Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-15
7. R. LAWLESS
/. AS NAPOLEON,
/. SAYS ROBERTS
President Of Las Vegas Nor
NAL Lecturing at Summer
School Tells Of Greatness
of Little Corporal
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Santa Fe, Aug 14-No man in
American history mas Deen so much
like Napoleon as mas oeeh Roosevelt,
declared III frahk n H. honeits IN
his lecture on me great Corslean, IN
the summer schooi inns forenoon.
Roosevelt Is iuily as iawless ana when
there is thing TO De done he believes
in doing H. III hoperts drew, per-
haps, diiferent picture or the Con-
queror, whom ne calleu beyond
doubt the greatest OF the WORLDS his
toric persohases. thah that which is
the generally accepted type. IL was an
almost aitosethei auh'lrapie' yea even
lovaDle tlgure, tnat was portrayed.
His great lnis'ukes OF weaknesses
were declared 10 nave been ms divorc-
Ing Josephine or rather the marriage
10 an Austrian princess ana ms fall-
IRE to keep ms promises oi MS mil
itary campalsns' ohly tnat IN ltaly
which estapilshed ms iame ana that
in EgyPi, WHlch ioiioWed, were de-
scrlbed HOW ne seileu the lirst con-
sulate ana maintained hlmself in pow
er was ViVidly described as were also
his great achievement or the codliiea-
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would nave given MN immortality.
Greeks of the New World.
The Mayas were the subject of two
fine lectures and this forenoon DR.. Ed
gar ,qewett. i'm the concluding leo
tnre of his course. described the won
derful cities of Copan and Ouirigua
in the Motagua watershed in Central
America. Copan is a veritable city of
desolation, a site covered with broken
monuments and latars, some Of them
of the most eXquisitely sculptured and
plainly indicating a sequence of
periods or eras The striking resem-
blance of some Of the sculptured fig
ures to Mongolian types of this day.
and again the startling likeness of
some Of the costumes and trappings of
the colossal figures on the monu-
ments to those worn by the Pueblos in
the Santo DOming Corn dance were
brought out in word and picture. The
result of the four years work of the
School of American Archaeology at
Quirigua could only be indicated
vivid description Of country and peo-
pie. of the jungle and photography
of the southern Maya district proved
very interesting and was preceded by
tit tHioNiHS OH tut otitfl VI Il Hal
which showed the points at which the
School of American Archaeology has
been carrying on original research
work, ranging from Oregon, Missouri,
u'ah' colorado Arizona California,
New Mexico ana other common
"eaitns IN tne united states TO Mex
60 uualemala' honduras ana fuea-
Ton IN the tropics.
Prof SylVanus q. Morley, followed |
with lecture on the Mala glyphs, |
giving a glimpse of the latest results
OF his latest discoveries in the deei- !
pheflng OF the strange gyphs that the /
Mayas left craven on huge monoliths
as well as on temples and palaces. He |
mas worked out the system of chro- !
nology. the numerals, the slyphs for
sun, moon and Venus and other
heavenly bodies and seems on the |
threshoid OF solving the riddle OF
Two thousand years that will fully dis |
: close the meaning of the Inscriptions. t
Inc audience followed him almost
win DATED breath. The lecture like
mat preceding was illustrated with
stefeopteon slides and chalk draw
ilgs. The four superb mural paint
lngs Of Artist Carlos Vierra for the
california building at San Diego We're
also shown to illustrate the lecture.
me pictures showing the prehistoric
Maya cities OF Quirigua, Copan, Chich-
en- liza and Uxmal
Aesthetic Value of Forests.
Hermann Krauch of the forest SER
vice presented the subject of forest
geology and the aesthetic value Of for
ests in suecinct and scholarly man
ner, giving an insight into scientific
forestry methods as well as emphasize
ing the aesthetical side of forestry. +
He received generous applause
The British Cabinet
1t was an alhurinp ana interesting
picture that prof Laurence NJ lar
son drew Of the British cabinet so h
much so. that most of his heorers
We're ready to vote in favor of the in /,
PRODUCTION OF The system in the United
States. The lecturer nointed out thaf I,
under the American system availahil-
ity rather than ability governed the 8
choice of candidates far fhe nresiden- {
cy although ona eraat nortv nor {
haps the greatest marty IL American ,
history, demonstrated its greatness nv L
choosing three times in Succession for 4
its standard bearer . Nebraal,an al ID
though il well knew that Nehra slsa {
could not have an available candidate 9
because of its geoera nhical nosition n
and political complexion II is purelv ~
by accident therefore that the limited n
States bas has ~, - So 4
President as Woshineton jefferson s
Jackson Lincoln and Roosevelt the Is
last named havinp had ereater influ-
enca No., = =, @