Evening star., 1922-03-23
That Proposed Plesiosaurus Hunt

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.lf you haven't plesiosaurus In
your home you cannot be happy
Any American unbeIiever In this
doctrine has not read the latest edi-
torial pages.
The suggestion. fathered by that
really eminent scientist, Prof. Gle
menti Onelli, director Of the zoolog-
ical gardens in Buenos Aires. that the
Mesozoic monster reported at large in
Patagonia can and will be captured
has resulted in a great volume OF
comment, some serious, some we are
fain to confess rather humorous, but
all typically American.
1t all seems designed to shift the
minds Of readers Of editorials from
the various topics that make for ses-
sions with "Sir Gloom" :,
"The idea of such an expedition,
says the Waterbury (Conn.) Repuo.
lican. gives the adyen5urous adv, asnnsa tbs
pleasant thrill In.atoS by ahe should Snsses sueceed
in finding plesiosaurus the excite
ment might reach a high pitch II the
animal resented intrusion and at
tempted to vary Its plaoine diet with
frioassee OF homo sapiens. :,
suggests the Evansville Journal. "he
must be fierce. We all demand It"
But there is the editor of the Co
lumbus Dispatch. He declines to be
convinced "At the risk Of being
accused of a lack Of continuity OF
thought" he pens: we shall close se
the VoIstead law does not apply to
the Patagonian lake region"
What kind Of diet will extend the
life Of q plesiosaurus another 1900
years% demands the New York Her
aid. There's an idea for the bucket
shop men. Plesiosaurus preferred se'
"The tougher they are the harder
it is to make them stay dead" in.
sists the Rockford (Tl.) Republic, be-
coming nasty as he couples our pro.
posed parlor pet with that ancient
relative, the late John Barleycorn:
fTex.) News would suggest a mis-.
sion for the-to be extracted-deniseu
of Patagonia. ut is too bad" he
suggests, that the plesiosaurus has
very poorly developed brain. We
would like to ask him. for instance,
what he thinks of the happer, the
"This gigantic aquatic lizard" care
fully explains the Asheville Times
departed this terrestrial globe some
ton million years ago. Could 1t be
possible that such visitor really
was living in the piping times OF
normalcy?"
with an incredulous public" sug-
Eests the Manchester IN. H) Union,
"a after q time temper the ardor to
spread the news. But when a report
like that from Patagonia Is backed
by scientific or semi scientific author
| = "A
discouraged observer of other won
ders takes heart and rises to testify
that in his day. too. he beheld some
thing passing strange"
Tho Baltimore American wakes
sarcastic over the eyesight Of the
scientists. ITO mistake a megathe-
"To confound q plesiosaurus for a
Rlytodon! To fail to distinguish be-
tween q middle-aged monster Of 1O,-
0oO, 900 years and q babe of 100000
It must be evident to all that South
America badly needs the attention of
the Anti-Saloon League"
WHO are we to further seek this
creatures merits to disclose" de-
mands the Milwaukee Journal.
"From every decent human throat
should rise a protest against the
crowning act Of mans insensate in
stinct to destroy anything that is big
ger tn2n ne, oT WHiCn Ao ooeS not un-
derstand."
''There amt no sich animile, say
we ALL" suggests the Mobile Register,
land il the biologists catch him any
way we shall call upon the author
Of that other classic sentence which
deposes that the man who caught
that fish is q liar.
"Man is most curious about things
that do not exist or that he doub1a
the existence Of" breaks in the
Rochester Times Union. "The things
that excite us most usually are imag.
mary. The appeal Of Imagination is
SO strong that people strain their
imaeinary into the real. Be thank
fui for that. It is what makes
sfhe animal has not been captured
Anreies Express, "and in the interest
Of the integrity Of science it is to
be hoped that he will not be-"