Show r a 4 Fiction as a l Rival O OUTDISTANCING the tho highest flights of 01 fan fancy C tho the achievements of modern science prove pro the old saying say say- in ing r Truth is h stranger cr than fiction Back in tho SOs Jules Verne the brilliant French author wrote rotc two hooks books which were considered by 03 all nIl who rend read them as depicting the impossible in a most entertaining entertaining en en- manner Ono One of these was called H Twenty Thousand Leagues Under tho the Sea and described the exploits of a submarine The other was called Around the tho World orld in in Eighty Days and told of a n trotter globe-trotter I who accomplished the world orld encircling journey in the then lien inconceivable time of less than three months Neither Keither book hook was taken seriously although all who rca read the volumes praised the author for his wonderful po cr o of ima imagination The Tho years sp sped d on Tho The world war nr quickened inventive o achievements achie to a n wonderful degree The Tho submersible of to today ny accomplishes every every- everything thing thing- that the tho H Nautilus T n under Captain Nemo Nomo Vernes Verne's commander of or his submarine of fiction was ras able uhle to do Now Kow army aviators of the United State make a n flight across the continent in fifty hours or little more moje than two days s That outdoes any of the lc marvel Marcel ma el of fiction Around the tho Y World orld in Eighty Days Will 1 we cc e not ho able to see sec the trip ron made e around the world in such a short time lime by airplane that the imagination imag attending Yernes Vernes trotter globe will appear appear ap ap- pear insi insignificant in comparison Already an aviator a has lias promised that tho tiro globe will be he circled by airships regularly ill in m the future The world will sec see these two prophecies of or fiction far outdistanced b by actual achievement nehie Is it presumptuous to suppose that other extravagant story From tho the Earth to the tho Moon J foon descriptive of or an nn interplanetary journey should hould not in time Hmo be accomplished d by the lie men of the future I Man Iran has conquered the depths and the air nir and now h he must turn to space for conquest s Sa b ta The price of butter has dropped in Chicago L 1 Apparently there is is a limit to all hei heights tel f a pa Germans who are planning to emigrate to to America should study the art of camouflage l tel Rt si Pa Im Now no one can blame blamo tho the for refusing to be satisfied with a Chautauqua salute W jn J a No Now that Democracy is raved fared l Russia can enn take care of herself O 1 la 3 Pa 1 E Evidently there is too loo much kick to 13 lyko Iko ko R J Im n |