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Show I MASTERING THE FORCES OF NATURE Two wonderful things have been brought about in tropical regions re-gions by Americans. This go eminent of ours aided b the Iiicke feller Foundation has reduced yellow fevei so that the disease is no longer the dread of every one living in. or forced to enter, the vnsi region bordering on the equator mid now our government has re duced the destructivcne&a of tropical storms to a point where they d,o not create the apprehension which terrifies When the great tropica hurricane of this week began to mo. off the coast of South America and work north through the Gulf of Mexico, the wireless stations erected in the pathway of the gulf storms, began to convey then silent messages on the wings of the unseen, un-seen, and all the ships at sea were warned as though, from out of the firmament. He, who watches the sparrows in their flight had seen the danger and observing the unprotected voyagers, had direct ed the sailors to beware ami make for port Tropical storms may blow, but man, in his progress, has found a way to escape the horrors which once .tssniled him when the hurricane hurri-cane swept the surface of old ocean and left wreck and ruin in it; wake. |