The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-18
EDITORIAL NOTES

York harbor from Governors Island to Battery Park seventy-one years ago today. A few communications were received through it, when the wire was caught by an anchor and rendered use- less. The cable was the invention of Prof Morse, and consisted of a copper wire insulated with tar, pitch, and rubber. The first comm ercially suc- cessful submarine telegraph was that between Dover and Calais. Prof Charles wheatstone suggested such a line between Dover and Calais in 184O, but ten years passed before the first messages passed between France and England The first wire laid soon parted, but in 1851 another was laid and a permanent service instituted. In 1853 the project of the Atlantic ca ble was conceived, and an American company formed to put the plan into effect. The first messages passed over the cable, which extended from Valen- cias Ireland, to Newfoundland. in 1853 Owing to faulty insulation, the cable soon failed, and it was not until 1866 that America and Europe were perma- nentIy connected by telegraph
 Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, the world-famous chemist and pure food advocate, will celebrate his sixty-ninth birthday today Dr. Wiley is a. native 7oosier. having been born in Kent. Ind, Oct IS, 1844. All his mature life he has been an evangelist in the cause or public health, and at the beginning of his seventieth year he is just as militant as ever, and a little bit more. Pure food Is his religion, and he was, 90 busy preaching his creed that it was not until he was well along in the six ties that he found time to assume the duties of husband and father. How eyer, pr. Wiley believes that people over sixty are the real benefactors and the actual thinkers and doers Of hu- manity.
 Dr. wiley began his career as pro- lessor of Latin and Greek at Butler College. indianapolis but within a few years turned his attention to chemis- try, and in 1874 became State chemist of Indiana. In 1883 he became chief of the bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agricul- lure, a position he held over a quarter
 f a century. Since his resignation he has devoted himself to pure food prop aganda through magazine and news paper contributions and public ad- dresses
 pr. Wiley hrst met his wife at 6. srlf- fragist rally. and she not only con vineed him of the justice of her cause, but also fulfilled his ideal of woman hood. of which he had written: My ideal woman has sound body. She has bone. not brittle sticks of phos- phate. She has muscles not habby,a
 
 She has blood, not a thin 1eucocytic ichor. have no sympathy with that pseudo-civiHzatiOn Whice apparently has for it's object the destruction of the race by the production of a race of b1oodless women p
 At a recent convention in Chicago pr. Wiley expressed his views on the high cost Of living problem. There never was a. time when man was so well fed as at present" he declared We do not have to look to see the causes Of the increased cost of food. First, people are eating better foods than ever before, and. scond, the pur- chasing medium, namely, gold is rel- atfve1y far more abundant than ever before, hence the quantity of food it will purchase is decidedly 1ess.''
 Frederic Harrison, the distinguished English critic. author and Positivist, will pass his efghty-second milestone today, as he was born on Oct. .13, 1881, In London. He graduated from OK ford sixty years ago, and in 1858 was called to the bar. His first book, t'The in 1882. He was an early convert to the Positivist philosophy of Comte, and wrote many books on that sub 5ect Other works from his pen in- clude "Cromwell.'' '' victorian Litera- ture,'' William the Silent 9 American Addresses The Creed of a Layman, s'NationaI and Social Problems,'' and many other profound and i11uninattve contributors to history and current thought Tn tn role of prophet, Mir. Harrison foresees an impending strug- gle on the part of Germany for the possession of Holland or Belgium, or both This declares the author, "is what the effective leaders of German policy are maturing today, and within i've, seven, ten years may be able to force upon their Emperor and their nation, in spite of all obstacles, of the awful sacrifice involved, and the solid aversion to war of the admirable Ger man people,
 South Americas greatest newspaper, La Prensa of Buenoa Ayres, will oelA- rate it's forty-fourth birthday today, and will receive the congratulations If all the journals of the continent. Tn Buenos Ayres, La Prensa's birthday Is a sebmi-holiday, for to the million | and a half people of the beautiful Ar genfine capital La Prensa is more than a newspaper. It is a municipal and national institution. guide. counsellor and friend, haven of refuge for those 1 who are sick or in trouble, and a 1 university for those who seek knowl- edge La Prensa is Buenos Ayres,'' is l Saying that meets with popular ac- ceptance-@ It. is uniq1Ie among the, l wcrId's Newspapers and the Argentine l isl not so very far wrong when he aseerts that La Prensa is the worlds | best journal.
 La Prensa was founded on October 1 IS. 1868, by the late pr. Jose c. Paz, stafesman, diplomat and warrior, and | is now conducted by his son. For | many gears the newspaper has eele- 1