Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-04
GERMAN. HAS NO RIGHT
no TITLE "suPERNAN"
Worlds Greatest Inventions Have
Come From Brains of
az Others.
.KUETUR" is OvERApvERTIsED
Only in Recent Icars in Which Tcu-
ton Scientists Have Achieved Sue
= cess in Chemical Research Has
Germany ENcclIcd in Any Line.

ny Enton. Fcnrn.
LONDON. October 3.--if YOU want
lie TO, stick the surcs; method is TO
.'ding tdong' 1t in season ana out of
season. The virtues OF reiterauon are
equally as potent as those OF impor-
tunity Be the statement what il may.
and however improbable il may appear
at fret sight, by eeaseiess repetition
it will make its due impression on the
brain cell. and people viii at las, be-
lievc what ut first they had only taken
Let ius take common example.
solemnl,y her n"Ni door neishbor that
BRAIN prodisy II fact ';os and mat VIII When
he attains the years OF manhood he is
BOUND to make sGlash in the world
some One else. and she, in her turn To
nr, fourth pariE !, Is on Inc sane
The resulting circle is truly mar
gest dclt that ever walked on TWO legs
but the result is the Same. Tie grows
i Ing T his Wooden aa sm'G Mead N'o '"''Fe'
The same sort thing has happened
with regard to Germany's so-called
Big peSpie for the Last quarter Of
system OF education was the one model
ed on German ideas. Little" people
tellectual superiors had told them, and
so the thing went on ad nauscam.
Gertn an, ere Te, srgh c,Gver neope
would not be lvable'
hun has ACQUIRED
TITLE OF "SUPERMAN."
And SO little by little the Hun has
acquired the title OF 'supcrman," and
you can bet your last dollar, that what
the H t iaGqqirfhs he endeayors 10
Now these statements have been re-
peated with such frequency by 50 many
life, through such varied media, and in
30 many different countries. that at
new as we'll as old. has come to accept
them mt face value.
Facts, however, Stay many rious he
,sn lnT We tEa proves that as mat.
lacking in creative ability, although
their commercial instincts are cunning
and swift to seize on the brains OF
and Inventions Of other people to
lucrative channels Of industry to their
It vas s'u the aie Sir William Ramsay
who said that the greatest achieve
ments,: Of scientific though, are not
French Academy OF Science declares
that Latin and British civilization has
nathematics, physics, natural science
Let Us examine few OF the worlds
greatest discoveries.
1t was the English Newton who dis
+ the calculation OF The blood: Drawn.
by his Origin OF Species threw u
ton: IL was Sir joseph Lister who in
s sr9GGfsd i thy "mt!sfn'it system Of
wholesworid in the way OF chemical
research the fact must not be lost sight
lt, an. iEl, H., IL,
who originally discovered auilincs
IhGtGtomic theory, was drst pro-
strides We're made in higher chemistry
by DR.. Ramsay and others.
GREAT INVENTIONS MADE
ny OTHER THAN GERMANS.
Take. as another example the WORLDS
great :. mechanical inventions which
have Accomplished such marvcls IN
the irSnd Of GiyI!iizotion The world
to Stephenson. the dynamo 10 Faraday.
and the turbine to Parsons, none of
whom In any sense We're German
The pneumatic tire is AN Engiish i'm
ventioh and the airplane came from
america and not from, Germany, OH
engines were introduced in England bv
Holt abou, the Same time that the
principle was applied in Germany by
Even, il war. save in methods that
s fa ass woMid oimSnt, ihSy have Aad
lery was the invcl+Jiof' 81 Robbins; The
science OF explosives the creation of
3 e:ri,ish ana French ,Drains: and the
AmGr!ca has done FAR more than
Germany ever did in the progrcss Of
the worlds civilization Take Edison
as as a an..,eSamp,G;, What has Germany
Nentf9ns Of this veritahle "supermam' .
of whom all the world is proud 4
host OF other American names might
ne cited II space permitted
The mare OF Schiller. Goethe. and
Mozart are homored names al TN"
world over. but there was no faint OF
prussian!sm ia their line souls
IT is not necessary 10 refer 10 VIII
nam SnakeSp"ar, Who stands as a god
towering over the whole world of
literature.
SOME LINES N Wii:CU
- GERMANY HAS ENCILII.D.
The writer however believes I'm Civ
Ing even the deyii his due and the
way Germany has devoted herself to
chemical research with The ultcrlnr
view OF applyip" IL 10 Industrial cham
nelS ~ hndouhicd!E beyond all praise.
take dyes - an example.
Al one time England had tho dye
trade practiCaliy iu ltr nWn hauGs.
but unfortunately she lost H. vim tho
result that IN the Yea p before the ,,.,r
nine-,enths OF the dyes used I'm Grc.t
Britain were obtained from Germany.
rare elements discovered In Scieutiu,.
labaratorics have given rise 10 pro6t .
able pidustrial Processes and ap-
pliancts
was entirely dependent upon Germany
for the supply Of THIS. Chemical wilton
Us so Essential for tho prodUc'iou Of
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