Evening star., 1925-04-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRz4CEWELL.

States is negligent of its solemn duty
in falling to provide a giraffe for the
National Geological Park in the Fed
eral City of Washington, District of
Columbia.
THAT every child ought to have a
chance to verify, in actually, the as
founding neck of Giraffa camelopal =
dalis. type of family of ruminants,
Giraff1dae.
THAT this joint congressional COM
mittee on the necessity for a giraffe
at the National Geological Park do
hereby recommend to the said Con-
gress- the purchase of a splendid
specimen of said Giraffa camelopar-
dalls. -s--.a--
THAT this committee do also rec
ommend that said specimen be no
whit less than 18 feet high. including
the very necessary neck of same.
THAT the Congress do Immediately
appropriate minimum sum of $4,000,
| or so much more as shall be neces-
sary, SO that the authorities Of the
park may purchase giraffe, techni-
cally known as Giraffa cameloparda-
| lis. type of the family of ruminants
known as Giraffidae."
4 + r 4
There. chilren, how do you like
| that?
! Acting Supt. Baker would be rather
glad to see something similar to that
| in the news columns of The Star
some fine day.
The superintendent knows that 1t
| makes no particular difference who is
head of the animal park, but that it
does whether the Zoo has good lion
! or not.
Superintendents come and superin-
tendents go-especially recently-but
the lions and tigers and bears an
| everything go on forever, or ought
! to. at least.
park to see the superintendent. Ask
| Mr.. Baker. He knows.
! They come to see the animals. the
| furred brothers of forest, the feath =
cred cousin of air.
| They come to see all these strange
creatures which an Infinite God has
| placed here in the same world with
| the rest of US, dumb brothers OF
Life. holding in their mysterious
| hearts the same vital spark with us
who go on two legs instead of four
And the children find that the Zoo
breaches a finer, more silent sermon
than many preachers. for daily. hour
! ly, it sets forth to them, although
! they know ii not, the old truth, that
| the dear Cod who made us also made
the animals, the birds, the fishes. even
| the snakes.
So. it seems to me, they deserve a
giraffe.
| Surely the National Geological Park
one of the very finest in the country
| located at the great seat of national
Government, ought to have a giraffe,
If it is only a matter of few
thousand dollars, that is no reason
at all, What is $4,000, $4,000, tc
| Uncle Sam, the possessor of billions?
Why, it is not as much to- Uncle
Sam as a penny" not even so much
as a mill, that theoretical division
of a cent.
Uncle Sam could give the people ot
| Washington, and so the people of the
Nation, the finest giraffe in captivity
| and never miss the money
Uncle Sam is going to do it, too
some day. I am optimistic about that
In the name of all the children, l rise
up on my hind legs and demand thai
Congress give Hs a giraffe.
! We kids want to see one of the
high fellows browsing with his pre-
hensile tongue among the leaves ot
trees, eating his dinner off a shelf
| as it were. We want to see hin
amble faster than a horse, and kicl
/ the stuffings out OF a lion with his
strong, hind legs
! We want a giraffe, --.