Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29

Chicago never does anything nan
way. She is the wickedest town on the
| globe: she shoots citizens at will. She
boasts It will" She is wild and dis
sipated. f
But there is q vestige of good in her
soul. nevertheless for now 1t is an
nounced that Chicago intends to go on
the water wagon" and. not content to
use a mere sprinkling cart, she proposes
to dispatch an expedition OF scientlsts
to Mount Afarat to search for ana dig
un Noah's Ark. She will bring the ARK
right into the Windy City in time TO-
some sort of centennial exposition III
1898. a.
The fact that 1888 will be only 40
years after her last centennial is I'M
material. What are centuries to hustlnS
Chicago? She condenses time: Better
a dav in Chicago than a cycle in Phlla-
delphia! Nothing is too good for Cnl-
caeo water-wagon: Noah had noLnlng
on the city which has had Mayor
Thompson.
CHICAGO Ia in dead earnest about this
weter.waron, for Mr.. William H. Strong,
former president Of the Chicago Chapter
~ the American Association of Enei-
neers, has made written offer OF the
Ark to Mr.. Rufus Dawes. president OF
the Centennial Fair. This Is an era OF
ensineers--or will be after next March
4, SO why should not the new Dawes
Man be overhauled by the strong man
who Is some sort of engineer or fire-
man or something needed in boat?
He proposes that airplanes, filled with
engineers and photographers, shaii
f1y over Mount Ararat and photograph
icallv map the whole mountain, tnen
he will enlarge the negatives untll the
exact site where that boat Is ianoeu
may be spotted. After that, all tney
will need will be skids TO slide the snip
dawn the stones. like the launching OF
the Nautalis. Sail on, oh ship OF state,
sail on!'
OF course. there is no publicity propa-
eanda in this undertaking. chicago
never dreamed that in the eftete East
there would ever be background OF
such such an event. She is so sincere and
naivete! Her publicity bureau is only
a little waShstand anyhow.
There is a joker, however, in the
plan. and the Joke is on Chicago. All
the scientists Of the Smithsonian In
Stitution are "haw-hawing" over the
funny hunt upon Mount Ararat for the
Ark. when all the time that's not the
right Ararat at all =
The trouble is that Chicago is q
prairie city and knows gophers ana
prairie dogs and coyotes, but is not up
on mountains She spec1allzes on Baoel
towers and languages but Wouion =
know a real peak from skyscraper
with elevators. The airplanes may De
hundreds SQUARE
miles daily, but it's dollars to glaciers
that they will not see the animals COM
ing out of any Ark, two by two, for
well. It lust isn't done on that huge
mountairi-and never has been. This
is declared In all candor In the pres
| cnce of the millions Of fundamentallsts
who read The Evening Star, and 1t Is
| declared in full faith in the truth OF
| the Scriptures. In the words OF Plate,
What Is TRUTH"
| -& Il y
Some decades ago there was an al
! l.gcd atheist. Robert Ingersoll, Wno
| i~cturcd on the Mistakes of Moses,
and one OF his own foolish and un-
: scientific statements was that there
| could not have been the Flood as de-
| ,icted in Genesis, and that therefore
| there was no Noah and no Ark upon
| Mount Ararat. He attempted to prove
it by pointing to the fact that water
freezes solid at an altitude of the peak
of Ararat, and Noah landed, not on
| ice. but on billowy water reaching In
every direction to the horizon. II
! Ingersoll had known more of nature
| and less of ego he would have dis
covered that If all the world were
enlarged So that water covered the
peaks the bottom of the atmosphere
would be the revised sea level and not
great freezing altitude. The mistakes
of Ingersoll'' put Moses in the shade.
But great is archaeology
| y
! The story of the Israelites In Egypt
tells how they we're forced TO make
bricks without straw and, not long ago,