? Not a great deal more;
not o great deal less.
IsOthermaI Line Responsible.
Why. everybody who belongs mp there
is stunted. DO you suppose, after they
knock about In a temperature ninety-four
degrees below the horizon with nothing
on but four suits Of sealskin pajamas,
they are going TO Doe able 10 produce any
thing literary Ike Nellie. the Beautiful
Cloak Model or build a street car sys-
tem ike jackson mas Never.
But-Dut when you come down TO Mich
igan you're Just ABOUT as near me realiy
Ideal iand as yon ever VIII get II you drag
around TINS earth as long as Methuseiah
did-
fioI. Moore says climate caused II All.
climate was nor present 20 Ieiute the
Impu'auoa' so went Al tla'- Pfoi.
Moore says IL mas Deeh ihe history OF the
world that the great men, the men VINO
do the great things. who are physically
and intellectually qualified best for the
world strife. are found along the most
northern iS0thermaI line up 10 which
cereals can pT0fitably DE grown
The banquet had some other features
Of pleasure. II was the annual affair OF
the association, and the president Of the
organization. Gen. Ira c. Abbott. in call
ing attention TO the coming events-tbs
yesterday was the occa-
sion Of the seveuty-nrst anniversary Of
the admission of Michigan into the Union
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master made several hits and q few
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plauoed "heh ne HtiOduCed the heV-
r. y. Couden. Chaplain OF the House Of
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tor OF st. Joseph Cannon s church upon
The hill
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NlI. Souueh ia ieei'iis4! 20 the
news that a statue bearing an inscription !
5 10 be erected to the memory of Cant !
Via, .1., No. g.. ,.,,.,-,--,.s - .s
!" b. "''' "o7 i'i ''.'''''a''u % AiiutiSoli- I
nile prison during the civil war. Chap
ain Couden also said he would like IN 1
20 , ssa.,,e ~ b-s r.,.. Z ,--..-1.- 49, /
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'iee'r' Solit " iiH' uTl"Seh 'ue Ndpllol /
ihu Ihe washington moluneht- lie also /
aid ne would like TO see another statue !
erected 10 the brave men who fell I'M
holding the T-r;or-n1aca5 sor7avrl,e-s he I
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5 : = anu 'i'e
'ioloSeu ~, S'd'ue :" i-'''oi',
OlheIs speakers were representative /
Charles G. Townsend, Louis ". Miller, /
Alexander Grantlev. and Prof Henry c. /
ADAMS
senator Rr--ov. and s,i.t
Representatives DENLY, Townsend. Gardner, Smith, I