Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-10

TWELVE YEARS ago this monthApl 9, l909}ear Admiral
Peay dsco1eed the North Pole You eca his great
with Dr. Frederick A. Cook who claimed that he had reached the
North Pole April H. 1908 ahead of Peary Those
citing days--and the dispute still fingers.
Pearyis dead-exploring the Hereafter
Cook lives at Fl Worth Texas He seldom breaks into the
Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole Dec 8. 1911.
Now the only thing that is left in the way of difficult eiora
the Of Mt Everest the tlmaaya the frontier Of
Tibet ligh known mountain peak earth towers upward
about five and half miles British expedition preparing to climb
(which Will take Yeas
Many ong in the Penientares which call cities probably
wish they could join The MI. Everest expedition
vol OF THIS GENERATION have lived through the final chapter
Of mans conque of the earth
How that in scienists dis
% Cnese claim their Buddhist monks visited America far
back the 432 Thrtytwo later Hoeischn Chinese
explorer penetrated point that have been San Bias Mex
in the British
Irish monks made the first expeditions nohard In US they
established settlements in Iceland.
Nogegians claim that their Bjan sailed along the coasts Of
Lief the Lucky, Eric the Red 1howad Madoc of Wales and
Nova Scotia in 995-hrst Europeans America.
finally Coumbuseoch eary the explorer of his day
MAN HAS VIRTUALLY completed his conquest the earth
'A But mans explorations have little than started
Amplanes explore the upper air Who knows but what
Some future Peary explore the the universe
travelling ahp rocket such Prof Goddard proposes
firing at the
Every gopes into the unknown.
Marcon in discovering wireless, explorer.
Sir Oliver Lodge and other scientists trying explore be
And this month z years after eay electrified the world by
reaching the North Pole America visited BY Albert Ensten
plorer in the fourth dimension n.ho mysteries of time
WERE YOU invited swell. dinner and then got
" umped which fork eating with? Did pick up
YOUR water glass and sip and sip until someone took the lead in pick
ing up oIk2 Or did You show in clothes
and be mortified because all the others satnape undcrae
If So salvation at hand flood of books etiquette
appearing midst that none of to be spared 70,
the food includes Encyclopedia Good Form for Little Ones
be polite prove that everything travels
circle They resurrection of craze that swept the country
Joe Mlers joke book had nothing the etiquette guides Of
bygqne In them you could find everything from how to set the
preparatory school requesting funds from his father My Es
teamed Parent the letter ct ceea ct ceera ct cetero
Never ae teeth the table without holding napkin
the mouth, of the printed rules.
1t further appeara, perusng the old volumes the attic
that bad form for gentleman pick his teeth with quill
when dng a hack 1t the height OF mpoieaeaa young
folks the t4enes lead the conversation when old folks
pnt To be in good form ones calling cards must be penned
with great tourists that looked ike Hay picture of the bones
But let's hope the etiquette book won't whip back to
the gifted days of hoop -smta when
manded that the polite person act like trained monkey
THE MAN of the future will be II feet tall Levi Gardner
Detroit who ahercd the electric gun and balbearing
typewriter. lie has a peculiar theory.
We apend much of sittng down and riding
and that the growth of legs being stunted Mean
,e the human 'Pne rs growing longer says Gardner lie believes
that unless the time will when his body
will te 20 huge tina this pnny legs will be unable TO sustain him
be crowded off the earth That however will be millions years
This theory has considerable scientific backing Mammoths
dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts big that they bmnere
into swonps and couldn't get out Now and then dig their
fossils. ks-ea
Nature e1peimened with long chain animals each of
which dnuled the earth Then He has about finish
ed the ob by hunting and destroying wild life DEMONSTRATING
IN tho case Of the COW, horse and pig
VII! man in urn, disappear from the earth?
Scientists unlikely eventually man may be hard
PRESCOTT for existence by disease germs Or the world rolling On
though space field of poison gas will kill off all
IONS OF lille Thomas A. Edison has advanced theory that what
call Spanish influenza may be earth passing through
sacA field Of gaseous poison
Mystery of Ee bridge whist expert seems about as hard tc
fathom the game he about
Railroad problem absorbs cabinet" saws headline Il ha
Realy absorbed the treasury,