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Reconstreton Of HE Giant lguandon A. He Must Have
Appeared WhsA Living.

In the snow ocsss OF evolution II was
to Re at least 5000 oeo years before the
apelike progenitbrs CT rn@n could develop.
This Is very long time. eConceivablg,
during those ages, this giant dinosaur
might net oaly have discovered the use Of
q club, hu, found that he could hurl stones
as well With his almost human arms and
hands there IS no reason why this should
pot have been SO. From this discovery he
could have PASSED, ss maa's ancestor ala,
TO the Invention or spears and bows and
arrows.
And juct as the monkey tail diminished
and was fHGl,y lcst, 30 NIGHT 1giaaadons
tail have skunk, G.:i he would have
walked With decreasing IL r,ghtness. What
a specta- lie w~rld have been q battle OF
s2ch creat"re-' Thcir spears would have
tee1 as Icing I'D heavy as well-grown sap
lingc; thor lgvs th!r'y feet hi-h with
Pyrows rn"Na-s tr;en,y feet end i,crs lcCS.
TAey wou,l. ma,ifest,v, have found the
necessity CT c~vc",~g their eel-l.Ge skis
v.ith protective materials. They would, OF
course, have Invented 81 elds. And as civil.
lizatign increated no doubt they would
have invented more deadly weapons. A
regiment Of these monsters could have
marched carrying guns the size Of the IA
nous French 75s
Man would probably never have evolved.
Man won over the rest of animate cr"a, '"'
by the development of his fingers ar3
brain. But by that time the world would
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last into more or less rigid, spike-iike weap-
ons 1T to DO nothing else.
OF course, in strict scientific truth, the
erocodiles did not have everything to do
with Iguanadon stiffeaing up the thumb
that might otherwise have given the earth
a race OF giants. He u-ei II also to dis out
succulent roots that he liked to eat man.
ipulating Il precisely as a gardener does
his trowel or dbl. This specialization in
the two directions CT grutting food and
Sitting crooediles untitled Il for broader
purposes
The point IS that IL iguanadon had philo-
scphicaly given up the roots for branches
end twirs his thumb would ave developed
~ the came wy that It d,d o. the bands
OF mans ancestors when they used It foi
swinging frcm branches AID travelling
through the tees. And IL f~r compare
lively few rantpIies, while doing this, he
had slso g. up soins after other food
where the c.Cccdiles l-rlted, there would
rave come a time TO doubt when he could
have grabbed clubs and slain the croco'
dies.
by that time he would have been well
on the read to Elacteri-y tie earth rs
long, however, az he inci-;ed u-cn grub
hing the roots and going where tie Geo
dies were, why, naturally. thCce Nho had
the stiTe-t, the strongest ar1 TIE most
spihe-liEe thumbs had all the best OF their
brethren with weak thumbs. Handing
down there chara cteristiCs to their de-
scendants there came time when the
1guanBdon's thumb ceased being thumb
at all. And when that moment arrived,
then he was doomed to be a lizard and
nothing else all the remaining span OF his
racial reptilian life.
1t is most interesting and II Is scientiR-
cally legitimate as we'll tp conjecture what
might have happened II he had let his
thumbs develop.
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probably have been az much under the
domination of these giants as It Is to day
under the domination OF man. They might
have made use CT our ancestors In much
the same way that we use dogs aai horses
to-day, consideriRV them merely as use
fui. intelligent animals.
And what kind OF cities would they have
built? What ficd ~ architecture? What
wuu!d have beer their ideals OF beauty,
and especially II feminine comellness?
How would their women have deCked their
bodies and what would have been their
arts and sciences? If they had progressed
as far modern dentistry thCse eig'ty big
teeth would have made a. 3b,em, indeed,
for the dinosaurian pockCthCuk. On the
other hand, they would Ia . saved all hair
dressing ard barber eTTer "s. II must be
remembered that man f. only fire max.
Tag animal because he h. ,nds that can
make frrs. Cut Of FIRE cn.Ns az 81" arts
and sciences the"e arc Ar. the nHdon
had hands ed arms ,hh. could been
developed i~sO mon car iurt as tic"., @ as
ours in far less Sine so II took to de-.
velop ours from the aur.like stocl from
which we s"rang.
But TIE lguaIadon died cJt and earth
escaped the threatened rice OF giants
The peNt appearance Of .. @ thumb came
IN r"ce' .timas--S. 900 300 years ago--with
Co.,. ... With The ,- t.eating lemur
Notnarc:us. the Fl known mammal au
Ccstur Il man.
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the outer toe. He could run with the speed
OF an express train--at least mile min
ute the scientists calculated. Re had
eighty teeth, clearly adapted 10 chewing
leaves and shoots Of plants.
Why, then, with all these Advantage
over the other creatures OF his time-for
there were not a. yet ANY OF the ferocsous
flesh eating dinosaurs-why was II that
lguaaodon d,d not proceed on the path Of
rgolution SO accommodatinsly opened to
him7 For blocking this path man must thank
tne prehistoric crocodile. There seems TO be
'tie doubt " II had not been for them this
lnosaur5 might coaceisably have de-
rsloped enough brain power throsvh those
hands Go have COPIED with the hercer d'no-
paurs When they came aiony. Given that
Increase 10 brain power, thee would nc,
have bten the slightest reason why this
creature should not have learned how to
Weld clubs. make bows and arrows and
s~ears and generally do with his hands
anything the earliest man could do with
his.
But there the crocodiles were. Further
more, they loved TIE Iguanodons m exact
ly the GAME wcy the Carpenter and Walrus
lGved the Little Oysters. They gashered
around the places where TIE dinosaurs
f"un1 their favorite food-the river banks
and marshes. Iguonodol's teeth eng u.s.
less as weapons CT o''o~ce or OF defense
against their scaled ba ia, his unarmored
body being equally dsfenselecs against
their teeth, Re was put to u~ing those
footand-a-half.long thumbs Ct his to repel
the attentions Of the c-ocodiles. The nail
Of the thumb was long and sharp. With
his powerful arms he could turn over the
crocodile and slit up It's softer stomach Just
as you rip u fish. Continued use OF the
thumbs in this capacity turned them at
m MO- rD,.rn,,,or., y..,rr. s.r,,o.. Inc
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IRON earliest times the MAD Of man
has .dsiightsa h thinking about and
4 talking shout ana making pictures
abJd7t giants . me Bible IN Genesis, chap.
ter Vi, verse Z. says ysssely: "There were
giants in the earth IA thoss days" And
ln,''o definitely. IN I. Samuel. chapter xvi,
Hcs>",s+3s-bi, teiis With great detail CT ia
':'- 'atbetween little David md the giant
:*c;>aw scltyoi child knows the etoty ijo, 4
+ - bfI-Jauk and the Bean stalk r.
=, . rhs Giant Killer" who climbed 10
i nnastg TX and killed the monster VI .
IL abe e, I'D OF Hep o My Thumt
w.. lie = e. en- League Boots of Ike
sc. ana Ilnderous ogre, aad the az.
vene- ,es of aniliver in the hand OF the
infnlc. e Neutrality-suspicious.. Classical his
tor,, &po.s concerns itAelf wifi. he great
Cycle + wi tire one eye In centre of
his ,hea3. with 1'itans vii fed Jove
and re buried under mounta AS as pun
ishmeg.t, Atlas, wno was 50 huge that he
was opposed to he able to carry the earth
on his slDnlders, and other mythical per-
sSnalcs Of mammoth size.
sScieuce has regarded these tales In fic-
ton; mythology ead the Scriptures with
considerable Interest but has never been
able 10 find any scientihc evidence that .
race Of giants really ever dwell upon tbs
arth. But science ht,s recently made the
cry interesting discovery that this very
lag did almost hAppen-that the earth
cry narrowly escaped q race Of giants.
Indeed, the evolution OF one of the prehis.
tdric- species OF enormous dinosaurs had
progressed to such point that a beast
OF enormous height ane bulk WAS beg n.
ming to travel over the face of the earth
on his hind legs, when q curious funAa-
mental defect in It's anatomy brought tho
threatening race OF giants to an end for
ever: 70 ~
II these creatures, who stood twenty feet
high and had arms, hands, fingers and
thumbs, had progressed 10 the same de-
gree that the monkey ultimately achieved.
It rs not impossible that mankind as Z
peoples The earth to-day would have becp
extsrmInated and the dwelers In the great
land, throughout the countryside of the
earth would have been vertable giants,
three times as tall as modern man ana
twenty times as bulky and powerful In
their muscles.
1t was LOGS feet underground, In a coal
mine at Bernissart, in Belgium. near the
French. frontier that scientists came sud-
denly flee ~ face with ei"hteen of these
giants. ."Workmen under the guidance of
experts were excavating n trial gallery
In an effort to locate missing coal seams.
After n tine the picks of the miners cut
into . orevhiSe that some eighteen million
yeara apo HAD been a gorge through which
n river ran Ats walls were sharply defined
by cotd se,sihs several hundred feet thick
SO interesting and u1ione was this long
buried place that galleries and pts in.
Vulnerable we're cut into It under the OBJ
servatlon and direction OF certain picked
scientists OF France, Belgium and England
AS Investigations went On Il clear picture
OF what the croyasse must have been IN
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those ancient times presented itself 70 ~
valley cut out Of rocks oil the csrboniferoas
age by . mighty stream In Just the snme
way that the Grand Canyon has been cut
out OF fits rock by the Colorado. IT'S sides
had been clothed With giant ferns a a for
ests Of gigantic trees now extinct. In the
river that then ran through II wera big
fresh water tosfoises. large primitive fishes
With ensmelled scales, aifd monstreas
crocodiies. The foliage and herbase along
its shores ana In Is marches Rad provided
the favorfte foods for gigantic herbfvorous
dinosaurs named Iguanodons. incomplete
remains of which had been previously
f. md.
Suddenly q wide deep pocket Of black
.'lg was struck. AID IN It. preserved as
t!roush by plaster, were dozen and haH
perfect skeletons CT these great dinosaursl
The history Of the ancient valley was
down, had eauglt the dinosaurs as they
wore feeding and had hurled, them int a
pit IN the river bed, where they had
strangied IN the black mud that filled II.
II was this mud which later had hardened
into the black clay. During the ages fol.
lowing the gorge had hf,ed up With debris
30 that all trace OF 4 was invisible f:-,m
the surface In the mAtrfx which lad en-
cased the giants were casts u their softer
outer parts and muscslatrre. which hAA
cf course. long since vsnished from the
fossiiised bones.
When the actual picture Of the Yeuano-
don as II had appeared when alive was
gained. very astonishing picture II ~asl
II walked UPRIGHT upon powerful legs nine
feet long Its foreleys were literally arms
and far more human IN their structure
than are the arms Of the gorilla OF today.
Not only that, but the monster boasted
true hands, even more human In design.
These hands had Ave digits. four fingers.
and true thumb. 1t wa n'fest that
The arms and hands were nj 't"ed Ger
Walking than humanity CT tc.u. use, Is
arms and hands for the same pulpose.
And this combination Of n creature
which walked upright and which bsd
evolved not o0ly the human arms but also
0 tbumbed hand set the scientists 70 mar
yelling n ~ss Herbert Spencer who said
that the history f mans progress from
his primitive ancestors was gagged by de.
veiopment q HE thumb. What Spencer
meant was that mans progress was made
possible by his hand mech snism and thai
without the thumb the hand would have
been useless. II you DO not believe this
try tying your thumbs t. your palms and
then seeing what you can do with the re.
naming four fingers.
The scientists found out other very re.
markable things This monster. which
Nature had given such a chance to
rule the earth instead OF man-at that
tine nothing but little tree~ehrew-was
hairless. His great body, all except the
powerful tail. was clothed In smooth eel.
like skin without particle OF armor His
feet were three.toed, with exactly the
same number OF joints us In the foot OF
the Bird three joints to the inner toe, fo'r
joints to the middle toe, and five joints to
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-07-23

From January |, 1915, to Janu-
airy |, 1920, the membership of
the B'nai Birth in the American
districts increased from u, 500 to
4O,o31. From January l to April
1, 1920, there was an increase of
1905 in the entire Order. In the
five and a half years past the en-
tire Order increased its member
ship from 4O,O83 to 62,377, an in
crease of 1924. In the same
period there were instituted "a
lodges in the United States, 3 in
Canada, 3 in Germany, 2 in Aus
tria and | in Rumania.
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British Jews Appeal to Govern
ment for Intervention Against
Pogrom.
London.-The English Relief
Committee for Jewish War Sui
ferers has been geographically in
formed by DR.. Julius Goldman,
European head of the Joint Dis
tribution Committee for Ameri-
can Jewish Relief, that pogrom
is Imminent in Lemberg and may
be expected to break out at any
hour. His telegram states that he
has appealed to the American and
French government representa-
tives to intervene. On receipt
of the telegram the leaders OF the
local relief committee among
whom are Lord Rothschild, Lord
Swaithling and Mr.. Claud G.
Montefore, Immediately turned
to the British government with a
request that all possible steps to
prevent the massacre should be
taken.
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oned by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Quit
erman, motored recently to Bemidji,
Mimi, to visit Miss Ernestine Slim
mer, who is spending the summer
there with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. N. Cardozo, For
est Heights, White Bear Lake, re-
ceived informally on Sunday, July 18,
in honor of the engagement of their
son, Hart, to Miss Margaret Conhaim
Of Detroit, Mich, formerly of this
city.
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SAINT PAUL.
With The Travellers.

WITH lHc lIdNCICAos
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Heller and
family are spending several weeks at
Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka, the
guests Of Mr.. Heller's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Heller.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Copilovich and son,
Norman, 357 Pleasant Avenue, and
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Copilovich, 553 Ash
land Avenue, have motored to Du-
luth, where they are the guests OF
their brothers and sisters, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Lieberman and Mr.. and Mrs.
S. B. Copilovich.
Miss Anna F. Levinson has return
ed to her home in Chicago after two
weeks visit as the guest of her IA
Their, I. Levinson, and her brother and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. M. Copilovich,
357 Pleasant Avenue.
Mrs. Chas. Shubert and children of
Kansas City, Mo-, spent the past
weekend with her sister and brother
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Sarbach,
Ashland Avenue, en- route to Coney
Island, N. Y, where they will spend
the remaining summer months.
Mr.. Robert Florsheim of Kansas
City, Mo-, spent the last few days
mere at Cn0 HOIH0 Ol Ills uIlClc, MI.
Ben Baer, Crocus Hill.
Miss Helen M. Strouse, % N. Chats
worth, has returned from New Or
leans, La, where she spent the past
two months as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Kaufman. nan.
Miss Carolyn Wolfe has returned
from a motor trip to Duluth, where
she was the guest of the Greek fam
lilies. She was accompanied by Miss
Gertrude Goldstein, Mr.. Herman Gold
stein and Mr.. George Rosenberg of
Minneapolis.
Miss Evelyn Frisch of Chisholm,
Mimi, who has been the guest for the
past month of Mr.. and Mrs. z. l..
Frisch, 528 Rice St., left Thursday
for her home.
Mr.. Leonard Strauss, 661 Grand
Avenue, left the forepart of the week
for New York City via the Great
Lakes route.
Miss Sylvia Dellafeld Of Chicago
will arrive the latter part of this
week to be guest of her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rothschild
of Bald Eagle Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Solomon, 1852
Iglehart Avenue, will leave shortly
for Chicago, ILL.,, where they will
make their future home.
Mrs. Chas. Contain and her daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret Contain of De-
troit, Mich, are guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph N. Cardozo of
White Bear Lake.
Miss Helen Goldsmith of New Or
leans, La, arrived on Friday last to
be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Charles
Straus, for the remainder of the sum-
mer.
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

a number Of other military lead
ers and the Hungarian Minister
of War Soos, unanimously adopt
ed the program.
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Hejas Prepares to Exterminate
Jewish Population of Hungary.

London.-Our Vienna CORE
spondent te1egraphs that the local
"Arbeiter Zeitung" carries an
account of a recent meeting held
in Budapest at which Captain
Hejas outlined his program of
military dictatorship. According
to the report of the "Arbeiter
Zeitung" his program included a
general massacre of the entire
Jewish people in Hungary. The
meeting which was attended by
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A party of young people, chaper-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-07-23
TO RUTH HUTCHINSON AND
DIETZEL HUTCHINSON

Mrs. Minnie Easterwood, administra-
trix of B. f. Easterwood, ct al,
VS.. Ava Easterwood, Ruth Hutch
erson, Dietzel Hutcherson and Ho-
mer EaGterwood.
In the County Court of Obion Coun-
ty, at Union City, Tennessee, be-
fore the Hon. j. B. Waddell, Coun-
ty Judge.
In this cause, it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that the
defendants, Ruth Hutcherson and
her husband, Dietzel Hutcherson,
are non-residents of the State of Ten
nessee, they and each of them are
therefore hereby required to appear
on or before the First Monday in
August, 1920, before the clerk of
said court at his office in the court
house at Union City, Tennessee, and
make defense to the bill filed against
them ct AL by Mrs. Minnie Easter
wood, administrative of B. F.. Easter
wood, ct al, or otherwise the bill
will be taken for confessed. 1t is
further ordered that this notice be
published for four consecutive weeks
in The Commercial, weekly news
paper published at Union City, 0bion
County, Tennessee. 15-4t
This June 20, 1920.
R. H. BOND, Clerk.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-07-23
NON PRESIDENT NOTICE.

James Lightner VS.. Bonnie Lightner.
Pet. Divorce-In Circuit Court
of Obion County, Tenn.-To Rem
ME Lightner.
A dill for divorce has been sworn
to and filed in this court which bill
AYERS that you are a nonresident of
the State of. Tennessee and resident
of Kentucky, SO that the ordinary
process of law can not be served up
on you. This is, therefore, to notify
you, the said Rennie Lightner, de-
PENDANT in above styled cause, to ap-
pear before the Circuit Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, on or be-
fore the first Monday in September.
1920, and make defense to said bill
filed against you or the same will be
taken as confessed and proceeded
with ex parte as to you. 18-4t
This July IA, 1920.
j. N. RUDOLF,
Circuit Court Clerk.
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TO C. C. COOPER.

R. w. Mahon, r. E. Mahon, admins
traitor, VS.. c. l.. Osborne ct al.-In
the. Chancery Court, Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the cross bill in
this case, which is sworn to, that C.
c. Cooper is justly indebted to the
Farmers Union Bank, the complain
ant, and that he resides out of the
State, and an attachment having
been issued and levied on the de-
PENDANTS property consisting of an
equity in 81 shares of the capital
stock of the Farmers Union Bank, at
Mt. Pelia, Tenn, Weakley County.
1t is therefore ordered that publi-
cation be made for four consecutive
weeks in The Commercial, requiring
the said defendant to appear before
the Clerk and Master of the Chan
Gerry Court of Obion County, Tennes-
see, on or before the first Monday of
August, next, that being a regular
rule day, and make his defense to
the cross bill filed against him in
this cause, otherwise said bill will
be taken for confessed, and the cause
proceeded with ex parte.
This June 20, 1920. 15-4t
GEO. A. GIBBS, G.. & M.
BY nellie F. Marshall, D. C.. C M.
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The Tax Law.

1t seems to us that the nearer the
election in August the more popular
becomes the new tax law. People
should give themselves more concern
about principles than candidates.
What does it matter who is Governor
of Tennessee if he desires to give the
State an honest administration?
The new tax law is aimed to equal
ize taxes between the counties and
to make personal property bear its
share of the tax burdens.
In the first place there can never
be an equalization between the coun-
ties if every county in the State is al
lowed to tinker independently with
the State tax. No other than
the State government should have a
right to do this. 1t belongs to the
State to fix the State tax, and what
other system is better than COM
mission. But when it comes to the
county tax the new tax law gives the
various counties. in the State full
power to fix the county rates and to
pass on the assessments The State
does not assume this prerogative and
it should hot do SO. The County
Courts have complete control of that
matter. OF course the tax commits
sion makes the assessment but the
equalization boards of the different
counties revise these assessments so
that each person will pay just pro-
portion of the county taxes. If then
the county boards equalize the coun-
ty taxes and fix county rates what
more can they ask for? Certainly
the counties could not ask to fix the
rate for the State tax. They have no
right to.
The new tax law may not include
all that it should. 1t may need per-
fecting in some particulars, but it
should not be repealed. Remember
that this law came from demand all
over the State in the last two Demo-
cratic gubernatorial campaigns, and
Governor Rye, answering that de-
mand, undertook to have it passed
He failed. Governor Roberts then
tried to have it passed and succeeded
1t is now a law and all sorts of efforts
are being made to discredit the law
and the administration. A pretty
mess that is to go before the voters
with to elect Democratic Governor
and Democratic President.
One thing the people should un-
derstand before they vote. 1t is this.
The man who 10 elected Governor of
Tennessee, whether he is Roberts,
Crabtree, Littleton or Evans, will not
have the nerve to ask for the repeal
of the new tax law. If he has the
courage of honest convictions he will
not ask for it's repeal. On the other
hand he will be afraid to ask for its
repeal, for his future political career
depends upon that action.
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How to Destroy Ants.

Dissolve one pound of sugar by
boiling in about a cupful of water in
double boiler. Then dissolve one
twentieth of an ounce of sodium ar
senate in a very little water and add
this poison liquid to the syrup.
Pour little bit of the poison syrup
on a bit>of sponge, rag, paper or 9th
er material, and drop this in dis
Carded cans, and distribute the cans
in different parts of the Kitchen and
pantry.