The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
In Constant Fear of Some
 Unknown Enemy
RUMORS OF HARBOR
Skeleton of Very Ancient Man Found. Strike Epidemic Invades Grave Diggers' Enthusiastically
 to Breed Own Horses
By PHILLIP EVERETT

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 bert Hubbard writes There Is a ner-
 vous disease called paranola. The first
 symptom is the belief that some one is
 plotting to undo us. The holding of such thought feeds the malady. We be- lieve things first and look for proof
 after and when the idea is once fixed in mans mind that some one Is his ene- my, reasons light air are to him con- firmation as strong as the holy writ.
 "Imcipient paranoia manifests itself in suspicion, distrust and jealousy. Acute pararoia reveals itself in pronounced hal lucinations and effort in the line of re-
 venge. even to the taking of lives of in- nocent persons
 The description MT. Hubbard gives here accurately fits the mental condition of the English people. The first symptom
 ''the belief that some one Gin this case Germany is plotting to undo England,
 became evident in the English press some years ago and has increased in strength ever since. This belief has indeed fed the malady and the English have reached the stage when they believe things first and look for proof after
 wards" and there has been no lack of
 interruptions persons who have played
 on this fear for selfish gain or to fur ther personal revenge.
 A most striking example of this has
 
 ject Mir Niels Groen, founder of mys- terious international organization "Po- | tentia" believing himself unfairly treat | ed by politicians in his native country | has prompted the organization to issue | @ statement signed by the chairman, Sir | Edward Durand, brother of the former British ambassador to Washington, In which it said that a bill is now before
 the Danish parliament granting a conces- sion to private syndicate that enables the group of financiers or promoters who are interested to take over and improve the harbor of St. Thomas in the West Indies and 1t would seem with full power to sub-lease or sell the unlimited rights they acquire.
 "The terms of this momentous conces-
 sion," the statement continues, would
 seem to show that the Danish govern
 ment practically surrenders all state rights over the harbor of St Thomas tof St Juan also) for % years, for the trifiing consideration of a payment of 33 per cent on the harbor dues collected for 10 years only
 "The harbor Is to be at least of suffi- cient size to admit ships of 15,0Oo tons dis placement and is to have a depth of at least 912 meters. 6Observe that this stip- ulation empowers or suggests far more important eapaefty)
 '"rhe syndicate has the right to dam or construct breakwaters and to hold all area so enclosed. 1t may deepen the harbor, and Is to possess the sole right to the use Of it. It may construct basins and permanent docks, the latter of such dimensions as shall accommodate ves- sells of at least 1000 tons displacement. It enjoys the monopoly over electric lighting, power and supply While the yet more valuable grant of the sole right to install and work a system or wireless telegraphy has been conceded to it."
 After pointing out that the concession aries propose to spend sum of 100000 kronen c5,240 000) which sum they hope to raise in Denmark or elsewhere" the statement proceeds:
 ''To America the matter would be of instant moment in regard to her naval armaments, for she could not afford In any eventua1ity to blink at the construc- ton of fine naval base within easy striking distance of the head of her Pan anna canal and of her eastern seaboard. that might at any moment pass out Of the possession of a private syndicate into the hands of a powerful rival, or that could be held in time Of war by minor neutral state.
 ''To England again any alteration in the tenure of these islands and any risk of the sale or grant to world power (other possibly than a friendly America as the power vitally interested) of har- bors which from their position would command the trade route to the Panama canal and which might easily become a naval base of operations or refuge for beligerent ships in war time, would be most unpalatable.
 ..To France or Germany or Russia it would present like disadvantages. We have no desire to labor the subject. our aim is to draw public attention to grave menace that might conceivably affect the peace of the world. The statement which so cleverly takes advantage of the English nation is nor bid fear ,of an imaginary omnipresent enemy has found credence even among serious minded journalists and has been published in papers which ought to know better than believe things hrst and look for proof after. and who now are feeling exceedingly sorry that they were taken in by foreigner who m his desire to get revenge for supposed injustice did not even hesitate to commit an act of high treason against his natiVe country, Denmark, by causing ma Iicious and lying statement to be issued by an important English parsonage. call cuIated to render his native country sus- picious in the eyes of England.
 Not satisfied herewith the same mala- dorous Danish subject. desiring to give his false statement still further publicity, caused if to be cabled in entenso to Chicagc newspaper and It having thus becone known also in America makes if my evident duty to enlighten my American readers, setting forth the act ual facts which have since been set forth by the Danish government
 The Danish government is about to grant a concession in St Thomas to five Danish gentlemen. the heads or the most hourishing commercial undertakings in Denmark parliament regarding the desired concession expressly states that the majority of the members of the syndicate of any further board of di- rectors must be Danish. subjects. The concession lapses in case of sub-lease.
 The Danish government does not sur render all state rights over the harbor of St Thomas. but as a matter of fact it is only the colonial council of St Thomas which is asked to cede part of the existing harbor for the purpose of extension, which the sole right of col lecting port dues in this part of the harbor.
 may at some future date. when necessary sanction has been obtain ed, turn two West Indian islands of St. Thomas and St. John into free port territory.
 Easing his remarks upon the skeleton found between the mid-glaziai sand and boulder clay in the neighborhood of Ip- wish Professor Arthur Keith spoke at the royal college of surgeons the other night on the antiquity of the modern type of man.
 He said he had come to the conclusion that the man whose skeleton lay in crouched up position differed from all U