Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

same source. She did not produce the llfrst tanifine. dye. vulcanized rubber, theraomter barometer. pianoforte, barbed wire, cut nails, plate glass, circu ar saw, cable car. electric car, sieeriEy car, airbrake. bicycle, auto
 mc6iie typewriter calc llating ma ma pen ct cetera ad in nf1nitum-
 , The greatest thing that Germany
 has done, is to advertise herself false
 ly as the light of the world. No son
 of hers invented the electric light, the
 gas Night. the -ace4ylene Eght, the
 kerosene light, the searchligf1t. the
 hasn1isfft, the safety lamp, the candle
 dip Or the friction match. America.
 France. England and other "untutor-
 The gun. moon and stars are the only
 lights left for Germany's contention and according to the Mosaic account,
 the Lord and not the Kaiser made '. .Daguerre, a Frenchr1an, presented us with. photography. Our own Ed ison brought forth the motion pie
 turE to delight and instruct the eye Tho Germans enjoy our reels and records, and lifting high their steins, drink a prolonged toast to the achievements" of the vaterland, Deutschland uber AIles."
 Calico. who first saw the heavens
 
 men who first say the earth and it's tseming life with a microscope were not of German birth. Yet many tele- scopes and microscopes in our col leges. being marked Made in Ger many have led students to believe that these :. wonderful instruments were devised by German brain. The Germans are mechanics, not invent ors. , -
 By use of the. compound microscope Pasteur the French biologist as ear.F as 1857 demonstrated connection
 between microscopic organisms and disease. This was nine years before Dr. Rock, the German bacteriologist, had graduated. In. this connection the important antiseptics surgery of pr. Lister of England should be recorded. Edward Jenner. the discoverer of vac cinatlon. and Harvey. the discoverer Englishmen. An American taught the world the use of anaesthetics. Our dentists excel all others. They are employed Fby many crowned heads. even the Kaiser has his.
 = The Teutons have not shown the skill of the French, who cut the Suez Canal, or of the .Ameri- cans who joined the Atlantic and the Pacific at Panama. The decimal or metric system by which the Germans from France The. method by which they make their steel. is that of Sir Henry Bessemer of England. Many of the fruits and vegetables of which they cat an enormous quantity were brought forth by our own peerless Burbank. NO. wonder that the Ger mars can goose step so high, for uhat~else have, they practiced'
 Harvester father of modern chem stry. was French: Linnaeus. founder of botany. was of Swedish origin. To Hutton Of England. we are indebted for -geo:oE3-; to Maury, of Virginia for the .physiograpfy of the sea: to De- -artes. of French parentage. for ana lYtical geometry: to Corte, of France, Tor sociology: to Germany for sauer- sraut and pretzels. Germany has not her quota toward the worlds achievement. How she struts n her foreign plumage. She is neith- er inventive resoVrceful nor original.
 She has made no important geo. graphical discoveries. Her neighbors nave made many. What role did she alay- in discovering various portions | 't- the new world: Did Sine establish | lny colonies. .--I thank God she did l not: Her sens did not compose the rev of Magellan's fleet. the first to | ,ircuracavigate the globe. A German lid not discover the north pole ncr | cad the way toward the south ;'ole | t is high time to cease talking of