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5 (R William Willcocks a Real Benefactor of Mankind THE SUN, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1914. 5 (R WILLIAM WILLCOCKS A REAL BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND IWTV CJPIlpSilLAHnHLl 'tWiiHBlBMBMKttiiHHHMttMBUfir lAttmSaaaBty ll I J. I' " M Ml :U ' iMMaMMMMiMMMMlMillliMlllllil m IMIUMM STARTIM. eWf.TRIPOLrsE9 ' jjl rMuwil fl , . Krom ,h' '""""l'1 London Newi. Drann from plana una other material lupplltJ by Sir William Wlllcocko. Sir William Willcocks s plan .....irrigation of Mesopotamia, the original home of the Jews. His great scheme to prevent floods, to irrigate 3,000,000 acres of best land and to build a British railway from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. ditional tax upon tho normal revenues Famous Engineer Who Restored the Garden of Eden Has of the Egyptian exchequer. While Here He Will According to Sir William Willcocks Help Solve Problem of Regulating the Increased tho Garden of Eden was situated at the Area of Cultivable Land by His Work Junction of the Tigris and tho Eu- Mississippi and Other Great Irrigation Works to phrates in Mesopotamia, and his views in Egypt, Asia Minor and Elsewhere about tho matter are identical with Be by U. S. thoso of tho late Gen. "Chlneso" Gor- Undertaken Government ll P. CU.M.IKFK-OWK- by vis- famines which India has been above and below Ilindleh, about sixty don, who was a fervent Biblical inundation covered tho entire world and llles which have been for generations Since taking his pension ited periodically dawn of his- miles, he has turned one who succeed In since the and a hundred miles to the south scholar, as well as with those of many commenced building high towers to Identified with English rulo In India, engineer, and Is now building railroads tory, shouhl entitle her to tho gratitude, of Uagdad, one of the effects of which experts In est-np- ANY the urea of cultivable land other Scriptural history. future Inundations. Tho Tower nnd to which the llrltish Crown Is In- through tho heart of the Indian forest of tho teeming native population of has been to revert the Euphrates Into Thanks to Sir William, tho Garden, of llabel was ono of tho first of these, debted more to anything else through a benefactor of mankind. millions, by than for the sheer love of work. over three hundred and should Its old channel past Habylon, the wb.ch had degenerated Into a mero and while It was under way tho people Its ability to hold with a mere hand- None of however, being Is be regarded by the brothers, Is This the case, tlicro mankind as the finest waters of which the Jews hundreds of fever stricken swamp Incapable of sup- from tho surrounding countries all ful of white troops thu Immense empire likely to live so long In ns years cap- history Sir no otlu r man now living to whom the and most useful of all memorials of licforo Christ mourned their plying even the llg leaves used by tho rushed there for safety when nnother of Hindustan, with Us 300 millions of now llrltUh sovereignty over tivity and wept over William Willcocks. In the United world niM's fit great a debt of gratit- Hindustan. the remembrance Father and Mother of the human race flood appeared Imminent. Naturally natives of rival races and creeds, who States. For he has built for himself, llrltish South Africa, In particular of their distant Zlon. Tho two liar-rag- es Is now being ude ,n this respect as It owes to Sir for raiment, restored to thcro were many languages spoken, but for English rule would bo engaged, in the big dam across the Nile at As- the Transvaal, the Orange State and In question have already had the tho samo degree of fertility as In tho and a "confusion of tongues" was tho as In suan, nn enduring William Willcocks, who Is at present Capo Colony, to of formerly, internecine war and memorial of granite have had recourse Sir effect restoring to cultivation ome dayy when Evo wooed Adam with tho result. This, according to Sir William, consequent which In Its cyclopean grandeur may purl- ad- 600,000 ruin and devastation. It vlfltlnt: tin' Knitcd Stutes for the William Wlllcocks's experience and acres of land, which means that fateful apple beneath tho slmdow of led tho Tower builder to believe that Is owing to In regarded cen- paid this birth and education be as a worthy twentieth ins., .f affording to the natlonnl Gov- vice. Ho has ucveral extended the cost of the building of the dams will the branches of tho Tree of Knowl- God had sent a "confusion of tongues" Is tury counterpart paid India that Sir William able to grasp of the Pyramids of ernment at Washington the bcnetlt of visits to that part of the world. Tho be quickly off through the of edge. because of tho penetration of tho to a greater degree than any ono reared thu Pharaohs. Irrigation works there already In oper- tho land and through tho taxes which Sir William, by by, Into hi advice and of his unrivalled expcrl-in.-- .. the rather Tower Heaven. In Western dimes the peculiar train ation have been designed by him, and Its new owners can afford to pay the story of the apple on Sir William has views of his own thought, processes, in iVulint: with the dlltlcult many more Is of the mental the there are for which he thereon. the ground that apples have never about tho Scriptural wtory of Moses queer moral and ligures Beer Pail Bag with regulation of of grown In standards the The in the the responsible that are either in course Sir William estimates that the cost that particular part of the leading tho Children of Israel across speech dif- of of of the Oriental, all so latest method invented for tho the Mississippi and the various great construction or still in a state of his entlro scheme of Irrigation of world. He Insists that If Adam and tho lied Sea. Ho points out that If ferent from our own, Irrigation works now In course of project. AH this means Immediate and the valley of the Euphrates and of the Evo were turned out of the Garden of Moses had gono to tho Hcd Sea In the THE carrying of beer from prospective to Tigris will amount to $73,000,000, It wan He hns even acquired from his con- or about to be taken In hand addition the cultivable that Eden not because of their eat- time ho Is credited with having taken, the wet goods emporium to the area and consequently to the revenues tho land reclaimed thereby for culti- ing tho apples of the Tree of Knowl- he would havo to lead Hook, stant Intimate contact and Intercourse I'.v tin- - Administration. had his In something home may be seen In Harlem uny week- of the State and to the prosperity of vation would amount to 4,000,000 acres edge, but because Eve, prompted prob- which thero were many children, with the Orientals of their It across Imagery of speech: Is fond, as ho con- day. A woman devised the scheme li diltli'ii:t to estimate with any tho people. and that lt value when reclaimed ably by tho serpent, had hit on a plan lorty-fou- r miles of desert in twenty- - ( precision the vast extent of Of indefatigable energy and of alto- would, according to conservative cal- of making wine out of the bounteous lour nours. fesses, of talking in parables, and when which for months kept the neighbor- Will-la- culation, (500,000,000, applying them to Western, twentieth t'tr.t .r.v which Sir William has trans-fiiriii.- il gether phenomenal activity, Sir reach supply of grapes In tho Garden, thus "TlioHo people," ho declares, "who hood guessing nnd caused Innumerable ' 11 life, not content with his labors In It Is because Sir William Willcocks causing Adam to become tippler. ut lnulul tll't tl.A .11 ..II century phases of such as official either from swamp or from a a quaint persons to rack their brains trying to India, In South Africa, and as the mas- can show xuch estimates as these, and Sir William has many other some- the lied Sea ain tho t If hey did io nn,d1 "rm'a,c manifests desert Into cultivable land. In Egypt .. ivhlph la hum fiiuetitiiflnir discover why this particular woman ter and mentor of old Father Nile can point to what he has accomplished what disconcerting views about tho inn lien....Men nmur nnmi niu.,.1 alone lie has ini. Indeed, given In carried a Gladstone bag with her m manured to double tho formerly so unruly but now entirely In India, In South Africa nnd In Egypt Old Testament and takes no stock In thirty-on- e, miles further at the luncheon his area north than It ' Club In New idle was thereof, thus adding enormously brought under subjection accepted to prove that his figures are correct, tho story according to which Noah's does Why should It bo honor at the Whitehall often when left her home. It a made York tho other day by tho Pilgrim So- tu 'lie revenues of the State und to the some years ago tho lust of chief of the that governments nre willing to under- Ark rested on the top of Mount Ara- to como up thlrty-on- o miles. to surprise when It was learned that a beer Just ciety, Us Ki'lfar. Irrigation Department of the Ottoman take tho expenditure Involved In tho rat.
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