Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1934 — Page 15

It Seem to Me HEW® MIN “TIE is,” said Senator Smith, in the Tugwell de--Tl bate, “a very handsome man with his hands immaculately manicured.” The cry of the gentleman from South Carolina in the committee hearing was that the undersecretary of agriculture must be a dirt farmer and with utter seriousness the senators assembled made solemn inquiry as to whether the economist from Columbia had ever had “mud on his boots.” Tugwell passed this test easily enough by replying with a simple “yes,” but obviously that was not enough. Quite evidently Smith will not e satisfied, until the candidate also has dirt under his fingernails. I only wish I knew a little more about agriculture. But I must admit that even though the Smith mess would constitute a perfect setup for my advancement in the department I doubt the validity. Nor was I impressed by the thrust of the South Carolinian when he cried out

upon the senate floor, “Throw Tugwell into the cotton fields and he would starve to death.” In fact upon reading this particular report I made up my mind to challenge Senator Smith to submit himself to a little test for the sake of science. In order to save postage I am issuing the invitation in the form of an open letter .which runs as follows: tt tt An Open Letter “T'vEAR Senator Smith of South Carolinia: “According to the New York

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papers you are quoted as saying in a speech before the senate, ‘Throw him (Tugwell) into the cotton fields and he would starve to death.’ This raises an interesting point and in order to test out the validity of your assertion I think the problem should be approached in a scientific manner. It seems to me that the really vital question is, ‘Who wouldn’t starve to death?' “With this in mind I am suggesting that you select an appropriate field and appoint an hour for any day next week. Don’t make it too early I will agree to be present with a sufficient number of enthusiastic volunteers and at the time set we will throw you in the field and then, for the glory of science, sit back and wait to see what happens. In order to make the findings accurate we suggest that you present yourself attired simply in one pair blue overalls, one gray cotton shirt, and one cap or fedora. If you attempt to be throw'n into the field while wearing a high silk hat it will be confiscated, since w‘e realize that even the lowliest senator can take rabbits out of a contraption like that. tt tt tt Limited to 25 you have a right to say that it is IN not up to our side to prescribe all the conditions and in order to bring about as quickly as possible a meeting of minds the following by-laws are offered for your approval: “Article 1, Section 1, Clause A—Not more than twenty-five persons are to be permitted to engage in the act of throwing Senator Smith into a cotton field. “Article 2, Section 5, Clause K—The throwing shall be done from a circle not more than five feet in diameter and only three turns shall be permitted before the senator is tossed. If any one of the throwers steps outside the circle during the windup that toss shall be considered illegal and the distance obtained shall in no case constitute a record. “Article 3, Section 2, Clause A—ln the event that the senator is thrown beyond the cotton field into adjacent territory he shall be considered out of bounds and the shot shall be replayed with loss of distance, but no penalty stroke. “Article 4—ls Senator Smith is lost, Senator Copeland shall immediately be dropped and played with loss of both stroke and distance. “Article s—Anys—Any senator may be lifted without penalty from telegraph wires, casual water or ground under repair. a tt Bonuses to Be Split " A RTICLE 6—ls Senator Smith is not claimed A. within sixty days the state of South Carolina may sue for a sum not to exceed ten dollars ($10). “Article 7—ls South Carolina doesn’t care to sue nobody will be surprised. “Article B—Anyß—Any bonuses accruing from the loss or impairment of Senator Smith are to be divided equally among the throwers and the Migridge memorial home for morons. “Article 9 (see Section FG)—lf Senator Smith bounces the whistle shall immediately be blown and the forward progress of the gentleman from North Carolina computed from the spot where his hands and knees first touched the ground. “Article 10—If Senator Smith lands directly on top of his head all bets are off and he immediately shall be escorted back to the senate chamber and asked to start his speech all over again from the beginning.” (Copyright, 1934, by The Times)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN —

T'HE chronic invalid who has to remain in bed a long time suffers occasionally from breaking down of the skin and tissues. The process is exceedingly painful and distressing. Bed sores occur more often in aged persons than in the young, but they occur primarily because the tissues have lost their vitality through illness or age. In young persons bed sores do not occur frequently, regardless of the amount of pressure or how greatly the skin may be soiled. In the aged, or in those who have been in bed for a long time, the bed sores develop most often in places that are pressed upon or in parts of the body in which the skin is macerated, due to various causes. nun WHETHER we are asleep or awake, our bodies are not in any one position for any length of time. However, if a person lies unconscious or paralyzed, or he is so weak that he can not turn his body easily, pressure occurs steadily on certain places and the vitality of the skin, already injured, is damaged more greatly. Os course, the condition can be helped by moving the patient frequently, to change his position, and also by using water cushions and other pads to take away the pressure and to shift it about. The second most common cause of these bed sores is maceration of. the skin from sweat or from other secretions of the body. This maceration makes the skin easily vulnerable to infection. u n n THE bed sores under such circumstances may be prevented by scrupulous cleanliness, by removing of secretions and excretions as rapidly as possible, and by frequent washings with water, followed by sponging with alcohol, which tends to harden the skin and destroy germs on the surface. Any breakdown of the skin’s surface gives opportunity for invasion by germs and makes the likelihood of development of a bed sore more possible. The sheets of chronic invalids, as well as the body clothing, should be kept smooth. It is also very important to remove crumbs of food or any other materials which might lead to roughness or unevenness of the sheets. The first sign of a bed sore is usually a diffuse redness of the skin, which disappears on pressure. When these spots are found, steps should be taken immediately to remove the source of irritation and to prevent the possibility of infection, by application of suitable antiseptic substances.

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INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS FACES U. S.

Millions in Nation Would Be Affected by Steel Strike

This is the first of two stories dealing with the critical situation in the steel industry, with a serious strike threatened that may tie up American industry. What the steel industry is, why it is so vital to the country and the issues over which the conflict looms, are detailed. tt tt tt BY WILLIS THORNTON Times-NEA Service Writer. CLEVELAND, June 14.—A steel strike, if it successfully stopped the making of iron and steel, would paralyze the very backbone of American industry. Everything, in this age of steel, depends on those grimy mills which dot the territory from Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania to Duluth at the head of the Great Lakes. From Bethlehem and Pittsburgh, Weirton, Wheeling, Youngstown, Middletown, Canton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary and Chicago, with one giant outpost at Birmingham, Ala., stretches the steel main spring that makes all industry go. Such a strike might well be wide-spread enough actually to halt the progress of the business and industrial recovery that is now apparent. Its paralyzing effect would be felt not only in steel itself, but throughout all industry. To begin with, there are nearly 400,000 employes in steel and allied industries, such as bolts and nuts, cast iron pipe, cutlery, forgings, hardware, and plumbing. That means that between a million and a million and a half people directly depend on the weekly pay roll of steel and allied industries, which runs today around $7,500,000.

Employment in the iron and steel plants themselves is today close to 250,000 (38 per cent more than a year ago) and they have a weekly pay roll of more than $4,500,000 (which is 101 per cent higher than a year ago). This employment, these pay rolls, will be the first and most apparent losses in a steel strike. But other industries will be directly affected if steel production is shut off. More than 20 per cent of our steel goes to the automobile industry. Twelve per cent, most of the production of the great tinplate mills, goes to make tin cans and containers. tt , tt tt ANOTHER 12 per cent is used in the construction industry, while railroads, in cars and rails, use 8 per cent. The oil, gas and water industries depend on iron and steel pipe, bridge and shipbuilding, road-building, office equipment, agriculture and all machinery makers must have steel. Every one of these industries, and many smaller ones, would feel the impact of a steel strike, and if such walkout succeeded in shutting off the country’s supply of steel it is quite possible that many thousands of miners, auto builders, machinists, construction men, workers in a score of other trades, might be thrown out of employment without a chance to do anything about it. Towering above all the steel

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ——-

WASHINGTON, June 14.—N0 appointment to a government body in years—possibly not even anew cabinet—has aroused such discussion, pressure and heat as selection of the five appointees to the stock market board. For upon the men Roosevelt selects for these five posts depends not only the future national speculation during the next half decade but also the question of whether Roosevelt is swinging away from his left of center course to the definite right. Advice on these appointments has been deluging the White House like the Christmas mail. At one side of the deluge at times can be seen the hidden hand of Professor Moley, still a potent factor in steering the President and on the whole in favor of shackling Wall Street. On the other side are a multitude of reactionary friends and influences, constantly floating trial balloons and the names of supposed

sure-fire appointees to the board. Among these have been: THOMAS J. WATSON, president International Business Machines, president Tabulating Machine Company, chairman Dayton Scale Company, director International Business Machines, Limited; Business Machines Company of Delaware, International Time Recording Company, Dictaphone Company, Western Electric Instrument Corporation, Chase National bank. The department of justice has taken action against the first named for violation of the anti-trust act. SIDNEY J. WEINBERG, prominent in the firm of GoldmanSachs and an organizer of the speculative Shenandoah and Blue Ridge companies during the days of the Coolidge bull market. JOHN M. HANCOCK, partner of Lehman Brothers, chairman of the Jewell Tea Company, director of Kelly-Springfield Tires, Kuppenheimer Clothes, Sears Roebuck, Long-Bell Lumber, Brunswick-Balke-Collender, Kroger Grocery, Florsheim Shoes, Cluett, Peabody & Cos.; International Silver, Piggly Wiggly, American Stores, Cuneo Press, American Investors, Van Raalte Collars, A. Stein & Cos., Van Camp Packing Company, Van Camp Milk Company, Van Camp Products, Helena Rubinstein, Inc,, Kimberly-Clark Corporation. nun THAT Roosevelt will select a man with these affiliations seems doubtful, though the lightning may strike Hancock, who is a close personal friend of the President. But that he will select one definite conservative seems certain. This was indicated to Massachusetts’ Senator Walsh the otherday, when Walsh heard that the President proposed to appoint Mayor Curley of Boston either to the stock market board or the Wagner labor board. This was a shock to liberals. Curley is a distinct conservative and incidentally no political friend of Senator Walsh. Curley is, however, on the best of terms with Jimmy Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, and aspiring political boss of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the stock market battle still rages. n n n PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has offered a silver loving cup as the prize to the winner of a unique international race. The race v r ill be between William C. Bullitt. American ambassador to the Soviet government, and V. M. Molotov, chairman 'of the council of peoples’ commissars —or, in other words, premier of Russia. The goal in the race is to see whether Bullitt can learn more Russian than Molotov can learn

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mammoths is enormous United States Steel Corporation, founded by J. P. Morgan, nurtured by Judge E. H. Gary, now headed by W. A. Irvin as president, and Myron Taylor as chairman of the board. It has 120 plants (all but, two of which are now operating.) U tt tt UNITED STATES STEEL owns vast tracts of iron ore, steamship lines, 2,000 miles of railroads, coal mines. It makes 40 per cent of all the steel in the country, and has a greater capacity in every line than any competitor. -A fantastic money-maker during the World war, it claims to have lost $78,000,000 during the last three years. Its stock is in the hands of more than 185,000 holders, and about an eighth of it belongs to employes. Principal subsidiaries include the Carnegie Steel Cos., American Steel and Wire Cos., National Tube, American Sheet and Tin Plate, Illinois Steel, American Bridge, Tennessee Coal and Iron, Lorain Steel, and Canadian Steel Corporation. Next in size, but only a third as large, is Bethlehem Steel, the child of Charles M. Schwab, now headed by Eugene Grace. Its works headed by Eugene Grace. Its works include those of Cambria, Coatesville, Lackawanna, Maryland (near Baltimore), Steelton, McClintic-Marshall, and one on the Pacific coast.

English in the same length of time—one year from June 1. The judge of the race is Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs. He speaks both Russian and English. n n n reason why Huey Long’s colleagues seldom care to tangle with him is his devastating disregard of the usual amenities of senatorial courtesy. The Kingfish doesn’t hesitate to blurt out what most senators dare only to think, or a few of the more daring whisper in the secrecy of the cloakroom. Call it gall, or what you will, but when Huey roars into action the lid goes off and stays off. His recent castigation of Senator Pat Harrison, during which he calmly bandied charges that a closed bank held a large unpaid note of the Mississippian, was a characteristic example. The outburst violated every senate rule and tradition. All of which bothered Huey none at all. When the fact was called to his attention, he nonchalantly replied that of course he wanted to abide by the rules, then turned to another line of attack on Pat. During the debate on the President's reciprocal tariff bill, Huey resorted to his favored tactics. Member after member had explained at great length, and with pontifical solemnity, what a delicate and complicated thing the tariff was. But not Huey. To the blinking horror of the chamber, he orated as follows: “There is no hocus-pocus about this tariff. I vote for your copper and you vote for, my sugar. That’s the way it’s done. It was the spirit of the Scripture that caused a man to give his brother a tariff, particularly when he needed his brother’s vote to get a tariff for himself.” (CopyriKht. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) LIGHT EXPERTS SPEAK Electrical Inspectors to Visit Local Power Plant. E. J. Newton, Chicago, and W. A. Canada, New York, electrical engineers, addressed the session of the Western Section International Association of Electrical Inspectors, Indiana chapter, today in the Lincoln. The meeting was to close today following an inspection trip to the j Harding street plant of the Indianlapolis Power and Light Company,

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Republic steel has plants near Pittsburgh, at Birmingham, Youngstown, and Euffalo. National Steel, the largest steel company to make money throughout the depression, started from the Weirton Steel Company plants at Weirton, W. Va., and included Great Lakes Steel at Detroit, and the Hanna Furnace plants at Detroit and Buffalo. Inland, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Jones & Laughlin complete the list of the seven great steel companies which make 70 per cent of all steel in the country. This is the vast empire now threatened by an industrial warfare which, if it breaks with all its potential fury, might be felt in almost every city of the land. Next —Steel —a hard business that breeds hard men. Its labor situation today and some of the things that lie behind it.

GARDNER ASKS JAILJELEASE Case Owner, Alleged Killer of City Stage Actor, Files Writ. Petition for writ of habeas corpus demanding that Frank C. Gardner, Spencer hotel case proprietor, charged with the murder of Thomas Sargent, Civic theater actor, be released from custody on bail, was filed in criminal court yesterday by Clyde Karrer, defense attorney. The petition alleges that the presumption of Gardner’s guilt does not warrant his being held on a murder charge. First and secondmurder indictments were returned by the grand jury. Gardner is alleged to have struck Sargent with a “blunt instrument,” causing his death, following an argument at the case several weeks ago. BUTLER POOL TO OPEN Fieldhouse Tank Will Be Available to Public Daily. The Butler university swimming pool in the fieldhouse will be open to the public again this summer, officials announced yesterday. The pool will be open from 10 to 10 each day except Sunday, begininng next Tuesday and continuing through Labor day.

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TODAY and TOMORROW a tt u tt tt m By Walter Lippmann

SECRETARY HULL'S suggestion that Great Britain might make payments on the war debts “in kind”—that is to say, in goods rather than in money—is worth exploring because it may help to make somewhat clearer what the debt problem is. The best way to make a picture of it is to begin by realizing that the British have to pay in American dollars. The treasury can not and will not accept British money. Yet that is the only kind of money that the British government can obtain from the British taxpayer.

So before the British can pay they have to turn British money into American money. This is what is meant in the technical jargon of this interminable debate by the “transfer problem”—how to transfer British pounds into American dollars. “Transferring” pounds into dollars means buying dollars with pounds. The British government, in other words, has to find people who own American dollars and are willing to sell them for British money. The next thing to fix in mind is that American dollars can be spent only in the United States, just as British pounds can be spent only in Britain. Therefore if an American or anyone e'se who owns dollars sells them to the British government the man who sold the dollars can no longer buy goods in America. He no longer has American money. He notf has British money and the only place he can spend it is in Great Britain. Thus in order to pay the international debt in dollars that many less dollars have to be spent in America and that many more pounds in Britain.

By George Clark

nnHIS is the essential principle of the whole business which governs it, no matter how complicated the actual transactions may become. For example: the British could pay in Liberty bonds rather than in dollars. But they have dollars to buy the bonds, so that does not affect the principle. Or they could borrow the dollars in the United States from bankers, but that would not change the principle, for some time or other they would have to repay the bankers. There u only one exception to this rule. If they have gold in their vaults, they could ship that to America and sell it for dollars, but they have not enough gold to do that for more than a few payments at the outside. So, however you look at it, you come back to the basic principle that if tfie debt is to be paid in dollars, less goods have to be bought in America and more goods have to be bought in Britain. A very simple example will show why this must be true. If I must pay you a debt, I have to earn the money to pay it while you sit back and receive it. You can not go out and earn the money that I owe you. That would be absurd. The whole point of being paid a debt is that somebody else has to do the work for it. If the British are to pay us $100,000,000, they have to do work worth $100,000,000, and we have to do just that much less work. Theoretically that ought to please us. But as a matter of fact we do not like at all the idea of doing $100,000,000 less business. nun SECRETARY HULL now has suggested that we might be willing to receive goods from the British rather than dollars. What kind of goods? It is suggested that as we have to buy tin, rubber and Scotch whisky abroad, the British might pay us in those commodities. But this really does not solve the problem. Last year we bought $10,000,000 worth of rubber and tin. Now suppose we did not have to buy it, that it was shipped to us without payment. We should have the tin and the rubber; the foreigners who produce them would not have the $100,000,000. But those dollars which we now spend for rubber and tin, are no good to foreigners, except When they are spent in the .United States. They are all spent finally in the United States. Therefore, if foreigners do not have those dollars they will buy $100,000,000 less goods from us. We are back where we started, at the principle that if the debts are to be paid in dollars, more money must be spent abroad and less in the United States. Copyright. 1934

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Fdir Enough ■ NEW YORK, June 14.—There is a bright promise of malice in the prize fight between Primo Carnera and Max (Cuddles) Baer, the great, big, mischievous boy, tonight. Ordinarily, Mr. Baer goes in rather heavily for good-natured roguishness and studiously unaffected charm, but on this occasion he has managed to insult his opponent deeply. Mr. Baer plucked a generous sprig of fur from Mr. Camera’s wishbone when they met with the doctors of the prize fight commission for one of their

periodic inspections a few days ago and blew it in his face after the manner of the late Hughey Jennings wafting away a few blades of grass behind third base. After that he sent Primo a long telegram, entreating him not to flee to Italy and hoping that if Primo could summon the courage to enter the ring with him, he also could summon a little more and stay in there long enough to be knocked out. Mr. Baer intimated that this would not be long. In addition to these affronts, Mr. Baer has referred to his adversary as that bum, that

palooka and that wop and has endeavored, in round numbers, to place the prize fight on a fine, low sordid plane. tt tt tt True Spirit Expressed Although Mr. Camera has pretended to be unimpressed by all this personal disrespect, the varicose veins which entwine his calves like coils of old ivy climbing mighty oaks are filled with proud Latin blood and he undoubtedly is taking considerable umbrage. In fact much umbrage has been observed about his training quarters at Pompton Lakes, N. J., and there is every reason to hope that the prize fight will turn out rich in brutality. This is the first time since Jack Dempsey assaulted Jess Willard in Toledo that the true spirit of the prize fight has been present in a heavyweight championship production. On that occasion, loving friends of Mr. Dempsey took turns sitting up several nights before the prize fight to telephone Mr. Willard and disturb his sleep with insulting remarks. Mr. Willard, a frugal athlete, was his own household and staff in Toledo and answered all phone calls in person with the unhappy result that none of the low sallies miscarried. He could have left his receiver off the hook, of course, but Mr. Willard was a melancholy optimist who never ceased to hope that somebody might call up some time with a kind word to say to him. It is not known that this ever happened. tt tt tt IVs All Tunne\fß Fault / T'HE restoration of the brutal, vulgar character which is the true character of the heavyweight championship prize fight, is a reform which long has been awaited by all idealists who love the prize fight profession for its honest sordidness. They we re unhappiest when Gene Tunney, arriving in Chicago for his second contest with Jack Dempsey, announced that he was there not to fight but to box and that he did not regard Mr. Dempsey as an enemy, but as a colleague in a profession. It has taken all this time and a complete change of cast to redeem the profession from the uplift which Mr. Tunney wrought. The semi-final physical inspection, held Tuesday at the offices of the prize fight commission, also brought about a reunion of several hundred elderly prize fight characters, including many who have not been speaking to one another for many years. Among the group were James J. Johnston, who does not speak to Mr. Dempsey, or Jimmy Bronson, who do not speak to each other. And Dumb Dan Morgan, a garrulous character, who is not speaking to so many of his old colleagues nowadays that he is compelled, at times, to go around talking to himself. Mr. Baer, however, is on speaking terms with everybody and especially with Primo Camera. He speaks fluently to Mr. Camera and every word he says is a trifle more insulting than the one before. There is just one peril. When a prize fighter is insulted mortally he refused to fight on the ground that he does not wish to enable his enemy to make any money. Primo right now is insulted about as thoroughly as it is safe to insult him. One more rude remark out of Max (Cuddles) Baer and he might call off the prize fight. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SIXTY MILLION years ago, a three-horned dinosaur. a gigantic dragon-tailed reptil?, eighteen feet long and ten feet high, roamed over the lowlands of eastern Wyoming. Last week his skull and jaws were placed on exhibition in the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard university. This particular type of triple-horned dionsaur, previously unknown to science, was discovered in 1930 by Erich M. Schlaikjer, who was then carrying on field work for the museum in Wyoming. It has an unusually wide head and for that reason has been named triceratops eurycephalus. “Triceratops,” the usual name given to this kind of dinosaur, means “three-horned.” “Eurycephalus” means “wide head.” Both words come from the Greek. The skull of this new type of triceratops is fiftyeight inches long and fifty-three inches wide. All skeletons of the various types of triceratops known are from the rock layers of North America and eastern Asia. They range in age from sixty to 105 million years. The dinosaur discovered by Mr. Schlaikjer represents the last recorded survivor of that great group of dinosaurs known as ceratopsians. This word, also from the Greek, means “horned.’ The triceratops, having three horns, represent one division of the ceratopsians. nun THE triceratops, which was a vegetarian, had an equipment of armor-plate to protect it from the meat-eating dinosaurs which were its contemporaries. Its head had a great frill of bone spreading out over the neck from the skull proper, like a collar. This was its chief defensive equipment. Its offensive equipment consisted of two horns on its brow, a short nasal horn, a powerful beak, and plenty of teeth. It was undoubtedly a slow moving creature. Its hind legs were shorter than the front legs and its scaly tail was long and heavy. These horned dinosaurs once roamed the eastern uplift of the Rocky Mountains from Alberta to New Mexico. Their skeletons have been found in great profusion. The Harvard savants think that the specimen found by Mr. Schlaikjer may have been more slen-der-bodied and more agile than most of the triceratops. This is indicated by the skeletal remains. Its brow horns were very long while its nasal horn was very short. u n n AS THE age or reptiles progressed, dinosaurs of greater and greater size arose, reaching their climax in huge creatures weighing 150 tons. But the brain of one of these 150-ton creatures must have weighed less than one pound. It is interesting to note by comparison that the brain of a 150-pound man weighs three pounds. One group of dinosaurs were beasts of prey, feeding upon other reptiles. They had birdlike feet with great claws. Their front legs were small and powerful. They ran on their hind legs somewhat after the fashion of kangaroos. The largest of this group, known as tyranosaurus rex—that is, the king tyrant lizard—attained a length of forty-seven feet. An extremely interesting painting, done by Charles R. Knight, is to be seen in the American Museum of Natural History. It shows a tyrano6ourua rex attacking a group of triceratops.

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