Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-07-12
THE NORDIC CRAZE.
TO LIVE WITH MONKEYS.
TAILLESS ALIGATORS, Etc.
FOOT AND MOUTH CURE.
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FOOT AND MCUlH CORE.
The purely Nordic" craze has
gone far. A scientific association
of German "racialists" proposes to
plan new State in which only
those purely Nordic" will be adj
mitted.
The scientists allege that blood
tests will distinguish the purely
Nordic from the mixed breeds.
That's interesting, as there is
not on all the surface Of the earth
any single sample Of pure breed,
whether of "Nordic," Aryan, Sem
itic, Monaghan, African or Malay
sian strain. All the breeds were
mixed up long ago, although they
don't know it.
That new Nordic state, by the
way, would exclude the founder Of
Christianity, whose mother was
Jewess. He, certainly, was not
"purely Nordic." -'n @
Here's one original thought.
John Gromardie, citizen of New
York, writes to the Franklin Park
Zoo in Boston, saying he'd like to
be exhibited in the monkey house,
with the other primates, ito show
the public how much man resem-
bles the ape, in accordance with
the Darwinian theory"
Some that live in the open spaces,
Texas, Washington, California,
Florida, etc., will probably suggest
that if all New Workers adapted to
demonstrating the Darwinian the
DRY were locked up in the Geological
Garden there would be many yacan-
cies in Fifth avenue and at New
port.
How many little boys know that
our word muslin" comes from Mo-
sui, or that our able Italian Musso-
lini got his nance from that land of
tie MohammeGans? Read in
Marco Polo's Travels that great
merchants who convey spices and
drugs from one country TO an
other are termed mossuiini."
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Herr Schomburgk. an African ex-
| pprss, d seeuesd 81 ! Ra-fiE ecWt
Of stealing from the holy grove u
Liberia tie SACRED stone Of The
ALLIGATOR without any taS."
Tribes Of the African West Coast
have worshipped that sacred fetish
for years, and want 1t back, to
bring them luck.
Schomburgk says he bought the
fetish for 50.
Only those NOT afraid to walk
under q ladder or sit thirteen at
table have q right to laugh at the
worshippers Of the tafllsss alliya-
tor.
Arthur Harris, Of the ]. W. W.,
stabbed in fght With farm hands,
learns the value Of scientific edu-
cation. A knife thrust penetrated
lis pericardium sac containing the
S.eart and made q wound three
ggagters Of an inch lqug, The sec
alsd With bl0pa ths heart sYgldR1
veil. But while Hatris, nall3 e1E
xsciSB, Nv Everything thai vas
go,nS FL SdYSe0ri il Kansas pV
ssssaeysd tS.as 81 bis ribs, draiSs4
The vssicardium; permitting Ell
heart to continue, PHI 9ganEgsng M
back the yibS se@ed M~ Mt sHR
lives. Thanks t9 lsSal ahssthetss
Harris felt no pain e zs.s..-s
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SIX million bonus apphsstiops
are Ready, five MILLIONS moro WI
be prepared and sent out. ScAfs
pocket patriots are weeping about
that. 1t makes them sad to pay :
cew dollars in taxes to men that
won the war, and saved them all
their money. a -,
= Yet the paying out Of that bonus
sloney will be to general prospaT
ity like pouring water on dry soil.
Everybody will share In the pros
perity that the bonus distribution
is bound to bring. Every dollar Of
T. will be SPENT, It's the money
SPENT that counts.
A Berlin scientist has found and
isolated the germ that causeg foot
and mouth disease. That news Will
be worth many millions to this
country directly, and Billions per-
haps, indirectly.
1t is reported, although fortu-
nately NOT proved, that agitators
in the West have purposely spread
foot and mouth disease by means
Of dogs and otherwise. California
is bad State in which to play a
game of that kind. The perpetra-
tors would find it more dangerous
than horse-stealing in Texas in the
old days.
Newspapers print a story that
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
having a little dispute with DR..
Mitchell at golf, knocked him down
and out with one blow. Farmers
in Arkansas will not only forgive
but cheer their Senator for knock
ing a man down with one blow.
Whether they will forgive him for
playing golf IS another question.
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