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L. H. Stuvoiifl of lCtifslimil Ih senrcliIiiB
for tliu prehistoric inmihtvr whose re
ported existence hns been disturbing
the sclentllle world more or less
since 1U0H. It Is supposed to he some
sort of a dlnnsnur. Inasmuch as the
dinosaur. Is a fifty-foot lizard that
dates hack to the "Ape of Heptlles,"
which antedates man on this earth by anywhere
from CO to VAX) millions of years, he scientists are
naturally saying, with the country hoy at the cir
cus nt flight of his first hippopotamus, "Gosh, there
ain't no slcli nnlmlle!"
Still there was such an animal once. And
people are saying tlrey have seen such an anlmnl
iow. Hence Captain .Stevens' expedition to
Africa. s
The earlier reports have been corroborated by
tvo ItulKlnn lilK-Kftiue hunters, who report sighting
n huge beast of terrifying proportions "and at
tributes. Mr. Gapelle. one of the Belgians, says
tils party caught a glimpse of n huge beast rending
1iIh way through thp Jungle verdure, which dolled
zoological analogy. He says It was In the general
hapo.of 'a lizard, probably fifty feet long, with
n thick tall like a kangaroo's, n hump on Its back,
and n terlfylng born on Its snout. The monster
was covered with scales, which were colored with
Sreat blood-red spots from which radiated pale
green Btrlpetf.
A well-known English naturalist and collector,
has written to the press that there Is every reason
to believe there Is such an nnlmal living In the
heart of the unexplored Jungles, If not great num
oers of them. During his Btay In Africa he heard
the story from so many different sources, ho says,
.that he Is convinced there Is some truth In It.
"Fifteen years ago, when collecting In the
Transvaal, I heard an Interesting story of a mon
ster, half snake, half benst.. My Informant, of the
(Uiodcslan police, who patrolled near Barotselnnd,
oald he had approached wltlffn a hundred yards
of It while It was lying asleep on the border of a
swamp. It wns, he declared a handred feet long,
ind Its strange appearance so frightened Win that
It nwakencd and glided Into the swamp before ho
could raise his gun. It traveled noiselessly and
with great speed. ,
"The country round about was quite unex
plored. My friend told me that I was the first
to whom he had mentioned the story, as he was
Afraid to tell his comrades hecauso they would
nave laughed at him.
"Once again when I'was on the French Kongo
seaboard I heard fearful Rtoiies from the native
hunters of the monster. I also heard the samo
stories on the way to the Belgian Kongo, where
the present so-called hrontosaurus Is supposed to
(mvo been seen. When you hear stories from threo
or four widely different sources I believe there ls
some truth In them. You must remember that If
you travel to Fernan Fnz and Sette Cnmn and go
up Into the Interior, most of the country has never
been explored. What creatures live In Its vast
mysteries we do not know. Whether the so-called
hrontosaurus Is a prehistoric survival or not I
would not care to say. I firmly believe the crea
ture exists, but I believe It Is an unknown creaturo
of more modern descent.
"Tho hrontosaurus, or whatever tho-strongo
creature Is, makes use of Its leijs and Its body
tt glides. I should Imagine It Is a very' dangerous
creature. But that It Is not nil n falry-talo I am
certain. I have hecu there, and I have talked with
natives who will not; pass a certain boundary Into
on 'evil land' hecauso of the huge monsters which
live in Its remote solitudes."
Walter WInans, nn American living In Lon
don, the pistol champion and a hlg-game hunter,
also believes In the existence of this creature.
"The late Carl Ilagenheck told mo before tho
war," Mr. Wlnnns said, "that two of his travelers,
on different expeditions nnd In different yenrs,
had seen tho hrontosaurus In swamps In centrnl
Africa. I do not think it Is impossible that somo
of the prehistoric animals have survived, and when
Bovoral explorers have noon glimpses of what they"
think must ho such animals they aro most prob
ably right. It Is not ns If some one not used to
recognizing them Instantly saw wild animals for
tho first time. Thoso men are always on tho
lookout for new species and know nil tho animals
by sight.
"It Is posslblo that tho sea-serpent Is one of
these so-called extinct reptiles, nnd that the dodo
may still exist somewhere not yoj explored. Tho
quaggn, too, which existed until n few years ago,
may still live in somo unexplored part of Africa
and tho mammoth and the cae bear still wander
In Siberia." ,
Mr. WInans went further to satisfy the Eng
lish public nnd drew an outline of whnt this nnl
'mal probably looks like. With that picture, which
nppoarcd In the Evening News, he appended this
bit of descriptive argument:
"Tho scientists draw this benst standing on Its
legs, ns n mammal would. Now no mnmmnllan
anlmnl has the cninhliiifd heavy tall and long neck
this anlmnl has. A knngaroo has tho heavy tall,
hut It Is built very light In front, with only short
rudimentary logs. It uses Its tall ns a third leg.
In combination with Its two hind legs nnd works
on a tripod so formed. Tho giraffe has a long
neck, hut It Is built light behind, and Its tall Is'
so light that It practically has no weight In com
parison. The giraffe carries its hend high so
us not to put a leverage on It.
"Now the hrontosaurus Is heavy both fh tho'
tall and the neck, which,, besides, are both very
loug. If It stood ns tho scientists draw It, the tnil
tud neck would "rtntlunco It iud a slight puff
of wind from the side would blow It over. It Is
ridiculous to think that nn nnimnl n hundred feet
long would flavc legs close together In the mid
dle and have threo-nunrters of Its length sticking
out In front nnd behind unsupported In the nlr.
My Iden Is that the hrontosaurus wns a reptile,
practically a crocodile, -with a snake-like neck,
nnd not n mamma!, tlmt It carried Itself ns a
crocodile does, that Is, crawled on Its belly when
on lnnd nnd did not walk on straight regs.
"I think It crawled with Its neck drawn back
fi.0 as to strike like n cobra nnd most likely had
poisonous fangs. In fact, It wns n big poisonous
lizard, and that It was brilliantly colored, llko
them, and perhaps 'discharged poison through Its
Bkln like a toad when Irritated. '
"The best, weapon to shoot It with would be
the magnified' Mnuser rifle, such as tho Germans
used against tanks, only with nn explosive shell
Instead of nn nrmor-plercer. If I were younger
I should he off after him."
Anyway, tho monster Is sufficiently real to
have set the scientists disputing about his possi
bility, his Identity nnd his looks. They call hlra
nil sorts of names hrontosaurus, trlceratops, bro
alosnurus, tylosaurus and so on. One expert
writes to the press:
"The nnimnl In question can not he a bromo
surus, If the Illustration In H. G. Wells' book,
'Outlines of History,' nre correct. I The Illustra
tions show a very different creaturo from tho de
scriptions In tho newspapers of this one. Whnt
this one really appears to ho Is n trlceratops, only
that nnlmal has two horns."
Another zoologist heaps scorn on the entlfe
Idea, asserting thnt whlto ho believes there nro
undiscovered nnlmnls living In the hert of Afrjca,
he doubts that n dlnosnur or any other primeval
beast exists anywhere today. Ho writes:
"The period In which they lived Is Incredibly
renioto ns man counts time. Their bones are
found In the strata of tho Eoceno period. Tho
hrontosaurus was remarkable for his very small
head and smnll brain cavity. His whole skull was
no larger than his neck bone. Tho name means
'thunder henst,' nnd one species wns well over fifty
feet In length nnd weighed probably twenty tons
or more."
The evolution of mnn has been n long process
so long thnt tho geologists nnd other scientists
1 prefer to dodgo the question of the millions of.
years Involved and reckon In eras, nn ern being
nnywhere from six to 45 millions of yenrs. They
call tho first era Archeozoic; It Is ancient beyond
nil knowledge. Then comes tho Proterozolc, with
its very prlmltlvo forms of water life, lasting W'A
millions of years. The Paleozoic, with fish, am.
phlblans nnd lnnd plants, lnsted 45 millions;' The
Mezozoic, the ago of reptiles and amphibians and
of trees, saw the first mammnls; It lasted 1Q mil
lions of years. The present era, the Cenozoic, has
seen tho rise nnd development of tho highest or
ders of plnnts and nnlmnls nnd tho nppenranco of
mnn ; its duration to date Is put at 0 million years.
So that's what wo aro up ngnjnst when wo
talk of there being nt largo In Africa a survivor
of the Age of Iteptlles.
Anyway, wo know these reptiles nctunlly
lsted becnuso wo find their fossil remains prettv
much all over the world. Why, theso fossils nre
so thick out In Utnh, U. S. A., thnt we hnvo tho
Dlnosnur National monument. You see, onco upon
a time, tho waves of an open sen rolled over the
spot where now stands Long's peak (14,1255 feet)
"King of tho Hockles." , In this son sported tho
marlno monster of long ago and on Its shores
lived the grotesque creatures of the Ago of Hop
tiles,' Then tho ltocky Mountnlns heaved them
selves up nnd this great Inland sea,hnd to run off
Into tho Arctic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and
tho Pacific. And then the rains washed down tho
mountnlns and filled up the plains with tho
woiirlngs.
Somo of the creatures in this Inlnnd sea got
injrpd nnd their bones nre(now found pctrlllod In
n remarknbly perfect state of preservation. And
lt' no trick for a scientist who knows hU busl
uens to reebnutruct an anlmnl from bis kaaL. i
Mr. Gnpolle's monster teems
to suggest the urmored dinosaur,
Stegosaurus. If that's the fel
low, he Isn't dangerous. He's
herbivorous. He's scarcely any
hrnliw nt nil; that's why he Is
armored to protect him from his
enemies, lie's iitiout "0 feet
long nnd 10 feet high.
The Tylosaurus. "half snako
half beast." Isn't n Dinosaur, but
a Mosasaur, though 'that prob
ably makes no particular differ
ence. He's n seaserpentlsh sort
of thing nnd probably requires
more water "than n morass nf-forils.
The Hrontosaurus, according to the restora
tion herewith reproduced, doesn't look especially
formidable, except for his size.
Tho dlnosnur that seems best able to pny his
way and keep on going Is the Allsaurus. He's got
teeth and claws and looks us If ho might move
rapidly.
However, the fact that tho African dlnosnur
does nor Bcem to ho exactly hko any of his pre
historic retutlvcs proves nothing. T-S may bo thnt
tho fellow Captain Stevens Is nrtcr has cvoluted
like the rest of tho world and Is prepared to pre
sent 8ometnlng entirely new In dinosaurs. Why
should ho not hne developed? He's had ot least
six million yours In which to Improve himself.
"The Outlines, of History," II. G. Wells' new
hook, considers these early monsters quite fully:
Ho snys In one place:
"The carllest-kuown reptiles were beasts with
great hollies and not very powerful legs, very llko
their kindred amphibia, wallowing ns tho croco
dile wallows to this day ; but in tho Mcsozolc they
Boon began to stand up nnd go stoutly on nil fours,
nnd several great sections of them began to bal
ance themselves on tnil and hind legs, rather ns
tho kangaroos do now. Another division wus tho
crocodile branch, and another developed toward
the tortolso nnd tho turtles. The Pleslosnurs and
tho Ichthyosnurs were two groups which left no
living representatives. Pleslosaurus measured 300
feet from snout to tall till of which half was neck.
"The Mosnsaurs were n third group of great por
poiselike marine lizards. But tho largest and
most diversified group of these Mcsozolc reptiles
was tho group we have spoken of us knngaroo
like, the Dinosaurs, muny of which nttulned enor
mous proportions. In bigness theso greater Dino
saurs have never been exceeded, although the sea
can still show In the whales creatures as great.
Some of these, nnd tho largest among Mhom, were
herbivorous nnlmnls; they browsed on rushy vege
tation and among the ferns and bushes, or they
Btood up nnd grasped trees with their forelegs
while they devoured tho foliage.
"Among tho browsers, for example, were tho
Dlplodoccus carnegll, which measured 81 feet in
length, nnd tho Atlnntosnurus. The Glgnntosiu
rus. disinterred by n German expedition in 1012
from rocks in Enst Africa, wns still nioro colossal.
It measured well over 100 foot! These greater
moustcrs had legs, and they nro usually figured ns
standing up on them; hut it Is very doubtful If
they could hnvo supported their weight In this
wny out of water. Buoyed up by water or mud
thoy may have got along.
"Another noteworthy type wo hnvo fir .red Is tho
Trlceratops. There were also n grea'. number of
flesh caters,' who preyed upon these herbivores.
Of these, Tyrnnnosaurus seems almost the last
word In 'frlghtfulness' among- living things. Some
species of this genus measured 40 feet from snout
to tnil. Apparently It carried this vast body kan
garoo fashion, on Us tall nnd hind legs. Probably
It reared Itself up. Somo authorities even sup
pose that It leapt through tho air. If so, It pos
sessed muscles of n quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably It waded, half submerged, In
pursuit of tho herbivorous river saurlans."
And nlong with these terrible beasts wero bat
llko creatures. "These bat-llzurfls wero tho pterodactyl-'.
But hlrdllke though they were, they were
not birds, nor tho ancestors of birds. Tho struc
ture of their wings was that of n hand with one
long linger nnd n web; tho wltyj of a bird Is like
an arm with feathers projecting from Its hind
-edge. And these pterodactyls had no feathers."
All of theso creatures have dlsuDpeaeed from
the face of tho earth, Wells says. They ended
abruptly. They voro extinguished, ns though by
the waving of a magic wnnd, perhnps In order to
make place for man; and Wells snys that the end
ing of the reptiles Is beyond nil quest jpn tho most
striking revolution In the wholo history of the
earth before the coming ofMnnuklnd.
' "It Is probably connected with tho close of i
vast period of equable warm conditions nnd '
onset of n r'ow, nusteror age, In which the wlnti"
wero bitterer and the summers brief, but hut.'
AMERICAN
LEGION
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XTopy rir Thin Uoimrtmeiit HiiipIleJ by
Natlonul lluiulituartcrs of tlia
Ainrrlciiti I.kIoii.)
INCREASE FOR DISABLED MEN
Dnrrow Bill Enlarges Amount by $20
a Month for Veterans While Tak
ing Training.
Another Important victory lt tho
American Legion's long light for bene
ficial legislation In behalf of sick and
Hxitbled ex-service men Is revealed In
i telegram announcing passage of the
bill, recently received nt Legion na
tional headqunrters from Thomas W.
Miller, chairman of the organization's
national legislative committee In
Washington.
The senate In n night session, no'
milling to the message, pased the
measure as n rider to the deficiency
appropriation bill, nnd as It previously
had been parsed by the house. It now
iwalts only the signature of the presi
dent to become n lnw.
The Durrow bill Increase, by ?20 n
month, the amount of money pnld to
disabled olornns of the world war
while taking training under the direc
tion of the federal honrd of vocntlonnl
education.
This Is the second tlmo the Legion
has obtained nn Increnso for tho
innlmed heroes, hnvlng pushed through
congress, Inst December,! the Sweet
hill, which raised the amount of com
penatlon for them from $.'!0 to $80
b month.
"The postage of the Dnrrow bill,"
unld Lemuel Holies, national adjutant
of the Legion, "wns largely duo to the
work done by Leglonnnlros who visited
Washington In Its Interest. General
published reports nt thnt time Indi
cated that tho Legion representatives
confined their nctlvltlcs solely to tho
pending fourfold optlonnt compensa
tion bill. IlesultM show thnt tho needs
of tho disabled men always have stood
tlrst on the Legion's program and tho
organization Is going right on working
for these unfortunates, Irrespective of
what congress may or may not sco fit
to do with tho problems of ex-servlco
men ns n whole.
"Tho passage of tho Darrow bill will
glvo great Impetus to the Legion's co
operative plan to assist tho federal
board In getting every eligible disabled
man Into training at onco, as many
had refrained from taking training bo
cuuse of tho Inadequate compensation
heretofore allowed."
SHE MAKES THE MOST CALLS
American Legion Headquarters'
Switchboard Operator, Lula B.
Vlze, Is Known aa "Sunshine."
Tho girl who "calls" more people
and gets "cnlled" oftener thnn nnyono
cJho at natfoual headquarters of tho
Legion Is Miss Lula B. Vlzo of In
dianapolis. She has chargo of tho
telephone switchboard and a sort of
.general Information bureau adjoining
the offices of the natiounl commander.
She offers complete proof of tho fal-
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Miss Lula D. Vlze.
lacy of tho theory that red, or "tltlan"
hair Is Indicative of n fiery temper.
Her perpetually sunny disposition hns
earned for her the olllco sobriquet of
"Sunshine." Married? you ask. Well,
as some facetious "buddy" might say:
"You tell 'em, concrete; wo'ro too
mortified 1"
Accepts Men From All Branches.
David W. .Tnmeson Post No. 183,
Philadelphia, which was originally
started ns a Chemical Service post,
has lnk nccordanco with tho desires
of tho state and nntlounl conventions
abandoned tho unit basis of member
ship, ami now Includes men from nil
branches of tho service.
Should Be A Holiday.
Armistice day, November 11, should
ho n legal holiday throughout tho Uni
ted Status, according to resolution
iidopted by the Great Falls Post No. "A,
Great Falls, Mont. Copies of the reso
lution wero forwarded to tho Montana
!''iigressIonal delegation at Washing
on, signed by Charles Davidson,
xiiron Slnght and E. .1. FItzpntrlck.
TRIBUTE TO EX-SERVICE MEN
National Commander D'Oller. In Let
ter for Memorial Service, Compli
ment Men Who Served.
Listen, huddles, to whnt Frnnklhf
ITOIIer, your nntlounl commander
said about you In a recent letter. A
Legion post' nt WostvUlc. N. .1., nskw
Itev. Hownrd E. Thompson of Wood
bnry, N. J., to conduct a Mcmorla
service for them, and the mlnlstri
wrote the national commander for i
message which he could read publlclj
on that occasion.
"In a very few years," Mr. D'Olln
wrote, In part, "the ex-service men of
this country will be the most promi
nent In business, In tl professions ant
In politics, nof merely because thej
are ex-servlec men, but because, It
order to epter the service, they win
picked men, physically, mentally nn
morally, and being thus selected nn
having the advantage of great expert
ence In the nrmy, navy and niiirliii
Franklin D'Oller.
corps, they will necessarily bo leaden
In nil walks of life.
"The American Legion proposes U
keep tho ex-scrvlco men -together U
nn organization whose deals are serv
ice to our country nnd sorvlco to out
comrades, nnd their reward will be tlM
continuing satisfaction of unselfish
service faithfully performed."
FURLOUGH AT ATLANTIC CITY
Famous Retort Pott Arranges to At
commodate Former Service Men
on Their Vacation.
Tho Atlantic City post of the Amert
can Legion Is hooking up tho A. B. Wi
leave area Idea to the possibilities o
America's summer resort It la Invito
Ing Legionnaires from any part of tb
United States to Bpend a furlough at
Atlantic City, and It Is establishing foi
them a tent camp at' which the e
penso Item of quarters Is reduced to
minimum. So, even though our well
known former skipper, Uncle Sam,
Isn't nvallahlo to Issue transportatloa
and commutation of rations and quar
tors, any Legionnaire may now spend
n vacation nt Atlantic City without
going financially fiat In the process.
Bill Fisher, formerly top sergeant ol
Company 0, Twenty-third engineers.
Is the father of the Atlantic City leavt
area plan. He put tho scheme up
tho Atlantic City post and the post
voted to carrv It out A committee
was1 authorized to go ahead with thi '
scheme.
Tho conception of the camp whlcb
tho committee had In mind when It
stnrted work was a t'ent town which
should bo oncrated on tho simplest
plan feasible. It should provide for I
nominal sum living quarters undei
canvas, thus saving the Legionnaires
tho expensive hotel bills and nt the
same tlmo assuring them of n place to
stay In a city In which It Is sometimes
difficult to obtain hotel accommoda
tions at nny price. Living In the tent
town, tho ex-service men should be
able to tnko udvantuge of tho bathing,
tho boating, tho dancing on tho piers,
tho shows In tho theaters and the
many other diversions which tho re
sort offers.
Tho committee hns named the tent
town Camp D'Oller in honor of the Le
gion's nntlonnl commander. It' has
workeU out nil tho details of tho camp.
The city councllmen, led by tho mayor,
granted tho post tho right to use a
plot of ground owned by the city nnd
tho city engineer laid out the camp
streets and planned ,the sanitary facilities.
All the Boys Know Him.
What do you know about pendlcu
Josls? Tho bug experts In tho bureau
of entomology of tho department oi
agriculture aro seeking Information
about this flvc-syllnblcd nfillctlon,
which the A. E. F. veteran knows by
the shorter term of "cooties." A re
port of tho bureau Bays that If lice
borne dlsenses should get a foothold
In this country their appearance In
epidemic form Is not Impossible.
Had the. Goods on Him,
"What's tho chargo against this
mnn?" nsked tho Judge.
"Fighting In tho street," replied the
officer.
"You're fined $0.00, my mnn."
"Whnt Is tho 00 cents for, youi
honor?"
"Wur tnx."
"But, your honor, tho war's over."
"Over nothing; you were fhjhtln
weren't youj.1; ... ,
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