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In the one point of the extent of fatalities, therefore, the Colorado disaster is insignificant compared with the most terrible calamity of this kind known in American history-that at Johnstown in 1889, when over two thousand lives were lost. On the other hand, the number of homeless, temporarily destitute, and in many cases sick persons whose needs demanded instant attention the Colorado flood has given rise to indescribable wretchedness and suffering. For a time it was believed that Denver was in great danger from flood, but, although its streets in the lower part were covered with water, the reports as we write are that the warning has come in time, and that the damage from the South Platte River may be confined to the loss of property. The damage and destruction of life and property were not confined to the city of Pueblo alone. Cloudburst after cloudburst broke over the watersheds of the Arkansas River and other streams. In the repetition of these attacks by nature the disaster is, we think, unique. At least half a dozen towns were flooded, and in each the floods destroyed property and in some cases life, while ensuing fires added to the distress. In a statement from Governor Shoup, of Colorado, to Washington, he declared that the sum of twenty million dollars was needed at once and urged that the Government emergency fund should be applied to the construction of twentyfive large steel and concrete bridges in the valley of the Arkansas and its tributaries. The Governor also called upon the people of Colorado to contribute to the pressing need of the flood sufferers. JUNE 15, 1921 Descriptions of the desolation wrought by the elements indicate a scene of almost unbelievable damage and wretchedness. In Pueblo alone the damage in the flood area stretches over a section thirty blocks long and twelve blocks wide, and the financial damage may be as high as fifteen million dollars. The correspondents describe that area as an appalling spectacle of ruin marked everywhere by "charred and crumbling wreckage in a maze of slime-covered streets." The physical conformation of the gorges, deep river valleys, and steep grades in this part of Colorado makes the prevention of such ruin from mountain torrents, swollen by cloudbursts and swelled by tributaries bursting over their flooded banks, an engineering problem extremely difficult of solution. In the case of the Johnstown flood the danger centered in one great dam which was too weak to restrain the pent-up waters; there the danger should have been foreseen, and the repetition of the disaster was not at all beyond the reach of modern constructive science. In the terrible floods of 1913 at and about Dayton, Ohio, Governmental engineering ability saw a warning that extensive reservoirs and strengthening of river banks should prevent a parallel calamity in the future. What, if anything, can be done to cope with such frightful outbursts of nature as those in Colorado is a question not easily solved offhand, but certainly one calling for the most thorough investigation and use of scientific reasoning. One lesson of the disaster is that it has brought home to the consciousness of the American people the absolute necessity of maintenance of the Red Cross as a National resource in time of calamity. Thoughtless people sometimes question the necessity of the Red Cross in time of peace; here in Colorado, as beforetime in San Francisco and in other great calamities, the readiness of the American Red Cross organization to apply its organized effort instantly for humanity has been splendidly exemplified. The sympathy of the whole people of the United States has gone out to the sufferers in Colorado. If demand is made upon the American people to send National aid and to rally to the support of the relief agencies already working, it cannot be doubted that, as always, their response will be prompt and gen erous. THEY WHO GO OVER THE SEA FOR US L' ESS than a year ago the fishing schooner Esperanto carried the American flag to victory in the international race off Halifax. Now she lies at the bottom of the Atlantic, one more witness to the dangers that daily confront the men who go over the sea that land-dwellers may eat of the harvest of the deep. The Esperanto foundered after striking a submerged wreck. Less than twenty minutes after striking, her hold was flooded and her captain forced to order her abandoned. The crew took to their dories in a heavy breeze. In three hours they were picked up by another schooner and carried into Halifax. Captain Benham, of the Esperanto, telegraphed to Gloucester, reporting the sinking of his schooner and the rescue of his crew. He concluded his telegram with the words, "Any chance for a new vessel to start all over again?" Back to Halifax from the owners of the schooner came the message, "Yes, will have another vessel for you." So runs the day's work of them that go down to the sea in ships. There will be no Esperanto to contend for the honor of defending the International Fisherman's Trophy this coming fall. But there will be men and schooners out of Gloucester and Boston a-plenty for the task. There is talk that the new schooners which have been built for the race are not wholly fitted to labor year in and year out on the Fishing Banks. We hope and believe that if this is so they will be rigidly excluded from the coming race. The present deed of gift of the trophy requires that contenders shall have spent at least one season actively fishing. Perhaps it would be better if this requirement were raised to two or three years on the Banks. This would make certain the elimination of all vessels whose construction infringed upon the spirit of the most vital sailing race which has been conducted in recent years. In this connection it may be added that it seems probable at the present writing that the cup offered by the King of the Belgians for a yacht race across the Atlantic will not be contested for this year. Not even the minimum requirement of three entrants has been International 0. O. HENDRICKSON, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, WINNING THE 440-YARD DASH Maxam, of Pennsylvania, finished second, and Stephenson, of Princeton, third met, a fact which is probably due to the recent business depression. A transatlantic yacht race is a sporting event of the highest type, but it is also an event which entails costly expense. AND OUR WOMEN ALSO THE American men who set sail for England to take part in British amateur golf championship at Hoylake fell by the wayside, as readers of The Outlook know, very early in the contest. A like fate met the American women who journeyed overseas to Turnberry in search of a similar golfing honor. Miss Alexa Stirling went out of the tournament in the first round before the redoubtable prowess of the British titleholder, Miss Cecil Leitch, now again acclaimed as the British champion. Miss Stirling's team-mates soon followed her example, thus leaving another trophy for John and Mrs. Bull to take comfort in during the coming year. Across the Channel another American sportswoman, Mrs. Mallory, perhaps better known as Molla Bjurstedt, went down before the racquet of the agile Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen in the final round of the Women's World Hard Court Tennis Championship. Mrs. Mallory was beaten in straight sets 6-2, 6-3. creditable showing for Harvard, for her track team had not been conceded even an outside chance for victory. There was a dramatic finish to the meet, for upon the division of points in the final race, an event in which no Harvard man was entered, depended the decision between Harvard and California. The colleges and universities which entered the meet finished in accordance with the fol lowing order of rank; California, Harvard, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Leland Stanford University, Princeton, Cornell and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State, Yale, Lafayette, Syracuse, Georgetown, Rutgers, Holy Cross, Columbia, and Bowdoin. ASSASSINS AND ACCOMPLICES T is gratifying to know that German courts and the German people are unwilling to brand as a murderer the Armenian student who killed the greatest assassin of modern times, Talaat Pasha. The sentiment of the world, apart from legal technicalities, would revolt at the execution for murder of this young student, burning with indignation at the wholesale murder of his race and led on by the illusion of a dead mother, herself a victim of the Armenian massacres, who, he declared, appeared to him in a dream. Yet, in a sense, German sympathy with Salamon Teilirian is like the sympathy extended by one accomplice to a murder for a victim who has fallen at the hand of the other accomplice. It is well that Germans should through the publicity of this trial come to understand how hideously callous was the part played by Germany in regard to the Armenian massacres. Even before Germany became Turkey's ally she was well informed of the extent of the villainy of Talaat Pasha and his accomplices. Yet Germany eagerly embraced an alliance with Talaat and his fellowassassins although German subjects of high repute called the attention of the German Government to the matter. Mr. Morgenthau, then American Ambassador to Constantinople, tells the story fully. Not a sign of human sympathy came from Germany. She was solely concerned with making friends and allies with the murderers. Germany has a large share of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. The testimony given at this trial by Professor Lepsius must have been humiliating to all who attempt to uphold German conduct in this matter. This German subject went to Constantinople, investigated the Armenian slaughter, conferred with the American Ambassador, and sent in a report. It was suppressed in Berlin; the German newspapers were forbidden even to refer to the matter; while Professor Lepsius was deposed from his place as a member of the German Mission to the Orient. In his testimony the other day Professor Lepsius declared that the refusal of the German Ambassador at Constantinople to interfere to prevent the slaughter caused the loss of a million lives of Armenian men, women, and children, although, to the credit of German citizens in the East, many of them individually aided nobly in saving Armenian lives. The cold-blooded policy of the dominant military element in Germany was directly responsible for this blot on German honor. As if to make that clear, General von Sanders, who was the military representative of Germany in Constantinople at the time, had the audacity to defend Germany's refusal to act in the matter on the ground that German troops did not take an active part in the murders. A cause to be defended on such grounds is weak indeed. Not only the result of the trial of Teilirian, but the military trials now going on in Leipsic of men and officers charged with atrocious acts during the war may at least serve to enlighten Germans' knowledge of what was done in their name during the war. So far, pretense of complying with the requirements of the Versailles Treaty as to trying those responsible for military and naval crimes has fallen far short of being adequate. Two inferior officers have been found guilty of ill treating prisoners and have received absurdly short terms of imprisonment. The most important case tried has been that of a |