Show AN OLD MYTH l PROVED TRUE I Q Until til a comparatively few years ago there was a decided tendency in this skeptical world I to scott at all the belIefs and traditions that have been handed handed handed hand hand- ed from generation to generatIOn generation generation genera genera- tion front irom away back in the dim dinI mists of antiquity For countless countless countless count count- less thousands of years rears all aU manKind man man- Kind implicitly that there had existed in the worlds world's youth and presumably still existed existed ex ex- isted in in its unexplored regions strange monsters or 01 various Corms lorms Ihen 1 h n modern science arose and it became the fashion to ridicule these myths lone so that several generations have been brought up to distrust everything that their ancestors ancestors' believed gut sCIence is after all merely merely mere mere- ly tile the endless search for lor truth and ind n the deeper science d delves l ves the more it cU covers in proof of ot the truth of ot these ancient beliefs Probably i the most widely spread eau is lS in the Uce 01 or the Ule strange monsters monsters monsters mon mon- I winch which lore loiK under the broad name of ot dragons dragons dragons dra gons gons the ine aragon dragon has been for countless centuries the emblem of 01 imperial Ohina Umma The legend of fc fit t. t l George eorge slaYIng g the dragon which i sued issued from irom his cave and devoured the young women oi ol the community is older olaer than the written wore word dome borne ome years ago scientists discovered red the remaIns remains remains re re- re- re mains 01 of fossil reptiles any anyone one of which might have passed for forthe forthe forthe the dragon 01 or ancient myth but it was thought that all of the these animals had perished long before before before be be- fore Man made his appearance on earth Lately however real dragons dragons dra dragons gons were discovered on a remote remote re re- re- re mote island in the Indian Ocean They are not as big as the dragons dragons dragons dra dra- gons of mythology but they are clearly survivors of one of the oldest forms of life and th their ir survival clearly indicates that larger and earlies types may maywell maywell maywell well have been contemporary with man These giant lizards from irom the island of ol Ko- Ko modo of which living Jiving ments have been brought to the theN N New ew York Zoological Gardens conform in very every t except except except ex ex- ex- ex that of size to the monster mobster which fit bt t. t George slew fh They y are only eight or nine reel leer long but they live Jive in caves from Irom which they sally forth with great ferocity and kill kili human be beings if any happen to get in their then way or deer or other animals drag the bodies to their caves and devour them at their then lei lei- lei lei- sure They are incredibly powerful powerful power power- ful uI and fierce and it is easy to in imagine gine the panic into which the appearance of a dragon in inthe inthe inthe the ii n neighborhood must have thrown the settlements of primitive primitive ve man No wonder the dragon dragon dragon dra dra- gon myth has persisted in the songs and stories of the human race WILL rILL THEY WORK VORI I It is hard for us here at Manti l to understand how some of 01 the codes are to be forthe for lor the simple reason that pr prices ces demanded by oy the tile cones codes cannot I Ibe be oe paid by people whose in incomes in- in comes Collies are low and ad whose incomes in incomes in- in comes have nave been almost nothing noth ing mg the past three or lour tour years Code Changes Certain Where There is a goon good deal oi or signifIcance significance attached to the tact fact that alter aHer tree report hau and ana it was Va General J jon son announces announced that there would be bea beH a H change In m the tile system under which winch the NHA A operates Luany Many 01 ol the tIle smaller lines of ol bUSIness busi business business ness will I be excepted from Irom the codes coues and ann omy the large con cott- cerns terns doing an interstate business uusi- uusi ne ness nebs s win WId j e u-e e continued under t regulation There is still a good deal eal of ol down and ana snaKing out outto to LO ue lie done cone the Adminis Administration machine gets into S smooth lOoth worKing order loo oo many minor and a few lew of ol the theIn themore In more r q nu important 1 oln onic als h hay j 1 not yet up from Irom their early intoxication with newly acquired power There is still a great deal of official arrogance and aud insistence that nobody is honest except these few lew Administration 01 or- Giving them all ail credit for lor good intentions there has peen been extreme carelessness and laCK of a sense of ot responsibility In m the methods which many oi 01 the newly-created newly bureaus have adopted Those faits are recognized and will vill be cured by the dIsmissal dismissal dismissal dis dIs- dis- dis missal of the offenders and the disciplining of the others But there is no indication so far tar that partisanship will VIII not control control control con con- new appointments rather than ability On the other hand a great deal of good work has been done by the Administration and the ou outlook is for more and better methods of bringIng prosperity back Action has taken the place of inaction and no one questions the fundamental honesty honesty honesty hon hon- esty of purpose behind everything everything every every- I thing that is being done here There has be been en great courage displayed in the face of strong opposition to any kind oi 01 change |