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Show fee-Age Vegetation Very Like Ours of Today I Remains of an Ice-age cypress forest for-est have been unearthed near Annapolis An-napolis by Dr. Charles T. Berry, Johns Hopkins university paleontologist paleon-tologist I Seeds believed to Indicate the type ;of vegetation, which covered this , lection of the country from 25,000 to 100,000 years ago, also were discovered dis-covered by Doctor Berry. Waves cutting Into the face of 'Greenbury point were responsible for Doctor Berry's discovery. The forest Is directly across the Severn river from Annapolis. The swamp consisted chiefly of bald cypress trees, believed to have flourished In Pleistocene days. It apparently filled a deep valley through which ran two ancient streams from one to three feet deep and several feet wide. BRISBANE THIS WEEK A Long Swim Money Flows West $o for $3.39 Not So Uarren The new year, 1935, latest contribution con-tribution of Father Time to the long chain of beads called "eternity," Is here, end we are In It. We shall continue to read opinions and rumors, plans and criticism of plans, In our slow progress to prosperity's pros-perity's shore. It Is a long swim when you are thrown overboard In the middle of Lake Superior. This country was thrown overboard in another lake of superior prosperity and unlimited expectations back In 1029. At the extreme end of the point, and exposed only at low tide, are approximately 25 cypress stumps from two to six or more feet In diameter. At the cliff's base Is five-foot bed of black clay. In the lower portion of which roots and knees of stumps are so Interwoven that they sometimes form a solid wooden floor. Doctor Berry was able to Identify several species of Ice-age vegetation vegeta-tion from seeds gathered In the muck. It was pointed out, however, I that the ancient vegetation did not differ greatly from that growing In ithe area today. Farmers, newspapers devoted to the farmers' Interest, big bankers In the East, are Interested in the fact that the money tide that for so long flowed from producers In the West to accumulators in the East, la now flowing In the other direction. direc-tion. The money tide goes out toward the farms of wheat raisers and atock, in the West and Middle West, and to the cotton farmers In the South. It Is as though the Great I-akes had been tilted upward at the eastern end, and the waters sent rushing toward the Itocky mountains. moun-tains. The tide will not flow long In that western direction, probably. Men that have the mortgages and collect the Interest accumulate the money, in the lor.g run. Long ago, a man wagered that he would stand on London bridge offering of-fering genuine gold sovereigns for a shilling each and find few takers. The gold sovereigns were genuine, but nobody would buy. Mel Smith, a circus official called "Lucky" Smith, bet that Los Angeles citizens would refuse to buy genuine $5 bills for $3.39. Hundreds walked by, looked at the genuine bills. Some cried "Fake!" Only two purchased. "Lucky" Smith won a $100 wager. Many Americana wish they had been as skeptical about certain stock back In 1929. The distinguished George W. Rus-aell Rus-aell of Ireland, who signs his writings writ-ings "AE," says, "I am always wtruck by the terrible barrenness of rural life In America." He thinks we must "find some way to enrich It," and if we don't, "then the disease dis-ease which destroyed ancient Italy will eat Into America. Ynu will no 'longer feed yourselves, nnd you will be struck with palsy of bread and circuses." Mr. Bussell may find greater rlch-xiess rlch-xiess In Irish farmhouses, but It Is a richness of the character and of the mind, not the surroundings. There is little barrenness about, other than Intellectual, In our rural life with its automobile, radio, moving pictures pic-tures within easy reach, rural delivery, de-livery, porcelain bath tubs, mail order or-der catalogues, prayer meetings, revivals, re-vivals, annual circus, the public library, li-brary, so An reached by automobile. Next summer our ships of war, "venturing almost to Oriental wafers, wa-fers, " will engage In far-flung war Barnes covering more than 5,000,000 square miles of the Pacific ocean. How interesting that will be, and how rapidly those ships would come cunning home to hide away in port If a few large bombing planes should sail out from Asia, from Tokyo or Russia's Vladivostok, over those 5,000,000 square miles of the Pacific, and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bombs on the battleships bat-tleships 1 Geological explorers from the Byrd expedition, near the South pole, report Important veins of mineral min-eral quartz, discovered In mountains moun-tains along the coast of Marie Byrd Land, If the geologists should bring hack actual samples rich In gold, ww quickly men would find a way to reach those mountains, how Indifferent In-different to death they would be Ln the effort to get there ! In Kansas a terrific dust storm, biding the sun, suggests that the Agricultural department help farrn-rs farrn-rs by developing some temporary covercrop that could be sown on wheat and corn fields when the crops come off, a nitrogen-fixing plant If possible. It would protect dusty surfaces from high winds and fee plowed under, contributing hu-tnus, hu-tnus, before the next planting. In the Northwest, farmers have tvscd the "duckfoot" cultivator, which cuts a path 60 feet wide, going go-ing through the roots of weeds and cot destroying the protection of the stubble from wind and the washing of heavy rains. A wise motto of earlier days was : When ln doubt, refrain." In Russia and other countries where the will of one takes the place of slow decisions by the ma Jority, the maxim reads: "When ln doubt, shoot," Moscow reports 14 more executed to avenge the killing of Sergei Kirov, making 117 lives taken to tuylate that one murder. Klag Features Syndicate, Ino, WNU Servloe. |