The Washington times., 1919-10-19

could control and harness them.
The gigantic elephant Of oden times is pulling
train Of freight cars dinOsaur treadmn is running
the machinery Of factory huge water animal is pulling
canal boats while another poWs, and still another winged
creature is used New York Chicago and San Francisco
express
Little boys and others that think hastily and roman
Cay would probably say themselves What pity that
time human beings and Natures plans killed on these great
animals What splendid thing it would have been for Us
modern creatures if these animals big as houses could
have been kept to supply power for factories and to end
the high cost Of living with their huge mountains Of flesh
Leaving aside the fact that in modern climate and
o soil conditions these giant animals could not breathe and
could not find the food they required you may easily
that Providence wise in ending the day Of great Cea
res seventy feet long and as tall as houses and gubtu
ing little human beings smaller bodies and stronger brains
One Of the ancient dinosaurs could easily pull ten poWs
undoubtedly But 70 keep him would cost ten times much
keep moderate sized tractor that would do the same
work and eat only few gallons Of gasoline kerosene
The ancient mammoths could pull freight cars but all
TIE maumoths that ever lived could not the freight
Of che United statss hoW pulled BY steam made Of coal
that vas stored sway Ia the earth before the mammOths
appeared On this planet
You know tie idea that people Of the Middle Ages had
ah0ut s great extinct animals In different parts Of Europe
their bones were uncovered, sometimes well preserved
ThouFful men studied them and this the conclusion
they came to- When the Lord making thesanmals for
the Garden Of Edsn BE manufactured different models out
81 clay, tried all kinds a8 It Were like q man making
sketches paper Finally He decided which would
DO h the Garden Of Eden breathed the breath Of life into
gradual disappear IN the ground They took It for granted
that those gigantic creatures whose bones they ia the
earth had never lived at all only TO speak shop
dTaWngE made By OmnipOtence to see how they would
look
The artist Leonardo da Vnci who painted the famous
Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris before the war
the first man to guess the real character Of the
remnants Of dinosaurs and other great creatures BE
student fighter muEiCan, and scientist well as
artist BE told his doubling contemporaries that the
great bones they dug up were the remnants Of animals that
Ena rFaTT-T TfvaEo -
IN q way Nature really seems to have made expert
meuts looked at superhCiaIy. At first there tiny
little creatures in the water, then creatures little bigger
finally gigantic monsters the water and on land These
created only to be killed off, The whale in the ocean
the big elephant the rhnOCros and the hppopotamus
the rapidly disappearing remains Of gigantic ife
Throughout all Of creation from animals too small to be
seen with the naked eye to the creatures fanCfuy shown in
this picture and up to human beings progress has always
depended upon power.
There is great power in the claw Of the lobster crawling
around the rocks under the water and in the wings Of the
eagle, with hollow quiIs flying up to meet the sun
At first the power began in q very small way Life
this earth undoubtedly in the beginning Of time
many hundreds Of millions years ago. came through the
cold ether from other planet Il now OCCa
sOnay undoubtedly with the meteOtes pieces Of rock
that strike the earth here and there which you see coming
through the air. made red hot by friction when
These germs Of life from the outside world landing in
the water changed under evolution into all the queer forms
we know.
through the change that in animals manufactured
by Nature and in machinery manufactured by man-has
always stTiven for greater power in lesser space
The power Of an animal is Of two kinds, mental and
physical Physical power matter how great is bound
60 under the mind is there to help IT, The best
proof Is that the weakest Of the animals man. without big
teeth OF powerful, sharp claws COMPELLED TO THINK
BECAUSE BE WAS so WEAK, has come to rule the
earth
Men used to carry rocks and other heavy burdens on
their hacks Even late the day Of highest civilization
Paris less than three hundred years ago gardeners had
wooden boxes with four sticks two at each end They filed
them with stones OF earth and carried them Then genius
invented the WhssbaOW, the handles lever with wheels
at one end One could carry with three times