The Washington times., 1922-03-25
Today
PIesiosaurus Hunting.
Pictures Teach History.
$2,A5 Too Much-Just
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? ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The Buenos Aires Geological
Society has actually sent an ex-
pedition to hunt for the gigan-
tic plesiosaurus. huge creature
supposed to have survived from
ancient times in Patagonia.
The big animal may be any
where from thirty to sixty feet
long, something like a snake
and something Like a bird. 1t
will be hunted with dynamite
and elephant guns.
1t is moderately safe to pre-
dict that it will not be found.
1t does not seem probable that
creatures that could have lived
on this earth millions of years
ago could breathe the changed
atmosphere Of today.
When the plesiosaurus was
alive no human being existed.
A thousand of our primitive an
cestors, if they had existed,
would have been helpless against
1t. Now a boy of twelve could
blow it's small head to pieces
with a charge of buckshot.
Professors Of Yale, through
the University Press, are pre-
pairing to teach history with
moving pictures. Tha. This
would happen was predicted by
this writer many years ago,
when the moving picture was
housed in vacant lots anu little
halls and people wondered show
long it would last"
It's a long jump from cunei-
form inscriptions or hieroglyph-
les to the moving picture that
could tell you all Of Egypt's his
tory worth knowing in an hour,
and tell it so that you would
remember it.
The moving picture, attacked
today as the printing press was
attacked when it was new. Is
destined to be the greatest Of
all teachers and civilizars.
1t is said by workers that
S2,445 per year Is the lowest
sum on which a man can live
decently. supporting wife and
three children under fourteen
years old.
Prof. Heilman, of Chicago,
says that the amount REQUIRED
cannot be supplied now because
the total income Of the United
States isn't enough to ray that
amount per year to everybody.
However, what is true this
year may not be true fifty
years hence. Not long ago .
President Of the United States
complained that you couldn't
hire a good workman for less
than 500 a year. Wages change
rapidly.
The wealth of The United
States is what it is because Of
the earning power Of the aver
age. As you increase the aver
age daily wage. you increase
wealth, increase the nations
supply of money. and the pos
sible amount that can be earned.
In China, John d. Rockefeller,
jr., saw men and women carry
ing brick and sand up the noun
tain side on their backs and learn.
ed of a law that forbids carrying
such freight by rail, for fear the
workers would lose their only way
of earning a living. If you sug-
gested q dollar day for wages
in China they would think you
crazy.
More than $2,445 may be the
average earning of a man with
wife and children to support some
day. How soon depends upon the
intelligence of those that control
industry and finance.
Those that control should bear
in mind that the more the little
man gets, the more the big man
can make. There was no fortune
Of a thousand millions in the
United States when men worked
for less than one hundred dollars
. year.
Various newspapers day after
day print more or less concisely
what the Congress of the United
States does as it's days work.
Read it every day, and you will
wait long before you find any
serious reference to the five mil
lion men out of work in the
United States.
1t is a curious thing that in a
Republic, widespread idleness
which drives a few to crime and
many to despair, representing a
national loss in labor NJ mora