The Donaldsonville chief., 1918-04-13

During the last few months | have
heard the Germans arralgned as
blatant, boorish, barbaric, yet in
nearly every case the speakers suf-
fixed to their Inyectives such an ex-
preston as. .tBut when it comes to
brains you have to hand it to them
thew have made science
Why hand it to them? What
epoch-making Invention or discovery
is of German origin stamp
on which is inscribed, "Made in Ger
many?" Their scientists have kicked
up a fair amount of spray as they
gamboled in their pool, but the world
has yet to hear a mighty Teutonic
splash. Time and again French,
English, American, Italian, and Span
ish inventors and diseoverers have
sent tidal waves around the globe.
Let US now be specific,
The steam engine has been called
the greatest of all inventions. 1t
broke the shackles from slaves; it
mingled the marts of the world; it
made neighbors Of the antipodes.
Newcomer, native of Devonshire,
obtained the patent for the first par
tally successful steam engine; Watt,
a Scotchman, perfected it; Cuynet,
Murdoch, and Trexithick brought for
ward the locomotive, not on German
soil; Stephenson, an Englishman, was
the first to apply the locomotive en-
CINE to railways Tor passenger traffic !;
France, England and America applied
it to navigation. When all had been
completed Germany pulled the whistle
cord, shouted 'sHoch der KaiserM and
tagged it made ID Germany"
The telegraph, which brings us the
daily history Of the world, was in
vented by an American, Prof. Morse,
who also suggestedsthe Atlantic cable,
which was subsequently laid by that
American merchant Cyrus
Field, assisted IN 1mooring the new'
world alongside of the old'' by Lord
Kelvin, the prince Of physicists,
British subject Graham Bell, the
chief inventor of the telephone, was
born in Scotland and grew to fame in
America. A youn Italian, Marconi,
gave wireless telegraphy to the world.
The house Of Hohenzollern has made
great use of these inventions in tell
ing Great Britain america and italy
in arrogant efbIase what the father
land has done fer The benighted peo-
pies OF the earth
Cyrus M ii .ssssst
Virgins, produesd the reaping ma
chine which haryests the food Of the
world; Meikle, Of England, brought
forth the threshing machine: thus
was famine banished. ElyWhitney, Of
Massachusetts, parentage, invented
The cotton gin; Hargraves, an English
man, made the spinning jenny; Ark
wright, also English, supplied its de-
ficiency with his famous spinning
frame; the Englishnan Kay intro
duced the fly shuttle in weaving;
Brunei, who devised the knitting ma
chine, and Cartwright, inventor OF
the power loom, were British subjects.
Thus was the world clothed.
Although Germany is milltarlstle
and worships at the shrine of Mars,
what votive offering has she made to
the god of war? It was not she who
contributed gunpowder. smokeless
powder, percussion cap, nItregiy-
cerine. gun-cotton. dynamite, tor
pedo, sharpnsl, automatic cannon,
magazine rifle, breech-loading gun,
Gatling gun, revolver, Maxim -silen-
Ger, hammerless gun, gunboat, IRON
clad batteries or ship armor plate, re-
volving turret, submarine or airptane.
Since Germany borrowed her miil-
tary appliances from other nations,
we are not surprised that she obtain
ed her devices Of prosperity from the
same source. She did not produce
the first aniline dye, vulcanized rub
ber, liquid gases, gas engine, water
gas. thermometer, barometer, piano
forte, barbed wire, cut nails, plate
glass. circular saw, cable car, electric
car, sleeping car, air brake, bicycle,
automobile, pneumatic tire, sewing
machine, typewriter, calculating ma
chine, cash register, steel writing
pens, etc ad infnitum.
The greatest thing that Germany
has done is to falsely advertise her
self as the light Of the world. No son
of hers invented the electric light, the
gas light. the acetylene light, the
Kerosene light, the searchlight, the
1ashlight, the safety lamp, the can,
die dip or the friction match. Amer.
lea, France, England and other "un'
tutored" nations performed these
tasks. The sun, moon and stars are
the only lights left for Germany
contention, and according to thu
Mosaic account, the Lord and not tht
kaiser made and placed them in thE
| armament.
Daguerre, a Frenchman, presented
us with photography. Our own Edl
son broght fourth the motion pictur
to delight and instruct the eye and tn
phonograph to please and teach tn
ear. TheGermans &SSoy our records
and lifting high their Ssseins drink
prolonged toast to the achievement
of the vaterland, Deutschland ube
Allies"
| Calico, who first saw the HEAVIER
with a telescope, was an Italian. Th
men who first saw the earth and i
teeming life with d microscope wel
not of German origin. Yet mar
telescopes and microscopes in our &C
tleges, being marked Made in &c
many have led students to belle
that these wonderful instrumen
were devised BY German brain. Fl
Germans are mechanics, not inve