Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-09-19
LIVE TOPICS
OF COUNTRY
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his first recognition and came near
heing a candidate for president be-
esuse Of his work in saving the starv-
ing children of Belgium.
Now that the children are saved 1t
: bigh time to turn our attention TO
protecting the streams, the forests,
me fowls, beasts and fish.
Lumbermen from the northwest tell
~ that the forests are diminishing
rapidly and that within a few years
America, which was once a single
great forest preserve, will have 10
import all its timber.
What effect the diminishing of for
ests has on the weather is a problem
mat scientists are trying to solve.
They already declare that many of the
Undesirable weather changes may be
attributed to the diminishing of our
forest resources. Cyclones, tornadoes
and other undesirable calamities of
nature they say are directly due to
the fact that the timber lands are
being obliterated. Perhaps they are
right. At least they have the right
TO speculate, and their word on such
a subject should be taken as warn
ing to the nation.
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Of forests have never been touched
BY an axe. Why do not the lumber
men of the larger nations turn %
Africa for its vast resources of rose
wood, ebony and mahogany, and allow
GU forests to remain intact for a
time?
With his effort to save salmon fish
ing in Alaska Berbert Hoover can.
DO no greater work for the American
nation than to give his life to the
preservation of the natural reosurces
of the country. He seems to be gifted
at this sort of thing.
People have always been musically
inclined. They have advanced from
the wold, weird, primitive music OF
the cave man and American Indian
to the modern jazz, which is the eli
max of a ungle of all discords. 1t
seems to be from primitive to priml-
tive through all the steps of civih-
zation. The music of the masters
gives place to the music of the
harem
Those who are becoming tired of
jazz may now have another opportun.
ity to copy from the primitive and
vulgar through a discovery of an
ancient kind of music In the ruins OF
Babylon.
Music written about the year 500
BIC. is said to have been found. 1t
was played on 22 string harp, and
the notes are said to be similar to
the Chinese music of today.
The notes are recorded on an earth
enware tablet which in size is equal
to five common bricks.
When the pulp forests of America
are gone and no paper is to be found
METROPOLITAN newspapers will have to
discuss party issues on brickbats.
Probably the diminishing of forests
will prove pood thing after all.
In a Taylorville, Illinois, mine not
lon gago miner found a unique
implement made patrly of brass. The
find was made more than 300 feet
underground and was blown from the
side of the mine. 1t will be peculiar
ly interesting to scientists who are
irving to discover signs of prehis-
toric civilization in America. There
implement to indicate that it was con-
oNiANAtu Ill IOutIH tiiliCS anu AhtO"h
into the coal pile by a miner. Its
appearance is characteristic of the inn
plements dating back to prehistoric
periods of which We have no knowl-
edge except that which is gained by
studying the few relics found.
Buried 800 feet underground the
relic has remained for thousands of
years where it was thrown by a pre-
historic man who probably lived long
before King Tut reigned in Egypt.
The world is older than the mind of
man can grasp and has been the abode
of living creatures of the man type
for at least 25,000 years.
Twenty foreign ministers and sew
eral hundred delegates are in session
in Geneva in an effort to establish
world peace. France is leading and
Great Britain is holding back, as
usual.
The effort involves establishing a
coalition of nations which shall be
armed only to the extent of protec-
ton, though France, the most i'm
portant of the larger nations seeking
peace, is probably better prepared to
wage war of aggression than any
Of her contemporaries.
The plan surrounds the League of
Nations. The aim is to elaborate a
new world charter of peace. The
plan has its inception in France.
Chairman William NJ. Butler, of the
Republican national committee in a
recent forecast predicts a vote of
100000 at the next general cleo
tion.
He states that his prediction is
based upon the assumption that an in
crease of over 100000 over the
presidential ballot of 1924 will be re-
corded
The mammoth vote in America pre-
sents an unusual problem. The work
OF tabulating it exceeds anything of
former years. The delay in counting
and the many difficulties attending an
election would seem to warrant a
change in plans of election. The old
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